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BRAMA, April 7, 2001, 9:00am EDT
Learn something about Ukraine - Go to Columbia University for a day
- Day 2 at the ASN conference
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New York, April 7 - The 3-day convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)
opened at Columbia University on Thursday, April 5.
"The Construction of a Ukrainian Economy" was the topic tackled by the panel of researchers
pictured above. Seated (l-r) are
Ivan Katchanovski, Verena Fritz, Andrew Wilson, and John Tedstrom.
Chair: Lucan Way (Harvard U, USA) Ivan Katchanovski (George Mason U, USA)
Andrew Wilson (School of Slavonic and East European
Studies, University College London, UK)
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Dominique Arel, Watson Institute, Brown U, USA, is the ASN Program Chair, as well as a panelist at the conference. He presented a paper covered nationality and language issues related to the upcoming 2001 census in Ukraine. The shortfall of accurate census data during the Soviet period has attracted scholars from the West to assist in redesigning the methodologies and structures used in the past. |
Chair: David Kertzer (Watson Institute, Brown U, USA)
Nationality and Language Categories in Post-Soviet Censuses (with an emphasis on the Ukraine Census) Brian D Silver (Michigan State U, USA)
Peter J Sinnott (Columbia U, USA)
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One of the more controversial panels of the day was devoted to "Nationalism and Ethnic Intolerance in Ukraine." A suggestion was made that the title of the panel was a misnomer, and should have been called "Nationalism and Ethnic Tolerance in Ukraine," since most of the findings of the scholars pointed to a highly tolerant Ukrainian society. Taras Kuzio challenges the 'classical' notion of nationalism in his paper. He suggests that "we are all nationalists," and names three different classifications as alternatives: civic nationalism, ethnic nationalism, and 'soviet' nationalism. Mr. Kuzio's paper can be downloaded from his website at http://www.taraskuzio.net/lectures.html. In the photo above, seated (l-r) are Volodymyr Paniotto, Taras Kuzio, Jaroslaw Martyniuk, Lowell Barrington, Andrew Wilson and Jim Clem.
Chair: Jaroslaw Martyniuk (InterMedia Survey, Washington, DC, USA)
Stereotypes of Russians and Ukrainians in Ukraine: views of the ethnic «Other,» and their implications Volodymyr Paniotto (Kiev International Institute
of Sociology, Ukraine)
Taras Kuzio (York U, Canada)
Andrew Wilson (School of Slavonic and East European
Studies, U College London, UK)
Saturday's sessions include the following topics:
The schedule and more about the conference: |
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