BRAMA, April 3, 2003 (Pre-dated)
Press Release
RETURN TO: 8th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)
Only Ukraine-related sessions are included in the program below.
The partial program provided in this press release is for general information
only and is subject to change. For updated listings and the full 3-day
schedule which includes all topics, please refer to the official ASN website (www.nationalities.org):
ASN Complete Schedule [PDF 47 Pages]
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ASN Convention 2003
Preliminary Program as of 15 March 2003
THURSDAY 3 APRIL
11.00 AM-6.00 PM
Registration (15th Floor, International Affairs Building)
1.00-6.00 PM -- Book Exhibit (Dag Room, 6th Floor)
Session I -- Thursday: 1.00-3.00 PM
Panel I.4 (Thursday: 1:00-3:00)
U4: The Ghosts of Pereiaslav: History and Politics in Contemporary Ukraine
(Roundtable)
Chair: Mark von Hagen (Harriman Institute, Columbia U, US)
Participants:
Zenon Kohut (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, U of Alberta, Canada)
Frank Sysyn (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, U of Alberta, Canada)
Serhii Plokhy (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, U of Alberta, Canada)
Panel I.5 (Thursday: 1:00-3:00)
G1: The Politics of Translation: Literary Texts
(Roundtable)
Chair: Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (Harriman Institute, Columbia U, US)
Participants:
David Goldfarb (Columbia U, US)
Radmila Gorup (Columbia U, US)
Maria Rewakowicz (Harvard U, US)
Myroslava Znayenko (Rutgers U, US)
Session II -- Thursday: 3.15-5.15 PM
Panel II.3 (Thursday: 3:15-5:15)
U9: Demographic Issues and Identity in Ukraine
Chair: Alexandra Hrycak (Reed College, US)
Papers
Hiroko Wakamatsu (U of Birmingham, UK)
Ukrainian Minorities in Poland
Volodymyr Paniotto (Kiev International Institute of Sociology, Ukraine)
Dynamics of Xenophobia in Ukraine, 1994-2003
Tetyana Semigina (U of North Carolina at Pembroke, US)
The Price of Slow Reforms: Demographic Issues, HIV/AIDS and Healthcare in Ukraine
Ihor Stebelsky (U of Windsor, Canada)
Demographic Change in Ukraine, 1989-2002: A Geographical Assessment
Discussant: Alexander Tsiovkh (Center for Russian and East European Studies, U of Kansas, US)
Panel II.4 (Thursday: 3:15-5:15)
K2: Old and New Identities in the Pontus:
Greek-, Armenian-, and Turkish-speaking Transnational Groups on the Black Sea Coasts
Chair: David J Meyer (Cedarville U, US)
Papers
Igor Kuznetsov (Kuban State U, Krasnodar, Russia/Columbia U, US)
Pontic Peoples and the issues of Caucasian Studies: Introduction
Anton Popov (U of Birmingham, UK)
Becoming Pontic: Post-Socialist Identities of the Caucasian Greeks
Steve Swerdlow (Columbia U, US)
Minority Rights and Transnational Identities in Georgia and the Pontus: Meskhetians, Armenians, and the Hemshins
Rita Kuznetsova (Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russia)
Gender Issues on the Pontic Boundary (an Abkhaz case)
Discussant: Hovann Simonian (U of Southern California, US)
Session III -- Thursday: 5.30-7.30 PMOpening Reception: 7.30 PM (15th Floor, International Affairs Building)
FRIDAY 4 APRIL
8.00 AM-5.00 PM
Registration (6th Floor, International Affairs Building)
9.00 AM-6.00 PM Book Exhibit (Dag Room, 6th Floor)
11.15 AM-6.00 PM Sales of Convention Papers (Dag Room, 6th Floor)
Session IV Friday: 9:00-11:00 AM
Panel IV.3 (Friday: 9:00-11:00)
R8: Geopolitics and Geo-economics:
Pipeline Politics in Russia, Eurasia and South-Eastern Europe
(Roundtable)
Chair: Ariel Cohen (Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC, US)
Participants
Stephen Blank (Strategic Studies Institute, Carlisle Barracks, PA, US)
Robert Freedman (Baltimore Hebrew U, US)
John Hulsman (Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC, US)
Svante E. Cornell (Cornell Caspian Consulting LLC, US/Johns Hopkins U, US)
Panel IV.4 (Friday: 9:00-11:00)
U1: Linguistic, Ethnic, and Civic Identities in Ukraine
Organizers: Blair Ruble and Nancy Popson (Kennan Institute, Washington, DC, US)
and Dominique Arel (Watson Institute, Brown U, US), for the Title VIII-funded Workshop "Multicultural
Legacies in Russia and Ukraine'
Chair: Dmitry Gorenburg (CNA Corporation, Washington, DC, US)
Papers
Alexandra Hrycak (Reed College, US)
An Examination of Regional Variations in Speech Repertoires in Ukraine
Oxana Shevel (Harvard U, US)
Citizenship Policies and Civic Identities in Russia and Ukraine, 1990-2002
Stephen Shulman (Southern Illinois U, US)
The Contours of Civic and Ethnic National Identification in Ukraine
Discussant: Keith Darden (Yale U, US)
Session V Friday: 11:15 AM-1:15 PM
Panel V.4 (Friday: 11:15-1:15)
U7: Media and Politics in Ukraine
Chair: Irene Jarosewych (Editor-in-Chief, Svoboda, US)
Papers
Marian J. Rubchak (Valparaiso U, US)
Transforming Gender Stereotypes in Contemporary Ukraine: The Media as Facilitator
Olexander Hryb (BBC World Service, London, UK)
Kuchmagate as a Free Media Challenge
Myroslava Gongadze (George Washington U) and Serhiy Kudelia (SAIS, Johns Hopkins U, US)
Challenging the State: Political Elites, Protest Movement and the Opportunity for Democratic Change in Ukraine, 2000-2001
Discussant: Marta Dyczok (U of Western Ontario, Canada)
Panel V.8 (Friday: 11:15-1:15)
U13: George Shevelov's Ukrainian Phonology (In Memoriam)
(Roundtable)
(Sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies)
Chair: Zenon Kohut (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, U of Alberta, Canada)
Participants
Boris Gasparov (Columbia U, US)
Antonina Berezovenko (Columbia U, US)
Andriy Danylenko (Shevchenko Society, New York, US)
Lunch Break: 1:20-2:40 PM
Session VI -- Friday: 2:45-4:45 PM
Panel VI.4 (Friday: 2:45-4:45)
U2: Ukrainian Famine 1932-1933: Facts and Effects
(Sponsored by the Shevchenko Scientific Society)
Chair: Anna Procyk (Kingsborough Community College, City U of New York, US)
Papers
Stanislav Kulchytskyi (Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
The Famine in Soviet Archives
Volodymyr Lozytskyi (Central State Archive of Public Organization, Kyiv, Ukraine)
The Archival Evidence for Famine: What Did the Party Authorities Know and When?
Taras Hunczak (Rutgers U, US)
The Response of the Ukrainians beyond the Border of the USSSR to the Famine in Ukraine
Hiroaki Kuromiya (Indiana U, US)
The Ukrainian Famine and the Ukrainian National Question
Discussants: Mark von Hagen (Columbia U, US)
Panel VI.8 (Friday: 2:45-4:45)
G10: Comparative Nationalism, Ethnic Mobilization, and Democratization in post-Communist States
Chair: Stephen Shulman (Southern Illinois U, US)
Papers
Paul D'Anieri (U of Kansas, US)
Electoral Authoritarianism in the Former Soviet Union: A Comparative Analysis
Glenn Goshulak (York U and Waterloo U, Canada)
Crimean Tatars and Kosovar Albanians: A Comparative Study of Ethnic Conflict and Mobilization
Taras Kuzio (U of Toronto, Canada)
Russians and Russophones in the Former USSR and Serbs in Yugoslavia: A Comparative Study of Passivity and Mobilization
Discussant: Paul Robert Magocsi (U of Toronto, Canada)
Panel VI.9 (Friday: 2:45-4:45)
U14: Foreign Policy and International Institutions : Ukraine's Choice
Chair: Jonathan Becker (Bard College, US)
Papers
Anna Makhorkina (Old Dominion U, US)
National Identity and Foreign Policy Choices: The Case of Ukraine
Elena Kovaleva (Institute of Politics and International Relations, Kiev, Ukraine)
Playing with Principles: European Choice of Ukraine
Natalie Mychajlyszyn (Concordia U, Canada)
From Adversaries to Partners: NATO and the FSU (mainly Ukraine)
Discussant: Sue Davis (Denison U, US)
Session VII Friday: 5:00-7:00 PM
Panel VII.4 (Friday: 5:00-7:00)
U10: Regional Integration in Ukraine: Problems and Prospects
Chair: Jaroslaw Martyniuk (Intermedia, Washington, DC, US)
Papers
Oleh Protsyk (Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of Ottawa, Canada)
Political Institutions and Public Policies in Ukraine: Combining Large N and Comparative Case Studies of Policy Process
Tatiana Zhurzhenko (U of Vienna, Austria/Kharkiv National U, Ukraine)
Cross-border Cooperation and Transformation of Regional Identities in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands: Towards a Euroregion "Slobozhanshchyna"?
Yaroslav Bilinsky (U of Delaware, US)
Reflections on the Strategic Partnership between Poland and Ukraine in 2000-2002: From a Round to a Square Table and Going South
Discussant: Paul D'Anieri (U of Kansas, US)
Panel VII.8 (Friday: 5:00-7:00)
G12: Roundtable on Terry Martin's Book, The Affirmative Action Empire:
Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 (Cornell, 2001)
Chair: Frank Sysyn (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, U of Alberta, Canada)
Panelists
Sheila Fitzpatrick (U of Chicago, US)
Ron Suny (U of Chicago, US)
Juliette Cadiot (Watson Institute, Brown U, US)
Discussant: Terry Martin (Harvard U, US)
Panel VII.9 (Friday: 5:00-7:00)
G17: Fluctuating Freedom in Postcommunist Media in the former Soviet Union
Chair: Will Kramer (Open Society Institute, New York, US)
Papers
Kristian Feigelson (Université de Sorbonne/Observatoire des Etats Post-Soviétiques [INALCO], Paris, France)
Media in Post-Soviet Societies
Jonathan Becker (Bard College, US)
The Media in Transition: Lessons from Russia
Marta Dyczok (U of Western Ontario, Canada)
Power Struggle for Freedom of Speech in Ukraine
Discussant: Nina Khruscheva (New School U, US)
SATURDAY 5 APRIL
8.00 AM-5.00 PM
Registration (6th Floor, International Affairs Building)
9.00 AM-6.00 PM Book Exhibit (Dag Room, 6th Floor)
9.00 AM-6.00 PM Sales of Convention Papers (Dag Room, 6th Floor)
Session VIII Saturday: 9:00-11:00 AM
Panel VIII.4 (Saturday: 9:00-11:00)
U6: Ukrainian Famine of 1933:
Common Reflections in the Arts, Archives, and Society
(Roundtable)
Chair: Jaropolk Lassowsky (Clarion U, US)
Participants
Daria Darevych (York U, Canada)
On Art
Larissa Onyshkevych (Shevchenko Scientific Society/Princeton Research Forum, US)
On Literature
Cheryl Madden (Providence College, US)
On Archives
Wsewolod Isajiw (U of Toronto, Canada)
On Society
Panel VIII.6 (Saturday: 9:00-11:00)
G17: Issue of Identity and the Challenge of the EU Enlargement
Chair: Jana Grittersova (Cornell U, US)
Papers
József Böröcz (Rutgers U, US)
What is the EU?
Melinda Kovács (Rutgers U, US)
The Selfless Self?: Constructions of the EU in its Yearly Reports, 1998-2002
Katalin Dancsi (Rutgers U, US)
Life Outside Schengen: Implications of the EU's Border Security Policy for the East
Glen D. Camp (Bryant College, US)
The End of the Cold War and US-EU Relations
Discussant: George Yiangou (Columbia U, US)
Panel VIII.7 (Saturday: 9:00-11:00)
G9: Social Science Theory and National Identity Construction
Chair: Alain Blum (INED, Paris, France)
Papers
Keith Darden (Yale U, US)
The Scholastic Revolution: Explaining Nationalism in the USSR
Pal Kolstø (U of Oslo, Norway)
Theorizing the Role of Historical Myths in Balkan Societies
Gabriel Marin (U of Laval, Québec City, Canada)
European or National Identity Construction through Romanian History Textbooks after Ceausescu
followed by a 10-minute video
"Three History Textbooks, One Country: Nationally Divided Schooling in Bosnia," directed by Pilvi Torsti (Helsinki U, Finland).
Discussant: Sergei Sokolovsky (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russia)
Panel VIII.8 (Saturday: 9:00-11:00)
G15: Theoretical Approaches to Nationalism
Chair: Cathy Wanner (Pennsylvania State U, US)
Papers
Kamila Sullerova (CEU/Fulbright Scholar, Brandeis U, US)
Discussion on the Morality of Nationalism: Do We Need to Read Hannah Arendt and Judith Shklar?
Dan Dungaciu (Bucharest U, Romania)
East and West in the "Mirror of Nature": Nationalism in WestERN and EastERN Europe--essentially different?
Cheng Chen (U of Pennsylvania, US)
Liberalism, Leninism, and the National Question
Wojtek Kalinowski, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France)
Construction of European Identity and the Religious Narrative about Judeo-Christian Origins of Human Rights
Discussant: James Satterwhite (Bluffton College, US)
Session IX
Saturday: 11:15 AM-1:15 PM
Panel IX.1 (Saturday: 11:15-1:15)
R10: Rebounding Religious Identities
Organizers: Blair Ruble and Nancy Popson (Kennan Institute, Washington, DC, US)
and Dominique Arel (Watson Institute, Brown U, US), for the Title VIII-funded Workshop "Multicultural Legacies in Russia and Ukraine'
Chair: Peter Juviler (Columbia U, US)
Papers
Paul Werth (U of Las Vegas, US)
Arbiters of the Free Conscience: State, Religion, & Problem of Confessional Transfer after 1905
Cathy Wanner (Pennsylvania State U, US)
The Rise of Evangelicalism in Ukraine and other Multicultural Legacies of Atheism
Kate Graney (Skidmore College, US)
"Russian Islam" and the Politics of Religious Multi-Culturalism in Russia
Olessia P. Vovina (Seton Hall U, US)
On the Redefinition of Sacred Space: The Chuvash "Kiremet" in Past and Present
Discussant: Helen Faller (U of Michigan, US)
Panel IX.3 (Saturday: 11:15-1:15)
K8: De-Constructing and Re-Constructing Identities in the Caucasus
(Sponsored by the Russian Census Project, Watson Institute, Brown U, funded by the Carnegie Corporation, New York)
Chair: Cynthia Buckley (U of Texas at Austin, US)
Papers
Jean Radvanyi (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France) and Aude Merlin (Institut d'Etudes Politiques, France)
The Concept of "Indigenous" Peoples in the Caucasus
Catherine Gousseff (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France)
Are the Cossacks a "Nationality"? Conflicting Evidence from the 2002 Russian Census
Frédérique Longuet-Marx (Université de Caen, France) and Olga Kulbachevskaya (Institute of Ethnology, Moscow, Russia)
Interethnic Relations in Krasnodar
Discussant: Ralph Clem (Florida International U, US)
Panel IX.4 (Saturday: 11:15-1:15)
U5: Can Stateless People have an Encyclopedia? The Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture
(Roundtable)
Chair: Taras Kuzio (U of Toronto, Canada)
Panelists
Piotr J. Wrobel (U of Toronto, Canada)
Robert A. Rothstein (U of Massachusetts, US)
Alexander J. Motyl (Rutgers U, US)
Discussant: Paul Robert Magocsi (U of Toronto, Canada)
Panel IX.7 (Saturday: 11:15-1:15)
U8: The Construction of Historical Memory in Ukraine
Chair: Hugo Lane (Polytechnic U, US)
Papers
Roman Serbyn (U du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
Historical Memory in Statebuilding: The Myth of the Great Patriotic War in Independent Ukraine
Matthew Pauly (Indiana U, US)
The Kobzar in the Labor School: The Ukrainian Variant of a Soviet Educational System, 1922-1930
Denise V. Powers (U of Iowa, US)
Fresco Fiasco: National Identity Narratives and the Bruno Schulz Murals of Drogobych
Discussant: David R. Marples (U of Alberta, Canada)
Lunch Break: 1:20-2:40 PMSession X Saturday: 2:45-4:45 PM
Panel X.4 (Saturday: 2:45-4:45)
U12: Institutional Reform in Ukraine
Panel organizer: Paul D'Anieri (U of Kansas, US)
Chair: Jessica Allina-Pisano (Colgate U, US)
Papers
Verena Fritz (European U Institute, Italy)
Giving Shape to the State: Elites and State-Society Relations in Ukraine
Sarah Whitmore (U of Birmingham, UK)
Parliamentary Committees in Ukraine: Rules, 'Reality,' and the Process of Change
Stephen Kobryn (Ontario Ministry of Enterprise, Opportunity and Innovation, Canada)
Administrative Reform in Ukraine: Prospects, Reality, and Directions for the Future
Discussant: Oxana Shevel (Harvard U, US)
Panel X.9 (Saturday: 2:45-4:45)
U3: National Identity and Ethnic Relations in Crimea
Chair: Inci Bowman (Independent Scholar, Washington, DC, US)
Papers
Mica Hall (Medina Joint Language Center, San Antonio, Texas, US)
Language Attitudes and Ethnic Relations in Crimea
Idil P. Izmirli (George Mason U, US)
Impact of Repatriation on Ethnic Identities in Deeply Divided Societies: The Case study of Crimean Tatars
Kurtmolla Abdulganiyev (Graduate School for Social Research, Warsaw, Poland)
Revival Nationalisms in Postcommunist Societies: The Crimean Tatar Case
Discussant: Brian Glyn Williams (U of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, US)
Panel X.10 (Saturday: 2:45-4:45)
G8: Ethnic Issues in EU Enlargement
Chair: Minton F. Goldman (Northeastern U, US)
Papers
Peter Vermeersch (U of Leuven, Belgium)
The EU Enlargement Process and Minority Policy in Central Europe: A Study of Policy Shifts in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia
Lene Bøgh Sørensen (Copenhagen U, Denmark)
EU's Enlargement Policy and National and Ethnic Contradictions and Conflicts in Central and Eastern Europe
Petr Kafka (U of Toronto, Canada)
Immigration Policies of the CEEC in Relation to the EU Enlargement
Discussant: Stefano Bianchini (U of Bologna, Italy)
Session XI Saturday: 5:00-7:00 PM
V3: Video Presentation (Saturday, April 5, 5 PM)
Killing the Story
UK 2002 (55 mins.)
Produced by Ewa Ewart (BBC, UK)
What links the murder of a leading journalist, the President of the Ukraine, a shy young bodyguard and allegations of international arms smuggling and sanctions breaking? In a documentary prepared for the BBC investigative series Correspondent, reporter Tom Mangold unravels the threads that hold together an extraordinary mystery story involving conspiracies at the highest level, secret tape recordings, beatings by government goon squads and a moving target, running for his life with a six million dollar price on his head.
Adrian Karatnycky (Freedom House, New York, US) and Myroslava Gongadze (George Washington U) will lead the discussion following the screening.
Panel XI.3 (Saturday: 5:00-7:00)
R3: Historical Memory and Nation Building in the Former USSR, 1988-2002
Chair: Yitzhak Brudny (Hebrew U of Jerusalem, Israel)
Papers
Vera Tolz (U of Salford, UK)
Rethinking Russian-Ukrainian Relations and Nation-Building in Postcommunist Russia
Egle Rindzeviciute (South Stockholm U College, Sweden)
History as Legacy? Deconstructing the Arguments about Lithuanian Cultural Policy Reforms
David R. Marples (U of Alberta, Canada)
Nation Building and the Formation of a National History in Ukraine after 1988
Natalia Leshchenko (London School of Economics & Political Science, UK)
An Ace in a Sleeve: Nationalism versus Integration in Belarus
Discussant: Roman Szporluk (Harvard U, US)
Panel XI.4 (Saturday: 5:00-7:00)
U11: Politics and Patronage Networks in Ukraine
Chair: Jaroslaw Martyniuk (Intermedia, Washington, DC, US)
Papers
Ioulia Shukan (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, France)
The Conversion Strategies of the Former Communist Nomenklatura in the ex-USSR: A Comparative Study of the Communist Youth Leagues in Soviet Ukraine and Belorussia in the late 1980s
Vyacheslav Malyarchuk (Donetsk National Technical U, Donetsk, Ukraine)
Democratization in Authoritarian Performance: Regional Elites in Ukraine's Politics
Kerstin Zimmer (Johann Wolfgang Goethe U, Frankfurt, Germany)
Donetsk in Kyiv and Kyiv in Donetsk: Centre-Periphery Linkages in the Post-Soviet Context
Ilya A. Khineiko (U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
Fostering National Identity in Ukraine: Regional Differences in Attitudes towards National Symbols
Discussant: Oleh Protsyk (U of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
Panel XI.7 (Saturday: 5:00-7:00)
G7: Roundtable on Mark Beissinger's Book, Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State (Cambridge, 2002)
Chairs: Yoshiko Herrera (Harvard U, US)
Panelists
Valery Tishkov (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Moscow, Russia)
Roger Petersen (MIT, US)
Terry Martin (Harvard U, US)
Discussant: Mark Beissinger (U of Wisconsin at Madison, US)
Panel XI.9 (Saturday: 5:00-7:00)
G4: Economic Factors in the Politics of Nationalism
Chair: Sue Davis (Denison U, US)
Papers
Tsveta Petrova (Cornell U, US)
Rent-Seeking Practices in the Post-Communist World
Michael J. Popovic (Washington U at St. Louis, US)
The Role of Transnationalism in International Investment Decisions: A Comparative Performance Analysis
Discussant: Pauline Jones Luong (Yale U, US)
Closing Reception: 7:00 PM
(15th Floor, International Affairs Building)
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