BRAMA, Apr 13, 2005, 9:00 am ET Press release Association for the Study of Nationalities 10th Annual World Convention Harriman Institute, Columbia University 14-16 April 2005 Association for the Study of Nationalities Harriman Institute Columbia University 1216 IAB, 420 West 118th Street New York, NY 10027, USA Tel.: 001 212 854 8487 Fax: 001 212 666 3481 Email: gnb12@columbia.edu Website: www.nationalities.org Selected Panels from the Final Program for 2005 Check ASN website (www.nationalities.org) for complete program details. Registration Form: PDF Format. SESSION I THURSDAY APRIL 14, 1.00-3.00 PM PANEL U 2 IDENTITY IN UKRAINE AND BELARUS Chair Zenon Wasyliw (Ithaca College, US) Papers Germ Janmaat (Institute of Education, London, UK) History and National Identity: The Great Famine in Irish and Ukrainian History Textbooks Tetyana Koshmanova (Western Michigan U, US) National Identity and Cultural Coherence in Educational Reform Tanya Richardson (U of Cambridge, UK) Uncertain Subjects: Youth, History and Nation-Building in Post-Soviet Odessa Anna Zadora (Institut d'Йtudes Politiques de Strasbourg, France) The Role of Historical Education in the Construction of a Belarusian National Identity Discussant Hugo Lane (Polytechnic U, Brooklyn, US) PANEL R 11 SOVIET NATIONALITIES Chair John A. Berta (Methodist College, NC, US) Papers Artificial Nationalities: The Soviet Cultural Project and the Sounds of Conflicted Identity Culture As An Expression of National Identity From National Bolshevism to Westernization: The Road to a Utopian Paradigm SESSION II THURSDAY APRIL 14, 3.15-5.15 PM PANEL U4 UKRAINIAN NARRATIVES OF MOVING INTO, OUT OF, AND THROUGH EMPIRES Chair Catherine Wanner (Penn State U, US) Papers Jennifer Dickinson (U of Vermont, US) Joining the Empire: Oral History Narratives of Becoming Soviet in 1940's Zakarpattia Natalia Shostak (U of Saskatchewan, Canada) Migrating through the EU: Ukrainian Migrant Workers' Narratives in Contemporary Perspective Jessica Allina-Pisano (Colgate U, US) Identity in the Ukraine-Slovakia Borderlands: The Politics of European Union Expansion in a Divided Village Tatiana Zhurzhenko (Kazarin Kharkiv National U, Ukraine) Identity in the Ukrainain-Russian Borderlands: Local Narratives of Spatial Reorganization and Social Change Discussant Paul Robert Magocsi (U of Toronto, Canada) PANEL TH4 THE RESHAPING OF THE HOLOCAUST AND WWII MEMORY IN THE POST-SOVIET ERA Chair Robin Ostow (Wilfried Laurier U/CREES, U of Toronto, Canada) Papers Bella Zisere (Institut d'Йtudes Politiques de Paris, France) Holocaust Remembrance in Post-Soviet Latvia Lisa Vapne (Institut d'Йtudes Politiques de Paris, France) The Case of Russian-Speaking Jews in Germany Sarah Fainberg (Institut d'Йtudes Politiques de Paris, France) A Case Study of Independent Ukraine (1991-2004) Timothy Waters (Boston U School of Law, US) Remembering Sudetenland: On the Legal Construction of Memory Discussant Lisbeth Tarlow (Davis Center, Harvard U, US) SESSION III THURSDAY APRIL 14, 5.30-7.30 PM PANEL R 1 ETHNIC FEDERALISM IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Chair Tomila Lankina (Woodrow Wilson International Center, US) Papers Putin Grabs the Purse Strings: Regional Budgets, Inequality, and Ethnicity in the Russian Federation A Comparison of Policy toward Russia's Ethnic Republics under Presidents Yeltsin and Putin The Impact on Russia's Ethnic Republics of President Putin's 2004 Restructuring of the Russian Federal System The Appointed Governor: The End of Russian Federalism? Discussant Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (Miami U, Ohio, US) SESSION IV FRIDAY APRIL 15, 9.00-11.00 AM PANEL U 5 UKRAINE UNDER LEONID KUCHMA, PART I [Special 2005 Issue of Problems of Post-Communism on "Ten Years of Leonid Kuchma"] Chair Roman Senkus (CIUS, U of Toronto, Canada) Papers Sarah Whitmore (Oxford Brookes U, UK) State and Institution Building Oleh Protsyk (European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany) Constitutional Politics and Presidential Power Alexandra Hrycak (Reed College, US) Gender Issues Discussant Paul D'Anieri (University of Kansas, US) PANEL CE 9 EU'S FIRST YEAR Chair John Micgiel (Columbia U, US) Papers Tsveta Petrova (Cornell U, US) Democratization and State-Building in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe (Poland and Romania) Krzysztof Jasiewicz (Washington and Lee University, US) Returning to Europe or Staying in One's Hamlet? (Poland) Yaroslav Bilinsky (U of Delaware, US) Political and Diplomatic Consequences of Poland's Accession to the EU, the First Year Discussant Andrew Ludanyi (Ohio Northern U, US) SESSION V FRIDAY APRIL 15, 11.15 AM-1.15 PM PANEL WORKSHOP U 9 THE HIDDEN POLITICS OF PERSUASION AND COERCION: NEW APPROACHES TO THE UKRAINIAN STATE Moderator Dominique Arel (Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of Ottawa) Presentations Andrew Wilson (U College London, UK) Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in Ukraine Keith Darden (Yale U, US) The Politics of the Blackmail State Jessica Allina-Pisano (Colgate U, US) Informal Institutions, Capillary Power, and State Hegemony SESSION V FRIDAY APRIL 15, 2.45-4.45 PM PANEL U 10 THE REGIONAL FACTOR IN UKRAINIAN POLITICS Chair Martha B. Trofimenko (Barrister and Solicitor, Toronto, Canada) Papers Lowell Barrington (Marquette U, US) and Stephen Shulman (University of Southern Illinois, US) Disentangling and Re-entangling Region, Ethnicity, and Language in Ukrainian Mass Attitudes Yaroslav Hrytsak (Lviv State U, Ukraine) and Oksana Malanchuk (U Michigan, US) A Story of Two Cities, 10 Years After: The Lviv-Donetsk Comparison Dominique Arel (Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of Ottawa) Understanding the Regional Factor in Ukrainian Politics: The Evidence from the 1994 and 2004 Presidential Election Surveys Discussant Roman Szporluk (Harvard U, US) PANEL TH 2 LANGUAGE POLITICS IN THE POST-COMMUNIST WORLD, PART I Chair Stephen Deets (Miami U Ohio, US) Papers Dmitry Gorenburg (CNA Corporation, Washington, DC) Tatar Language Policies in Comparative Perspective: Why Some Revivals Fail and Some Succeed Zsuzsa Csergo (George Washington U, US) Contesting Cultural Reproduction: Language and Education in Romania and Slovakia Laurence Broers (Conciliation Resources, UK) Post-Coloniality and the Politics of Language in Post-Soviet Georgia Nadiya Kushko (Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of Toronto, Canada) Literary Standards of the Rusyn Language: The Historical Context and Contemporary Situation Discussant Charles King (Georgetown U, US) ROUNDTABLE R 5 REVISITING THE DILEMMA OF DOMINANCE AFTER THE FALL: THE CASE OF RUSSIAN NATIONALISM Chair Catharine T. Nepomnyashchy (Columbia U, US) Participants Alexander J Motyl (Rutgers U, US) Stephen Kotkin (Princeton U, US) Mark von Hagen (Columbia U, US) Nina Khrushcheva (New School U, US) SESSION VI FRIDAY APRIL 15, 5.00-7.00 PM SPECIAL ROUNDTABLE U 13 YUSHCHENKO'S FIRST 100 DAYS Chair Marc P. Berenson (Princeton U, US) Participants Daniel Bilak (Research Fellow, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of Ottawa, Canada) Mychailo Wynnyckyj (U Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine) Franзoise Ducros (CIDA, Ottawa, Canada) [to be confirmed] Adrian Karatnycky (Freedom House, New York, US) PANEL R 6 ISSUES OF SPACE, GEOGRAPHY, AND IDENTITY IN THE RUSSIAN AND SOVIET EMPIRES Chair Dmitry Shlapentokh (Indiana U, US) Papers Claudia Weiss (U der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Germany) In Service of the Empire: The Role of Geography in the Development of Imperial Space Adile Istarki (London School of Economics, UK) Constructing a Modern Tatar Identity: Russian and Tatar Pedagogical Reforms in the late Nineteenth Century Taras Kurylo (U of Alberta, Canada) Strength and Weakness of Ukrainian Nationalism in Kyiv during the German Occupation (1941-1943) Discussant William Rosenberg (U of Michigan, US) SESSION VIII SATURDAY APRIL 16, 9.00-11.00 AM PANEL U 11 2004 UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS II Chair Taras Hunczak (Rutgers U, US) Papers Ivan Katchanovski (Independent Scholar, Ukraine) Regional Political Cleavages and Electoral Behavior in Ukraine in 1991-2004 Volodymyr Paniotto (Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, Ukraine) The Impact of the Ukrainian Presidential Election on Ethnic Relations in Ukraine Idil P. Izmirli (Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason U, US) From Communist Totalitarianism to Corruptrocracy: The Impact of the Ukrainian Presidential elections on the Crimean Tatar Question and Regional Security in Central Eurasia Yuliya Zhadan (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, France) Ukrainian Language Issue in the Crimea: An Insight into 2004 Presidential Election Debates Discussant Christian W. Haerpfer (Kennan Institute, Wilson Center, Washington, DC) ROUNDTABLE U 7 A FEMININE PERCEPTION OF UKRAINE IN GEOPOLITICS AND LITERATURE [sponsored by the Shevchenko Scientific Society] Chair Myroslava Znayenko (Rutgers U, US) Presentations Serhii Bilenkyi (Harvard U, US) Michael Naydan (Pennsylvania State U, US) Larissa Onyshkevych (Shevchenko Scientific Society, NY, US) Anna Chumachenko (Kherson U, Ukraine) SESSION IX SATURDAY APRIL 16, 11.15 AM-1.15 PM PANEL U 6 UKRAINE UNDER LEONID KUCHMA, PART II [Special 2005 Issue of Problems of Post-Communism on "Ten Years of Leonid Kuchma"] Chair Alexandra Hrycak (Reed College, US) Papers Hans van Zon (U of Sunderland, UK) Political Culture and Democratisation Stephen Shulman (U of Southern Illinois, US) Inter-Ethnic Relations, National Identity and Integration Taras Kuzio (George Washington U, US) Ukrainian Foreign and Security Policy Discussant John Payne (MIT, US) PANEL U 12 UKRAINIAN MIGRANTS IN THEIR ENCOUNTER WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION Chair Vitaly Chernetsky (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Cambridge, US) Papers Kerstin Zimmer (Phillips U, Germany) Going West: Ukrainian Migrants Facing Shifting EU Migration Systems Natalia Patsiurko (McGill U, Canada) Multiple Responses to Economic Uncertainty: Migration and Entrepreneurship as Substitutes for the State Employment in Ukraine Adrian Ivakhiv (U of Vermont, US) Identity and Nomadic Space in the Borderlands of East Central Europe Discussant Oxana Shevel (Purdue U, US) LUNCHTIME SATURDAY APRIL 16, 1.15-2.45 PM ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UKRAINIAN STUDIES (AAUS) SESSION X SATURDAY APRIL 16, 2.45.-4.45 PM SPECIAL PANEL U8 IS UKRAINE IN EUROPE OR EURASIA? [sponsored by the Shevchenko Scientific Society] Organizer Larissa Onyshkevych (Shevchenko Scientific Society, NY, US) Chair Mark von Hagen (Columbia U, US) Papers George G. Grabowicz (Harvard U, US) Paul D'Anieri (U of Kansas, US) Alexander J. Motyl (Rutgers U, US) Respondents (former) Ambassador Yuriy Shcherbak (Ukraine) (former) Ambassador Derek Fraser (U of Victoria, Canada) Nadia Diuk (Director, Europe & Eurasia, National Endowment for Democracy) Gene Fishel (Department of State, Washington, DC, US) SESSION XI SATURDAY APRIL 16, 5.00-7.00 PM PANEL U 1 2004 UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS I Chair Olga Bogatyrenko (UC Davis, US) Papers Yann Breault (U of Quйbec in Montreal, Canada) Ukraine's Endangered European Identity: Did the 2004 Presidential Election Results Change Anything? Oksana V. Jensen (American U, US) 2004 Presidential Election in Ukraine: an Indication of Democracy or a Testament of Political Corruption? Ilya Khineyko (U of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada) View from Russia: Russian Media Coverage of the 2004 Presidential Elections in Ukraine Olga Filippova (Fulbright Scholar, Indiana U, US) Tracking Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" through Cyber-Ethnography: A View from Kharkiv Discussant Olga Andriewsky (Trent U, Canada) PANEL U 3 CIVIC AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN UKRAINE: TAKING STOCK OF THE LITERATURE Chair Jaroslaw Martyniuk (Intermedia, Washington, DC, US) Papers Catherine Wanner (Penn State U, US) Anthropological Approaches to Cultural Politics in Ukraine Wsewolod Isajiw (U of Toronto, Canada) Civil Society in Ukraine: Toward a Systematic Sociological Research Agenda Oxana Shevel (Purdue U, US) Citizenship and Nation-Building in Ukraine Discussant Ilya Prizel (U of Pittsburgh, US)

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