[aaus-list] Ukrainian papers and panels at the 2008 ASN

Alexandra Hrycak hrycaka at reed.edu
Mon Apr 7 22:32:19 EDT 2008


Dear members,

Here is a summary and list of the ASN PANELS ON UKRAINE AT the ASN WORLD 
CONVENTION 2008. Special thanks to Dominique Arel for compiling this 
information and for organizing this event, as well as to the 
participants who agreed to present, chair or comment on these sessions.

Alexandra Hrycak
President of the AAUS
On behalf of the executive board and the program committee of the ASN

The ASN 2008 World Convention is featuring an unprecedented 15 events 
related to Ukraine on April 10-12 at the Harriman Institute, Columbia 
University. In addition to 9 panels based on 27 new papers (plus three 
more papers in thematic panels), the Convention lineup includes three 
special panels based on new books related to Ukraine (Jessica 
Allina-Pisano, The Post-Soviet Potemkin Village; Omer Bartov, Erased: 
Vanishing Traces of Jewish Life in Present-Day Galicia; and Gwendolyn 
Sasse, The Crimea Question), two roundtables (on the fate of the Orange 
Revolution and the history of language politics in Ukraine) and a double 
bill of recent documentaries (Colour Me Free, Music Partisans) touching 
on recent mass mobilization in Ukraine and Belarus. The American 
Association for Ukrainian Studies will also hold its Annual Meeting on 
Saturday April 12, during lunchtime (1.20-2.50 PM), in Room 1512 of the 
International Affairs Building (IAB). The registration desk at the ASN 
Convention is located on the 15th Floor of IAB, 420 W 118th St. and will 
open Thursday April 10 at 11 AM. The opening reception is on Thursday 
evening, 7.30 PM and all are invited. For information, Gordon Bardos, 
Convention Director, 212 854 8487, gnb12 at columbia.edu. The final program 
is available on our web site at www.nationalities.org. We look forward 
to seeing you at the Convention!

THURSDAY, APRIL 10TH SESSION I 1:00-3:00 PM

PANEL U6
Ukrainian and Russian Jews

CHAIR
Martin Horwitz
(AJWS, New York, US)
< MHorwitz at ajws.org >

PAPERS
Aleksandr Burakovskiy
(Independent Researcher, Clifton, NJ, US)
< aleksbur at hotmail.com >
Transformation of Jewish-Ukrainian Relations during Ukraine's 
Independence: 1991-2007

Kerstin Zimmer
(Marburg U, Germany)
< kerstin.zimmer at staff.uni-marburg.de >
Structural and Symbolic Transnationalism in the life of Ukrainian Jews

Elena Nosenko
(Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, Russia/Washington, DC)
< nosen1 at ya.ru >
Judaism, Russian Orthodoxy or “Civil Religion”? A Choice of Russian Jews 
Today

DISCUSSANT
Zvi Gitelman
(U of Michigan, US)
< zvigitel at umich.edu >

THURSDAY, APRIL 11TH SESSION II 3:20-5:20 PM

PANEL U4
Elections and their Outcomes

CHAIR
Adrian Karatnycky
(Orange Circle, NY, US)
< fhpres at aol.com >

PAPERS
Spyridon Kotsovilis
(McGill U, Canada)
< spyridon.kotsovilis at mail.mcgill.ca >
Shades of Orange: Mapping the 2004 Democratizing Revolution in Ukraine

Stephen Shulman
Stephen Bloom
(Southern Illinois U, Carbondale, US)
< shulman at siu.edu > < bloom at siu.edu >
Foreign Interference in the Ukrainian Electoral Process and its 
Implications for National Autonomy

Oleh Protsyk
(ECMI, Germany)
< protsyk at ecmi.de >
Ethnic and Regional Representation in the Ukrainian Parliament

DISCUSSANT
Dan Epstein
(Harvard U, US)
< depstein at fas.harvard.edu >

PANEL O1
Post-Communist Successor Parties: Divergent Paths (I)

…includes one paper on Ukraine

Kerstin Zimmer
(Marburg U, Germany)
< kerstin.zimmer at staff.uni-marburg.de >
Post-Communist Successor Parties in Ukraine

THURSDAY, APRIL 10TH SESSION III 5:40-7:40 PM

PANEL BOOK3
Special Panel on Jessica Allina-Pisano’s The Post-Soviet Potemkin 
Village (Cambridge, 2007)

CHAIR
Dmitry Gorenburg
(AAASS, Cambridge, MA, US)
< gorenburg at gmail.com >

PARTICIPANTS
Jane Burbank
(NYU, US)
< jane.burbank at nyu.edu >

Katherine Verdery
(CUNY Graduate College, US)
< kverdery at gc.cuny.edu >

Henry Hale
(George Washington U, US)
< hhale at gwu.edu >

Jessica Allina-Pisano
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
< jallinap at uottawa.ca >

FRIDAY, APRIL 11TH SESSION IV 9:00-11:00 AM

PANEL U5
Ukraine and Belarus’ Foreign Relations

CHAIR
Paul D’Anieri
(U of Kansas, US)
< p-danieri at ku.edu >

PAPERS
Viatcheslav Avioutskii
(Ecole des Dirigeants et Créateurs d'Entreprise, Paris, France)
< avioutskii at yahoo.fr >
Geopolitical Analysis of Russian - Ukrainian Gas War

Natalia Gorodnia
(Shecvhenko National U, Kyiv, Ukraine/U of Michigan, US)
< nataliya_gorodnia at yahoo.com >
Ukraine at the Crossroads of Globalization: Southeast Asian Nations 
Experience for Ukrainian Identity Search

Jovita Praneviciute
(Vilnius U, Lithuania)
< jovita.praneviciute at urm.lt >
Security and Identity in Belarus:  How Securitization of National 
Identity Defines Foreign Influence

DISCUSSANT
Margarita Balmaceda
(Seton Hall U, US)
< balmacma at shu.edu >

PANEL O10
Migration, Repatriation, and Citizenship

…includes one paper on Ukraine

Ewa Palenga-Mollenbeck
(Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany)
< ewa at palenga.de >
Transnational “Care Chain” Migration from Ukraine to Poland and from 
Poland to Germany

FRIDAY, APRIL 11TH SESSION V 11:20 AM-1:20 PM

PANEL U9
Has the Orange Revolution Failed? Theoretical and Comparative 
Perspectives on Failed and Successful Democratic Revolutions (Roundtable)

CHAIR
Jessica Allina-Pisano
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
< jallinap at uottawa.ca >

PARTICIPANTS
Paul D’Anieri
(U of Kansas, US)
< p-danieri at ku.edu >

Henry Hale
(George Washington U, US)
< hhale at gwu.edu >

Lucan Way
(U of Toronto, Canada)
< lucan.way at utoronto.ca >

Dominique Arel
(Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of Ottawa, Canada)
< darel at uottawa.ca >

PANEL U10
 From Imperial to Soviet to Current Language Policies, Politics and 
Practices in Ukraine: 1860-2008 (Roundtable)

CHAIR
Larissa Onyshkevych
(Shevchenko Scientific Society, New York, US)
< Larissa at Onyshkevych.com >

PARTICIPANTS
Rory Finnin
(Columbia U, US)
< rf235 at columbia.edu >
1860-1914: Czarism and Language Policies

Yuri Shevchuk
(Columbia U, US)
< sy2165 at columbia.edu >
1920-1990: Home, Sweet Home or How to Steal an Identity by Stealing a Word

Antonina Berezovenko
(Fordham U, US)
< berezovenko at fordham.edu >
1990-2008: Innovations and Innovators

Martha B. Trofimenko
(Shevchenko Scientific Society, New York, US)
< trofimenko at dol.net >
International Concerns and Legal Issues

FRIDAY, APRIL 11TH SESSION VI 2:50-4:50 PM

PANEL U3
Democratization and Its Dilemmas

CHAIR
George Grabowicz
(Harvard U, US)
< grabowic at fas.harvard.edu >

PAPERS
Christine Emeran
(New School U, US)
< emerc095 at newschool.edu >
Political Organization from Below: Youth Action in Ukraine’s Orange 
Revolution

Mayia Ramirez
(U of California, Riverside, US)
< mrami022 at ucr.edu >
Ukraine Has Suffered Enough: Critical Comparative Study of 
State-Building in Ukraine

Li Bennich-Björkman
(Uppsala U, Sweden)
< Li.Bennich-Bjorkman at statsvet.uu.se >
What Kind of Democracy? Perceptions of Democracy Among the Political 
Elite in Ukraine, Bulgaria and Romania

DISCUSSANT
David J Meyer
(Cedarville U, US)
< meyerd at cedarville.edu >

PANEL U8
The Ukraine Famine, 1932-1933: Was It a Genocide?

CHAIR
Henry Huttenbach
(City College, NY, US)
< Huttenbach at aol.com >

PAPERS
Roman Serbyn
(UQAM, Canada)
< Serbyn.roman at videotron.ca >	
The Ukrainian Famine of 1932 – 1933 in the Light of the UN Genocide 
Convention

Stanislav Kulchytsky
(Institute of History, Kyiv, Ukraine)
< efimenko2002 at ukr.net >
The Famine of 1932 – 1933: New Archival Evidence

Oleh Wolowyna
(Informed Decisions)
< Olehw at aol.com >
A Demography of Genocide:  The Famine of 1932 – 1933

DISCUSSANT
Taras Hunczak
(Rutgers U, US)
< thunczak at andromeda.rutgers.edu >

PANEL O6
Gender Regimes

…includes one paper on Ukraine

Alexandra Hrycak
(Reed College, US)
< hrycak at reed.edu >
Unlikely Alliances: The Politics of Domestic Violence in Ukraine


FRIDAY, APRIL 11TH SESSION VII 5:10-7:10 PM

PANEL U2
Identity Formation among Ukrainians: Past and Present

CHAIR
Roman Senkus
(CIUS, U of Toronto, Canada)
< r.senkus at utoronto.ca >

PAPERS
Sergei Zhuk
(Ball State U, US)
< sizhuk at bsu.edu >
“Ukrainian Nationalists and Zionists in the Closed City”: KGB, Cultural 
Consumption and Identity Formation in Soviet Ukraine during Late 
Socialism, 1959-1984

Tetyana Ostapchuk
(Pennsylvania State U, US)
< txo16 at psu.edu >
Constructing Memory in Ukrainian American Narrative

Bohdan Klid
(CIUS, U of Alberta, Canada)
< bklid at ualberta.ca >
Patriotism, Parody and Perversion:
Historical Memory and WWII in Ukrainian Rock, Pop and Hip Hop Music

DISCUSSANT
Zenon Wasyliw
(Ithaca College, US)
< wasyliw at ithaca.edu >

PANEL BOOK10
Special Panel on Omer Bartov’s Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Life 
in Present-Day Galicia (Princeton, 2007)

CHAIR
Steven Seegel
(Worcester State College, US)
< Steven.Seegel at worcester.edu >

PARTICIPANTS
John Paul Himka
(U of Alberta, Canada)
< jhimka at ualberta.ca >

Myroslav Shkandrij
(U of Manitoba)
< shkandr at cc.umanitoba.ca >

Wendy Lower
(U of Munich, Germany)
< wlower at starpower.net >

Omer Bartov
(Brown U, US)
< omer.bartov at gmail.com >

SATURDAY, APRIL 12TH SESSION VIII 9:00-11:00 AM

PANEL U11
Ukraine In Search of Identity

CHAIR
Alexandra Hrycak
(Reed College, US)
< hrycak at reed.edu >

PAPERS
Anton Kotenko
(Central European U, Budapest, Hungary)
< anton.kotenko at gmail.com >
Imagining Ukraine: Construction of Ukrainian National Space in the 
Nineteenth Century

Rory Finnin
(Columbia U, US)
< rf235 at columbia.edu >
Nationalism and the Lyric, or How Taras Shevchenko Speaks to Compatriots 
Dead, Living, and Unborn

Igor Torbakov
(Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, Finland)
< igor at fulbrightweb.org >
Between Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia: George Vernadsky’s Search for Identity

DISCUSSANT
Frank Sysyn
(Columbia, US)
< f.sysyn at utoronto.ca >

SATURDAY, APRIL 12TH SESSION IX 11:20 AM-1:20 PM

PANEL BOOK4
Special Panel on Gwendolyn Sasse’s The Crimea Question: Identity, 
Transition, and Conflict (Harvard, 2007)

CHAIR
Michael Rywkin
(City College, New York, US)
< mrywkin at aol.com >

PARTICIPANTS
John Jaworsky
(U of Waterloo, Canada)
< jjaworsk at watarts.uwaterloo.ca >

Pieter van Houten
(U of Cambridge, UK)
< pjv24 at cam.ac.uk >

Mark Beissinger
(Princeton U, US)
< mbeissin at princeton.edu >

Gwendolyn Sasse
(Oxford U, UK)
< Gwendolyn.Sasse at nuffield.ox.ac.uk >

SATURDAY, APRIL 12TH SESSION X 2:50-4:50 PM

PANEL U7
Famine and Deportation

CHAIR
Myroslava Znayenko
(Rutgers U, US)
< znayenko at andromeda.rutgers.edu >

PAPERS
Sarah Cameron
(Yale U, US)
< sarah.cameron at yale.edu >
Can You Get to Socialism by Camel?: The Kazakh Famine and the 1928 
Confiscations

Dominique Arel
(Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of Ottawa, Canada)
< darel at uottawa.ca >
The Famine and the Politics of Genocide in Ukraine

John Holian
(Mansfield U of Pennsylvania, US)
< john.holian at tri-c.edu >
Early Post-WWII Collectivization of a Western Ukrainian Village

DISCUSSANT
Margaret Paxson
(Kennan Institute, Washington, DC, US)
< Margaret.Paxson at wilsoncenter.org >

SATURDAY, APRIL 12TH SESSION XI 5:10-7:10 PM

PANEL U1
Regionalism in Ukraine

CHAIR
David J Meyer
(Cedarville U, US)
< meyerd at cedarville.edu >

PAPERS
Idil Izmirli
(George Mason U, US)
< Misket at aol.com >
Crimean Riddle: What does Hizb-Ut-Tahrir, Communists, and John Lennon 
Have in Common?

Oksana Malanchuk
(U of Michigan)
< oksana at umich.edu >
Regional Comparisons in Contemporary Ukraine

Antonina Tereshchenko
(U of Cambridge, UK)
< at275 at cam.ac.uk >
Emerging and Contested Citizenship Identities of the Donbas Youth

DISCUSSANT
Lowell Barrington
(Marquette U, US)
<  lowell.barrington at marquette.edu >

FILM SCREENING

Colour Me Free
Canada, 2007 (48 minutes)
Directed by Areta Lloyd
English subtitles
Contact: Areta Lloyd < oystermedia at rogers.com >

Areta Loyd’s documentary explores the impact of Ukraine’s 2004 Orange 
revolution
on democratic opposition groups in Belarus. This important event
raised hope for activists in the neighboring country who still battle 
President
Lukashenko’s authoritarian rule. The documentary analyses the situation
of the generally demoralized opposition and civil society prior to the 2006
presidential elections and the cat and mouse game between opposition 
activists
and the police.

Music Partisans
Poland, 2007 (52 minutes)
Directed by Mirosław Dembinski
English subtitles
Contact: Catherine Pergol/Studio Filmowe Everest < 
kasia at studioeverest.neostrada.pl >

After A Lesson of Belarusian, shown at ASN 2007, Polish director 
Miroslav Dembinsky returns with Music Partisans to a familiar theme, 
President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s iron fisted reign in Belarus, this time 
seen from the point of view of a number of Rock Bands. Dembinski 
interlaces their protest songs with poignant archive images of, for 
example, the militia that hard-handedly stopped protest marches. The 
film ends with the elections of 2006 that, as was expected, ended in a 
victory for Lukashenko.












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Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97202-8199


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