Friday, March 17
Campbell Conference Facility, South House, MCIS
- 12:30 pm Opening Remarks by Peter Solomon and Olga Kesarchuk
- 12:45-2:45 pm Panel “Literature Revisited”
Chair: Taras Koznarsky (U of Toronto)
Discusant: Maxim Tarnawsky (U of Toronto)
- Amy Moore (Berkley U), “Postcolonialism and Transglobalism in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature”
- Roman Ivashkiv (Penn Sate U), “Yuri Andrukhovych: Revisiting Ukrainian Postmodernism”
- Yulia Tkachuk (U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Ukrainian Identity Representations in Traditional and Alternative Stories of Nation-Building”
- 2:45-3:00 pm Coffee Break
- 3:00-5:00 pm Panel “Rewriting the Past”
Discussant: Olga Andriewsky (Trent U)
Chair: Paul Magocsi (U of Toronto)
- Serhiy Bilenky (U of Alberta), “The Clash of Mental Geographies: Mapping and Imagining Kiev in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Tradition”
- Peter Rodgers (U of Birmingham), “Rewriting History in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Contestation and Negotiation of Ukraine’s Eastern Borderlands”
- 5:30 pm Keynote Address by Alexander Motyl (Rutgers U), “Looking Back and Squinting Ahead: Ukrainian Studies, Ukraine, and a Few Other Things”
Saturday, March 18
Campbell Conference Facility, South House, MCIS
- 9:00 am Panel “Identity and Regionalism”
Chair: Alexander Motyl (Rutgers U)
Discussant: Dominique Arel (U of Ottawa)
- Kristin Cavoukian (U of British Columbia), “From Sürgün to Vatan: Ethnic Identity Construction and the Repatriation Processes of the Crimean Tatars and the Meskhetian Turks”
- Olga Zazulya (Laval U), “Identity Construction: National Rebirth or Identity Crisis?”
- Gennadi Poberezny (Rutgers U), “Regionalism in Ukraine”
- 10:45-11:00 am Coffee Break
- 11:00 am Panel “Ukraine and the World”
Chair: Marta Dyczok (U of Western Ontario)
Discussant: Alexander Motyl (Rutgers U)
- Svitlana Kobzar (U of Cambrige, UK), “The European Union as a Factor in the Democratization of Ukraine”
- Elena Kropacheva (Hamburg U, Germany), “Ukraine in Search of a Balance: the (in-) Compatibility of its Western Aspirations with Close Relations with Russia”
- Natalia Shapovalova (International Centre for Policy Studies, Ukraine), “Russian Federation’s Penetration Strategy in Ukraine”
- Marc Berenson (Princeton U), “Don't Mess with Taxes! How Poles, Russians and Ukrainians Pay Their Dues”
- 1:15-1:45 pm Lunch
- 1:45 pm Reading from “Whiskey Priest” by Alexander Motyl
South Lounge, MCIS
- 2:30-4:30 pm Panel “Orange Revolution”
Discussants: Marta Dyczok (U of Western Ontario), Alexander Motyl (Rutgers U)
Chair: Dominique Arel (U of Ottawa)
- Anastasiya Salnykova (Simon Fraser U), “Nationalism in Ukraine’s Elections of 2004”
- Dmytro Hubenko (California State U) “Frame Analysis of the New York Times and Izvestia Coverage of the 2004 Presidential Elections and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine”
- Per Rudling (Uof Alberta), “Anti-Semitism and the Orange Revolution”
- 4:30-4:40 pm Concluding remarks by Alexander Motyl
- 4:40-5:00 pm Coffee Break
- 5:00 pm Roundtable “Studying Contemporary Ukraine”
Sunday, March 19
Room 108N, North House, MCIS
- 10:00-11:30 am Workshop “Doing Fieldwork in Eastern Europe”
(For students only)