Thursday, January 24, 5 pm
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre for International Studies (1 Devonshire Place)
Welcome and opening remarks: Jeffrey Kopstein and Olga Kesarchuk (University of Toronto). Keynote address: Paul D’Anieri (University of Kansas, USA), “The Orange Restoration and Ukraine's Uneasy Pluralism”
Friday, January 25
Room 208, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1 Devonshire Place)
8:30-9:45 am Workshop: Getting Your Work Published (students only)
9:45-10:00 am Coffee Break
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre for International Studies (1 Devonshire Place)
10:00 am -11:30 pm Panel: Social Policy
Chair: Peter Solomon (University of Toronto)
Discussant: Paul D’Anieri (University of Kansas)
- Michael Rasell (University of Birmingham, UK), “Politics, poverty and privileges: the Ukrainian welfare state in comparative perspective” (abstract)
- Anastasia Riabchuk (EHESS, France), “Social Exclusion of the Homeless in post-Soviet Ukraine" (abstract)
11:30-11:40 am Coffee Break
11:40 am-1:10 pm Panel: Identity
Chair: Lucan Way (University of Toronto)
Discussant: Marta Dyczok (University of Western Ontario)
- Anna Wylegała (Graduate School for Social Research, Poland), “Alternative patterns of Ukrainian national identity – case of young Russian-speaking population in Lviv” (full text)
- Anastasia Bezverha (University of Oxford, UK), “Representation of Crimean Tatars in the Ukrainian media: discursive strategies of exclusion” (abstarct)
1:10– 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 - 4:00 pm Panel: Ukraine and EU
Chair: Lucan Way (University of Toronto)
Discussant: Oleh Havrylyshyn (University of Toronto)
- Olena Fimyar (Cambridge University, UK), “ Educational Policy-Making in Post-Communist Ukraine: the Impact of the Europeanization Discourse(s) on the Construction of Education Policies (1991-2006)" (abstract)
- Evgeny Finkel (University of Wisconsin Madison, USA), “A Door Wide Shut? European Neighborhood Policy and Ukraine” (abstract)
- Anastasiya Timoshyna (Central European University, Hungary), “Environmental policy in the European Union and Ukraine: Framework for institutional change” (abstract)
4:00-4:15 pm Coffee Break
4:15- 5:45 pm Panel: Politics
Chair: Paul D’Anieri (University of Kansas)
Discussant: Lucan Way (University of Toronto)
- Max Bader (Amsterdam University, Netherlands), “Party System Development in Ukraine Before and After the Orange Revolution and the Impact of International Political Party Assistance” (full text)
- Spyridon Kotsovilis (McGill University, Canada), “Mapping Opposition Networks of the 2004 Democratizing Revolution in Ukraine: Some Preliminary Results” (abstract)
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Room 108, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1 Devonshire Place)
10:00 am-12 pm Panel: History
Chair: Paul Magocsi (University of Toronto)
Discussant: Olga Andriewsky (Trent University)
- Zbignew Wojnowski (University College, UK), “Smugglers, Counterrevolutionaries or Socialist Brothers? Soviet Ukrainian citizens encounter inhabitants of Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary” (abstract)
- Yulia Kysla (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine), “Ukrainian Historical Memory: the Construction of General Soviet Identity in UkrSSR in Stalinist Period (1930th-1950th)” (abstract)
- Maria Melentyeva, (University of Alberta, Canada), “The Impact of Local Newspapers on the Shaping of National Identity: Kharkov Province as a Case Study, March – August 1917” (abstract)
12:00 -1:00 pm Lunch
1:00-3:00 pm Panel: Literature and culture
Chair: Maxim Tarnawsky (University of Toronto)
Discussant: Taras Koznarsky (University of Toronto)
- Uilleam Blacker (University College, UK), “The Contemporary Ukrainian Literary Essay: Between Central Europe and the Postmodern” (abstract)
- Kateryna Ruban (Central European University, Hungary), “Nostalgia for the Habsburgs Times: Shaping New Approach to the Past” (abstract)
- Grzegorz Rossolinski (Germany), “Stepan Bandera – Hero and Antihero. The Invention and Reception of the Myth of the Ukrainian National-Revolutionary in International Comparison” (full text)