Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005
From: Dominique Arel <darel@uottawa.ca>
Subject: Announcement on Conference on Contemporary Ukraine
First Annual Danyliw Research Seminar in
Contemporary Ukrainian Studies
Chair of Ukrainian Studies
University of Ottawa
29 September-1 October 2005
The Lounge, New Residence, 90 University St
Sponsored by the Wolodymyr George Danyliw Foundation The Chair also thanks the
School of Political Studies, the Faculty of Graduate Studies and the Faculty of
Social Sciences for their support
The Chair of Ukrainian Studies, at the University of Ottawa, is holding its First Annual Danyliw Research Seminar in Contemporary Studies on 29 September-1 October 2005. The Seminar will bring together 28 international scholars from the fields of political science, anthropology, sociology, and geography, and will feature ten papers-with topics ranging from the Orange Revolution, to Citizenship, Industrial Reforms, the Transition to Democracy and many others-and a special afternoon session, with four additional papers, on Regionalism in Ukraine. A presentation by Taras Kuzio on the events surrounding the Tymoshenko Dismissal is also on the program.
In offering this privileged platform to scholars and graduate students to present and discuss their research, the Chair of Ukrainian Studies aims to highlight the vitality of the field of contemporary Ukrainian Studies-in Canada, the United States, Western Europe and Ukraine-, to promote the publication of research papers, and stimulate projects for collaborative research on issues most relevant to our understanding of Ukraine.
The Seminar is open to the public. While attendance is free, seating is limited and those interested in attending are invited to reserve in advance by contacting the Chair at 613 562 5800 ext. 1713 or at ukrain@uottawa.ca. For information about the Program, please contact the Chairholder, and Seminar organizer, Dominique Arel, at darel@uottawa.ca. For more information on the Seminar, log on to http://www.ukrainianstudies.uottawa.ca/.
Final Program
Thursday 29 September
Session I, 4-6 PM
Anna Fournier (John Hopkins U, US, anna_fournier@hotmail.com) Educational Practice and the Building of Democratic Citizenship among Ukrainian High School Students Before and After the Orange Revolution
Discussant: Natalka Patsiurko (McGill U, Canada, npatsu@po-box.mcgill.ca)
Sarah Phillips (U of Indiana, US, sadphill@indiana.edu) Disability and Citizenship in Post-Soviet Ukraine: An Anthropological Critique
Discussant: Alexandra Hrycak (Reed College, US, Alexandra.Hrycak@directory.reed.edu)
Opening Reception, 6-8 PM
Friday 30 September
Session II, 9 AM-Noon
Oxana Shevel (Purdue U, US, oshevel@post.harvard.edu) Citizenship Policies in Post-Soviet States: Towards a Dynamic Model?
Discussant: Blair Ruble (Kennan Institute, US, blairrub@wwic.si.edu)
Tatiana Zhurzhenko (Karazin Kharkiv National U, Ukraine, tzhurzh@postmaster.co.uk) Becoming Ukrainians in a "Russian" Village: Social Change and Identity Formation in Udy (Kharkiv oblast', Ukraine)
Discussant: Tanya Richardson (Harriman Institute, Columbia U, US, pryvit99@yahoo.com)
Olga Filippova (Fulbright Scholar, Indiana U, US, ofilippo@indiana.edu) Anti-Orange Discourses in Ukraine: A Cyber-Ethnography of Political Opposition
Discussant: Cathy Wanner (Penn State U, US, cew10@email.psu.edu)
Session III, 2-5 PM
Special Roundtable on Regionalism in Ukraine
Svitlana Oksamytna (University Kyiv Mohyla Academy, oksamyt@ukma.kiev.ua) Regional Cleavages in the Ukrainian 2004 Presidential Election
Dominique Arel (Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of Ottawa, darel@uottawa.ca) and Valeri Khmelko (Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, khmelko@kiis-1.kiev.ua) Making Sense of Regional Polarization, 1994-2004
Discussant: Al Stepan (Columbia U, US, as48@columbia.edu)
[10 minute break]
Ihor Stebelsky (U of Windsor, Canada, stebels@uwindsor.ca) The Nature of Regions and the Utility of Regional Analysis in the Explanation of Political Geography in Ukraine
Jessica Allina-Pisano (Colgate U, US, JAllinaPisano@mail.colgate.edu) Regionalism and the Informal Politics of Social Control in Kuchma's Ukraine
Discussant: Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University, US, prutland@wesleyan.edu)
Saturday 1 October
Session IV, 9 AM-Noon
Adam Swain (U of Nottingham, UK, Adam.Swain@nottingham.ac.uk) Regional "Lock-In" or Local Hegemonic Bloc? Industrial Restructuring in the Ukrainian Donbass
Discussant: Paul d'Anieri (U of Kansas, US, p-danieri@ku.edu)
Maria Popova (Harvard U, US, popova@fas.harvard.edu) The Role of Ukrainian and Russian Courts in the Provision of Press Freedom: Evidence from Defamation Lawsuits, 1998-2004
Discussant: Peter Solomon (U of Toronto, Canada) peter.solomon@utoronto.ca
Bohdan Harasymiw (U of Calgary, Canada, bharasym@ucalgary.ca) Soviet Bureaucratic Survivors in Post-Soviet Ukraine, 1992-2004
Discussant: Wsewolod Isajiw (U of Toronto, Canada) isajiw@hotmail.com
Session V, 1.30-2.30 PM
"Orange Revolution Crisis: Contradictions, Personalities, and Ideologies" Talk by Taras Kuzio (George Washington U, US, tkuzio@gwu.edu)
Session V, 2.45-4.45 PM
Henry Hale (Georgetown U, US, hhale@indiana.edu) Democracy and Revolution in the Postcommunist World: From Chasing Events to Building Theory
Discussant: Lucan Way (Temple U, US, lucan.way@temple.edu)
Joshua Tucker (Princeton U, US, jtucker@princeton.edu) Enough! Electoral Fraud, Collective Action Problems, and the "Second Wave" of Post-Communist Democratic Revolutions
Discussant: Jerry Hough (Duke U, US, jhough@duke.edu)