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[Alexandra Hrycak <hrycaka@reed.edu>]

Dear members:

The 2007 ASN World Convention is taking place 12-14 April, Columbia U, 
New York. The ASN 2007 World Convention will feature 12 panels on 
Ukraine. Forty panelists will present papers on topics touching on 
Ukraine. A list of these panels follows below.

In addition to attending panels, all interested in Ukrainian studies are 
  invited to attend a very brief first meeting of the new Executive 
Board of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS)(with 
refreshments). The AAUS meeting will be followed immediately in the same 
room by a roundtable on the current crisis in Ukraine, cosponsored 
jointly by the AAUS and ASN. This meeting and roundtable are scheduled 
for Saturday, 1:15 - 1:45 pm in room 1512. Details follow below.


The newly elected executive board of AAUS looks forward to seeing you in 
New York City at the conference and hopes you attend the meeting and 
roundtable!

Alexandra Hrycak, AAUS President
on behalf of the AAUS Executive Board

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ASN conference information

For general convention information and registration, go to 
www.nationalities.org or write to Gordon Bardos, Convention Director 
(gnb12@columbia.edu). The full program is available at 
http://www.nationalities.org/ASN_2007_prelim_program.pdf. Enclosed below 
is the chronological list of all Ukraine panels and presentations.

Ukraine-related events

LUNCHTIME MEETING:
Saturday April 14, 1.20-2.50 PM
Room 1512

Meeting of the AAUS and roundtable titled “The Ongoing Political Crisis 
in Ukraine”

Chair
Alexandra Hrycak (Reed College, US) and President, AAUS

Roundtable Participants
Adrian Karatnycky (Orange Circle, NY)
Taras Kuzio (George Washington U, US)
Keith Darden (Yale U, US)
Jessica Allina-Pisano (U of Ottawa, Canada)



ASN Panels on Ukraine

THURSDAY APRIL 12    SESSION I   1:00-3:00 PM

PANEL U9
Film, Music, Literature and National Identity

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

PAPERS
Vitaly Chernetsky
(Miami U, Ohio, US)
< chernev@muohio.edu >
Cognitive Mapping Of National Identities In The Writing Of Yuri
Andrukhovych

Joshua First
(U of Michigan, US)
< jfirst@umich.edu >
Starring the Self as “Other”: Karpaty, mon amour and Ukrainian National 
Visual Culture in the Era of Developed Socialism

Bohdan Klid
(U of Alberta, Canada)
< bklid@ualberta.ca >
The First Chervona Ruta Festival in 1989: Ukrainian-Language Popular
Music and the National Movement in Late Soviet Ukraine

DISCUSSANT
Catherine Wanner
(Penn State U, US)
< cew10@psu.edu >

THURSDAY APRIL 12    SESSION II  3:20-5:20 PM

PANEL U3
Ukrainian Energy Security

CHAIR
Donald Jensen
(RFE/RL, Washington, DC)
< jensend@rferl.org >

PARTICIPANTS
Daniel Kimage
(RFE/RL, Washington, DC, US)
< KimmageD@rferl.org >

Roman Kupchinsky
(RFE/RL, Washington, DC, US)
< KupchinskyR@rferl.org >

Peter Rutland
(Wesleyan U, US)
< prutland@wesleyan.edu >

PANEL U12
 From Mobilization to Memory: Placing the Orange Revolution in Perspective

CHAIR
Christina Isajiw
(U of Toronto, Canada)
< isajiw@hotmail.com >

PAPERS
Tammy Lynch
(Boston U, US)
< tammymlynch@hotmail.com >
Building a Revolution: Elite Choice and Opposition Tactics in Pre-Orange 
Ukraine

Iulia Shukan
(Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France)
< ioulia_shukan@yahoo.fr >
The Orange Revolution: Reflections about a Successful Strategy of 
Collective Action

Ksenia Gorbenko
(U of Pennsylvania, US)
< kseniago@sas.upenn.edu >
The Collective Memory of the Orange Revolution as it Comes into Being

Eleonora Narvselius
(Linköping U, Sweden)
< elena@isv.liu.se >
Cultural Identifications, Political Representations and National Projects
on the Arena of the Orange Revolution

DISCUSSANT
Alexandra Hrycak
(Reed College, US)
< hrycaka@reed.edu >

THURSDAY APRIL 12    SESSION III 5:40-7:40 PM

Panel U2
Where Photography meets Social Science:
An Exploration into the World of Ukraine's Russia Border

CHAIR
Gerard Toal
(Virginia Tech U, US)
< toalg@vt.edu >

PRESENTATIONS
Katri Pynnoniemi
(Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, Finland)
< katri.pynnoniemi@upi-fiia.fi >

Vadim Kononenko
(Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, Finland)
< vadim.kononenko@upi-fiia.fi >

Arseniy Svynarenko
(Finnish Centre for Russia and East Europe Studies, Helsinki, Finland)
< Arseniy.Svynarenko@helsinki.fi >

Terhi Tuomi
(Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma/U of Turku, Finland)
< terhi.tuomi@utu.fi >

DISCUSSANT
Steven Seegel
(Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Cambridge, USA)
< sseegel@fas.harvard.edu >

FRIDAY APRIL 13     SESSION IV  9:00-11:00 AM

Panel U11
Understanding Regions and Regional Identities in Ukraine and Poland

CHAIR
Gennadi Poberezny
(Rutgers U, US)
< gennadi@rci.rutgers.edu >

PAPERS
Oksana Malanchuk
(U of Michigan, US)
< oksana@umich.edu >
Unpacking Regionalism in Contemporary Ukraine

Peter Rodgers
(U of Birmingham, UK)
< aurora_ukr@yahoo.co.uk >
Compliance or Contradiction? Teaching “History” in the “New” Ukraine:
A View from Ukraine’s Eastern Borderlands

Magdalena Dembinska
(Université de Montréal, Canada)
< magdalena.dembinska@umontreal.ca >
Adapting To Changing Context of Choice: Nation-Building Strategies of 
Unrecognized Silesians and Rusyns

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

FRIDAY APRIL 13     SESSION V   11:20 AM-1:20 PM

Panel U4
Gender and National Identity as Reflected in Ukrainian
Literature (20th-21st c.)

CHAIR
Larissa Onyshkevych
(Shevchenko Scientific Society, NY, US)
< onyshlar@aol.com >

PAPERS
Maxim Tarnawsky
(U of Toronto, Canada)
< tarn@chass.utoronto.ca >
As Feminine as Granite:
Nationalist Women Writers of the Interwar Diaspora

Marko Andryczyk
(Harvard U, US)
< marcos17@yahoo.com >
A Community of Others: Intertextuality in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Prose

Maria Rewakowicz
(Columbia U/Shevchenko Scientific Society)
< mr241@columbia.edu >
Women’s Literary Discourse and National Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine

DISCUSSANT
Marian Rubchak
(Valparaiso U, US)
< Marian.Rubchak@valpo.edu >

FRIDAY APRIL 13    SESSION VI  2:50 PM-4:50 PM

Panel U14
The Politics of Economic Transformation in Ukraine

CHAIR
Tammy Lynch
(Boston U, US)
< tammymlynch@hotmail.com >

PAPERS
Jessica Allina-Pisano
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
< jallinap@uottawa.ca >
Klychkov i Pustota: Post-Soviet Bureaucrats and the Production of 
Institutional Facades

Scott Radnitz
(Harvard U, US)
< sradnitz@gmail.com >
The Color of Money: Privatization, Economic Dispersion, and Post-Soviet 
Revolutions

Rosaria Puglisi
(Institute for Security Studies, Paris, France)
< rosariap@yahoo.com >
With Moscow or with Brussels? Ukrainian Oligarchs’ Foreign Policy 
Orientations and the Consolidation of pro-European Positions in Ukraine

DISCUSSANT
Mikhail Pryadilnikov
(Harvard U, US)
< mpryadilnikov@worldbank.org >

FRIDAY APRIL 13    SESSION VII 5:20 PM-7:20 PM

Panel U8
Public Opinion, Civil Society and the State in Ukraine

CHAIR
Megan Buskey
(Open Society Institute, NY, US)
< mbuskey@sorosny.org >

PAPERS
Lowell Barrington
(Marquette U, US)
< lowell.barrington@marquette.edu >
The Stability of Survey Data in the Face of Major Events: An Examination 
of Mass Attitudes Before and After the Orange Revolution

Marc Berenson
(Princeton U, US)
< mpb@alumni.princeton.edu >
Less Fear, Little Trust: Deciphering the Whys of Ukrainian Tax Compliance

Maryna Bazylevych
(SUNY Albany, US)
< mb2885@albany.edu >
Who Should Be Paying for Our Health Care? Us or the State?: Health Care 
Reforms Polemics in Ukraine and Changing Concepts of State and the 
Individual

DISCUSSANT
Gerald Easter
(Boston College, US)
< gerald.easter@bc.edu >

PANEL O13
Responses and Representations of the Orange Revolution

CHAIR
Alexandra Goujon
(U of Bourgogne [Dijon], France)
< goujona@club-internet.fr >

PAPERS
Yitzhak Brudny
(Hebrew U of Jerusalem, Israel)
< ybrudny@aol.com >
Russia’s Intellectual Response to Ukraine’s Orange Revolution

Yevgeny Finkel
(Hebrew U of Jerusalem, Israel)
< finkee01@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il >
Russia’s Political Responses to Ukraine’s  Orange Revolution

DISCUSSANT
Oxana Shevel
(Purdue U, US)
< oshevel@post.harvard.edu >

SATURDAY APRIL 14     SESSION VIII  9:00-11:00 AM

Panel U5
Odessa Between Past and Present: Memory, Space, Migration and Identity

CHAIR
Adriana Helbig
(Columbia U, US)
< anh5@columbia.edu >

PAPERS
Tanya Richardson
(Wilfrid Laurier U, Canada)
< trichardson@wlu.ca >
Odessa’s Cosmopolitanisms and the Afterlives of Empire

Marina Sapritsky
(LSE, UK)
< M.Sapritsky@lse.ac.uk >
Coming Home or Leaving Home: Jewish Migration Between Israel and Odessa

Abel Polese
(EHESS, Paris, France)
< abel@ehess.fr >
Where Marx Meets Ekaterina (the Great):
The Dichotomy Between Local and Plural Identities in Odessa

Jarrod Tanny
(U of California, Berkeley, US)
< jtanny@berkeley.edu >
The Many Ends of Old Odessa: Memories of the Gilded Age in Russia’s City 
of Sin



DISCUSSANT

Patricia Herlihy

(Brown U, US)

< pherlihy1@comcast.net >


SATURDAY APRIL 14     SESSION IX  11:20 AM-1:20 PM

Panel U13
Special Panel
Paul Robert Magocsi on The Scholar as a Nation-Builder

CHAIR
Dominique Arel
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
< darel@uottawa.ca >

PARTICIPANTS
Paul Robert Magocsi
(U of Toronto, Canada)
< ukr.chair@utoronto.ca >

Taras Kuzio
(George Washington U, US)
< tkuzio@sympatico.ca >

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

Leonid Heretz
(Bridgewater State College, US)
< heretz@bellatlantic.net >

David Laitin
(Stanford U, US)
< dlaitin@stanford.edu >

SATURDAY APRIL 14    SESSION X  2:50 PM-4:50 PM

PANEL U1
Ukraine: The Challenges of Entering the 21st Century

CHAIR
Leonid Rudnytzky
(LaSalle U, US)
< rudnytzky@yahoo.com >

PAPERS
Martha B Trofimenko
(The Law Society of Upper Canada)
< trofimenko@dol.net >
The Alchemy of National Complexity: Can a Complex Nation Defy the Odds?

Taras Hunczak
(Rutgers U, US)
< thunczak@andromeda.rutgers.edu >
The Ukrainian National Idea in Historical Perspective

Oleh Wolowyna
(American U, US)
< olehw@aol.com >
Demographic Crisis in Ukraine: Causes and Consequences

DISCUSSANT
Wsewolod Isajiw
(U of Toronto, Canada)
< isajiw@hotmail.com >


SATURDAY APRIL 14    SESSION XI 5:20 PM-7:20 PM

Panel U10
Minorities in Ukraine

CHAIR
Zenon Wasyliw
(Ithaca College, US)
< wasyliw@ithaca.edu >

PAPERS
Volodymyr Paniotto
(U Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Ukraine)
< paniotto@kmis.kiev.ua >
Dynamics of Anti-Semitism in Ukraine (1994-2006)

Emmanuelle Armandon
(Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France)
< emmanuellearmandon@yahoo.fr >
Crimea Since the End of the 1990’s: A “Ukrainizing” Territory?

Idil Izmirli
(George Mason U, US)
< Misket@aol.com >
Radicalization of Emotions, Divided Communities, Escalating Ethnic 
Conflict Against the Background of Lawlessness: Crimean Crisis During 
the Yushchenko Era

Ionas Aurelian Rus
(Rutgers U, US)
< ionasrus@eden.rutgers.edu >
“Moldovan” and “Romanian” Nation-Building in the Odessa Region of
Ukraine (1989-2004)

DISCUSSANT
Keith Darden
(Yale U, US)
< keith.darden@yale.edu >



In addition, the following Ukraine-related papers are included in 
non-Ukraine specific panels:

PANEL R10
Language Politics in the Former Soviet Union

Robert Dunbar
(U of Aberdeen, UK)
< r.dunbar@abdn.ac.uk >
International Law and Linguistic Minorities:  The Impact of Select 
Council of Europe Treaties in States of the Former Soviet Union

Esma Gregor
(Free Researcher/Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany)
< esma.gregor@gmail.com >
The Impact of Soviet Language and Nationalities Policies on the Language 
and Identity of Speakers of Russian in the Former Soviet Republics

PANEL O4
The Holocaust: Old and New Approaches

John Paul Himka
(U of Alberta, Canada)
< jhimka@ualberta.ca >
Obstacles to the Integration of the Holocaust into
Postcommunist East European Narratives

Panel O6
Scholarship in Post-Communist States

George Grabowicz
(Harvard U, US)
< grabowic@fas.harvard.edu >
Beyond Sovietism: The State of the Humanities in Post-Independence Ukraine

PANEL R7
Myths of Nationhood

William Jay Risch
(Georgia College and State U, US)
< BillJRisch@aol.com >
Regions, Nationhood, and the Evolution of the Soviet Empire

PANEL O1
How Culture, Religion, and Politics Influence Identity and Nationalism

Oxana Shevel
(Purdue U, US)
< oshevel@post.harvard.edu >
The Sources and the Limits of Civic Nationalism: The Law on the Status 
of Foreign Ukrainians in Comparative Perspective

PANEL O8
Music and the Nation

Adriana Helbig
(Columbia U, US)
< anh5@columbia.edu >
Between Hip-Hop and Hopak: Music, Migration, and the Racialization
of Class Identity in post-Orange Revolution Ukraine



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


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