aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- Re: [aaus-list] Why is there no organized action against Ginzburg?

["stephen velychenko" <velychen@chass.utoronto.ca>]

1. It is not enough to only have public protest by Ukrainian
organizations. All attempts must be made to have as many international
non-Ukrainian academic organizations and persons support this protest.
ROman Senkus has come addresses ( eg: int cong of hist sciences ICCEES
and Garton-Ash) the more he can get the better.
2. Ex-communists and no qualifications are merely part of the issue.
The main issue is that access will either be restricted or closed to
archives covering 1929-1945. That is well beyond normal 30 year closed
period all  countries have.

On 6/22/07, Roman Serbyn <serbyn.roman@videotron.ca> wrote:
> I am glad things are moving. The comment re "political correctness" was not
> mine, and I, like Roman Senkus, did not understand what was meant by it.
>
> I agree with what is written by Robert. In addition, would it not be
> possible to get some response from national associations of archivists? The
> question is not whether the appointment was legal or not, not even that
> Ginzburg is a communist, but that she is professionally unqualified for the
> job and that she makes statements and will presumably take measures which go
> against the very vocation of national archives. In this sense, Ginzburg is
> not only a matter for Ukrainians or those involved in Ukrainian studies, but
> it touches on the defence of the very principle of archives and the
> profession.
>
> Roman Serbyn
>
>
>
> Le 22/06/07 17:54, « Robert DeLossa » <radelo@earthlink.net> a écrit :
>
>
> With regard to Roman Senkus' request, sure, we can re-activate the procedure
> that we used six or seven years ago during the political crisis then.
> However, I think we also would want to use the indirect route of posting
> names to the petition (i.e., have them sent to the webmaster rather than
> going right to the list) in order to prevent having it spammed and/or
> intentionally ruined.
>
> With regard to Roman Serbyn's comment on "political correctness": huh? I
> hope that isn't the implication that I think it is. If so, that has nothing
> to do with it. When she was installed and Henadii Boriak was demoted, some
> of us contacted archivists here, who in turn talked with high-ups in
> American archival circles. The decision was made by the active participants
> then, with concurrence from at least one high-level Ukrainian archivist, to
> try to work this from within, without open confrontation on the American
> side's part, since the appointment was legal (no matter how distasteful).
> Perhaps that was a mistake, but it would be wrong to think that everyone
> over here was sitting on his or her hands, for whatever reason.
>
> I think it is important to have a statement from MAU and all of the
> presidents of the national associations, not just CAUS and AAUS. The
> statement should have all their imprimaturs before it goes on line. Can we
> get everyone on board quickly?
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Rob DeLossa
> Chair, Communications Committee, AAUS
>
>
>
> Dear Roman and AAUS members:
>
>   Yesterday I asked two key individuals in Ukraine to draft a public
> petition, which will, I hope, be posted soon in Ukrainian and English
> translation on the Web. Anyone will be able to add his or her signature to
> the petition. Prof. Giovanna Brogi, v-p of MAU, has agreed to bring the
> petition's existence to the attention of the presidents of Nac. asociacija
> ukrajinistiv in Ukraine and of the other national associations for Ukrainian
> studies, and will ask them to forward the link to it to their members. I
> and, I'm sure, Alexandra Hrycak or Rob De Lossa will inform the members of
> CAUS and AAUS repectively.
>
>   Question to the AAUS executive: could AAUS host the petition on its Web
> site?
>
> Roman Senkus
> Some time ago, when a group of Ukrainian historians (Kulchytsky, Shapoval
> etc.) were attacked by MAUP, there was an outcry of support for them by
> fellow scholars in Ukraine and abroad. What I find strange and disconcerting
> is that these same people and their defendants do not raise the same public
> outcry in defence of the Ukrainian archives and against the appointment of
> Ginzburg to the position of Head of National Archives of Ukraine?
>
> Roman Serbyn
>
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