DANYLIW RESEARCH SEMINAR ON CONTEMPORARY UKRAINE

Program 2014

 

Thursday 30 October

 

Maidan and Civil Protests

10.00-12.00 PM 

 

Moderator:  MAYHILL FOWLER (Stetson U, US, mfowler1974@gmail.com)

 

• Jennifer Carroll (U of Washington, US, veruka2@gmail.com)
  The Fantastic Normal: 
  Inclusion, Exclusion, and the Praxis of Dignity at Kyiv’s EuroMaidan

 

• Olena Petrenko (Ruhr U Bochum, Germany, olena.petrenko@yahoo.de)
  Women and Men of the Euromaidan: 
  Revitalizations of the Heroic National Narrative

 

• Alexandra Goujon (U of Dijon, France, goujona@club-internet.fr)
  The Ukrainian Agora: Civic Activists and Politicians on Maidan

 

• Mikhailo Minakov (Mohyla U, Kyiv, Ukraine, mikhailminakov1971@gmail.com)
  Changing Civil Society After Maidan

 

LUNCH

 

The War in Eastern Ukraine

1.00-3.30 PM

 

Moderator:  DOMINIQUE AREL (Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of Ottawa, Canada, darel@uottawa.ca)

 

• Oleksandr Melnyk (U of Toronto, Canada, alex.melnyk@utoronto.ca)
  From the Russian Spring to the Armed Insurrection

 

• Lucan Way (U of Toronto, Canada, lucan.way@utoronto.ca)
  Civil War and the breakdown of Ukraine’s Faustian Bargain 

 

• Serhiy Kudelia (Baylor U, US, sergiy_kudelia@baylor.edu)
  The Donbas Insurgency: Origins, Organization and Dynamics of Violence

 

• Jesse Driscoll (U California San Diego, jesse.driscoll@gmail.com)
  Social Conflict and Social Media: “Terrorism” and “Fascism”

 

 

The 10 Years of the Danyliw Seminar

3.30-4.00 PM

 

Presented by:  DOMINIQUE AREL (Chair of Ukrainian Studies)

With: Anna Colin Lebedev, Alexandra Goujon, Mayhill Fowler, Oxana Shevel and Ioulia Shukan

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

Diplomacy and the Crisis in Ukraine

5.00-6.30 PM

 

Moderator: DANIEL CARON (U Laval, Canada/ex-Ambassador of Canada in Ukraine, gdaniel.caron@hei.ulaval.ca)

 

Guests:

• Michael Bociurkiw (Spokesperson, OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine) 

• Hon. Vadym Prystaiko (Ambassador of Ukraine in Canada)

• Abbie Dann  (ex-Ambassador of Canada in Ukraine) will join the discussion)

 

Concert

6.30-7.15 PM

 

Ensemble Calixa Lavallée, conducted by Laurence Ewashko (U of Ottawa, Canada)

 

Opening Reception

7.15-8.15 PM

 

Keynotes Remarks:

• Marcel Mérette, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, U of Ottawa

• Andrew Danyliw, Director, Danyliw Foundation, Toronto, Canada

 

 

Friday 31 October

 

A Regional Perspective

9.00-11.00 AM

 

Moderator:  MAYHILL FOWLER (Stetson U, US, mfowler1974@gmail.com)

 

• Orysia Kulick (Stanford U, US, omkulick@gmail.com)
  Regionalism’s Long Soviet Shadow: Local Elites, Emergent Polities,
  and InfrastructuralImpediments to Change in Dnipropetrovsk

 

• Henrik Hallgren (Eurasia Forum, Sweden, henrik.hallgren@forumeurasien.org)
  (Re-) Locating Kharkiv: Exploring Perceptions of Belonging during Maidanand the Donbas Insurrection

 

• Serhiy Yekelchyk (U of Victoria, Canada, serhy@uvic.ca)
  The Anti-Maidan Landscape: Kyiv and the Regions

 

• Rosaria Puglisi (European Union, Italy, rosariap@yahoo.com)
  A Regional Perspective on Post-Maidan Domestic Security

 

The Challenge of Economic Reforms

11.30 AM-1.30 PM

 

Moderator:  DOMINIQUE AREL (Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of Ottawa, Canada, darel@uottawa.ca)

 

• Tanya Kasperski (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris, France, tkasperski@gmail.com)

 

• Thane Gustafsson (Georgetown U, US, gustaft@georgetown.edu)
  Gas Politics and the Russia-Ukraine-EU Triangle

 

• Mitchell Orenstein (Northeastern U, US, m.orenstein@neu.edu)
  The IMF and EU Challenge: Can Ukraine Afford Reforms?

 

• Timofiy Mylovanov (U of Pittsburgh, US/Vox Ukraine, mylovanov@gmail.com)
  The Anti-Corruption Effort in a Frustrated Ukraine

 

LUNCH

 

The 2014 Elections 

5.00-7.00 PM

 

Moderator:  ANNA COLIN LEBEDEV (EHESS, Paris, France, anna_lebedev@yahoo.com)

 

• Timothy Colton (Harvard U, US, tcolton@fas.harvard.edu)
  The 2014 Presidential Election

 

• Oxana Shevel (Tufts U, US, ossu57@gmail.com)
  The 2014 Parliamentary Elections

 

• Volodymyr Paniotto (Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, Ukraine, paniotto@kmis.kiev.ua)
  The 2014 Exit Polls
   

• Stéphanie Plante (Elections Canada, stephanie.plante@gmail.com)

  The 2014 Electoral Observation

 

The Media Coverage of Maidan and the War in Donbas

2.30-4.30 PM

 

Moderator:  IOULIA SHUKAN (U Paris-Ouest Nanterre, France, ioulia.shukan@gmail.com)

 

• Natalya Gumenyuk (Hromadske TV, ngumenyuk@gmail.com)

• Anna Nemtsova (Newsweek, Russia, annanemtsova@gmail.com) 

• David Herszenhorn (New York Times, Moscow Bureau Chief, dahers@nytimes.com)

 

 

Saturday 1 November

 

Politics and the Law

10.00-11.45 AM

 

Moderator:  IOULIA SHUKAN (U Paris-Ouest Nanterre, France, ioulia.shukan@gmail.com)

 

• Monica Eppinger (U of St-Louis, US, monica.eppinger@aya.yale.edu)
  Authority, Hope, and the Law: An Analysis of Maidan through Legal Acts

 

• Maria Popova (McGill U, Canada, maria.popova@mcgill.ca)
  Why Does Kivalov Still Pull the Strings? The Judicial Lustration Process

 

• Timothy Waters (Indiana U, US, tiwaters@indiana.edu)
  Power and Ideals in Self-Determination: Crimea and Donetsk

 

LUNCH

 

Political Radicalism: The (Far) Left and Right

1.00-3.00 PM

 

Moderator:  ANNA COLIN LEBEDEV (EHESS, Paris, France, anna_lebedev@yahoo.com)

 

• Emily Channell (CUNY Graduate Center, US, echannell@gc.cuny.edu)
  The Invisible Radicals: 
  How Leftist Politics Shaped Maidan and Went Unnoticed

 

• Kai Struve (Martin Luther U Halle, Germany, kai.struve@geschichte.uni-halle.de)
  The Soviet Image of the Banderovtsy: 
  Conflicting Memories and Propaganda from the Cold War to Maidan

 

• Andreas Umland (Mohyla U, Kyiv, Ukraine, andreumland@yahoo.com)
  Extremely Right-Wing Groups in Post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine, 1992-2014

 

• Volodymyr Ishchenko (Mohyla U, Kyiv, Ukraine, jerzy.wolf@gmail.com)
  Maidan, the Right-Wing and Violence in Protest Events Analysis

 

Geopolitics: Ukraine, Russia, EU and the West

3.30-5.30 PM

 

Moderators:  DOMINIQUE AREL (Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of Ottawa, Canada, darel@uottawa.ca)  

DANIEL CARON (U Laval, Canada/ex-Ambassador of Canadain Ukraine, gdaniel.caron@hei.ulaval.ca)

 

• Anna Yavorska  (Bridge EU-Ukraine, Brussels, Belgium, yavorska.anna@gmail.com)
  Who Holds the Levers to Ukraine’s European Integration in Brussels?

 

• Dmitry Gorenburg (Harvard U/CNA, US, gorenburg@gmail.com)
  Countering Colored Revolutions: Russia’s New Security Strategy

 

• Nadiya Kravets (Harvard U, US, nkravets@fas.harvard.edu)
  The Pro-Europe Turn and the Ukraine-Russia Conflict

 

• Samuel Charap (International Institute for Strategic Studies, US, charap@iiss.org)
  Is a Stable Agreement Possible Between Russia and Ukraine?