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Ukraine at War

PROGRAM 2024

Social Sciences Building (FSS) 4007 University of Ottawa Campus
Thursday

Thursday September 26

 10.00 AM-12.00 PM  Experiencing the War                  

MODERATORS:

ANNA COLIN LEBEDEV 
(U Paris Nanterre, France)
DARIA MATTINGLY 

(U of Chichester, UK)  

  • KATERYNA BYSTRYTSKA  
    (Rutgers U, US)
     
     Visualization of Drone Attacks in Ukraine:
    How Telegram Channels Facilitate the Air Danger and Transform Knowledge about the War 

     

  •  OLYA ZIKRATA  
    (Concordia U, Canada)
     
    War as a Sonic Encounter:
    Ukrainian Knowledges and Creative Practices of Documentation 

     

  • DARIA YASHKINA 
     (Karazin Kharkiv U, Ukraine)

    The Return of Veterans of Civilian Life:
    The Role of the Police in Kharkiv
     

 12.00-1.00 PM  Lunch                                   

 1.00-3.00 PM  Language and National Identity             

MODERATORS:

DOMINIQUE AREL 

(Chair of Ukrainian Studies,
U of Ottawa, Canada)

ANNA COLIN LEBEDEV 
(U Paris Nanterre, France) 

  • LAADA BILANIUK  
    (U of Washington, US)
     
    Nation-building through Intimate Anonymity:
    The Role of the Nikolaevsky Vanek Telegram Community during Russia’s War on Ukraine 

     

  • NATALIIA KASIANENKO  
    (Fresno State U, US)

  • LENA SURZHKO-HARNED
    (Penn State U Behrend College, US)
    The Fluidity of National Identity among Russian-Speaking Ukrainians after the Full-Scale Invasion 

     

  • DARIA SABUROVA  
    (U Paris Nanterre, France) 
    The Working Class and the Language Question: Kryvyi Rih, 2022- 

     

  • ANNA VOZNA  
    (U of Ottawa, Canada) 
    How Educational NGOs are Changing Language Norms in Wartime Ukraine 

 3.00-3.30 PM  Coffee Break                                   

 3.30-5.00 PM  The Waffen-SS Galicia Division:

History and Politics 

MODERATORS:
DOMINIQUE AREL 

(Chair of Ukrainian Studies,
U of Ottawa, Canada)

YULIYA YURCHUK  

(Södertörn U, Sweden)

  • MYROSLAV SHKANDRIJ   
    (U of Manitoba, Canada)
     
    Book Presentation:
    In the Maelstrom: The Waffen-SS “Galicia” Division and Its Legacy  

     

  • DANYLO LESHCHYSHYN 
    (Northwestern U, US)
    When the Barracks Met the Forest:
    Relations between Combatants of the Waffen-SS “Galicia”
    and the UPA during WWII 

 5.15-6.00 PM  The War and Cinema  

MODERATORS:

MAYHILL FOWLER  

(Stetson U, US)

DARIA MATTINGLY 

(U of Chichester, UK)

  • DARYA LEVCHENKO  
    (DocuDays/UNICEF, Ukraine)
     
    Shaping Perceptions:
    The Politics of Ukrainian Cinema at International Film Festivals 

All are invited!

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6.00-7.30 PM   Opening Ceremony and Reception  FSS 4007                                 

Friday

Friday September 27 

 9.00-10.30 AM  Oligarchs and Corruption     

MODERATORS:
ANNA COLIN LEBEDEV 
(U Paris Nanterre, France) 

OXANA SHEVEL

(Tufts U, US)

  • SILVIYA NITSOVA   
    (U of Manchester, UK)
     

    Ukraine’s Oligarchs and Their Legislative Networks of Influence
    Before and After Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion

     

  •  ANASTASIIA VLASENKO   
    (NYU, US)

    The Electoral Effects of Decentralization: Evidence from Ukraine    

 10.30-11.00 AM  Coffee Break                                   

 11.00-12.30 PM  New Books on the War     

 11.00-11.45 AM 


MODERATORS:

DOMINIQUE AREL 

(Chair of Ukrainian Studies,
U of Ottawa, Canada)

OXANA SHEVEL

(Tufts U, US)

AUTHOR:

SERHIY KUDELIA   

(Baylor U, US)

  • Seize the City, Undo the State:
    The Inception of Russia’s War on Ukraine
    (Oxford, 2024)


 

 11.45 AM-12.30 PM 

 

MODERATORS:

MAYHILL FOWLER  

(Stetson U, US)

DARIA MATTINGLY 

(U of Chichester, UK)

AUTHOR:

MARTA DYCZOK   

(Western U, Canada)
 

  • Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine
    (Cambridge, 2024) 

 12.30-1.30 PM  Lunch                                   

 1.30-3.00 PM  Occupied Territories     

MODERATORS:

DOMINIQUE AREL 

(Chair of Ukrainian Studies,
U of Ottawa, Canada)

ANNA COLIN LEBEDEV 
(U Paris Nanterre, France)

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  • YURIY MATSIYEVSKY   
    (Ostroh U, Ukraine)
     
    Ukrainian Civil and Armed Resistance in Russia-Occupied Territories 
     

  • ANASTASIA BYESYEDINA     
    (U of Sydney, Australia)

    Re-Education the Russian Way:
    The Theft of Ukrainian Children and their Identity in Occupied Territories
     

 3.00-3.30 PM  Coffee Break                                   

 3.30-5.00 PM  War and Gender     

MODERATORS:

MAYHILL FOWLER  

(Stetson U, US)

YULIYA YURCHUK  

(Södertörn U, Sweden)

  • MARNIE HOWLETT  
    (U of Oxford, UK)
     
    Losing and Finding Home Twice: Ukrainian Women in War 

     

  • ANASTASIIA CHUPIS 
    (Södertörn U, Sweden/Zaporizhzhia U, Ukraine) 
    Empowering Changemakers: The Impact of Women Activism
    on the Strengthening of the Ukrainian Armed Forces 

     

  • SOFIE ROSE  
    (U of Southern Denmark/U of Vienna, Austria) 
    Duty, Gender, and Choice: Unpacking Ambiguous Societal
    Perceptions of Ukrainian Men Who Avoid Military Mobilization 

Saturday

Saturday September 28 

 10.00-11.30 AM  History and the Present     

MODERATORS:

MAYHILL FOWLER  

(Stetson U, US)

DARIA MATTINGLY 

(U of Chichester, UK)

  • ALINA IVANENKO  
    (Mannheim U, Germany/Shevchenko U Chernihiv, Ukraine)
     
    The Judicial System in Reichskommissariat Ukraine and the Fate
    of Its Employees after the Reestablishment of Soviet Power 

     

  • ORYSIA KULICK    
    (U of Manitoba, Canada)

    How Ukraine Ruled Russia: Regionalism and Party Politics After Stalin 
     

 11.30 AM-12.00 PM  Coffee Break                                   

 12.00-1.30 PM  The 2022 War and Refugees     

MODERATORS:

OXANA SHEVEL

(Tufts U, US)

YULIYA YURCHUK  

(Södertörn U, Sweden)

  • ANASTASIIA MYKOLENKO  
    (U de Montréal, Canada)
     
    The Polish-Ukrainian Border as a Place of Migratory Trajectories
    Co-Production for Displaced Ukrainians

     

  • TARAS ROMASHCHENKO  
    (Bielefeld U, Germany/Khmelnytsky U Cherkasy, Ukraine)

    The Return of Ukrainian Refugees:
    from Exaggerated Expectations to Harsh Reality  

 1.30-2.30 PM  Lunch                                   

 2.30-4.30 PM  Decolonizing Ukrainian Studies     

MODERATORS:

ANNA COLIN LEBEDEV 
(U Paris Nanterre, France)

MAYHILL FOWLER  

(Stetson U, US)

DARIA MATTINGLY 

(U of Chichester, UK)

  • YULIYA YURCHUK    
    (Södertörn U, Sweden)
     
    How Can One Remember Clearly?
    On the Possibility of Decolonization of Memory in Ukraine

     

  • OLEH WOLOWYNA      
    (UNC Chapel Hill, US)

    Decolonization of the Demography of Holodomor 
     

  • SUSANN WORSCHECH  
    (Europä-U Viadrina, Germany)

    The Complex Tale of Ukrainian Studies in Germany  

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