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ARCHIVES  Danyliw Seminar 2015

Program 2015

Desmarais Hall 12102, 55 Laurier Ave., U of Ottawa Campus

Ukraine 2015: History, War, Civil Society

Thursday

Thursday 22 October

9.30 - 10.30 AM

The Maidan Effect
Panel 1

Moderator: MAYHILL FOWLER (Stetson U, US)

 

PANEL DISCUSSION
Crimea and Ukraine

10.30 - 11.30 AM

Moderator: ANNA COLIN LEBEDEV (EHESS, Paris, France)

 

  • ANDREY NEVSKIY (Public Sociology Laboratory, St.Petersburg, Russia)
    Political and Social Demands in the “Revolution of Dignity”:
    Evidence from Kyiv, Odessa, Kharkiv, and Crimea
     

  • ELEANOR KNOTT (London School of Economics, UK)
    Identity in Crimea before Annexation: a Bottom-up Perspectiv

Panel 2
PANEL DISCUSSION

LUNCH

1.00 - 2.30 PM

The Conflict/War and Social Media

Moderator: IOULIA SHUKAN (U Paris-Ouest Nanterre, France)

 

  • JENNIFER CARROLL (Brown U, US)
    A Good Enough Lie: The Rhetoric of Misinformation in Ukraine’s EuroMaidan and the War with Russia
     

  • MEGAN METZGER (NYU, US)

  • JOSHUA TUCKER (NYU, US)
    Tweeting Identity? Ukrainian, Russian and #EuroMaidan

Panel 3
PANEL DISCUSSION

2.30 - 4.00 PM

Ukraine’s Economic Predicament

Moderator: DOMINIQUE AREL (Chair of Ukrainian Studies,
U of Ottawa, Canada)

 

  • MARGARITA BALMACEDA (Seton Hall U, US)
    Between “Elite Original Sin” and External Conditions:
    Ukraine’s Foundational Bargain and the Rent Swamps
    of the Post-Soviet Transition

  • THANE GUSTAFSON (Georgetown U, US)
    Natural Gas in Ukraine 2015: Toward Progress or Partition?

Panel 4
PANEL DISCUSSION

COFFE BREAK

Panel 5
A Conversation with Anders Aslund
on his New Book
Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It 

(Peterson Institute, 2015)

4.30 - 6.00 PM

Moderator: DOMINIQUE AREL (Chair of Ukrainian Studies)

 

Speaker: ANDERS ASLUND (Atlantic Council, US)

PANEL DISCUSSION

OPENING RECEPTION

6.00 - 7.00 PM

Friday
Friday 23 October

9.00 - 10.00 AM

The First Ukrainian War

Moderator: MAYHILL FOWLER (Stetson U, US)

 

  • CHRISTOPHER GILLEY (U of Hamburg, Germany)
    Otamanshchyna: Ukrainian and Russian Warlordism at the Beginning
    of the 20th and 21st Centuries
     

  • THOMAS CHOPARD (EHESS, France/YIVO Institute, NY, US)
    To Wage War without a State:
    Atamans and Insurgents during the Civil War in Ukraine (1917-1922)

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PANEL DISCUSSION
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A Conversation with Faith Hillis 
on her New Book

Children of Rus’: Right-Bank Ukraine and
the Invention of a Russian Nation

(Cornell, 2013)

10.00 - 11.30 AM

Moderators:
DOMINIQUE AREL (Chair of Ukrainian Studies)
MAYHILL FOWLER (Stetson U, US)

 

Speaker: FAITH HILLIS (U of Chicago, US)

PANEL DISCUSSION

LUNCH

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A Conversation with Lucan Way
on his New Book

(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)

Pluralism by Default

4.30 - 6.00 PM

Moderators:
DOMINIQUE AREL (Chair of Ukrainian Studies)
JOSHUA TUCKER (NYU, US)

 

Speaker: LUCAN WAY (U of Toronto)

PANEL DISCUSSION

2.30 - 3.30 PM

Conceptualizing the War in Donbas

Moderator: ANNA COLIN LEBEDEV (EHESS, Paris, France)
 

  • JESSE DRISCOLL (UC San Diego, US)

  • DOMINIQUE AREL (Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of Ottawa, Canada)
    Regime Collapse and Ukraine’s Unusual Conventional “Civil War

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COFFEE BREAK

PANEL DISCUSSION
The War in Donbas Upclose
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4.00 - 5.00 PM

Moderator: IOULIA SHUKAN (U Paris-Ouest Nanterre, France)

 

  • RALPH CLEM (Florida International U, US)
    Verifying External Challenges to State Sovereignty:
    Open versus Official Sources
    and the Geopolitical Narrative in the Russia-Ukraine Conflic
     

  • HILDE HAUG (OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Kyïv)
    The Monitoring Mission: 18 Months of Field Observations

PANEL DISCUSSION
Saturday 24 October
Saturday

10.00 - 11.00 AM

The Refugees

Moderator: IOULIA SHUKAN (U Paris-Ouest Nanterre, France)

 

  • LAURA DEAN (Clayton State U, US)
    Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in the Ukrainian Conflict
     

  • GRETA UEHLING (U of Michigan, US)
    Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Ukraine: 
    Structures of Feeling from the Revolution of Dignity

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PANEL DISCUSSION

11.00 AM - 12.00 PM

Civil Society and the War
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Moderator: ANNA COLIN LEBEDEV (EHESS, Paris, France)

 

  • SOFIA TIPALDOU (Autonomous U of Barcelona, Spain)
    The Russian Nationalist-Patriotic Opposition and Foreign Policy:
    The Case of the 2014-2015 Ukraine Conflict
     

  • ROSARIA PUGLISI (Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome, Italy)
    A People’s Army:
    Civil Society as a Security Actor in Post-Maidan Ukraine

PANEL DISCUSSION

LUNCH

The Combatants 

1.00 - 2.00 PM

Moderator: MAYHILL FOWLER (Stetson U, US)

 

  • AMANDINE REGAMEY (U Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
    Women Snipers in the East: Analyzing a War Legend
     

  • ANNA COLIN LEBEDEV (EHESS, Paris, France)
    Back to War? Afghanistan Veterans in the Armed Conflict in Donba

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PANEL DISCUSSION

2.00 - 3.00 PM

The Rise of Volunteer Groups

Moderator: DOMINIQUE AREL (Chair of Ukrainian Studies,

U of Ottawa, Canada)

 

  • NATALIA STEPANIUK (U of Ottawa, Canada)
    Volunteer Associations in Eastern Ukraine: Helping Soldiers and Refugees
     

  • IOULIA SHUKAN (U Paris-Ouest Nanterre, France)
    Caring for Wounded Soldiers: The “Sisters of Mercy” in Eastern Ukraine

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PANEL DISCUSSION

3.00 - 4.00 PM

Studying Ukraine in War Conditions

Moderator: ANNA COLIN LEBEDEV (EHESS, Paris, France)

 

  • OLEH KOTSYUBA (Harvard U, US)
    Straddling Academia and Social Engagement: The Krytyka Experience
     

  • MYCHAILO WYNNYCKYJ (U Mohyla Academy, Kyïv, Ukraine)
    Straddling Academia and Social Engagement: The View from the Ground

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PANEL DISCUSSION
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