ARCHIVES Danyliw Seminar 2017
ARCHIVES Danyliw Seminar 2017
Program Committee
Program Committee
PROGRAM 2026
Ukraine at War
Social Sciences Building (FSS) 4007 120 University Private University of Ottawa Campus
Thursday September 24
9.00-11.00 AM Occupied Territories
MODERATORS:
Anna Colin Lebedev
(U Paris Nanterre, France)
Daria Mattingly
(U of Chichester, UK)
Ioulia Shukan
(EHESS, France)
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SOPHIE LAMBROSCHINI
(CERCEC, EHESS, France)
Risky Commutes: Wartime Mobility to and from Russian-Occupied Territories
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DARIA MALCHYKOVA
(Kherson State U, Ukraine)
Living the Frontlines: How Prolonged War Shifts Everyday Life in Kherson Oblast
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IRA YEROSHKO
(Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, U of Luxemburg)
From Voice to Image: Animated Documentary on the War as Historical Method
11.00-11.20 AM Coffee Break
11.20 AM-12 PM Maidan
MODERATORS:
Ioulia Shukan
(EHESS, France)
Yuliya Yurchuk
(Södertörn U, Sweden)
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SOPHIA WILSON
(Southern Illinois U Edwardsville, US)
Book—Maidan: Ukraine’s Democratic Revolution (McGill-Queen’s 2026)
12.00-1.00 PM Lunch
1.00-2.30 PM Interwar/War Legacy
MODERATORS:
Dominique Arel
(Chair of Ukrainian Studies,
U of Ottawa, Canada)
Daria Mattingly
(U of Chichester, UK)
Yulia Yurchuk
(Södertörn U, Sweden)
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MAGDALENA GIBIEC
(U of Wrocław, Poland)
Book—Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists in Exile: Its Formation and
Transnational Connections, 1929–1934 (Routledge 2024) [Translation in Polish, 2025]
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RAISA OSTAPENKO
(U Sorbonne, France)
Inconvenient Altruism: Ukrainian Rescuers of Jews and Postwar Purges
2.30-3.00 PM Coffee Break
3.00-4.30 PM Russian Destruction
MODERATORS:
Dominique Arel
(Chair of Ukrainian Studies,
U of Ottawa, Canada)
Daria Mattingly
(U of Chichester, UK)
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JAN CLAAS BEHRENDS
(Leibniz Centre/European U Viadrina, Germany)
Post-Soviet War Crimes: Illegitimate Military Violence by Russian Troops after 1991
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MARTIN LARYŠ
(Institute of International Relations Prague, Czechia)
Making Ukrainians Russian Again: Russia’s Paranoid Assimilation in Occupied Ukraine
4.30-5.00 PM Coffee Break
5.00-7.00 PM Film Screening and Q&A
MODERATORS:
Dominique Arel
(Chair of Ukrainian Studies,
U of Ottawa, Canada)
Anna Colin Lebedev
(U Paris Nanterre, France)
Daria Mattingly
(U of Chichester, UK)
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Distance to Independence (Canada, 2026, 75 min., English subtitles)
Followed by a Q&A with director Anna Palenchuk (Toronto, Canada)
and Borys Wrzesnewskyj (ex-Member of Parliament, House of Commons of Canada)
All are invited!
7.00-8.30 PM Opening Ceremony and Reception
FSS 4007
Friday September 25
9.00-11.00 AM Language and Identity in Wartime
MODERATORS:
Dominique Arel
(Chair of Ukrainian Studies,
U of Ottawa, Canada)
Anna Colin Lebedev
(U Paris Nanterre, France)
Yuliya Yurchuk
(Södertörn U, Sweden)
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ANASTASIA LESHCHYSHYN
(McGill U, Canada)
Ukraine at War and Linguistic Estrangement
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NATALIIA NAUMOVSKA
(U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US)
Wartime Language Shift as Moral Choice in the Oral Accounts of Ukrainian Speakers
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GRÉGOIRE LE GALL
(EHESS, France)
Ukrainian-Russian Families Across the Ukrainian/Russian Border since 2014
11.00-11.30 AM Coffee Break
11.30 AM-1.00 PM Strategic Warfare
MODERATORS:
Dominique Arel
(Chair of Ukrainian Studies,
U of Ottawa, Canada)
Oxana Shevel
(Tufts U, US)
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KHRYSTYNA HOLYNSKA
(RAND, Santa Monica, US)
Denying Nuclear Coercion: Defiance and the Failure of Russian Nuclear Signaling
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JESSE DRISCOLL
(UC San Diego, US)
Public Opinion and the Geopolitics of War Termination
1.00-2.00 PM Lunch
2.00-3.00 PM Soviet Legacy
MODERATORS:
Daria Mattingly
(U of Chichester, UK)
Ioulia Shukan
EHESS, France)
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ZAKHAR POPOVYCH
(Dobrov Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine)
Ukraine’s Technological Miracle: Drones, Electronic Warfare and Deep-Strike Systems
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YULIIA KISHCHUK
(Spilne Commons, Ukraine/Södertörn U, Sweden)
Materiality of Clay: Kosiv Painted Ceramists Community and National Identity
3.00-3.30 PM Coffee Break
3.30-5.00 PM Civilians in War
MODERATORS:
Anna Colin Lebedev
(U Paris Nanterre, France)
Ioulia Shukan
(EHESS, France)
Oxana Shevel
(Tufts U, US)
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ISABELLE DESISTO
(Princeton U, US)
Decentralization and Ukrainian Resistance Against Russia's Invasion
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GABRIELLE JONI VERREAULT
(U de Montréal, Canada)
Don’t Forget to Like, Share and Survive: Civilians and the New Support Ecology of War
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HALYNA HLEBA
(Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine)
When Artists Become Soldiers: Cultural Production, and the Changing Character of War
Saturday September 26
9.00-11.00 AM Holodomor
MODERATORS:
Daria Mattingly
(U of Chichester, UK)
Ioulia Shukan
(EHESS, France)
Yuliya Yurchuk
(Södertörn U, Sweden)
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SVITLANA PAVLENKO
(Aleksanteri Institute, U of Helsinki, Finland)
The Japanese Consulate in Odesa and the “Conspiracy of Silence”
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MARTA BAZIUK
(Holodomor Research and Education Consortium, U of Alberta)
The Holodomor: A Case Study in Connecting History, Memory, and Online Learning
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KRISTINA HOOK
(Aleksanteri Institute, U of Helsinki, Finland)
Book—When the Ukrainian Sun Rises: From the Holodomor to the Frontlines
in Moscow’s Century of Violence (Georgetown 2026)
11.00-11.30 AM Coffee Break
11.30 AM-1.30 PM War and Politics
MODERATORS:
Anna Colin Lebedev
(U Paris Nanterre, France)
Oxana Shevel
(Tufts U, US)
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BERTRAND DE FRANQUEVILLE
(CERCEC/Observatoire de l’Ukraine contemporaine, France)
The Political and Military Fields: The Realignment of Cleavages in Wartime Ukraine
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MARGARYTA KHVOSTOVA
(U of Surrey, UK)
Contesting Russkiy Mir: How Ukraine Links Identity, Security and EU Integration
1.00-2.00 PM Closing Lunch