2020 ASEEES Virtual Convention

October 16, 2020

This year, the Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) will be held virtually on November 5-8 and November 14-15.

The Shevchenko Scientific Society in the United States will have a strong presence at the convention, with a large number of its members participating in paper panels, roundtables, and book discussions. In addition, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the United States will sponsor the roundtable “The 30th Anniversary of the Granite Revolution in Ukraine.”

Below is a short list of ASEEES paper panels and roundtables, featuring the society’s members. For further details, please view the online convention program here.

NOVEMBER 6

The Public and the Hidden Role of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukrainian Political and Religious Life

Fri, November 6, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 21

Chair

Zenon Victor Wasyliw, Ithaca College

Participants

Anna M. Procyk, CUNY Kingsborough CC

Frank Edward Sysyn, U of Alberta (Canada)

Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak, Independent Scholar

Discussant

Andrew Dennis Sorokowski, Independent scholar

 

NOVEMBER 7

Yuri Andrukhovych Turns Sixty: His Legacy and Impact Today and Beyond

Sat, November 7, 10:00 to 11:30am, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 16

Chair

Alla Perminova, Taras Shevchenko National U of Kyiv (Ukraine)

Roundtable Members

Yuri Andrukhovych, Independent Scholar

Mark Roman Andryczyk, Columbia U

Michael M. Naydan, Pennsylvania State U

Lidia Stefanowska, U of Warsaw (Poland)

 

Race in the 19th Century Russian Empire: #thelong19thc

Sat, November 7, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 10

Chair

Lindsay Marie Ceballos, Lafayette College

Participants

Nathaniel Knight, Seton Hall U

Maxim Matusevich, Seton Hall U

Valeria Sobol, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Emily Wang, U of Notre Dame

 

Bringing Ukraine into the Classroom: Utilizing Ukraïnica: The Primary Database of English Translations of Literature, Documents, and Films

Sat, November 7, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 17

Chair

Sandra Joy Russell, U of Massachusetts Amherst

Roundtable Members

Oleh Kotsyuba, Harvard U, Ukrainian Research Institute

Yuliya V. Ladygina, The Pennsylvania State U

Olena Lennon, U of New Haven

Sandra Joy Russell, U of Massachusetts Amherst

 

NOVEMBER 8

Chernobyl and its Storied Afterlives

Sun, November 8, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 19

Chair

Serhii Plokhii, Harvard U

Roundtable Members

Anindita Banerjee, Cornell U

David Roger Marples, U of Alberta (Canada)

Sarah Drue Phillips, Indiana U Bloomington

Sonja Schmid, Virginia Tech

Jose Vergara, Swarthmore College

 

NOVEMBER 14

Decoding Chornobyl: How the Catastrophe is Perceived, Interpreted, and Remembered

Sat, November 14, 10:00 to 11:30am, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 5

Chair

Oxana Shevel, Tufts U

Roundtable Members

Olga Bertelsen, Embry-Riddle College of Security and Intelligence

Kate Brown, MIT

Valentyna Kharkhun, Mykola Hohol State U of Nizhyn (Ukraine)

Serhii Plokhii, Harvard U

 

Volodymyr Rafeenko: Language, Text, Context, Translations

Sat, November 14, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 4

Chair

Yuliya Ilchuk, Stanford U

Roundtable Members

Mark Roman Andryczyk, Columbia U

Yuliya Ilchuk, Stanford U

Oksana Lutsyshyna, U of Texas

Marco Puleri, U of Bologna (Italy)

 

The 30th Anniversary of the Granite Revolution in Ukraine

Sat, November 14, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 7

Chair

Halyna Hryn, Harvard U

Roundtable Members

Christine Emeran, ACLS

Oksana Lutsyshyna, U of Texas

Olena Nikolayenko, Fordham U

 

Translation and Collaboration: The Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series with Lost Horse Press, Volumes I-VI

Sat, November 14, 4:00 to 5:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 16

Chair

Grace Ellen Mahoney, U of Michigan

Roundtable Members

Vitaly Chernetsky, U of Kansas

Roman Ivashkiv, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ostap Kin, Rutgers, The State U of New Jersey

Maria G. Rewakowicz, U of Washington

Iryna Shuvalova, Independent Scholar

 

NOVEMBER 15

Mykola Bazhan Between Different Aesthetics: From Avant-garde to Socialist Realism

Sun, November 15, 8:00 to 9:30am, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 13

Chair

Oksana Lutsyshyna, U of Texas

Participants

Galina Babak, New Europe College-Institute for Advanced Study (Bucharest)

Olga Khometa, U of Toronto (Canada)

Oksana Rosenblum, Independent Scholar

George G. Grabowicz, Harvard U

Discussant

Tereza Chlanova, Charles U (Czech Republic)

 

Publications from the Displaced Persons Camps in Western Europe following World War II

Sun, November 15, 10:00 to 11:30am, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 19

Chair

Grant Garden Harris, Independent Scholar

Participants

Gudrun Tatjana Wirtz, Bavarian State Library (Germany)

Ksenya I. Kiebuzinski, U of Toronto (Canada)

Philipp Penka, Bernett Penka Rare Books

Anatol Shmelev, Hoover Institution

Discussant

Katie McElvanney, The British Library

Ostap Kin, Rutgers, The State U of New Jersey

 

Bohdan Rubchak: The Legacy of the Man, the Scholar, the Poet

Sun, November 15, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 2

Chair

Olha Tytarenko, U of Nebraska-Lincoln

Roundtable Members

Svitlana Budzhak-Jones, Independent Scholar

Michael M. Naydan, Pennsylvania State U

Alla Perminova, Taras Shevchenko National U of Kyiv (Ukraine)

Marian Jean Rubchak, Valparaiso U

Alina Zhurbenko, Penn State U