UKRAINIAN TOPICS OF AAASS 2005 CONVENTION

October 31, 2005

11/03/05
4:15-6:15 pm

Determinants of Domestic Violence Policy in Post-Communist Europe: Foreign Agents? Domestic Collaborators? Hybrid Feminism?
Belvedere (GA)
Session 2

Chair: Glanz, Susan (St John’s U)
Presenter: Brunell, Laura (Gonzaga U)
Explaining State Responses to Domestic Violence in Post-Communist Europe (co-author: Janet Elise Johnson)
Presenter: Hrycak, Alexandra
Finding a Common Language: Foundation Feminism and the Politicization of Domestic Violence in Ukraine
Presenter: Johnson, Janet Elise (Brooklyn College/CUNY)
Explaining State Responses to Domestic Violence in Post-Communist Europe (co-author: Laura Brunell)
Presenter: Vanya, Magdalena (UC, Davis)
Beating Domestic Violence-Building Democracy: The Case of Postcommunist Hungary
Discussant: Fabian, Katalin (Lafayette College)

11/03/05
4:15-6:15 p.m.

Inter-Slavic Post-Soviet Cultural Influences: the Case of Ukraine
Venezia Garden Salon (GA)
Session 2

Chair: Hunczak, Taras (Rutgers U)
Participant: Baley, Virko (U of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Participant: Makhno, Vasyl (Shevchenko Scientific Society)
Participant: Mudrak, Myroslava (The Ohio State U)
Participant: Onyshkevych, Larissa M. L. Z. (Shevchenko Scientific Society)
Participant: Pevny, Olenka Z. (U of Richmond)

11/04/05
2:15-4:15 p.m.

Facing Globalization? Cultural/Linguistic Influences of Neighboring Countries on the Ukrainian Language in the Post-Soviet Period
Belvedere (GA)
Session 5

Chair: Onyshkevych, Larissa M. L. Z. (Shevchenko Scientific Society)
Participant: Andrushkiw, Vera M. (US – Ukraine Foundation)
Participant: Bilaniuk, Laada Myroslava (U of Washington)
Participant: Kushko, Nadiya (U of Uzhhorod (Ukraine))
Participant: Shevchuk, Yury (Columbia U)
Participant: Tsiovkh, Alexander G. (U of Kansas)

11/04/05
4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

General Meeting of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies followed by a Social Hour sponsored by the Shevchenko Scientific
Association Grand Salon (GA)
Session 6

11/05/05
8:00-10.00 a.m.

Emerging Folklore: Contemporary Ukrainian and Russian Folk Genres and Oral Narratives
Savoy (GA)
Session 7

Chair: Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie (U of Kentucky)
Presenter: Holian, John (Cuyahoga Community College)
Soviet Collectivization: A Case Study of a Western Ukrainian Village
Presenter: Kononenko, Natalie (U of Alberta (Canada))
Ukrainian Legends: How God Paired Men and Women
Presenter: Visani, Federica (Sorbonne (France))
Media Culture and Jokes: The Humerous Side of the 2004 Ukrainian Elections
Discussant: Aplenc, Veronica E. (U of Pennsylvania)

11/05/05
10:15a.m.-12:15p.m.

Lemberg,/Lwów/Lvov/Lviv: A Case Study in Central European Cities
Provence (GA)
Session 8

Chair: Weeks, Theodore Richard (Southern Illinois U)
Presenter: Amar, Tarik Cyril (Princeton U)
Lwów/Lviv 1939-1946: Conquest and Sovietization
Presenter: Lane, Victor Hugo (Polytechnic U)
Lemberg: Austrian Imperial Foundations to a ‘Polish Bastion’
Presenter: Risch, William Jay (Georgia College and State U)
Cultural Resistance in Post-Stalinist Lvov/Lviv: The Polish Factor in a Soviet Ukrainian City
Discussant: Himka, John-Paul (U of Alberta (Canada))

11/05/05
10:15 a. m. – 12:15 p.m.

Discourses of Identity in Ukrainian Literature and Culture
Tuscany (GA)
Session 8

Chair: Rubchak, Marian Jean (Valparaiso U)
Presenter: Hryn, Halyna (Harvard U)
Who was Myna Mazailo?: Literary Identity, Kharkiv, circa 1930
Presenter: Rewakowicz, Maria G. (Columbia U)
Post-Independence Reading Strategies: The Impact of Feminist Theory on Identity and Canon Formation in Ukrainian Literature
Presenter: Rikoun, Polina (Harvard U)
The Myth of Odessa: Shaping Identity at the Cross-Roads of Cultures
Discussant: Bojanowska, Edyta (Harvard U)

11/05/05
2:00-4:00 p.m.

Soviet, National, and Religious Culture in Twentieth-Century Ukraine
Milano GA)
Session 9

Chair: Snyder, Timothy (Yale U)
Presenter: Brown, Kate Lake (U of Maryland, Baltimore)
Common Cause: Hasidism and Evangelism in Pre-war Right Bank Ukraine
Presenter: Veidlinger, Jeffrey (Indiana U)
Aspects of Jewish Ukraine from Yiddish Ethnography and Oral History
Presenter: Yekelchyk, Serhy (U of Victoria (Canada))
No Laughing Matter: State Regimentation of Ukrainian Humor and Satire under High Stalinism
Discussant: Shore, Marci Lynn (Indiana U)

11/06/05
10:15a.m. -12:15 p.m

Censorship of Ukrainian from 1863 to 1876
Grand Ballroom D (GA)
Session 11

Chair: Bohachevsky-Chomiak, Martha (Fulbright Program in Ukraine)
Presenter: Kiebuzinski, Ksenya I. (Harvard U)
The Ems Ukase and Western Europe
Presenter: Ostapczuk, Oksana (Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia))
The Issue of Alphabet in the Imperial Politics of Language and Censorship Practice on Right-Bank Ukraine
Presenter: Remy, Johannes (U of Helsinki (Finland))
Censorship of Ukrainian Publications in the Russian Empire, 1863-1876: The Valuev Circular in Practice
Discussant: Procyk, Anna M. (CUNY, Kingsborough CC)
Discussant: Znayenko, Myroslava Tomorug (Rutgers U)

11/06/05
10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Ruthenian – lingua Ruthena – ruska mova: Language, Literacy.
TextVersailles (GA)
Session 11

Chair: Lenhoff, Gail Diane (UCLA)
Participant: Danylenko, Andriy (Pace U)
Participant: Moser, Michael (Vienna U (Austria))
Participant: Pugh, Stefan M. (U of St. Andrews (UK))
Participant: Verkholantsev, Julia (U of Pennsylvania)