UKRAINIAN POLITICS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
International Conference at Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
April 8 - 9, 2000
The Yale-Ukraine Initiative and the Yale Center for International and Area
Studies will host a two-day conference which will examine Ukrainian
politics in the past century.
The recent presidential elections in Ukraine have once again made evident
the challenges that confront Ukrainian society: nation-building and
creation of stable democratic institutions, economic reform, integration
of regional and national interests, and relations with the ex-Soviet world
and beyond. These complex issues will form the basis for discussion at
this year's conference as its contributors explore the nature and
distinctiveness of Ukrainian politics today; the role of language and
conflicting identities in the political process; and the enduring legacy
of earlier historical and cultural developments.
The conference, Saturday April 8, and Sunday April 9, will be held from
9:00 am -- 6:00 pm in the Auditorium of Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse
Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut.
Conference papers will be made available to all participants during the
conference and will be published afterward in the Working Papers Series of
the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
SATURDAY, April 8
8:00am
REGISTRATION
Continental Breakfast
9:00am OPENING SESSION
Welcome
Nancy Ruther, Associate Director, Yale Center for International
and Area Studies
Harvey Goldblatt, Chair, Yale-Ukraine Initiative
Keynote Address
Roman Szporluk, Mykhailo Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian
History, and Director, Ukrainian Research Institute,
Harvard University
"'It Is Later Than You Think': Will The Real Ukraine
Please Stand Up?"
10:00am I. POLITICS IN UKRAINE, 1890-1917: THE HISTORICAL LEGACY
Chair: Paul Bushkovitch, Department of History, Yale University
Theodore Weeks, Associate Professor, Department of History,
Southern Illinois University
"A Dialogue of the Deaf? Russians and Ukrainians Before
World War I"
Robert Weinberg, Associate Professor, Department of History,
Swarthmore College
"Radical Politics in the City: Odessa Before 1914"
Olga Andriewsky, Associate Professor, Department of History,
Trent University, Canada
"'The Nowhere Nation' as a Recurrent Theme in the Modern
Discourse on Ukraine"
11:45am Lunch
1:15pm II. THE 1999 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND UKRAINIAN POLITICS
Chair: Dominique Arel, Watson Institute for International Studies,
Brown University
Valeriy Khmelko, Chair, Department of Sociology,
University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
"The 1998 and 1999 Elections in Ukraine: Comparing the
Electorates of Parties and Presidential Candidates"
Serhiy Hrabovsky, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of
Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
"Presidential Elections and Trends of Political Change in
Ukraine"
Taras Kuzio, Honorary Visiting Fellow, School of Slavonic and East
European Studies, University College London
"The Soviet Legacy and the Weakness of Civil Society in
Ukraine"
3:00pm Coffee Break
3:30pm III. ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS: MACRO AND MICRO VIEWS
Chair: Pauline Jones Luong, Department of Political Science,
Yale University
Oleh Havrylyshyn, Senior Advisor, European II Department,
International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC
"Economic Growth in Ukraine: A Counterfactual Examination
of Better Performance," with Bogdan Lissovolik and
Mohammad Shadman-Valavi, International Monetary Fund
David Anderson, President and CEO, Elidale Holdings Inc., Ukraine
"The Impediments to Business (Economic) Development in
Post-Soviet Ukraine"
Lucan Way, Department of Political Science, University of
California at Berkeley; Consultant, World Bank
"Fiscal Decentralization in Ukraine"
Stephen Whitefield, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of
Political Science, Yale University
"Poverty and Welfare Reform in Ukraine"
7:00pm Reception and Dinner
Quinnipiack Club, 221 Church Street, New Haven
Dinner Address
George G. Grabowicz, Dmytro Cyzevs'kyj Professor of
Ukrainian Literature, Harvard University
"Reading and Misreading Ukraine"
SUNDAY, April 9
9:30am Continental Breakfast
10:15am IV. CULTURAL POLITICS: 1920s TO THE PRESENT
Chair: George G. Grabowicz, Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures, Harvard University
Halyna Hryn, Lector in Ukrainian, Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures, Yale University
"The Literary Discussion of 1925-28 and Its Aftermath"
Maxim Tarnawsky, Associate Professor, Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto, Canada
"Fictional Politics: Interpretation of Political Themes in
Ukrainian Literature"
Oleksandr Hrytsenko, Director, Institute of Cultural Policy,
Ukrainian Centre for Cultural Studies, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Cultural Transformation and Cultural Policy in
Contemporary Ukraine"
12:00pm Lunch
1:30pm V. LANGUAGE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
Chair: Harvey Goldblatt, Department of Slavic languages and
Literatures, Yale University
Jennifer A. Dickinson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Modern
Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, Canada
"Languages for the Market, the Nation, or the Margins:
Overlapping Ideologies of Language and Identity in
Zakarpattia"
Laada Bilaniuk, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology,
University of Washington
"Diglossic Tension in Ukraine: Criticism, Confidence, and
Language Status"
Dominique Arel, Assistant Professor (Research), Watson Institute
for International Studies, Brown University
and
Jan G. Janmaat, Department of Human Geography,
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Making Ukrainians Speak Ukrainian: Long-Term Trends"
3:15pm Coffee Break
3:45pm VI. ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Moderator: Alexander Motyl, Associate Professor, Department of
Political Science, Rutgers University
5:30pm Closing Reception
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Support for the conference is provided by Yale's Edward J. and Dorothy
Clarke Kempf Fund, with special assistance from the Yale Center for
International and Area Studies, Pierson College, and European Studies
Council.
The Yale-Ukraine Initiative, established in 1994 by a grant from the
Chopivsky Family Foundation, seeks to enhance the study of Ukraine at Yale
University through academic and research fellowships, language and culture
courses, lecture series, student and faculty exchanges with Ukraine, and
library support.
For further information please contact the Yale-Ukraine Initiative at
(203) 432-3107, fax (203) 432-5963,
email <[log in to unmask]>, or consult the web site
www.yale.edu/rees/yui.html.
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REGISTRATION FORM
Registration Deadline: March 31, 2000
Interested parties may pre-register by filling out the form below and
sending it to <[log in to unmask]> by March 31, 2000.
We will accept late registrations; however, in order to reserve a full
registration packet, please notify us of your intention to attend the
conference at your earliest convenience. Checks or money orders for the
full amount of fees due will be accepted during registration on April 8.
Please make checks payable to "Yale University." We are unable to accept
credit cards.
Admission is free to the Yale-New Haven community. Payment will be
required for conference materials, lunches, and banquet. Members of the
Yale-New Haven community are encouraged to notify us in advance if they
wish to receive conference papers or attend any of the functions.
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*Registration: $50 [ ]
Students: $25 [ ]
Saturday Lunch: $10 [ ]
Sunday Lunch: $10 [ ]
Banquet: $40 [ ]
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*Registration fee includes all conference materials, continental
breakfasts, and closing reception.
Alternatively, you may send your payment to:
Ukrainian Politics in the Twentieth Century
Yale-Ukraine Initiative
PO Box 208206
New Haven, CT 06520-8206
USA
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