I NTERNATI ONAL AFFAI RS BUI LDI NG ( I AB) 
Registration (15
th 
Floor, Central Space) 
Thursday (April 14): 10 AM - 6 PM 
Friday (April 15): 8 AM - 5 PM 
Saturday (April 16): 8 AM - 5 PM
Book Exhibit/ ASN Convention Cafe´ (15
th
 Floor, 1501) 
Thursday: 1 PM - 6 PM 
Friday: 9 AM - 6 PM 
Saturday: 9 AM - 6 PM
Nationalities Papers Opening Reception (15
th
 Floor, Central Space)
Thursday: 8 PM
All are invited! 
Lunch Receptions 
Friday: 1:20 - 2:50 PM (SSRC) 
Saturday: 1:20 - 2:50 PM (Nationalities Papers)
ASN Morning Meeting (Room 1219)
Friday: 1:20 - 2:50 PM (Program Committee)
Saturday: 9-11 AM (Executive  Committee)
Saturday: 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM (NP Editorial Board)
Closing Reception (15
th
 Floor, Central Space)
(ASN Doctoral Papers Awards, ASN Book Prize)
Saturday: 7:00 PM
All are invited! 
T H E A S S O C I AT I O N F O R T H E S T U D Y O F N AT I O N A L I T I E S   2 0 1 1 W O R L D C O N V E N T I O N
 2 0 1 1 A P R I L 1 4 - 1 6    E R S I T Y v U N I B I A m C O L U
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
International Affairs Building (IAB)
420 W. 118th St., New York, NY 10027


ThURSDAy, APRI L 14th
SESSI ON I   11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
PANEL TH6

Democratization in Post-Soviet States 
CHAIR
TBA
PAPERS
Monica Ciobanu
(Plattsburgh State U, NY, US)
< monica.ciobanu@plattsburgh.edu >
Democratic Deepening and Restorative Justice in Romania (2006-2010)
Olena Nikolayenko
(Fordham U, US)
< onikolayenko@fordham.edu >
Tactical Interactions between Incumbent Governments and Social Movements
Olga Onuch
(U of Toronto, Canada)
< olga.ouch@utoronto.ca >
Less Substance and Participation, More Populism and Virtual Mobilization: 
The Problem of Democratic Quality and Presidential Elections 
in Eastern Europe and Latin America
Anastasiya Salnykova
(U of British Columbia, Canada)
< salnykova@gmail.com >
Deliberative Capacity in Colored Revolutions:  
A Comparative Analysis of Ukraine and Georgia
Henry E. Hale
(George Washington U, US)
< hhale@gwu.edu >
Constitutionalism in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan
DISCUSSANT
Vsevolod Gunitskiy
(Columbia U, US)
vg2122@columbia.edu 


ThURSDAy, APRI L 14th
   SESSI ON I   11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
PANEL U8
Ukrainian and Russian Literature 
CHAIR
TBA
PAPERS
Regan Treewater-Lipes
(U of Alberta, Canada)
< regantreewater@gmail.com >
Negotiating Cultural Identity: Ulitskaia, Rubina 
and the Russian Jewish Experience
Uilleam Blacker
(U of Cambridge, UK)
< uilleamb@hotmail.com >
Memory and the City in Contemporary Popular Ukrainian and Polish Fiction
Olena Haleta
(Kennan Institute, US)
< olena_haleta@yahoo.com > 
Re-invention of the Literary Tradition in the Context of a Contemporary 
Cultural Strategy of Urban Development: Lviv and the Anthology “Twelve”
Taras Koznarsky
(U of Toronto, Canada)
< taras.koznarsky@utoronto.ca >
The Making of the Second Jerusalem: Kyiv in Romantic Imaginations
DISCUSSANT
Michael Naydan
(Penn State U, US)
< mmn3@psu.edu >


PANEL R12
Russian and Post-Soviet Foreign Policy
CHAIR
Elizabeth Teague
(Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London, UK)
< elizabeth.teague@fco.gov.uk >
PAPERS
Sergei Medvedev
(Moscow State U, Russia)
< smedvedev@hse.ru >
The Post-Westphalian Foreign Policy Choices of Russia and China: 
A Comparative Analysis
Dessie Zagorcheva
(Columbia U, US)
< dpz2@columbia.edu >
Great Power Rivalries and the Security of the Black Sea Region
Tracey German
(King’s College London, Watchfield, UK)
< TGerman.jscsc@da.mod.uk >
Good Neighbours or Distant Relatives? Regional Identity and Cooperation
in the South Caucasus
Murad Ismayilov
(Diplomatic Academy of Azerbaijan/ADA, Baku, Azerbaijan)
< mismayilov@ada.edu.az >
Russian Neo-imperialism vs. Western Neo-imperialism in Post-Soviet Central Eurasia 
Nadiya Kravets
(St. Antony’s College, U of Oxford, UK)
< nadiya.kravets@politics.ox.ac.uk >
Foreign Policy Making System of Ukraine, 1991-2009
DISCUSSANT
Stephen Blank
(US Army War College, Carlisle, PA, US)
< stephen.blank@us.army.mil >


PANEL U7
Channeling or Rerouting Cultural Expressions in Ukraine (Roundtable)
(sponsored by the Shevchenko Scientific Society, US)
CHAIR
Larissa Onyshkevych
(Shevchenko Scientific Society, New York, US)
< Larissa@Onyshkevych.com >
PAPERS
Anna Procyk 
(Kingsborough College, CUNY, US)
< aprocyk@aol.com >
Rewriting History Texts 
Michael Moser 
(U of Vienna, Austria)
< Michael.Moser@univie.ac.at >
Changing Laws and Rules on Language 
Yuri Shevchuk 
(Columbia U, US)
<  sy2165@columbia.edu >
Using Cinema & TV   
Olha Luchuk 
(Franko U Lviv, Ukraine/HURI, Cambridge, US)
< oluchuk@gmail.com >
Academic Changes in Higher Education


PANEL CE16
Contemporary Ethnic Minorities in the European Borderlands:  
Regional Aspects of Identity Formation
CHAIR
TBA
PAPERS
Vil Bakirov
(Kharkiv National U, Ukraine)
< rektor@univer.kharkov.ua >
The Study of Ethnic Minorities in Ukraine: 
Theoretical Background, Methodology and Results
Ladislav Machácek 
Pavol Juhás 
 (U of Ss.Cyril and Methodius, Trnava, Slovakia)
< ladislav.machacek@ucm.sk >
< pavol.juhas@ucm.sk >
Generational Aspects: Identity Transformation 
of the Hungarian Minority in Slovakia
DISCUSSANT
Leocadia Diaz Romero
(U de Murcia, Spain/Columbia U, US)
< leocadia.diaz@um.es >


PANEL TH11
Political Economy in the Former Soviet Union
CHAIR
TBA
PAPERS
Steven J. Mock
(U of Waterloo, Canada)
< sjmock@uwaterloo.ca >
Nation, State and Society in a Post-growth Economy
Assel Rustemova
(Rutgers U, US)
< asselek@yahoo.com >
The Grand Divide between the State and the Market: 
Governmentality and Strategies of Economic Diversification in Central Asia
Viatchelav Avioutskii
< avioutskii@yahoo.fr >
(OCRE-EDC, Paris, France)
Post-Orange Reconfiguration of the Ukrainian Business-Clans
Xin Zhang
(Reed College, Portland, US)
< zhangx@reed.edu >
Varieties of State Capitalism: A Comparative Study of Russian 
and Chinese Overseas Expansion Strategies
DISCUSSANT
Padma Desai
(Columbia U, US)
< pd5@columbia.edu >


FRI DAy, APRI L 15th
   SESSI ON V   9:00- 11:00 AM
PANEL U4
Holodomor and Famines in 20th Century Ukraine
CHAIR
Margarita Balmaceda
(Seton Hall U, US)
< balmacma@shu.edu >
PAPERS
Roman Serbyn
(U du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
< serbyn.roman@videotron.ca >
Ukrainian Famine Relief 1921-1923: 
The Role of the World Jewish Community
Gennadi Poberezny    
(Harvard U, US)        
< poberezny@fas.harvard.edu > 
Creating the Atlas of the Holodomor
Oleh Wolowyna
(U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US)
< olehw@aol.com > 
Nataliia Levchuk
(Institute for Demography and Social Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine)
< nlevchuk@mail.ru > 
Holodomor Losses in Ukraine within the Context 
of the 1932-1933 Famine in the Soviet Union
Danielle Granville
(Oxford U, UK)
< danielle.granville@politics.ox.ac.uk >
A Multi-level Politics of Memory: The Ukrainian Diaspora and 
the Holodomor Genocide Recognition Campaign    
DISCUSSANT
Tim Snyder
(Yale U, US)
< timothy.snyder@yale.edu >


FRI DAy, APRI L 15th
   SESSI ON VI   11:20 AM- 1:20 PM
PANEL R13
Health and Addiction in Ukraine and Russia: 
Insights on Gender and Ethnicity
CHAIR
Cynthia Buckley
(SSRC, New York, US)
< buckley@ssrc.org >
PAPERS
Maryna Bazylevych
(Luther College, Iowa, US)
< bazyma01@luther.edu >
The Ministry of Health is Playing Russian Roulette with Our Children:
Vaccination Refusals and Anti-Vaccination Campaigns in Post-Socialist Ukraine
Svetlana Maximova
(Barnaul State U, Russia)
< renesans@ab.ru >
Addiction and Drug Use in Western Siberia: Gender and Ethnic Variation 
Irina Denisova
(New Economics School, Moscow, Russia)
< denisova.irina@gmail.com >
Variations in Health and Labor Market Outcomes in Russia
Olga Bedina
(Saratov State Technical U, Russia)
< olga.bendina@socpolicy.ru >
Living Positively:  Negotiating Identities among HIV Positive Women in Saratov 
DISCUSSANT 
Ilya Steinberg
(Institute of Sociology, Moscow, Russia)
< isteinberg@mail.ru >


FRI DAy, APRI L 15th
   SESSI ON VI I   2.50- 4.50 PM
PANEL U2
Ukrainization and Terror:  The Cultural Dimension
CHAIR
Leonid Rudnytzky 
(LaSalle U, Philadelphia, US)
< Rudnytzky@yahoo.com >
PAPERS
Michael Moser
(U of Vienna, Austria)
< Michael.Moser@univie.ac.at >
Linguistic Ukrainianization of the Interwar Period: A New Assessment
Matthew Pauly
(Michigan State U, US)
< paulym@msu.edu >
Raising Soviet Children: The Interwar Ukrainization of Schooling Reconsidered
Yuri Shevchuk
(Columbia U, US)
< sy2165@columbia.edu >
Ukrainian Film and the Terror of the 1930s
Myroslav Shkandrij
(U of Manitoba, Canada)
< shkandr@cc.umanitoba.ca >
The Impact on Literature Inside and Outside the Soviet Union
DISCUSSANT
Roman Senkus
(CIUS, U of Toronto, Canada)
< r.senkus@utoronto.ca >


SATURDAy, APRI L 16th
   SESSI ON I X   9:00- 11:00 AM 
PANEL EU9
Civil Society in Eurasia and Beyond
CHAIR
TBA
PAPERS
Li Bennich-Björkman
(Uppsala U, Sweden)
< Li.Bennich-Bjorkman@statsvet.uu.se >
Sergey Gerasymchuk
(Strategic and Security Studies Group, Ukraine)
< s.gerasymchuk@gmail.com >
Think Thanks in the Former Soviet Union: Places of Creative State-Building?
Emilbek Djuraev
(U of Maryland, US)
< edzhuraev@gvpt.umd.edu >
To Constitute the Kyrgyz Republic and Beyond: 
The Neglected Cultural Side of Political Constitution
Vanessa Beary
(Harvard U, US)
< veb682@mail.harvard.edu >
Civic Responsibility in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast, Tajikistan
DISCUSSANT
Michael Rouland
(Georgetown U, US)
< roulandm@gmail.com >


SATURDAy, APRI L 16th
   SESSI ON I X   9:00- 11:00 AM 
PANEL U9
Interwar/War Ukraine
CHAIR
TBA
PAPERS
Zenon Wasyliw
(Ithaca College, US)
< wasyliw@ithaca.edu >
Soviet Secular Holidays and Rituals in the Ukrainian Countryside: 
Peaceful Transitions during the NEP Era, 1921-1928
Mayhell Fowler
(Princeton U, US)
< mfowler@princeton.edu >
The Post-Imperial Dilemma: Polish and Yiddish Theater in Soviet Ukraine
John Holian
(Independent Researcher, Ohio, US)
< john.holian@tri-c.edu >
Maria and Her Daughters: An Oral History of an Eastern Ukrainian Woman 
Sent to “Reunite” Western Ukraine with Soviet Ukraine in WWII
DISCUSSANT
TBA


SATURDAy, APRI L 16th
   SESSI ON X   11:20 AM- 1:20 PM
PANEL U1
The Gender Dimensions of Ukrainian Identities
CHAIR
TBA
PAPERS
Marta Kebalo
(Independent Scholar, US)
< mkebalo@aol.com >
The Influence of Ukraine’s Legacies of’ Nationalism, Socialism 
and Feminism on the Contemporary Women’s Movement in Cherkassy
Tetyana Bureychak
(I. Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine/Harvard U, US)
< bureychak@gmail.com >
 “And we’ll show that we, brothers, are of the Cossack nation…”: 
Patterns of Intersection of Hegemonic Gender and National Discourses 
in Contemporary Ukraine
Tamara Martsenyuk
(U Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Ukraine/SUNY Stony Brook, US)
< tarakuta@gmail.com >
Queer Issues in Ukraine: National Peculiarities of  
the LGBT Community and the Homophobia Phenomenon
Iryna Koshulap
(Central European U, Budapest, Hungary)
< koshulap_iryna@ceu-budapest.edu > & < ikoshulap@yahoo.com >
The “Imagined Community” of the Ukrainian Woman: Women in the
Ukrainian Ethno-national Diaspora in the United States
DISCUSSANT
Alexandra Hrycak
(Reed College, Portland, US)
< hrycak@reed.edu >


SATURDAy, APRI L 16th
   SESSI ON XI   2:50- 4:50 PM
PANEL U3
World War II: History and Memory
CHAIR
TBA
PAPERS
Jonathan Brunstedt 
(Oxford U, UK) 
< jbrunstedt@yahoo.com >
Glasnost and the Russianization of the Soviet Myth 
of the Second World War
John-Paul Himka
(U of Alberta, Canada)
< jhimka@ualberta.ca >
The Lviv Pogrom of 1941
Alexandra Goujon
(U of Dijon, France)
< goujona@club-internet.fr >
Between Ashes and Glory: Official Memory 
in the Ukrainian Burned Village of Kortelisy
Olesya Khromeychuk
(U College London, UK)
< o.khromeychuk@ucl.ac.uk >
Memory and Narratives of the Ukrainian Waffen SS: 
‘War Criminals’ or ‘Freedom Fighters’? 
DISCUSSANT
Oxana Shevel
(Tufts U, US)
< oxana.shevel@tufts.edu >


SATURDAy, APRI L 16th
   SESSI ON XI I   5:10- 7:10 PM
PANEL U5
Regional and National Identities in Contemporary Ukraine and Russia
CHAIR
TBA
PAPERS
Huseyin Oylupinar
(U of Alberta, Canada)
< oylupina@ualberta.ca >
The Making of Zaporizhzhia: A Kozak Memory Project 
in Soviet and Independent Ukraine
Volodymyr Kulyk
(Columbia U, US)
< v_kulyk@hotmail.com >
Beliefs on Language Status and Corpus in Focus Group Discussions 
on Ukrainian Language Policy
Oksana Malanchuk
(U of Michigan, US)
< oksana@umich.edu >
Social and Regional Identities in Five Cities in Ukraine
Volodymyr Paniotto
(Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, Ukraine)
< v.paniotto@gmail.com >
Ukrainian-Russian Relations in the Perception of the Ukrainian 
and Russian Populations (2008-2011)
DISCUSSANT
Karyna Korostelina
(George Masaon U, US)
< ckoroste@gmu.edu >