Commemorating Deportations

In a Place of Displacement: Commemorating Deportations in Lviv after 1991
Sofia Dyak (Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv, Ukraine) > [Paper (pdf)]

Discussant:
Jan Grabowski  (U of Ottawa, Canada)

The Famine and the Politics of Genocide Recognition

Moral Claims and Political Demands: The Politics of Genocide Recognition in Bosnia and Ukraine
Maja Catic (Brandeis U, US) > [Paper (pdf)]

Discussant:
Charles King  (Georgetown U, US) > [Comment (pdf)]

The Politics of Soviet and Nazi Genocides against Ukrainians in Orange Ukraine
Ivan Katchanovski (SUNY Potsdam, US) > [Paper (pdf)]

Discussant:
Wsewolod Isajiw  (U of Toronto, Canada)

Raphael Lemkin, the UN Convention of 1948 and the Ukrainian Genocide
Roman Serbyn (UQAM, Canada) > [Paper (pdf)]

Legal Accountability for the Crime of the 1932-1933 Great Famine in Ukraine
Myroslava Antonovych (U Kyïv Mohyla Academy, Ukraine) > [Paper (pdf)]

Discussant:
Dominique Arel  ((Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of Ottawa, Canada)

Understanding Ethnic Violence During World War II

The 1941 Pogroms in Lviv, Zolochiv, and Ternopil
Marco Carynnyk (Writer, Toronto, Canada) > [Paper (pdf)]

Discussant:
Leonid Heretz  (Bridgewater State College, US)

Memory, Erasure, and Commemoration in Contemporary Western Ukraine
Omer Bartov (Brown U, US) > [Paper (pdf)]

Discussant:
Dominique Arel  (Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of Ottawa

The Contested Memory of Ukrainian Insurgent and Military Formations

Unknown Victims: Ethnic-Based Violence of the World War II Era in Ukrainian Politics of Memory after 2004 > [Paper (pdf)]
Sofia Grachova (Harvard U, US)

Discussant:
John-Paul Himka (U of Alberta, Canada)

Memory, Identity and the Waffen SS “Galicia” in the Light of the Post-WWII Displacement
Olesya Khromeychuk (U College London, UK) > [Paper (pdf)]

Discussant:
Orest Subtelny (York U, Canada)

The December 2008 Elections and NATO Summit

The Impact of the War on the 2008 December Elections in Ukraine
Adrian Karatnycky (Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council of the US; Advisor to Magisters Law Firm)
Dominique Arel (Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of Ottawa)

The Looming Crimea Question

The “Unfreezing” Conflicts in Transnistria and Crimea
Charles King (kingch@georgetown.edu)

Crimea, Sevastopol, and the Black Sea Fleet: Some Scenarios
John (Ivan) Jaworsky (U of Waterloo, Canada)

The Clash of Economics and Politics

How Can Trade Union Effectively Represent Workers in Post-Soviet Ukraine?
The Case of Plant-Level Unions in Civil Machine-Building
Mihai Varga ((U of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) > [Paper (pdf)]

Discussant:
Serge Denis (U of Ottawa, Canada)

Performing Corruption in Ukraine
Adam Swain (U of Illinois at Chicago, US) > [Paper (pdf)]

Discussants:
Vitaliy Voznyak (U of Illinois at Chicago, US)
Joshua Tucker (NYU, US)

Economic Transformation and Social Dislocations

The Politics of Gender, Alcohol Consumption, and Addiction in Western Ukraine
Maureen Murney (U of Toronto, Canada) > [Paper (pdf)]

Discussant:
Margaret Paxson ((Kennan Institute, Washington, DC)

Oral History of De-collectivization in Ukraine in the 1990s:
Rural Experiences and Perspectives
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen (U of Saskatchewan, Canada) > [Paper (pdf)]

Discussant:
Jessica Allina-Pisano (U of Ottawa, Canada)

Elite and Mass Politics

Deer in Headlights: Authoritarian Skill and Regime Trajectories after the Cold War
Lucan Way ((U of Toronto, Canada) > [Paper (pdf)]

Discussant:
Oxana Shevel ((Tufts U, US)

People Power or a One-Shot Deal? The Legacy of the Colored Revolutions
Considered from a Collective Action Framework
Joshua Tucker (NYU, US) > [Paper (pdf)]

Discussant:
Lucan Way (U of Toronto, Canada)