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Multiple locations. See program below for details.
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The international conference Ukraine in North America: Diaspora Activism, Academic Initiatives is being organized for November 3-5, 2022 by the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. The conference will gather scholars from the United States, Canada, and Ukraine to focus on different waves of immigration from Ukraine to North America and on the organizational and political activity of these individuals, chiefly their establishment of Ukrainian studies in their new homelands. Having helped incorporate Ukraine as a subject of discussion at academic institutions in the U.S. and Canada, the diaspora has now itself become the subject of scholarly analysis in contemporary Ukraine. Among the topics to be examined during the conference: new approaches in defining the Ukrainian diaspora; the political engagement of the diaspora during the Twentieth century and today; the role of libraries and archives in the establishment of Ukrainian studies institutions in North America; and various avenues of study of the Ukrainian diaspora in today’s Ukraine.
Participating in the conference are: Olga Andriewsky, Mark Andryczyk, Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak, Simone Attilio Bellezza, Robert H Davis, Orest Deychakiwsky, Markian Dobczanky, Myroslava Gongadze, Boris Gudziak, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Edward Kasinec, Natalia Khanenko Friesen, Ksenya Kiebuzinski, Kateryna Kobchenko, Volodymyr Kravchenko, Valerii Kuchynskyi, Uliana Pasicznyk, Olha Poliukhovych, Anna Procyk, Roman Procyk, Peter Rudnytsky, Victor Satzewich, Yuri Shevchuk, Myroslav Shkandrij, Frank Sysyn, Oleh Wolowyna, and Sergei Zhuk.
The conference will commence on November 3rd with a keynote address by Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak and a reception at which Alexander Motyl will be presented an award for his contributions to the field of Ukrainian studies. The keynote and reception will take place in Columbia’s Faculty House (Garden Room 2/Ivy Lounge, 64 Morningside Drive). Days Two and Three will take place in Columbia’s Journalism School (World Room/ Lecture Hall, 2950 Broadway at 116th). Day Two’s conference panels will be followed by a screening organized by the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University of the film Zaporozhets za Dunaiem (The Zaporozhiian Beyond the Danube, 1937). The final day of the conference will conclude with a book launch of Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky’s Shchodennyky (Kyiv; Dukh i Litera, 2019).
Program
All times in EDT (New York). Each panel requires individual registration.
Day One
Thursday, November 3, 2022
Faculty House – Garden Room 2/Ivy Lounge
64 Morningside Drive
7PM | Keynote Address: Archbishop-Metropolitan Borys Gudziak
Reception: Presentation of Award to Alexander Motyl
Day Two
Friday, November 4, 2022
The North American Ukrainian Diaspora: Movements and Moments, Yesterday and Today
Lecture Hall, Pulitzer Hall, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
2950 Broadway at 116th
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Panel I: (Re-)Defining “Diaspora”
Chair: Valerii Kuchynsky
- Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, From Ethnic Minorities to a Global Community: Re-Defining Ukrainian Diaspora in the era of Post-Globalization
- Victor Satzewich, The Settlement Trajectories of Post-1991 Immigrants from Ukraine to Canada: A Preliminary View
- Oleh Wolowyna, Ukrainian Diaspora in the U.S.: Data-based Evidence on its Characteristics and its Relationships with Ukraine and American Society
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM | Panel II: The Ukrainian Diaspora and the USSR
Chair: Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak
- Simone Attilio Bellezza, Building Bridges with Paper: Newspapers, Journals, and Books of the Ukrainian Diaspora in the West During the Cold War
- Markian Dobczansky
- Sergei Zhuk, KGB Operations against the Ukrainian Diaspora in Capitalist America, 1953-1988
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Panel III: Political Activity of the Ukrainian Diaspora in the US and Canada
Chair: Myroslav Shkandrij
- Olga Andriewsky, Diaspora Activism and the Holodomor in the Early Cold War Era (1945-1955)
- Orest Deychakivsky, Advocating for Ukraine: Examining the Role of the Ukrainian Diaspora in Washington, 1980-Present
- Myroslava Gongadze, Ukrainian Activism in Washington D.C: From Kuchmagate to Today’s Russian-Ukrainian War
CANCELLED: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Film Screening
Zaporozhets za Dunaiem (The Zaporozhiian Beyond the Danube, 1937)
Introduced and Moderated by Yuri Shevchuk
Presented by the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University
Day Three
Saturday, November 5, 2022
The Diaspora and Ukrainian Studies
World Room, Pulitzer Hall, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
2950 Broadway at 116th
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Panel IV: Building Institutions, Building Bridges
Chair: Yuri Shevchuk
- Volodymyr Kravchenko, Ukrainian Studies in North America: In Search of a Framework
- Uliana Pasicznyk, Recollecting the Course of Ukrainian Studies in North America: The Oral History Project of Harvard University’s Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI)
- Roman Procyk, Shaping the Campaign for Ukrainian Studies Programs
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM | Panel V: Academic Institutions, Libraries, and Archives
Chair: Robert H. Davis
- Anna Procyk, Challenges and Achievements of Ukrainian Scholarly Institutions in the United States during the Cold War, the Period of Co-existence and the Three Decades of Ukraine’s Independence
- Edward Kasinec, Ukraine in Harvard’s “Yard”: Diaspora Activism and Library Initiatives, 1973-1980
- Ksenya Kiebuzinski, The Ukrainian Diaspora and the University of Toronto: Collectors, Collections, Bibliographers, and Librarians, 1950s-2020s
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Panel VI: The Role of Diaspora for Scholarship in Today’s Ukraine
Chair: Frank Sysyn
- Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ivan L. Rudnytsky and His Columbia Years
- Kateryna Kobchenko, The Ukrainian Free University in the Intellectual History of the Transnational Ukrainian Community after WWII
- Olha Poliukhovych, A Ukrainian Intellectual in the US: The Dilemmas of Yurii Kosach’s Homecoming in the 1960s-1970s
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Book Launch
Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky, Shchodennyky (Kyiv- Dukh i Litera, 2019)
Peter L. Rudnytsky
Frank Sysyn
Yaroslav Hrytsak
Event Videos
Archbishop-Metropolitan Borys Gudziak, Keynote Address
Panel I: (Re-)Defining Diaspora
Panel II: The Ukrainian Diaspora and the USSR
Panel III: Political Activity of the Ukrainian Diaspora in the US and Canada
Panel IV: Building Institutions, Building Bridges
Panel V: Academic Institutions, Libraries, and Archives
Panel VI: The Role of Diaspora for Scholarship in Today’s Ukraine
Book Launch, Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky, Shchodennyky
