All times are in US Central Time (Chicago); all events are held in the University of Illinois Main Library unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, October 5, 2023 

9:00am – Welcome and Opening Remarks [Room 106]

Valeria Sobol & Joe Lenkart (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

9:30 – 10:45am – War and Language [Room 106]  Moderator: Anna Whittington (UIUC)

10:45 – 11:15am – Coffee Break 

11:15am – 12:30pm – Popular Culture Responses to Russia’s War against Ukraine [Room 106] Moderator: Serhiy Bilenky (University of Alberta)

“Serhiy Zhadan Reimagined by Users on TikTok: Media Poetry as Resistance During the War,” Alyssa Virker (Stanford University)
“Парадигма жанрів українського інтернетлору воєнної тематики 2022-2023 рр.,” Olesia Naumovska (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) 
“The Ukrainian Cultural Front: Support Ukrainophone YouTube,” Tetyana Dzyadevych (Grinnell College)
“Popular Music and Alternative Femininities in Russia’s War against Ukraine,” Iryna Shuvalova (University of Oslo)

1:30 – 3:00pm – Education, Institutions, and National Debates and National Identity and Cultural Heritage in Post-Maidan Ukraine 

Education, Institutions, and National Debates [Room 106] Moderator: Serhiy Bilenky (University of Alberta)

“Сільські бібліотеки Західної України періоду пізнього сталінізму (1944 – поч.1950-х років) як інструмент більшовицької пропаганди (Rural libraries of Western Ukraine in the period of late Stalinism (1944 – early 1950s) as an instrument of Bolshevik propaganda),” Galyna Starodubets (Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University)  
“Україністика на сторінках «Великої Української Енциклопедії»: Проблеми та виклики репрезентації,” Ірина  Шліхта (Національний транспортний університет)  
“Russian Imperialist Bias in American Education: The Portrayal of Kyivan Rus’,” Oleksiy Fitel (Independent Scholar)
“The Fate of Philosophy in Ukraine after 1991,” Denys Kiryukhin (Lund University; Skovoroda’s Institute of Philosophy (NANU))

National Identity and Cultural Heritage in Post-Maidan Ukraine [Room 314] Moderator: Daria Semenova (UIUC)

“External Threat, War, and Ukrainian Solidarity,” Kyle Estes (Bradley University)
“Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage in Wartime: The Postcolonial Dimension (Культурна спадщина України у воєнний час: постколоніальний вимір),” Yevhen Rachkov (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University; Indiana University)
“Fighting for Culture: Ukrainian Museums since the Full-scale War,” Valentyna Kharkhun (Mykola Gogol State University of Nizhyn)
“Holodomor Monuments on the Battlefield. Monuments and Memorials of the Great Famine 1932-1933 in the Post-Maidan Ukraine,” Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek (Pedagogical University of Cracow)

3:00 – 3:15pm – Break

3:15 – 4:45pm – Russia’s War against Ukraine: Trauma and Displacement [Room 106] Moderator: David Cooper (UIUC)

“Designing Anti-Human Trafficking Prevention Approaches in Ukraine,” Laura Dean (Milikin University)
“Specific Vulnerabilities Ukrainian Women in Forced Displacement in Germany,” Svitlana Nyzhnikova (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University)
“Seeking Protection in the EU, Geopolitics of Migration and Migrant Refugees in Limbo of Russia-Ukraine War,” Samuel Uwem Umoh (University of Hradec Králové)
“Resilience of Ukrainian Children with SEN in the Context of War: Realities and Prospects for Development,” Olha Nabochenko, Kateryna Dovhopola, Tetyana Kostenko (NGO “Support the Child”)

5:00pm – Keynote: “Confronting Epistemic Injustice: Centering Ukraine in the Paradigm Shift in Slavic and East European Studies,” Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas) [Room 220] 

6:30pm  – Reception and Exhibition Opening at the Spurlock Museum 

7:15pm – Film Screening: The Price of Conflict, with remarks by producer Polina Herman [Spurlock Museum]

Friday, October 6, 2023 

9:00 – 9:45am  – Gender, Agency, and Subjectivity in Ukrainian Literature and Film and Ukraine in International Affairs  

Gender, Agency, and Subjectivity in Ukrainian Literature and Film [Room 314] Moderator: Serenity Stanton Orengo (UIUC)

“The Colonial Encounter in Natalka Vorozhbyt’s “The Grain Store” (2009),” Oleksandra Wallo (University of Kansas)
“Home and Trauma: Understanding Chornobyl’s Elderly Women through Film,” Jordan Zaugg (University of Kansas)

Ukraine in International Affairs [Room 106] Moderator: Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas)

“Україна під впливом «м’якої сили» демократичних та авторитарних держав (на прикладі Польщі та Росії),” Yurii Mateleshko (State Higher Educational Institution «Uzhhorod National University») 
“Toward Ever Closer Union: The War in Ukraine and its Impacts on European Union,” Oleksiy Kandyuk (Institute for Social Research “Chronos”) 

10:00 – 10:45am – International Literary Encounters and Issues in Diaspora Studies 

International Literary Encounters [Room 314] Moderator: Serenity Stanton Orengo (UIUC)

“The Heteroimage of Ukraine in Italian Historical Literature: Inertia and Variability,” Kseniia Konstantynenko (University of Padua)
“Found in Translation: Orwell’s “Animal Farm” in Ukrainian,” Diana Gor (Hunter College; Ukrainian Museum)

Issues in Diaspora Studies [Room 106] Moderator: Steve Witt (UIUC)

“Ukrainian Resistance: The Dissident Movement and Diaspora Support during the Soviet Union” Katerina Szylo (University of Amsterdam)
“Legacy of the Holodomor on Ukrainian Canadian Diaspora Children of Survivors,” Sophia Isajiw (University of Alberta)

10:45 – 11:15am – Coffee Break

11:15am – 12:30pm – Recontextualizing Arts in Ukraine [Room 106] Moderator: Valeria Sobol (UIUC)

“Reclaiming Ukrainian Jewish Russophone Literature of the Twentieth Century: The Case of Eduard Bagritsky and His Poem ‘The Lay of Opanas’ (1926),” Olha Khometa (University of Toronto)
“Історія єврейського (їдишського) театру в Україні,” Іринa Мелешкінa (Музей театрального, музичного та кіномистецтва України)
“Ukrainian Art in terms of the Cultural Cold War (First Foreign Tours of UkrSSR Ensembles in the 1950s),” Taras Samchuk (Ukrainian Cultural Foundation)
“Unveiling the Artistic Legacy: Exploring the Fabric Collages of Liubov Panchenko,” Nataliia Yesypenko (University of Alberta)

12:30 – 1:30pm – Lunch Break 

1:30 – 2:45pm – Donbas in Literature and Film and Ukrainian Elites: Identity and Cultural Production 

Donbas in Literature and Film [Room 314] Moderator: David Cooper (UIUC)

“Donbas: The Memory of Untamed Diversity,” Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed (Harvard University)
“Savur-Mohyla, as an Object of Representativeness of Ukraine in the Literary Heritage,” Mykola Bryvko (National Historical and Memorial Reserve “Bykivnyan Graves”)
“Dynamics of Attention in Iryna Tsilyk’s ‘Земля блакитна, ніби апельсин,'” Anna Lordan (Oberlin College)  

Ukrainian Elites: Identity and Cultural Production [Room 106] Moderator: Markian Dobczansky (UIUC)

“Полілінгвізм українських еліт передновітнього часу  і лінгвостатистика: як це поєднати?” Галина Наєнко (Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка)
“Дозвілля дворянства Лівобережної України першої половини ХІХ ст.: полікультурний вимір,” Олег Малишко (Дніпровський національний університет імені Олеся Гончара)
“Alienation and Scapegoating in Ivan Franko’s and Olha Kobylianska’s Epidemic Narratives (late 1870s-early 1900s),” Dmytro Yesypenko (University of Alberta)

2:45 – 3:00pm – Break 

3:00 – 4:15 pm – Regional and Minority Identities in Ukraine [Room 314] Moderator: Daria Semenova (UIUC)

“Invisible and Discriminated? Non-titular Minority Experience in Post-Stalinist Lviv and Uzhhorod,” Julia Elena Grieder (University of Basel)
“Russian or Ukrainian? Building Identity in the Crimean Peninsula: 1954-1990,” Rachel Schmalz (University of Alberta)
“Krymy (Crimean Roma) and Servuria (Ukrainian Roma) as Indigenous People of Ukraine,” Mykola Homanyuk, Janush Panchenko (Kherson State University)

4:30pm – Keynote: “Does Ukraine Finally Have a History? Reflecting on Mark von Hagen’s Thoughts 28 Years Later,” Serhiy Bilenky (University of Alberta) [Lucy Ellis Lounge] 

6:00pm – Dinner  

7:30pm – Piano recital, Pavlo Gintov [Smith Memorial Hall]

Saturday, October 7, 2023 

9:00 – 9:45am – Breakfast reception, Remarks on D. Shtohryn’s work and legacy [Room 106] 

10:00 – 11:15am – From Imperial to National: Fin-de-Siècle Ukraine and Holocaust and World War Two: Memory and Research 

From Imperial to National: Fin-de-Siècle Ukraine [Room 106] Moderator: Dmytro Yesypenko (University of Alberta)

“Український національний рух в Одесі на зламі 19-20 століть,” Olena Syniavska (Odesa I.I.Mechnikov National University)
“Lviv University as a Site of Interethnic Conflict before the First World War,” Sydney Shiller (University of Toronto)
“Between Imperial Situation and Nation-State. The Bolsheviks and the Making of the Ukrainian Political Space (1917-1920),” Hanna Perekhoda (University of Lausanne)

Holocaust and World War Two: Memory and Research [Room 314] Moderator: Joe Lenkart (UIUC)

“The Rescue of Jews by Priests, Monks, and Nuns of the Greek Catholic Church: The State and Prospects of Research,” Yuriy Skira (Ukrainian Catholic University)
“Between Silence and Mourning: The Representation of the Holocaust in Soviet Ukrainian Fiction of the 1940s,” Hanna Protasova (University of Western Ontario)
“Примусові працівники з України у Франконії. Про (не)видимість у місцевій культурі пам’яті (Nazi forced laborers from Ukraine in Franconia. On (In)visibility in the local culture of remembrance),” Maria Parkhomenko (Chair of Modern and East European History, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg) 

11:30am – 12:45pm – Library and Archival Collections [Room 106] Moderator: Olga Makarova (UIUC)

“Analysis of the Ukrainian-Language Collection at Duke University Libraries,” Alaina Economus (Duke University)

“Ukraine’s Jewish Heritage in the Collections of Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine: Past and Present,” Vitaly Chernoivanenko (Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine)

“Archival Collections of Ukrainica: Problems of Preservation, Research and Representation in the Digital Age,” Maryna Paliienko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)

“Temporary Geography vs. National Bibliography: Rethinking Collection Development and the Delimitation of the Nation in Ukrainian/Crimean Studies Collections at the University of Illinois and Beyond,” Kit Condill (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

“Polish Libraries’ Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine,” Julia Konopka-Żołnierczuk (National Library of Poland)  

12:45 – 1:00pm – Closing Remarks

Olga Makarova, Conference Director (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)