Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference

Event Type

Conference/Workshop

Sponsor

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv University, UIUC University Library, UIUC REEEC, UIUC European Union Center, UIUC HRI, UIUC SLCL, UIUC Women & Gender in Global Perspectives Program, UIUC Political Science Department, UIUC History Department, UIUC Center for Global Studies, UIUC Program in Jewish Culture and Society, UIUC iSchool, UIUC Illinois International, UIUC Gies Business Center

Location

University of Illinois Main Library

Date

Oct 5, 2023   9:00 am   8:30 pm

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Originating Calendar

Russian, E. European & Eurasian Center: Co-sponsored Events

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

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] 

“War and Language in the Humor of Contemporary Ukraine,” Kateryna Yeremieieva (Ukrainian State University of Railway Transport; Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
“Psychological Aspects of Young Ukrainians’ Language Behavior during the Russian-Ukrainian War: Analysis of Language Biographies,” Ivanna Tsar (Institute of the Ukrainian Language of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
“Актуалізація діалектного компонента як реакція на війну в Україні,” Oksana Sukhovii (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)

10:45 – 11:15am – Coffee Break 

11:15am – 12:30pm – Popular Culture Responses to Russia’s War against Ukraine [Room 106]

“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)
“Popular Music and Alternative Femininities in Russia’s War against Ukraine,” Iryna Shuvalova (University of Oslo) 

12:30 – 1:30pm – Lunch Break  

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] 

“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] 

“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] 

“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,” Umoh Samuel Uwem (University of Hradec Králové)
“Resilience of Ukrainian Children with SEN in the Context of War: Realities and Prospects for Development,” Olha Nabochenko, Kateryna Dovgopola, 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 106] 

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]