Ukraine in North America: Diaspora Activism, Academic Initiatives Conference at Columbia University

 

Ukraine in North America: Diaspora Activism, Academic Initiatives


Thursday, November 3rd - Saturday, November 5th, 2022
Hybrid (See location note on website)
 

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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.

 

 

 

Program

All times in EDT (New York). Online attendance for 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
Lecture Hall, Pulitzer Hall, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
2950 Broadway at 116th

 

The North American Ukrainian Diaspora: Movements and Moments, Yesterday and Today
 

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Panel I: (Re-)Defining “Diaspora”

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM | Panel II: The Ukrainian Diaspora and the USSR

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Panel III: Political Activity of the Ukrainian Diaspora in the US and Canada

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Film Screening: Zaporozhets za Dunaiem (The Zaporozhiian Beyond the Danube, 1937)

 

Day Three
Saturday, November 5, 2022
World Room, Pulitzer Hall, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
2950 Broadway at 116th


The Diaspora and Ukrainian Studies
 

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Panel IV: Building Institutions, Building Bridges

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM | Panel V: Academic Institutions, Libraries, and Archives

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Panel VI: The Role of Diaspora for Scholarship in Today’s Ukraine

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Book Launch: Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky, Shchodennyky (Kyiv- Dukh i Litera, 2019)

 

For participant biographies and paper abstracts, visit the event page.