Lebow, Richard Ned
Dartmouth College (White River Junction, New Hampshire, U.S.), and London School of Economics and Political Science (London, England, United Kingdom)
“Rethinking the Past, Remaking the Future”

Hrynevych.,Vladyslav
I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, (Kyiv, Ukraine)
“World War II in Official Politics of Memory and Political Disputes in Ukraine Today”

Session 3. Politics of Memory in Ukraine

Radziwill, Olena.
National Aviation University-Druk. (Kyiv, Ukraine)
“War for War: World War II and the Great Patriotic War in School Textbooks on the History of Ukraine (l969-2007)”

Serbyn, Roman
Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Emeritus (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
“Collision of State-consolidating Myths: ‘The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet People’ and ‘The Genocidal Famine of the Ukrainian Nation’”

Kulyk, Volodymyr
Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine) The Kennan Institute, The Wilson Center for International Scholars (Washington, D.C.)
“The Role of the Media in the (Re)Creation of Historical Memory: Competing Narratives of World War II in Ukrainian Mainstream Newspapers”

Melnyk, Oleksander
Department of History, University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
“Learning Like a State: Archives, Repression, and the Politics of Historical Knowledge in Ukraine, 1942-1944”

Session 4. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Comparative Studies on Political Memory: Ukraine and the Central and Eastern European Region

Findor, Andrej
Institute of European Studies and International Relations, Comenius University (Bratislava, Slovakia)
“Politics of Memory and Identity: How (Not) to Study Museum Exhibitions”

Uhl, Heidemarie
Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria)
“Negative Memory and the Break of Post War Myths: How European Societies Deal with their Traumatic Past” 

Zhurzhenko, Tatiana
V.Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine) University of Vienna, Institute for Political Science (Vienna, Austria)
“Re-narrating World War II: Politics of Memory in the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands”

Rudling, Per Anders
University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
“The Shukhevych Cult: Myth-making with Complications”

Goujon, Alexandra
University of Bourgogne (Dijon, France)
"Memorial Narratives of World War II Partisans and Genocide in Belarus"

Session 5 Models of Collective and Individual Memory

Pastushenko,Tetiana
Institute of the History of Ukraine, NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine)
“Memory of the Nazi Occupation of Ukraine, 1941-1944: Rural Experience”

Rebrova, Iryna
V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
“Representations of ‘Ukrainian/Nationalist’ in the Soviet Official Politics of Memory of the Forced Labor in Nazi Germany”

Grinchenko, Gelinada
V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
“Memory of Forced Labor in Nazi Germany: West-European, Soviet, Contemporary Ukrainian Versions”

Subtelny, Orest
York University (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
“Ukrainian Concentration Camp Guards: World War II Realities and Post-War Trials”

Dyczok, Marta
University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario, Canada)
“Re-examining the World War II Ukrainian Refugee Experience”

Tovaryanska, Oksana
National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Kyiv, Ukraine)
“Peculiarities of Collective Memory Formation of the Former Soldiers of Division “Galicia” (on Oral History Materials)”

Khromeychuk, Olesya
University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (London, England)
“The Re-construction of World War II Memory and its Contemporary Political Framing: The Case of Ukrainian Surrendered Enemy Personnel”

Wynnyckyj, Iroida
Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Center (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
“How World War II Affected the Lives of Ukrainian Women: An Oral History”

Wylegala, Anna
KARTA Center (Warsaw, Poland)
“Alternative Patterns of Memory: World War II in the Eyes of the Oldest Generation of Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi and Kyiv Oblasts’ Inhabitants of Polish Origins”

Brown, Kate
Department of History, University of Maryland-Baltimore County (Baltimore, Maryland)
“Atomic Forgetting and the Tragedy of Chornobyl”

Larkner, Johanna
Linkoping University (Linkoping, Sweden)
“Weddings and War in Kyiv”

Hausmann, Guido
Department of Eastern European History, University of Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany)
“A Different Version of the War: Memory of World War II held by the Residents of a Burned Village in the Kyiv Region.”

Session 6. Culture and the Formation of Memory

Karkhun, Valentyna
T. H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)
“Modification of Socialist Realist Aesthetics under the Circumstances of ‘Threatened’ Culture: A Case of Ukrainian War Prose”

Soroka, Mykola
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
“Memory of World War II in Ukrainian Emigre Literature”

Klid, Bohdan
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
“Historical Memory of World War II and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in Ukrainian Rock and Hip Hop Music”

Musienko, Oksana S.
Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television (Kyiv, Ukraine)
“Film and the Mythology of the Soviet Totalitarian Era”

Dyak, Sofia
Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv, Ukraine)
“The Second World War in the Lviv Cityscape: Creating the Cornerstone for the City’s Postwar Identity”

Session 7. Genocide, Holocaust and Inter-ethnic Conflicts

Bekirova, Hulnara
Crimean State Industrial-Pedagogic Institute (Symferopil, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine)
“The 1944 Deportation in the Historical Memory of the Crimean Tatars”

Carynnyk, Marco
Independent Scholar, (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
“Jews, Poles, and Other Swine: Ruda Rozaniecka, 30 June 1941”

Illiushyn, Ihor
Kyiv Institute “Slavonic University” (Kyiv, Ukraine)
“The Ukrainian-Polish Conflict in Public Consciousness and Collective Memory: Stereotypes and Historical Facts”

Tiahlyi, Mykhailo
Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (Kyiv, Ukraine)
“’Collateral’ Genocide: Poraimos as an Element in the Historical Memory of Ukrainian Society and an Instrument for Constructing Roma Identity”

Amar, Tarik Cyril
Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv, Ukraine)
“A Noisy Silence: Soviet Discourse on the Holocaust in Lviv 1941-1987”

Hrynevych, Ludmyla
Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)
“Political and Ideological Conception of the ‘Justification of the Holodomor Through the Victory of the Great Patriotic War’ in the Political Battles and Historiography of Ukraine and Russia”

McBride, Jared
University of California Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.)
“Through a Lens Darkly: The Massacre at Malyn, July 1943”

Gon, Maksym
Rivne State Humanitarian University (Rivne, Ukraine)
“Memory of the Holocaust: Sources of Formation and Forms of Functioning in Ukraine”

Ivanova, Olena
V.N Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
“Constructing Collective Memory of the Holocaust and National Identity”

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