World War II and the (Re)Creation of Historical Memory in Contemporary Ukraine

 
  Wednesday,
  September 23, 2009
 
  15.00 – 18.00

  Conference
  Registration
Goethe Institute
Voloska Street, 12/4

  18.00 – 20.00 

  Visit
  to the National Museum of the History of the Great 
Patriotic
  War and Opening Reception  
Welcome
Exhibition Opening
Reception
Memorial Complex, National Museum of World War II
Ivan Mazepa Street, 44 

Thursday,
  September 24, 2009
 
  8.30

  Conference
  Registration
Goethe Institute
Voloska Street, 12/4

  9.30 – 10.15 
 
  Conference Opening Session 

  Greetings

  Myron O. Stachiw       

  Conference Co-Chair
Director, Fulbright Program in Ukraine (Kyiv,
  Ukraine)
 
  Vladyslav
  Hrynevych

  Conference Co-Chair
I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic
  Studies, NASU  
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
 
  Ihor
  Yukhnowskiy

  Director, Ukrainian Institute of National Memory 
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
 
  Session
  1.      Models
  of National Memory of World War II
10.15 – 14.15
 
  Moderator: Yuriy Shapoval

  I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic
  Studies, NASU, 
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
 
  10.20 – 10.30 –  Moderator’s introduction
 
  10.30 – 11.05 – Richard Ned Lebow      

  Dartmouth College (USA); London School of Economics and Political  Science (UK) 

  Rethinking the Past,
  Remaking the Future 
 
  11.05 –
  11. 30 – Vladyslav Hrynevych     

  I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic
  Studies, NASU, (Kyiv, Ukraine) 

  World
  War II in Official Politics of Memory and Political Disputes in Ukraine Today 
 
  11.30–11.55 – Rafal Wnuk
  
  Lublin Institute of
  Public Memory (Lublin, Poland)

  Polish
  Historical Memory of World War II with a Special Focus on the Period after
  1989
 
  11. 55
  – 12. 25 – Coffee break 
 
  12.25–12. 50 – Volodymyr Nevyezhin
  
  Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy
  of   Sciences (Moscow, Russian
  Federation)     

  Historical Memory of
  Russians at the Beginning of the 21st century and Reception of the
  Facts of the Second World War 
 
  12.50 – 14.15 –  Discussion
 
  14.15 – 15.00 – Lunch
 
  Session
  2.      Models
  of Official History of World War II
15.00 – 17.15
 
  Moderator: Aleksandra
  Hnatiuk

  Embassy of Poland in Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)
 
  Discussant: Yuriy Shapoval
    
  I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic
  Studies, NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine)
 
  15.00
  – 15.10 – Moderator’s introduction
 
  15.10–15.30 – Vladyslav
  Verstiuk
  
  Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (Kyiv,  Ukraine)
 
  15.30 – 15.50 – Janusz Kurtyka          

  Institute of National Remembrance (Warsaw, Poland)
 
  15.50 – 16.10 – Birute Burauskayte

  Lithuanian Institute of Genocide Studies (Vilnius,
  Lithuania)
 
  16.10
  – 16.30 – Discussant’s comment
 
  16.30 – 17.15 – Discussion
 
  17.15
  -  Exhibition Opening 
  “The Ukrainian Insurgent Army: A History of the Undefeated”
Culture and Art Centre    
  National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Illinska Street, 9
 
  19.00
  -  Reception – Embassy of Poland in Ukraine 
     Yaroslaviv
  Val St., 12    
 
  Friday,
  September 25, 2009
 
  Session
  3.   Politics of Memory in Ukraine
9.00 – 11.30
 
  Moderator: Yaroslav
  Pylynskyj

  Kennan Kyiv Project (Kyiv, Ukraine)
 
  Discussant: Vladyslav Hrynevych

  I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic
  Studies, NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine) 
 
  9.00
  – 9.10 –  Moderator’s
  introduction 
 
  9.10
  – 9.25 – Olena Radziwill 

  Publishing
  house “National Aviation University-Druk”  
  (Kyiv, Ukraine)

  The War over The War:  World War II and the
  Great Patriotic War in Ukrainian History Textbooks
 
  9.25–9.40–Aiste
  Bertulytye-Zhikiavichiune

  Lithuanian Ministry of
  Foreign Affairs (Vilnius, Lithuania) 

  Armed Anti-Soviet Resistance in
  Lithuania and Western Ukraine: Why the War in Europe Did Not end in 1945
 
  9. 40
  – 9. 55 – Roman Serbyn

  Université du Québec à
  Montréal, Emeritus (Montreal, Canada)

  The Clash of
  National-Consolidating Myths: ‘The Great Patriotic War of the Socialist
  People’ and the ‘Genocidal Holodomor (Famine) of the Ukrainian Nation’
 
  9. 55
  – 10.10 – Oleksandr Zaitsev

  Ukrainian
  Catholic University (Lviv,Ukraine)

  World War Myth War in
  contemporary Ukraine
 
  10.10
  – 10. 25  – Volodymyr
  Kulyk          

  I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic
  Studies,  NASU  (Kyiv, Ukraine) 

  The Role of the Media in
  the (Re)Creation of Historical Memory: Competing Narratives of World War II
  in Ukrainian Mainstream Newspapers 
 
  10.25–10.40 – Oleksandr Melnyk
  
  University of Toronto (Toronto,
  Canada)

  Learning Like a State: Archives, Repression, and the
  Politics of Historical Knowledge in Ukraine, 1942-1944
 
  10.
  25 –10.40 – Discussant’s comment
 
  10.40
  – 11.30 – Discussion    
 
  11.30 – 11.45 - Coffee break
 
  Session 4/Session 5 (Parallel sessions)
 
  Session 4. Theoretical and
  Methodological Approaches to Comparative Studies on Political Memory: Ukraine
  and the Central and Eastern European Region
11.45
  – 14.30

  Moderator: Karin
  Liebhart      

  University of Vienna (Austria) 
 
  Discussant:
  Dominique Arel

  University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
 
  11.45
  – 12. 05 – Moderator’s
  introduction 

  12.05
  – 12.20 – Andrej
  Findor

  Comenius University (Bratislava, Slovakia)

  Politics of Memory and Identity: How
  (Not) to Study Museum Exhibitions
 
  12.20
  – 12.35 –  Heidemarie Uhl

  Austrian Academy of Sciences; University at Graz (Graz,
  Austria)

  The presence and absence of memory: How societies
  deal with remains of National Socialism
 
  12.35
  – 12.50 – Tatiana Zhurzenko

  Karazin Kharkiv National
  Universit/University of  Vienna (Ukraine/Austria) 

  Re-narrating World War II:
  Politics of memory in the Ukrainian-Russian borderlands 
 
  12. 50
  – 13.05 – Heiko Paabo

  University of Tartu (Estonia) 

  Analysis
  of national master narratives in the post-imperial space: Ukraine vs. Russia  
 
  13.05
  – 13.20  – Per
  Anders Rudling  

  University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

  The
  Shukhevych Cult in Ukraine: Myth Making with Complications
 
  13.20
  – 13.35 –  Alexandra
  Goujon    

  University of Bourgogne (Dijon, France)

  Memorial
  Narratives of WWII Partisans and Genocide in Belarus
 
  13.35
  – 13.55 – Discussant’s comments
 
  13.55 – 14.30 – Discussion
 
  14.30 – 15.15    Lunch
 
  Session
  5 Models of Collective and Individual
  Memory
11.45 – 14.30
 
  Moderator: Vladyslav
  Verstiuk  

  Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (Kyiv, Ukraine)
 
  Discussant: Margaret Paxton
 
  The Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International
  Center for Scholars (Washington, DC, USA)

  11.45
  – 11.55 – Moderator’s
  introduction 

  11.55
  – 12.10 – Tetiana Pastushenko

  Institute of the History of Ukraine, NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine)

  Memory
  of the German Occupation of Ukraine, 1941-1944: Evidence from the Countryside 
 
  12.10
  – 12.25 –  Iryna
  Rebrova        

  V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National
  University (Kharkiv, Ukraine)

  Official Soviet politics
  of memory of forced labor in Nazi Germany
 
  12.25
  – 12.40 – Gelinada Grinchenko

  V.N.  Karazin Kharkiv National
  University (Kharkiv, Ukraine)

  The
  Memory of Forced Labor in Nazi Germany: Eastern European, Soviet, and  Сontemporary Ukrainian Versions
 
  12.40
  – 12.55 – Orest Subtelny

  York University (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

  Ukrainian
  Concentration Camp Guards: World War II Realities and Post-War Trials
 
  12.55
  – 13.10 – Marta Dyczok                         

  University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario, Сanada)

  Re-examining
  the World War II Ukrainian Refugee Experience
 
  13.10
  – 13.25 – Oksana Tovaryanska     

  National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv,
  Ukraine)

  Peculiarities of
  Collective Memory Formation of the Former Soldiers of Division ‘Galicia’ 
 
  13.25
  – 13.40 – Olesya Khromeychuk

  School of Slavonic and East European Studies,
  University College London (London, England, United Kingdom)

  The Re-construction of WWII Memory and its
  Contemporary Political Framing:  The
  Case of Ukrainian Surrendered Enemy Personnel 
 
  13.25 – 14.30 – Discussion
 
  14.30 – 15.15 – Lunch
 
  15.15
  – 15.25 – Moderator’s
  introduction
 
  15.25
  – 15.40 – Iroida Wynnyckyj

  Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Center
  (UCRDC) (Toronto, Canada)

  How World War II Affected the
  Lives of Ukrainian Women: An Oral History
 
  15.40
  – 16.00 – Anna Wylegala

  KARTA (Warsaw, Poland)

  Negation, Separation, Marginalization: Repressions
  and the  War in the Biographical
  Narrations of the Oldest Generation of Poles from Zhytomyr, Kyiv and Podillia
  Regions 
 
  16.00
  – 16.15 – Kate Brown

  University of Maryland-Baltimore County (Baltimore,
  Maryland)

  Atomic
  Forgetting and the Tragedy of Chornobyl
 
  16.15 – 16.30 -  Coffee break 
 
  16.30
  – 16.50 –  Johanna
  Lärkner

  Linköping University (Linköping, Sweden)

  Weddings
  and War in Kyiv  
 
  16.50
  – 17.10 – Guido Hausmann

  University of Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany)

  A Different Version of the
  War: Memory of World War II of the Residents of a Burned Village in the Kyiv
  Region
 
  17.10 – 17.50 – Discussants’ comments
 
  17.50
  – 18.30 – Discussion
 
  Session 6.  Culture and the Formation of Memory
15.15 – 19.30

  Moderator: Myron
  O. Stachiw

  Fulbright Program in Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)
 
  Discussants: Boris Dubin  
 
  All-Russian Centre for the Study of Public Opinion
  (Moscow, Russian Federation)

  Tamara Hundorova

  Institute of Literature, NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine)
 
  15.15
  – 15.25  – Moderator’s
  introduction
 
  15.25–15.45 – Oleksandr Lysenko/Lyubov Lehasova
  
  Institute of History, NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine)/Memorial
  Complex “National Museum of the History of Great Patriotic War (Kyiv, Ukraine) 

  Visualization as a Means
  of Formation of Historical Memory About the War: Soviet and Contemporary Ukrainian
  Experiences
 
  15.45
  – 16.05 – Valentyna Kharkhun              

  Institute of Literature, NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine)

  Modification of the Aesthetics of Socialist Realism
  under the Conditions of a “Threatened” Culture (on the basis of Ukrainian
  war-time prose)
 
  16.15 – 16.30 – Coffee break
 
  16.30
  – 16.50 – Mykola Soroka

  Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) University of Alberta
  (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

  Memory
  of World War II in Ukrainian Immigrant Literature
 
  16.50 – 17.10 – Bohdan Klid

  Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) 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 
 
  17.10 – 17.30 – Oksana Moussienko

  I. Karpenko-Karoho National University of
  Theater, Film
  and Television (Kyiv, Ukraine)

  Film
  and the Mythology of the Soviet Totalitarian Era
 
  17.30
  – 17.50 – Sofia Dyak     

  Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv, Ukraine)

  The
  Second World War in Lviv Cityscape: Creating the Cornerstone for the City’s
  Postwar Identity
 
  17.50
  – 18.10 – Serhiy Kot     

  Center for Codification
  of Historical and Cultural Monuments of Ukraine, Institute of History,
  National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, (Kyiv, Ukraine) 
 
  18.10 – 18.50 – Discussants’
  comments
 
  18.50 – 19.30 – Discussion
 
  World War II Documentary Film Festival 
20.00 – 05.50
Center for Polish and European Studies
10 Voloshka St., Rm. 6
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
 
  20.00
  – Opening
  remarks
 
  20.
  20 

  The
  Other Side of the War  (Directed by D. Pleshkov, Ukraine, 2005)
·       
  “The Versailles Time Bomb”
·       
  “The Partitioning of Europe”
·       
  “Catastrophe of 1941”
 
  21.
  50   

  Between
  Hitler and Stalin: Ukraine in the Second World War, the Supressed History (Directed by S. Novytskyi, Canada-Ukraine, 2003)
 
  22.50 

  Union
  in Blood   (Directed
  by I. Korbyn, Ukraine, 2006)
·       
  “False Gold of September”
·       
  “ A Policy of Accepted Facts” 
·       
  “Army without a Country”
 
  00.20 – 00.40 – Break
 
  00.40   

  Union
  in Blood   (Directed
  by I. Korbyn, Ukraine, 2006)
·       
  “The Struggle for the People”
·       
  “Alliance  over the Abyss”
·       
  “Triumph of the Great Bluff”
 
  02.20 

  Spell
  Your Name  (Directed
  by S. Bukovskyi, USA, 2006)
 
  03.50

  War
  and Peace: Occupation (Directed by Y. Heles and
  B. Korovchenko, Ukraine) 
·       
  “Invasion”
·       
  “The New Order”
·       
  “Between the Gestapo and the Partisans”
·       
  “Collaborators”
 
Saturday,
  September 26, 2009
 
  Session
  7.      Genocide,
  Holocaust and Inter-ethnic Conflicts
10.00 - 18.30
 
  Moderators: Leonid
  Finberg     
 
  Anatolyi Podolsky
    
  Center of Judaica Studies, National University of
  Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine)
 
Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (Kyiv,
  Ukraine)
I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic
  Studies, NASU  (Kyiv, Ukraine)
 
  Discussants:Blair Ruble 
 
  Bogumila Berdychovska        
    
Dominique
  Arel 

  The Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International
  Center for Scholars, (Washington, D.C., USA)
 
Independent Scholar (Warsaw, Poland)
 
School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa
  (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
 
  10.00
  – 10.10 – Moderator’s introduction
 
  10.10
  – 10.30 – Hulnara Bekirova

  Crimean State Industrial-Pedagogic Institute (Simferopol, Crimea) 

  The Deportation of 1944 in the Historical
  Memory of the Crimean Tatars 
 
  10.30
  – 10.50 – Marco
  Carynnyk

    Independent Scholar (Toronto, Ontario,
  Canada)

  ’Jews, Poles, and Other Swine’: Ruda
  Różaniecka, 30 June 1941
 
  10.50
  – 11.10 – Ihor Illyushyn 

  Kyiv
  Institute Slavonic University (Kyiv, Ukraine) 

  The Ukrainian-Polish Nationality Conflict in Public
  Consciousness and Collective Memory: 
  The Humane Stereotypes and The Historical Facts 
 
  11.10
  – 11.30 – Mykhaylo Tyahlyi

  Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (Kyiv,
  Ukraine)

  A Secondary Genocide: ‘The Troubles’ (Poraimos) as
  an Element of the Historical Memory of Ukrainian Society and an Instrument in
  the Construction of the Identity of the Roma 
 
  11.30.
  – 11.45 – Discussant’s comments. Dominique Arel 
 
  11.45 – 12.00 – Coffee break
 
  12.00
  – 12.20 –  Tarik
  Cyril Amar

  Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv,
  Ukraine)

  A Noisy Silence: Soviet Discourse on the Holocaust
  in Lviv 1941-1987
 
  12.20
  – 12.40 –
  Lyudmyla Hrynevych

  Institute of History of Ukraine, NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine)

  Politico-Ideological Conception of the
  ‘Justification of the Holodomor Through the Victory of the Great Patriotic
  War’ in the Political Battles and Historiography between Russia and Ukraine 
 
  12.40 –
  13.00 – Jared
  McBride   

  University of California-Los Angeles (Los Angeles,
  California, USA)

  ’Through an Ethnic Lens, Darkly’: The Massacre at
  Malyn, July 1943
 
  13.00 – 14.00 – Discussion
 
  14.00 – 14.45 – Lunch
 
  14.45
  – 14.55 – Moderator’s introduction
 
  14.55
  – 15.15 – Maksym Gon     

  Rivne State Humanitarian University (Rivne, Ukraine)

  Memory of the Holocaust: Its Subjective Formation
  and Functionality in Ukraine 
 
  15.15
  – 15.35 – Olena Ivanova   

  V.N.  Karazin Kharkiv National
  University (Kharkiv, Ukraine)

  The Creation of Collective Memory About the
  Holocaust and National Identity 
 
  15.35 –
  15.55 –  Discussant’s
  comments. Blair Ruble 
 
  16.00– 16.15 –  Coffee break 
 
  16.15 – 16.35 – Discussants’
  comments. Bogumila Berdychovska
 
  16.35 – 17.30  –  Discussion
 
  17.30 –
  18.30 Roundtable: Conference
  Summation 
Participation of Session Discussants
 
  18.30
  - Reception 
 
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
15.00 – 18.00		Conference Registration Goethe Institute Voloska Street, 12/4
18.00 – 20.00		Visit to the National Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War and Opening Reception Welcome Exhibition Opening Reception Memorial Complex, National Museum of World War II Ivan Mazepa Street, 44
Thursday, September 24, 2009
8.30		Conference Registration Goethe Institute Voloska Street, 12/4
9.30 – 10.15		Conference Opening Session
Greetings
Myron O. Stachiw		Conference Co-Chair Director, Fulbright Program in Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Vladyslav Hrynevych		Conference Co-Chair I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Ihor Yukhnowskiy		Director, Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Session 1. Models of National Memory of World War II 10.15 – 14.15
Moderator: Yuriy Shapoval		I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, NASU, (Kyiv, Ukraine)
10.20 – 10.30 – Moderator’s introduction
10.30 – 11.05 – Richard Ned Lebow		Dartmouth College (USA); London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)
Rethinking the Past, Remaking the Future
11.05 – 11. 30 – Vladyslav Hrynevych		I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, NASU, (Kyiv, Ukraine)
World War II in Official Politics of Memory and Political Disputes in Ukraine Today
11.30–11.55 – Rafal Wnuk		Lublin Institute of Public Memory (Lublin, Poland)
Polish Historical Memory of World War II with a Special Focus on the Period after 1989
11. 55 – 12. 25 – Coffee break
12.25–12. 50 – Volodymyr Nevyezhin		Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russian Federation)
Historical Memory of Russians at the Beginning of the 21^st century and Reception of the Facts of the Second World War
12.50 – 14.15 – Discussion
14.15 – 15.00 – Lunch
Session 2. Models of Official History of World War II 15.00 – 17.15
Moderator: Aleksandra Hnatiuk		Embassy of Poland in Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Discussant: Yuriy Shapoval		I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine)
15.00 – 15.10 – Moderator’s introduction
15.10–15.30 – Vladyslav Verstiuk		Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (Kyiv, Ukraine)
15.30 – 15.50 – Janusz Kurtyka		Institute of National Remembrance (Warsaw, Poland)
15.50 – 16.10 – Birute Burauskayte		Lithuanian Institute of Genocide Studies (Vilnius, Lithuania)
16.10 – 16.30 – Discussant’s comment
16.30 – 17.15 – Discussion
17.15 - Exhibition Opening “The Ukrainian Insurgent Army: A History of the Undefeated” Culture and Art Centre National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Illinska Street, 9
19.00 - Reception – Embassy of Poland in Ukraine Yaroslaviv Val St., 12
Friday, September 25, 2009
Session 3. Politics of Memory in Ukraine 9.00 – 11.30
Moderator: Yaroslav Pylynskyj		Kennan Kyiv Project (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Discussant: Vladyslav Hrynevych		I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine)
9.00 – 9.10 – Moderator’s introduction
9.10 – 9.25 – Olena Radziwill		Publishing house “National Aviation University-Druk” (Kyiv, Ukraine)
The War over The War: World War II and the Great Patriotic War in Ukrainian History Textbooks
9.25–9.40–Aiste Bertulytye-Zhikiavichiune		Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Vilnius, Lithuania)
*Armed Anti-Soviet Resistance in Lithuania and Western Ukraine: Why the War in Europe Did Not end in 1945*
9. 40 – 9. 55 – Roman Serbyn		Université du Québec à Montréal, Emeritus (Montreal, Canada)
The Clash of National-Consolidating Myths: ‘The Great Patriotic War of the Socialist People’ and the ‘Genocidal Holodomor (Famine) of the Ukrainian Nation’
9. 55 – 10.10 – Oleksandr Zaitsev		Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv,Ukraine)
World War Myth War in contemporary Ukraine
10.10 – 10. 25 – Volodymyr Kulyk		I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine)
The Role of the Media in the (Re)Creation of Historical Memory: Competing Narratives of World War II in Ukrainian Mainstream Newspapers
10.25–10.40 – Oleksandr Melnyk		University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
Learning Like a State: Archives, Repression, and the Politics of Historical Knowledge in Ukraine, 1942-1944
10. 25 –10.40 – Discussant’s comment
10.40 – 11.30 – Discussion
11.30 – 11.45 - Coffee break
Session 4/Session 5 (Parallel sessions)
Session 4. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Comparative Studies on Political Memory: Ukraine and the Central and Eastern European Region 11.45 – 14.30
Moderator: Karin Liebhart		University of Vienna (Austria)
Discussant: Dominique Arel		University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
11.45 – 12. 05 – Moderator’s introduction
12.05 – 12.20 – Andrej Findor		Comenius University (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Politics of Memory and Identity: How (Not) to Study Museum Exhibitions
12.20 – 12.35 – Heidemarie Uhl		Austrian Academy of Sciences; University at Graz (Graz, Austria)
*The presence and absence of memory: How societies deal with remains of National Socialism*
12.35 – 12.50 – Tatiana Zhurzenko		Karazin Kharkiv National Universit/University of Vienna (Ukraine/Austria)
Re-narrating World War II: Politics of memory in the Ukrainian-Russian borderlands
12. 50 – 13.05 – Heiko Paabo		University of Tartu (Estonia)
Analysis of national master narratives in the post-imperial space: Ukraine vs. Russia
13.05 – 13.20 – Per Anders Rudling		University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
The Shukhevych Cult in Ukraine: Myth Making with Complications
13.20 – 13.35 – Alexandra Goujon		University of Bourgogne (Dijon, France)
Memorial Narratives of WWII Partisans and Genocide in Belarus
13.35 – 13.55 – Discussant’s comments
13.55 – 14.30 – Discussion
14.30 – 15.15 Lunch
Session 5 Models of Collective and Individual Memory 11.45 – 14.30
Moderator: Vladyslav Verstiuk		Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Discussant: Margaret Paxton		The Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, DC, USA)
11.45 – 11.55 – Moderator’s introduction
11.55 – 12.10 – Tetiana Pastushenko		Institute of the History of Ukraine, NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Memory of the German Occupation of Ukraine, 1941-1944: Evidence from the Countryside
12.10 – 12.25 – Iryna Rebrova		V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Official Soviet politics of memory of forced labor in Nazi Germany
12.25 – 12.40 – Gelinada Grinchenko		V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
The Memory of Forced Labor in Nazi Germany: Eastern European, Soviet, and Сontemporary Ukrainian Versions
12.40 – 12.55 – Orest Subtelny		York University (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Ukrainian Concentration Camp Guards: World War II Realities and Post-War Trials
12.55 – 13.10 – Marta Dyczok		University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario, Сanada)
Re-examining the World War II Ukrainian Refugee Experience
13.10 – 13.25 – Oksana Tovaryanska		National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Peculiarities of Collective Memory Formation of the Former Soldiers of Division ‘Galicia’
13.25 – 13.40 – Olesya Khromeychuk		School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London (London, England, United Kingdom)
The Re-construction of WWII Memory and its Contemporary Political Framing: The Case of Ukrainian Surrendered Enemy Personnel
13.25 – 14.30 – Discussion
14.30 – 15.15 – Lunch
15.15 – 15.25 – Moderator’s introduction
15.25 – 15.40 – Iroida Wynnyckyj		Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Center (UCRDC) (Toronto, Canada)
How World War II Affected the Lives of Ukrainian Women: An Oral History
15.40 – 16.00 – Anna Wylegala		KARTA (Warsaw, Poland)
Negation, Separation, Marginalization: Repressions and the War in the Biographical Narrations of the Oldest Generation of Poles from Zhytomyr, Kyiv and Podillia Regions
16.00 – 16.15 – Kate Brown		University of Maryland-Baltimore County (Baltimore, Maryland)
Atomic Forgetting and the Tragedy of Chornobyl
16.15 – 16.30 - Coffee break
16.30 – 16.50 – Johanna Lärkner		Linköping University (Linköping, Sweden)
Weddings and War in Kyiv
16.50 – 17.10 – Guido Hausmann		University of Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany)
A Different Version of the War: Memory of World War II of the Residents of a Burned Village in the Kyiv Region
17.10 – 17.50 – Discussants’ comments
17.50 – 18.30 – Discussion
Session 6. Culture and the Formation of Memory 15.15 – 19.30
Moderator: Myron O. Stachiw		Fulbright Program in Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Discussants: Boris Dubin		All-Russian Centre for the Study of Public Opinion (Moscow, Russian Federation)
Tamara Hundorova		Institute of Literature, NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine)
15.15 – 15.25 – Moderator’s introduction
15.25–15.45 – Oleksandr Lysenko/Lyubov Lehasova		Institute of History, NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine)/Memorial Complex “National Museum of the History of Great Patriotic War (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Visualization as a Means of Formation of Historical Memory About the War: Soviet and Contemporary Ukrainian Experiences
15.45 – 16.05 – Valentyna Kharkhun		Institute of Literature, NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Modification of the Aesthetics of Socialist Realism under the Conditions of a “Threatened” Culture (on the basis of Ukrainian war-time prose)
16.15 – 16.30 – Coffee break
16.30 – 16.50 – Mykola Soroka		Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
Memory of World War II in Ukrainian Immigrant Literature
16.50 – 17.10 – Bohdan Klid		Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) 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
17.10 – 17.30 – Oksana Moussienko		I. Karpenko-Karoho National University of Theater, Film and Television (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Film and the Mythology of the Soviet Totalitarian Era
17.30 – 17.50 – Sofia Dyak		Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv, Ukraine)
The Second World War in Lviv Cityscape: Creating the Cornerstone for the City’s Postwar Identity
17.50 – 18.10 – Serhiy Kot		Center for Codification of Historical and Cultural Monuments of Ukraine, Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, (Kyiv, Ukraine)
18.10 – 18.50 – Discussants’ comments
18.50 – 19.30 – Discussion
World War II Documentary Film Festival 20.00 – 05.50 Center for Polish and European Studies 10 Voloshka St., Rm. 6 National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
20.00 – Opening remarks
20. 20	The Other Side of the War (Directed by D. Pleshkov, Ukraine, 2005) · “The Versailles Time Bomb” · “The Partitioning of Europe” · “Catastrophe of 1941”
21. 50	Between Hitler and Stalin: Ukraine in the Second World War, the Supressed History (Directed by S. Novytskyi, Canada-Ukraine, 2003)
22.50	Union in Blood (Directed by I. Korbyn, Ukraine, 2006) · “False Gold of September” · “ A Policy of Accepted Facts” · “Army without a Country”
00.20 – 00.40 – Break
00.40	Union in Blood (Directed by I. Korbyn, Ukraine, 2006) · “The Struggle for the People” · “Alliance over the Abyss” · “Triumph of the Great Bluff”
02.20	Spell Your Name (Directed by S. Bukovskyi, USA, 2006)
03.50	War and Peace: Occupation (Directed by Y. Heles and B. Korovchenko, Ukraine) · “Invasion” · “The New Order” · “Between the Gestapo and the Partisans” · “Collaborators”
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Session 7. Genocide, Holocaust and Inter-ethnic Conflicts 10.00 - 18.30
Moderators: Leonid Finberg Anatolyi Podolsky		Center of Judaica Studies, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine) Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (Kyiv, Ukraine) I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Discussants:Blair Ruble Bogumila Berdychovska Dominique Arel		The Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, (Washington, D.C., USA) Independent Scholar (Warsaw, Poland) School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
10.00 – 10.10 – Moderator’s introduction
10.10 – 10.30 – Hulnara Bekirova		Crimean State Industrial-Pedagogic Institute (Simferopol, Crimea)
The Deportation of 1944 in the Historical Memory of the Crimean Tatars
10.30 – 10.50 – Marco Carynnyk		Independent Scholar (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
’Jews, Poles, and Other Swine’: Ruda Różaniecka, 30 June 1941
10.50 – 11.10 – Ihor Illyushyn		Kyiv Institute Slavonic University (Kyiv, Ukraine)
The Ukrainian-Polish Nationality Conflict in Public Consciousness and Collective Memory: The Humane Stereotypes and The Historical Facts
11.10 – 11.30 – Mykhaylo Tyahlyi		Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (Kyiv, Ukraine)
A Secondary Genocide: ‘The Troubles’ (Poraimos) as an Element of the Historical Memory of Ukrainian Society and an Instrument in the Construction of the Identity of the Roma
11.30. – 11.45 – Discussant’s comments. Dominique Arel
11.45 – 12.00 – Coffee break
12.00 – 12.20 – Tarik Cyril Amar		Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv, Ukraine)
A Noisy Silence: Soviet Discourse on the Holocaust in Lviv 1941-1987
12.20 – 12.40 – Lyudmyla Hrynevych		Institute of History of Ukraine, NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Politico-Ideological Conception of the ‘Justification of the Holodomor Through the Victory of the Great Patriotic War’ in the Political Battles and Historiography between Russia and Ukraine
12.40 – 13.00 – Jared McBride		University of California-Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California, USA)
’Through an Ethnic Lens, Darkly’: The Massacre at Malyn, July 1943
13.00 – 14.00 – Discussion
14.00 – 14.45 – Lunch
14.45 – 14.55 – Moderator’s introduction
14.55 – 15.15 – Maksym Gon		Rivne State Humanitarian University (Rivne, Ukraine)
Memory of the Holocaust: Its Subjective Formation and Functionality in Ukraine
15.15 – 15.35 – Olena Ivanova		V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
The Creation of Collective Memory About the Holocaust and National Identity
15.35 – 15.55 – Discussant’s comments. Blair Ruble
16.00– 16.15 – Coffee break
16.15 – 16.35 – Discussants’ comments. Bogumila Berdychovska
16.35 – 17.30 – Discussion
17.30 – 18.30 Roundtable: Conference Summation Participation of Session Discussants
18.30 - Reception