#  The Petro Jacyk Memorial Symposium, February 4, 2013 

 





January 29, 2013

 

 

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##  Politics of Language in Contemporary Ukraine: Practices, Identities, Ideologies

###  February 4, 2013  
1:45 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

 Symposium Program

###  Session 1  
1:45 – 3:45 p.m.

####  Introductory Remarks

 Michael S. Flier  
*Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology*  
*Director, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute*

####  Panel: Speaking and Believing

 Chair: Lubomyr Hajda  
*Associate Director, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute*

####  The Illusion of Politics: Why Ukrainian Language Policies Have Only a Limited Impact on Linguistic Repertoires of Young Ukrainians

 Aneta Pavlenko  
*Professor, College of Education, Temple University*

####  Our Language: Ukrainian as "Native Language" among Ukrainian Youth

 Debra A. Friedman  
*Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Second Language Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington*

####  Native and Everyday Languages in Post-Soviet Ukraine: What They Mean and How They Matter

 Volodymyr Kulyk  
*Head Research Fellow, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine*  
*Petro Jacyk Distinguished Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute*

####  Discussion

####  Coffee Break  
3:45 to 4:00 p.m.

###  Session 2  
4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

####  Panel: Learning and Performing

 Chair: Michael S. Flier  
*Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology*  
*Director, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute*

####  Ethnolinguistic Conversions and Individual Agency in the Nation Building of Ukraine

 Laada Bilaniuk  
*Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington*

####  “A Gift to the Nation”: Investigating the Social Identities and Language Use of “New Speakers” of Belarusian and Ukrainian

 Curt Woolhiser  
*Lecturer, College of Arts and Sciences, Brandeis University*

####  The Landscape of Children's Cyber-Discourse in Contemporary Ukraine

 Alla Nedashkivska  
*Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta*

####  Discussion

####  Concluding Remarks

 Volodymyr Kulyk  
*Head Research Fellow, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine*  
*Petro Jacyk Distinguished Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute*




 

 

 

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