#  States, Peoples, Languages: A Comparative Political History of Ukrainian, 1863-2013 (audio recording) 

 





June 11, 2014

 

 

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 Day 1: Wednesday, June 11

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 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Registration

 2:00 – 2:15 p.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks

 **Serhii Plokhii**  
*Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University*

 **Andrea Graziosi**  
*National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research, Italy*

###  Session 1. Years of Dependence: 1863–1991

 2:15 – 5:30 p.m.  
Panel 1. 1863–1905: Years of Prohibition and Russification

 **Chair:**  
**Michael S. Flier**  
*Harvard University*

#####  1. The Fate of the Ukrainian Language under the Russian Empire

 **Johannes Remy**  
*University of Helsinki*

#####  2. The Fate of the Ukrainian Language in the Habsburg Monarchy

 **Michael Moser**  
*University of Vienna*

#####  3. Russian: The Language of Empire

 **Alexei Miller**  
*Institute for Scientific Information in Social Sciences, RAS, Moscow; Central European University, Budapest*

#####  4. The Formation of the Finnish Polity: Languages and the People in the Construction of the Nation State, 1863-1905

 **Ilkka Liikanen**  
*University of Eastern Finland*  
  
**Jussi Kurunmäki**  
*University of Stockholm*

#####  5. When the West Meets the East: Slavia Romana at the Crossroad

 **Anita Peti-Stantic**  
*University of Zagreb; Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University*

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 7:30 p.m.  
Conference Dinner

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#####  Address: Ukrainian and Russian - Poles Apart?

 **Michael Flier**  
*Harvard University*

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 Day 2: Thursday, June 12

 9:00 – 12:00 noon  
Panel 2. 1905–1932: Years of Crisis and National Revival

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 **Chair:**  
**Serhii Plokhii**  
*Harvard University*

#####  1. The "Bastard Tongue" and the "Doubling of Hallelujah:" The Ukrainian Language Question in Russian Ukraine, 1905–1916

 **Andriy Danylenko**  
*Pace University*

#####  2. The Bolshevik Language Policy as a Factor in Communist Construction (1919- 1933)

 **Hennadii Yefimenko**  
*Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine*

#####  3. Ukrainian in Transition from Late Austria-Hungary through the Interwar Period in Eastern Europe

 **Jan Fellerer**  
*Wolfson College, University of Oxford*

####  Morning Break

#####  4. Russian in the Early 20th Century: Imperial Language in Retreat?

 **Michael Smith**  
*Purdue University*

#####  5. Ireland and Irish: Economics, Politics, Culture

 **Tony Crowley**  
*University of Leeds*

#####  6. National Delimitation in Soviet Central Asia and the Fashioning of Modern Uzbek

 **William Fierman**  
*Indiana University at Bloomington*  
  
**Lubomyr Hajda**  
*Harvard University*

 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Break

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 1:30 – 3:45 p.m.

 Panel 3. 1932–1953: Years of Stress and Repression

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 **Chair:  
Roman Szporluk**  
*Harvard University*

#####  1. Ukrainian in the Face of Totalitarianism and Total War

 **Yuri Shapoval**  
*Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine*

#####  2. Russian: Revival of Linguistic Centralism

 **Peter A. Blitstein**  
*Lawrence University*

#####  3. Catalonia: Portrait of a Dictatorship

 **Montserrat Guibernau**  
*Queen Mary University of London*

#####  4. The Divergent Fates of Yiddish and Hebrew

 **Zvi Gitelman**  
*University of Michigan*

 3:45 – 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Break

 4:00 – 6:15 p.m.  
Panel 4. 1953/56–1991:Years of Retreat and Resistance

 **Chair:  
Patrick Sériot**  
*Université de Lausanne*

#####  1. Ukrainian in the Soviet Crucible: Assimilation vs. Preservation

 **Roman Solchanyk**  
*RAND Corporation*

#####  2. Russian as the Language of "A New Historical Community—the Soviet People"

 **Isabelle Kreindler**  
*University of Haifa*

#####  3. The Difficult Art of Defining Linguistic Minorities: Access to Minority Schools in Québec and Canada since the 1980s

 **François Charbonneau**  
*University of Ottawa*

#####  4. The 1955-56 Linguistic State Reorganization in India and the Soviet Model

 **Andrea Graziosi**  
*National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research, Italy*

 7:30 p.m.  
Conference Dinner

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#####  Address: What Is a Language That It Can Be Modified? The Implicit Model of Soviet Language Policy in the 1930s and the Invention of a New Soviet Standard for Ukrainian and Belarusian

 **Patrick Sériot**  
*Université de Lausanne*

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 Day 3: Friday, June 13

###  Session 2. Years of Independence: 1991–2013

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 9:00 – 12:00 noon  
Panel 5. Language and Politics: The View from Above

 **Chair:  
Roman Senkus**  
*University of Toronto*

#####  1. Constitutional and Legal Development of Language Policy

 **Volodymyr Vassylenko**  
*National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy*

#####  2. Language Practices in Government, Administration and the Judiciary

 **Oxana Shevel**  
*Tufts University*

#####  3. Language Practices and Politics in Regional Perspective

 **Dominique Arel**  
*University of Ottawa*

#####  4. The Rise and Dynamics of the Normative Isomorphism of Language, Nation and State in Central Europe

 **Tomasz Kamusella**  
*University of St. Andrews*

#####  5. When is a Language a Language? The Case of Former Yugoslavia

 **Robert Greenberg**  
*University of Auckland*

 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Break

 1:30-4:00 p.m.

 Panel 6: Language and Society: The View from Below

 **Chair:  
Timothy Colton**  
*Harvard University*

#####  1. Language Attitudes in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Differentiation and Evolution

 **Volodymyr Kulyk**  
*Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine*

#####  2. Ukraine 2014: Language Legislation in the National Emergency

 **Bohdan Azhniuk**  
*Institute of the Ukrainian Language, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine*

#####  3. Purism and Pluralism: Trends of Language Use in Popular Culture in Ukraine since Independence

 **Laada Bilaniuk**  
*University of Washington*

#####  4. Kazakh National Language against the Dominance of Russian

 **John Schoeberlein**  
*Nazarbayev University, Astana*

#####  5. After the Status Reversal: The Use of Titular Languages and Russian in the Baltic Countries

 **Martin Ehala**  
*University of Tartu*

 4:00 p.m. Concluding Remarks and Adjournment

 **Lubomyr Hajda**  
*Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University*

 **Serhii Plokhii**  
*Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University*




 

 

 

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