Outreach • Conferences

“Transcultural Contact Zones in Ukraine: Conceptualization and Case Studies”, September 14-16, 2017, Odesa, Ukraine “Transcultural Contact Zones in Ukraine: Conceptualization and Case Studies”, September 16-17, 2016, Dnipro, Ukraine “Transcultural Contact Zones in Ukraine: Research Agenda”, September 25-27, 2015, Kharkiv, Ukraine “Region, Nation and Beyond: Ukraine After the Euromaidan”, September 26-27, 2014, Chernivtsi, Ukraine “Region, Nation and Beyond: New Research Evidence on Ukrainian Regionalism”, September 12-14, 2013, Myrhorod, Ukraine “Region, Nation and Beyond. An Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Reconceptualization of Ukraine”, September 27-29, 2012, Kyiv, Ukraine

“Religion, Faith and Public Space” , 28-30 May 2017, Kyiv, Ukraine “Public Religion, Ambient Faith”, 29 September-1 October, 2016, Kyiv, Ukraine “Religion in the Black Sea Region Workshop”, 28 June-1 July, 2015, Kyiv, Ukraine “Imaginary Borderlands: Interpretations of Cultures and Strategies of Coexistence”, 1-3 June 2017, Kyiv, Ukraine

“Ukraine’s in-between-ness: ideas, identities and perceptions”. Paper presented at the Conference “In Between? Searching for Local Histories in Borderlands of Europe”, Warsaw, Poland, 2 – 3 December 2016. “Ukrainian national identity in transformation. Debating language concerns”. Paper presented at the 48th Annual ASEEES Convention, Washington, the USA, 17 – 20 November 2016. “Bounded Europeanisation’: the case of Ukraine”. Paper presented at the International Conference EURINT “The Eastern Partnership under strain – time for a rethink?”, Iasi, Romania, 20 – 21 May 2016. “Russian Speakers – Ukrainian Citizens. How to Define the Identity?”. Paper presented at the International Conference “Russian Speakers in the Post-Soviet Space: Comparative Approaches”, Tartu, Estonia, 8 – 9 October 2015. “Bounded Europeanisation”: the case of Ukraine”. Paper presented at the International conference “The EU and Its Eastern Neighbourhood: the Contradictions of Europeanisation and European Identities”, Portsmouth, England, 29 – 30 June 2015. “Identity dimension of Ukrainian crisis: torn in–between”. Paper presented at the 9th Annual Graduate Conference in European History (GRACEH) “Crisis and Solidarity in European History”, Wien, Austria, 23 – 25 April 2015.

"Memory and Conflict: Politics of History and its Societal Perception in Post-Maidan Ukraine" Paper presented at the academic workshop "Instrumentalisation of the Past as a Means of Political Mobilisation: the Painful Experiences of Eastern Europe and the Balkans", Swiss Peace foundation, Basel, Switzerland, 17 March 2017. "In Search of ‘Own’ Narrative: Local History Museums in post‐Soviet Ukraine". Paper presented at the ASEEES‐MAG Joint Convention, UCU, Lviv, Ukraine, 26 – 28 June 2016. “Former shtetls as (non)memoryscapes: collective memory of Jewish life and annihilation in Ukrainian towns”. Paper presented at the international conference “Jews and Gentiles in East-Central Europe in XX ct.”, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 1 – 3 June 2014.

“Corruption in Ukraine: A Way to Get Things Done?”. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Danyliw Seminar, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada 10 – 12 November 2016. “Corruption and Academic Integrity at Russian and Ukrainian Universities: A Comparative Study”. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on "Rethinking Students: Ideas and New Research Approaches", Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Moscow, Russian Federation, 15 – 17 October 2015. “Regional Differences in Perceived Corruption among Ukrainian Firms”. Paper presented at the Conference "Informal Practices and Structures in Eastern Europe and Central Asia", University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 21 – 23 November 2013.

“Lenin Statues in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Legislations, Practices and Attitudes”. Paper presented at the CNF: “Sites of Memory of Socialism and Communism in Europe”, Schloss Munchenwiler, Switzerland, 3 – 6 September 2015. “Nationalism versus Sovietism? Politics of memory towards Communist heritage in Ukraine after 1991”. Paper presented at the CNF: “Historical Memory of Central and East European Communism”, Association for Leftist Theory SOK, Association for European Dialog, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Prague, 14 – 15 November 2015. “Lenin Statues in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Practices and Attitudes”, Paper presented at the Platform Ukraine: workshop, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, Great Britain, 6 – 7 June 2015.

“The Struggle against Dialectalisms as a Component of Linguistic Policy in the Soviet Ukraine (1945 – 1991)”. Paper presented at the Ukrainica Brunensia IIІ. Ukrajinistika – minulost, přítomnost, budoucnost. Mezinárodní vědecká konference pořádaná při příležitosti 20-výročí zahájení výuky ukrajinštiny jako studijního oboru na brněnské univerzitě, Brno, Czech Republic, 26 – 27 May 2015. “The Academician Ivan Bilodid and His Role in Language Planning for Ukrainian in 1947–1981”. Paper presented at the monthly meeting of Kharkiv Historico-Philological Society, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 27 January 2015. “The Corpus Planning for Ukrainian in the Controversy between the Ukrainian Soviet and Émigré Linguists (1960 – 1970s)”. Paper presented at the Second Meeting on Slavic Linguistics, Lisbon, Portugal, 30 – 31 October 2014. “Variety of Languages or Variety of Dialects? George Y. Shevelov on the Sources of Standard Ukrainian”. Paper presented at the XXIII Internationales Kolloquium des “Studienkreises “Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft” (SGdS), Leuven, Belgium, 23 – 25 August 2012

"Historical memory in the “inter-regional” families of Ukraine in the times of crisis: Oral history and life-story perspective". Paper presented at the ASEEES Summer Convention, UCU, Lviv, Ukraine, 26–28 June 2016.

“Eastern Ukraine: unfinished identity and its consequences”. Paper presented at the conference "What's next for democractic capitalism? Social and Systemic problems of Central European Democracies", Warsaw, Poland, 7 – 8 November 2014.

“Ukrainian national identity in transformation. Debating language concerns”. Paper presented at the 48th Annual ASEEES Convention, Washington, the USA, 17 – 20 November 2016. Presentation on “Bounded Europeanisation’: the case of Ukraine”. Paper presented at the International Conference EURINT “The Eastern Partnership under strain – time for a rethink?”, Iasi, Romania, 20 – 21 May 2016. “Bounded Europeanisation”: the case of Ukraine”. Paper presented at the International conference “The EU and Its Eastern Neighbourhood: the Contradictions of Europeanisation and European Identities”, Portsmouth, England, 29 – 30 June 2015.

“Coming to terms with the past: the role of the church and political authorities in the sacralization of the ‘national liberation struggle’ in Western Ukraine since the 1990s”. Paper presented at the Public Religion, Ambient Faith: Religion and Socio-Political Change in the Black Sea Region. Region, Nation and Beyond Research Project, Kyiv, Ukraine, 9 September – 1 October 2016. “The Instrumentalization of History and Historical Memory in Foreign Policy of Russia and Ukraine since 2013”. Paper presented at the ASEEES-MAG Summer Convention ”Images of the Other”, Ukrainian Catholic University Lviv, Ukraine, 26 – 28 June 2016. “The Bandera Cult in Western Ukraine 1991-2015”. Paper presented at the International Conference “The Political Cult of the Dead in Ukraine: Traditions and Dimensions from Soviet Times to Today”, Munich University, BRD, 9 – 11 July 2015. “Nationalization of controversial historical memories in Ukraine from Yushchenko to Poroshenko”. Paper presented at the presented at the 2015 Annual Conference of the Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies “Memories and Identities in Central and Eastern Europe”, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 7 – 10 May 2015.

"National versus local identities". Paper presented at the summer school Współpraca polsko-ukraińska na rzecz pamięci lokalnej, Lavriv, Ukraine, 25 – 31 August 2014. "Are Ukrainians envious?" Paper presented at the public seminar at the Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine, 29 November 2017.

“Determinants of Student Academic Misconduct in Higher Education: Lessons from Ukraine”. Paper presented at the Southern Economic Association 86th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, the USA, 19 – 21 November 2016. “Informality or Corruption? The Case of Ukrainian firms”. Paper presented at the 7th International EBEEC Conference ‘The Economies of Balkan and Eastern Europe Countries in the changed world”, Kavala, Greece, May 2015. “Informal Practices of Doing Business in Ukraine”. Paper presented at the International Conference "Sociocultural, political, law and economic aspects of international development", Lviv, Ukraine, 17 – 18 April 2015. Ukraine: A Roundtable Discussion, jointly with Mark von Hagen and Vlad Lupan, Stanford University, the USA, 11 April 2014.

“Mapping Ukrainian Regionalism: Opportunities and Challenges of Cartographic Representations“. Paper presented at the conference “More than just Blue and Yellow: Region and Nation in Ukraine’s History“, Berlin, BRD, 17 – 18 June 2016. Two- or Three-dimensional Maps? New Forms of Visualisations of Cultural Heterogenity in Ukraine“. Paper presented at the conference “Von Phantomkarten zu realen Grenzen. Vergleich des postsowjetischen und des postjugoslawischen Kontexts“, Humbold University, Berlin, 10-11 March 2016.

"Region, Nation, and Beyond: Mapping Identity Shifts in the Aftermath of the Euromaidan”. Paper presented at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, the USA, 20 April 2017. “Goodbye, Lenin: Mapping Memory in Revolutionary Ukraine”. Presentation of the launch of the “History and Identity” module - the latest MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine project by Viktoriya Sereda, HURI MAPA Research Fellow, Serhii Plokhii, HURI Director and MAPA Faculty Director, Kostyantyn Bondarenko, MAPA Director and HURI IT Specialist. Presented at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, the USA, 22 March 2017. "(Re)mapping spaces of memory in Ukraine after the Euromaidan". Paper presented at the Seminar in Ukrainian Studies, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, the USA, 30 January 2016. "Transformation of Identities and Historical Memories in Ukraine after Euromaidan: National, Regional, Local Dimensions". Paper presented at the Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine, University of Ottawa, Canada, 10 – 12. November 2016. "Public Activism in Ukraine". Paper presented at the Participatory Practices in Urbanistic, Budgeting and Culture, City Institute, Lviv, Ukraine, 17 – 18 June 2016.

“Political cult of the fallen soldiers in Ukraine: from WWII to Maidan and war with Russia”. Public lecture presented at the University of Poznan, Poland, 31 March 2016. “Regional Diversity in the Commemoration of the Fallen Afghanistan Soldiers in Ukraine”. Paper presented at the conference “The Political Cult of the Dead in Ukraine: Traditions and Dimensions from Soviet Times to Today”, Munich, BRD, 9 – 11 July 2016. “Public History of the World War II in the Civic Education in the Post-Soviet Ukraine”. Paper presented at the conference “New Research on Memory in Eastern Europe (Ukraine and Belarus)”, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warszawa, Poland, 9 – 11 June 2016.

“Languages in Ukraine: A Sociolinguistic Analysis”. Paper presented at the workshop on Ukraine in Södertörns högskola, Stockholm, Sweden, 18 May 2015. “O dédalo da glossonímia ucraniana”. Paper presented at the II Meeting on Slavic Linguistics, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 30 October 2014. “The Sovietization of Ukrainian in the 1930s”. Paper presented at the Centenary Conference of Slavic Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands, 10 October 2013.

“Asserting the Right to Live and Die with Dignity: The Maidan Protests and their Aftermath”. Paper presented at the Conference on Bordering Religions in (Post-) Cold War Worlds. State Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia, 17 June 2016. “Mourning on the Maidan”. Keynote Address presented at the New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study, Religious Connections and Divisions in the Black Sea Region Workshop, Bucharest, Romania, 22 – 23 June 2015. “Splits and Schisms: Law and Orthodoxy in Russia and Ukraine”. Paper presented at the Symposium on Law and Religious Freedom, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton University, the USA, 18 May 2015. “War, Grief and Rage: Popular Commemorations of the Maidan”. Paper presented at the Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, the USA, 1 April 2015.

“The Proliferation of Borders in the Post-Soviet Space: The case of Ukraine and beyond”. Paper presented at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, BRD, 16 June 2016. “Rethinking ‘Borderlands’ in Ukrainian Studies: the rise and fall of a popular concept”. Paper presented at the conference “More than just Blue and Yellow: Region and Nation in Ukraine’s History”, Berlin, BRD, 17 – 18 June 2016. “Decommunization” and Street Renaming in (Eastern) Ukraine: From conflict to negotiation?". Paper presented at the conference “Democratic Transformation in Post-Conflict Societies: Path to Ensured Success? ”, Prague, Czech Republic, 26 –27 September 2016. "Memory in transition(s)". Paper presented at the conference “Contested Memories of the Difficult Past. Eastern Europe and its History of the 20th Century”, Kyiv, Ukraine, 30 September – 2 October 2016.