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The Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies presents:

Spring Conference The State of Ukrainian Studies: Who is Speaking About Ukraine?

Friday, May 5, 2023 9:00 am - 2:00 pm EST Hybrid event In person:  National Churchill Leadership Center Gelman Library | 2130 H St NW, Washington, DC 20052 Online: Zoom (link)

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The war on Ukraine has raised an old question: who is speaking about Ukraine in the world, especially in academia and policy circles? Interest in Ukraine and the growing number of Ukrainian scholars now in Western institutions have brought changes, but have hardly eliminated long existing disparities and the dominance of Russian studies, whose representatives often speak about Ukraine instead. Erroneous prognoses about the war before it started illustrate how little is known about Ukraine and how widespread and authoritative are narratives that mirror the Russian ones. Events on the battlefield have brought some shifts in the general perception of Ukraine, but despite the commitment to decolonize the ways the former Soviet countries are studied, institutional perspectives remain largely Russia-oriented. This conference, organized by Ukrainian Fellows at George Washington University's Petrach Program on Ukraine, will first seek to reverse the dominant narratives around Ukrainian democracy, and will then address the development of the Ukrainian Studies field, both within policy-oriented academic institutions like IERES and more broadly, exploring prospects for the field's future development as well as challenges and obstacles.  We hope you can join us for this rigorous and introspective discussion.

9:00 am - Opening Remarks

9:10 am - Panel I: Lessons for Democratic Resilience Beyond Ukraine

This panel will discuss what other democracies can learn from Ukraine, highlighting various sources of Ukraine's democratic resilience. Moderator: Oleksandr Fisun (in person), V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Oleksandra Keudel (in person), Kyiv School of Economics How Collaborative Governance Supports Resilience at the Local Level Yuriy Matsiyevsky (online), Ostroh Academy National University The Strength of Identity - an Underestimated Factor of Ukrainian Resilience Dmytro Iarovyi (online), Kyiv School of Economics and Vytautas Magnus University Tackling Disinformation in Ukraine Petro Burkovskyi (online), Democratic Initiatives Foundation Sources of Resilience in Zaporizhzhia and Mykolaiv Regions during the 2022 Summer Olena Rybiy (online), USAID/ENGAGE and ETH Zurich Coalescing Practices of Ukrainian CSOs During Wartime

10:40 am - Panel II: Advances and Impediments in Ukrainian Studies

This panel will consist of presentations of research on recent developments in the Ukrainian Studies field, followed by a discussion. Moderator: Emily Channell-Justice (online), Harvard University Oleksandra Gadai, American University Mapping Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar Studies in the World Svitlana Biedarieva, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center From Postcolonialism to Decolonization: Ukraine's Reimagining of East European Art History Roman Kalytchak (online), Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and University of Manitoba Ukraine-based Scholars and Ukrainian Studies Abroad: Two Worlds Apart? Antonina Berezovenko, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorski Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” Ukrainian Studies in Ukraine and the US: Development and Prospects of Expansion

12:00 pm - light lunch and coffee

12:30 pm - Panel III. Ukrainian Studies on the Offensive

This panel will engage in a roundtable discussion on the future of the field of Ukrainian Studies. Moderator: Henry Hale - Director of the Petrach Program on Ukraine Kateryna Ruban - Petrach Fellow at George Washington University The Wartime Relationship between Ukrainian and Russian Studies Volodymyr Kulyk - National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Ukrainian Studies and Decolonization Kateryna Smagliy - First Secretary, Embassy of Ukraine in the USA  What Ukraine Can Do for Ukrainian Studies Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak - Historian, researcher, activist, and Professor-emerita of history at Manhattanville College

This event is on record and open to the media.

The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University 1957 E Street, NW / Suite 412 / Washington, DC 20052 Tel (202) 994-6340 / Fax (202) 994-5436 / Email ieresgwu@gwu.edu

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