CAS 2006

Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Conference, 2006 York University, May 27-29, 2006

Saturday, May 27

12:00-1:00 Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Association of Ukrainian Ethnology, VH 3003

6:00 p.m. Reception and Buffet Dinner, The Underground Restaurant. Cost: $40 per person.

Sunday, May 28

1:00-3:00 p.m. Meeting of Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies, CLH-C

3:30-5:30 p.m. Annual General Meeting of CAS, CLH-C.

Monday, May 29

2:30-4:30 Joint session of Canadian Association of Slavists and Canadian Historic Association honoring Myron Momryk, Library and Archives Canada: “They Came to Canada for a Better Life”: Urban and Rural Experiences of Ukrainian- Canadians in the Interwar Period. Financial support provided by Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Abbreviations: VH – Vari Hall; CHL – Curtis Lecture Hall Saturday, May 27

I. 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

1. VH 3003 Research in Progress I (Canadian Association of Ukrainian Ethnology)

Chair: Natalie Kononenko, University of Alberta. Discussant: Radomir Bilash, University of Alberta. 1. Monica Kindraka-Jensen, Indiana University. How Gus Got Buried: The Role of Narratives in Shaping Ukrainian Canadian Family Identity. 2. Zenon Wasyliw, Ithaca College. Soviet Culture in the Ukrainian Village during NEP: 1921-1928. 3. Svitlana Kukharenko, University of Alberta. Searchable Sound Files online: Using Digital Technologies in Folklore Research.

2. VH 3004 Ukrainian-Canadian Experiences

Chair: Roman Shiyan, University of Alberta. 1. Paul Laverdure. Eternal Memory. Achiel Delaere and Canada’s Ukrainian Catholic Church. 2. Greg Borowetz, University of Alberta. Recorded Oral Folklore Genres in “Kalendar Kanadiiskoho Farmera.” 3. Viktoriya Topalova, University of British Columbia. Narratives of Memory and Identity in Ukrainian Canadian Women’s Life Writing.

3. VH 3005 Me, Myself and I: Multiple Forums of Identity Negotiation

Chair/Discussant: Tamara Trojanowska, University of Toronto. 1. Michal Kasprzak, University of Toronto. Identity Inc.: Haggling (for) Consumerist Identities amongst Interwar Polish-Americans. 2. Olga Ponichtera, University of Toronto. Matuga and/or/as Professor Emeritus: Marian Pankowski’s Adventures Revisited. 3. Gabriela Pawlus Kasprzak, University of Toronto. Baptizing the Nation: Religion as a Vehicle for Reclaiming National Identity in 1950s Poland.

4. CLH - C Explorations in Modernism I.

Chair: George Mihaychuk, Georgetown University. 1. Oleg Minin, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Political Syncretism and Artistic Synthesis in the Satirical Journals Zhupel and Adskaia Pochta, 1905-1906. 2. John Barnstead, Dalhousie University. Mikhail Kuzmin’s Ghazals and Kandinsky’s Der Blaue Reiter. 3. Magdalena Mot, McGill University. Remizov’s Posolon’ – Regaining a Lost Cyclicity.

12:00-1:00 Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Association of Ukrainian Ethnology, VH 3003

2 II. 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

1. VH 3003 Research in Progress II (Canadian Association of Ukrainian Ethnology)

Chair: Radomir Bilash, University of Alberta. Discussant: Andrij Makuch. 1. Lessia Petriv, Alberta Community Development. Historic Gardens Take Root. 2. Karen Gabert, Carleton University. Locating Identity: Contexts and Trends in the Early Years of the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village. 3. Irene Jendzjowsky, Provincial Archives of Alberta. A Portrait of a Community in the Future, or What Will People Think?

2. VH 3004 Revisiting ’s Cities, Part I

Chair: Taras Koznarsky, University of Toronto. 1. Anna Makolkin, University of Toronto. Festival of Romanness, Italianness, and Europeanness in Slavic Odessa. 2. Mykola Soroka, University of Toronto. The Rocking Cradle: Kyiv in Russian and Ukrainian Émigré Letters, 1920-1939.

3. VH 3005 Napoleon and Poland: the Bicentenary of Napoleon’s Entrance into Poland

Chair: John McErlean, York University. Discussant: Piotr Wrobel, University of Toronto. 1. Benoit Roger, L’Universite de Paris (Pantheon-Sorbonne). Entre Dresde et Varsovie: le duel des diplomats français, 1807-1809. 2. John Stanley. The Culture of the Duchy of Warsaw. 3. Katarzyna Rozanska, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. The Depiction of Napoleon in the Poetry of the Duchy of Warsaw. 4. Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska, University of Lódz. The Apotheosis of Napoleon in the National Theatre, Warsaw (1807).

4. CLH - C Explorations in Modernism II.

Chair: John Barnstead, Dalhousie University. 1. Mykola Polyuha, University of Western Ontario. On the East-West Crossroads: Filling Gaps in Modernist Studies. 2. Natalia Tukhareli, CERES, University of Toronto. The Image of Memory in the Prose of Vladimir Nabokov. 3. Nino Amiranashvili, University of Waterloo. Boris Pasternak’s Georgian Translations.

3 III. 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

1. VH 3003 Research in Progress III (Canadian Association of Ukrainian Ethnology)

Chair: Andrij Makuch, University of Toronto. Discussant: Natalie Kononenko, University of Alberta. 1. Steve Prystupa. Pop Goes the Culture: A Preliminary Overview and Conceptualization of Ukrainian Canadian Popular Culture. 2. Orysia Tracz, University of Manitoba. Talking to Dead People: Conversations with the Departed in Ukrainian Folk Songs. 3. Joan Margel. A Rycroft Babka’s View.

2. VH 3004 Revisiting Ukraine’s Cities, Part II

Chair: TBA. 1. Olga Andriewsky, Trent University. Imagining the “Mother of All Russian Cities”: The Construction of Kyiv and the Russian Nation-Building Project in the 19th c. 2. Taras Koznarsky, University of Toronto. Urbi et Orbi: Shaping the Kyivan Text in the 20th c.

3. VH 3005 Other Modernities: Lost in the 20th Century?

Chair: Oleg Minin, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. 1. George Mihaychuk, Georgetown University. Semenko’s Pierrot: A Futurist Project. 2. Zina Gimpelevich, University of Waterloo. Legacy of Valentin Innokentievich Annenskii (Krivich). 3. Arthur Płaczkiewicz, University of Toronto. Constant Recontextualizations of Miron Białoszewski.

4. CLH - C Cultural Products: Center and Peripheries

Chair: Mykola Polyuha, University of Western Ontario. 1. Patryk Reid, Carleton University. “Stalin’s Favorite” and “the Lenin of the Uzbeks”: Joining and Mediating the Bolshevik Revolution in Central Asia. 2. Violetta Gudkova, Moscow State Research Institute for Art Studies. Typology of Russian Dramaturgy in the 1920s and the Birth of “Soviet Plots.” 3. Roman Shiyan, University of Alberta. The “Cultural Hero” of Ukrainian Legend.

6:00 p.m. Reception and Buffet Dinner, The Underground Restaurant. Cost: $40 per person.

4 Sunday, May 28

I. 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

1. VH 3003 Research in Progress IV (Canadian Association of Ukrainian Ethnology)

Chair: Irene Jendzjowsky, Provincial Archives of Alberta. Discussant: Steve Prystupa. 1. Stefan Sokolowski, University of Alberta. The Only Place to Go: The Hilliard Pool Hall, 1925-1960. 2. Gord Yaremchuk, University of Alberta. Preservation of Ukrainian Culture in Alberta Public Schools. 3. David Makowsky. The Provincial Tax Man in 1920s East Central Alberta: A Study of Municipal Districts.

2. VH 3004 New Approaches to Dostoevsky and Tolstoy

Chair: Andrew Donskov, University of Ottawa. Discussant: Taras Koznarsky, University of Toronto. 1. Lonny Harrison, University of Toronto. “Khoroshii ton” in 1840s Petersburg: Dostoevsky’s chinovniki and the Problem of Social Conformity. 2. Arkadi Klioutchanski, University of Ottawa/University of Toronto. Tolstoy’s Rational Path to His “Spiritual Crisis” (1870s). 3. Timothy Ormond, University of Toronto. Sergei Bondarchuk’s Adaptation of “War and Peace.”

3. VH 3005 Library Studies

Chair: Sonia Pritchard, University of Ottawa. 1. Hope Olson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Gust Olson (co-presenters). Constructed Discourses in Soviet/Russian Classification. 2. Keren Dali, University of Toronto; Juris Dilevko, University of Toronto. Smoothing the Transition: Retraining Centres for East European Immigrant Librarians in Canada.

4. CLH - C Politics and Language: Manipulation, Democracy, and Eros

Chair: Roman Senkus, CIUS. 1. Valerii Polkovsky, University of Alberta. The Language of the Presidential Campaign in Ukraine. 2. Maryna Romanets, University of Northern British Columbia. Ukrainian Political Unconscious: The Hero, the Phallus, and the Castrating Female. 3. Magda Stroinska, McMaster University. Parasitic Speech Acts and Polish Populist Rhetoric: from Solidarity to Self-Defence.

5 II. 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

1. VH 3003 Explorations in Linguistics

Chair: Gust Olson. 1. Alena Sourkova, Belarussian State University (Minsk). Concept of “Knowledge” in Old Slavic Linguistic Epistemology. 2. Sonia Pritchard, University of Ottawa. Acoustic Cue Weighting in Bulgarian Vowel-Liquid Metathesis. 3. Joanna Lustanski, McMaster University. Languages in Contact: Polish Dialect in Canada.

2. VH 3004 Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature and Society

Chair: Donna Tussing Orwin, University of Toronto. Discussant: Arkadi Klioutchanski, University of Ottawa, University of Toronto. 1. Mark Conliffe, Willamette University. A Wishful Man, or a Conscience of His Time? Korolenko’s Social and Literary Criticism. 2. Inna Ishchenko Tigountsova, University of Victoria. Tsars and Prophets, or Tales of Pushkin, Gogol’, and Dostoevsky. 3. Rolf Hellebust, University of Calgary. The Journey to the Underworld in Turgenev’s “Bezhin Meadow.”

3. VH 3005 Belarusan Culture

Chair: Robert Karpiak, University of Waterloo. 1. Ivonka Survilla, Belarusan Institute of Arts and Sciences, Canada. Belarusan Post-Chernobyl Visual Art. 2. Zina Gimpelevich, University of Waterloo. Vasil Bykaŭ: The Wolves’ Pit. 3. Maria Survilla, Wartburg College. Miniatures of Sound, Vision, and Meaning: the Power of Musical Sound-Bytes on Radio Svaboda.

4. CLH - C Meeting of Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies

III. 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

CLH - C Annual General Meeting, CAS 2006

6 Monday, May 29

I. 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

1. VH 3003 Histories of the Other I

Chair: Guy Lalande, St. Francis Xavier University. 1. Anna Vorobyova, Simon Frazer University. Role of the ‘Other’ in Constituting Post-Communist National Identity: Comparative Study of Ukraine and Estonia. 2. Lisa Greenspoon, Carleton University. The Role of the Host Society in Affecting Integration: the Case of St.Petersburg Afghans. 3. Natalia Koutovenko, Dalhousie University. Theodore Shumsky: Linguist, Poet, Citizen of the World.

2. VH 3004 An Alternative Vision of Ukrainian-Canadian Writers

Chair: Maxim Tarnawsky, University of Toronto; Discussant: TBA 1. Walter Smyrniw, McMaster University. Krat’s Reception of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. 2. Jars Balan, University of Alberta. A Theatrical Rebel with a Cause: Myroslaw Irchan’s Contribution to the Ukrainian-Canadian Stage. 3. Lindy Ledohowski, University of Toronto. Andrew Suknaski: Prairie Boy Turned Ukie.

3. VH 3005 At the Crossroads of Literature, Spirituality, and Education

Chair: Arkadi Klioutchanski, University of Ottawa, University of Toronto. 1. Baktygul Aliev, McGill University. Leo Tolstoy, Critical Thinking, and the Tendency of One Man to Make Another Just Like Himself. 2. John Woodsworth, University of Ottawa. Links across Space and Time: The Life and Works of Leo Tolstoy, Mary Baker Eddy and Vladimir Megre. 3. Jeanette Rohr, University of Waterloo. An Analysis of the Protagonist in Dostoevsky’s Dvoinik.

4. CLH - C Nation, State, Society: Post-Soviet Realities in Russia and Ukraine

Chair: TBA; Discussant: TBA 1. Andrea Chandler, Carleton University. Nationalism and Social Welfare in Russia. 2. Anastasiya Salnykova, Simon Frazer University. Ukraine’s Middle Class: A Democracy Protector? 3. Bohdan Harasymiw, University of Calgary. Ukraine’s 2006 Parliamentary Elections in Dynamic Perspective. 4. Evguenia Lenkevitch, Simon Fraser University. Political Parties in Post-Soviet Russia: Challenge of Pluralism in a Weak Multiparty System.

7 II. 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

1. VH 3003 Histories of the Other II

Chair: Magda Stroinska, McMaster University. 1. Olga Velikanova, Dalhousie University. Soviet Patriotism in the Mirror of the War Scare of 1927. 2. Youngok, Kang-Bohr, University of Winnipeg. The Town of Kalach: Rural Witness of the Stalinist Purges, 1934-1939. 3. Maciej Karpinski, Carleton University. “You Are Either With Us or against Us”: the Struggle of Polish Identity During the Jedwabne Affair. 4. Guy Lalande, St. Francis Xavier University. The Finno-Soviet War of 1939-1940 as Commented in Canadian Newspapers.

2. VH 3004 The Devil in Ukrainian Literature

Chair: Natalie Kononenko, University of Alberta. 1. Natalia Pylypiuk, University of Alberta. Hryhorii Skovoroda’s Arguments with Satan. 2. Oleh Ilnytzkyj, University of Alberta. Nikolai Gogol’s Ukrainian Devils. 3. Svitlana Pavlunik, University of Alberta. Oleksa Storozhenko’s Devil in Love.

3. VH 3005 New Perspectives on Bosnia

Chair: Valerii Polkovsky, University of Alberta. 1. Sava Bosnitch, University of New Brunswick. A Sample of US War during the 1992-1995 Hostilities in Bosnia- Herzegovina. 2. Gordana Bozic. Has Civil Society Lost Legitimacy Among Youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina?

4. CLH - C State and Society in the Stalinist 1940s: New Archival Research

Chair: Heather DeHaan, SUNY; Discussant: Tracy McDonald, McMaster University. 1. Bell Wilson, University of Toronto. Prisoners in the City: Western Siberia and the ’s Porous Borders. 2. Lauren Kaminsky, New York University. The State of Unions in the , 1940-1947. 3. Steven Maddox, University of Toronto. Restoring Imperial Petersburg Architecture following the Blockade of Leningrad, 1944-1949.

8 III. 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

1. VH 3003 History and Culture of Muscovy

Chair: Frank Sysyn, CIUS, Edmonton-Toronto. 1. Sergey Lobachev, University of Toronto. On Separation from the Muscovite State: the City of Pskov in the Time of Troubles. 2. Robert Karpiak, University of Waterloo. Visions of Old Muscovy in German Baroque Opera: Johann Mattheson’s Boris Goudenow (1710). 3. Sergey Tyulenev, University of Ottawa. Peter the Great’s Reforms and the Repertoire of Translations. 4. Maryna Kravets, University of Toronto. “And in Non-Christian Captivity Suffered I for Many Years…”: In Search of the Muslim Captivity Narrative from Eastern Europe.

2. VH 3004 Shaping Contemporary Ukrainian Literature

Chair/Discussant: Maxim Tarnawsky, University of Toronto. 1. Anna Chukur, University of Toronto. Creating Memory. 2. Luba Shmygol, University of Toronto. Constructing the Self – Deconstructing the Others. 3. Oksana Tatsiak, University of Toronto. Strategies of Constructing Otherness in Oksana Zabuzhko’s Prose.

3. VH 3005 “They Came to Canada for a Better Life”: Urban and Rural Experiences of Ukrainian- Canadians in the Interwar Period. Joint session of Canadian Association of Slavists and Canadian Historic Association honoring Myron Momryk, Library and Archives Canada. Financial support provided by Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Chair: S. Holyk Hunchuck; Discussant: Myron Momryk, Library and Archives Canada. 1. Andrij Makuch, University of Toronto. The Ukrainian People’s Home in Toronto. 2. Orest Martynowych, University of Manitoba. “Old World Grievances Echoed on this Side of the Ocean”: Conservative and Integral Nationalist Movements Among Ukrainian Canadians, 1924-1940. 3. Stacey Zembrzycki, Carleton University. “Each Child Had a Job”: Exploring Childhood Memories of Working-Class Ukrainians in the Depression Era.

4. CLH - C On Cultural Crossroads

Chair/Discussant: TBA. 1. Hanna Chuchvala, University of Alberta. Nikolai Gogol and Adam Mickiewicz: Two Portraits against Imperial Backgrounds. 2. Natalia Aponiuk, University of Manitoba and John Lehr, University of Winnipeg. The Commemoration of Gogol in Ukraine. 3. Romana Bahry, York University. The Portrayal of Religious Symbols in Early Soviet Communist Films: Eisenstein, Vertov, Dovzhenko.

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