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KYIV, UKRAINE 2018 Everyday Diplomacy: UNE Religious 16 J 4 Encounters 1 from the Baltics to the Black Sea THE WORKING GROUP ON RELIGION IN THE BLACK SEA REGION FIFTH ANNUAL WORKSHOP ANNUAL FIFTH The Working Group on Religion in the Black Sea Region Fifth Annual Workshop Everyday Diplomacy: Religious Encounters from the Baltics to the Black Sea 14 – 16 June 2018 Kyiv, Ukraine Convenor: Catherine Wanner Organizers: Tetiana Kalenychenko, Iuliia Buyskykh Organizing Committee: Olena Bogdan, Oleg Kyselov, Denis Brylov This workshop is made possible thanks to support from the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe of University of St. Gallen. 4 5 DAY 1 DAY 2 Arrival at the Hotel Mackintosh 10.00 Keynote Lecture by Magnus Marsden Khoryva street, 49-A University of Sussex, Great Britain Diplomacy and Civility: Trust and dissimulation 17.00 Roundtable discussion 11.00 in transnational Afghan trading networks Religion as a Source of Conflict and Means 19.00 of Reconciliation Venue: Freud House Kostyantynivska street, 21, second floor Venue: Museum of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Grygoryia Skovorody street, 2, Kontraktova square The lecture will explore the relationship between civility Moderator: Tetiana Kalenychenko and diplomacy in the transnational commercial activities National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Ukraine of traders from Afghanistan. The commodity traders on which the lecture focuses – most of whom are involved Speakers: Viktor Yelensky in the export and wholesale of commodities made National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Ukraine in China - form long-distance networks that criss- cross multiple parts of Asia and are rooted in multiple Liudmyla Fylypovych Skovoroda Philosophy Institute, Ukraine trading nodes across the region, including the Chinese commercial city of Yiwu, Moscow, and Odessa. Much Olena Bogdan scholarship associates both diplomacy and civility National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine with impression management and dissimulation and therefore identifies such modes of behavior as being Tornike Metreveli inimical to the fashioning of enduring ties of trust. University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Analysis of ethnographic material concerning the traders’ Nikolai Mitrokhin understandings of being diplomatic as well as the ways Research Center for East-European Studies at in which they seek to conform to contested local notions the University of Bremen, Germany of civility, however, furnishes unique insights into the ways in which they build the social relationships and ties Mykhailo Cherenkov of trust on which their commercial activities depend. Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine By exploring the interrelationship between civility and Sergiy Tymchenko diplomacy, I aim to move anthropological debate beyond National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Ukraine the question of whether civility is either a form of artifice premised on performance or a deeper ethical virtue Denis Brylov in and of itself. It suggests, rather, the extent to which 15.06.2018 FRIDAY, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Ukraine ambiguity, ambivalence, contradiction, and imperfection 19.30 Dinner in Hotel Mackintosh are an inbuilt aspect of the ways in which respect is Khoryva street, 49-A communicated and evaluated, and ties of trust fashioned and maintained. THURSDAY, 14.06.2018 THURSDAY, 6 7 DAY 2 DAY 2 10.45 Panel II. From Lived Religion to New Religious Movements Discussion 11.15 Venue: Freud House Moderator: Catherine Wanner Kostyantynivska street, 21, second floor The Pennsylvania State University, USA Chair and Oleg Kyselov Moderator: 11.15 National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Ukraine Coffee-break 15.00 Aušra Kairaitytė-Užupė 11.30 Centre for Cultural Studies, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania Panel I. Overlapping Sovereignties and Identities: Popular Religion and the Religious Identity in The Ethics of Immediacy After Violence 16.00 Ethnographic Lithuanian Regions Discussant: Catherine Wanner Chair and Iuliia Buyskykh The Pennsylvania State University Moderator: Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Ukraine 16.00 Elena Ostrovskaya 11.30 Ketevan Gurchiani Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia Ilia State University, Georgia Diplomacy of Transborders: Post-Soviet Performing peace in a multi-ethnic and 17.00 Observant Jewry 12.30 multi-religious village in Georgia Discussant: Nikolai Mitrokhin Discussant: Tsypylma Darieva Research Center for East-European Studies, Centre for East European and International Studies, the University of Bremen, Germany Germany 17.00 Mariya Lesiv 12.30 Tornike Metreveli Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Crossing Boundaries: Everyday Diplomacy and The Bishop’s Gambit: Contrasting Visibility 18.00 Krishna Consciousness Continuum in Ukraine 13.30 of Orthodox Churches in Serbia and Georgia Discussant: Olena Bogdan Discussant: Jens Adam National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany 19.00 Dinner at restaurant “Khinkal’nya” Nyzhniy Val street, 19/21 15.06.2018 FRIDAY, 13.30 Lunch at restaurant “Silvio” Nyzniy Val street, 23 15.00 FRIDAY, 15.06.2018 FRIDAY, 8 9 DAY 3 DAY 3 Panel I. Religion and Memory: Looking for Identities, Panel II. Muslim Communities in Post-Socialist Europe Forging Continuities with the Past Venue: Freud House Venue: Freud House Kostyantynivska street, 21, second floor Kostyantynivska street, 21, second floor Chair and Olena Soboleva Chair and Julia Korniychuk Moderator: Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Ukraine Moderator: National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Ukraine 15.00 Konrad Pędziwiatr 10.00 Kathryn David Cracow University of Economics and Centre for New York University, USA Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland Burying the dead, Resurrecting the Nation: Muslims in Poland in the Era of Civilizationism 11.00 Panakhydy in Nazi-Occupied Galicia 16.00 and Unprecedented Politisation of Islam Discussant: Kateryna Budz Discussant: Oleg Yarosh Independent Researcher, Ukraine Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine 11.00 Yulia Yurchuk 16.00 Giuseppe Tateo Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany Religious Encounters in the Formation of Bless to Spoil: Preventing Mosque Construction 12.00 Commemorative Culture in Ukraine 17.00 through Ritual Practice in Bucharest, Romania Discussant: Olena Panych Discussant: Denis Brylov National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Ukraine National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Ukraine 12.00 17.00 Coffee Break 12.15 Discussion of Publication Plans 17.30 12.15 Jeanne Kormina National Research University Higher School of 19.00 Dinner at restaurant “Za dvoma zaycami” Economics, Russia Andriyivski Uzviz street, 34 Ancestors and the Ghosts: The Soviet Past in Russian Religious Imagination in the Post-Truth Questions? Tetiana, coordinator, +380967717001 16.06.2018 SATURDAY, 13.15 Era [email protected] Discussant: Bruce Grant New York University, USA 13.15 Lunch at restaurant “Silvio” Nyzniy Val street, 23 14.30 SATURDAY, 16.06.2018 SATURDAY, 10 11 PARTICIPANTS PARTICIPANTS doctoral thesis on the clandestine Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (speakers, discussants, moderators) in Soviet Galicia. In 2012-2013, Budz was a Fellow at the New Europe College (Bucharest, Romania). In 2014, she pursued her research as an exchange student at the Centre for European, JENS ADAM teaches at the Institute for European Ethnology at Russian and Eurasian Studies (Toronto, Canada), and in 2015 Humboldt-University in Berlin. His research interests include political she was a DAAD Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social violence, urban anthropology and public policy. For his most recent Anthropology (Halle/Saale, Germany). book, he conducted fieldwork in Berlin, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Sarajevo to study the German Foreign Office’s initiatives of IULIIA BUYSKYKH received her PhD in Ethnology from the “conflict prevention via culture.“ He is currently conducting research History Department at the Taras Shevchenko National University on configurations of statehood and processes of Europeanization in of Kyiv. In 2014/2015 she was affiliated with the Department of Western Ukraine, taking Ann Stoler’s notion of „imperial debris” as Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw, an ethnographic starting point. Poland. In 2015/2016 she was a research fellow at the V4EaP Scholarship Program supported by the Visegrad Fund at the DENIS BRYLOV is an Associate Professor at National University of Warsaw. She has conducted field research in Poland Pedagogical Dragomanov University (Kyiv, Ukraine). He received his since 2015, focusing on religious culture in borderlands localities. Ph.D. in Religious Studies (2011) and MA in Psychology (2003). His Since September 2016 she has been at the Research Institute of main research focus is on Islamic studies, Islamic education, Islam Ukrainian Studies, Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2017 she was a visiting fellow in and politics, Islamic history and the transnational Sufi movement. Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin. Her current research interests include religion in post-Soviet space, neighborhood relationships, OLENA BOGDAN is an Associate Professor (Docent) of memory and border studies. Sociology at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology at the Sociology MYKHAILO CHERENKOV is a Professor at the Ukrainian Department of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. She has participated