Program
Contemporary Ukrainian Culture: The European and Global Context(as at 17 November, 2005)
Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University, Clayton Campus
Thursday 24 November 2005
Registration 9.00 9.30
Session I 9.30 10.30
Chair: Natalie Doyle
Olga
Bilotska (La Trobe University)
"The EU Assistance
for Strengthening Democracy and Building Civil Society in Ukraine"
Natalia Chaban, Vlad Vernygora (University of Canterbury,
New Zealand)
"Terra incognita: Is There a Future
for Ukraine New Zealand Relations?"
Session II 11.00 12.30
Chair: Marko Pavlyshyn
Opening: Professor Richard Larkins AO, Vice-Chancellor, Monash University
Maria Zubrytska (L'viv National University)
"Between
Scylla and Charybdis: Prospects and Challenges for Ukrainian Culture
in the Current Global Context"
Lunch 12.30 1.30
Session III 1.30 3.00
Chair: Paul Babie
Lesa Morgan (University
of Notre Dame, Western Australia), Bohdan Warchomij (Perth)
"Yushchenko's Elegant Orange Revolution"
Bohdan Klid (University of Alberta, Canada)
"Rock,
Pop and Politics in the 2004 Ukrainian Presidential Elections and
Orange Revolution"
Peter Barrer (Monash University)
"'It's World-Famous Here, But Not Elsewhere':
Surveying Opinions Concerning Slovak Popular Culture"
Session IV 3.20 4.50
Chair: Valentyna Shapiro
Lesya Medvedyeva (Ukrainian Academy of the Arts, Kyiv)
"The Transformation of Contemporary Ukrainian Culture and
the Challenges of Globalisation" (Transformatsiia suchasnoi
ukrains'koi kul'tury v umovakh globalizatsiinykh vyklykiv)
Bohdan Mykytiuk (Perth)
"Ukrainian Independence
, the Orange Revolution and Educating Diaspora Ukrainians"
Robyn Curnow (Monash University)
"Looking
back on 'Makulatura': Recycling Contemporary Culture"
Friday 25 November
Session V 9.15 10.15
Chair: Bohdan Klid
Lesa Morgan (University
of Notre Dame, Western Australia)
"The Holodomor:
Contemporary Ukrainian Perspectives on Preserving the Memories"
Paul Babie (University of Adelaide)
"The
Ukrainian Catholic Church and Moral Theology: The Thought of Metropolitan
Andrei Sheptyts'kyi on Private Property"
Session VI 10.35 12.05
Chair: Serhy Yekelchyk
Peter Sawczak (Monash
University)
"Whose Hohol, and Who Cares? The Case
Against Literary Possessiveness"
Valentyna
Shapiro (Monash University)
"Place and Identity in
Cultural Perspective: Death Personified in Ol'ha Kobylians'ka's
On Sunday Morning She Dug for Pearls (1908)"
Sonia Mycak (University of Sydney)
"Theorising
Multicultural Literary Production: The Ukrainian-Australian Literary
Field"
Excursion to Melbourne
City Centre 12.15 ff.
Booking
required
Saturday 26 November
Session VII 9.30 11.00
Chair: Alla Nedashkivska
Oksana King (University of Melbourne)
"Tertiary
Foreign Language Education in Ukraine"
Halyna
Koscharsky and Geoffrey Hull (Macquarie University)
"The
Vocabulary of Standard Ukrainian: Ideals and Realities"
Jonathan Clarke (Monash University , University of Melbourne)
"Anna Shymkiw's English-Ukrainian Dictionary of Economic
Terms: Popular or High Culture?"
Session VIII 11.20 12.20
Chair: Halyna Koscharsky
Maksym Strikha (Open
Politics Institute, Kyiv)
"Cultural Policy in Independent
Ukraine: 1991-2005"
Lunch 12.20 1.20
Session IX 1.20 2.50
Chair: Peter Sawczak
Johann Arnason (Monash
University)
"Europe's Eastern Borders: Historical
and Theoretical Reflections"
Serhy Yekelchyk
(University of Victoria, Canada)
"Writing the History
of Ukrainian Culture Before, Under, and After Communism"
Marko Pavlyshyn (Monash University)
"Popular
Culture and Contemporary Ukrainian Identities: Some Observations"
Session X 3.10 4.10
Chair: Jonathan Clarke
Alla
Nedashkivska (University of Alberta, Canada)
"Democracy
in the Language of Media in Contemporary Ukraine"
Ludmilla A'Beckett (Monash University)
"Velvet
Gloves of the Russian Mass Media: Covert Denunciation of Political
Events in Ukraine"
Session XI 4.30 5.30
Round Table: "The OrangeRevolution After Twelve Months"
Moderator: Marko Pavlyshyn
Participants:
Maria Zubrytska (L'viv National
University )
Maksym Strikha (Open Politics Institute,
Kyiv)
Stefan Romaniw (Australian Federation of Ukrainian
Organisations)
Conference Dinner 7.00 ff
The Kingston, 55 Highett
Street, Richmond
Prepayment
essential