| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, January 27, 2012 | 4:00PM - 8:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
The Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES) at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce the fifth bi-annual Ukrainian Studies Graduate Student Symposium. The Symposium will be held on January 27-28, 2012 at CERES, the Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place. This year’s topic is “Ukraine in a Global Context,” which will bring a comparative perspective into focus. Continuing the tradition of this symposium, we invite young scholars from various disciplines to present their research and engage in discussion.
In 2011 Ukraine celebrates the 20th anniversary of its independence. This is a great occasion to consider changes that have occurred in the past few decades as well as where contemporary Ukraine stands in relation to Russia, other post-Soviet countries, the European Union, and the world. What has been achieved? How does Ukraine fit the international political and economic arena today? Have language and identity issues changed and, if so, how? What have been some of the international influences on the development of Ukrainian culture? Participants are invited to explore and elaborate on these and related questions.
Key note address: Serhy Yekelchyk (University of Victoria), “No Longer Between East and West”: Ukrainian Cultural History Meets Regional Studies”. This paper examines the newest trends in Ukrainian history writing. With the emergence of independent Ukraine old-fashioned debates about this country’s place between the “East” and “West” gave way to a more sophisticated understanding of the region as a cultural frontier. What is even more promising, in recent historical works there is a switch from the “national-history” perspective to that of the regional or local history, often benefitting from the use of microhistorical or cultural-anthropological approaches.
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