| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, November 8, 2012 | 1:00PM - 4:30PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
Heritage. Homeland. Diaspora. The analytic tools of transnational and migration studies may help us understand these terms, but the question remains: How do we define what is ours, and what is theirs? This roundtable will address questions of heritage in the context of post-Soviet Eastern Europe. The massive violence of the 20th century resulted in demographic changes creating far-flung diaspora communities preserving and contesting the heritage from home. Who has the authority to define heritage? How do diaspora groups function within larger post-Soviet communities? How does heritage intersect with history? What are the political and social challenges of creating and contesting heritage in practice?
Participating in the roundtable will be scholars and practitioners of heritage: Dr. Sofia Dyak, Academic Director of the Center for Urban History (Ukraine) speaking on “competing” diasporas in Lviv; Alti Rodal, Co-Director of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Initiative (Ottawa), on the challenges of heritage in practice with multiple communities; Dr. Adriana Helbig, University of Pittsburgh, on transnational exchange creating a new “heritage” in Ukraine; and Gabriela Kasprzak, University of Toronto, on nationalism and religion in Canadian Polonia. Following the presentations we will have questions by discussant Dr. Mayhill Fowler, Petro Jacyk Postdoctoral Fellow, and then open the floor to the audience.
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