Class Presentations will be scheduled for most classes other than the first and the last. Each week particular students are responsible for summarizing one of the required readings for that week and initiating class discussion of it. Each student will end up making 3 or 4 presentations in the course of the semester. Your presentation should be very brief (5 minutes) and should focus on the issues raised by the reading rather than the facts it presents. You will be graded on your understanding of the issues and your ability to formulate points for discussion. Everyone in the class is required to read all of the selections each week (except where there are more than 3, in which case you must read the first two and any one of the remaining) and to participate in the discussion. Failure to participate lowers your grade. Absence from any class in the semester will be penalized unless properly justified.
This schedule repeats the assigned readings and lists the students responsible for class presentations on that day. If you need contact information for your fellow-presenter, email the instructor.
This is the schedule for the Spring 2011 course.
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| Jan | 11
| No Presentation
| Introduction.
What is culture?
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Laada Bilaniuk. Contested Tongues. Chapter 1 pp. 13–35. |
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| No Presentation
| Language 1
Laada Bilaniuk. Contested Tongues. Chapter 1 pp. 13–35; and Chapter 2 pp. 37–70. |
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Cassian Horoszczak
| Language 2
Laada Bilaniuk. Contested Tongues. Chapter 3 pp. 71–102.
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Rick Persich
| Language 3.
Surzhyk
Laada Bilaniuk. Contested Tongues. Chapter 4 pp. 103–141.
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1. Oleksandr Udovyk
2. Nykola Blozowski
| Language 4. Standards
1. Laada Bilaniuk. Contested Tongues. Chapter 5 pp. 143–172.
2. Serhii Vakulenko. "The European Dimension Within the Current Controversy over the Ukrainian Language Standard", in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 297–315.
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1. Andrew Kowal
2. David Szlachtycz
| Language 5. Tension
1. Laada Bilaniuk. Contested Tongues. Chapter 6 pp. 173–193.
2. Michael Moser. "Colonial Linguistic Reflexes in a Post-Soviet Setting" in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 316–335.
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| Feb | 1
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1. Tatiana Bendz
2. Nykola Blozowski
| History 1
1. Andrew Wilson. The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation. Chapters 1 and
2. pp. 1–39.
2. Oxana Pachlovska. "Finis Europae: Contemporary Ukraine's
Conflicting Inheritances from the Humanistic 'West' and the Byzantine 'East'
(A Triptych)" in Contemporary
Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 40–68.
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1. Cassian Horoszczak
2. Pawel Stech
| History 2
1. Andrew Wilson. The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation. Chapters 3 and
4. pp. 40–71.
2. Mykola Riabchuk. "Cultural Fault Lines and Political Divisions:
The Legacy of History in Contemporary Ukraine" in Contemporary Ukraine
on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 18–28.
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1. Sofiya Firman
2. Serg Litvinov
| History 3
1. Andrew Wilson. The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation. Chapters 5 and
6. pp. 72–118.
2. Roman Szporluk. "The Western Dimension of the Making of Modern
Ukraine" in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe,
pp. 3–17.
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Marta Tryshak
| History 4
Andrew Wilson. The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation. Chapter 7. pp. 119–151.
Assignment 1 due.
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1. assimilated
2. Pawel Stech
3. Rick Persich
| Religion 1
1. Andrew Wilson. The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation. Chapter 11.
pp. 234–252.
2. Senyk, Sophia. "The
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Today: Universal Values versus Nationalist
Doctrines." Religion, state & society 30.4 (2002):317-332.
3. Borys Gudziak. "Ukrainian Religious Life During the First Five Years of
Independence." Towards a New Ukraine II. Meeting the
Next Century. Proceedings of a Conference held on October 2-3, 1998 at
the University of Ottawa. Theofil Kis, Irena Makaryk, Roman Weretelnyk,
eds. Ottawa, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa, 1999.
DK508.846 .T6823 1999. pp. 49–72.
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1. Stefan Pawluk
2. assimilated
3. David Szlachtycz
| Religion 2
1. Andrew Sorokowski. "The Status of Religion in Ukraine in Relation to European Standards" in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 69–88.
2. Yurash, Andrij. "Orthodox-Greek Catholic Relations in Galicia and Their Influence on the Religious Situation in Ukraine." Religion, state & society 33.3 (2005):185-205.
3. Lyubashchenko, Viktoriya. "Protestantism in Ukraine: Achievements and Losses." Religion, state & society 38.3 (2010):265-289.
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| | 24 | No Class. Reading week
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| Mar | 1
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1. Andrew Kowal
2. Oleksandr Udovyk
3. Mark Tymczyszyn
4. Serg Litvinov
| Regions
1. Andrew Wilson. The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation. Chapter 10.
pp. 207–233.
2. Malanchuk, Oksana. "Social
Identification versus Regionalism in Contemporary Ukraine." Nationalities
papers 33.3 (2005):345-368.
3. Shulman, Stephen. Cultural
comparisons and their consequences for nationhood in Ukraine. Communist
and post-communist studies 39.2 (2006):247-263.
4. Grigory Nemiria. "Regionalism:
An Underestimated Dimension of State-Building" in Ukraine:
The Search for a National Identity, eds. Sharon Wolchik and Volodymyr
Zviglyanich. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. pp. 183–197.
DK508.846 .U377 2000X
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1. Amy Stupavsky
2. David Szlachtycz
3. Rick Persich
4. Marta Ogrodnik
5. Stefan Pawluk
| Nations
1. Taras Kuzio. "The Rusyn Question
in Ukraine: Sorting Out Fact from Fiction," Canadian Review
of Studies in Nationalism, vol.32, nos.1-2 (December 2005).
2. Janusz Bugajski. "Ethnic
Relations and Regional Problems in Independent Ukraine." in Ukraine:
The Search for a National Identity, eds. Sharon Wolchik and Volodymyr
Zviglyanich. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. pp. 165–182.
DK508.846 .U377 2000X
3. Rudling, Per Anders. "Organized
Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Ukraine: Structure, Influence and Ideology:
structure, influence and ideology" Canadian Slavonic papers XLVIII.1-2
(2006):81-118.or here.
4. Burakovskiy, Aleksandr. "Key
characteristics and transformation of Jewish-Ukrainian relations during
the period of Ukraine's independence: 1991-2008." Nationalism & ethnic
politics 15.1 (2009):109-132.
5. Burds, Jeffrey. "Ethnic
Conflict and Minority Refugee Flight from Post-Soviet Ukraine, 1991-2001." The
International Journal of Human Rights 12.5 (2008):689-723.
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1. David Szlachtycz
2. Sofiya Firman
3. Pawel Stech
| Education
1. Catherine Wanner. "Myths, Legends and the Uses of History in Schools" (Chapter 5) in Burden of Dreams: History, Memory, and the Making of National Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1996. pp. 154–206 (163–213 of the pdf file, note problem in page numbering at pdf page 162).
2. Tetyana Koshmanova. "National Identity and Cultural
Coherence in Educational Reform for Democratic Citizenship: The Case of Ukraine", Education, Citizenship and Social Justice. 2006; 1: 105-118. or here
3. Round, John. "The Problems of Corruption in Post-Soviet Ukraine's Higher Education Sector." International journal of sociology 39.2 (2009):80-95.
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1. Marta Ogrodnik
2. __________________
3. Marta Tryshak
| Gender
1. Marian J. Rubchak. "Collective Memory as a Device for Constructing a New Gender Myth" in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 139–153.
2. Hankivsky, Olena. "Gender Mainstreaming in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Application and Applicability." Journal of communist studies and transition politics 26.3 (2010):315-340.
3. Rewakowicz, Maria. "Women's Literary Discourse and National Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine." in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 275–294.
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1. Nykola Blozowski
2. Tatiana Bendz
3. Oleksandr Udovyk
4. Andrew Kowal
| Music
1. Romana Bahry. "The Satirical Current in Popular Youth Culture: Rock Music and Film in Ukraine in the 1990s" in Ukraine in the 1990s: Proceedings of the First Conference of the Ukrainian Studies Association of Australia, Monash University, 24-26 January, 1992. DK508.85 .U57 1992
2. Baley, Virko. "'The Past is My Beginning...:' On the recent Music Scene in Ukraine. in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 432–449.
3. Marko Pavlyshyn. "Envisioning Europe: Ruslana's Rhetoric of Identity" in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 395–410.
4. Catherine Wanner. "Nationalism on Stage: Music and Change in Soviet Ukraine," Retuning Culture: Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe. Ed. Mark Slobin. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 1996. p. 136–55.
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1. Mark Tymczyszyn
2. Nykola Blozowski
| Art and Cinema
1. Shkandrij, Myroslav. "Contemporary Ukrainian Art and the Twentieth Century Avant-Garde" in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 411–294.
2. Shevchuk, Yuri. "Linguistic Strategies of Imperial Appropriation: Why Ukraine is Absent from World Film History." in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 359–374.
Assignment 2 due.
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1. Marta Ogrodnik
2. Stefan Pawluk
3. Rick Persich
| Literature 1
1. Zubrytska, Maria. "Mirrors, Windows, and Maps: The Topology of Cultural Identification in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature." in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 157–161.
2. Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych. "Cultural perceptions, mirror images, and western identification in new Ukrainian drama" in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 162–185.
3. Michael M. Naydan. "Ukrainian avant-garde poetry today: Bu-ba-bu and others" in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 186–202.
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| 24
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1. Serg Litvinov
2. Marta Ogrodnik
3. Mark Tymcczyszyn
| Literature 2
1. Ola Hnatiuk. "Nativists vs. westernizers: Problems of cultural identity in Ukrainian literature of the 1990s" in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 203–218.
2. Stech, Marko Robert. "Symbols of Transformation: The Reflection of Ukraine's 'Identity Shift' in Four Ukrainian Novels of the 1990s." in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 231–248.
3. Pavlyshyn, Marko. "Choosing a Europe: Andrukhovych, Izdryk, and the New Ukrainian Literature." in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 249–263.
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Not on Kurkov
1. Marta Tryshak
2. Sofiya Firman
| Popular Culture, Sports and Leisure
Andrey Kurkov. Death and the Penguin. Start reading this novel. Not discussed in this class.
1. Predborska, Irina. "The Social Position of Young Women in Present-Day Ukraine." Journal of youth studies 8.3 (2005):349-365.
2. Roberts, K. "Young People's Participation In Sport And Other Leisure Activities In The Former Soviet Union." European physical education review 5(1999):75-88. or here
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Not on Kurkov
1. Tatiana Bendz
2. Cassian Horoszczak
| Media
Andrey Kurkov. Death and the Penguin. Continue reading this novel. Not discussed in this class.
1. Dyczok, Marta. "Ukraine's Changing Communicative Space: Destination Europe or the Soviet Past?" in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 375–394.
2. Wolburg, Joyce. "'Regulating Sin' Across Cultures: A Comparison of Alcohol Ads in Ukrainian and American Magazines." Journal of advertising 38.4 (2009):15-36.
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| Apr | 5
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Not on Kurkov
1. Pawel Stech
| Crime and counterculture
Andrey Kurkov. Death and the Penguin. Finish reading for discussion in this class.
1. Ukraine: time for action: torture and ill-treatment in police detention. Amnesty International Publications, (2005).
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| | 7
| No presentation
| Papers due.
In-class test.
For the test, you must read this short story (there will be a question that refers to it): Evhenia Kononenko. "Three Worlds".
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