Day 1: Wednesday, June 11
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Registration
2:00 – 2:15 p.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Serhii Plokhii
Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
Andrea Graziosi
National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research, Italy
Session 1. Years of Dependence: 1863–1991
2:15 – 5:30 p.m.
Panel 1. 1863–1905: Years of Prohibition and Russification
Chair:
Michael S. Flier
Harvard University
1. The Fate of the Ukrainian Language under the Russian Empire
Johannes Remy
University of Helsinki
2. The Fate of the Ukrainian Language in the Habsburg Monarchy
Michael Moser
University of Vienna
3. Russian: The Language of Empire
Alexei Miller
Institute for Scientific Information in Social Sciences, RAS, Moscow; Central European University, Budapest
4. The Formation of the Finnish Polity: Languages and the People in the Construction of the Nation State, 1863-1905
Ilkka Liikanen
University of Eastern Finland
Jussi Kurunmäki
University of Stockholm
5. When the West Meets the East: Slavia Romana at the Crossroad
Anita Peti-Stantic
University of Zagreb; Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University
7:30 p.m.
Conference Dinner
Address: Ukrainian and Russian - Poles Apart?
Michael Flier
Harvard University
Day 2: Thursday, June 12
9:00 – 12:00 noon
Panel 2. 1905–1932: Years of Crisis and National Revival
Chair:
Serhii Plokhii
Harvard University
1. The "Bastard Tongue" and the "Doubling of Hallelujah:" The Ukrainian Language Question in Russian Ukraine, 1905–1916
Andriy Danylenko
Pace University
2. The Bolshevik Language Policy as a Factor in Communist Construction (1919- 1933)
Hennadii Yefimenko
Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
3. Ukrainian in Transition from Late Austria-Hungary through the Interwar Period in Eastern Europe
Jan Fellerer
Wolfson College, University of Oxford
Morning Break
4. Russian in the Early 20th Century: Imperial Language in Retreat?
Michael Smith
Purdue University
5. Ireland and Irish: Economics, Politics, Culture
Tony Crowley
University of Leeds
6. National Delimitation in Soviet Central Asia and the Fashioning of Modern Uzbek
William Fierman
Indiana University at Bloomington
Lubomyr Hajda
Harvard University
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Break
1:30 – 3:45 p.m.
Panel 3. 1932–1953: Years of Stress and Repression
Chair:
Roman Szporluk
Harvard University
1. Ukrainian in the Face of Totalitarianism and Total War
Yuri Shapoval
Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
2. Russian: Revival of Linguistic Centralism
Peter A. Blitstein
Lawrence University
3. Catalonia: Portrait of a Dictatorship
Montserrat Guibernau
Queen Mary University of London
4. The Divergent Fates of Yiddish and Hebrew
Zvi Gitelman
University of Michigan
3:45 – 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Break
4:00 – 6:15 p.m.
Panel 4. 1953/56–1991:Years of Retreat and Resistance
Chair:
Patrick Sériot
Université de Lausanne
1. Ukrainian in the Soviet Crucible: Assimilation vs. Preservation
Roman Solchanyk
RAND Corporation
2. Russian as the Language of "A New Historical Community—the Soviet People"
Isabelle Kreindler
University of Haifa
3. The Difficult Art of Defining Linguistic Minorities: Access to Minority Schools in Québec and Canada since the 1980s
François Charbonneau
University of Ottawa
4. The 1955-56 Linguistic State Reorganization in India and the Soviet Model
Andrea Graziosi
National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research, Italy
7:30 p.m.
Conference Dinner
Address: What Is a Language That It Can Be Modified? The Implicit Model of Soviet Language Policy in the 1930s and the Invention of a New Soviet Standard for Ukrainian and Belarusian
Patrick Sériot
Université de Lausanne
Day 3: Friday, June 13
Session 2. Years of Independence: 1991–2013
9:00 – 12:00 noon
Panel 5. Language and Politics: The View from Above
Chair:
Roman Senkus
University of Toronto
1. Constitutional and Legal Development of Language Policy
Volodymyr Vassylenko
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
2. Language Practices in Government, Administration and the Judiciary
Oxana Shevel
Tufts University
3. Language Practices and Politics in Regional Perspective
Dominique Arel
University of Ottawa
4. The Rise and Dynamics of the Normative Isomorphism of Language, Nation and State in Central Europe
Tomasz Kamusella
University of St. Andrews
5. When is a Language a Language? The Case of Former Yugoslavia
Robert Greenberg
University of Auckland
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Break
1:30-4:00 p.m.
Panel 6: Language and Society: The View from Below
Chair:
Timothy Colton
Harvard University
1. Language Attitudes in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Differentiation and Evolution
Volodymyr Kulyk
Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
2. Ukraine 2014: Language Legislation in the National Emergency
Bohdan Azhniuk
Institute of the Ukrainian Language, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
3. Purism and Pluralism: Trends of Language Use in Popular Culture in Ukraine since Independence
Laada Bilaniuk
University of Washington
4. Kazakh National Language against the Dominance of Russian
John Schoeberlein
Nazarbayev University, Astana
5. After the Status Reversal: The Use of Titular Languages and Russian in the Baltic Countries
Martin Ehala
University of Tartu
4:00 p.m. Concluding Remarks and Adjournment
Lubomyr Hajda
Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
Serhii Plokhii
Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
