Volodymyr Kulyk

PhD, Associate Professor

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EDUCATION AND DEGREES

2010 D.Sc. in political science, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

1999 – C.Sc. (Ph.D.) in political science, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

1987 – Diploma cum laude, Kyiv Shevchenko University, Department of Physics

EMPLOYMENT

2010–present – Leading research fellow, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

2010–present – Adjunct Professor, School of Journalism, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

2011 – Adjunct Professor, SIPA, Columbia University

2006 – Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Stanford University

2002 – Adjunct Assistant Professor, SIPA, Columbia University

2001–2010 – Senior research fellow, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

1999–2001 – Research fellow (ext.), Centre for OSCE Research, Institute of Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg

1997–2001 – Research fellow, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

1997 – Expert, Centre for Political Analysis, Den’ (Ukrainian quality daily

1996–1997 – Deputy editor-in-chief, Den’ (Ukrainian quality daily)

1995–1996 – Researcher, Pylyp Orlyk Institute for Democracy

1994–1995 – Head of political department, UNIAN Information Agency

1992–1995 – Editor of political section, Suchasnist (Ukrainian intellectual monthly)

1988–1993 – Junior research fellow, Institute of Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member of the editorial board, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Krytyka

Anonymous referee, Ab Imperio, Canadian Slavonic Papers, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Slovo

FELLOWSHIPS

2009–2010 – Research fellowship, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin

2008–2009 – Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowship, Washington, D.C.

2005 – Fulbright Program grant, Stanford University

2004 – British Academy Visiting Professorship, University College London

2001–2002 – Shklar Fellowhip, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

1999 – John Kolasky Memorial Fellowship, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta

1998 – Research grant from Kowalsky Endowment Fund, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta

1993 – Volkswagen Fellowship, J.-W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Dyskurs ukrains’kykh medii: identychnosti, ideolohii, vladni stosunku [The Ukrainian Media Discourse: Identities, Ideologies, Power Relations], Kyiv: Krytyka, 2010.

Revisiting a Success Story: Implementation of the Recommendations of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities to Ukraine, 1994-2000, Hamburg, Centre for the OSCE Research, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, 2002.

Ukrains’kyi natsionalism u nezalezhnii Ukraini [Ukrainian Nationalism in Independent Ukraine], Kyiv, Tsentr doslidzhen’ natsional’noi bezpeky pry natsional’nomu universyteti ‘Kyievo-Mohylians’ka Akademiia’, 1999.

Edited volumes

Languages and Language Ideologies in Ukraine, special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language [no. 201], Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2010.

Dialohy na mezhi stolit’: Stenohramy mizhdyszyplinarnykh seminariv imeni Ivana Lysiaka-Rudnyts’koho, Kyiv, 1996-2000 rr. [Dialogs at the Turn of Centuries: Stenographs of the Ivan L. Rudnytsky Interdisciplinary Seminars, Kyiv, 1996-2000], Kyiv, Dukh i Litera, 2003 (with Leonid Finberg).

Stanovlennia vladnykh struktur v Ukraini: 1991-1996 [Formation of the Branches of Power in Ukraine: 1991-1996], Kyiv: Tsentr politychnoho analizu hazety ‘Den’, 1997 (with Olexiy Haran and Oleksandr Mayboroda).

Articles and book chapters in English

“Language policy in the Ukrainian media: authorities, producers, consumers”, Europe-Asia Studies (forthcoming).

“What is Russian in Ukraine? Popular beliefs regarding the social roles of the language”, in Lara Ryazanova-Clarke (ed.), The Russian Language Outside the Nation: Speakers and Identities, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming).

“Beliefs about language status and corpus in focus group discussions on the Ukrainian language policy”, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, no. 212, 2011, pp. 69-89.

“The media, history and identity: competing narratives of the past in the Ukrainian popular press”, National Identities, vol. 13, no. 3, 2011, pp. 287-303.

“Language identity, linguistic diversity, and political cleavages: evidence from Ukraine”, Nations and Nationalism, vol. 17, no. 3, 2011, pp. 627-648.

“Quiet de-escalation: Van der Stoel in Ukraine”, Security and Human Rights, vol. 22, no. 3, 2011, pp. 271-278.

“The language issue in the Ukrainian national-democratic discourse”, in Jerzy Maćków (ed.), Nationale Demokratie in der Ukraine [National democracy in Ukraine] (Argumente und Materialien zum Zeitgeschehen, no. 75), 2011, pp. 15-22.

“Ideologies of language use in post-Soviet Ukrainian media”, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, no. 201, 2010, pp. 79-104.

“Language policies and language attitudes in post-Orange Ukraine”, in Juliane Besters-Dilger (ed.), Language Policy and Language Situation in Ukraine: Analysis and Recommendations, Frankfurt et al.: Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 15-55.

“Nationalism in Ukraine, 1986-1996”, in Egbert Jahn (ed.), Nationalism in Late and Post-Communist Europe, vol. 2, Nationalism in the Nation States, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2009, pp. 99-122 [collection simultaneously issued in German by the same publisher].

“The demography of language practices and attitudes in Ukraine”, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, vol. 29, no 1-4, 2007, pp. 295-326.

“Constructing common sense: language and ethnicity in Ukrainian public discourse”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 29, no. 2, 2006, pp. 281-314.

“Normalisation of ambiguity: Policies and discourses on language issues in post-Soviet Ukraine”, in Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (ed): History, Language and Society in the Borderlands of Europe. Ukraine and Belarus in Focus, Malmö: Sekel Bokförlag, 2006, pp. 117-140.

“The Role of Discourse in the Construction of an Émigré Community: Ukrainian Displaced Persons in Germany and Austria after World War II”, in Rainer Ohliger, Karen Schönwälder, Triadafilos Triadophilopoulos (eds.), European Encounters: Migrants, Migration and European Society since 1945, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, pp. 213-237.

“Politics of Ethnicity in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Beyond Brubaker”, Journal of Ukrainian Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, 2001, pp. 197-221.

“The Search for Post-Soviet Identity in Ukraine and Russia and its Influence on the Relations between the Two States”, The Harriman Review, vol. 9, no. 1-2, 1996, pp. 16-27.

Articles, book chapters and review essays in Ukrainian, Russian, French, German and Polish

“Pohliady hromadian Ukraїny na sut’ i sposoby rozv’iazannia movnoї problemy” [Ukrainian citizens’ views of the substance of the language problem and ways to resolve it], Naukovi zapysky Instytuty politychnykh i etnonatsional’nykh doslidzhen im. I.F. Kurasa NAN Ukraїny [Transactions of the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, Kyiv], no. 55, Kyiv 2011, pp. 5-30.

“Iazykovye praltiki i predstavleniia grazhdan Ukrainy: sotsial’no-demograficheskii aspect” [Language practices and attitudes of Ukrainian citizens: The socio-demographic aspect], Vestnik obshchestvennogo mneniia, no. 3, 2011, pp. 82-92.

“Po toi bik liubovi: uiavlennia hromadian pro korpus i status ukraїnskoї movy” [Beyond love: citizens’ beliefs regarding the corpus and the status of the Ukrainian language], in Olia Hnatiuk and Leonid Finberg (eds.), Obriї osobystosti. Knyha na poshanu Ivana Dziuby [Horizons of personality. Festschrift for Ivan Dziuba], Kyiv: Dukh i litera, 2011, pp. 373-386.

“Rol’ ukraїns’kykh mas-medii u tvorenni natsional’noho istorychnoho naratyvu” [The role of the Ukrainian mass media in the creation of the national historical narrative], in Yurii Shapoval (ed.), Etnopolitychna kul’tura v Ukraїni: realiї ta vyklyky chasu [Ethnopolitical culture in Ukraine: realities and challenges of the time], Kyiv: Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2010, pp. 170-186.

“Rodnoi iazyk i iazyk obshcheniia: na chto dolzhna orientirovat’sia iazykovaia politika” [Native language and language of communication: What should language policy be guided by?], Vestnik obshchestvennogo mneniia, no. 3, 2010, pp. 75-86.

“Oznachuval’ni ramky v novynnykh tekstakh ukraїns’kykh mas-medii” [Interpretative frames in news texts of the Ukrainian mass media]. Naukovi zapysky Instytuty politychnykh i etnonatsional’nykh doslidzhen im. I.F. Kurasa NAN Ukraїny [Transactions of the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, Kyiv], no. 3, 2010, 326-340.

“Orthographe et identité: le rôle des médias dans l’échec de la réforme orthographique de l’ukrainien de 2001” [Orthography and identity: the role of the media in the failure of the Ukrainian orthography reform in 2001], in Juliete Cadiot, Dominique Arel and Larissa Zakharova (eds.), Cacophonies d’empire” Le gouvernement des langues dans l’Empire russe et l’Union soviétique [Cacophonies of the empire: The government of languages in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union], Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2010, pp. 257-277.

„Orfografiia, iazyk, identichnost“ [Orthography, language, identity], Neprikosnovennyi zapas, no. 3, 2010, pp. 213-232.

“Gerspaltene Zungen: Sprache und Sprachenpolitk in der Ukraine” [Split Tongues: Language and Language Politics in Ukraine], Osteuropa, vol. 60, no. 2-4, 2010, pp. 391-402.

“Polityka ukraїns’koї vlady shchodo mas-medii ta її vplyv na mediinyi dyskurs” [The media policy of the Ukrainian authorities and its impact on the media discourse]. Naukovi zapysky Instytuty politychnykh i etnonatsional’nykh doslidzhen im. I.F. Kurasa NAN Ukraїny [Transactions of the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, Kyiv], no. 1, 2010, pp. 288-302.

“Rol’ mediinoho dyskursu v tvorenni natsional’noï identychnosty” [The role of media discourse in the construction of national identity], Ukraïna moderna, no. 4, 2009, pp. 155-174.

“Tvorennia suspil’noï normal’nosti v mediinomu dyskursi: kontseptualizatsiia ta ukraïns’ka spetsyfica” [The production of social normality in media discourse: the concept and Ukrainian particularity], Sotsiolohiia: teoriia, metody, marketynh, no. 2, 2009, pp. 185-201.

“Vnesok mediinoho dyskursu v pidtrymuvannia stsatus quo” [The media discourse contribution to the maintenance of status quo], in Natsional’na akademiia nauk Ukraïny, Instytut politychnykh i etnonatsional’nykh doslidzhen’, Naukovi zapysky, no. 40, Kyiv 2008, pp. 143-153.

“Zakordonnyi dosvid rozv’iazannia movnykh problem ta mozhlyvist’ ioho zastosuvannia v Ukraïni” [Foreign experience of resolving language problems and its applicability to Ukraine], in O. Mayboroda et al, eds., Movna sytuatsiia v Ukraini: mizh konfliktom i konsensusom [Language situation in Ukraine: Between conflict and consensus], Kyiv: Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2008, pp. 299-334.

“Movni ideolohiï v ukrains’komu mediinomu dyskursi” [Language ideologies in Ukrainian media discourse], in Natsional’na akademiia nauk Ukraïny, Instytut politychnykh i etnonatsional’nykh doslidzhen’, Naukovi zapysky, no. 33, Kyiv, 2007, pp. 321-338.

“Iazykovye ideologii v ukrainskom politicheskom i intellektual’nom diskursakh“ [Language ideologies in Ukrainian political and intellectual discourses], Otechestvennye zapiski, no. 1 (2007), pp. 296-316.

“Movna polityka Ukraïny pislia Pomaranchevoï revoliutsiï,” in Olena Sudakova (ed.), Ukraïna v poshukakh sebe: Natsional’na ideia ta problemy rozvytku [Ukrine in Search of Herself: National Idea and Development Problems], Kyiv: Vydavnychyi Dim “Kyevo-Mohylians’ka akademiia,” 2007, pp. 270-285.

“Dynamika etnokul’turnykh identyfikatsii hromadian Ukraïny za roky nezalezhnosti [Dynamics of the ethnocultural identifications of Ukrainian citizens for the independence years’,’ Dialohy, http://www.dialog.org.ua, December 2006.

“Rol’ mas-medii u pidtrymanni kompleksu vlady/znannia: dyskurs shchodo Vseukraïns’koho perepysu naselennia 2001 roku ta ioho rezul’tativ” [The role of the mass media in the sustaining of power/knowledge complex: the discourse on the Ukrainian census of 2001 and its results], in Natsional’na akademiia nauk Ukraïny, Instytut politychnykh i etnonatsional’nykh doslidzhen’, Naukovi zapysky, no. 27, Kyiv, 2005, pp. 139-171.

“Bezmovna identychnist’ u dyskusiinomu klubi [Language-free identity in a discussion club]” and “Apolohiia analizu dyskursu [An apology of discourse analysis],” Ukraïns’kyi humanitarnyi ohliad, 2005, pp. 146-165, 175-185.

“Mova pro movu: normalizatsiia ambivalentnosty” [Discourse on language: The normalization of ambivalence], pt. I, Krytyka, no. 5 (2004), pp. 19-24; pt. II, Ibid., no. 6 (2004), pp. 4-11.

“‘Tvorennia zdorovoho hluzdu’ v suchasnomu ukraïns’komu dyskursi z movno-ethnicnykh problem” [‘Construction of common sense’ in contemporary Ukrainian discourse on the problems of language and ethnicity], in Natsional’na akademiia nauk Ukraïny, Instytut politychnykh i etnonatsional’nykh doslidzhen’, Naukovi zapysky [Proceedings of the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine], no. 24, Kyiv, 2003, pp. 218-241.

“Perepys dosiahnen’ natsiotvorennia [Census as measuring of the success of nation building]”, Krytyka, no. 1/2 (2003), pp. 6-10.

“Zovnishne vtruchannia u vnutrishni etnopolitychni konflikty: uchast’ Verkhovnoho komisara OBSE z pytan’ natsionalnykh menshyn u rozv’iazanni kryms’koï ta kryms’kotatars’koï problem [External involvement in internal ethnopolitical conflicts: The role of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities in the resolution the Crimean and Crimean Tatar problems]”, in I.F. Kuras and O.M.Maiboroda (eds.), Natsional’na intehratsiia v polikul’turnomu suspil’stvi: Ukraïns’kyi dosvid 1991-2000 rokiv [National integration in a multicultural society: Ukrainian experience of 1991-2000], Kyiv: Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine], 2002, pp. 155-214.

“Ukraina, iaku nam obyraiut’ [The Ukraine they keep choosing for us]”, Krytyka, no. 5 (2002), pp. 4-11.

“Pravopysne bozhevillia [The orthography madness]”, Krytyka, no. 5 (2001), pp. 6-13.

“Aksiomy rossiisko-ukrainskoi ‘trezvosti’: popytka oproverzheniia [Axioms of the Russian-Ukrainian ‘sobriety’: An attempt at refuting]”, Rossiisko-ukrainskii biulleten’, no. 4 (2000), pp. 65-71.

“Shchyri ukraintsi ta ikhnii ‘othering’ [True Ukrainians and their ‘othering’]”, Krytyka, no. 12 (2000), pp. 28-31.

“P’iatyrichka (bez) mifiv [Five years of/without myths]”, Krytyka, No. 11, 1999, pp. 9-17.

“Osoba ta natsiia v Deklaratsii pryntsypiv UHS i pershii programi Narodnoho Rukhu Ukrainy [Individual and nation in the Ukrainian Helsinki Union’s Declaration of Principles and the first program of Popular Movement of Ukraine]”, in Natsional’na akademiia nauk Ukraïny, Instytut politychnykh i etnonatsional’nykh doslidzhen’, Naukovi zapysky [Proceedings of the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine], no. 6, Kyiv, 1998, pp. 93-104.

“Pys’mennyts’ke vidrodzennia: ukraïns’ka derzhavna ideia v dyskursi ‘opozytsiï vseredyni rezhymu’ pershykh rokiv perebudovy [Writers’ Renaissanse: The Ukrainian State Idea in the Discourse of the “Opposition within the Regime” in the Early Years of Perestroika], Suchasnist, no. 1 (1998), pp. 54-79.

“Natsionalizmy v suchasnii Ukraïni [Nationalisms in contemporary Ukraine]”, Dukh i litera, no. 1-2, 1997, pp. 61-87.

“Ukraińske budowanie państwowości: zmiana lidera [Ukrainian State-Building: A Leader Shift], Eurazja, no. 1, 1995, pp. 105-110.

“Rozshyrennia NATO i pozytsiia Ukraïny [The NATO Expansion and Ukraine’s Stance”, Polityka i chas, no. 11, 1995, pp. 54-60.

“Konstytutsiinyi dohovir i problema podolannia tiahlosty [The Constitutional Treaty and the Problem of Overcoming Continuity]”, Suchasnist, no. 9, 1995, pp. 99-103.

“Nim powstanie naród v sensie politycznym [Before Creating a Nation in a Political Sence]”, Eurazja, no. 3-4, 1994, pp. 96-99.

“Totalitaryzm u tradytsiï ta suchasnosti Ukraïny [Totalitarianism in Ukraine’s Tradition and Contemporaneity]”, Filosofs’ka i sotsiolohichna dumka, no. 7-8, 1993, pp. 9-13.

“Novyi ukraïns’kyi natsionalizm: try poverkhy vertepu [New Ukrainian Nationalism: Three Storeys of a Building]”, Suchasnist, no. 3, 1993, pp. 150-167.

“Povtorennia pereidenoho. Ukraïns’ka revoliutsiia: 1917-1991 [Repeating the Past. The Ukrainian Revolution: 1917-1991]”, Suchasnist, no. 2, 1992, pp. 59-72.

Book reviews

Review of Understanding Ukrainian Politics, by Paul D’Anieri, in Harvard Ukrainian Studies, vol. 29, no. 1-4, 2007, pp. 521-523.

Review of Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union, by Roman Szporluk, in Ukraïns’kyi humanitarnyi ohliad, no. 5, 2001.

Review of The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation, by Andrew Wilson, in Harvard Ukrainian Studies, vol. XXIII, no. 3-4, 1999.

Review of Burden of Dreams: History and Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine, by Catherine Wanner, in Ukraïns’kyi humanitarnyi ohliad, no. 3, 2000.

Review of Svoia mudrist’: Natsional’ni mifolohii ta ‘hromadians’ka relihiia v Ukraini [One’s Own Wisdom: National Mythologies and Civic Religions in Ukraine], by Oleksandr Hrytsenko, in Rossiisko-ukrainskii biulleten’, no. 5, 2000.

Review of Chornobyl’: Khroniky mainutnioho [Chornobyl: Chronicles of the Future], by Sviatlana Aliaksievich, in Krytyka, no. 8, 1998.

Conferences papers and lectures

“Media Discourse and Historical Memory,” Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, November 23, 2011.

“Internet and National Identity”, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, November 22, 2011.

“War of Memories in the Ukrainian Media: Diversity of Identities, Political Confrontation, and Production Technologies,” conference on “Old Conflicts & the New Media: Commemorating the Socialist Experience Online,” Bergen University, Norway, September 1, 2011.

“Discrepancy between ethnocultural identity and language practice in Ukraine,” conference on “Historical Legacies of Communism,” Princeton University, April 21, 2011.

“Translation and Corpus Planning in Ukraine: Soviet Experiences and Post-Soviet Representations,” conference on “The Politics and Pragmatics of Translation in the USSR: The Daily Life of Language in a Multi-National Empire,” Columbia University, April 8, 2011.

“Latest Developments in Ukrainian Language Policy,” annual conference of the German Association for East European Studies, Berlin, March 24, 2011.

“Identity Politics in Post-Orange Ukraine: Away from the USSR and Back Again,” Ukrainicum summer school, Greifswald University, Germany, August 11, 2010.

“What is Russian in Ukraine? Arguments and Assumptions Regarding the Social Roles of the Language as Embodied in Focus Group Discourse,” conference on “The Russian Language beyond the Nation,” Edinburgh University, UK, April 1, 2010.

“Language Policy in Ukraine: Why People Think the Way They Do,” Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, April 25, 2009.

“Language Policy in Ukraine: What People Want the State to Do,” conference on “Empires and Nations,” Scinces-Po, Paris, July 4, 2008; Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, May 18, 2009.

“Language Policies and Language Attitudes in Ukraine after the Orange Revolution,” conference on “Language Policy in Ukraine,” National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, April 16, 2008; Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, March 16, 2009.

“Minority Education in Ukraine: Combining Identity and Integration,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, December 15, 2008; Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, March 17, 2009.

“Agenda-setting in Ukrainian Media Discourse,” Third Kuras Readings, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, October 4, 2007.

“Ideologies of Language Use in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Media,” Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, March 24, 2006.

“Ukraine on the Eve of the Parliamentary Election: What Prospects for Orange Hopes?,” Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, March 17, 2006.

“Reconstructing Common Sense: Soviet Nationalities Policy and Post-Soviet Ukrainian Ideologies of Language and Ethnicity,” Institute for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of California Berkeley, January 30, 2006.

“Ukrainian Language Policy under Yushchenko,” Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, October 6, 2005; Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, February 27, 2006; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stockholm University, January 30, 2007.

“Language Ideologies and the Media in Post-Soviet Ukraine,” Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, February 22, 2005; Workshop on Language Ideology and Change in Multilingual Communities, University of California San Diego, September 23, 2005; Harriman Institute, Columbia University, September 26, 2005; Seminar in East European History, University of Alberta, Canada, February 28, 2006.

“Language Politics in a Multilingual Society: Ukraine in Comparative Perspective,” Annual Franko Lecture, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa, March 31, 2005; a revised version was presented at the conference on “Debating Language Policies in Canada and Europe,” University of Ottawa, April 2, 2005.

“Impact of the Media on Democratic Reform in post-Orange Revolution Ukraine,” Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, March 29, 2005.

“Common Sense and Normality in Ukrainian Discourses on Language and Ethnicity,” Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden, September 28, 2004.

“Normalization of Ambivalence: The “Centrist” Discourse and the Politics of Language and Ethnicity in Kuchma’s Ukraine,” Special Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Warsaw University, July 21, 2004.

“Ukraine’s Ambivalent Orientation: What the EU Should Do”, seminar on “EU’s Eastern Policy after Enlargement,” Finnish Institute for International Affairs, Helsinki, January 23, 2004.

“Ethnic and Linguistic Issues in Ukrainian Media Discourse,” conference on “Ethnopolitics in Ukraine,” Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, September 26, 2003.

“Stability as Normality: Language Policies and Language Discourses in Post-Soviet Ukraine,” conference on “Culture, Security and Political Development in the Borderlands of Europe: The Case of Ukraine and Belarus,” Lund University, Sweden, May 23, 2003.

“The Media, Common Sense and the Construction of Identity in Contemporary Ukraine,” Harriman Institute, Columbia University, November 14, 2002.

“External Involvement in Ukrainian Ethnopolitical Conflicts: The Role of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities in the De-escalation of the Crimean Tatar Problem,” Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, November 1, 2002; Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, November 22, 2002.

“Defining Nationhood: Politics of Language and Ethnicity in Post-Soviet Ukraine,” Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Washington, D.C., April 15, 2002.

“Constructing Common Sense: Ethnic and Linguistic Problems in Ukrainian Public Discourse,” Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, November 26, 2001; a revised version was presented at an Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, April 13, 2002.

“Ideological Dimension of the Ukrainian Orthography Reform: Nationalism versus ‘Centrism’,” Shevchenko Scientific Society, New York, November 4, 2001.

“Social Integration vs. Human Rights: A New Perspective on the Post-Soviet Nation-Building in Ukraine,” Harriman Institute, Columbia University, November 1, 2001.
“Political emigration and labor settlement: construction of an émigré community in the media discourse of Ukrainian displaced persons in Germany and Austria, 1945-1950,” conference on “Assimilation – Diasporization – Representation: Historical Perspectives on Immigrants and Host Societies in Postwar Europe: Humboldt University, Berlin, October 26, 2000.

“The Role of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities in De-escalating Minority Conflicts in Ukraine,” progress reports presented at the project workshops on “Comparative Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Involvement of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities in Post-Communist States,” Cluj, Romania, June 24, 2000 and Skopje, Macedonia, March 18, 2001; talk delivered at Mannheim Center for European Social Research, Mannheim University, Germany, October 23, 2000.

“Minority Problems in Post-Soviet Ukraine,” project workshop on “Comparative Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Involvement of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities in Post-Communist States,” Institute for Peace Research and Security Studies, University of Hamburg, May 11, 1999.

“The Legacy of Brotherhood: The Impact of the Soviet Nationalities Policy on Post-Soviet Nation-Building in Ukraine,” conference on “Soviet and Post-Soviet Ukraine: A Century in Perspective, Yale University, April 24, 1999.

“Ukrainian Nationalism in Independent Ukraine,” Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, March 15, 1999; Harriman Institute, Columbia University, April 22, 1999; Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, April 27, 1999; a revised version was presented at the conference on “National Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Belarus,” University of Bordeaux, France, January 29, 2000.

“Nationalisms in Late and Post-Soviet Ukraine,” progress reports presented at the project workshops on “The ‘Second National Rebirth’. Nationalism, National Movements and Formation of Nation-States in the Late- and Post-Communist Society,” Mannheim, Germany, July 6, 1996; September 28, 1997; February 20, 1998; and Moscow, May 23, 1997.

“Language Rights, Social Integration and Cultural Dialogue,” conference on “The Dialogue of Ukrainian and Russian Cultures as a Factor of Interethnic Accord in Ukraine,” Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, October 25, 1996.

“The Search for Post-Soviet Identity in Ukraine and Russia and its Influence on the Relations between the Two States,” conference on “Peoples, Nations, Identities: The Russian-Ukrainian Encounter,” Columbia University, September 21, 1995.

“Three Levels of Ukrainian Nationalism,” Historical Seminar, Cologne University, Germany, April 23, 1993.

TEACHING

“Media discourse,” graduate lecture course, School of Journalism, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, spring 2012.

“Identity politics in post-communist Europe,” graduate seminar, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, spring 2011.

“Identity politics in Eastern Europe,” graduate seminar, Department of Political Science, Stanford University, winter 2006.

“Discourse analysis in social sciences,” graduate lecture course, Department of Social Sciences and Social Technologies, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, spring 2003 and spring 2004.

“Ukrainian politics and identity,” graduate seminar, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, fall 2002.

“Comparative politics,” undergraduate lecture course, Department of Social Sciences and Social Technologies, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, fall 2000.