Program

Harriman Institute Columbia University

International Affairs Building (IAB)

420 W. 118th St., 12th Floor

New York, NY 10027

ASN phone number: 212.854.8487

ASN fax number: 212.666.3481

gnb12@columbia.edu

THURSDAY, 13 APRIL

11.00 am

Registration, Location: 6th Floor,

IAB

1.00-3.00 pm

Session I

3.15-5.15 pm

Session II

5.30-7.30 pm

Session III

7.30 pm

Opening Reception

FRIDAY, 14 APRIL

9.00-11.00 am

Session IV

11.00 am-1.00 pm

Session V

ASN Convention Program/ Committee Meeting

2.15-4.15 pm

Session VI

4.30-6.30 pm

Session VII

7.00 pm

Central Eurasia Society Meeting

SATURDAY, 15 APRIL

9.00-11.00 am

Session VIII

ASN Executive Committee Meeting

11.15 am-1.15 pm

Session IX

1.15-2.15 pm

Nationalities Papers Editorial Board Meeting

American Association of Ukrainian Studies Meeting

2.15-4.15 pm

Session X

4.30-6.30 pm

Session XI

6.30 pm

Closing Reception

Convention Panels

Thursday, 13 April

Registration 11.00 a.m.

Location: 6th Floor, IAB

Session I 1.00—3.00 p.m.

Presentation

Panel V05 (I)

Video Presentation: The Making of a New Empire (Netherlands

1999, 95 mins., directed by Jos de Putter, English subtitles)

Filmmaker Jos de Putter was given a free hand to follow from

close by and film Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev, a self-appointed leader

of the Chechen independence movement who is continuously

surrounded by bodyguards. Is Noukhaev a cunning Mafia boss or a

staunch idealist? The filmmaker leaves the question unresolved.

The screening will be followed by a discussion led by Thomas Goltz

(Journalist and Writer, U.S.)

Panel K06 (I)

Legacies of Soviet Nationality Policy in the Caucasus

Chair<>Evan Siegel (City University of New York, U.S.)

Papers

Cory Welt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.)

Institutions and Identity: Rethinking the Role of Soviet Nationalities Policy(Georgia and Azerbaijan)

David J. Meyer (Columbia U., U.S.)

A Place of Our Own: Does the Ethnicization of Territorial Control Create

Incentives for Elites to Conduct Ethno-Political Mobilization? Caucasus

Case Studies and Regional Comparison

Taline Ter Minassian (U. Jean Monnet, France)

Yerevan, a Twentieth-Century Armenian National "Icon": The Role of a

Capital-City in the Making of Territorial Identity

J. Paul Goode (U. of Wisconsin at Madison, U.S.)

State Sovereignty and Secession after the Soviet Union: The Abkhaz

Case

Discussant

Brenda Shaffer (Harvard U., U.S.)

Panel R03 (I)

Nationalism and Federalism in the Russian Federation

Chair

Matthew Crosston (Brown U., U.S.)

Papers

Elise Giuliano (U. of Chicago, U.S.)

Paths to the Decline of Nationalism in Russia: Mass Mobilization and

Economic Change

Helge Blakkisrud (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs,Norway)

The Russian Regionalisation Process--A View from Northwest Russia

Jeff Kahn (U. of Michigan Law School, U.S.)

"The Parade of Sovereignties:" Establishing the Vocabulary of the New

Russian Federalism

Peter Waisberg (Carleton U., Canada)

Language Politics in a Multi-ethnic Federation: The Case of Alphabet/Reform in Tatarstan

Discussant

Kathryn Stoner-Weiss (Princeton U., U.S.)

Panel Y12 (I)

State-building and Nationalism in Croatia

Chair

Jonathan Bach (Columbia U., U.S.)

Papers

Daphne Winland (York U., Canada)

Memories and Monuments: "Recovering" the Croatian State

Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos (New School for Social Research, U.S.)

From Krajina to Dayton: Ethnic Cleansing and Peacemaking in the

Balkans, 1995—1999

Ljubinka T. Karpowicz (Independent Scholar, Croatia)

Ten Years of the Serbo-Croatian Ideological Conflict: The Interpretation

of the Croatian Democratic Community (HDZ)

Marin Sopta (Croatian Center of Strategic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia)

The January 2000 Croatian Parliamentary Elections

Discussant

Nicole Lindstrom (Syracuse U., U.S.)

Panel V12 (I)

Video Presentation: TBA

Panel CA01 (I)

A Nation Exiled: The Crimean Tatars in the Russian Empire,Central Asia, and Turkey

Chair

Seymour Becker (Rutgers U., U.S.)

Papers

Edward Lazzerini (U. of New Orleans, U.S.)

Births, Deaths, and Migration: Counting Crimean Tatars in Imperial Russia

Otto Pohl (Freelance Author, U.S.)

The Deportation and Fate of the Crimean Tatars

Brian Williams (SOAS, U. of London, U.K.)

Ak Toprak: Ethno-Political Mobilizations among the Crimean Tatar

Diaspora in the Republic of Turkey

Discussant

Edward Allworth (Columbia U., U.S.)

Panel CE02 (I)

Origins of Recognition of a Stateless Nation: Defining Jewish

Politics, Culture, and Territory in Pre-World War II Central and

Eastern Europe

Chair

Stephen Deets (U. of Maryland, U.S.)

Papers

Larissa Douglass (St. Antony’s College, Oxford U., U.K.)

Lynchpin in the Creation of Nation-States: The Influence of the Eastern

Jewish Conception of National Rights on the Minorities Treaties at the

Paris Peace Conference, 1919

Esther Schmidt (New College, Oxford U., U.K.)

Nationalism and the Invention of Jewish Culture: The Politicisation of

Music and Language in the German-Jewish Press

Sean Martin (Ohio State U., U.S.)

Jewish Children in Independent Poland: Caring for Orphans in Krakow

Discussant

Rebekakh Klein (Columbia U., U.S.)

Panel U03 (I)

Ukraine’s Foreign Policy Orientation: Theoretical and

Comparative Perspectives

Chair

Sergei Konoplyov (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard U.,

U.S.)

Papers

Victor Chudowsky (Meridian International Center, U.S.)

Foreign Policy and the Nature of the Ukrainian State: Understanding the

Role of Domestic Determinants

Jennifer Patterson Moroney (U. of Kent at Canterbury, U.K.)

Ukraine’s Foreign Policy on Europe’s Periphery: Globalization,Transnationalism, and the Frontier

Andrew Fesiak (York U., Canada)

Ukraine’s Strategic Choice: East, West, or Neutral?

Discussant

Taras Kuzio (U. College, London, U.K.)

Thursday, 13 April

Session II 3.15—5.15 P.m.

Panel N12 (II)

War and Gender

Chair

Mary Flad (Vassar College, U.S.)

Papers

Indira Kajosevic (City College of New York, U.S.)

Feminism Sans Frontiers

Thomas Buck (USAID, U.S.)

Women, War, and Displacement in Georgia

Valerie Zawilski (Queen’s U., Canada)

The War Is Never Over: Human Rights Violations and the Displacement

of Women and Children in Chechnya

Discussant

Mia Bloom (Cornell U., U.S.)

Panel CA09 (II)

Media and Long Distance Nationalism in Central Asia

Chair/Pauline Jones Luong (Yale U., U.S.)

Papers

Steven Sabol (U. of North Carolina at Charlotte, U.S.)

Print-Nationalism in the Kazak Steppe: Mirzhaqyp Dulatov and ‘Oian

Kazak!’

Anthony R. Bichel (Juniata College, U.S.)

Central Asia Online: Expressions of Nationalism, Sovereignty, and

Self-Determination in Cyberspace

David Romano (U. of Toronto, Canada)

Assessing Catalysts to Ethnic Nationalism in a Globalized World: The

Case of the Kurds in the Wake of Abdullah Ocalan’s Capture

Discussant

Peter J. Sinnott (Columbia U., U.S.)

Panel K07 (II)

Ethnic Minorities in Georgia

Chair

Redjeb Jordania (American-Georgian Institute, New York, U.S.)

Papers

Karina Vamling (Lund U., Sweden)

Language Use and Attitudes Among Megrelians in Georgia

Thornike Gordadze (Institut d’Etudes Politiques, France)

National Minorities in Georgia: Ethnic Mobilisation and Political

Participation

Gabrielle Costa (Institut d’Etudes Politiques, France)

Minorities and Political Representation in a Post-Soviet State: Political

Parties in Georgia

Sylvia Serrano (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations

Orientales, France)

Azeri Minority Integration Problems in Georgia

Discussant

Stephen F. Jones (Mt. Holyoke College, U.S.)

Panel V01 (II)

Video Presentation: Trading Stories (U.S. 1999, 56 mins., directed

by Ari and Owen Shapiro)

When the Nazis took control of the Czech lands, they confiscated

Mrs. Fischmann's farm. After the war, the socialists took it. Now,

with the communist era over, Mrs. Fischmann has been trying to

get her land back. Through this and other short stories, this film

explores contemporary Czech perspective on property.

Presented by Ari Shapiro (Princeton U., U.S.)

Panel Y05 (II)

European Identity Formation at the Crossroads: Ethnic

Homogeneity or Multicultural Diversity? The Cases of Bosnia,Kosovo, and South Tyrol in Comparison

Chair

Joseph Marko (U. of Graz, Austria and Vice-President of the

Constitutional Court, Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Papers

Mitja Zagar (Institute for Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Minority Protection in the Framework of the EU Stability Pact for

South-East Europe

Jens Woelk (European Academy Bolzano, Italy)

The Case of South Tyrol: A Model for Conflict Resolution in the Balkans?

Natalino Ronzitti (Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome, Italy)

Options for Kosovo’s Final Status

Discussant

Wolfgang Danspeckgruber (Liechtenstein Program on

Self-Determination, Princeton U., U.S.)

Panel CE04 (II)

What Is European Identity?

Roundtable

Chair

Amand Menon (New York U., U.S.)

Participants

Petr Lom (Central European U., Hungary)

European Identity and the East

Miguel Glatzer (Watson Institute, Brown U., U.S.)

European Identity and the Welfare State

Miguel Vatter (Ohio State U., U.S.)

European Identity and the Philosophical Tradition: Husserl and Heidegger

Peter Burgess (European U. Institute, Florence, Italy)

Culture and European Identity

U08 (II)

State Building and the Politics of Inclusion in Ukraine

Chair

Vitaly Chernetsky (Columbia U., U.S.)

Papers

Louise Jackson (U. of Wolverhampton, U.K.)

Ethnic Minorities and the Politics of Inclusion in Ukraine

Spyros Demetriou (The Graduate Institute of International Studies,Switzerland)

Rebuilding After Revolution: State Formation and the Politics of Identity in/Ukraine and Tajikistan

Gwendolyn Sasse (London School of Economics, U.K.)

Regionalism and Ethnopolitics During Post-Communist Transition:

Ukraine in Comparative Perspective

Discussant

Marta Dyczok (U. of Western Ontario, Canada)

Panel R07 (II)

Conflict and Identity in Russian Foreign Policy

Chair

Ambassador Heyward Isham (East West Institute, U.S.)

Papers

Ria Laenen (Catholic U. of Leuven, Belgium and Harriman Institute,

Columbia U., U.S.)

The Problem of Identity in Russia’s Relationship with Ukraine and

Kazakhstan

Ustina Markus (Department of Defense, U.S.)

Russia’s Methods and Options for Dealing with Separatism

Regina Akopian (Rutgers U., U.S.)

Distant Kins in the Balkans and Home-Close Aliens in the Caucasus:

Differing Responses of Russia’s Political Elite and Public to the Crises in

Kosovo and Dagestan

Robert O. Freedman (Baltimore Hebrew U., U.S.)

Russia’s War in Chechnya and Its Impact on Russian-Iranian Relations

Discussant

Christoph Zürcher (Institute of East European Studies, Free U/Berlin, Germany)

Thursday, 13 April

Session III 5.30—7.30 P.M.

Panel B03 (III)

Ethnicity and Mobilization in the Balkans and Baltic

Chair

Leonard Bernardo (Open Society Institute, New York, U.S.)

Papers

John Ginkel (Washington U., U.S.)

From Singing Revolution to Discordant Consolidation: Nationalism,

Identity, and Ethnicity in Latvia

Stathis Kalyvas (New York U., U.S.)

The Dynamics of Violence in Civil War: Evaluating the Impact of Ethnicity

Roger Petersen (Washington U., U.S.)

Social Structure and Strategy: The Emergence of the KLA in

Comparative Perspective

Discussant

Mark R. Beissinger (U. of Wisconsin at Madison, U.S.)

Panel K05 (III)

The Impact of Land Reform on Rural Communities in

Transcaucasia

Chair Csaba Csaki (The Budapest Economics U., Hungary and World

Bank, U.S.)

Papers

Mark Lundell (World Bank. U.S.)

Small is Beautiful: The Impact of Family Farming on Rural Life in Armenia

Iain Shuker (World Bank, U.S.)

The Path of Land Reform in Georgia: Government Role vis-a-vis Ethnic

Minorities

Roy Southworth (World Bank, U.S.)

Azerbaijan: The Beginning of the Transition from Collective to Family

Farming

Discussant

Zvi Lerman (Hebrew U., Israel and World Bank, U.S.)

Panel CE01 (III)

The Historical Roots of National Identity in Central and Eastern

Europe, 1848—1918

Chair/John Micgiel (East Central Europe Institute, Columbia U., U.S.)

Papers

Markian Prokopovych (Central European U., Hungary and Oxford

U., U.K.)

National Identity and State Legitimation in Representative Architecture

around 1900 in Vienna, Berlin, Budapest, and Prague

Jonathan Kwan (Oxford U., U.K.)

Austro-German Identity and Viennese Culture: The Construction of Self

Amy Ng (Oxford U., U.K.)

The Austrian State Idea versus National Identity: The Case of Joseph

Redlich

Discussant

Bradley Abrams (Columbia U., U.S.)

Panel CA11 (III)

Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationalism in the Caucasus and the

Middle East

Chair

Lan Chan-Marples (U. of Alberta, Canada)

Papers

Neophytos G. Loizides (U. of Toronto, Canada)

Understanding Ethnicity and Nationalism in Southeast Anatolia

Shaun Keith Long (U. of Leeds, U.K.)

The Ural’sk Cossack Revival and the Struggle for Ethnic Recognition

Giorgi Gogia (Central European U., Hungary)

Religious Nationalism in Georgia (with a comparison to India)

Discussant

Michael Rywkin (City College of New York, U.S.)

Panel V10 (III)

Video Presentation: A Cry from the Grave (U.K., 1999, directed by

Leslie Woodhead, 90 mins.)

This BBC documentary narrated by Bill Moyers reconstructs with

mounting tension the failure of the UN to protect the

internationally-created "safe haven" of the Bosnian city Srebrenica

in July 1995, which resulted in the massacre of more than 7,000

Bosnian Muslim men by Serbian troops. A powerful exposé of

humanitarian intervention gone awry.

The screening will be followed by a discussion led by David Rohde

(Journalist, New York Times; author of Endgame. The Betrayal and

Fall of Srebrenica; Europe's Wordst Massacre since World War II,

Westview, 1998), U.S.)

Panel U12 (III)

Ukrainian Foreign Orientation: East or West?

Chair/Adrian Karatnycky (Freedom House, New York, U.S.)

Papers

Yaroslav Bilinsky (U. of Delaware, U.S.)

Ukraine’s Rapprochement to the EU and NATO as an Auxiliary Indicator

of Ukrainian National Identity

Marko Bojcun (Ukraine Center, U. of North London, U.K.)

Ethnos, Nation, and Now Civilization: The New Debate about Ukraine’s

Identity.

Tor Bukkvoll (Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, Norway)

Defining a Ukrainian Foreign Policy Identity: Business Interests and

Geopolitics in the Formulation of Ukrainian Foreign Policy, 1994—1999

Paul D'Anieri (U. of Kansas, U.S.)

The New Ukrainian Elite

Discussant

Paul D’Anieri (U. of Kansas, U.S.)

Panel N10 (III)

Systemic Change and the Transformation Process in Comparative

Perspective

Chair

Dominique Colas (Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, France)

Papers

Troy McGrath (U. of Kansas, U.S.)

The Path from Leninist Rule: From Communist Parades to Capitalist

Charades

Andreas Pickel (Trent U., Canada)

Nationalism and Systemic Change

Shale Horowitz (U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, U.S.)

National Identity and Liberalizing Consensus: Responses to the

International Financial Crisis of 1997-1999 in the Czech Republic,

Hungary, and Poland

Roman A. Novojilov (American U., U.S.)

Systemic Corruption in Russia During the Reforms: Its Origins and

Outcomes

Discussant

Stephen Whitefield (Yale U., U.S.)

Panel N12 (III)

War and Gender

Chair

Mary Flad (Vassar College, U.S.)

Papers

Indira Kajosevic (City College of New York, U.S.)

Feminism Sans Frontiers

Valerie Zawilski (Queen's U., Canada)

The War is Never Over: Human Rights Violations and the

Displacement of Women and Children in Chechnya

Discussant

Mia Bloom (Cornell U., U.S.)

Thursday, 13 April

Opening Reception 7.30 p.m.

Friday, 14 April

Session IV 9.00-11.00 a.m.

Panel K09 (IV)

The Russian-Chechen War(s)

Chair

Sue Davis (American Political Science Association, U.S.)

Screening of the 23-minute documentary "The Dark Side of the

Earth (2000)," made for Czech television and distributed by Radio

Free Europe/Radio Liberty. The documentary was made by two

Czech journalists who smuggled themselves into Chechnya in

December 1999.

Papers

John Dunlop (Hoover Institution, U.S.)

How Many Soldiers and Civilians Died during the Russo-Chechen

War of 1994—1996?

Anna Zelkina (SOAS, University of London, U.K.)

Social Structure and Forms of Identity in Chechnya: Challenges for

National Consolidation and State-Building

Discussant

Terrence P. Hopmann (Watson Institute, Brown U., U.S.)

Panel R08 (IV)

Nations and Empire in Russia

Chair

Charles Steinwedel (Columbia U., U.S.)

Papers

Alex Semyonov (Central European U., Hungary and Harriman

Institute, Columbia U., U.S.)

Political Mobilization in the Russian Empire in the Duma Period:

the Constitutional-Democratic Party Between the National and the

Nationality Questions

Iain G. Lauchlan (Rennvall Institute, Helsinki U., Finland)

The Separate Realm: Imperialism and National Identity in

Connection with the Tsarist Secret Police, 1881—1917

Karsten Brüggeman (U. of Hamburg, Germany)

Campaining Sovereignty: Estonia’s War of Secession against Two/Russias, 1918—1920

Serguei Glebov (Rutgers U., U.S.)

The Congress of Russian Diaspora in 1926 and the Politics of

Emigre Nationalism

Discussant

Mark Von Hagen (Harriman Institute, Columbia U., U.S.)

Panel CE09 (IV)

German and Hungarian Minorities

Chair

Pontus Hiort (Northern Illinois U., U.S.)

Papers

Jørgen Kühl (Danish Institute of Border Region Studies,

Denmark)

Coping with the Ethnic Heritage: Germany’s and Hungary’s

Policies Towards Ttheir Minorities. A Comparative Approach

John C. Swanson (Utica College of Syracuse U., U.S.)

Developing a Dual Identity among the German-Hungarians of

Trianon

Hungary

Sherrill Stroschein (Columbia U., U.S.)

Contested Symbols in Space and Time: Statues and Holidays in

Multi-ethnic<>States: Hungarians in Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine

Discussant

André Liebich (Graduate Institute of International Affairs,Switzerland)

Panel U07 (IV)

Identity Change in Ukraine Through the Prism of Literature and

Linguistics

Chair

Myroslava Znayenko (Rutgers U., U.S.)

Papers

Antonina Berezovenko (Kyiv Polytechnical U., Ukraine)

Between Nation and State: Ukrainian Identity in Today’s

Language Reality

Tamara Hundorova (U. of Toronto, Canada)

Ukrainian Postmodernism in the Labyrinths of National Identity:

Reversal and Revenge

Michael Naydan (Penn State U., U.S.)

Defining Ukrainian Identity in Contemporary Ukraine

Discussant

Alexander J. Motyl (Rutgers U., U.S.)

Panel N13 (IV)

Factors Influencing the (Non-)Violent Nature of Ethnopolitical

Conflicts

Chair

Cindy Skach (Harriman Institute, Columbia U., U.S.)

Papers

Susan Stewart (Mannheim Center for European Social Research,

U. of Mannheim, Germany)

Nationality Policy as a Means of Conflict Regulation: The Case of

Ukraine

Gabriel Topor (Columbia U., U.S.)

Explaining Violence and Non-Violence in Ethnic Conflicts of Serbia

and Romania

Jeffrey Stevenson Murer (Illinois Wesleyan U., U.S.)

The Clash Within: Four Ethnic Relations Structures and Their

Potential for Violent Conflict

Discussant

Kailash Mohapatra (Yale U., U.S.)

Panel CA06 (IV)

Collective Identity Issues in Central Asia

Sponsored by the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)

Chair/Edward Lazzerini (U. of New Orleans, U.S.)

Papers

Marianne Kamp (Whitman College, U.S.)

Gender, Labor, and Identity in Independent Uzbekistan

Talant Mawkanuli (U. of Wisconsin at Madison, U.S.)

Language Choice and Ethnic Identity of a Kazakh Community in

Multiethnic Societies

Morgan Y. Liu (U of Michigan, U.S.)

Articulating Locality and State Without Thinking Nationality:

Uzbek Notions of Place, Community, and Authority in Osh,

Kyrgyzstan

Discussant

John Schoeberlein (Harvard U., U.S.)

Panel R01 (IV)

Russia’s Regions and Republics

Chair

James Alexander (Northeastern State U., U.S.)

Papers

Ingmar Oldberg (Swedish Defense Research Establishment,

Sweden)

Identities in Russia’s Western Regions: A Comparative Note

Jakob Hedenskog (Swedish Defense Research Establishment,

Sweden)

The Foreign Relations of Russia’s Western Regions

Natan Shklyar (East-West Institute, U.S.)

Russian Regions and Russia’s Foreign Policy Process

Daniel R. Kempton (Northern Illinois U., U.S.)

Russian Federalism: A Continuing Myth or "Political Salvation?"

Discussant

Ann E. Robertson (George Washington U., U.S.)

Panel Y14 (IV)

Bosnia after Dayton: Disintegration or Reintegration?

Chair

Zubaida Rasul (UN Population Fund, New York, U.S.)

Papers

Sumantra Bose (London School of Economics, U.K.)

Conflicting Identities, Competing Sovereignties and the Problem of

‘Self-Determination’: Comparing Bosnia and Kashmir

Daria Fane (Department of State, U.S.)

The Political Process in Republika Srpska

Robert D. Greenberg (U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.)

Bosnian or Bosniac?: The Current-Identity Crisis in

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Discussant

Gordon Bardos (Harriman Institute, Columbia U., U.S.)

Friday, 14 April

Session V 11.15 a.m.—1.15 p.m.

ASN Convention Program Committee Meeting

ASN Advisory Board Meeting

Panel V11 (V)

Video Presentation: Yugoslavia--The Avoidable War (U.S., 1999,

co-produced by George Bogdanich and Martin Lettmayer)

A documentary arguing how serious errors and misjudgments

made by Western powers--particularly Germany and the United

States--helped spark the violent break up of the former Yugoslavia

in 1991, how news coverage was manipulated by the warring sides,

and detailing U.s. involvement in Operation Storm. Since the

documentary is two and a half hours long, only the second part,

largely on the Bosnia war, will be shown, leaving sufficient time

for discussion.

Presented by George Bogdanich (Filmmaker, New York).

The screening will be followed by a discussion led by David Binder

(New York Times, U.S.)

Panel U05 (V)

Ukrainian National Codes in the Post-Soviet Era

Chair/Daria Nebesh (Independent Scholar, Columbia, Maryland, U.S.)

Papers

Martha Kebalo (City U. of New York, Queensborough College,

U.S.)

Women in the Cultivation of National Culture: Preliminary

Fieldwork in Central Ukraine

Anna Chumachenko (Ohio State U., U.S.)

Collective Hysteria and a Nation in Transition: Ancient

Archetypes and Behavioral Models in Contemporary Ukraine

Jaropolk Lassowsky (Clarion U., U.S.)

Redoing Antiquity: The Manipulation and Revision of Ukrainian

Folk Music in the Post-Soviet Era

Discussant

Larissa Onyshkevych (Princeton Research Forum, U.S.)

Panel CE07 (V)

Nations and Nationalism in Austria-Hungary

Chair

Istvan Deak (Columbia U., U.S.)

Papers

Tanya Dunlap (Rice U., U.S.)

Astra: Nation-building, Autonomy, and Power in Late

Nineteenth-Century Rural Transylvania

Hugh Agnew (George Washington U., U.S.)

New State, Old Identity?: The Czech Republic and Bohemian

History

Ian Reifowitz (Georgetown U., U.S.)

Inventing a Nation: Joseph Samuel Bloch and the Cultivation of a

Supra-ethnic Austrian Identity, 1882—1918

Kati Voros (Central European U., Hungary and Rutgers U., U.S.)

National Identity and the Politics of Representation: Hungarians,

Jews,

Nationalities, and the Political Satirical Press in Hungary,

1867—1900

Discussant

John Micgiel (East Central Europe Institute, Columbia U., U.S.)

Panel K01 (V)

Military Tactics and Operational Art of Yeltsin’s Second Chechen

War

Chair

Robert Baumann (Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command

and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, U.S.)

Papers

Timothy Thomas (Foreign Military Studies Office, Ft.

Leavenworth, U.S.)

A Tale of Two Theaters

Lester Grau (Foreign Military Studies Office, Ft. Leavenworth,

U.S.)

Evolutionary Tactics in Chechnya: Survival, Cunning, and

Firepower

Steven Blank (Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War

College, U.S.)

The Road to War in Chehcnya

Discussant

Jacob W. Kipp (Foreign Military Studies Office, Ft. Leavenworth,

U.S.)

Panel Y03 (V)

Sovereignty and Identity in the Former Yugoslavia

Chair

Nicole Lindstrom (Syracuse U., U.s.)

Papers

Obrad Savic and Vesna Bogojevic (U. of Belgrade, Yugoslavia)

Nato in Serbia: Sovereignty Without Territory

Maple Razsa (Harvard U., U.S.)

Subnational Challenges to the Nation-State: Remembering/Dalmatia’s Partisans

Dusan I. Bjelic and Lucinda Cole (U. of Southern Maine, U.S.)

Sexualizing the Serb

Discussant

Jonathan Bach (Columbia U., U.S.)

Panel N14 (V)

Jewish Minorities in the Post-Communist States

Chair

David J. Meyer (Columbia U., U.S.)

Papers

Zvi Gitelman (U. of Michigan, U.S.)

Jewish Identities in Post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine

Anatoli Velikiy (Minsk State U., elarus/George Washington U.,

U.S.)

Jews and the Jewish Question in Contemporary Belarus

Alanna Cooper (Boston U., U.S.)

The Uzbek Government, the American Jewish Community and the

Bukharan Jews: An Unexpected Partnership in the Project of

State-Building

Francine Friedman (Ball State U., U.S.)

Minorities in the Former Yugoslavia: The Bosnian Jewish

Community

Discussant

Robin Ostow (U. of Toronto, Canada)

Panel CA04 (V)

Turkey: Nationalism, Secularism, and Identity

Chair

Michael Reynolds (Princeton U., U.S.)

Papers

Bilge Criss (Bilkent U., Turkey)

War and Secularization as Agents of National Identity Formation

Fuat Keyman (Bilkent U., Turkey)

Identity Conflict and Constitutional Citizenship in Turkey (1923—)

James Goode (Grand Valley State U., U.S.)

Archaeology and Nationalism in Early Republican Turkey:

Unlikely Encounters in a Changing World

Ayhan Akman (Sabanci U., Turkey)

Modernist Nationalism? Statism and National Identity in Turkey

Discussant

Ali L. Karaosmanoglu (Bilkent U., Turkey)

Panel U11 (V)

Forging the Nation

Chair

Catherine Wanner (Penn State U., U.S.)

Papers

Nancy Popson (Kennan Institute, U.S.)

History Textbooks in Ukraine: Introducing Children to the

"Ukrainian Nation"

Wilfried Jilge (Humboldt U., Germany)

State Symbolism and National Identity in Ukraine since 1991

Natalie Kononenko (U. of Virginia, U.S.)

The Ukrainian Civil Wedding Today: Balancing Soviet Identity

with National Identity

Olexander Hryb (British Broadcasting Co., U.K.)

Soviet Ethnography Heritage and the Revival of Ethnogeopolitics

in Russia and Ukraine

Discussant

Germ Janmaat (U. of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Panel CE06 (V)

The European Union: Problems and Prospects of Enlargement

Chair

André Liebich (Graduate Institute of International Affairs,

Switzerland)

Papers

Peter Van Ham (George C. Marshall European Center for Security

Studies, Germany)

Identity Beyond the State: The Case of the European Union

David Hughes (U. of Wales, Aberystwyth, U.K.)

Euro-stabilizer or Euro-threatener?: The European Crisis Reaction

Force

Jozsef Borocz (Rutgers U., U.S.)

Overdetermination, Rhetorical Strategies, and the Disparaged

Other in the

"Eastern Enlargement" of the European Union

Discussant

John K. Glenn (New York U., U.S.)

Panel CA05 (V)

Preventing Conflict in the Ferghana Valley

A Roundtable Sponsored by the Open Society Institute

Chair

Anthony Richter (Open Society Institute, New York, U.S.)

Participants

Alisher Ilkhamov (Center for Social Research, Tashkent,Uzbekistan)

Barnett Rubin (Center for Preventative Action, Council on

Foreign Relations, New York, U.S.)

Nancy Lubin (JNA Associates, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.)

Justin Burke (Open Society Institute, New York, U.S.)

Friday, 14 April

Session VI 2.15 p.m.—4.15 p.m.

Panel Y08 (VI)

Elites and Nationalism in Serbia

Chair

Leon Lowder (Columbia U., U.S.)

Papers

Marion Avrillier (Institut d’Etudes Politiques, France)

"Ko to tamo peva" (Who is Singing Over There?): Power, Music,

and War in Serbia, 1989—1999

Florian Bieber (Central European U., Hungary)

Nationalism in Serbia after the Kosovo War

Jelena Subotic (Syracuse U., U.S.)

War of Letters and Words of Hate: The Use of Language and the

Role of Intellectual Elite in Exciting Nationalism in Serbia

Angelo Georgakis (U. of Minnesota, U.S.)

New Voices and Choices: The Opposition to the Rule of Slobodan

Milosevic in Serbia since 1990

Discussant

Eric Gordy (Clark U., U.S.)

Panel N01 (VI)

Why Do Conflicts Not Turn Violent?: The Cases of Tatarstan,

Ajaria, and Crimea

Sponsored by the Program on Global Security, Watson Institute,

Brown U.

Chair

Terrence P. Hopmann (Watson Institute, Brown U., U.S.)

Papers

Stephen D. Shenfield (Watson Institute, Brown U., U.S.)

Tatarstan’s Referendum Crisis of February—March 1992: Factors

Underlying/the Non-Violent Resolution

Judith Hin (U. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Ajaria. Authoritarian Governance, Favorable Economic Location,

and Minor Ethnic Tensions: The Interests of the Local Potentate

in Keeping Violent Conflict at Bay

Dominique Arel (Watson Institute, Brown U., U.S.)

Failed Secessionism and the Control of Security Forces in Crimea

Discussant/Charles King (Georgetown U., U.S.)

Panel VO2 (VI)

The Roma in Central Europe--Ethnic or Social Minority? Roman

Identity Crisis in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Chair/Discussant

David Crowe (Elon College, U.S.)

Presentations

Helena Rozlivkova (Nova Southeastern U., U.S.)

Ethnic Relations in the Czech Republic

Michal Vasecka (Institute for Public Affairs, Bratislava, Slovakia)

The making of Black Word

Video Presentation: Black Word (Slovakia 1999, 35 m., directed by

Robert Kirchhoff)

Documentary on the Roma settlement Hermanovce in Eastern

Slovakia

(The video was produced by Mr. Vasecka's institute)

Panel V07 (VI)

Video Presentation: Immortal Fortress: A Look Inside Chechnya’s

Warrior Culture (U.S., 1999, 60 mins., directed by Dodge

Billingsley)

The film goes behind the scenes exploring Chechnya's war-driven

culture, while searching for its most prolific modern warrior, Shamil

Basayev. Considered a terrorist by many, Shamil personifies the

Chechen warrior ethos. The film answers the broader question of

why Shamil and thousands of other Chechens fight. Featuring an

interview with Salman Raduyev.

Presented by Dodge Billingsey, Film Director.

The screening will be followed by a discussion led by Robert Bruce

Ware, Southern Illinois U. at Edwardsville, U.S.

Panel U10 (VI)

Institutions and Elites in Ukraine

Chair

Robert DeLossa (Ukrainian Research Center, Harvard U., U.S.)

Papers

Sarah Drue Phillips (U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.)

Reshaping Identity: The Construction of Self and Society among Women

Leaders of Ukrainian NGOs

Paul D’Anieri (U. of Kansas, U.S.)

Institutional Factors in Party Fragmentation in Ukraine

Andrea Curti and Vlada Tkach (Tufts University, U.S.)

Land Reform and the Presidential Elections in Ukraine: New

Opportunities or Old Frustrations?

Orest Subtelny (York U., Canada)

The New Ukrainian Elite

Discussant

David Marples (U. of Alberta, Canada)

Panel CA12 (VI)

Security, Energy, and Foreign Policy South of Russia (VI)

Chair

George Gavrilis (Columbia U., U.S.)

Papers

Glen Camp (Bryant College, U.S.)

Changes in the East Mediterranean Security Situation: Implications for

U.S. Policy (Greece-Turkey)

Levent Hekimoglu (York U., Canada)

Post-Communist Transitions in the Black Sea Basin and the Question of

the Turkish Straits

Gareth Winrow (Istanbul Bilgi U., Turkey)

Turkey and Caspian Energy: The Importance of Geopolitics

Eric Miller (Old Dominion U., U.S.)

Post-Soviet Foreign Policies: Peripheral Elite Security in Central Asia

Discussant

Sophia Clément (Gestion des crises dans les Balkans, Ministère de la

Défense, France)

Panel R02 (VI)

Ethnicity and Regionalism in Siberia

Chair

Steven Solnick (Harriman Institute, Columbia U., U.S.)

Papers

Mikhail Alexseev (Appalachian State U., U.S.)

Are Chinese Migrants at Risk? Cross-Border Trade and Ethnopolitical

Activism in Primorskii krai in the 1990s

Nelson Hancock (Columbia U., U.S.)

Archival Identities: Land, History, and Ethnicity Politics in Kamchatka

Jean-Robert Raviot (CERI, Fondation Nationale des Sciences

Politiques, France)

"Counsellors to the Prince" at the Regional Level: The Case of

Post-Soviet Siberia

John P. Ziker (Indiana U. of Pennsylvania, U.S.)

Challenges to Self-Determination Among the Siberian Dolgan and

Nganasan

Discussant

Helge Blakkisrud (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs,

Norway)

Panel K02 (VI)

State Formation in the North Caucasus: History, Prospects, and

Problems

Chair

Uli Schamiloglu (U. of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.)

Papers

Michael A. Reynolds (Princeton U., U.S.)

Indigenous Attempts at State Formation in the North Caucasus: A

Historical Review

Thomas D. Grant (Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Germany)

Still Seeking Statehood: The North Caucasus and Contemporary

Statehood Movements

John Colarusso (McMaster U., Canada)

Cultural Obstacles to State Formation in the North Caucasus

Discussant

Fiona Hill (Eurasia Foundation, U.S.)

Panel N02 (VI)

Approaches to the Prevention of Ethnic Conflict

Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations

Chair

Arthur C. Helton (Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign

Relations, New York, U.S.)

Papers

Radha Kumar (Council on Foreign Relations, New York, U.S.)

A Post-Cold War Peace? New Approaches to Solving Ethnic Conflict

Alexander Lupis (Open Society Institute, New York, U.S.)

The Politics of Balkan Stability

Barnett R. Rubin (Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign

Relations, New York, U.S.)

Is Promoting Inter-Ethnic Understanding How to Prevent Ethnic Conflict?

Discussant

The Hon. Nancy E. Soderberg (United States Mission to the United

Nations)

Friday, 14 April

Session VII 4.30 p.m. -6.30 p.m.

Panel V07 (VII)

Video Presentation: Purgatory (Chistilishche) (Russia, 1998, 115

mins., directed by Aleksandr Nevzorov, produced by Boris

Berezovsky for ORT, in Russian without subtitles)

A fiction film set during the original assault on Grozny by the

Russian Army in January 1995. A cinematic orgy of non-stop

violence and horror, and an allegory for the agony of a threatened

and dismembered Russia, beset on all sides by enemies (crime,

Islamic fundamentalism, Western materialism, American perfidy,

and hostile neighbors) and unable to save itself.

The screening will be followed by a discussion led by Jacob Kipp

(Foreign Military Studies Office, Ft. Leavenworth, U.S.)

Panel B06 (VII)

Towards European Integration: Identity and Security in the Baltic

States

Chair

Janis Ikstens (Harriman Institute, Columbia U., U.S.)

Papers

Toivo Miljan (Wilfrid Laurier U., Canada)

language as National Identity: The Case of Estonia

Jekaterina Dorodnova (Institute for Peace Research and Security

Policy, U. of Hamburg, Germany)

In the Name of Identity: Latvia's Response to International Involvement

Richard Mole (London School of Economics, U.K.)

National Identity and Foreign Policy: Perceptions of Self and Other in the

Post-Soviet International Relations of the Baltic States

Joni Virkkunen (U. of Joensuu, Estonia)

Discourse, Boundaries, and Scale: Constructing Security in Northeast

Estonian Borderland

Discussant/Juris Dreifelds (Brock U., Canada)

Panel Y09 (VII)

Rebuilding Bosnia

Chair

Garth Katner (Sacred Heart U., U.S.)

Papers

Marcus Cox (Cambridge U., U.K.)

Building a State from the Outside: The International Community and the

Dayton Agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Daniel H. Dail (U. of Virginia, U.S.)

National Identity and State Construction in Bosnia

Charles Call (Watson Institute, Brown U., U.S.)

Constructing "Democratic" Police Forces: Why the Post-War

Institution-Building Wave Crashed in the Balkans

James Castonguay (Sacred Heart U., U.S.)

Representing Bosnia: The Internet and Democratic Media Culture

Discussant

Christian Nielsen (Columbia U., U.S.)

Panel V04 (VII)

Video Presentations: Ukrainians of Yugoslavia in Peace and War

Chair/Jaropolk Lassowsky (Clarion U., U.S.)

Video: And the Twain Shell Meet (1990)

Bosnian Multicultural Communities after an Earthquake

Presented by Director Mykola Kulish (Kinocraft, Philadelphia, U.S.)

Video: Interviews with Ukrainian refugees from former Yugoslavia

(U.S., 1999)

Presented by Director Anna Chumachenko (Ohio State U., U.S.)

Panel CE03 (VII)

Borderland Identities and Ideologies

Chair

Martin Aberg (Södertörns, Högskola University College,

Sweden/Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Cambridge, U.S.)

Papers

Piotr Wrobel (U. of Toronto, Canada)

Journey Through the Borderlands: General Lucian Zeligowski and His

Quest for Home and Security

Elena Gapova (European Humanities U., Belarus and U. of

Michigan, U.S.)

The Cultural is the Political: A Symbolic War in Belarus

Michael Szporer (U. of Maryland U. College, U.S.)

Local Identities and Ideologues on the Edge of Europe

Kate Brown (U. of Washington, U.S.)

Ukraine and the Making of Nation-Space: The Volhynian Borderland

Discussant

Timothy Snyder (Harvard U., U.S.)

Panel U04 (VII)

Three Viewpoints, Four Voices, on Ukraine: The Media, Women,

and the Village

Chair

Joanna Paraszczuk (U. College London, U.K.)

Papers

Marta Dyczok (U. of Western Ontario, Canada)

Is the Mass Media in Ukraine Independent?

Alexandra Hrycak (Reed College, U.S.)

Women in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Opportunities and Threats

Kimberly Righter (American U., Washington College of Law, U.S.)

Politics and Gender in Ukraine: The Next Generation of Women

Politicians?

Natalia Shostak (U. of Toronto, Canada)

In Search for the Future: Rural Uncertainties in Western Ukraine

Discussant

Catherine Wanner (Penn State U., U.S.)

Panel K08 (VII)

Autonomy in the Caucasus: The International Context

Chair

Evan Siegel (City U. of New York, U.S.)

Papers

George Tarkhan-Mouravi (International Centre for Geopolitical and

Regional Studies, Tbilisi, Georgia)

Identities and Preferences: Georgia in Changing Environment

Tim Potier (Intercollege, Nicosia, Cyprus)

Autonomy and the South Caucasus

Marissa Polsky (CERES at Georgetown, U.S.)

Nagorno-Karabakh and International Policy Implications

Discussant

Nikolas K Gvosdev (Baylor U., U.S.)

Panel N17 (VII)

Special Event: INCORE Tip O'Neill Annual Lecture

INCORE, a joint programme of the University of Ulster and the United

Nationas University, was established in 1993 to address the management

and resolution of conflicts. The Tip O'Neill Fellowship, located within

INCORE and inaugurated by President Clinton in 1995, is funding an

Annual Lecture which, for the first time, is held under the auspices of the