Censorship, Surveillance, Resistance: Twentieth-Century Ukraine and Letter Writing
Monday, May 15, 2023 - Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Agenda
Monday, May 15
8:00 AM - 8:15 AM


8:15 AM - 10:00 AM

“Dangerous Liaisons: Letters from and to the Soviet “Famine-lands” as Reported in Canada’s Daily Press, 1932-1934” - Jars Balan

"Weaponizing Words: Censorship, Surveillance and Resistance in Mennonite Communities in Soviet Ukraine (1920s-1930s)" - Colin Neufeldt

Speakers: Jars Balan, Colin Neufeldt

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM


10:15 AM - 12:00 PM

"“Easter Greetings from Germany”: Picture Postcards as Nazi Propaganda in the Correspondence of Ukrainian Ostarbeiters" - Alex Averbuch

“We Sent What We Could: Postal Communication between Ukraine and the Soviet Gulag in the Post-War Period.” - Emily D. Johnson.

Speakers: Alex Averbuch, Emily Johnson

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
1:00 PM - 2:45 PM

“Under the KGB’s watchful eye: A Photo that bound generations and continents” - Frank Sysyn.

"“In life, things can happen, so it’s better for one not to write letters and give their photos”: Peter Krawchuk files in the KGB Archives" - Nataliya Bezborodova

Speakers: Nataliya Bezborodova, Frank Sysyn

Tuesday, May 16
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM


9:15 AM - 9:50 AM

“Waldsee, the fiction and reality of a Name: Final Correspondence from the Victims of the Holocaust” - Anindita Mukherjee.

Speakers: Anindita Mukherjee

9:50 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 12:30 AM

“To Improve the Quality of Document Processing”: Transition from Military Postal Control to Secret Postal Control (1946) and its Impact on Perlustration Practices" - Jelena Pogosjan

“From World War II to the Cold War: Transformations of Postal Censorship as a Mirror of Social Change” - Andriy Kohut

"It Takes Three to Tango: Epistolary Transatlantic Adventure in Love, Art, and Diasporic Longing" - Natalia Khanenko-Friesen

Speakers: Andriy Kohut, Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, Jelena Pogosjan