Sandra Sawchuk is the data services and user experience librarian at Mount Saint Vincent University Library and Archives. Her research interests include digital humanities and data rescue and reuse. Her recent publications are focused on computational reproducibility and research data curation. She is currently participating in a two-year SSHRC Partnership grant to improve access to Canada’s historic census. She is also investigating the settlement and migration of Ukrainian Canadians using historic and current census data. 

Session: Before 2022 - A Canadian Snapshot, Part I 3:15PM, April 21, 2023

Abstract: “To those who came before us”: Understanding the settlement and migration of Ukrainians in Canada between 1991 - 2021

Oleh Wolowyna is the Director of the Center for Demographic and Socio-Economic Research of Ukrainians in the US, Shevchenko Scientific Society New York and Research Fellow at the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University and has held teaching and research positions at the University of Western Ontario, Canada and UNC-Chapel Hill. He has been coordinating a research project on the 1932-1934 Famine in the Soviet Union in collaboration with the Institute of Demography and Social Research of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. He is the recipient of two Fulbright Research grants in Ukraine. One of his articles on the Famine received the Association for the Study of Nationalities Huttenbach Prize for the best 2020 paper in the journal Nationalities Papers. His books include Ethnicity and National Identity (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1989) and Atlas of Ukrainians in the U.S. (Shevchenko Scientific Society, 2019).

Session: Before 2022 - A Canadian Snapshot, Part I 3:15PM, April 21, 2023

Abstract: The Change a Decade Can Make: The Canadian Census and Ukrainians in Canada, 2016 & 2021

Yuliia Ivaniuk, MA is the Coordinator of the Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies and the Ukrainian Canadian Heritage Studies Program at the University of Manitoba. She obtained a Masters in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Manitoba and a Bachelor of International Relations in the Military Sphere degree from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Her research interests include the intersections of international relations and peace and conflict studies, identity and conflict, human rights and Ukrainian Canadiana. Yuliia currently serves on the Ukrainian Canadian Congress Manitoba Provincial Council.

Session: Self and Settlement | 4:45PM, April 21, 2023

Abstract: Community Engagement and Volunteerism: A Case Study of Ukrainian Canadians’ Adaptation Experiences

Mariya Lesiv is Associate Professor of Folklore at Memorial University. Her research interests include folklore and politics; ethnicity and national identity; belief and religious folklife; and diaspora studies. Lesiv's first book The Return of Ancestral Gods: Modern Ukrainian Paganism as an Alternative Vision for a Nation was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2013. She also contributed articles to edited volumes and academic journals including Anthropologica, Journal of American Folklore, Ethnologies, Folklorica, and Western Folklore. She is a recipient of a 2017-2019 SSHRC Insight Development grant focusing on the study of immigrants from post-Socialist Europe and Asia to Newfoundland. Lesiv served as President of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada/l'Association canadienne d'ethnologie et de folklore in 2021-2022, and is currently President of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association. 

Session: Self and Settlement | 4:45PM, April 21, 2023

Abstract: Ukrainians in the Host-Region of Newfoundland: Domestic Ethnicity and Integration 

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Round Table: Across the Waves: Ukrainian Canadians on Identity and Community Belonging | 11:20AM, April 22, 2023

Masha Beketova (no pronouns) is a doctoral candidate at Humboldt University in Berlin. Masha has been researching queer migration from Eastern Europe for eight years, including Ukrainian migrants’ perspectives on Germany between 2014 and 2022. Masha holds a Rosa Luxemburg Scholarship and is currently completing doctoral research “Queer ‘post-Soviet’ diaspora beyond (in)visibility and (self)exoticization.“ Masha is a co-editor of a multilingual anthology of queer migrant poetry and autoethnographies “Wir haben was zu sagen” (2018). 

Session: Session: Self and Settlement | 4:45PM, April 21, 2023

Abstract: Queering migration studies: Methodological challenges in studying Ukrainian queer migration/diaspora

Olga Plakhotnik is a Chair in Ukrainian Cultural Studies at the University of Greifswald and a PI of the team project "Un)Disciplined: Pluralizing Ukrainian Studies—Understanding the War in Ukraine" (funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research). Considering themselves a scholar-activist and educator, they work in the area of feminist/queer epistemologies, critical citizenship studies, and feminist/ queer pedagogies. Their publications appeared in Feral Feminisms (2022) and lambda nordica (2023, forthcoming), among others, and in several book collections. Olga's recent research project explores discursive mechanisms of political subjectivation and queerness using the concept of "border" as both a locality and a method. They are also working on a book manuscript Sexuality, Citizenship and War for McGill-Queen’s University Press. Olga is a co-founder and joint editor-in-chief of the refereed journal Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies. In 2020-2022, Olga was the Bayduza Postdoctoral Fellow at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.

Session: Session: Self and Settlement | 4:50PM, April 21, 2023

Abstract: Queering migration studies: Methodological challenges in studying Ukrainian queer migration/diaspora

Mariia Burtseva holds an MA in History and is a visiting researcher at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, granted by the Kule Institute for Advanced Study under the auspices of the University of Alberta’s Disrupted Ukrainian Scholars and Students initiative. Her research interests include Canadian Studies, Immigration Studies, Gender Studies, Contemporary Myths in Modern History, and Mass Media. Currently, Mariia is working on the topic of “Immigration Policy of Canada and Building Canadian Identity from 1945 to 2012”.

Session: Before 2022 - A Canadian Snapshot, Part II | 8:30AM, April 22, 2023

Abstract: The Features of Canadian Immigration Policy in the 1990s-2000s

Lisa Kaida is an Associate Professor of Sociology at McMaster University and Vice President of the Canadian Population Society. Her research specializes in the economic and social integration of immigrants and refugees, work and occupations and the sociology of sports. Kaida’s current research projects include the occupational segregation along the lines of gender, race, and migrant status (with Monica Boyd), immigrant remittance and gender (with Liam Swiss and Heather Dicks), and the economic integration of post-1991 immigrants from Ukraine (with Victor Satzewich).

Session: Before 2022 - A Canadian Snapshot, Part II | 8:30AM, April 22, 2023

Abstract: The Settlement and Socio-economic Integration Trajectories of Post-1991 Immigrants to Canada: A View from the Longitudinal Immigrant Database 

Victor Satzewich is Professor of Sociology at McMaster University. He was a United Kingdom Commonwealth Scholar and received his Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow, Scotland in 1988. His books include Racism and the Incorporation of Foreign Labour: Farm Labour Migration to Canada Since 1945 (Routledge, 1991); The Ukrainian Diaspora (Routledge, 2002); Racism in Canada (Oxford University Press, 2006); Points of Entry: How Canada’s Visa Officers Decide Who Gets In (University of British Columbia Press, 2015); ‘Race’ and Ethnicity in Canada: A Critical Perspective, (Oxford University Press, 5th edition, 2021); and The Vietnamese Diaspora: Contested Spaces, Contested Narratives (Brill, 2022, co-edited with Anna Vu). 

Session: Before 2022 - A Canadian Snapshot, Part II | 8:30AM, April 22, 2023

Abstract: The Settlement and Socio-economic Integration Trajectories of Post-1991 Immigrants to Canada: A View from the Longitudinal Immigrant Database 

Session: In Word and in Deed | 9:50AM, April 22, 2023

Abstract: Making Room for Everyone in the Community Classroom

Alla Nedashkivska is Professor of Slavic Applied Linguistics at the University of Alberta and a former Director of the Ukrainian Language Education Centre at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. With a Ph.D. in Slavic Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh, she has taught a wide range of courses in Ukrainian language and linguistics at the universities of Pittsburgh, Toronto, and Alberta. Dr. Nedashkivska publishes in the areas of Slavic linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, political and media language, as well as language pedagogy and second language acquisition in Ukrainian. She authors Ukrainian language textbooks, one of which, Ukrainian Through Its Living Culture (University of Alberta Press, 2010) won the 2012 AATSEEL Book prize for Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy, and another “Вікно у світ бізнесу: ділова українська мова / A Window Into the World of Business: Ukrainian for Professional Communication" (University of Alberta Press/Pica Pica Press 2016) received the inaugural University of Alberta Open Educational Resources Award (2018).

Session: In Word and in Need | 9:50AM, April 22, 2023

Abstract: A Multitude of Voices: Language Attitudes and Language Practices in the New Ukrainian Canadian Diaspora

Adèle Garnier is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Geography and affiliated with the Canada Research Chair in Global Migration Processes at Université Laval. Her research focuses on the admission and settlement of forced migrants and of temporary migrants in federal systems from a multi-level governance perspective. She is co-editor of Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees and co-edited the volume Refugee Resettlement: Power, Politics and Human Governance (Berghahn Books, 2018).

Session: Fleeing Home, Making Home: How 2022 Changed Everything | 2:00PM, April 22, 2023

Abstract: Welcoming displaced Ukrainians in Canada fleeing the Russian invasion of 2022: Quebec City and Winnipeg in comparative perspective

Agnès Blais is coordinator of the Canada Research Chair in Global Migration Processes at Université Laval. She has recently completed her PhD in anthropology and has a long fieldwork experience in Moscow with a Russian NGO helping migrants and refugees, interacting with the UNHCR and challenging Russian authorities. Her research focuses on the human rights movement, authoritarianism, refugees, migrants, NGOs and solidarity in post-Soviet Russia.

Session: Fleeing Home, Making Home: How 2022 Changed Everything | 2:00PM, April 22, 2023

Abstract: Welcoming displaced Ukrainians in Canada fleeing the Russian invasion of 2022: Quebec City and Winnipeg in comparative perspective

Devon Sereda Goldie is a Ph.D. student in the Modern Languages and Cultural Studies program at the University of Alberta. She holds a BA in Applied Theatre and Environmental Studies and an MA in Applied Theatre with a focus on Ukrainian Studies from the University of Victoria. She is a Ukrainian Canadian artist, activist, and community leader. She is among the youngest Canadians to be banned from the Russian Federation for her activism since February 2022.

Session: Fleeing Home, Making Home: How 2022 Changed Everything | 2:00PM, April 22, 2023

Abstract: Not Enough: An Autoethnographic Case Study of Housing Ukrainian Refugees on Vancouver Island in 2022

Milana Nikolko, PhD, is an adjunct professor at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS), Carleton University and a sessional instructor in the department of History at the University of Manitoba. From 2005 to 2014 Nikolko was an associate Professor of Political Science (Docent) at V.Vernadsky Taurida National University in Ukraine. In 2008 she was appointed as a visiting professor in the Political Science Department of Valdosta State University (USA). She has published extensively on topics of Ukraine’s nation-building process, mediation of grey zone conflicts (case Ukraine), and political narratives of victimization among ethnic minorities, migrants and diaspora groups from post-Soviet countries. Her full bio can be found here: https://carleton.ca/eurus/people/nikolko-milana/

Session: Consideration from Crisis | 3:20PM, April 22, 2023

Abstract: Diaspora mobilization in times of crisis: a comparative analysis of Ukrainian, Afghan and Sri Lankan diasporas in Canada

Lyubov Zhyznomirska is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her research interests include such issues as regional migration governance, irregular migration, forced displacement, citizenship and belonging, foreign policy and security studies, with the specialization in the European Union, Ukraine, and Russia. Her current research project examines the reception of war-displaced Ukrainians in Canada and Germany through a comparative lens. She has published in Comparative European Politics, Ethnicities, edited collections on the EU’s relations with its Eastern neighbourhood countries, and she co-edited (with A. Weinar and S. Bonjour) The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe (Routledge, 2019).

Session: Consideration from Crisis | 3:20PM, April 22, 2023

Abstract: Assessing the impact of the CUAET visa policy on Canada's humanitarian migration regime

Roman Petryshyn was a long-time activist in the multicultural movement in the 1970s which resulted in his being employed as Northern Director, Cultural Heritage, Alberta Culture for several years. In 1986 he established the Office of Multiculturalism and Native Programming (OMNP) at Grant MacEwan Community College and later became the founding director of the Ukrainian Resource and Development Centre (URDC). Dr. Petryshyn led that centre as the Drs. Peter and Doris Kule Chair in Ukrainian Community and International Development at Grant MacEwan University until he retired in 2015. His research and publications focus on the integration of Ukrainian minorities in Britain and Canada and include Changing Realities: Social Trends Among Ukrainian Canadians. Currently he is an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta.

Round Table: Across the Waves: Ukrainian Canadians on Identity and Community Belonging | 11:20AM, April 22, 2023

Oleksandr Pankieiev is the Research Coordinator and Editor-in-Chief of the Forum for Ukrainian Studies at the Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta. His main research interests include the history and ethnography of Stepp (Southern ) Ukraine, Russia-Ukraine relations. He is also pursuing research in the Ukrainian Canadian diaspora studies, digital humanities, media narratives, and digital folklore. When not occupied with work, Oleksandr also wears a myriad of organizational hats, including as President of the Alberta Society for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies, Vice President of the Alberta Local and International Education Association, Vice President of the Society of Friends of the Ukrainian Folklore Centre, University of Alberta, and as a board of directors member of both the Alberta Ukraine Chamber of Commerce and the Shevchenko Scientific Society – Alberta Branch.

Round Table: Across the Waves: Ukrainian Canadians on Identity and Community Belonging | 11:20AM, April 22, 2023

Victoria Kostyniuk received her BA in Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, focusing on Ukrainian and Slavic Studies, from the University of Alberta in 2021. In June 2023, she will be graduating with her MA in Transnational and Comparative Literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies. Next year, Victoria will continue on to do Ph.D research on Ukrainian Church Halls in Alberta and their roles as heritage spaces for Ukrainian Canadians. Victoria is a fourth generation Ukrainian Canadian and is one of the only members of her family to have visited Ukraine since her great-grandparents left in 1902. In her spare time, Victoria is a Ukrainian dance instructor with St. Basil School of Dance.

Round Table: Across the Waves: Ukrainian Canadians on Identity and Community Belonging | 11:20AM, April 22, 2023

Dmytro Yesypenko is a Ph.D. student in the Modern Languages and Cultural Studies Department and research assistant at the Kule Folklore Centre (University of Alberta). His interests include Ukrainian historical and literary process of the 19th & early 20th centuries, Slavic studies, and medical humanities. Dmytro’s ongoing doctoral research is focused on the past epidemics in Ukrainian and Polish literatures and folklore. He is a member of a number of professional and community associations (including NTSh (Canada), CAS, ASEEES, and YSUS) involved in organizing various events.Dmytro authored/edited “Lena and Thomas Gushul: Life in Front and Behind the Camera (jointly with Mariya Mayerchyk and Jelena Pogosjan; Edmonton, 2022–2023), “Borys Hrinchenko: Povisti” (Kyiv, 2020), “Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn” (jointly with Alessandro Achilli and Serhy Yekelchyk; Boston, 2020) and “Oksana Kowacka. Ukrains'ka postkolonialnist' u tekstakh i kontekstakh” (jointly with Karol Kowacki; Brusturiv, 2022).

Round Table: Across the Waves: Ukrainian Canadians on Identity and Community Belonging | 11:20AM, April 22, 2023

Orysia Boychuk has been working as a public servant for the past 26 years including both Federal and Provincial Government primarily in a role as a senior HR professional. In 2018, Orysia was elected as president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress - Alberta Provincial Council, an umbrella organization representing the Ukrainian community organizations in Alberta. She has been navigating the Ukrainian community in Alberta through some of the most challenging times including the pandemic and now the Russian invasion in Ukraine and its impacts on the Ukrainian community Alberta. She holds a master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Alberta and has been an active community member, holding various leadership roles including committee member of the Advisory Council on Alberta-Ukraine Relations, President of UCC Edmonton, President of Ukrainian Benevolent Society. Orysia is a recipient of several awards including the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Award, Hetman Award, and the Alberta Federal Council Award.

Round Table: Doing the Work - Community Responses in Canada to the Russian War in Ukraine | 5:30PM, April 22, 2023

Sarosh Rizvi is the Executive Director of National Sector Engagement and serves as co-chair for the Operation Ukrainian Safe Haven (OUSH) National Secretariat. He has previously served as the Executive Director at the Alberta Association of Immigrant Serving Agencies (AAISA) for five years and has worked in the settlement and integration sector for more than fifteen years. In additional to OUSH, Sarosh has been actively involved in the Afghan Initiative national secretariat, the Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR), and the Health of the Sector Working Group as part of the National Settlement and Integration Council (NSIC). Sarosh’s support of marginalized communities has been recognized by receiving the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee medal and by being named by Avenue Magazine as ‘Top 40 Under 40’ and by MOSAIC Volunteers with the Community Hero Award.

Round Table: Doing the Work - Community Responses in Canada to the Russian War in Ukraine | 5:30PM, April 22, 2023

Born and raised in Montreal, Natalia Zymovetz Toroshenko has been an Albertan since 1979. As a long time educator, she has many experiences with high school and adult learners in both face-to-face and online platforms. From 2004 – 2013 she was elected Councilor and Deputy Mayor in the Town of Vegreville. Since 2006 she has completed 10 missions to Ukraine as an International Election Observer. As a community activist, Natalia volunteers where her passions lead her: Friends of the Ukrainian Folklore Centre, St. John’s Institute, Ukrainian Canadian Congress – Alberta Provincial Council, and the executive of her beloved Orthodox church at Sich Kolomeya. For the last year she has chaired the Vegreville and Area Stands With Ukraine committee which serves as the settlement agency on her patch of the prairie. Most notably, she is fascinated by the resurgence of activity and purpose among Ukrainian Canadian society in response to this latest wave of immigration.

Round Table: Doing the Work - Community Responses in Canada to the Russian War in Ukraine | 5:30PM, April 22, 2023

Mykhailo Pereverza arrived in Canada as an exchange student from Ukraine in 2012, after having graduated from the National Agricultural University in Kyiv. He navigated the full process, becoming a Canadian Citizen in 2018! His deeply personal ties to Ukraine have prompted action through Project Sunflower - www.projectsunflower.ca

Round Table: Doing the Work - Community Responses in Canada to the Russian War in Ukraine | 5:30PM, April 22, 2023

Deb van Haaften (Puchalik) was born and raised on the homestead of her grandparents near Redwater, Alberta. Her grandparents arrived from Stariawa Mostiska in 1907 and her father took over the farming operation after a short career as a teacher. Deb graduated from the U of A Faculty of Pharmacy and achieved her Master's degree from Royal Roads University. She had a career in community pharmacy and then moved into hospital practice where she became the Executive Director of Pharmacy for the Edmonton Zone. Upon retirement she was called back into service to assist with the Covid response in the Emergency Operations Centre for 18 months. She joined the Ukrainian Canadian Congress - Alberta Provincial Council in April 2022 as Settlement Manager, assisting Ukrainian Newcomers fleeing the war. She has viewed this work as an incredible privilege and opportunity.

Round Table: Doing the Work - Community Responses in Canada to the Russian War in Ukraine | 5:30PM, April 22, 2023

Natalia Khanenko-Friesen is the Director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and Professor and Huculak Chair in Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography at the University of Alberta. She is an expert in the areas of oral history, ethnicity, migration, post-socialist transition, and Ukrainian, Eastern European, and Ukrainian Canadian cultures. She is deeply involved in community research and learning, and was the founder and editor of the Engaged Scholar Journal and co-founder of the Witnessing the War in Ukraine Summer Institute. A native of Kyiv, Dr. Khanenko-Friesen is the author or co-author of several books, including the 2018 Kobzar Award finalist Ukrainian Otherlands: Diaspora, Homeland and Folk Imagination in the Twentieth Century.

Round Table: Moderator: Doing the Work - Community Responses in Canada to the Russian War in Ukraine | 5:30PM, April 22, 2023