Zenon Wasyliw, Professor of History, had a very active spring and summer of conference participation.
Papers Delivered:
“Teaching Globalization and Human Rights through Contemporary History and the News,” paper presented at World History Association Conference, Boston, MA, on 23 June 2017 as part of a panel on “World Histories in a Globalizing World”
The paper conceptualizes and reviews the development and teaching of the course “History in the News: Global Identities and the Search for Justice.” Students are introduced to the field of contemporary world history within larger themes of globalization and global human rights issues. Students conceptualize and reflect upon the human condition through larger historical, theoretical, and cultural constructs of globalization and human rights through the integrated thematic lenses of identity and power and justice within a liberal arts humanities perspective. The study of primary and secondary news sources and use of social media are also considered throughout the course.
“Revolution in Faith: The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and its Impact on the Ukrainian Village,” Conference on Ukrainian Statehood 1917-1921: Institutions and Individuals, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, paper presented on 24 February 2017
The historical interpretive basis of this paper and a larger project considers subaltern studies as a parallel interpretive guidepost in offering narratives of non-elites as agents of change balanced with a cultural historical methodology of the annals school that analyzes cultural and religious traditions and their relationship with everyday life and values. The paper specifically offers archive based examples of village agency in response to the shifting dynamics of soviet cultural policies and the lasting influence of the Ukrainian Revolution through an examination of the Ukrainian village expressed through a religious affiliation and activism. These autonomous initiatives challenged Soviet plans for a socialist cultural transformation of the villagers in the Ukrainian countryside during the early Soviet period of the NEP era (1921-1928)
Panel Participation:
Association for the Study of Nationalities Convention participation in New York City -
“Language, Education, and Contested Identities in Central Europe,” Chair, 5 May 2017
“History and Memory,” Discussant, 6 May 2017
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20170827225509110