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A Journey Through Ukrainian Studies at the National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) by Helene N. Turkewicz-Sanko The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) is a national organization which promotes Slavic Studies in the humanities. Papers presented at the annual convention deal with the following disciplines: Art and Architecture; Culture, Folklore, Geography, History, Languages, Linguistics, Literatures, Politics and International Relations of Central, Southern, and Eastern Europe as well as Russian-Asian areas. In 2001, the convention was held November 15-November 18 at Crystal City, Virginia, at the Hyatt-Hilton Hotels, just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. About 349 sessions, each lasting about 2 hours, took place during these four days. There are two kinds of sessions at conventions of this kind: “roundtables” and “panels”. A roundtable gathers scholars who have established themselves in the academic world and are known for their expertise and publications. A chair introduces the participants of a roundtable, then a discussion follows. A regular session, or panel, requires a chair, three participants who each read a paper, and one or two discussants who comment on various aspects of these three papers. At this year’s AAASS Convention, Ukrainian Studies were well represented in both roundtables and panels. Professor Natalia Kononenko from the University of Virginia participated in two roundtables on folklore as a specialist of Ukrainian folklore. The first roundtable was entitled Academic Folklore: the O ral Tradition of Am erican Slavic Studies and included specialists such as Robert A. Rothstein from the University of Massachusetts and James O. Bailey from the University of Wisconsin among others. The second roundtable in which Professor Kononenko participated dealt with Issues in the Collection of Folklore in form er USSR. There were three roundtables where other Ukrainian matters were discussed. The roundtable on C urrent Ukrainian: Rules Versus Usage brought together scholars from the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Princeton Research Forum (Larissa Onyshkevych), from Ukraine (Andrij Danylenko from Kharkiv University), and experts from other universities. Professor Assya Humesky from the University of Michigan, Aim Arbor, was not able to attend this year’s convention but has been a regular participant at past AAASS conventions. The roundtable A H undred Years of Youth: A Century of M odern Ukrainian Poetry brought together specialists from Penn State University (Michael Naydan and Catherine Wanner), Columbia University (Antonina Vitaliivna Berezovenko, Vitaly A. Chemetsky), Rutgers University (Myroslava Tomorug Znayenko), and one person from Ukraine: Olha Luchuk from the Ukrainian State University of Forestry and Wood Technology. Crisis and Reform in Russian and U krainian Education gathered specialists from Colorado College, Indiana University, the World Bank of Moscow, the Kennan Institute, the University of Washington, and Harvard. Interested scholars who wish to participate as panelists at the convention must assemble their respective panels and submit their proposals before the December deadline. This year there were seven such sessions on Ukrainian themes on the program with participants from North America and Europe. Although the following list is not exhaustive, the various universities represented by the participants cover a triangular area that geographically follows the Canadian Shield from the University of Alberta to Harvard University via the University of Toronto. Harvard and the cluster of universities in New England form the right angle comer of this imaginary triangle, which continues via Columbia University and reaches the University of Virginia, the stronghold of Professor Natalia Kononenko. Inside this geographical triangular space we find participants from universities such as the University of Chicago, Indiana University, Michigan University, the University of Kentucky, Ohio Sate University, Penn State University, Valparaiso University, CUNY, Rutgers University, Brown University, Vassar College, Columbia University- the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Princeton Research Forum, and finally the Kennan Institute in Washington, D.C. From Europe, scholars came from Poland, Russia and Ukraine (Kharkiv University and the Ukrainian State University of Forestry and Wood Technology). The titles of the six sessions directly connected to Ukrainian matters with the names of the Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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