Opening remarks by Professor Henry Hale, Director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
10:15 – 10:25AM
Opening remarks by Ihor Bardyn, Director of the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program
10:25– 10:30 AM
Welcoming remarks by Andriy Bihun, President of The Washington Group
10:30 – 10:35AM
Welcoming remarks by Bohdan Pechenyak, President of SUSTA
Morning session
10:35 – 10:40AM
Welcoming remarks by Olha Kroytor, Chair of the morning session
10:40 – 10:50 AM
Pavlo SHOPIN, CUPP 2008, Fulbright Research Fellow at University of California, Berkeley
Topic: What are the implications of the fact that a significant number of Ukraine’s population do not consider themselves Ukrainian either in the national or civic sense?
10:50 – 11:05 AM
Discussion
11:05 – 11:15AM
Inna VOLKOVA, CUPP 2006, PhD candidate at Michigan State University
Topic: What does it mean to be Ukrainian in the post-Independence era
11:15 – 11:30AM
Discussion
11:30 –11:50 AM
Coffee-break
11:50 – 12:05 PM
Evhenia VIATCHANINOVA, CUPP 2009/2010 University of Kyiv
Topic: The plunge of Ukrainian youth into deep career individualism and the pursuit of personal satisfaction and success
12:05 – 12:15 PM
Discussion
12:15 – 12:30 PM
Lyubomyr REGUSH, CUPP 2006, Old Dominion University
Topic: Participation of youth in decision making process; transfer of knowledge as a method of welfare improvement in Ukraine; Ukrainian army as a instrument of guaranteeing Ukraine's defense and independence
12:30 – 12:40 PM
Andriy KHOMENKO, CUPP 1996, University of Kyiv, AT & T Mobility, Atlanta
Topic: A plan of Action for Today and Tomorrow
12:40 – 12:55PM
Discussion
12:55– 1:00 PM
Closing remarks by Olha Kroytor, Chair of the morning session
1:00 – 2:00 PM
Lunch
Afternoon session
2:00 – 2:05 PM
Opening remarks by Oleksandr Pankiv, Chair of the afternoon session
2:05 – 2:15PM
Maksym KLYUCHAR, CUPP 2006, University of Texas
Choose one of these topics:
“A small brother and an unwelcome neighbor”
2:15 – 2:30PM
Discussion
2:30 – 2:40PM
Dmytro PANCHUK, CUPP 2007, Kansas State University
Topic: Political alienation in Ukraine: theory and practice
2:40 – 2:55PM
Discussion
2:55 – 3:05PM
Peter MARETS, CUPP 2009, Lviv Polytechnic National University
Topic: Ukrainian Political Elite
3:05– 3:20PM
Discussion
3:20 – 3:30PM
Inna VIRIASOVA, CUPP 2005,University of Western Ontario
Topic: Melancholic National Identity: Ukraine. (Freud and National Sentimentalism)
3:30 – 3:45PM
Discussion
3:45 – 4:05PM
Coffee break
4:05 – 4:15PM
Roman TASHLEETSKY, CUPP 2002/2003, National University of Ostroh Academy
Topic: Contemporary Ukrainian Literature as a Reflection of Ukraine's Development in the Independence Years
4:15 – 4:30PM
Discussion
4:30 – 4:40PM
Iryna KRASNOSHTAN, CUPP 2009/2010, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Topic: How Ukrainian we are
4:40 – 4:45PM
Discussion
4:45– 4:55 PM
Discussion, closing remarks and summary of the First Day
4:55 – 5:00 PM
Closing remarks by Oleksandr Pankiv, Chair of the afternoon session
SATURDAY February 13,2010
9:00 – 9:10 AM
Opening remarks by Andriy Olenyuk, Chair of the morning session
9:10 – 9:20 AM
Welcoming remarks by Oleksandr Aleksandrovych,
Minister-Counselor of the Embassy of Ukraine
9:20 – 9:30 AM
Andriy SEMOTIUK, Attorney, Los Angeles, California
Topic: If you don't know where you came from you cannot know where you are going. What can be learned from Ukrainian history. What can be learned from the foreign experience?
9:30 – 9:45 AM
Discussion
9:45 – 9:55 AM
Bohdan VITVITSKY, Attorney, New Jersey
Topic: Patriotism, Facts, History, Learning from Others, and Who vs. What
9:55 – 10:10AM
Discussion
10:10 – 10:30 AM
Coffee break
10:30 – 12:30 AM
Wrap-up session with participation of all participants of Conference and summary of components of a Model to be carried forward to the Ottawa Conference
12:30 – 1:00 PM
Closing remarksby Andriy Olenyuk, Chair of the morning session