FULBRIGHT UKRAINE

PROGRAM

12th Annual Fulbright Alumni Conference

Ukraine and the World: Yearning for Change

December 18 – 19, 2009

Vasylkivska 36, Kyiv

Institute of Post-Diploma Study

Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University


 

Friday, December 18, 2009

13:30 – 14:00

Registration

14:00 - 18:00

Opening Session (Grand Hall)

 

Myron Stachiw
Director of the Fulbright Program in Ukraine

 

Myroslava Antonovych
President of the Ukrainian Fulbright Alumni Association, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

 

James Pettit
Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the United States in Ukraine 

15:00 – 15:10

Break

 

State reform or state re-founding: what political changes does Ukraine need?

Antonina Kolodiy, Lviv Regional Institute of State Administration, National Academy of Public Administration,Office of the President of Ukraine

 

Introducing democratic standards into the laws of a post-totalitarian state

Nataliya Petrova, Ukraine Rule of Law Project

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee Break

 

Creation of Education Association  - a step toward autonomy of Ukrainian universities

Leonid Klymenko, Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University

 

University rating in reality and through the looking glass: the Ukrainian context

Serhiy Kurbatov, Institute of Higher Education, Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine;
Andriy Kashyn, Kyiv International Institute of Sociology

 

The national system of independent external testing and monitoring of educational quality as an instrument for improving the educational system and building a community to support sustainable development in Ukraine

Ihor Likarchuk, Serhiy Rakov, Ukrainian Center for Evaluating of the Quality of Education

 

Discussion

18:00 – 19:00

Performance of Mariana Sadovska, Ukrainian composer and singer

19:00 – 20:00

Reception, Café of Institute of Post-Diploma Study, Vasylkivska 36

 

Saturday, December 19,  2009

9:00 – 11:00

Sessions  1, 2, 3

Session 1: Ukraine’s Status in the New World Order (Room 55)

Мoderators: Nataliya Gorodnia (Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University)

Speakers:

Oleh Gabriyelyan

Ukraine within the present-day global economic crisis

V.I. Vernadskyi Tavryda National University

Oleksandr Nedbaliuk

Yearning for change  - the scholarly foundation of strategies for the development of Ukraine in the context of international experience

Vinnytsia Institute of Trade and Economics of Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics

Discussants: Ivanna Bakushevych (Institute of Regional Research, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
                       Serhiy Rymarenko (Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

 

Session 2: New Challanges: Interdisciplinary Focus (Room 81)

Moderators: Vasyl Starko (Lesya Ukrayinka Volyn National University)
Tetyana Kalna-Dubinyuk (National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine)

Speakers:

Volodymyr Tytov

“Ukraine and the World: Yearning for Changes”: terminological analysis of the Conference title

Yaroslav Mudry National Law Academy of Ukraine

Borys Potyatynyk

New challenges for old media: is intellect and Ukraineness disappearing from Ukrainian society?

Lviv Ivan Franko National University

Vasyl Starko

Diffusion theory and Ukraine’s experience: lessons of the past, forecasts for the future

Lesya Ukrayinka Volyn National University

Tetyana Kalna-Dubinyuk

Innovation consulting: its formation and latest tendencies

National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

Discussants: Vasyl Nepyivoda (V.M. Koretskyi Institute for State and Law, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
                       Serhiy Shcherbyna(National Academy of Public Administration, Office of the President of Ukraine)

 

Session 3: Changes in Higher Education: Aspiration vs. Reality (Room 46)

Moderators: NataliaVysotska (Kyiv National Linguistic University)

Speakers:

Oleksandr Chalyi

Synergetic models of higher education

O.O.Bohomolets National Medical University

Olha His

New concepts of teaching: the essence of present-day education and the contents of school textbooks

S. Pidstryhach Institute for Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Olha Kulchytska

The philosophy of education: “we are washing their brains

Precarpathian Vasyl Stefanyk National University

Discussants: Tetyana Nekryach (Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University)
Ihor Oleksiv (Lviv Polytechnic National University)
Oleksandr Pronkevych (Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University)

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:30

Sections 4, 5, 6

 

Session 4: Ukraine and Ukrainians in Global Context (Room 55)

Moderator: Myron Stachiw (Fulbright Program in Ukraine)

Speakers:

Anatoliy Khudoliy

American-Ukrainian relations: prospects for development

National University of Ostroh Academy

Nataliya Gorodnia

Between Europe and Russia: prospects of Ukrainian-Russian relations under the new world order

Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University

Roman Kalytchak

The impact of sub-national regions on Ukraine’s foreign policy

Lviv Ivan Franko National University

Tetyana Vvedenska

Ukrainians at the crossroads of cultures

National Mining University

Vita Susak

Ukrainian artistic heritage abroad: status and prospects

Lviv Gallery of Arts

Lidiya Zhovnirenko

We are not alone

Donetsk Institute of Social Education

Discussants: Mykhailo Kirsenko (National University of Kyiv - Mohyla Academy)

 

Session 5: Yuri Lutskyi: between Ukraine and the West (in commemoration of the scholar’s 90th anniversary) (Room 81)

Moderator: Olha Luchuk (Lviv Ivan Franko National University)

Speakers:

Lesya Demska-Budzuliak

The history of Ukrainian literature “between Hohol and Shevchenko”

T.H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Yevhen Sverstiuk

Yuri Lutskyi: echo in the mountains

 “Nasha Vira (Our Faith)” newspaper

Larysa Masenko

The phenomenon of Mykola Hohol  in Yuri Lutskyi’s interpretation

National University of Kyiv - Mohyla Academy

Olha Luchuk

Yuri Lutskyi prosopography through the prism of his epistolary heritage

Lviv Ivan Franko National University

Vsevolod Lyubchenko

The second father of Arkadiy Liubchenko’s “Diary”

Kharkiv National Road Transport University

Taras Luchuk

Bilingualism or quasi-bilingualism of Yuri Lutskyi

Lviv Ivan Franko National University

Discussants: Mykhailyna Kotsyubynska (National Writers’ Union of Ukraine, T.H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

 

Session 6: Ukrainian Education and Scholarship: the Need for Reform  (Room 46)

Moderators: TetyanaNekryach(Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University)

Speakers:

Ihor Yegorov

Ukraine’s State Committee of Statistics: registration and employment of academic human resources in Ukraine

Center for S&T and Science History Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Christine Demkowych

A Study of student and faculty opinions on the Bologna education system in Ukraine

Towson University,

Discussants: Natalia Vysotska (Kyiv National Linguistic University)
Volodymyr Navrotskyi (H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

13:30 – 14:30

Lunch

 

14:30 – 16:30

Sessions  7, 8, 9

 

Session 7: Euro-Integrational Aspirations of Ukraine (Room 55)

Moderator: Oleksandr Pronkevych (Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University)

Speakers:

Serhiy Shcherbyna

On improving trade and economic relations between Ukraine and the European Union

National Academy of Public Administration, Office of the President of Ukraine

Valentyna Smal

Changes in the employment structure of the populations of the EU and Ukraine: a comparative analysis

Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University

Oleksandr Pronkevych

Semantic engineering as a tool of nation-building. Why is it worthwhile for Ukrainians to read the Constitution of Spain?

Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University

Discussants: Ivanna Bakushevych (Institute of Regional Research, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

 

Session 8: Global Changes in Climate: Political, Scientific, Technological, Medical, Ecological, Legal and Ethical Aspects (Room 81)

Moderators: Yuriy Posudin (National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine)
Serhiy Serbin  (Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding)

Speakers:

Yuriy Posudin

Ukraine and the world through the prism of global climate changes

National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

Serhiy Serbin,
Yevhen Trushliakov

Kyoto’s climatic myths and Montreal’s freonophobia

Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding

Oleksandra Kravets

How should we improve the ecological state of Ukraine? or A systemic crisis with national undertones

Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Maryna Naboka, Viacheslav Shestopalov, Oleksiy Likhosherstov

 

Wilfred Karmaus

Changing ideas of the environment’s impact on the success of bioeffects on soil poisoning after the Chornobyl disaster

Scientific-Engineering Center for Radio-hydro-geoecological Ground Research, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

University of South Carolina,Columbia,USA

Discussants: Valentyna Pidlisnyuk (Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi State Polytechnic University)
                      

 

Session 9: Education in Ukraine: Contemporary Status and Problems (Room 46)

Moderators: Tetyana Yakhontova (Lviv Ivan Franko National University)
 Roman Kritsberg (Kryvyi Rih Branch of Zaporizhzhia Institute of Economics and Information Technologies)

Speakers:

Tetyana Yakhontova

Plagiarism in Ukraine

Lviv Ivan Franko National University

Maksym Vakulenko

Coordination of national and international standards of academic ethics in Ukrainian terminology

Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University

Roman Kritsberg

Changes in culture and linguistic changes

Kryvyi Rih Branch of Zaporizhzhia Institute of Economics and Information Technologies

Lyudmyla Bordyuk

Symbol and reality in the perception of personal space in Ukrainian context

Lviv Polytechnic National University

Discussants: Olha His (S. Pidstryhach Institute for Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

16:30 – 17:00

Coffee Break

 

17:00 – 18:30

Sessions 10, 11, 12

 

Session 10: Adapting Ukrainian Legislation to EU Laws (Room 55)

Moderator: Oleksandr Merezhko (University of Economics and Law "Krok", John Paul II Catholic University, Lublin, Poland)

Speakers:

Anatoliy Yefymenko

Ukraine’s new law “On Joint Stock Companies”: successes and failings

Institute of International Relations, Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University

Serhiy Ponomaryov

Observance of minorities’ rights in Ukraine and the prospects of Europeanization of the Ukrainian anti-discriminatory legislation

Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University

Discussants: Oleksandr Merezhko ((University of Economics and Law "Krok", John Paul II Catholic University, Lublin, Poland)
  Myroslava Antonovych (National University of Kyiv - Mohyla Academy)

 

Session 11: Young People’s Yearning for Changes in Present – Day Ukraine and Personality Potential   (Room 81)

Moderators:Myron Stachiw (Fulbright Program in Ukraine)

Speakers:

William Beckon

 

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

Mariya Mayerchyk

Mainstream glamour and sub-cultural queer: female youth styles in present-day Ukraine

Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Discussants: Lyudmyla Bordyuk (Lviv Polytechnic National University)
Tetyana Nekryach (Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University)

 

Session 12: The “Greening” of the Economy: New Challenges and Innovational Approaches  (Room 46)

Moderators: Ihor Soloviy (Ukrainian National Forestry University)
Oleksandr Shkolnyy (Uman State Agrarian University)

Speakers:

Ihor Soloviy

The “Greening” of the economy: redesigning strategies, policy, institutions, and behavior

Ukrainian National Forestry University

Oleksandr Shkolnyy

The effectiveness of the export mechanism in Ukraine’s agrarian sector in the context of global food safety

Uman State Agrarian University

Hennadiy Statyukha

An economic assessment of sustainable resource exploitation by productive systems

National Technical University of Ukraine "KPI"

Tetyana Dyman

Problems of food safety in Ukraine

Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University

Suzanna Kamilova

The development of the organic dairy market in Ukraine and worldwide experience

Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics

Discussants: Vasyl Nepyivoda (V.M. Koretskyi Institute for State and Law, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
Serhiy Shcherbyna(National Academy of Public Administration, Office of the President of Ukraine)

18:30 – 19:00

Conference Summation

 

19:00 – 20:00

Dinner

 


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