Schedule

Thursday, March 6, 2025

5:00 p.m. — Opening
McKenna Hall 215/16

• Ambassador Oksana Markarova (Ukraine Mission to the U.S.)
• Bishop Kevin Rhoades (Bishop of the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese)
• Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C. (President of the University of Notre Dame)
• Taras Dobko (Rector of Ukrainian Catholic University [UCU])
• Svitlana Ramer (Honorary Consul of Ukraine)

5:45 p.m. — Plenary Session 1
“A Conversation on Cultivating Hope in Ukraine with Archbishop Borys Gudziak and Professor Rory Finnin”
McKenna Hall 215/16

• Archbishop Borys Gudziak (Metropolitan-Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia; President of Ukrainian Catholic University)
• Rory Finnin (Professor of Ukrainian Studies, University of Cambridge)

A livestream of this event is also available if the room is full, or you are unable to travel to Notre Dame.

7:00 – 8:00 p.m. — Reception with Art Exhibition (Art by Iva Sidash and Lesia Maruschak)
Brief remarks at 7:30 p.m.
McKenna Hall Pre-Function Space (Outside 215/16)

8:15 p.m. — Prayer at the Grotto for Peace in Ukraine
Inclement Weather Backup Site: Holy Cross Chapel in Stinson-Remick Hall

Friday, March 7, 2025

8:00 a.m. — Holy Mass in Holy Cross Chapel in Stinson-Remick Hall

8:30 a.m. — Breakfast available for conference participants
McKenna Hall 215/16 Pre-Function Space

9:00 a.m. — Parallel Panels 1
“Conflict and Creation: Art as a Force for Hope in Wartime Ukraine”
Chaired by Tetyana Shlikhar (Notre Dame)
McKenna Hall 215/16

• Oksana Ivantsiv (Notre Dame): “Is There Hope? How Ukrainian Issue-Based Documentaries Contribute to Documenting War Crimes, Cultural Diplomacy and Peacebuilding”
• Lesia Maruschak (VYDNO Collective, University of Saskatchewan): “Memory as Resistance: Bearing Witness”
• Alina Mozolevska (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University): “Resilience and Hope in Instagram Wartime Artivism”
• Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Northwestern): “‘Who we are and who we are not’: Art, Identity, and National Mobilization in Ukraine, 2022-2025”

“Sustainable Hope: Energy, Environment, and the Future of Ukraine”
Chaired by Diane Desierto (Notre Dame)
McKenna Hall 205-207

• Carl Bruch (Environmental Law Institute): “Pathways for Accountability for Wartime Environmental Damage in Ukraine”
• Olga Degtiareva (Odesa National University of Economics) and Albina Dioba (Copenhagen Business School): “Decentralized Energy System: A Hope for a Sustainable and Resilient Energy Future in Ukraine”
• Kristina Hook (Kennesaw State University): “The Environmental Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine War: Impacts, Intent, and Recovery”
• Natalia Slobodian (Canterbury Christ Church University): “Towards Sustainable Peace: Hope and Environmental Restoration in Post-War Ukraine”

10:15 a.m. — Break

10:45 a.m. — Plenary Session 2
“What We Can Learn from Ukraine’s Fight for Democracy” 
McKenna Hall 215/16

• Olesya Khromeychuk (Ukrainian Institute London)

Followed by a conversation with Michael Pippenger (Notre Dame)

A livestream of this event is also available if the room is full, or you are unable to travel to Notre Dame.

12:00 p.m. — Lunch for Conference Participants
Smith Ballroom, Morris Inn

1:30 p.m. — Parallel Panels 2
“Hope on the Page: The Power of Ukrainian Literature in Resilience and Recovery”
Chaired by Rory Finnin (Cambridge)
McKenna Hall 205-207

• Daryna Gladun (Notre Dame): “Home: Reimagined”
• Tetiana Grebeniuk (Imre Kertész Kolleg; University of Warsaw): “Narratives of Hope in the Time of Hopelessness: Contemporary Ukrainian War Fiction”
• Ali Kinsella (Translator): “Children’s Literature in Wartime Ukraine”
• Anna Romandash (Notre Dame): “Ukraine's Contemporary Literature after the 2022 Russian Invasion: A Powerful Message of Hope Amid Adversity”

“Culture War: Soft Power, Memory, and Identity in the Fight for Ukraine”
Chaired by Ian Kuijt (Notre Dame)
McKenna Hall 215/16

• Olga Filippova (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University): “Ukrainian Forced Migrants in Finnish Memoryscapes: How 'Immigration into History' Sparks Reconsideration of the Past and Self-Identity”
• Olena Kovalenko (Ukrainian Institute in Kyiv): “Ukraine's Wartime Cultural Diplomacy: Between Threats and Hope”
• Khrystyna Kozak (Notre Dame): “Incorporating Memory and Narrative into the Register of Damages for Ukraine (RD4U)”
• Mykola Riabchuk (Institute of Political and Nationalities' Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine): “When the Soft Turns Hard: Cancel-Culture Controversy during the Russian-Ukrainian War”

2:45 p.m. — Break

3:15 p.m. — Parallel Panels 3
“Faithful Hope: Religion and Resilience in Ukraine”
Chaired by Yury Avvakumov (Notre Dame)
McKenna Hall 215/16

• Anna Bisikalo (Harvard): “Emergence from Underground: Hope and the Movement to Legalize the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church”
• José Casanova (Georgetown): “The Religious Foundations of the Sociological Miracle of Ukraine's Vibrant Civil Society”
• Andriy Kurochka (UCU):  “Faith and Resilience: Ukraine's Marathon for Life”
• Catherine Wanner (Penn State): “Interfaith Mediation and Hope in Wartime Ukraine”

“Hope on the Ground: Lived Resilience during the War in Ukraine”
Chaired by Volodymyr Turchynovskyy (UCU)
McKenna Hall 205-207

• A. Austin Garey (Kennan Institute): “Wartime Pedagogy: Shifting Priorities in Ukrainian Educational Sciences”
• Sarah D. Phillips (Indiana): “Three Years of War, Three Years of Support. The Nonresidential Scholars Program for Ukraine: Successes and Challenges.”
• Sarah Wilson Sokhey (Colorado): “Ukrainians and Civil Society Organizations: Dimensions of Hope and Resilience During Wartime”
• Kristina Šliavaitė (Vilnius University): “‘So many people helped us’: Help, Empathy, and Care as Signs of Humanity in the Narratives of War and Migration of Refugees from Ukraine in Lithuania”

4:30 p.m. — Break

5:00 p.m. — Plenary Session 3
“The Power of Hope: The Russo-Ukrainian War through the Eyes of a Historian” 
McKenna Hall 215/16

• Serhii Plokhii (Harvard University)

Followed by a conversation with Taras Dobko (UCU)

A livestream of this event is also available if the room is full, or you are unable to travel to Notre Dame.

8:00 – 9:30 p.m. — A Night of Ukrainian Poetry and Music
Free but ticketed
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Patricia George Decio Theatre

• Poems by Daryna Gladun,  Halyna Kruk, and Natalka Bilotserkivets, with translations and commentary by Ali Kinsella
• The Women's Bandura Ensemble of Chicago, led by conductor Oksana Rodak
• The Indiana Slavic Choir, led by founding artistic director Iryna Voloshyna

Saturday, March 8, 2025

8:00 a.m. — Holy Mass (Optional) in Holy Cross Chapel, Stinson-Remick Hall

8:30 a.m. — Breakfast available for conference participants
McKenna Hall 215/16 Pre-Function Space

9:00 a.m. — Plenary Session 4
“In Solidarity with Ukraine: Diplomatic Perspectives on Resilience and Hope”
McKenna Hall 215/16

• Jean. P Froehly (Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany)
• Volodymyr Turchynovskyy (UCU)

Followed by a conversation with Svitlana Ramer (Honorary Consul of Ukraine)
This event is NOT livestreamed.

10:15 a.m. — Break

10:45 a.m. — Parallel Panels 4
“Business on the Frontlines: Resilience and Adaptability in Times of Turmoil”
Chaired by: Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland [KUL])
McKenna Hall 205-207

• Yaryna Boychuk (UCU): “How the UCU Business School Grows Its Impact: The Role of Business Within Communities in Wartime Ukraine”
• Alejandro Danylyszyn (UCU): “The Business Implications of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine”
• Georges Enderle (Notre Dame): “Business Ethics Challenges and Ukraine”
• Sophia Opatska (UCU): “What Ukraine Can Teach Us About Managing Businesses in Endemic Ongoing Warfare Situations?”

“Hope in the Headlines?: Truth and Decolonization in the Ukrainian Media Landscape”
Chaired by Svitlana Khyliuk (UCU)
McKenna Hall 215/16

• Katerina Sirinyok-Dolgaryova (Michigan): “Values-based Journalism in Ukraine: Fighting a Suppressive Past and Paving an Independent Future”
• Urszula Soler (KUL): “Russian Disinformation and the War in Ukraine: A Legacy of Propaganda”
• Olha Tkachenko (Polish Academy of Sciences): “Decolonization Processes in Ukrainian YouTube: New Hope to Deconstruct Imperial Myths”

12:00 p.m. — Box lunches

12:30 p.m. — Plenary Session 5
“Revolutionary Ukraine: A History and Politics of Hope”
Chaired by A. James McAdams (Notre Dame)
McKenna Hall 215/16

• Emily Channell-Justice (Harvard): “A Drop in the Ocean: Ukraine’s Euromaidan Protests and New Imagined Communities”
• George O. Liber (University of Alabama at Birmingham): “Moving Towards Independence and Decolonization, 1985-2004” (remarks read by A. James McAdams)
• Fr. Yuriy Shchurko (UCU):  “A Longing for a Just Peace: The Undying Hope of Ukrainians through History”
• Sophia Wilson (Southern Illinois-Edwardsville): “Ukrainian Resistance for Human Rights: Hope for the Global World”

A livestream of this event is also available if the room is full, or you are unable to travel to Notre Dame.

1:45 p.m. — Concluding Remarks with Taras Dobko (UCU) and Clemens Sedmak (Notre Dame)
McKenna Hall 215/16

2:00 p.m. — Adjourn

3:00 p.m. — Film Screening (open to public; tickets required): "Porcelain War" (2024)
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Browning Cinema

5:30 p.m. — Vigil Mass (Immediately following the film event; optional) in All Saints Chapel in Jenkins-Nanovic Halls