2025
New Book Roundtable — *Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine.*
Chair: Nataliia Goshylyk. Moderators: Laada Bilaniuk and Sasha Senderovich.
The 31st Annual Conference for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies (REECAS Northwest).
10–12 April. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
2024
“Community as Salvation: Jewish Life during the Russian–Ukrainian War.”
Association of Jewish Studies Annual Conference. Online Panel “Three Jewish Responses to Catastrophe.”
17 December.
2023
“Jewish Cultural Heritage in the Context of Jewish Heritage Studies.”
Jewish Cultural Heritage in the Light of Critical Heritage Studies.
Conference of the DFG Priority Program (SPP 2357) Jewish Cultural Heritage Grand Forum.
Schwabisch-Gmund, Germany. 5–8 June.
2023
“Ethnographic Portrait of Ukrainian Jewish Refugees in Germany.”
War in Ukraine and its Impact on East European Jewish Studies Conference.
Nevzlin Center, Hebrew University, Israel. 26–27 June.
2023
“In Search of a Home: Ukrainian Jewish Refugees in Berlin.”
European Association of Jewish Studies (EAJS) 12th Congress.
Frankfurt, Germany. 16–20 July.
2023
“A Rabbi Never Leaves His Community: Ukrainian Communities Torn by Russia’s War in Ukraine.”
European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR).
Vilnius, Lithuania. 4–6 September.
2022
Roundtable: “Between Loss and Response: Ethnographic Reflections on Ruptured Lives in Russia’s War on Ukraine.”
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Online. 11 November.
2021
“Jewish Revival in Post-Soviet Odessa: Identities, Communities and Places.”
Odessa, Cosmopolitanism, Modernism Conference. Israel Institute for Advanced Studies. Online. 21–24 June.
2019
“What Does It Mean to Return from Israel? The Language of Jewish Migration and the Feelings Behind It.”
Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association (AAA). Vancouver, BC, Canada. 20–24 November.
2013
“Why Odessa? Jewish and Non-Jewish Heritages and Mythologies.”
International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry, Leonid Nevzlin Research Center,
Mechnikov Odesa National University, Odessa, Ukraine. 1–4 July.
2013
“Religious Journeys of Russian-Speaking Israelis in Ukraine.”
*Religiosity in Migration* Conference, Ben Gurion University, Israel.
2011
“Home in the Diaspora? Jewish Returnees and Transmigrants in Post-Soviet Ukraine.”
The Contemporary Russian-Speaking Diaspora Conference, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University.
2010
“Jewish Migration in Odessa: Newcomers and Returnees.”
Paper presented at *Black Sea Cities: State Practices, Co-Existence and Migration* Conference,
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University.
2008
“Building Religious Empires in Jewish Odessa.”
Paper presented at the 39th National Convention, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies,
New Orleans, LA, USA.
2007
“Jewish Migration in Post-Soviet Ukraine: The Case of Odessa.”
*Ukraine: A Sending, Transit and Destination Country of Migration* Conference, Institut fĂĽr Soziologie,
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany.
2007
“Reviving and Reliving the Past: Contested Jewish Identity in Odessa.”
Paper presented at *Nation, Community and the State*, Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University.