REGISTRATION 9:00–9:30

OPENING REMARKS 9:30–9:40

VOLODYMYR KRAVCHENKO |Department of History and Classics and Director, Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta

OLEKSANDR PANKIEIEV |President, Alberta Society for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies, and Arts Collaboration Enterprise, University of Alberta

PLENARY SESSION 9:40–11:25

Origins of Russia’s propaganda and use of the Church as the Kremlin’s propaganda tool

MODERATOR: VOLODYMYR KRAVCHENKO |Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta

OLGA BERTELSEN | Department of Global Security and Intelligence Studies, College of Security and Intelligence, Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University

“Russian covert transnational operations and information warfare in the 1960s–1980s”

MARCEL VAN HERPEN |The Cicero Foundation

“‘Hybrid Church’ for a ‘Hybrid War’: Role of the Russian Orthodox Church as the Kremlin’s propaganda tool”

 ANDREW WILSON |University College London

 “Russia’s propaganda in Ukraine since 2014”

PANEL I 11:25–12:40

Undermining democratic values: Targets of Russian propaganda

MODERATOR: JESSICA ZYCHOWICZ |Dr. Jeanette Bayduza Post-doctoral Fellow, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta

CARRIE SMITH|Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta

“Uncomfortable bedfellows: Virtual and visceral digital feminist community building”

ELIZAVETA GAUFMAN |Department of European Cultures and Languages, University of Groningen

“Facts and fiction of Russia’s ‘Information War’”

LUNCH 12: 40–13:30

PANEL II 13:30–14:45

Framing Russia’s Information Warfare

MODERATOR: OLEKSANDR PANKIEIEV | Alberta Society for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies, and Arts Collaboration Enterprise, University of Alberta

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOUCHER | Department of Political Science and The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary

“Social media and the Russian information campaign in Canada: The case of the 2014 Crimean crisis”

ALLA HURSKA | Jamestown Foundation

“Russian ‘Disinformation Intermarium’: between the Baltic and the Black Seas”

PANEL III 14:45–16:00

View from within: Liberal journalism in the face of Russia’s information campaigns

MODERATOR: OLENA GONCHAROVA |Kyiv Post newspaper

JUSTIN LING |Toronto-based freelance journalist

“Funhouse mirrors: How Moscow distorts reality”

JESSIKKA ARO | YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company

“Russian trolls as a security threat”

COFFEE BREAK 16:00–16:15

ROUND TABLE 16:15–17:15

Challenging the “Post-truth” world

PARTICIPANTS | Jessikka Aro, Olga Bertelsen, Volodymyr Kravchenko, Justin Ling, Oleksandr Pankieiev, Marcel Van Herpen

CLOSING REMARKS 17:15–17:30