The nation on the Catwalk: Traveling memories of belonging in the Miss Kiev Pageant in Winnipeg (1979–1984)
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines how ethnic, national, and diasporic belonging were negotiated through the Miss Kiev pageant in Winnipeg. Drawing on 27 contestant entry forms from 1979 to 1984, preserved in the Sylvia Todaschuk fonds, it analyzes how young Ukrainian Canadian women enacted Ukrainianness not only as cultural continuity but as a strategic mode of civic positioning within Canadian public life. Situated in the context of Canada’s post-1971 multicultural turn, the pageant is read as both a site of diasporic memory and a platform for asserting recognition within broader national narratives. Employing thematic and critical discourse analysis, the essays are approached as microhistorical texts shaped by inherited narratives, institutional logics, and generational responsibility. The article demonstrates that Canadian multiculturalism was not merely reflected in these performances but actively reinterpreted from below, revealing both its enabling rhetoric and its structural limits in mediating difference and belonging.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it