Seminar in Ukrainian Studies, Ukraine Study Group (USG), and Special Presentations Spring 2012 |
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Unless otherwise noted, all seminars take place from 4 to 6 p.m. in Room S-050, Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), Harvard University, South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138. |
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Monday |
Ukraine-Russia Relations: Drama without Conclusion? James Sherr, Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London |
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Monday |
Chornobyl and Catastrophism in Contemporary Ukrainian Culture Tamara Hundorova, Head, Department of Literary Theory, Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University |
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Monday |
Lviv as Ukraine's Western Other William Risch,
Associate Professor, Department of History, Georgia College
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Monday |
Holiday: Presidents' Day. No seminar |
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Friday |
From Penguin to Milkman… Readings by and a Discussion with Andrey Kurkov. The author of the popular novels Penguin Lost and Death and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov will read selections and discuss his work in the Ukrainian cultural context. Andrey Kurkov is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed Ukrainian authors writing in Russian today. His novels, filled with black humor and elements of surrealism, deal with life in post-Soviet Ukraine. His works have been translated into twenty-five languages. He lives and writes in Kyiv. |
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Monday |
The First Free Generation: Youth in Post-Soviet Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan Nadia Diuk, Vice President, Programs for Europe and Eurasia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, National Endowment for Democracy, Washington |
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Tuesday |
Democracy in Ukraine: Current State and Future Outlook An open discussion with Nadia Diuk, Vice President, Programs for Europe and Eurasia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, National Endowment for Democracy, Washington |
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Thursday |
Doing History: Public Outreach, Applied History and Research Challenges at the Center for Urban History in Lviv Sofia Dyak, Director, Center for Urban History, Lviv |
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Monday |
Independent Ukraine 1991 to 2011 Ukraine and European Security: Opportunities and Challenges after 20 Years of Independence Leonid Polyakov, Chairman of Board of Experts, Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies, Kyiv; External Consultant, National Security and Defense Committee, Parliament of Ukraine; former Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine |
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Monday |
Spring Recess. No Seminar |
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Monday |
An Urban Carousel: The Rise, Fall, and Consolidation of the Soviet Ukrainian Beaumonde Mayhill Fowler, Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ukrainian Studies, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University |
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Wednesday |
In conjunction with the Boston chapter of the Shevchenko Scientific Society Toward the Bicentennial of Taras Shevchenko The First (1841) Edition of Shevchenko's "Hajdamaky" Oles’ Fedoruk, Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Shevchenko's "Hajdamaky": The Making of the National Poet George G. Grabowicz, Harvard University and Shevchenko Scientific Society
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Monday |
Making and Remaking National Histories in the Soviet Union: The Case of Ukraine (in Comparative Perspective with Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan) Harun Yilmaz, Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University |
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Tuesday |
Mykhailo Hrushevskyi's Life in Moscow (1931-1934): New Facts and Manuscripts Oksana Iurkova, Leading Researcher, Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv; Carnegie Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Harriman Institute, Columbia University |
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Thursday |
Co-sponsored by the Davis Center and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Center Migration, Refugee Policy, and State-building in Postcommunist Europe Oxana Shevel, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Tufts University; Center Associate, Davis Center; Center Associate, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute |
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Monday |
University and Academe in the Intellectual History of Late 19th and Early 20th Century Ukraine Alexander Dmitriev, Senior Research Fellow and Head, Center for the History of Ideas and Sociology of Knowledge, Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow; Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University |
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Monday |
Scholarship in the Service of the National Movement: Father Mykhailo Zubryts'kyi (1856-1919) and the Chronicling of the Galician Village Frank Sysyn, Director, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta |
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Monday |
The Discreet Charm of Borderlands: How Regional Elites in Ukraine Turn Marginality into a Virtue Tatiana Zhurzhenko, Elise Richter Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna; Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University |
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Thursday |
The Petryshyn Memorial Lecture in Ukrainian Studies The Ukrainian Famine in the History of Genocide Norman M. Naimark , Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute, Stanford University 4 to 6 PM |
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Monday |
Independent Ukraine 1991 to 2011 Change and Continuity in Ukraine's Foreign Policy Session 1: Theory and Ukraine’s Foreign Policy 2:00 to 3:45 PM HURI Library, 34 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA Session 2: The Making of Ukraine’s Foreign Policy 4:15 to 6:00 PM Room 050, CGIS,
1730 Cambridge St., Cambrdige, MA |
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Tuesday |
Postponed The Limits of Western Leverage in Ukraine: The Trial of Yuliya Tymoshenko Serhiy Kudelia, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University |
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Thursday |
Reconceptualizing Regionalism in Ukraine: National and Local Dimensions in the Politics of Memory and Identity Formation Viktoriya Sereda, Associate Professor, Department of History and Theory of Sociology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine |
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Monday |
When 'Ordinary People' Join In: Understanding Moments of Mass Mobilization in Argentina (2001), Egypt (2011) and Ukraine (2004) Olga Onuch, Newton Fellow, British Academy and Royal Society, University of Oxford, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Nuffield College |
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Wednesday |
Polish-Ukrainian Relations in 1942–1947 in the Documents of OUN and UPA (2 vols., 1386 pp.; Lviv, 2011); The Second Polish-Ukrainian War, 1942–1947 (288 pp.; Kyiv, 2011) Volodymyr Viatrovych, Head, Learned Council, Centre for Research on the Liberation Movement, Kyiv |
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Monday |
Russian Opera and Ukrainian Musical Theater in 19th Century Kyiv: A Case Study in Empire-Nation Relations, Cultural Politics and Public Reception Ostap Sereda, Senior Research Fellow, Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv; Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University |
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Wednesday |
The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2002); Vodka: A Global History (Reaktion Books, 2012) Patricia Herlihy, Professor Emerita of History, Brown University, and Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute |
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