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Seminar in Ukrainian Studies, Ukraine Study Group, and Special Presentations

Fall 2009



 

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are on Mondays, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in room S-050 (concourse level), Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138.


September 21

Interpretations of the Borderland: Hetman Bohdan Khmel'nyts'kyi and the Cossacks in Foreign Commentaries

Frank Sysyn, Director, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta; Visiting Professor of History, Columbia University



September 28

Politics of Memory in a Divided Society: A Comparison of Post-Franco Spain and Post-Soviet Ukraine

Oxana Shevel, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Tufts University; Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University; Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies



October 5

Taras Shevchenko's Archetypes

George G. Grabowicz, Dmytro Cyzevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian Literature, Harvard University



October 12

Columbus Day. No seminar



October 19

East or West, North or South? Reassessing Trade Routes in Rus'

Ines Garcia de la Puente, Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute



October 26

The Politics of Cultural Retreat: Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Bureaucracy in Habsburg Galicia, 1772–1815

Iryna Vushko, Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute



November 2

P O S T P O N E D

Steadfastness, Slippery Slope, or Seesaw: Europe and Russia in Ukraine's Foreign Policy after the Orange Revolution

Valeriy Kuchynsky, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; former Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Nations



November 9

No seminar



November 10-11

Poltava 1709: Revisiting a Turning Point in European History

An International Conference sponsored by the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University with the support of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, and the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars



November 16

Legacy of Empire(s) in Contemporary Russian and Ukrainian Religious Cinema

Liliya Berezhnaya, Assistant Professor, "Excellenzcluster" on Religion and Politics, University of Münster, Germany



November 23

Peasantry and Peasant Culture in 19th-Century Ukrainian Public Discourse

Tetyana Portnova, Junior Research Fellow, Department of Historiography, Dnipropetrovsk National University, Ukraine; Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute



November 30

Ukraine during the Great Famine and Great Terror of the 1930s in Light of Polish Diplomatic and Intelligence Documents

Robert Kusnierz, Research Fellow, Institute of History, Pomeranian University, Slupsk, Poland; Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute


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