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