
Monday
January 30
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050 |
Ukraine-Russia Relations: Drama without Conclusion?
James Sherr, Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, The Royal Institute of
International Affairs, Chatham House, London |

Monday
February 6
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050 |
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 |

Monday
February 13
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050 |
Lviv as Ukraine's Western Other
William Risch,
Associate Professor, Department of History, Georgia College
A book launch of the speaker’s The Ukrainian West: Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv (Harvard University Press, 2011) will follow the seminar.
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Monday
February 20 |
Holiday: Presidents' Day. No seminar |

Friday
February 24
2 to 4 PM
Thompson Room
Barker Center
20 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA |
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. |

Monday
February 27
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050 |
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
A book launch of the speaker’s The Next Generation in Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan: Youth, Politics, Identity, and Change (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012) will follow the seminar. |

Tuesday
February 28
12:15 to 2 PM
HURI Library |
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
March 1
12:15 to 2 PM
HURI Library |
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
March 5
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050 |
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
March 12 |
Spring Recess. No Seminar |

Monday
March 19
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050 |
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 |

Wednesday
March 21
2–4 PM
HURI Library |
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
March 26
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050 |
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 |

Tuesday
March 27
12:15 to 2 PM
HURI Library |
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
March 29
12:15 to 2:00 PM
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 |
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
April 2
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050 |
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
April 9
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050 |
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 |

Monday
April 16
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050 |
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
April 19
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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
Lower Level Conference Room
Center for European Studies
27 Kirkland Street,
Cambridge, MA
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Monday
April 23 |
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
April 24
12:15 to 2 PM
HURI Library |
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
April 26
12:15 to 2 PM
HURI Library |
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
April 30
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050 |
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 |

Wednesday
May 2
12:15 to 2 PM
HURI Library |
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 |

Monday
May 7
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050 |
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
May 9
4 to 6 PM
HURI Library |
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 |