HUSI-2008 lecture.
"Blending Sacred and Secular Concerns: Changes in the Religious Landscape in Ukraine Today"
Catherine Wanner

HUSI-2008 book talk.

"The Red Prince: The Ukrainian Mission of a Habsburg Archduke"
Timothy D. Snyder

HUSI-2008 Ukrainian language table.

HUSI-2006 director Alex Dillon with the students.

HUSI-2006 Advanced Ukrainian course instructor Volodymyr Dibrova with the students.

HUSI-2006 students.

HUSI Class of 2006 on the steps of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Another successful year!

Above Photos by HURI

HUSI-2002 students Anna Müller and Mariusz Zajaczkowski (both from Poland) chose a steep learning curve by enrolling in the Intermediate Ukrainian course skipping the beginning level. The risk paid off handsomely: by the end of the program both reached their desired goals and were ready to continue at the advanced level.

"Images of Ukraine in Western Culture," a pioneering interdisciplinary course, team-taught by Lubomyr Hajda and Ksenya Kiebuzinski (both seated at table) in 2002, revealed a wealth of material on Ukrainian themes in Western literature, arts, theater, and music. The composer from Kyiv Yakiv Gubanov was invited to speak in the course (standing).

Intermediate Ukrainian class (instructor Yuri Shevchuk). The Ukrainian language curriculum is intensive, high-paced, and demanding a great investment of time, effort and motivation. It also ensures a dramatic improvement of students' language proficiency.

Luba Dub, an Advanced Ukrainian student at HUSI-2002 (instructor Volodymyr Dibrova). Practical language training is steeped in the cultural and social life of present-day Ukraine, which gives classes the multi-dimensionality that goes far beyond grammar and mechanical memorization of words and expressions.

Above Photos by Jeffry Pike

HUSI Class of 2003 on the steps of Widener Library. Traditional group photograph of students, instructors, and staff taken on the steps of the famous Widener Library, world's largest university library symbolizing the limitless opportunities of learning that Harvard offers.

According to established tradition, language students of all three levels write and produce their own short plays. They are performed on the next to last Friday of the program. Students of Beginning Ukrainian (2003) present their skits.

HUSI program of special events has featured lectures and discussions with internationally recognized experts on Ukrainian affairs, diplomats and decision-makers directly involved in Ukraine's domestic and foreign policy. Students discussing US-Ukrainian relations with the former (1998-2000) US Ambassador to Kyiv Steven Pifer, summer 2001.

Every summer, the Institute organizes weekend trips to popular tourist sights of the Greater Boston Area. HUSI outing to Rockport, MA, summer-1997.

Above Photos by Yuri Shevchuk