Seminar in Ukrainian Studies, Ukraine Study
Group, and
Special Presentations
Fall 2008
Monday,
September 29
Poles, Hutsul Highlanders, and the "Discovery" of the Eastern Carpathians between the Two World Wars
Patrice Dabrowski, Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute
Monday,
October 6
Art, Life, and Tradition in Viktor Domontovych’s Novel “Bez gruntu”
Taras Koznarsky, Associate Professor of Ukrainian Literature, University of Toronto; Eugene
and Daymel Shklar Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute
Monday,
October 13
Holiday: Columbus Day. No seminar.
Friday,
October 17
12:15–2:00 p.m.
Omeljan Pritsak Reading Room, HURI
Ukraine's Political Crisis Enters New Phase: Why? Why Now?
Roundtable Discussion
Monday,
October 20
Fatherland and Nation in “Istoriia Rusov”: The Interface of Early Modern and Modern Ukrainian
Political Culture
Frank Sysyn, Director, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research, Canadian
Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta
The seminar will be followed by a book party for two publications of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research. Mykhailo Hrushevsky, History of Ukraine-Rus' volume 9, book 2, part 1, The Cossack Age, 1654-1657, ed. Serhii Plokhy and Frank E. Sysyn Paulina Lewin, Ukrainian Drama and Theater in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Wednesday,
October 22
POSTPONED TO SPRING SEMESTER
Symposium
Between Moscow and Constantinople, Dependence and Autocephaly: The Orthodox
Church(es) in Ukraine Today
Monday,
October 27
From Odesa to Brody and Back Again: Oligarchs, Policy-Making and Policy
Indecision in Ukraine
Margarita Balmaceda, Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and
International Relations, Seton Hall University; Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellow,
Ukrainian Research Institute
Friday,
October 31
12:15–2:00 p.m.
Omeljan Pritsak Reading Room, HURI
Khrushchev as Social Engineer: The Ukrainian Origin of Soviet Population Policy after World War Two
Mie Nakachi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Monday,
November 3
The Past Meets the Present: Recreating Monuments of Kyivan Rus' in Ukraine
Olenka Pevny, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Richmond; Eugene and Daymel
Shklar Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute
Wednesday,
November 5
12:15–2:00 p.m.
Omeljan Pritsak Reading Room, HURI
Lviv, November 1918: War and Remembrance
Christoph Mick, RCUK Academic Fellow, Department of History, University of Warwick (UK)
Monday,
November 10
Holiday: Veterans’ Day. No seminar.
Thursday,
November 13
CGIS,
Room S-010,
1730 Cambridge St.,
Cambridge, MA
Zenovia Sochor Parry Memorial Lecture
cosponsored with the Fellows Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Ukraine's National Security and Its International Ramifications: The Domestic and External Factors
Anatoliy Grytsenko, Member of Parliament, Ukraine; Chairman, Parliamentary Committee on
National Defense and Security; former Minister of Defense of Ukraine (2005–2007)
Monday,
November 17–
Tuesday,
November 18
Harvard University,
Harvard Faculty
Club
Library,
20 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
International Conference
The Great Famine in Ukraine: The Holodomor and Its Consequences, 1933 to the Present
Monday, November 24,
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Room S-050 (Concourse Level)
CGIS Building South,
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge
St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
'The Ukrainian Triangle' and the Early Modern European Multiple Borderlands
Liliya Berezhnaya, University of Passau, Germany
Monday,
December 1
Cossack Historical Narratives: Visions of the Past and the Construction of Identities in
Eighteenth-Century Ukraine
Andriy Bovgyria, Research Fellow, Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine; Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute
Wednesday,
December 3,
7:00 p.m.
Tsai Auditorium (S-010),
CGIS-South
1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Documentary Film
"The Living" (Zhyvi)
by director Serhiy Bukovsky
Co-sponsored with the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University
Feature Documentary: "The Living" (Zhyvi) presented with Serhiy Bukovsky (Director) and Victoria Bodnar (Producer)
Thursday,
December 4
12:15–2:00 p.m.
Omeljan Pritsak Reading Room, HURI
Informal Discussion about the film "The Living" (Zhyvi) with Serhiy Bukovsky (Director) and Victoria Bodnar (Producer)
The meeting will be conducted in Ukrainian
Monday,
December 8
12:15–2:00 p.m.
Omeljan Pritsak Reading Room, HURI
The Ideas of George Shevelov in the Context of Contemporary Scholarship in Ukrainian and Slavic Philology
Pavlo Hrytsenko, Director, Institute of the Ukrainian Language, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Friday,
December 12
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Room S-050
CGIS Building South
Can You Keep the Oranges Fresh?
Hopes and Crises in Ukraine
since the Orange Revolution
Andriy Shevchenko, Member of Parliament of Ukraine; First Deputy Chair, Parliamentary Committee on Freedom of the Press; Television Journalist; Yale World Fellow, Yale University