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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

 


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