Friday,Jan. 30
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Room S-354
CGIS South
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street

Listen to the lecture (1hr26min, wma)

The Ukrainian Research Institute and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies invite you  to the first meeting of their Square Table Series on Energy Politics:

Setting the Stage for the 2009 Russian-Ukrainian Gas Crisis

Margarita M. Balmaceda, Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University; Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Carol Saivetz, Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Science and Stalinism on the Soviet 'Periphery': Physics in Ukraine, 1928-1953

Paul Josephson, Professor and Chair, Department of History, Colby College

Presentation slides

Politics, Elite Conflict, and Gas Crises: Ukraine on the Path to Presidential Elections

Taras Kuzio, Adjunct Professor, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa; Editor, Ukraine Analyst: Strategic Intelligence on Ukraine's Politics and Economics

Listen to the lecture (1hr27min, wma)

The Ukrainian Research Institute and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies invite you to a meeting of their Square Table Series on Energy Politics:

Disentangling the Economic and Political Issues Behind the Gas Crisis

Rawi Abdelal, Professor, Harvard Business School; Faculty Associate and Member of Executive Committee, Davis Center

Marshall Goldman, Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus), Wellesley College; Senior Scholar, Davis Center

Taras Kuzio, Adjunct Professor, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa; Editor, Ukraine Analyst: Strategic Intelligence on Ukraine's Politics and Economics

Tammy Lynch, Senior Fellow, Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy, Boston University

Holiday: Presidents' Day. No seminar.

The Gospels in Vernacular Ukrainian: Contrasting the Language Programs of Panteleimon Kulish (1871) and Antin Kobylians'kyi (1874, 1877)

Andriy Danylenko, Lecturer in Modern Languages and Cultures, Pace University; Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute

An informal meeting and discussion about the current state and prospects of Ukrainian Jewry with

Shmuel Kaminezky, Chief Rabbi, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezky is the chief rabbi of Dnipropetrovsk, where he has helped to build one of the most vibrant Jewish communities in Ukraine, with assistance from the Combined Jewish Communities of Greater

Muscovites in Ruthenian Lands in the 16th and 17th Centuries: Social Integration, Cultural Identity, Historical Memory

Konstantin Jerusalimsky, Senior Lecturer in History, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow; Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute

The Populist Movement (Narodnytstvo) in Ukrainian Literature
and Popular Culture

Tamara Hundorova, Head, Department of Literary Theory, Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;
Petro Jacyk Distinguished Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute

Language Policy and Linguistic Attitudes in Ukraine

Volodymyr Kulyk, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv; Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington

Minority Education in Ukraine: The Cases of Hungarians and Crimean Tatars

Volodymyr Kulyk, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv; Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington

Spring recess. No seminar

Jewish-Christian Cultural Contacts in Late Medieval Kyiv

Moshe Taube, Professor of Linguistics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute

Mutual History through the Prism of Ukrainian and Polish Cinema after 1989

Lukasz M. Jasina, Research Assistant, Institute of East-Central Europe, Catholic University of Lublin;
Kosciuszko Fellow, Brandeis University

The Consolidation of Army Officer Training in Lviv: Its Significance for Ukraine's Military Development

Leonid Polyakov, Former Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine; External Consultant, Parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense, Parliament of Ukraine; Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Ukrainian Research Institute

Slavic and East European Studies in Switzerland: Historical Context and Recent Developments

Peter Collmer, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Zurich; Visiting Scholar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Petro Jacyk Memorial Symposium "Gogol and Ukraine" On the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Mykola Hohol/Nikolai Gogol

Program

Soviet Patriotism and the Problem of Identities in the Postwar Ukrainian Intelligentsia

Benjamin Tromly , Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; Assistant Professor at University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

Should Cossacks Be Allowed to Sell Their Lands? A Contribution to Russo-Ukrainian Relations (1820s)

John LeDonne, Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Stalin's Manipulation of 'Ukraine' in His International Relations: Nationality, Population and Territory, 1944-1949

David Wolff, Professor of Eurasian History, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan; Visiting Scholar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Literary Anthologies and Their Role in Shaping Ukrainian Identity

Olena Haleta, Associate Professor of Literature and Director, Centre for the Humanities, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute

Soviet Patriotism and the Problem of Identities in the Postwar Ukrainian Intelligentsia

Benjamin Tromly , Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; Assistant Professor at University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

Taras Shevchenko and the Modern Ukrainian Literary Language: A Revisit and New Assessment

Michael Moser, Associate Professor, Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Vienna

Cosponsored with the Fellows Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

Coming of Age in a Tough Neighborhood: Ukraine's Democratic Development, Regional Security, and Relations with NATO

James Greene, Head, NATO Liaison Office Ukraine