Roundtable Discussion

Date and Time

July 26, 2016
04:00PM - 06:00PM EDT

Location

34 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Processing Reform in Ukraine: Strategy on the Return of Crimea and the Role of the Indigenous Crimean Tatars
Ayla Bakkalli
USA Representative of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis at the UnitedNations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Executive Member of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars, and Adviser to the Permanent Mission of Ukraine on Indigenous Matters

Andrijj Dobriansky
Executive Board Member at the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America; United Nations Representative of the Ukrainian World Congress

Mariia Shynkarenko (Masha)
A Ukrainian doctorate student at the New School in New York City, currently doing her summer internship at Harvard

Huseyin Oilupinar
Postdoctoral Shklar/USF Fellow at HURI, researching "Fate of the Crimean Tatars: The First and the Last Annexation inPerspective"

It has been two and half years since the illegal annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. This roundtable discussion will take stock of the situation and begin to move forward in returning the Crimean issue to the agenda across diverse sectors as a deterrence to Crimea becoming a “frozen conflict”.
Omeljan Pritsak Memorial Library, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 34 Kirkland Street, Cambridge.