Special Event
Date and Time
May 8, 2013
01:00PM - 04:30PM EDT
Location
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Session One: 1:00-2:30 pm
Break: 2:30-3:00 pm
Session Two: 3:00-4:30 pm
Location: Bowie-Vernon Room (K-262), CGIS/Knafel Building. 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA.
Book Presentation and Symposium: "Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s. Documents fromArchives of the Secret Services”
The publication presented to the Harvard public is a unique collection of documents covering two fatefuldecades marked by famine and repressions, communal polarization and ethnic strife, competing national movements amidst the conflagration of a worldwar. It is the result of a pioneering scholarly collaboration between Polish and Ukrainian archivists and historians exploring for the first time long inaccessible sources maintained in the bowels of secret service depositories. The symposium will relate the story of their uncovering and demonstrate their utility in illuminating one of history’s most opaque periods.
Speakers:
Jerzy Bednarek. Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw
Rafal Leskiewicz, Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw
Marcin Majewski, Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw
Svitlana Liaskovska, State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine, Kyiv
Yuri Shapoval, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, Kyiv
Hiroaki Kuromiya, Indiana University
Break: 2:30-3:00 pm
Session Two: 3:00-4:30 pm
Location: Bowie-Vernon Room (K-262), CGIS/Knafel Building. 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA.
Book Presentation and Symposium: "Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s. Documents fromArchives of the Secret Services”
The publication presented to the Harvard public is a unique collection of documents covering two fatefuldecades marked by famine and repressions, communal polarization and ethnic strife, competing national movements amidst the conflagration of a worldwar. It is the result of a pioneering scholarly collaboration between Polish and Ukrainian archivists and historians exploring for the first time long inaccessible sources maintained in the bowels of secret service depositories. The symposium will relate the story of their uncovering and demonstrate their utility in illuminating one of history’s most opaque periods.
Speakers:
Jerzy Bednarek. Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw
Rafal Leskiewicz, Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw
Marcin Majewski, Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw
Svitlana Liaskovska, State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine, Kyiv
Yuri Shapoval, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, Kyiv
Hiroaki Kuromiya, Indiana University