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2025 HUSI Student Orientation [Private Event]

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Agenda: Director's Welcome Student Introductions Extracurricular Program Senkowsky Prize HUSI Blog HURI Web Resources Intro to MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine Harvard Library Orientation Widener Library Tour This is a private event for Harvard Ukrainian...

"HUSI – A Summer Experience Like No Other"

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by Oleksandr Zavalov, HUSI 2020 My father always told me that every year on September 1, students in middle school had to write an essay reflecting on their experience during the summer. The typical experience of many students was visiting their...

2026 HUSI Student Orientation

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This is a private event for Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI) students. Agenda: Director's Welcome Student Introductions Instructor Introductions Extracurricular Program Senkowsky Prize HUSI Blog HURI Web Resources Intro to MAPA: Digital Atlas of...

Carol R. Saivetz

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CAROL R. SAIVETZ is an Associate at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Ukrainian Research Institute. She is also a Senior Advisor in the MIT Security Studies Program. She holds and M.I.A., M.Phil., and a Ph.D. from Columbia...

Mychailo Wynnyckyj

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Institutionalizing “Dignity” and “Fairness” in Post-revolutionary Ukraine

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The aim of this project is to investigate how the concepts of “dignity” and “fairness” have been instantiated in the social, political and judicial...

From Estonia's Fulbright Program to HUSI

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Disclaimer: Views expressed in this blog post are mine and do not represent the Fulbright Program, U.S. Government, American Embassy in Tallinn, or host institutions. In the summer of 2022, less than a year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine...

Sentimental Orthodoxy in Ukraine

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Tornike Metreveli, HURI Research Fellow in Ukrainian Studies; Docent (Associate Professor) in Sociology of Religions at Lund University In Person Russia's war in Ukraine, annexation of Crimea, and full-scale military invasion have exposed the significant...

Theorizing Ukraine: A "Unique" Case of Rapid Morphogenesis Punctuated by Three Revolutions and a War

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Mychailo Wynnyckyj, HURI Research Fellow in Ukrainian Studies; Associate Professor, Sociology Department, National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" In Person Abstract In social sciences literature, Ukraine long has been portrayed as regionally divided...

A Linguistic and Temporal Melting Pot

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by Aliide Naylor It was difficult to establish how to start this post for the HUSI blog, as my interests rapidly evolved in tandem with the course as it developed. On the surface, Ukrainian for Reading Knowledge is an intensive language program – but it...

"Ukraine: A Country of Emerging Technological Innovation"

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by Andrii Smytsniuk, HUSI 2020 Ukraine is often seen by the international community as a country of Chornobyl (Chernobyl), political instability, corruption, fertile soil, and agriculture. What Ukraine is not seen as is a country of innovation. On...

A Leading Ukrainian Journalist Visits HURI

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On January 25–29, HURI hosted Serhiy Leshchenko, one of today’s most celebrated Ukrainian investigative journalists and a deputy editor-in-chief of Ukraїns´ka Pravda, a leading online publication in Ukraine. Mr. Leshchenko helped to launch the Ukrainian...