Lecture

For the TCUP 2024 Keynote Lecture, Razom for Ukraine CEO Dora Chomiak drew upon her experiences as an advocate for Ukrainian independence. In Chomiak’s view, through the process of decolonization, Ukraine obtained a stronger free press, a more active...

Svitlana Shiells, an adjunct professor in art history at George Mason University, will give HURI's next Seminar in Ukrainian Studies on October 3, 2016. The event, entitled "Illia Repin Unknown: Ukrainism, Japonisme, and More" will take a fresh look at...

On Monday, October 17, 2016, HURI USF Fellow Dr. Yaroslav Fedoruk will offer a glimpse into his research during our weekly seminar series. The talk, entitled " Ukraine in English Newspapers (1654–57)" takes place at 4:15pm in room S-050 in CGIS South. All...

Every two years, the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University holds a special lecture in honor of Zenovia Sochor Parry, a former professor at Clark University and HURI associate. The lecture, supported by a memorial fund, honors her life and...

From public discourse to political statements, people discussing Ukraine often talk about the East and the West. Indeed, there is a widespread belief that Ukraine has sharp regional differences, that the country is split in two along the lines of language...

‘Maidan’ is a word that is now synonymous with Ukraine’s latest self-organized movement and the values that inspired it. The name comes from the location where the protesters gathered – the Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) – which is a central...

On Monday, April 4, at 4:15 pm, Dr. Rory Finnin gave the Bohdan and Neonila Krawciw Memorial Lecture at 1730 Cambridge Street, room S-020. Entitled ‘A Bridge Between Us’: Literature in the Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar Encounter, his talk addressed the role of...

On April 11 at 4:15, HURI welcomes Paulina Pospieszna to present her new book, Democracy Assistance from the Third Wave: Polish Engagement in Belarus and Ukraine (The University of Pittsburgh Press). Pospieszna is an assistant professor at the Adam...

On Monday, April 25 at 4:15, HURI’s Seminar in Ukrainian Studies features historian John LeDonne. In the words of the editors at Kritika, “[f]ew have done more to explore the deep structures and broad tendencies that shaped Russia’s imperial period...