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Seminar in Ukrainian Studies, Ukraine Study Group (USG), and Special Presentations

Spring 2012

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Unless otherwise noted, all seminars take place from 4 to 6 p.m. in Room S-050, Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), Harvard University, South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138.

Monday
January 30
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050

Ukraine-Russia Relations: Drama without Conclusion?

James Sherr, Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London

Monday
February 6
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050

Chornobyl and Catastrophism in Contemporary Ukrainian Culture

Tamara Hundorova, Head, Department of Literary Theory, Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Monday
February 13
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050

Lviv as Ukraine's Western Other

William Risch, Associate Professor, Department of History, Georgia College

A book launch of the speaker’s The Ukrainian West: Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv (Harvard University Press, 2011) will follow the seminar.

Monday
February 20

Holiday: Presidents' Day. No seminar

Monday
February 27
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050

The First Free Generation: Youth in Post-Soviet Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan

Nadia Diuk, Vice President, Programs for Europe and Eurasia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, National Endowment for Democracy, Washington

A book launch of the speaker’s The Next Generation in Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan: Youth, Politics, Identity, and Change (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012) will follow the seminar.

Tuesday
February 28
12:15 to 2 PM
HURI Library

Democracy in Ukraine: Current State and Future Outlook

An open discussion with Nadia Diuk, Vice President, Programs for Europe and Eurasia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, National Endowment for Democracy, Washington

Monday
March 5
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050

Independent Ukraine 1991 to 2011

Ukraine and European Security: Opportunities and Challenges after 20 Years of Independence

Leonid Polyakov, Chairman of Board of Experts, Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies, Kyiv; External Consultant, National Security and Defense Committee, Parliament of Ukraine; former Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine

Monday
March 12

Spring Recess. No Seminar

Monday
March 19
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050

An Urban Carousel: The Rise, Fall, and Consolidation of the Soviet Ukrainian Beaumonde

Mayhill Fowler, Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ukrainian Studies, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Monday
March 26
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050

Making and Remaking National Histories in the Soviet Union: The Case of Ukraine (in Comparative Perspective with Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan)

Harun Yilmaz, Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Monday
April 9
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050

Scholarship in the Service of the National Movement: Father Mykhailo Zubryts'kyi (1856-1919) and the Chronicling of the Galician Village

Frank Sysyn, Director, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta

Thursday
April 19
4 to 6 PM
Lower Level Conference Room
Center for European Studies 27 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA

The Petryshyn Memorial Lecture in Ukrainian Studies. Title: TBA

Norman M. Naimark , Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute, Stanford University

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