The Ukrainian Research
Institute invites members of the Harvard community and the general
public to the following lecture presented as part of the HURI Ukraine
Study Group series:
Slavic and East European Studies in Switzerland
Historical Context and Recent Developments
Peter Collmer
Postdoctoral
Fellow, University of Zurich
Visiting Scholar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Thursday, April 9, 2009
12:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Omeljan Pritsak Memorial Library
Ukrainian Research Institute
34 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Upcoming Lectures and
Presentations of
Interest:
Unless indicated otherwise, events are held from 4:00-6:00 p.m.
in Room S-050 of CGIS Building South.
Monday, April 13 - Petro Jacyk Memorial Symposium
Gogol and Ukraine: On the 200th Anniversary of the
Birth of Nikolai Gogol
Session 1: Gogol and Ukraine:
Biography and Literary
Analysis
4:00-6:00 p.m., Room S-050 (Concourse Level), CGIS
South, 1730
Cambridge St.
Session 2: Gogolian Inspirations: An
Evening of
Literary Readings (Presented in English and Ukrainian)
7:30-9:30 p.m., Public Gathering Room (Room S-030),
CGIS South, 1730
Cambridge St.
Participants include: Volodymyr Dibrova, Amelia
Glaser, George
G. Grabowicz, Olena Haleta, Halyna Hryn, Tamara Hundorova, Vasyl
Makhno, Alexander J. Motyl, Robert Romanchuk, and Yuriy Tarnawsky
Monday, April 20
Should Cossacks Be Allowed to Sell Their Lands? A
Contribution to
Russo-Ukrainian Relations (1820s)
John LeDonne
Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies,
Harvard University
~ 4:00-6:00 p.m., Room S-354, CGIS South, 1730
Cambridge St. ~
Thursday, April 23 - Ukraine Study Group
Stalin's Manipulation of Ukraine in His
International Relations:
Nationality, Population and Territory, 1944-1949
David Wolff
Professor of Eurasian History, Slavic Research
Center, Hokkaido
University, Japan
Visiting Scholar, Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies
~ 12:15-2:00 p.m., Omeljan Pritsak Memorial
Library, Ukrainian Research Institute ~
Monday, April 27
Literary Anthologies and Their Role in Shaping
Ukrainian Identity
Olena Haleta
Associate Professor of Literature and Director,
Center for the
Humanities, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Ukrainian
Research Institute
Thursday, April 30 - Ukraine Study Group
Soviet Patriotism and the Problem of Identities
in the Postwar
Ukrainian Intelligentsia
Benjamin Tromly
Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies
Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound,
Tacoma, WA
~ 12:15-2:00 p.m., Omeljan Pritsak Memorial
Library, Ukrainian Research Institute ~
Monday, May 4
Taras Shevchenko and the Modern Ukrainian Literary
Language: A Revisit
and New Assessment
Michael Moser
Associate Professor, Institute for Slavic Studies,
University of
Vienna
Other events of Interest:
Wednesday, April 8 ~ Harvard Ukrainian
Student Society ~
Ukrainian Egg Painting Workshop - Pysanky
All pysanka making equipment and instructions will be provided.
Invite your friends and share in the tradition!
(For more information, visit the HUSS website: http://isites.harvard.edu/huss)
~ 6:00-8:00 p.m., Dudley House (Private Dining Hall, next to the
Fireside Room)
Program subject to change.
To check for
changes
to the HURI Seminar schedule, please visit our website: http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html
Please note: HURI now utilizes Harvard's list server. For more
information, please visit our list at: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/huri-events-list
For further information on HURI
events, please contact us at:
Tel.: 617-495-4053
Fax: 617-495-8097
E-mail: huri
at fas.harvard.edu
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Ukrainian Research Institute
Harvard University
34 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Tel: 617-495-4053
Fax: 617-495-8097
Web: http://www.huri.harvard.edu
E-mail: huri@fas.harvard.edu
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