Serhii Plokhy Presents "Yalta: the Price of Peace"
Friday, 05 February 2010, 7:00pm
1219 International Affairs Building
The Ukrainian Studies Program invites you to a presentation by Dr. Serhii Plokhy of his new book:
YALTA: THE PRICE OF PEACE
(Viking, 2010).
Dr. Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and the author of several award-wining books on modern Russian and Ukrainian history including Unmaking Imperial Russia and The Origins of the Slavic Nations.
The event is free and open to the public. For additional information, please call 212-854-4697.
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Archaeological and Historical Research of Baturyn, the Capital of the Ukrainian Cossack State
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 12:00pm
1219 International Affairs Building
The Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University invites you to a talk and slide presentation on the archaeology and history of Baturyn by Dr. Volodymy Mezentsev.
Dr. Mezentsev is a specialist in medieval and modern Ukrainian and Byzantine archaeology, history, architecture and art. Presently, he is a Research Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), Edmonton and Toronto, and Executive Director of the Canada-Ukraine Baturyn Archaeological Project, sponsored by CIUS (2001-).
The event is free and open to the public. For additional information, please call 212-854-4697.
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EVENT CANCELLED
"FM Galicia," an evening with writer Taras Prokhasko
Tuesday, 16 February 2010, 7:30pm
Harriman Atrium, International Affairs Building
The Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University invites you to a talk with author Taras Prokhasko.
Mr. Prokhasko is the author of Inshi dni Anny (Anna’s Other Days), 1998; FM Halychyna (FM Galicia), 2001; Neprosti (The UnSimple), 2002; Leksykon tayemnykh znan (Lexicon of Secretive Knowledge), 2005; Z tsyoho mozhna bulo b zrobyty kilka opovidan (Could Have Made a Couple of Stories from This), 2005; and Port Frankivsk, 2006.
His novella Necropolis and novel The UnSimple have been translated and published in English. Taras Prokhasko is the recipient of the Joseph Conrad Award (2007) as well as Korrespondent magazine’s Best Ukrainian Book Award (2006, 2007).
The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series is cosponsored by the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University and by the Kennan Institute.
This English-language event is free and open to the public. For more information call Dr. Mark Andryczyk at 212-854-4697, or write to ukrainianstudies@columbia.edu.
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Ukraine's Presidential Race: Outcomes and Prospects
Wednesday, 24 February 2010, 12:00pm
1219 International Affairs Building
Please join the Harriman Institute for a discussion with:
Amb. Valery Kuchinsky, Former Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations
Alexander Motyl, Political Science, Rutgers
Adrian Karatnycky, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
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