Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University
Fall 2010 Semester – Courses and Events
Six Ukrainian courses and a series of events will be offered at Columbia this autumn.
Visiting Columbia this semester will be historian Dr. Serhii Bilenky. Dr. Bilenky received a Candidate of Historical Sciences Degree at Kyiv University in 2001 and a PhD in History at the University of Toronto in 2007. This fall he will teach two courses. One, a new course entitled “Between Tradition and Modernity: Cities and Empires in Central and Eastern Europe”, deals with the contradictory modernization experienced by major Central and Eastern European cities between the late eighteenth and early twentieth century. The first half of the course will introduce students to the most important social, political, and cultural issues associated with modernity in the Austro-Hungarian and the Russian empires, primarily in urban settings. The second half will feature six cities – Vienna, Prague, Lviv, Saint Petersburg, Kyiv, and Odesa – each representing a particular crucial issue of the epoch. Students will learn when and where public transport first appeared in the region and why cholera coexisted with electricity. Topics such as nationalism and anti-Semitism, radicalism and conservatism, centrality and provinciality, hygiene and imperial control, folk culture and artistic avant-garde will be explored. This course will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:10-2:25PM.
Dr. Bilenky will also teach a course Mondays from 2:10-4PM entitled “Empire and Nation: Nationality Issues in the Russian Empire." This senior seminar deals with nationalist challenges and nationality policies in imperial Russia. Particular emphasis will be placed on the imperial policies vis-à-vis national peripheries (primarily Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic, and Volga region) as well as religious minorities (particularly Jews, Roman Catholics, and Muslims). Also analyzed will be the relationship between the imperial government and Russian nationalism. The “gap” between nation and empire in Russia will be considered. The main chronological focus of the seminar is the “long” nineteenth century – the late eighteenth-the early twentieth centuries.
Ambassador Valerii Kuchinsky will teach the course "Ukrainian Foreign Policy: Russia, Europe and the US." Ambassador Kuchinsky is the former Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, a career diplomat who has been actively involved in the implementation of Ukraine's foreign policy for many years. His course, to be held on Tuesdays, from 11AM-12:50PM, will provide historical perspectives on Ukraine's foreign relations and examine the trajectory of its foreign policy since independence in 1991 through the Orange Revolution in 2004 till the Presidential Election in 2010 and beyond. The class will analyze Ukraine's renunciation of its nuclear arsenal, its quest for Euroatlantic integration, its participation in regional structures and the current state of the Ukrainian-Russian relationship. The format of the course will encourage active dialogue and analytical reflection on the part of the students. It is aimed at both graduate and advanced undergraduate students.
Three levels of Ukrainian language instruction will be taught this fall by Dr. Yuri Shevchuk, Lecturer of Ukrainian Language and Culture at Columbia: Elementary on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:10-10:25AM; Intermediate on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:35-11:50AM; and Advanced on Mondays and Wednesdays 1:10-2:25PM.
Dr. Shevchuk, who is also Director of the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University, will continue to provide fans of film with consistent programming featuring Ukrainian cinema both on and off campus this fall. Among those events planned for this semester will be a screening of the feature documentary "Genocide Revealed" by Montreal-based filmmaker Yuri Luhovy, with the participation of the author. Also planned is an event entitled “New Names and Films From Ukraine: Marian Bushan, Lora Artiuhina, Serhiy Marchenko, Oleksander Khvorostianko". There will also be a special Yuri Illienko Memorial Event celebrating the life and legacy of the recently passed Ukrainian film classic.
Several book presentations and lectures have already been scheduled for the fall. On September 22nd there will be a book presentation by Lydia Prokop of the recent book "Scratches on a Prison Wall." A presentation by Prof. Michael Moser (Vienna University) will take place on November 15th, entitled "Ukrainian, Russian, or Carpatho-Rusyn? The Language Question in Interwar Subcarpathia." Also scheduled is a presentation by Prof. Irena Makaryk (University of Ottawa) and Virlana Tkacz (Yara Arts Group), co-editors of the new publication “Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant Experimentation” (University of Toronto Press, 2010). They will be presenting this book on November 16th. All three of these events will be held at 12PM in Room 1219 of Columbia’s International Affairs Building.
A has been the case for the past three years, there will be a Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series event held this fall. The ongoing series is cosponsored by Columbia’s Ukrainian Studies Program and by the Kennan Institute in Washington D.C. Past guests in the ongoing Series have included Taras Chubai, Yuri Andrukhovych, Adrei Kurkov and Taras Prokhasko. Further information about this semester’s guest will be provided shortly.
For the 2010-2011 academic year, the Ukrainian Studies Program will be hosting Dr. Tetiana Yaroshenko as a Visiting Fulbright Scholar. Dr. Yaroshenko is Vice President for IT and Library Director at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. At Columbia she will be working on her project entitled “Open Access to Knowledge in the Modern University: Policy and Practice.” Her research will be a comparative analysis of the situations with Open Access at universities in Ukraine and in the US. During her stay, Dr. Yaroshenko will give a presentation on her research.
Courses at Columbia are open to students from other universities in the New York metropolitan area seeking credit. Please contact the university at which you enrolled to determine whether it participates in this manner with Columbia University. Course are also open to outside individuals interested in non-credit continuing studies. Additionally, through the Lifelong Learners program, individuals over 65 years of age who are interested in auditing courses, may enroll at a discount rate as Lifelong Learners. Please visit the Columbia University School of Continuing Education (http://www.ce.columbia.edu/auditing/?PID=28) for more details.
September 17th is the final day to register for a class. For more information about courses or the Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University, please contact Dr. Mark Andryczyk at ukrainianstudies@columbia.edu or (212) 854-4697.
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