Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 19-26, 1999

Volume 27, Number 29

Conference to explore politics,
culture and economics of Ukraine

Academic authorities and prominent representatives of Ukrainian and international institutions will meet in a two-day conference at Yale to view the past, take stock of the present, and ponder the future of Ukraine from a historical, cultural, economic and political perspective.

Hosted by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) and the Yale-Ukraine Initiative, the conference will cover such topics as national identity and nation-building; the legacy of the Soviet past and its implications for post-Soviet Ukraine; the political and economic history of Ukraine in the 20th century; and the development of a distinctive Ukrainian society within its larger political, economic and cultural confines.

The conference will take place Friday and Saturday, April 23 and 24, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. in the auditorium of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

The conference organizers are Paul Bushkovitch, professor of history; Harvey Goldblatt, professor and chair of Slavic languages and literatures; and Halyna Hryn, lector in Ukrainian, department of Slavic languages and literature.

Gustav Ranis, the Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics and director of YCIAS, will open the conference. The keynote address will be delivered by George G. Grabowicz, the Dmytro Cyzevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian literature at Harvard.

Serhiy Holovaty, president of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation and former justice minister of Ukraine, will address the conference banquet, which will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday at The Graduate Club, 155 Elm St.

The conference will feature panels on the historical legacy of the last century; Ukraine's economic and political history; the contemporary political situation; economics and society; and literary and cultural developments. The event will conclude with a roundtable that will explore historical and comparative perspectives and offer direction for new scholarly initiatives.

Participants will include Yaroslav Hrytsak of Lviv University; Georgii Kasianov and Volodymyr Kulyk of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences' Institute of History; Yuri Shapoval, an expert on Stalin; . economists Ivan Koropeckyj and Volodimir Bandera; Taras Kuzio from the Ukraine Centre, University of North London; Dominique Arel of Brown University; Hryhoriy Nemyria of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy; Financial Times correspondent Charles Clover; Joel Hellman, senior counsellor at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Oleksander Savchenko, managing director of the Austrian bank Creditanstalt in Ukraine; Bohdan Rubchak of the University of Illinois in Chicago; Solomea Pavlychko from the Institute of Literature, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; and Mykola Riabchuk, the deputy editor of the new journal Krytyka.

Conference sessions are free and open to the public. A registration fee of $50 purchases conference materials and admission to receptions. Friday and Saturday lunches are $10 each, and the banquet on Friday evening is $50.

Now in its fifth year, the Yale-Ukraine Initiative was created through the vision and support of George Chopivsky, Jr. (Yale '69) and the Chopivsky Family Foundation. The initiative is a multidisciplinary program enabling Yale scholars and students to explore the society, culture and economy of Ukraine through fellowships, language study, research grants and an annual conference, which this year is also sponsored by Yale's Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund.

Currently under the leadership of Harvey Goldblatt, the initiative has been responsible for creating several opportunities for students and scholars at Yale and from Ukraine. The initiative is also in its second year of collaboration with the Open Society Institute in hosting economics professor Yury Bilenko of Lviv University as part of the Faculty Incentive Fellowships Program. Two Yale students have used initiative funds to undertake research in Ukraine.

Through the Chopivsky Family Fellowship Program, the initiative also brings Ukrainian scholars to Yale to study in the international relations program, the School of Management, the program in international and development economics (IDE), or in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Three students matriculated into the international and development economics program during the fall of 1997 and more recently, two recipients of the Chopivsky Fellowships have enrolled at Yale, one in the School of Forestry and the other in the IDE program.

In another program of the initiative, medical internships in urology at Yale-New Haven Hospital have been arranged for Ukrainian doctors by Dr. Bernard Lytton, the organizer of Yale's medical internship program.

For more information contact the Yale-Ukraine Initiative by telephone 432-3107, by fax 432-5963, or by email, rees@yale.edu; consult the web site, www.yale.edu/rees/yui.html.

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