The Yale-Ukraine Initiative at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies will host a conference titled "Ukrainian Politics in the 20th Century" on Saturday and Sunday, April 8 and 9.
The conference will explore the nature and distinctiveness of Ukrainian politics today, including the role of language and conflicting identities in the political process, and the enduring legacy of earlier historical and cultural developments. Speakers will address such topics as: politics in Ukraine from 1890 to 1917; language and national identity; cultural politics from the 1920s to the present; the 1999 presidential elections; and interrelations between politics and economic growth.
The conference will be held 9 a.m.-6 p.m. at Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The sessions are open to the public free of charge.
Roman Szporluk, the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, will be the keynote speaker at the conference. Other participants will include academic experts from Ukraine and North America as well as prominent members of Ukrainian and international institutions. A complete conference schedule is available online at www.yale.edu/rees/yui.html.
In conjunction with the conference, there will be a reception and banquet on Saturday at the Quinnipiack Club in New Haven. George G. Grabowicz, the Dmytro Cyzevs'kyj Professor of Ukrainian Literature at Harvard University and editor-in-chief of the contemporary Ukrainian journal Krytyka, will deliver the dinner address. There is a fee to attend the banquet.
Support for the conference is provided by Yale's Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, with special assistance from the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Pierson College and the Council on European Studies.
The Yale-Ukraine Initiative, established in 1994 by a grant from the Chopivsky Family Foundation, seeks to enhance the study of Ukraine at the University through academic and research fellowships; language and culture courses; lecture series; student and faculty exchanges with Ukraine; and library support.
The Yale Center for International and Area Studies is the University's principal agency for coordinating teaching and research on international affairs and on foreign societies and cultures.
For further information, contact the Yale-Ukraine Initiative by phone at (203) 432-3107, by fax at (203) 432-5963 or by email yale-ukraine.initiative@yale.edu.
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