 Yale
- Ukraine Initiative: Conferences
Soviet and Post-Soviet Ukraine:
A Century in Perspective
International Conference
Yale University, April 23-24, 1999
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
As the end of the twentieth century fast approaches
the aim of the conference is to offer a fresh perspective on Ukraine of
the last hundred years. By examining the evolutionary trends in Ukrainian
history, economics, politics and culture the conference will explore the
opportunities and challenges that Ukraine faces in the next millennium.
Conference topics include:
- national identity and nation-building
- legacy of the Soviet past and its implications
for post-Soviet Ukraine
- the political and economic history of Ukraine
in the twentieth century
- development of a distinctive Ukrainian society
within the confines of larger political, economic, and cultural entities
- current economic and social issues
- cultural conflicts and language questions
Print a copy of the registration
form.
| Thursday,
April 22 |
| 8:00 pm |
Reception, Pierson College, 321 Park
Street |
| Friday,
April 23 |
| 8:00 am |
Registration
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 am |
Opening Session
Welcome
Gustav Ranis, Director, Yale Center for International
and Area Studies
Harvey Goldblatt, Chair, Yale-Ukraine Initiative
Keynote Address:
George G. Grabowicz, Dmytro Cyzevs'kyi Professor
of Ukrainian Literature, Harvard University |
| 10:00 am |
I. Historical Legacy
Yuri Shapoval, Director, Center for the History of
Political Science, Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies, National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Georgii Kasianov, Senior Research Fellow, Institute
of Ukrainian History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Yaroslav Hrytsak, Director, Institute for Historical
Research, Lviv University |
| 11:45 am-1:15 pm |
Lunch |
| 1:15 pm |
II. Political and
Economic History
Iwan S. Koropeckyj, Professor Emeritus of Economics,
Temple University
Volodymyr Kulyk, Research Fellow, Institute of Political
and Ethno-National Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Volodimir Bandera, Professor of Economics, Temple
University |
| 3:00-3:30 pm |
Coffee Break |
| 3:30 pm |
III. Contemporary
Politics
Dominique Arel, Assistant Professor of Political
Science, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
Taras Kuzio, Honorary Research Fellow, Ukraine Centre,
University of North London, and former Head of Mission, NATO Information
Centre in Kyiv
Hryhoriy Nemyria, Senior Research Fellow, Institute
of International Relations, Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University |
| 7:00 pm |
Reception and Dinner
The Graduate Club
155 Elm Street, New Haven |
| Saturday,
April 24 |
| 9:30 am |
Continental Breakfast |
| 10:00 am |
Session IV- Economics
and Society
Charles Clover, Correspondent for Ukraine, Financial
Times
Joel Hellman, Senior Counsellor, Office of the Chief
Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Oleksander Savchenko, Managing Director, JSCB Bank
Austria Creditanstalt Ukraine |
| 11:45 - 1:15 pm |
Lunch |
| 1:15 pm |
Session V- Literature
and Culture
Bohdan Rubchak, Professor of Ukrainian Literature,
University of Illinois
Solomea Pavlychko, Senior Research Scholar, Institute
of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Mykola Riabchuk, Research Fellow, Center for European
Studies, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and Deputy Editor, Krytyka
George G. Grabowicz, Dmytro Cyzevs'kyi Professor
of Ukrainian Literature, Harvard University |
| 3:00-3:30 pm |
Coffee Break |
| 3:30 pm |
Session VI. - Round
Table
Moderator: Harvey Goldblatt, Professor of Medieval
Slavic Literature and Chair, Yale Ukraine Initiative, Yale University |
| 5:15 |
Closing reception |
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