Conference on Ukraine announcement

[Robert De Lossa]

Vel'myshanovni seelanzhani, khto tsikavliat'sia Ukrainoiu!

FYI, Robert De Lossa:

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HARVARD ANNOUNCES SYMPOSIUM ON UKRAINE SINCE INDEPENDENCE

(Cambridge, MA)

The Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University is sponsoring a
major conference, ³Ukraine Since Independence: A Symposium on Politics,
Economics, Society and Culture,² on July 31-August 2, 1997. The conference
represents the culmination of a year-long examination of the five years of
Ukrainian independence, which included lectures in the Institute¹s weekly
seminar series in Ukrainian studies, a special section that appeared in two
issues of the Ukrainian Weekly in August 1996, and an international
conference on Ukraine¹s foreign relations held last December in Washington
DC in conjunction with George Washington University and with the assistance
of the Embassy of Ukraine.

This summer¹s three-day symposium is aimed at both those with an academic
and a professional interest in contemporary Ukraine -- specialists in
government service, business people, journalists, and other practitioners.
It will bring together leading experts to discuss a broad range of topics:
political development, economic reform, the state of Ukrainian culture, and
current social issues. The proceedings of the conference, together with
additional commissioned articles, will later be published in a separate
volume.

Each day of the symposium will examine a particular theme of the
post-independence era in Ukraine. Day One will focus on Ukrainian domestic
political issues, and will include discussions on such topics as the
development of state administration in the state-building process;
political parties and elites; the connection between ethnicity and
regionalism; religion and inter confessional relations; and gender issues
in independent Ukraine. The first day¹s presentations will be made by such
noted experts as Bohdan Krawchenko (Academy of Public Administration,
Office of the President of Ukraine), Roman Solchanyk (Rand Corporation),
and Martha Bohachevsky Chomiak (National Endowment for the Humanities). Day
One will conclude with an evening roundtable discussion by a group of
visiting Ukrainian students offering a youthful perspective on Ukraine
since independence.

Day Two of the symposium will bring together distinguished international
experts and practitioners dealing with economic issues and the challenge of
economic reform in Ukraine. The morning session will consist of analyses of
developments in the Ukrainian economy and economic reform efforts by Daniel
Kaufmann (World Bank) and Jeffrey Sachs (Harvard University Institute for
International Development). The afternoon session will focus on
international economic relations, with presentations by Oleh Havrylyshyn
(International Monetary Fund) and Anders Aslund (Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace). Viktor Pynzenyk (former Ukrainian Deputy Prime
Minister for the Economy) will speak on the practical experience of
managing the economy and promoting reforms. A dinner and reception
completes the second day of the symposium; the dinner speaker will be Roman
Szporluk (Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute and Hrushevskyi
Professor of History, Harvard University), who will speak on the topic,
³Ukrainian Independence in Historical Perspective.²

Day Three of the symposium will deal with issues of culture and society.
The morning session will be devoted to developments in the field of
Ukrainian culture, including assessments of literature and literary studies
by George G. Grabowicz (Harvard University); the performing and fine arts
by Virko Baley (University of Nevada); and history and historiography
(speaker TBA).  Solomea Pavlychko (Institute of Literature, National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) will provide insights of a Ukrainian
practitioner. The afternoon session will examine important social problems:
Oleh Wolowyna will speak on demography and population change; Murray
Feshbach (Georgetown University) is tentatively scheduled to speak on
environmental and health issues. The final presentation of the symposium by
Alexander Motyl (Harriman Institute, Columbia University) will assess the
Ukrainian experience since independence in the comparative framework of
developments in other formerly Soviet states.

For further information on the program, fees, and application forms,
contact Dr. Lubomyr Hajda, Associate Director, Ukrainian Research
Institute, 1583 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138; telephone (617)
495-9828 or 495-4053; fax, (617) 495-8097; e-mail: ³huri at fas.harvard.edu².


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Robert De Lossa
Publications Office
Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
1583 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-8768; fax. 617-495-8097
reply to: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu
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