BRAMA, Mar. 29, 2000, 8:00pm EST

UKRAINIAN POLITICS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
An International Conference at Yale University

New Haven, CT - The Yale-Ukraine Initiative at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) will host a two-day conference, April 8 and 9, 2000, which will examine Ukrainian politics in the past century.

The recent presidential elections have once again made evident the challenges that confront Ukrainian society: nation-building and creation of stable democratic institutions, economic reform, integration of regional and national interests, and relations with the ex-Soviet world and beyond. These complex issues will form the basis for discussion at this year’s conference as its contributors explore the nature and distinctiveness of Ukrainian politics today; the role of language and conflicting identities in the political process; and the enduring legacy of earlier historical and cultural developments.

Conference topics include:

• politics in Ukraine from 1890-1917;
• language and national identity;
• cultural politics from the 1920s to the present;
• an analysis of the 1999 presidential elections; and
• an examination of interrelations between politics and economic growth.

The conference, Saturday April 8, and Sunday, April 9 will be held from 9:00a.m. - 6:00p.m. at Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut.

Roman Szporluk, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, will deliver the keynote address.

Academic experts from Ukraine and North America as well as prominent members of Ukrainian and international institutions will participate in the conference, including:

• Oleh Havrylyshyn, Senior Advisor at the International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC;
• Dominique Arel, Associate Professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University;
• Taras Kuzio, Honorary Visiting Fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, and former Head of Mission, NATO Information Centre in Kyiv;
• Serhiy Hrabovsky, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and editor of the journal Geneza;
• Valeriy Khmelko, Chair of the Department of Sociology at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and President of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology;
• Oleksandr Hrytsenko, Director of the Institute of Cultural Policy at the Ukrainian Centre for Cultural Studies in Kyiv;
• David J. Anderson, President and CEO of Elidale Holdings, Inc., Kyiv;
• Olga Andriewsky, Associate Professor of History at Trent University, Canada;
• Maxim Tarnawsky, Associate Professor of Ukrainian Literature at the University of Toronto, Canada; and
• Laada Bilaniuk, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.

The conference reception and banquet will be held on Saturday, April 9, at 7:00 p.m. at the Quinnipiack Club in New Haven. George G. Grabowicz, 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.

The conference will conclude with a Roundtable led by Alexander Motyl, Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University.

For further information please contact the Yale-Ukraine Initiative at (203) 432-3107, fax (203) 432-5963, email yale-ukraine.initiative@yale.edu, or consult the web site www.yale.edu/rees/yui.html.

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