[aaus-list] Announcement: Twenty-Sixth Conference on Ukrainian Subjects,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 24-27, 2009

[Roman Senkus]

UKRAINIAN RESEARCH PROGRAMs
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tel.: (217) 356-9195
                                        104 International Studies Building
FAX: 217-356-7982
                                       910 South Fifth Street
E-mail: shtohryn at illinois.edu
                                Champaign, Illinois 61820 USA


                                                        February 5, 2009


The Twenty-Sixth Conference on Ukrainian Subjects at the University 
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be held on June 24-27, 2009. The 
conference is being organized by the Ukrainian Research Program at 
the University of Illinois and will be held within the framework of 
the Summer Research Laboratory on Russia and East European Countries.

    The conference main theme is ?Contemporary Ukraine: Challenges and 
Perspectives? and its major sessions will be devoted to such topics 
as:
Ukraine and Russia,
Ukraine and the European Union,
Ukraine and North America,
  Contemporary Development of the Ukrainian Diaspora.
Presentation of papers will be in English and Ukrainian.

    The Program Committee of the conference comprises the following persons:
Chairperson: Leonid Rudnytzky (LaSalle University),
Members: Volodymyr Chumachenko (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),
                    Assya Humesky (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor),
                    Taras Hunczak (Rutgers University, Newark),
                    Jaroslav Rozumnyj (University of Manitoba),
                    Christina Sochocky (Toronto, Ontario).

Its Organizing Committee includes members of the Executive Committee 
of the Foundation for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies at the 
University of Illinois:
Chairperson: Raisa Bratkiv,
Members: John Derkach,Vera Eliashevsky, Alex Konoval, Ola Kusyk.

The conference proceedings are open for the public. Presentations of 
papers and their comments will be given by invited persons only.

All questions connected with the conference should be directed to
Dmytro Shtohryn, Chairperson
of the Ukrainian Research Program (all communication data listed above).


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ROMAN SENKUS / POMAH CEHbKYCb
Director, CIUS Publications Program www.utoronto.ca/cius
Managing Editor, www.encyclopediaofukraine.com

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