[aaus-list] UKRAINIAN CONFERENCE JUNE 24-27, 2009

[Schafroth, Theresa Jo]

JUNE 24 - 27, 2009 ILLINI UNION, ROOM 314





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 shtohryn at uiuc.edu<mailto:shtohryn at uiuc.edu> , 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<http://www.utoronto.ca/cius>

Managing Editor, www.encyclopediaofukraine.com<http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com>



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