[aaus-list] Twenty-Sixth Conference on Ukrainian Subjects

[Schafroth, Theresa Jo]

Twenty-Sixth Conference on Ukrainian Subjects
CONTEMPORARY UKRAINE: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES

We are pleased to announce that the Twenty-Sixth Conference on Ukrainian Subjects at the University of Illinois will be held in the Illini Union, room 314 on the Urbana-Champaign campus, June 24-27, 2009 9:00 AM - 6:00PM.

WITH A KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR MARK L. VON HAGEN, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

The conference is being organized by the Ukrainian Research Programs at the University of Illinois, within the framework of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center's Summer Research Laboratory on Russia and East European Countries. Its main theme will be "Contemporary Ukraine: Challenges and Perspectives". The main sessions of the conference will be devoted to the following topics: "Ukraine and Russia", "Ukraine and the Countries of the European Union", "Ukraine and North America", and "Ukrainian Western Diaspora".

The following persons are responsible for all aspects of the conference preparation and conducting:
Organizer and Coordinator: Dmytro Shtohryn, Chairperson of the Ukrainian Research Program at the University of Illinois;

Head of the Organizing Committee: Raisa Bratkiv, Head of the Foundation for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Illinois;

Program Committee:

Chairperson: Leonid Rudnytzky, LaSalle University
Members: Assya Humesky, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Volodymyr Chumachenko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Taras Hunczak, Rutgers University, Newark,
Jaroslav Rozumnyj, University of Manitoba,
Christine Sochocky, Toronto, Ontario.

Free and open to the public
Presentations of papers at the conference will be in English and Ukrainian.

Dmytro Shtoryn, Chairperson
of the Ukrainian Research Program

Leonid Rudnytzky, Chairperson
of the Ukrainian Research Program

Co-sponsors: Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
                    Slavic Languages and Literatures

All questions about the conference should be directed to Dmytro Shtohryn, Tel.: (217) 356-9195, FAX: (217) 356-7982, E-mail: shtohryn at illinois.edu<mailto:shtohryn at illinois.edu>

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