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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><u>Twenty-Sixth
Conference on Ukrainian Subjects<br>
</u><b>CONTEMPORARY UKRAINE: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>WITH A KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR MARK L. VON HAGEN,
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The following persons are responsible for all aspects of the
conference preparation and conducting:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:20.0pt'>Organizer and Coordinator: Dmytro
Shtohryn, Chairperson of the Ukrainian Research Program at the University of
Illinois;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:20.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:20.0pt'>Head of the Organizing Committee:
Raisa Bratkiv, Head of the Foundation for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies
at the University of Illinois;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:20.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:20.0pt'>Program Committee:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:20.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:55.45pt;text-indent:-35.3pt'>Chairperson:
Leonid Rudnytzky, LaSalle University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:55.45pt;text-indent:-35.3pt'>Members:
Assya Humesky, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:20.0pt;text-indent:55.0pt'>Volodymyr
Chumachenko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:20.0pt;text-indent:55.0pt'>Taras Hunczak,
Rutgers University, Newark,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:20.0pt;text-indent:55.0pt'>Jaroslav
Rozumnyj, University of Manitoba,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:20.0pt;text-indent:55.0pt'>Christine
Sochocky, Toronto, Ontario.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Free and open to the public<br>
Presentations of papers at the conference will be in English and Ukrainian.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Dmytro Shtoryn, Chairperson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>of the Ukrainian Research Program<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Leonid Rudnytzky, Chairperson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>of the Ukrainian Research Program<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Co-sponsors: Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
Slavic Languages and Literatures<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:20.0pt'><br>
All questions about the conference should be directed to Dmytro Shtohryn, Tel.:
(217) 356-9195, FAX: (217) 356-7982, E-mail: <a
href="mailto:shtohryn@illinois.edu">shtohryn@illinois.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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