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[Diana Howansky <dhh2@columbia.edu>]

TOMORROW:

The Ukrainian Studies Program and the Ukrainian Student Society at 
Columbia University will host representatives of Human Rights Watch, 
Rebecca Schleifer (HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Program) and Jane Buchanan 
(Europe and Central Asia Division), who will speak about:

"THE HIV/AIDS CRISIS IN UKRAINE"

WHEN: Tuesday, December 6 at 1:00pm
WHERE: Room 1219, International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th St., 
Columbia University

REBECCA SCHLEIFER works as a researcher in the HIV/AIDS and Human Rights 
Program at Human Rights Watch, where she does research and advocacy on 
human rights abuses linked to HIV/AIDS. She has conducted research and 
written reports about government restrictions on complete HIV/AIDS 
information to youth and on harm reduction services to injection drug 
users; access to antiretroviral treatment and other post-rape services 
to survivors of sexual violence; and abuses against people living with 
and at high risk of HIV/AIDS, in the United States, Ukraine, Bangladesh, 
South Africa, and Jamaica. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, she 
worked with migrant farm-workers in Florida and Washington, litigating 
cases on wages and working conditions, and conducting advocacy regarding 
pesticide issues. Ms. Schleifer has an A.B. from Harvard-Radcliffe 
College, and an M.P.H. and a J.D. from the University of California, 
Berkeley.

JANE BUCHANAN has worked on democracy and human rights issues in the 
former Soviet Union for more than ten years.  She has been in her 
current position as a consultant for the Europe and Central Asia 
Division of Human Rights Watch for nine months and has contributed to 
Human Rights Watch research and advocacy on Ukraine, Russia and Central 
Asia.  Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in her current capacity, Ms. 
Buchanan served for two years as the Executive Director of the Russian 
Justice Initiative, a human rights organization based in Moscow.  In 
2002-2003, Ms. Buchanan worked for Human Rights Watch as a research 
fellow during which she initiated the organization’s work on Ukraine and 
published two HRW reports on Ukraine.  Ms. Buchanan also previously 
worked at the Open Society Institute in New York, the Center for 
Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development in Bologna, Italy, for 
Middlebury College in Russia, and for a Russian NGO in Irkutsk, Russia. 
  She obtained a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the Johns 
Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies in Bologna, 
Italy and Washington, DC in 2002.

For more information, please contact Diana at 
ukrainianstudies@columbia.edu or (212)854-4697.

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OTHER UKRAINIAN STUDIES PROGRAM EVENTS THIS WEEK:

Thursday, December 8: Celebrate the holiday season with the Ukrainian 
Film Club of Columbia University, which will show the Soviet classic 
“Eve Before Christmas or Nights in the Village of Dykanka” (director 
Aleksandr Rou, 1961), a full-length feature film based on the writings 
of Gogol. The film takes place in the 18th century near the Ukrainian 
village of Dykanka, where a blacksmith, Vakula, falls in love with a 
beautiful woman, Oksana, who will only marry him if he fulfills the 
impossible task of bringing her the tsarina’s shoes. Vakula’s adventures 
begin on Christmas Eve, turning his habitual rural life magical. The 
film will be shown in its original Russian/Ukrainian version with 
English subtitles. It will be introduced by Dr. Yuri Shevchuk, director 
of the Ukrainian Film Club, and followed by a discussion. Ukrainian food 
and drinks to be served. Room 614, Schermerhorn Hall, 7:30pm.

Friday, December 9: The United Nations Association of New York’s Young 
Professionals for International Cooperation, in cooperation with the 
Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the UN and Columbia University's 
Ukrainian Studies Program, invites you to a special event: “The Orange 
Revolution:  Political, economic, democratic, and social implications of 
Ukraine’s Presidential elections.” Keynote speakers: Adrian Karatnycky 
(Counselor and Senior Scholar of Freedom House and Founder of the Orange 
Circle); and Prof. Alexander J. Motyl (Deputy Director of the Center for 
Global Change and Governance, Co-director of the Central and East 
European Studies Program at Rutgers-Newark, and Professor of Political 
Science). Room 1501, International Affairs Building, 
Registration/reception begins at 6:00pm.

-- 
Diana Howansky
Staff Associate
Ukrainian Studies Program
Columbia University
Room 1209, MC3345
420 W. 118th Street
New York, NY  10027
(212) 854-4697
ukrainianstudies@columbia.edu
http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/ukrainianstudies/