aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] "Does Ukraine Have a History?" tomorrow

[Diana Howansky <dhh2@columbia.edu>]

The Director of the Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University, 
Prof. Mark von Hagen, will give the talk:

"DOES UKRAINE HAVE A HISTORY?"

WHEN: Wednesday, February 1 at 12:00pm
WHERE: Room 1219, International Affairs Building, Columbia University, 
420 W. 118th Street

In 1995, Prof. von Hagen wrote a provocative essay in which he asked 
whether Ukraine has "a written history of its experienced past that 
commands some widespread acceptance and authority in the international 
scholarly and political communities." He offered the answer that "it's 
not so simple," examining Ukraine's place in history and the 
historiography of Ukraine. Ten years after the publication of this essay 
(Slavic Review 54, no. 3 (1995): 658–73), and a year after Ukraine's 
Orange Revolution, Prof. von Hagen revisits this topic.

Officially kicking off the Spring 2006 semester at Columbia, food and 
drink will be served.

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

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Prof. Mark von Hagen (Boris Bakhmeteff Professor of Russian and East 
European Studies) is the Director of the Ukrainian Studies Program at 
Columbia University, and teaches Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian 
history at Columbia University. He is the author of Soldiers in the 
Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, 
1917-1930 (Cornell, 1990); co-edited (with Catherine Evtuhov, Boris 
Gasparov, and Alexander Ospovat) Kazan, Moscow, St. Petersburg: Multiple 
Faces of the Russian Empire (Moscow, 1997); co-edited (with Karen 
Barkey) After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The 
Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman and Habsburg Empire (Westview, 
1997); co-edited (with Andreas Kappeler, Zenon Kohut and Frank Sysyn) 
Culture, Nation, Identity: the Ukrainian-Russian Encounter (1600-1945) 
(Toronto, 2003); and is co-editing (with Jane Burbank and Anatoly 
Remnev) Geographies of Empire: Ruling Russia, 1700-1991 (Indiana, 
expected 2004). He has written articles and essays on topics in 
historiography, civil-military relations, nationality politics and 
minority history, and cultural history.

Von Hagen attended Georgetown University (B.S.Foreign Service), Indiana 
University-Bloomington (M.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures); and 
Stanford University (Ph.D., History and Humanities). He has also taught 
at Stanford University, Yale University, the Free University of Berlin, 
and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He served 
as Associate Director and then Director of the Harriman Institute 
(1989-2001), the nation’s oldest university-based research and teaching 
center on the states and societies of post-Soviet Eurasia. In the School 
of International and Public Affairs at Columbia, he chaired the task 
force on review of the school’s curriculum, headed its Inter-regional 
Council, and served as director of the master’s program in international 
affairs.

He is on the editorial board of Ab Imperio and Krytyka. Von Hagen serves 
(and has served) on several professional association boards (the 
National Council for Eurasian and East European Studies, the American 
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, the Association for 
the Study of Nationalities, the Shevchenko Scientific Society, the 
International Association of Ukrainian Studies). He is also a member of 
the Human Rights Watch Eurasia Steering Committee. He serves as a 
consultant for the Russian Archives Project of Primary Source Microfilms 
(Gale Group). In August 2002, von Hagen was elected President of the 
International Association of Ukrainian Studies at the Fifth Congress in 
Chernivtsi, Ukraine (for a three-year term, ending July 2005).


-- 
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/