aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] Ukrainian films by New Yorker tonight

[Diana Howansky <dhh2@columbia.edu>]

TONIGHT:

The February 2006 event of the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia 
University will feature films made about Ukraine in other countries. 
This is meant to be an invitation for the viewers to take a look at 
Ukraine and Ukrainian heritage through the eyes of a Westerner. The 
event will be the first installment of an on-going program entitled:

"Ukraine. A Cinematic View From the West."

The New York film-maker ANDREA ODEZYNSKA will present her two films and 
engage the audience in a post-screening discussion.

The program includes: “The Whisperer,” 2005, a documentary about 
little-known folk rituals of the Carpathian highlands that will 
seriously test the viewer’s capacity to believe in the unbelievable.

“Dora Was Dysfunctional,” 1994, a hilarious story of a young American 
caught in between two cultures - American and Ukrainian, and looking for 
love in all the wrong places. This romantic comedy was short-listed at 
the Academy Awards, the Hampton Film Festival and the Rotterdam Film 
Festival. It has been screened on HBO and Showtime.

Both films are in English.

WHEN: February 16, 2006, Thursday, 7:30 PM

WHERE: 717 Hamilton Hall, Columbia University

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OTHER EVENTS THIS MONTH:

Thursday, February 23:  The Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia 
University will host a lecture by Prof. Alfred Stepan about Ukraine and 
the concept of “nation-state” vs. “state-nation.” Prof. Stepan is a 
Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia whose teaching and 
research interests include comparative politics, theories of democratic 
transitions, federalism, and the world’s religious systems and 
democracy. This lecture will be held in Room 1219 (12th floor) of the 
International Affairs Building at Columbia University (420 W. 118th 
St.), starting at 12:00pm.

Tuesday, February 28:  The Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia 
University will host a lunchtime lecture by Ernest Gyidel, a Fulbright 
Scholar at the Harriman Institute, titled, “National, Social and 
Situational: Revising the Civil War(s) in Post-imperial Russian South, 
1918-1920.” This lecture will discuss recent developments in both 
Russian and Ukrainian historiographies of this topic, which share 
similar features but are almost unknown to one another. Mr. Gyidel will 
also report on his findings at the Bakhmetteff Archive (Columbia Univ.) 
on the history of the White movement in Ukraine. The lecture will take 
place in Room 1219 (12th floor) of the International Affairs Building at 
Columbia University (420 W. 118th St.), starting at 1:00pm.

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All events are free and open to the public. Fore more information, 
contact Diana at (212) 854-4697 or ukrainianstudies@columbia.edu.

-- 
Diana Howansky
Staff Associate
Ukrainian Studies Program
Columbia University
Room 1208, MC3345
420 W. 118th Street
New York, NY  10027
(212) 854-4697
ukrainianstudies@columbia.edu
http://www.harrimaninstitute.org/courses/ukrainian_studies_program.html