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MARCH 22:

The Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University will host Dr. Anna 
Procyk, who will give a lecture titled:

"YOUNG EUROPE IN UKRAINE"

The similarities between the ideological foundations of Young Europe and 
the guiding ideals of the Brotherhood of St. Cyril and Methodius have 
intrigued a number of students interested in the intellectual history of 
Ukraine.  In recent decades, however, few authors have ventured to place 
these similarities under a serious scholarly scrutiny.  This 
presentation will explore the various channels through which political 
ideas formulated in the revolutionary conclaves of Western Europe have 
reached Ukrainian students and educators in Lviv, Kharkiv and Kyiv. The 
presentation will conclude with a discussion of the impact of Young 
Europe's political program on modern Ukrainian nationalism.

Two recent articles by Anna Procyk are suggested for background reading: 
"Polish Émigrés as Emissaries of the Risorgimento in Eastern Europe" 
Harvard Ukrainian Studies XXV (2/2 2001: 7-29); "Giuseppe Mazzini and 
Eastern Europe," Ad Fontes: Studia in honorem Oleh Kupchysnkyj 
septuagenario dedicata Kyiv-Lviv, 2004.

Anna Procyk, Associate Professor, KBCC, City University of New York; 
author of "Russian Nationalism and Ukraine during the Revolution and the 
Civil War."  She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and is an alumna 
of the Harriman Institute.

WHEN: Wednesday, March 22 at 12:00 noon
WHERE: Room 1219, International Affairs Building, Columbia University, 
420 W. 118th St.

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MARCH 23:

The Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University continues its new 
thematic series: “Ukraine. A Cinematographic View from the West”. The 
Club's March event will present two perspectives on the Orange 
Revolution, the November 2004 peaceful mass mobilization of Ukrainians 
in defense of their right to vote. A Ukrainian and an American filmmaker 
will give their individual accounts of what happened on and around the 
Maidan (the Independence Square) in Kyiv, Ukraine. The program is titled:

"THE ORANGE REVOLUTION. A STORY FULL OF SOUND AND FURY, SIGNIFYING?"

The March event will include three films:

“Nevseremos. People from Maidan”, 2005 director Serhiy Masloboyshchykov, 
Ukraine, American premier. The film documents two opposing political 
perspectives – the orange, pro-Yushchenko and the blue pro-Yanukovych - 
during the heady events and nine months after.

“Zlydni” (Poverty), 2005, director Stepan Koval, Ukraine, American 
Premier. This short plasticene animation is a tongue-in-cheek metaphor 
for the “blessing” that Russia has been for Ukraine as a neighbor.

“Borderland, Ukraine and the Rebirth of Democracy,” 2005, director Paul 
Tremblay, USA. A historical background of the Orange Revolution is 
combined with a detailed analysis of the events by their participants 
and observers, who come from varied linguistic, cultural, and political 
backgrounds.

Introduction and post screening discussion led by Yuri Shevchuk, 
director of the Film Club.

All films are either with English subtitles or in English.

This event is co-sponsored by the Ukrainian Students’ Society of 
Columbia University.

WHEN:  Thursday, March 23, 2006, at 7:30 PM
WHERE: 614 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University

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MARCH 27:

The Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University will host a lecture 
by Mykola Ryabchuk, titled:

"CULTURAL WARS & RIVAL IDENTITIES: UKRAINE AS A POST-SOVIET IDEOLOGICAL 
BATTLEGROUND"

Mykola Ryabchuk, who is a Jacyk Visiting Scholar at Columbia's Ukrainian 
Studies Program this spring 2006 semester, teaching a course on 
Language, Culture, and Identity Issues in Contemporary Ukraine, writes: 
"Ukraine, as a nation located on the border between two different 
civilizations, Eurasian and European, and exposed to various cultural 
and political influences throughout its history, provides students of 
the region with a great many paradoxes that often look like ambivalence, 
if not ambiguity. Language, culture, and identity issues contribute 
greatly to Ukraine’s paradoxes and controversies but, also, to the 
nation’s uniqueness and potential dynamic."

Mykola Ryabchuk has been, since 1997, a research associate at the Center 
for European Studies at the University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” and a 
co-founder and co-editor of the “Krytyka” monthly. He penned seven books 
in Ukrainian, including: "Zone of Alienation: Ukrainian Oligarchy 
between East and West" (Kyiv, 2004) and "Two Ukraines: Real Borders and 
Virtual Wars" (Kyiv, 2003). He holds a number of awards for the best 
articles of the year from different periodicals, two national “Book of 
the Year” awards (2000 and 2004), a prestigious Antonovych Prize (2003) 
and a Polish-Ukrainian Capitula Award (2002, on par with late Jacek 
Kuron) for the significant contribution to Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation.

WHEN: Monday, March 27 at 12:00 noon
WHERE: Room 1219, International Affairs Building, Columbia University, 
420 W. 118th St.

-- 
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



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