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[Diana Howansky <dhh2@columbia.edu>]

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY:

The February 2007 program of the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia 
University will feature:

"BRIGHT IS THE NIGHT" (director Roman Balayan, 2004)

This psychological drama inspired by Oleksander Zhovna's story «The 
Experiment» takes place in a one of its kind institution, a home for 
deaf-mute-and-blind children. Two young teachers of the institution 
Aleksey and Lika are passionately in love with each other. So much so 
that they want the rest of the world to experience the sensation. They 
decide to see if the children they were put in charge of are capable of 
experiencing love to the full. They try to provoke the feeling of love 
in two inmates of the home – Sasha and Olia – unsuspecting of the 
disastrous consequences their risky and cruel experiment can have.

This full-length feature will be screened in its original Russian 
language version with English subtitles.

When: Thursday, February 15 at 7:30 PM
Where: 717 Hamilton Hall, Columbia University, 1130 Amsterdam Ave., New 
York, NY (subway train #1 to 116th St.).

The screening is free and open to everybody. The program will be 
introduced by Yuri Shevchuk, the director of the Ukrainian Film Club of 
Columbia University. Discussion will follow the screening.

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ALSO, TODAY:

The Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University presents a 
lunchtime lecture by Fulbright Scholar from Ukraine, Tetiana 
Shestopalova, titled:

"CHARACTERISTICS AND PARTICULAR FEATURES OF YURIY LAVRINENKO'S CRITICAL 
THINKING"

This lecture is dedicated to Yuriy Lavrinenko, one of the best-known 
Ukrainian critics and publicists, who immigrated after WWII to the USA. 
It was in the USA that Lavrinenko wrote his main works, including 
“Ukrainian Communism and Soviet–Russian Policy towards Ukraine: An 
Annotated Bibliography 1917-1953” and “Shevchenko and his Kobzar in the 
Intellectual and Political History of the Century”.

Now, scholars like Ms. Shestopalova have the opportunity to study the 
documents of the Lavrinenko’s archive -- located in Columbia's Butler 
Library -- and to develop new perspectives of 20th century emigration 
and its heritage, which characterize the reality and mentality of Ukraine.

During her lecture, Tetiana Shestopalova will outline the profile of 
Lavrinenko's critical works during the twenty years (1950-1970) of his 
creative life in the U.S. She will concentrate on the particular 
features of Yuriy Lavrinenko's critical thinking, based on his works 
like the anthology “The Executed Renaissance,” and “Stumps and Sprouts,” 
as well as the rich literary inheritance of his archive.

WHEN: Thursday, February 8 at 12:00 noon
WHERE: Room 1219 International Affairs Building, Columbia University, 
420 W. 118th St.

Tetiana Shestopalova is an Associate Professor of Ukrainian literature 
at Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National Pedagogical University in Ukraine.

This talk will be moderated by Dr. Yuri Shevchuk, Lecturer of Ukrainian 
Language and Culture, Columbia University.


-- 
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