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Title: 31st Annual Berkeley-Stanford Conference

31st Annual Berkeley-Stanford Conference

"Ukraine: History and Society"

Friday, March 2, 2007
Heyns Room, The Faculty Club
UC Berkeley Campus

Conference Schedule

9:45 a.m. Introductory Remarks by Yuri Slezkine, Professor of History and ISEEES Director, UC Berkeley

10 a.m. Panel I: Culture
Chair: Olga Matich, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley

"Ruthenian Identity in Seventeenth-Century Wilno" by David Frick, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley

"The Beginnings of Modern Ukrainian Literature" by Roman Koropeckyj, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA

"Composer Lesia Dychko: A Voice of the Re-Emerging Ukrainian Nation" by Marika Kuzma, Associate Professor of Music, UC Berkeley

12 noon to 1 p.m. Lunch Break

1 p.m. Panel II: History
Chair: Victoria Frede, Assistant Professor of History, UC Berkeley

"The Cossacks in Global Perspective" by Robert Crews, Assistant Professor of History, Stanford

"Ukraine in World War II: A Central European Perspective" by John Connelly, Professor of History, UC Berkeley

"Laboratory of Soviet Dreams? Ukraine and the Soviet Union" by Amir Weiner, Associate Professor of History, Stanford

3 p.m. Break

3:15 p.m. Panel III: Politics and Economics
Chair: Jason Wittenberg, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley

"Rapacious Individualism and the Evolution of Democracy in Contemporary Ukraine" by Lucan Way, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto

"The Transition Economy of Ukraine: Kudy?" by Roy J. Gardner, Professor of Economics, Indiana University; Academic Director, MA Program in Economics, Ukrainian National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"

"Economic Development of Ukraine after the Orange Revolution" by Nazar Kholod, Associate Professor of Economic Theory, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Fulbright Fellow, Wilson Center

5:30 p.m. Closing Remarks by Nancy Kollmann, Professor of History, Director of CREEES, Stanford
A reception will follow.

This conference is sponsored by the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at UC Berkeley and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University. Funding for this conference is provided in part by the grants from the US Department of Education under Title VI. http://violet.berkeley.edu/~iseees/berk-stan.html