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[Diana Howansky <dhh2@columbia.edu>]

THIS WEEK:

The April event of the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University will 
feature:

COME MEET THE FILMMAKERS IN PERSON

The Ukrainian Film Club will be hosting the film crew from San 
Sebastian, Spain -- Carlos Rodriguez, director, and Asun Lasarte, 
producer of the full-length documentary film about the aftermath of 
Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident:

THE UNNAMED ZONE, 2006

The film narrates the stories of three Ukrainians affected by the worst 
nuclear disaster in human history at the Chornobyl Power Plant on April 
26, 1986. Three children –- Lidia Pidvalna, Anastasia Pavlenko, and 
Andriy Kovalchuk –- and their families living perilously close to the 
exclusion zone around the destroyed station recount their fears, dreams, 
and hopes for the future.

When: April 18, 2007, Wednesday at 7:30 PM
Where: 717 Hamilton Hall, Columbia University, 1130 Amsterdam  Ave., New 
York, NY (subway train #1 to 116th St.)

This film (80 min.) is in its original Ukrainian language/surzhyk 
version with English subtitles. Free and open to the public. The program 
will be introduced by Yuri Shevchuk, the director of the Ukrainian Film 
Club of Columbia University.

Discussion with the film director Carlos Rodriguez and the producer Asun 
Lasarte will follow the screening.

Free and open to the public. For more information, please call (212) 
854-4697 or see http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ufc/.

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The Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University will host a talk by 
Prof. Jose Casanova, titled:

"RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN UKRAINE"

WHEN: Thursday, April 19 at 12:00 noon
WHERE: Room 1219, International Affairs Building (12th floor), Columbia 
University, New York, NY

The condition of religious pluralism in Ukraine, which several years ago 
Prof. Casanova characterized as that of "incipient denominationalism," 
arguing that it was the only religious market in Europe that 
approximated the American model of extreme denominationalism, rather 
than the typical European model of dominant church(es) and sects (i.e. 
religious minorities), has if anything been solidified in the last 
decade. The lecture will analyze some of the implications of such 
religious pluralism for civil society in Ukraine.

José Casanova is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at 
the New School for Social Research in New York City, where he has taught 
since 1987. Casanova has published widely in the areas of sociological 
theory, religion and politics, transnational migration, and globalization.

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ALSO, NEXT WEEK:

The Ukrainian Studies Program's last event of the academic year will be 
a panel discussion, titled:

"POST-WWII POLISH-UKRAINIAN RELATIONS: REMEMBERING THE 1947 FORCED 
RELOCATION CAMPAIGN 'AKCJA WISLA'"

WHEN: Thursday, April 26 at 6:00pm
WHERE: Room 1219, International Affairs Building (12th floor), Columbia 
University, New York, NY

Almost exactly sixty years ago -- on April 28, 1947 -- the communist 
government in Poland began a forced relocation campaign, with the 
confidential codename "Akcja 'Wisla'" (Operation "Vistula"), which 
resulted in the removal of approximately 140,000 members of the 
country's Ukrainian minority from their homes and territory. The 
participants of this panel will discuss the reasons for and consequences 
of the forced relocation campaign, as well as how the 1947 event is 
remembered today.

The panelists will include:
-- Dr. Tarik Amar (PhD, Princeton University), Shklar Fellow at the 
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
-- Dr. Philipp Ther (PhD, Free University in Berlin), Visiting Scholar 
at Columbia University's Harriman Institute
-- Sofiya Dyak, PhD candidate at Polish Academy of Science's Institute 
of Philosophy and Sociology, and at Lviv University's History 
Department; Shklar Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Introduction by Diana Howansky, Fulbright Scholar to Poland from 1998-2000.

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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/programs/ukrainian_studies_program.html