aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] Reminder of panel commemorating Akcja "Wisla"

[Diana Howansky <dhh2@columbia.edu>]

THIS EVENING:

The Columbia Ukrainian Studies Program's last event of the academic year 
will be a panel discussion, co-sponsored by the Polish Studies Program, 
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:
"Akcja Wisla: Event, Origins, Context."

Dr. Philipp Ther (PhD, Free University in Berlin; Visiting Scholar at 
Columbia University's Harriman Institute):
"Trappings of Memory: The Historigraphy of the Polish-Ukrainian Conflict"

Sofiya Dyak (PhD candidate at Polish Academy of Science's Institute of 
Philosophy and Sociology, and at Lviv University's History Department):
"Commemorating Deportations in the Cityscapes of Lviv and Wroclaw"

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

-- 
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