aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] [HUSI 2008] LECTURE: Mon., Aug. 4,7-9 pm -- David Marples,"Current Perceptions of the OUN and UPA in Ukraine"

["Seegel, Steven" <Steven.Seegel@worcester.edu>]

*** ANNOUNCEMENT *** 

 

*** HARVARD UKRAINIAN SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008 *** 

 

LECTURE

 

"Current Perceptions of the OUN and UPA in Ukraine: The Dilemmas of History and Memory"

David Marples

University Professor, Department of History and Classics (University of Alberta)

 

* Introducing his new book, Heroes and Villains: Constructing National History in Contemporary Ukraine (Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2007). 

 

Monday, August 4, 2008 

7:00-9:00 PM

Harvard University

CGIS (Center for Government and International Studies) South Building 

Belfer Case Study Room, Room S-020

1730 Cambridge Street

Cambridge MA 02138

 

For directions: http://map.harvard.edu/

For the HUSI 2008 events calendar: http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

 

David Marples (Ph.D., University of Sheffield, 1985) is University Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.  His most recent book, Heroes and Villains: Constructing National History in Contemporary Ukraine, was published in 2007 by Central European University Press.  

 

Professor Marples has written extensively about the formation and dissolution of the Soviet Union, history and memory in Russia and Ukraine, and social and political issues of postcommunist transition in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia.  His notable works include The Lukashenka Phenomenon (Trondheim: Trondheim Studies on East European Cultures and Societies, No. 21, 2007); The Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991 (Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education-Longman, 2004); Motherland: Russia in the 20th Century (London: Longman, 2002); Lenin's Revolution: Russia 1917-1921 (London: Wesley, Addison, and Longman, 2000); Belarus: A Denationalized Nation (Amsterdam: Harwood, 1999); Stalinism in Ukraine in the 1940s (London: Macmillan Press, 1992); Ukraine under Perestroika: Ecology, Economics, and the Workers' Revolt (London: The Macmillan Press, 1991); and The Social Impact of the Chernobyl Disaster (London: The Macmillan Press, 1988).

 

David Marples serves as the Director (since 1996) of the Stasiuk Program for the Study of Contemporary Ukraine, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.  In February 2007, the Stasiuk Program created a blog for the analysis of current events in Ukraine <http://ukraineanalysis.wordpress.com <http://ukraineanalysis.wordpress.com/> >, for which Professor Marples serves as moderator and contributor.  

 

His newest research project is on the topic of historical memory and the legacy of World War II in Belarus.    

 

For his full bio and list of publications: www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/historyandclassics/DavidMarples.cfm

 

 
Dr. Steven Seegel
Director, 2008 Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute
Assistant Professor of History, Worcester State College
Harvard University
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