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On October 25, 2005, during a reception held at the University of Ottawa, Mr. Borys Wrzesnewskyj, a Member of Parliament in the Toronto riding of Etobicoke Centre, presented a cheque in the amount of $70,000 to the Chair of Ukrainian Studies on behalf of his family’s Dopomoha Ukraini Foundation to fund The Ukraine List (UKL), the calling card of the Chair. UKL, the Chair’s electronic newsletter, which has experienced phenomenal growth since the Orange Revolution, offers a menu of news items, translations, exclusive analyses and announcements in Ukrainian Studies to scholars, government officials, journalists, NGO workers, and community members in over forty countries. UKL is sent freely by email and most of its items are available on the UKL web page. The Dopomoha Ukrainin donation will also help develop a project on Contemporary Ukraine Archives. |
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The Wolodymyw George Danyliw Foundation sponsored the First Annual Research Seminar in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies, that took place at the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa, on September 29-October 1, 2005. The Seminar featured fourteen papers and twenty-seven international guests from Canada, the United States, Western Europe, and Ukraine. The full program of the Seminar is available here. The papers and written comments from discussants will be made available shortly. The Call for Papers for the Second Annual Danyliw Seminar, planned for October 12-14, 2006, will be issued in January 2006. To know more about the purpose of the Seminar and the Danyliw Foundation, click here.
November 17. Dominique Arel moderates the “Administrative
Reform in Ukraine Expert Roundtable Session,” featuring ten government
officials and academics from Ukraine, hosted by the Canadian International
Development Agency, in partnership with the Canadian Bureau for International
Education.
October 25. Mr. Borys Wrzesnewskyj (MP, Etobicoke Centre),
on behalf of the Dopomoha Ukraini Foundation, donates $70,000 to the
Chair of Ukrainian Studies to support The Ukraine List (UKL) and develop
a project on Contemporary Ukraine Archives.
October 24. Chair of Ukrainian Studies Montreal Lecture,
McGill University, Daniel Bilak (UNDP Advisor, Kyiv): “Behind
the Tinted Glass: Democracy, Corruption, and the Rule of Law after the
Orange Revolution in Ukraine.”
September 29-October 1. First Annual Danyliw Seminar
on Contemporary Ukrainian Studies, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University
of Ottawa. Dominique Arel presents the paper, jointly written with Valeri
Khmelko of the University Kyiv Mohyla Academy in Ukraine, “Regional
Divisions in the 2004 Presidential Elections in Ukraine: The Role of
Language and Ethnicity.”
July 27. Dominique Arel and Natalie Mychajlyszyn take
part in a Ukraine Risk Assessment Experts Session, Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA), Ottawa.
May 26-27. Lecture by Dominique Arel, “The Politics
of Numbers : Nationalities and the Struggle for Power in the 2002 Russian
Census,” and Seminar on the Orange Revolution, Catholic University
of Leuven, Belgium.
May 5. Lecture by Dominique Arel, “The Orange
Revolution in Ukraine and Its Implications for our Understanding of
the Post-Communist Transition,” Stanford University, California,
US.
Chairholder Dominique Arel delivered the Third Annual Cambridge-Stasiuk Program Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies, at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, on February 25, 2005, “The Orange Revolution: Analysis and Implications of the 2004 Presidential Election in Ukraine.”
> [Paper (pdf)]
The lecture has been published in Ukrainian in Krytyka
(Kyiv) and in Russian in Pro
& Contra (Moscow).
The Hon. Rolf Ekeus, High Commissioner on National Minorities for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), delivered the keynote address at the conference “Debating Language Policies in Canada and Europe” on March 31, at 17h00, in the Senate Room, Tabaret Hall. The conference was co-organized by the Chair of Ukrainian Studies.
In
October 2004, the Chair of Ukrainian Studies held the international conference
“Understanding the Transformation of Ukraine: Assessing What Has
Been Learned, Devising a Research Agenda.” The papers of the conference
are available here.
