Stanford Lectures on Ukraine, 2009-10

Stanford Ukrainian Film Festival
Intro and Q&A by Dr. Yuri Shevchuk
Director, Ukrainian Film Club, Columbia University
Lecturer, Columbia University


Program 1: Feature Shorts from Ukraine:
Hunka (2004), Parched Land (2004), I (2009), and Dummy (2007)

Thursday, Oct. 1st, 12 noon
Hartley Conference Center (Mitchell Building)

Program 2: Feature Narrative from Ukraine:
Mamay (2002, 80 mins)

Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7 pm
Hartley Conference Center (Mitchell Building)

Program 3: Ukrainian Emigration New and Old:
The Fourth Wave (2008, 80 mins) and The Red Soil (2001, 30 mins)

Friday, Oct. 2nd, 7 pm
Building 200 room 002 (Ground Floor)
Free and Open to the Public

"HIV/AIDS in Ukraine"
Sabina Alistar

Doctoral candidate, Management Science and Engineering
Intro. by Margaret Brandeau, Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Professor of Medicine, by Courtesy, and CHP/PCOR Fellow

Friday, Oct. 9, 12 noon-1 pm
Encina Hall West 208


"Orthodox Priests, Pastoral Mission, and Local Identity in Kyiv Diocese, 1860-1905"
Heather Coleman

Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor of History and Classics
University of Alberta

5:15 pm, Thursday, January 28
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"The Periphery in the Center: Galicia in the History of Ukrainian Language"
Michael Moser

Associate Professor of the Institute for Slavonic Studies
University of Vienna

5:15 pm, Thursday, February 25

"How Religious Are People in Ukraine Today? Implications for the Future"
Olena Bogdanova

Lecturer in Sociology, Kyiv-Mohyla University
Stanford Chopivsky Fellow for Ukrainian Studies, 2010

Lecture date and time TBD

"Brains, Means, Lyrical Ammunition": Hip-hop as Empowerment among African Students in Kharkiv, Ukraine"
Adriana Helbig

Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology
University of Pittsburgh

5:15 pm, Thursday, April 8
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Co-sponsored by the Center for African Studies

"Searching for the Shtetl in 21st-Century Ukraine"
Mikhail Krutikov

Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Michigan

5:15 pm, Thursday, May 6

"Modern Linguistics in Ukraine: Major Schools and Development Perspectives"
Olena Andrushenko

Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
Lecture date and time TBD