HURI announces inaugural lecture of memorial series

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Ukrainian Research Institute has announced that the inaugural Zenovia Sochor Parry Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Ashton B. Carter, Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The lecture will be held on February 7 at 4 p.m. in the Thompson Room of the Barker Center for the Humanities. Dr. Carter will speak on the topic, "Ukraine and U.S. Foreign Policy."

In 1993-1996 Dr. Carter served as assistant secretary of defense for international security policy and was responsible for national security policy concerning the states of the former Soviet Union. Dr. Carter was twice awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the highest award given by the Pentagon, for his work on arms control and countering nuclear proliferation.

He is a former director of the Center for International Affairs at the Kennedy School, and he currently serves as co-director, with William J. Perry, former undersecretary of defense, of the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project.

This new lecture series commemorates the life of Dr. Zenovia (Zenia) Sochor Parry, a professor at Clark University and HURI associate who passed away prematurely in February 1998 after a valiant struggle against cancer. Over the past decade she gained prominence as an authority on contemporary Ukraine in academic and government circles.

Prof. Sochor Parry's life and her work in the field of Ukrainian politics will be honored each year with a lecture on a Ukrainian political theme.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, January 23, 2000, No. 4, Vol. LXVIII

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