PREVIEW OF EVENTS
Monday, April 14
- CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute is pleased
to announce that this year's Vasyl and Maria Petryshyn Memorial Lecture
will be given by Alexander J. Motyl, associate professor, department of
political science, and deputy director, Center for Global Change and Governance,
Rutgers University-Newark. Prof. Motyl's lecture, titled "Making Ukraine,
and Remaking It," will take place at 4-6 p.m. in the Thompson Room
of Barker Center, 12 Quincy St. Directions may be found on the Humanities
Center website, www.huri.harvard.edu.
For more information contact the institute, (617) 495-4053.
Saturday, April 19
- MONTREAL: Lyric soprano Halyna Wolanska, a very promising emerging
opera singer, and Taras Kulish, leading bass-baritone, both known in North
America and Europe, will appear with Esther Gonthier, (piano) in a recital
of Handel, Mozart, Strauss, Verdi, Lysenko and Hulak-Artemovsky, as well
as Ukrainian opera excerpts in a concert titled "Love and Death"
to be held at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, 7141 Sherbrooke. General
admission: $20; free for children under 12 accompanied by an adult. Tickets
available at Admission Network, (514) 790-1245; website: www.admission.com.
The concert, presented by Desjardins and La Caisse Populaire Ukrainienne,
begins at 7 p.m.
Monday, April 21
- CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute will host
a lecture by Pavlo Mykhed, associate professor, chair of the department
of foreign literatures and head of the Hohol Research Center at Nizhyn
State Pedagogical University, Ukraine, and Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellow
at HURI. Prof. Mykhed's lecture, titled "The Apostolic Project of
Mykola Hohol: A Case of Religious and Literary Messianism," will take
place at 4-6 p.m. in the HURI Seminar Room, 1583 Massachusetts Ave. For
more information, including directions, access the website www.huri.harvard.edu,
or call HURI, (617) 495-4053.
Friday, April 25
- COLUMBUS, Ohio: The Center for Slavic and Eastern European Studies
at the Ohio State University and the Ukrainian Cultural Association of
Ohio begins the first of three spring lectures on Ukrainian folklore and
literature with "Under Western Eyes: American Literature Looks at
Ukraine" by Askold Melnyczuk. Mr. Melnyczuk is author of the novels
"Ambassador of the Dead" and "What Is Told" and is
editor of the literary journal AGNI. He currently teaches at Boston University
and in the Bennington College Graduate Writing Program. The lecture will
be held at 7 p.m. on the OSU campus, 122 Oxley Hall, 1712 Neil Ave. Admission
is free. For more information, call Arcadia Melnyk, (614) 246-4600.
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13, 2003, No. 15, Vol. LXXI
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