PREVIEW OF EVENTS
Tuesday, July 8
- CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute invites you
to a special guest lecture "Is Ukraine a Democracy?" presented
by Adrian Karatnycky, senior scholar and counselor, Freedom House, and
editor of the annual survey "Freedom and the World" The lecture
will take place at Harvard University in William James Hall, Room 105,
33 Kirkland St., at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. For more information
please contact the Ukrainian Research Institute at (617) 495-4053, e-mail
[email protected] or visit
the website http://www.huri.harvard.edu.
Thursday, July 10
- CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Summer institute is hosting
to a screening of Alexander Dovzhenko's silent film classic "Arsenal"
with live piano accompaniment by Ukrainian composer Yakiv Gubanov, composer-in-residence
at the Harvard Film Archive. The film deals with the story of the failed
January 1918 Bolshevik uprising against the Ukrainian national forces.
Despite its ideological stance and oblique narrative structure, it stands
as one of the finest and most lyrical works of silent cinema. The screening
will take place at the Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy
St. (near Massachusetts Avenue) on the Harvard campus, at 7 p.m. Admission
$4 to $7. For more information contact the Ukrainian Research Institute
at (617) 495-4053 or e-mail [email protected];
website: http://www.huri.harvard.edu.
Friday, July 11
- CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute invites you
to a theater performance of "Swan" a Yara Arts Group original
presentation based on the poetry of Oleh Lysheha which uncovers the mythical
in the everyday. Lysheha has been called the metaphysician of the natural
world; his book, translated by James Brasfield and published by the Harvard
Ukrainian Research Institute, won the PEN America 2000 Poetry in Translation
Award. Yara's music-theater piece is directed by Virlana Tkach, with composer/cellist
Paul Brantley and blues vocalist Meredith Smith. Designed by Watoku Ueno,
video by Andrea Odezhynska, performed in English by Andrew Colteaux and
Soomi Kim. The performance will take place in Lowell Hall Auditorium, 17
Kirkland St., at 8 p.m. For more information contact the Ukrainian Research
Institute at (617) 495-4053 or e-mail [email protected];
website: http://www.huri.harvard.edu.
Monday, July 14
- CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute invites all
to a special guest lecture "Ukraine's Place in the New Europe: Is
There One?" by Federigo Argentieri of the department of political
science, John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. The lecture will be given
in William James Hall, Room 105, 33 Kirkland St., at 7:30 p.m. Free and
open to the public. For more information contact the Ukrainian Research
Institute at (617) 495-4053, e-mail [email protected];
or visit the website at http://www.huri.harvard.edu.
Thursday, July 17
- CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute invites the
public to a special guest lecture by Vitaly Chernetsky, assistant professor
of Slavic at Columbia University, titled "Contemporary Ukrainian Literature
in the Context of Globalization." The lecture will be presented in
William James Hall, Room 105, 33 Kirkland St., at 7:30 p.m. Free and open
to the public. For more information please contact the Ukrainian Research
Institute at (617) 495-4053; [email protected],
or visit the website at http://www.huri.harvard.edu.
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6, 2003, No. 27, Vol. LXXI
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