New Ukrainian courses and lectures announced at Stanford University (04/02/06)

New Ukrainian courses and lectures announced at Stanford University

STANFORD, Calif. The Program in Ukrainian Studies at Stanford continues to expand its activities and courses on campus. Recent visitors have included the poet Volodymyr Dibrova of Harvard University, historian John Paul Himka of the University of Alberta, historian Mark von Hagen of Columbia University and political scientist Prof. Marta Dyczok of University of Western Ontario.

Upcoming talks include: Prof. Catherine Wanner of Pennsylvania State University, who will address "Evangelical Movements in Late Soviet/Post-Soviet Ukraine" on Thursday, April 6, at 5 p.m; and Prof. Lucan Way of Temple University, who will speak on "Failed Authoritarianism in Ukraine: The Sources of the Orange Revolution" on Thursday, April 27, at 5 p.m. (For complete location information, readers may log on to http://ukrainianstudies.stanford.edu/UpcomingEventsUkr.htm.)

The program is offering new courses this year in Ukrainian language (supported by a gift from the Northern California Committee to Aid Ukraine) and in contemporary Ukrainian literature and politics (supported by the Ukrainian Federal Credit Union of Rochester). Particularly interesting is the course "Politics of Identity in Eastern Europe," taught by Volodymyr Kulyk, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv. Prof. Kulyk spent last year at Stanford as a Fulbright Scholar. (For more about him, see http://ukrainianstudies.stanford.edu/VisitingScholarsUkr.htm.)

The Ukrainian Studies Program at Stanford also welcomed its second Chopivsky Fellow this winter, thanks to a generous gift from the Chopivsky Family Foundation. Economist Iryna Lukyanenko arrived from the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy (NUKMA), where she is chief of the department of finance, and deputy dean of the department of economics.

Prof. Lukyanenko also serves on the faculty of the M.A. program in economics at NUKMA. Her research interests include econometric modeling and forecasting, budget systems and macroeconomic policy. Her recent projects on the Ukrainian economy include studies of budgeting systems in Ukraine and the relationship of regional policy stability with local budgets.

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