BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Vancouver X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Vancouver BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1-17535@events.ufv.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220216T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220216T170000 DTSTAMP:20220209T171602Z URL:https://events.ufv.ca/events/peace-talk-understanding-the-crisis-in-uk raine/ SUMMARY:Peace Talk: Understanding the Crisis in Ukraine DESCRIPTION:\nPeace Talks: Understanding the Crisis in Ukraine\nPerhaps now here in the world are local and global geopolitics mixing to create as vol atile a situation as in Ukraine. Situated between Vladimir Putin’s re-su rgent Russia and a NATO that in recent years seems to have lost its collec tive sense of purpose\, Ukraine is quite literally a country in the middle . Since its emergence as a modern nation state following the fall of the S oviet Union the people of Ukraine have struggled with internal crisis and external threats. Today\, as was the case so many times in the past\, powe rful external forces are seeking to chart Ukraine’s course. To help us u nderstand these issues we have pulled together three of Canada’s leading Ukrainian experts.\nFeatured Speakers\n\n Natalia Khanenko-Friesen\, Dir ector of the Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta.\n Dr. Oleksandr Pankieiev\, Research Coordinator and Editor-in- Chief of the Forum for Ukrainian Studies at the Canadian Institute of Ukra inian Studies\, University of Alberta.\n Prof. Serhy Yekelchyk\, Departme nt of History and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria\, and curre nt president of the Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies.\n\nProf. K hanenko-Friesen is an anthropologist/folklorist whose research focuses on the Ukrainian diaspora. As Director of the CIUS she oversees and facilitat es a wide range of academic and cultural activities relating to the histor y\, culture\, and society of Ukraine and Ukrainian Canadians. She has publ ished five books\, 12 book chapters\, and 17 articles\, relating to Ukrain e and post-soviet Europe\, among which is her 2015 book with the Universit y of Wisconsin Press\, Ukrainian Otherlands: Diaspora\, Homeland and Folk Imagination in the 20th Century. As a professor in the Department of Langu ages and Cultural Studies she teaches courses on contemporary approaches t o folklore and on Slavic studies.\n\nDr. Oleksandr Pankieiev\, Research Co ordinator and Editor-in-Chief of the Forum for Ukrainian Studies at the Ca nadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies\, University of Alberta.\nIn additio n to his role at CIUS\, Dr. Oleksandr Pankieiev serves as the President of the Alberta Society for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies and as the V ice President of the Alberta Local and International Education Association . His main research interests include the history of Stepp (Southern ) Ukr aine\, Russia-Ukraine relations. He is also pursuing research in the Ukrai nian Canadian diaspora studies\, ethnography and digital humanities. He is the author of the three historical sourcebooks many articles on related t opics. The most recent of his publication is the edited collection "Meande ring in Transition: Thirty Years of Reforms and Identity in Post-Communist Europe"\, which he co-edited with Dr. Ostap Kushnir. The book was publish ed in 2021 by Lexington Books.\n\nProf. Serhy Yekelchyk\, Cross appointed between the departments of History and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria\; current president of the Canadian Association for Ukrainian St udies. Born and educated in the Soviet Union\, Serhy Yekelchyk obtained hi s Ph.D. from the University of Alberta. He is the author of seven books on modern Ukrainian history\, Stalinism\, and Russo-Ukrainian relations incl uding the award-winning Stalin’s Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War (Oxford University Press\, 2014). Yekelchyk’s most recent publication is Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Pre ss\, 2020)—the second\, much expanded edition of his popular book about the Euromaidan Revolution and Russian aggression in Ukraine.\nPlease regis ter for this event through Zoom.\n \; CATEGORIES:*_UFV Events,Donors and friends,Online Event,Peace & Conflict Studies,Research and Graduate Studies,Research Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Vancouver BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR