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The Annual Cambridge Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies

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Initiated in 2003, the annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies explores the internal dynamics and international implications of events in today's Ukraine and features the foremost experts in the fields of Ukrainian politics, history, and society.  The event is organized by Cambridge Ukrainian Studies with the support of the Cambridge Ukrainian Society. From 2003 to 2010, the lecture was generously supported by the Stasiuk Programme for Contemporary Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta. The name of the lecture honours this support and collaboration.

2023

On 24 February 2023, the Twentieth-First Annual Cambridge Stasiuk Lecture will be given by Professor Vitaly Chernetsky, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas and President of the American Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

2022

The Twentieth Annual Cambridge Stasiuk Lecture will be given by Dr Orysia Lutsevych, Research Fellow and manager of the Ukraine Forum in the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. Due to industrial action, the lecture has been postponed until January 2023.

2021

Ivan Dziuba Legendary civic activist and literary critic

2020

Rowan Williams and Sviatoslav Shevchuk In Conversation

2019

Dr Uliana Suprun Acting Minister of Health Care of Ukraine 

'Inspiring Social Transformation - From Soviet Decay to a National Health Service for Ukraine'

2018

Mark von Hagen Professor of History, Arizona State University

'Brest-Litovsk and the Making of Modern Ukraine and Russia'

2017

Natalie A. Jaresko Former Minister of Finance of Ukraine (2014-16)

'Ukraine in Transition'

2016

Nataliya Gumenyuk hromadske.tv

'Media in a Time of Revolution and Information Warfare: Lessons from the Ukrainian-Russian Conflict'

2015

Professor Timothy Snyder Yale University

'The Fog of Memory: From the Great Fatherland War to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine'

2014

Professor George Grabowicz Harvard University

'Taras Shevchenko: The Making of the National Poet'

2013

Dr Oksana Zabuzhko

'Being a Writer in Contemporary Ukraine: Drawing the Landscape While Standing on a Powerboat'

2012

Dr Andrii Portnov Humboldt University

'Lieu de non-mémoire: A Ukrainian City and Its Russian, Jewish and Soviet Traces'

2011

Dr Serhii Plokhii Harvard University

'The Ghosts of Yalta: Ukraine and the Religious Division of Europe'

2010

Dr Gwendolyn Sasse University of Oxford

'Simply Ukraine: A Nation, State and Democracy without Adjectives'

2009

Dr Olena Prystayko EU-Russia Centre, Brussels

'The EU-Ukraine-Russia Triangle: Is There Room for a Workable Relationship?'

2008

Dr Serhy Yekelchyk University of Victoria

'What Does the Word "Nation" in "Ukrainian Nation" Stand For?'

2007

Dr Andrew Wilson University College London (SSEES)

'After the Orange Revolution: The Nature of Post-Soviet Democracy in Ukraine and Russia'

2006

Dr Alla Yaroshinskaya Ecological Charity Fund

'The Big Lie: Chernobyl 20 Years On'

2005

Dr Dominique Arel University of Ottawa

'The "Orange Revolution": Analysis and Implications of the 2004 Presidential Elections in Ukraine'

2004

Dr Yaroslav Hrytsak Institute for Historical Research (L'viv) Ukrainian Catholic University (L'viv) Central European University (Budapest)

'On the Relevance and Irrelevance of Nationalism in Ukraine'

2003

Professor Roman Szporluk Harvard University

'The Making of Modern Ukraine: The European Dimension'

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