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)
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'
