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.
2024
On 2 February 2024 the Twenty-Second Annual Cambridge Stasiuk Lecture was given by Oleksandra Matviichuk, renowned Ukrainian human rights lawyer and Chairwoman of the Center for Civil Liberties in Kyiv. In 2022, Matviichuk and her team were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The title of her presentation was 'The Normalisation of Evil: How To Defend Humanity and Human Rights in the 21st Century?'
2023
On 24 February 2023, the Twenty-First Annual Cambridge Stasiuk Lecture was 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. The title of his lecture was 'Russia's War against Ukraine: Confronting Epistemic Injustice'.
2022
The Twentieth Annual Cambridge Stasiuk Lecture was 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 was subject to postponement. The title of her presentation was 'Does Ukraine Have What It Needs to Win?'
2021
The Nineteenth Annual Cambridge Stasiuk Lecture was delivered remotely by legendary civic activist and literary critic Ivan Dziuba.
2020
Amid the onset of the Covid pandemic, the Eighteenth Annual Cambridge Stasiuk Lecture featured Rowan Williams and Sviatoslav Shevchuk in online 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'
