CERES::Visitors' Programs

Visitors' Programs

	In each academic year, the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies invites several distinguished visitors for terms ranging from two weeks to two months. The Visiting Scholars program is designed to assist advanced researchers (normally post-doctoral) to carry out projects in Toronto. The Visiting Leaders and Policymakers program brings decisionmakers (current or retired) who can help to illuminate recent events and policies in the region. Visitors in both programs will be expected to offer lectures and/or seminars, and to make themselves available to colleagues and students for informal discussion. CERES members and fellows are welcome to nominate candidates in both categories. As well, individual scholars from all countries are welcome to apply directly to the Visiting Scholars program; CERES members and fellows are encouraged to bring the program to the attention of promising candidates. Visits will be scheduled during the sessions of the university, that is, between September and April. In exceptional cases, visits in May or June may be possible, but not in July or August. Funding Awards to scholars will take the form of a monthly stipend plus a modest allowance for direct research costs such as photocopying; limited clerical support will also be available. Awards to Visiting Leaders and Policymakers will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis. The Centre will try to assist visitors in finding suitable housing, but the costs of accommodation must be borne by the visitors from their stipends. Scholars who have access to funding from other sources (e.g., sabbatical leave from another university) will be welcome to extend their stay at the Centre beyond the stipend period. Limited CERES funds are available to cover travel to and from Toronto, and the Centre will endeavour to assist visitors in securing travel grants. Those who are interested in supplementing their award by part-time teaching should mention this in their letter of application; CERES will contact the appropriate academic departments to determine whether any openings exist. Application Applicants to the Visiting Scholars program should submit: a two-page description of their research proposal a curriculum vitae and two letters of reference to be sent to the Director of CERES In the letter of application, they should indicate the proposed length of stay and the approximate starting date. CERES members and fellows may also nominate candidates for Visiting Scholar or Visiting Leaders and Policymakers. They should provide: a detailed letter of nomination describing the nominee's qualifications and accomplishments a curriculum vitae and the name of one or more referees who could be asked to comment Visitors in both categories will be chosen by a CERES committee early in the calendar year. Deadlines for all CERES grants will be March 15. Contact: Prof. Jeffrey Kopstein, Director CERES Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto 1 Devonshire Place Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7 jeffrey.kopstein@utoronto.ca Fax: (416) 946-8963
	Visitors to the Centre since 2002 Visitors to the Centre before 2002 Vira Ageyeva. Department of Philology, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. "Ukrainian Émigré Literature: The Problem of Alienation." January 2004. Hrabrin Bachev. Institute of Agricultural Economics, University of National and World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria. "Institutional Transformation in Bulgaria--Implications for Agrarian and Rural Sector." September 2003. Andriy Bolianovsky. Department of History and Politology, Lviv Commerce Academy. "German Occupation Policy and the National Resistance Movement in Ukraine, 1941-1944." January 2003. Sergey Filatov. Institute of Eastern Studies, Moscow; Co-Director, Encyclopedia of Religious Life of Russia project. "Religious Belief and Practice in the Russian Federation." March 2003. Oleksandr Fisun. Department of Political Science, Kharkiv National University. "The Collapse of 'Winner-Take-All' Politics in Ukraine: Fall or Rebuilding of Post-Soviet Neopatrimonialism?" October 2003. Viktoriya Gumenyuk. Sociology, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine. "How Governments Gather and Disseminate Statistical Data." October 2002. Stefan Haas. He is the representative of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Canada and director of the DAAD-Information Centre in Toronto. Jean-Yves Haine. Research Fellow for European Security, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. November 2006. Olexiy Haran. Department of Political Science, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy; Director, Center for National Security Studies. Specialist on current Ukrainian politics. September-December 2003. Oleh Havrylyshyn. Deputy Director, European II Department, International Monetary Fund. January-December 2004 and September 2006-March 2007. Vladyslav Hrynevych. Senior Research Associate, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. "The History of World War II in Contemporary Historiography and as a Factor in Contemporary Politics in Ukraine." November 2006. Yuri Isichenko. Docent, Kharkiv National University; Archbishop Ihor of Kharkiv and Poltava, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church; Director, Ukrainian Centre for Byzantine and Patristic Studies. "Ukrainian ascetic literature of the 10th–14th centuries as discourse in the expression of Christian spiritual experience in the context of the Byzantine-Ukrainian religious tradition." September 2003. Aleksandra Jawornicka-Nowosad. Institute of Sociology, University of Zielona Gora. "Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction of the National Identity of Ukrainians in Poland and Canada." October 2006. Martina Kessel. Professor for Modern History at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto 2005–2006. Her research and teaching focuses on cultural and gender history from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Raj Kollmorgen. Associate Professor for Sociology and European Studies at the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany. German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto 2006–2007. Research interests: social and political theory, social change and problems of European modernities, as well as social inequality, power, and conflict. Denys Kuzmin. Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations, Odesa National University; Senior Research Fellow and European Studies Program Coordinator, Centre for International Studies. "Ukraine and the Challenges of EU Enlargement: Consequences for Ukraine and its International Role in Europe." November 2005. Olha Luchuk. Associate Professor of English and Head of the English Department, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. "George Luckyj and his Contemporaries: Research of the Scholar's Correspondence in the Context of Ukrainian Culture." March 2006. Vladimir Magun. Head, Department of Personality Research, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Sociology and social psychology of youth, job values and labour ethics, higher education, and bureaucracy. June 2003. Slavomir Michalek. Historical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava. "The Role of Czechs and Slovaks in Organizing Anti-Nazi Protest Movements in North America before and at the beginning of World War II." October 2002. Olena Nikolayenko. Department of Political Science, Kansas State University. Reserach on freedom of the press in Ukraine in the 1990s. February 2002. Milica Pesic. Director, European Centre for War, Peace and the News Media, London, UK. "Diversity Coverage in Post-Communist Societies: Lessons to be Learned from the Canadian Experience." January-February 2002. Anna Pliskova. Linguistics, University of Presov, Slovakia. Research on Rusyn word formation. September-December 2003. Tetyana Sakharuk. Lecturer, National University of Internal Affairs, Kharkiv. "Fair Justice as a Way of Human Rights Protection" (sentencing systems in Canada and other western countries). October 2005. Lidia Stefanowska. Slavic Division, Polish Academy of Sciences. "Dimensions and Dynamics of Cultural Identity in Ukrainian Literature of the 1990s." November 2002. Zuzana Stolz-Hladka. Institute of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures of the University of Bern. Research on concepts of "word" and "language" in the Czech literature of the 20th century. September 2002-June 2003. Mykhaylo Svirin. Department of Public Administration and Law, Ukrainian Academy of Public Administration, Odessa branch. "Transparency and Openness in Public Service: Procedures and Legal Regulations." September 2002. Jana Tiscenco. Reporter, Noile Idei Televizate, Chisinau, Moldova. March 2002. Oldrich Tuma. Director, Institute for Contemporary History, Prague, Czech Republic. "History of the End of the Cold War and the Collapse of Communist Regimes in East Central Europe." January-February 2002. Alexander Vashkevich. Belarusian State University. Research on church-state relations in the post-communist world and Polish constitutional law. October-November 2006. Olga Voloshcenko. Lecturer at Kyiv University of Law, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. "Religion and Anthropology of Law." January-February 2006. Junji Yatabe. Faculty of Law, Hiroshima Shudo University, Japan. Research on reactions of North American Czech immigrants to the collapse of their homeland during WWII. September 2003-August 2004. Tatiana Zhurzhenko. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, V. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine. "Social Reproduction and Gender Politics in Post-Socialist Ukraine." March-April 2002. Alexander Zozulak. Editor-in-chief, Rusyn/Narodyny novynky. Research on Carpatho-Rusyns. November 2003.