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Established in 2001 with the support of Petro Jacyk and The Petro Jacyk Educational Foundation, The Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine focuses on contemporary Ukraine, as well as its history and culture. |
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The Petro Jacyk Program is pleased to present its 2012-2013 Visiting
Scholars: 010-2011
Dr. Łukasz Jasina works at the Academy of the International Relations and Social Communication in Chełm, Poland. After receiving his M.A. in Law, History and Journalism at John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin, Dr. Jasina’s wrote his Ph.D dissertation entitled "The Clash of the British Empire in David Leans' films" at the Institute of Arts of the Polish Academy of Science. He held fellowships at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and Brandeis University, and conducted research in Moscow, London, Paris, Berlin, Kyiv, and Lviv. Dr. Jasina is also a publicist, columnist and commentator in Polish and Ukrainian Press. He published more than 100 articles and several books. Dr. Jasina will be at CERES in January-March, 2013.
Dr. Vitalii Ogiienko is a research fellow in Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, Kiev, Ukraine. The areas of his scientific interests include memory studies and trauma studies. At CERES he will be working on project "Holodomor of 1932-1933 as a cultural trauma." Dr. Ogiienko approaches the man-made famine of 1932-1933 (Holodomor) in terms of trauma concept and methodology. He will be coming to CERES in October 2012.
Dr. Elena Semenova is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Jena, Germany. She is a political scientist with a particular interest in the comparative research on political elites, democratization, and political psychology of leadership. Dr. Semenova has recently held a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, as well as a one-year DAAD Research Fellowship in Jena, Germany. She is the author of several articles. At CERES, Dr. Semenova will conduct research on her project “Parliamentary representation of businessmen in Central and Eastern European countries.” She will be coming to the centre in January of 2013.
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Calendar of Events 2012-2013
All events are free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Marta Dyczok, a CERES Fellow and a Professor at University of Western Ontario, was recently interviewed by CTV about Ukraine's ex Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Click here to listen to the podcast.
The Petro Jacyk Program is Pleased to Announce the 2012-2013 Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellow:
Dr. Mayhill C. Fowler comes to Toronto from the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, where she held a postdoctoral fellowship in spring 2012. She received her Ph.D in the Department of History at Princeton University in 2011. Her dissertation, "Beau Monde: State and Stage on Empire's Edge, Russia and Soviet Ukraine, 1916-1941," examined the structural revolution in the relationship between the arts, the state and society in the Soviet borderlands. Research interests include the dynamic between governance and innovation, how inter-ethnic encounters create frameworks for creativity, and cultural diplomacy. Publications include a chapter in Tkacz and Makaryk's Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant Experimentation, an article in Ab Imperio, and forthcoming articles in Canadian-American Slavonic Studies and Kritika. Dr. Fowler spent the fall of 2011 teaching at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine, supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe. In addition, Fowler is a professional translator, and a former professional actress, with performance credits from California to New York. She received her MFA in acting from the National Theater Conservatory, and her BA in Russian from Yale University.
(more about the Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellowship)
Introducing Petro Jacyk 2012 Exchange Student from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy:
Ms. Anastasia Bezverkha received her BA and MA in Political Science from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is currently working on her PhD Thesis in Mass Communications. Her project is entitled “Construction of Identity of Crimean Tatars in Ukrainian Media Discourse.” The study envisages quantitative and qualitative analysis of the media discourse of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944, examination of the typical frames of coverage, ideological backgrounds, and public discussion of the legal status of deportees, as well as responsibilities of the Ukrainian government. Ms. Bezverkha will spend the fall semester of 2012-2013 academic year at CERES.
(more on CERES-Kyiv-Mohyla exchange)
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