Chornobyl commemorations: an updated listing
BUFFALO, N.Y.
Monday-Friday, April 15-April 19:
- Showcase displays in the Undergraduate Library, Lockwood Library and
Student Union, State University of New York at Buffalo, North Campus. Presented
by Ukrainian Student Association.
Monday, April 15:
- Information display in the Student Union special events area (sweatshirt/t-shirt
sales, poster display, black ribbons), SUNYAB.
Tuesday, April 16:
- Proclamation by Mayor of Buffalo Anthony Masiello, Buffalo City Hall,
1:30 p.m.
- Resolution in Common Council introduced by Council President James
Pitts, 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 17:
- Varenyky-eating contest, Student Union, 12 p.m.
Thursday, April 18:
- Proclamation by County Executive Dennis Gorski, County Hall, 1:30 p.m.
- Resolution in County Legislature introduced by County Legislator Greg
Olma, County Hall, 2:30 p.m.
- Showing of documentary "Living Under the Cloud" by Teresa
Metcalf in the Student Union Theater, SUNYAB, 7 p.m. Introduction by Alexander
Kuzma, director of development, Children of Chornobyl Foundation. Followed
by candlelight vigil in Founder's Plaza.
Friday, April 19:
- Book donation to Lockwood Library, SUNYAB. "The Forbidden Truth,"
Yara Yaroshynska, 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 20:
- Commemorative banquet benefiting the Children of Chornobyl Foundation,
St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church hall, 3275 Elmwood Ave.,
Kenmore, N.Y., 6 p.m. Keynote speaker: Alexander Kuzma; tickets, $20 by
reservation.
Friday, April 26:
- Ecumenical moleben, Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Church grounds,
200 Como Park Blvd., Cheektowaga, N.Y., 7 p.m.
For tickets and information: call (716) 636-1300, (716) 645-6016 or (716)
823-0492.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
Wednesday-Thursday, April 24-25:
"Chornobyl: Ten Years Later," a two-day symposium co-sponsored
by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the Harvard University Committee
on Environment.
- Session 1: "Eyewitnesses to the Catastrophe," April 24, Geology
Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Room 100, 7:30 p.m. "The First Hours,
Days and Weeks of the Chornobyl Disaster: Some Personal Recollections"
(in Ukrainian, with English translation), Lt. Gen. Volodymyr Korniichuk.
At the time of the nuclear explosion at Chornobyl, Lt. Gen. Korniichuk
was in charge of internal affairs for Kyiv Oblast and was intimately involved
in dealing with its consequences. He subsequently was deputy minister of
Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR and, later, independent Ukraine. He
currently is deputy director of the Chornobyl Museum in Kyiv.
- Films: "The Chornobyl Accident: A Chronicle of the Sarcophagus
Construc-tion" (1996); excerpts, "While We Still Live..."
(1992).
These short documentary films, with English-language commentary, utilize
rare (including previously classified) footage. Internationally recognized,
the second film was awarded the EC's Europa prize.
The screening will be followed by a discussion of the films by the director,
Volodymyr Kuznetsov (in Ukrainian, with English translation). Mr. Kuznetsov
has specialized in documentaries on Chornobyl, and is a recognized authority
on the nuclear disaster and its aftermath. His work has been supported by
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Ukrainian Ministry of the
Environment by contract with the Institute for Sustainable Communities,
U.S.
- Session 2: "The Consequences of the Catastrophe," April 25,
Harvard Hall, 104, 2-5:30 p.m. Opening remarks, George G. Grabowicz (director,
Ukrainian Research Institute); "Environmental Problems in the Wake
of Chornobyl," John Dillon (Knight Science Journalism Fellow, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology); "Nuclear Power and Energy Problems in the
Wake of Chornobyl," Sergei Skokov (managing director, "Logos
92 Ltd." Scientific and Production Co., Kharkiv, and Muskie Fellow,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology); "Socio-demographic Consequences
of Chornobyl," Natalia Lakiza-Sachuk (project director, Department
of Economic Strategy, National Institute for Strategic Studies at the Council
of National Security of Ukraine, and visiting scholar, Georgetown University);
"Economic Consequences of Chornobyl," Anna Klimina (research
associate, Institute of Economics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
and visiting scholar, Ukrainian Research Institute); "Political and
Social Consequences of Chornobyl," Jane Dawson (assistant professor
of political science, Wellesley College).
- Session 3: "Chornobyl Ten Years Later: An Update from the Front,"
a lecture by Richard Wilson (Mallinckrodt professor of physics, Harvard
University), Science Center E, 8 p.m.
NEW YORK
Thursday, April 25:
- A concert of the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Hobart
Earle, in the hall of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 7 p.m.
Admission to the concert is limited to U.N. diplomats, however 200 seats
are available for sponsors donating $250. Sponsors should send their donations
to: American Friends of the Odessa Philharmonic, c/o Askold Lozynskyj,
55 East 7th St., New York, NY 10003.
WASHINGTON
Tuesday, April 23:
- A Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)
hearing commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster,
Room 2255, Rayburn House Office Building (room subject to change), 10 a.m.-noon.
Scheduled to appear: Dr. Yuri Shcherbak, ambassador of Ukraine to the U.S.;
Syarhey Martynau, ambassador of Belarus to the U.S.; Prof. Murray Feshbach,
Georgetown University; Alexander Kuzma, Chornobyl Challenge '96. For more
information call Orest Deychakiwsky, (202) 225-1901.
Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, April
14, 1996, No. 15, Vol. LXIV
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