PREVIEW OF EVENTS (02/24/02)

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Monday, February 25

NEW YORK: The Harriman Institute at Columbia University presents a lecture by Anatoliy Rusnachenko, visiting scholar at Harriman, titled "The Unknown War in the Soviet West: Ukraine and the Baltics, 1940s-1950s." The lecture will be held in the International Affairs Building, Room 1219, at noon-2 p.m. For more information contact the institute, (212) 854-4623.

Tuesday, February 26

NEW YORK: The Harriman Institute at Columbia University presents the second roundtable in the "Series on Language Policies and Language Planning in Ukraine." Featured will be poet Vasyl Machno, who will speak on the topic "Breaking Taboos: The Language of New Ukrainian Poetry," with Anna Frajlich-Zajac, Slavic department, Columbia University, discussant. The roundtable will be held in the International Affairs Building, Room 1219, at 6-8 p.m. For more information contact the institute, (212) 854-4623.

Monday, March 4

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute will present a lecture by Olena Boriak, senior research fellow, Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and Fulbright scholar at the University of Virginia. The lecture, titled "The Midwife in Ukrainian Traditional Culture: Ritual, Folklore, Mythology," will be held in the institute seminar room, 1583 Massachusetts Ave., at 4-6 p.m. For more information contact the institute, (617) 495-4053, or huri@fas.harvard.edu.

CHANGES OF VENUE

The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) lecture by Amir Weiner, assistant professor of Soviet history at Stanford University, titled "Wild West, Window to the West: The Soviet Frontier, 1939-1989," slated for Thursday, February 28, will not be held at HURI. Instead the lecture will held in Room 2 at Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge St., at 4-6 p.m. For additional information contact HURI, (617) 495-4053, or huri @fas.harvard.edu.

ADVANCE NOTICE

Friday-Sunday, March 15-17

KERHONKSON, N.Y.: The Ukrainian Engineers' Society of America (UESA), the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America (UMANA) and the Ukrainian National Association (UNA) invite the community to take part in the 2002 Summit of Ukrainian American Organizations at the UNA estate, Soyuzivka. The theme of the summit will be "Re-engaging the Younger Generation." A pre-summit cocktail reception will be held Friday, March 15. The main panel discussions will be on Saturday, March 16, followed by a summary panel on Sunday, March 17. For more information see the UESA website (www.uesa.org), or send e-mail to nj@uesa.org or nyc@uesa.org.

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