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Ukraine's Century of Struggle to Secure Independence A UA Historical Encounters Series Event: Taking Measure of Milestones in Modern Ukrainian Military History 1917-2017 DAY ONE Venue: SHCFR Conference Room/1st Floor MI-ASU/1777 F Street NW Washington DC 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Registration 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM Focus Session One: Why Measure Must Be Taken Speaker: Valeriy Chaly [Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States] 01:00 PM - 3:00 PM Panel Session One: Antecedents to the Struggle (1900-1917) Moderator: Lubomyr Hajda [Senior Advisor to the Director/Harvard Ukrainian Researcher Institute] Panelists: Anna Procyk [Professor of History/KBCC/City University of New York] Pavel Podobyed [Deputy Director/Institute for National Military Historical Monuments] Hüseyin Oylupinar [Lecturer/International Relations/Izmir University of Economics] Suggested Topics: Ukrainian Sich Rifleman [Austro-Hungarian Empire] Ukrainian Military Club [Russian Empire] Union for the Liberation of Ukraine [Ottoman Vector] 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM Panel Session Two: A First Effort (1917-1923) Moderator: Lada Kolomiyets [Fulbright Visiting Scholar/Penn State University | Taras Shevchenko University] Panelists: Mark Von Hagen [Professor of History and Interim Director/Melikian Center/Arizona State University] Mykhailo Koval’chuk [[Senior Researcher/National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine] Hakan Kirimli [Professor of History & CRS Director/Bilkent University] Suggested Topics: Ukrainska Narodna Respublikanska Armiya (UNRA) Ukrainska Halychska Armiya (UHA) Military Formations in Southern Ukraine/Crimean Tatar Aspirations 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Focus Session Two: Preparations for a Second Effort (1921-1939) (Abroad Speaker: Yaroslav Faizulyn [Research Fellow/National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine] DAY TWO Venue: Rockefeller-Petersen Conference Room/2nd Floor MI-ASU/1777 F Street NW Washington DC 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM Focus Session Two: Preparations for a Second Effort (1921-1939) (In Country) Speaker: Serhii Kvit [Stanford University Senior Fellow & Minister of Education of Ukraine 2014-2016] 10:30 AM - 1:30 AM Panel Session Three: A Second Effort (1939-1950) Moderator: Jars Balan [Interim Director/Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies/University of Alberta] Panelists: Oleksandr Pahirya [Senior Researcher/’Prison on Lonsky Street’ National Memorial Museum] Volodymyr Vyatrovych [Director/Ukrainian Institute of National Memory] Vladyslav Hrynevych [Senior Researcher/National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine] Suggested Topics: Karpatska Sich Ukrainska Povstann'ska Armiya (UPA) Ukrainian Liberators of Auschwitz & Berlin 11:30 AM - 12:00 AM Focus Session Three: In Preparation for a Third Effort (1986-1991) Speaker: Kostyantyn Morozov [Minister of Defense of Ukraine 1991-1993] 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Lunch 12:30 PM - 02:30 PM Panel Session: The Third Effort (1991-2017) Moderator: Orest Deychakiwsky [Senior Policy Advisor (ret.)/CSCE & BOD Member/US-Ukraine Foundation] Panelists: Mariana Budjeryn [Research Fellow/ Belfer Center/JFK School/Harvard University] Leonid Polyakov [Chairman/Board of Experts/Centre for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies] Phillip Karber [President/Potomac Foundation] Suggested Topics: First Years of the Modern Ukrainian Armed Forces/Budapest Memorandum Peacekeeping Duties in West Africa, the Balkans (IFOR-KFOR) & Iraq The Russo-Ukrainian Conflict 02:30 PM - 04:30 PM Final Panel Session: What the Future May Hold Moderator: Anders Corr [Principal & Chief Editor/Journal of Political Risk] Panelists: Gen. Ihor Kolesnyk [Deputy Head/General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces] Gen. John Abizaid [Special US Military Advisor to President Poroshenko] Amb. John Herbst [Director/Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center/Atlantic Council] Suggested Topics: A Successful Conclusion to the Current Anti-Terror Operation (ATO) The Ability to Fully Contain Future Threats to Ukraine’s Sovereignty Leadership in the Black Sea Security Zone/Membership in the Euro-Atlantic Community 4:30 PM - 05:00 PM Final Focus Session: An Exercise Worth Remembering Speaker: Arsen Avakov [Minister of the Internal Affairs of Ukraine][INVITED] 4:30 PM - 05:00 PM Speakers’ Reception Venue: CUSUR/AFPC 509 C Street NE Washington DC Host: Andrew Futey [President/Ukrainian Congress Committee of America]
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