The Zenowia and George Jurkiw
Ukrainian Historical Encounters Series Special Event
Contested Ground: The Legacy of the Second World War for Eastern Europe
October 23-24, 2015
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Day One
Forum Venue: University of Alberta
8:30 am – 9:00 am – Registration
9:00 am – 9:40 am – Forum Focus Event I: Looking Back at the ‘Peace of 1945’ & Serving Historical Memory
Chair:
- Lubomyr Hajda [Harvard University]
Featured Speaker:
- Volodymyr Kravchenko [Director/CIUS-University of Alberta]
9:40 am – 11:05 am – Session I: The Yalta Summit/Expectations & Results [Jan-Feb “45]
Moderator:
- Roman Petryshyn [MacEwan University]
Speakers:
- Yuri Shapoval [National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine]
- Paul Goble [Tartu University/Windows on Eurasia]
11:05 am – 11:15 am – Coffee Break
11:15 am – 12:40 pm – Session II: In the Wake of the War – The Human Cost and the New Postwar Order [Mar-Apr “45]
Moderator:
- Bohdan Harasymiw [CIUS-University of Alberta]
Speakers:
- Olexandr Hladun [Institute of Demography and Social Studies/NASU]
- Valeriy Kuchinsky [Columbia University]
12:40 pm – 1:10 pm – Lunch Break
1:10 pm – 1:50 pm – Forum Focus Event II: Soviet and Post Soviet Remembrances of World War II and Its Aftermath in Russia
Chair:
- Zenon Kohut [University of Alberta]
Featured Speaker:
- Yitzhak Brudny [Hebrew University of Jerusalem]
1:50 pm – 3:15 pm – Session III: VE Day-A Triumph Celebrated Twice [May “45]
Moderator:
- Bohdan Harasymiv [CIUS-University Of Alberta]
Speakers:
- Janusz Bugajski [Center for European Policy Analysis]
- Taras Kuzio [CIUS-University of Alberta]
3:15 pm – 3:25 pm – Coffee Break
3:25 pm – 4:50 pm – Session IV: The Potsdam Gathering [Expectations/Results] [Jul-Aug “45]
Moderator:
- Lori Thorlakson [University of Alberta]
Speakers:
- Derek Fraser [University of Victoria]
- Vlad Socor [Jamestown Foundation/EDM]
4:50 pm – 5:30 pm – Forum Focus Event III: Soviet and Post Soviet Remembrances of World War II and Its Aftermath in Ukraine
Chair:
- Jars Balan [Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies]
Featured Speaker:
- George Liber [University of Alabama]
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Speakers and Patrons Reception [By Invitation Only]
Event “Reflection”: “Grappling with Fateful & Painful Memories: From the Holocaust to Katyn Forest”
Chair:
- Svitlana Krys [MacEwan University]
Featured Speaker:
- Yaroslav Hrytsak [Ukrainian Catholic University]
Day Two
Forum Venue: University of Alberta
8:30 am – 9:00 am – Registration
9:00 am – 9:40 am – Forum Focus Event IV: “Making Sense of the Road from Potsdam to Churchill’s Talk in Fulton, Missouri”
Chair:
- Frank Sysyn [CIUS-University of Alberta]
Featured Speaker:
- Ariel Cohen [Atlantic Council of the United States]
9:40 am – 11:05 am – Session V: The ‘Peace of 1945’/Case Study in Consequences: Ukraine & the Crimean Tatars
Moderator:
- Myroslav Shkandrij [University of Manitoba]
Speakers:
- Vladislav Hrynevych [National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine]
- Hakan Kirimli [Bilkent University]
11:05 am – 11:15 am – Coffee Break
11:15 am – 12:40 pm – Session VI: The ‘Peace of 1945’/Case Study in Consequences: Poland & Baltic States
Moderator:
- Heather Coleman [University of Alberta]
Speakers:
- Janusz Onyszkiewicz [International Center for Democratic Transition]]
- Marius Laurinavicius [Center For European Policy Analysis]
12:40 pm – 1:10 pm – Lunch Break
1:10 pm – 1:50 pm – Forum Focus Event V: “Post WW II ‘Population Transfers’: Taking Measure of the Turmoil and the Toll”
Chair:
- Waclaw Osadnik [University of Alberta]
Featured Speaker:
- Jan M. Piskorski University of Szczecin]
1:50 pm – 3:15 pm – Session VII: The ‘Peace of 1945’/Case Study in Consequences: Moldova & Romania
Moderator:
- Bohdan Klid [CIUS-University of Alberta]
Speakers:
- Vlad Spanu [The Moldova Foundation]
- Aurel Braun [University of Toronto]
3:15 pm – 3:25 pm – Coffee Break
3:25 pm – 4:50 pm – Session VIII: The ‘Peace of 1945’/Case Study in Consequences: Austria & Finland
Moderator:
- David Wineroither [University of Innsbruck]
Speakers:
- Mark Von Hagen [Arizona State University]
- Pekka Holopainen [Finnish National Defense University]
4:50 pm – 5:30 pm – Forum Focus Event VI: ‘The Peace of ’45 and the Current Situation in Ukraine’
Chair:
- Walter Zaryckyj [Center for US-Ukrainian Relations]
Featured Speaker:
- Herman Pirchner [American Foreign Policy Council]
7:00 pm – 9:45 pm -Post Forum Banquet [By Invitation Only]
Words of Welcome:
- Paul Grod [President/Canadian Ukrainian Congress]
- Evhen Czolij [President/Ukrainian World Congress]
- Senior Representative of the Provincial Government of Alberta
Event “Reflection”: “The ‘Peace of 1945’ and the Current State of World Affairs”
Chair:
- Oleh Ilnytzkyj [University of Alberta]
Featured Speaker:
- James Sherr [Royal Institute of International Affairs/Chatham House]