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Program-UA HES Special Event: Contested Ground

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]