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Dr. Heidi Hein-Kircher earned her M.A. and PhD from Heinrich Heine-University in Düsseldorf. She has been on the research staff of the Herder-Institute for Historical Research in East Central Europe in Marburg, Germany since 2003.

In her research, she focuses on political and cultural memory and political cults in East Central Europe. Another field of research is urban history of the 19th and 20th in East Central Europe, especially emerging cities and L’viv (Lwów/Lemberg) in the 19th century in relation to local government.

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How can you counteract an information war? Hromadske Radio, Public Radio Ukraine, decided to provide accurate and objective information to audiences – free of state and corporate censorship and any kind of manipulation. They broadcasted throughout Ukraine’s Euromaidan, and beyond. This book brings together a series of English language reports on the Ukraine crisis first broadcast on Hromadske Radio between 3 February 2014 and 7 August 2015. Collected and transcribed here, they offer a kaleidoscopic chronicle of events in Ukraine. Bookending the reports, purpose written introduction and conclusion sections contextualize the independent radio project within the larger picture of Ukraine’s media and political developments – both before the Euromaidan and in its dramatic aftermath. The book also features a preface by David R. Marples.

For more information on the book, please follow this link: http://www.e-ir.info/2016/03/22/open-access-book-ukraines-euromaidan-broadcasting-through-information-wars-with-hromadske-radio/

Marta Dyczok is Associate Professor at the Departments of History and Political Science, Western University, Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, and Adjunct Professor at the National University of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. She has published five books, including Ukraine’s Euromaidan. Broadcasting through Information Wars with Hromadske Radio (2016) Ukraine Twenty Years After Independence: Assessments, Perspectives, Challenges (co-edited with Giovanna Brogi, 2015), Media, Democracy and Freedom. The Post Communist Experience (co-edited with Oxana Gaman-Golutvina, 2009), articles in various journals including The Russian Journal of Communication (2014), Demokratizatsiya (2014), and regularly provides media commentary. Her doctorate is from Oxford University and she researches mass media, memory, migration, and history.

Olivia Ward is a foreign affairs reporter for The Toronto Star who has written on international affairs for over 16 years, beginning as the Star’s UN correspondent and reporting from countries around the globe. Olivia has led the Moscow and London bureaus for the Star and has reported from the former Soviet Union, South Asia, and the Middle East, and on conflict zones including Chechnya, Tajikistan, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Kosovo, Serbia, Iraq, and Israel and Palestine.

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Dr. Wolowyna will speak about the results of recent research conducted by a team of demographers from Ukraine and the US. In-depth analysis of available data and recently discovered documents put in question some popular beliefs about the Holodomor. Also a comparative analysis of 1932-1934 famine losses at the regional level in Ukraine and of recent estimates of regional losses in Russia provide a new perspective on the Holodomor in particular and the 1932-1934 famine in general.

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Recent research interprets southeastern Europe as a learning site for ethnic cleansings. In contrast to this view, the paper argues that besides being a classic laboratory for ethnic cleansing this region is also a learning site for the development of modern international minority protection. In the course of the state-building processes in this region, it was understood that the aggressive propensity toward violence of the modern nation-state needed to be contained if the nation-state was to fulfill its promises of participation and integration for all nationals. The result was the prohibition of discrimination of certain minorities. In the course of the long nineteenth century, this prohibition was gradually developed into an internationally embedded general system of minority protection.

Dr. Mathias Beer is head of the Department of Contemporary History at and managing director of the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies (IdGL) in Tübingen, Germany, as well as a lecturer in the department of history of the University of Tübingen. He is a member of the advisory board of the Foundation “Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung.” His many publications on refugees, forced migration, and minority issues include his 2011 book, Flucht und Vertreibung der Deutschen. Voraussetzungen, Verlauf, Folgen.

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Raisa Rozina is a leading researcher at the V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and Professor of European Languages, Institute of Linguistics, Russian State Humanities University. A socio-linguist and a specialist in lexical semantics, she is a longtime student of slang and everyday speech in both Russia and the USA. She is the editor-in–chief and co-author of the dictionary Slova s kotorymi my vse vstrechalis’: tolkovyi slovar obshchego russkogo zhargona (Words we have all encountered: An Explanatory dictionary of modern Russian general slang (1995), as well as a compiler of the Tolkovyi slovar russkoi razgovornoi rechi (Explanatory dictionary of Russian everyday speech)–(vol.1 2014; vol.2 in preparation). She has also served as commentator on the works by J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, Sherwood Anderson and other American writers in editions published in English for Russian readers, and translator into Russian of articles by the distinguished Australian linguist Anna Wierzbicka.

In her presentation “Russian life through the prism of everyday speech” Prof. Rozina explores the perspectives of Russian speakers on their everyday existence by analyzing semantic fields of everyday words. She focuses especially on the richest and most suggestive fields, such as FALL, DIRT, GREEDINESS, and ALIENS. Comparison between these semantic fields and corresponding ones in everyday English speech illuminates differences in the mentalities of Russian and English speakers.

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Author Professor Laszlo Borhi’s book discusses the American dilemmas of external transformation during the Cold War as well as the constraints faced by weak states in international politics. The book is a result of extensive multi archival research.

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During WWII Lviv experienced a variety of traumatic occupations that disrupted the balance of relations between its major ethnic inhabitants, Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians. Prof Hnatiuk explores the myths, the animosities, and the interactions between these groups during the war years, dispelling many of the presumed truths about irremediable hostility and conflicts. Her focus is on the relations between individuals as documented in personal archives rather than on collective perceptions and activities.

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In the late nineteenth century wine production took off in French-ruled Algeria, to such an extent that for most of the following century this Muslim-majority territory was the fourth biggest wine producer in the world. Many of Algeria’s vineyards were on a scale that far exceeded those found in metropolitan France, earning some colonists spectacular fortunes and, in time, significant influence over the colony’s affairs. Through a study of the backgrounds and business dealings of these “vinelords,” this talk will demonstrate the central importance of wine to the economic life of colonial Algeria, while arguing that agricultural capitalism also posed substantial risks to the French project of colonization.

Owen White is an associate professor of history at the University of Delaware. His publications include Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa, 1895-1960 and the edited volume (with J.P. Daughton) In God’s Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World, as well as articles on a variety of topics in French colonial history. He is currently completing a book manuscript about the Algerian wine industry.

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There is much that ordinary Ukrainians do not know about Jews and that ordinary Jews do not know about Ukrainians. As a result, those Jews and Ukrainians who may care about their respective ancestral heritages usually view each other through distorted stereotypes, misperceptions, and biases. This talk sheds new light on highly controversial moments of Ukrainian-Jewish relations and argues that the historical experience in Ukraine not only divided ethnic Ukrainians and Jews but also brought them together.

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of History in the History Department at Northwestern University, Chicago. He has authored a number of prize-winning books, including The Golden Age Shtetl (Princeton University Press, 2015). His research and publications have been supported by a number of foundations, including the Rothschild, Jewish Memorial, DAAD, Kosziuszko, Lady Davis, and National Endowment for the Humanities. He has taught at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. For his pedagogical and scholarly contribution, he has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” in Kyiv.

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There is no doubt that the year 2016 so far has been a pivotal year for Europe and for Canadian-European relations: With the decision to exit the European Union, the British people have made a historic step against all odds with so far unforeseen ramifications. At the same time, Europe is coping with the consequences of a unique influx of refugees in the past year as a result of severe instability on Europe’s periphery. In addition, Canada and the European Union are about to sign a much anticipated Strategic Partnership Agreement and a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, both of which will not only bring both sides closer together and give an ambitious and strategic framework for our future partnership, but also set standards for fair and just 21st century trade. All of these developments have immediate repercussions for Canada’s relations to the European Union and beyond. There could not be a more suitable occasion to discuss all of these issues with the person who actually oversees the Affairs of the European Union at the German cabinet table, Minister of State for Europe Michael Roth

Michael Roth has been Minister of State for Europe at the Federal Foreign Office since 2013 and a directly elected member of the German Bundestag since 1998. From 2010 to 2013, he was spokesperson on Europe for the SPD parliamentary group and from 2009 to February 2014 was Secretary-General of the SPD in the federal state of Hesse.

Since 2014, Mr. Roth has been Commissioner for Franco-German Cooperation, member of the Deutsche Welle Broadcasting Board, member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for European Politics and member of the board of the Franco-German Institute in Ludwigsburg, Chairman of the supervisory board of the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF), and member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation.

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A panel discussion on the civic and scholarly significance of the book, Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence, co-authored by Professor Paul Robert Magocsi (University of Toronto) and Professor Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Northwestern University), and published by University of Toronto Press.

Chair:

Professor Doris Bergen
Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto

Commentators:

Adrian Karatnycky
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Professor Ori Yehudai
Department of History, University of Toronto

Professor Anna Shternshis
Director, Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto

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Professor Paul Robert Magocsi
Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto

Professor Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
The Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies, Northwestern University

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The conference will bring together presenters on the Irish (Peter Gray, Queen’s University, Belfast), Bengal (Janam Mukherjee, Ryerson University), and Ukrainian (Liudmyla Hrynevych, Academy of Sciences, Ukraine) famines and examine differences and commonalities (Mark von Hagen, Arizona State University and Andrea Graziosi, Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of University and Research).

If you have any questions regarding the event, including registration, please contact Ms. Marta Baziuk at 416 923-4732

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In this lecture, Prof. Andreas Wirsching will discuss the critical edition of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, which the Institute for Contemporary History published earlier this year following the expiry of the copyright in 2015 (i.e., 70 years after the death of the author) and which has since attracted worldwide attention. Prof. Wirsching will expound upon the many scholarly, legal, political, and moral aspects that were taken into account in producing this new edition.

Andreas Wirsching has been Director of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History) München – Berlin and Full Professor for Modern and Contemporary History at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich since April 2011. Prior to this appointment, he was Associate Professor for Modern West European History at the University of Tübingen and then Full Professor for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Augsburg. He studied History, (Protestant) Theology and Philosophy at the Universities in Berlin and Erlangen and received his doctoral degree from the University of Erlangen in 1988. In 1995, he received his habilitation at the University of Regensburg. His research focuses, among others, on the History of Germany and France in the Interwar Period, on the History of National Socialism as well as on German and European History since the 1970s.

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Dr. Hrynevych will discuss propaganda in the context of the Holodomor.

Please note that the lecture will be in Ukrainian.

If you have any questions regarding the event, including registration, please contact Ms. Marta Baziuk at 416 923-4732