Past Events at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
November 2010
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Monday, November 1st The Memory of World War II in Soviet Ukraine: Practical Uses of the Cult
Date Time Location Monday, November 1, 2010 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Soviet practices of the WWII memory are often perceived as a secular cult, similar to a religious one, as a substitute of the sublime in the atheistic society. However, this approach often ignores the aspects of daily practical uses of the WWII memory, its close connections to everyday realities, and individual rational aims.
In the centre of this speech there is an intertwining of the memories and commemorations of WWII with such trends in the late Soviet society as the rise of consumerism, including tourism and entertainment.
WWII was not only “the holy war” but a useful ideological argument in the struggle for living resources in society of the deficit. But still, did it question or harm the official narrative of this war? The speaker raises this and other questions in the hope of providing the food for further thought.
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Wednesday, November 3rd Serhiy Zhadan's Red Elvis and Arabesques Theatre
Date Time Location Wednesday, November 3, 2010 5:00PM - 7:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Thursday, November 4th Skewed Competition in Established Democracies: The Rise and Fall of Dominant Party Regimes in Europe
Date Time Location Thursday, November 4, 2010 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Steffen Schneider is a Research Associate (assistant professor) at the Research Centre on Transformations of the State, University of Bremen, and a Lecturer in the International Studies in Political Management program of the University of Applied Sciences, Bremen. He holds a doctorate and an M.A. degree from the University of Augsburg. His research interests and teaching are mostly in the fields of comparative government and policy analysis, with an area focus on Western Europe (Germany) and North America (Canada). Current research projects are focused (1) on the democratic quality and legitimacy of the nation state, the EU and other international regimes, (2) on the phenomenon of single-party dominance in Western democracies, and (3) on federalism and policy making.
Recent publications include: Democracy’s Deep Roots: Why the Nation State Remains Legitimate, Basingstoke: Palgrave 2010 (with Achim Hurrelmann, Zuzana Krell-Laluhová, Frank Nullmeier, and Achim Wiesner); Big Fish in Small Ponds: Dominant Party Regimes in the Canadian Provinces and German Länder, in: Matthijs Bogaards and Françoise Boucek, eds, Dominant Parties and Democracy, London: Routledge 2010 (with Amir Abedi); Why the Democratic Nation State is Still Legitimate, European Journal of Political Research 48 (4) 2009, 483-515 (with Achim Hurrelmann, Zuzana Krell-Laluhová, Frank Nullmeier, and Achim Wiesner); La légitimité des systèmes politiques, l’espace public et les médias: Une étude comparée des discours de légitimation en Allemagne, aux États-Unis, en Grande-Bretagne et en Suisse, Politique et Sociétés 27 (2) 2008, 105-36; Legitimacy in an Age of Global Politics, Basingstoke: Palgrave 2007(ed. with Achim Hurrelmann and Jens Steffek); United in Protest? The European Struggle over Genetically Modified Food, in: Hartmut Wessler et al., Transnationalization of Public Spheres, Basingstoke: Palgrave 2008; A Perspective from Abroad: Coordinative Institutions and Labour Market Reform in Germany, in: Rodney Haddow and Thomas R. Klassen, Partisanship, Globalization and Canadian Labour Market Policy: Four Provinces in Comparative Perspective, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2006.
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Friday, November 5th 1944 Conference
Date Time Location Friday, November 5, 2010 5:00PM - 7:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Monday, November 8th Camp Brothels: Forced Sex Labour in Nazi Concentration Camps
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Date Time Location Monday, November 8, 2010 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Monday, November 8th A Meeting with Daniel Caron, Canada’s Ambassador to Ukraine
Date Time Location Monday, November 8, 2010 3:00PM - 4:30PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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A meeting with G. Daniel Caron, Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine
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Monday, November 8th Center for Demographic and Socio-economic Research of Ukrainians in the United States: Sociological and Applied Research Findings
Date Time Location Monday, November 8, 2010 5:00PM - 7:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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The talk will discuss the activities of Center for Demographic and Socio-economic Research of Ukrainians in the US at the Shevchenko Scientific Society in New York and its research on the demography and sociology of Ukrainians in the United States and Canada. An important element is an integrated data base constructed with census and survey data for the period between 1980 and 2006, which has been made available on the Center’s web site: http://inform-decisions.com/ukrstat
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Tuesday, November 9th Demographic Assessment of the Holodomor within the Context of the 1932-1933 Famine in the USSR
Date Time Location Tuesday, November 9, 2010 7:00PM - 9:00PM External Event, Combination Room, Trinity College (6 Hoskin Avenue) + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture
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For many years research on the demography of the Holodomor has been hampered by lack of adequate data to address key issues like the number of losses due to the Holodomor, and the relative impact of the 1932-1933 Famine in different areas of the former Soviet Union. Using the most comprehensive set of data available to date and original documents not included in previous research, as well as sophisticated demographic methodologies, a team of demographers at the Institute of Demography and Social Research of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences (including Omelian Rudnytsky, Pavlo Shevchuk, Natalia Levchuk, and the speaker, who will be talking on behalf of the entire group) has been working for the last year to provide more definite answers to these questions.
The research has been framed within the context of the former Soviet Union, and provides estimates of direct and indirect losses for all former Soviet Republics. Besides providing a more definite and scientifically sound estimate of the number of Holodomor losses in Ukraine, this comprehensive approach allows one to compare the magnitude of losses in Ukraine with losses in Russia, Kazakhstan and other former Soviet republics.
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Wednesday, November 17th Mikhail Kalatozov: The Life and Times of a Soviet Film Director
Date Time Location Wednesday, November 17, 2010 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Sergei Kapterev holds a doctorate in Cinema Studies from New York University. His interests include film propaganda, war cinema and the Cinema of the Cold War, Soviet-American contacts in the sphere of cinema, the genre of expeditionary film, and representations of the Far East in Soviet and Russian film culture.
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Thursday, November 18th Through the Lens of Auschwitz: Re-writing the German-Jewish Past in Postwar Germany
Date Time Location Thursday, November 18, 2010 4:00PM - 6:00PM External Event, Room 2098, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street
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Friday, November 19th Beauty Queens, Irredentism and the Jewish Question in Interwar Hungary
Date Time Location Friday, November 19, 2010 10:00AM - 12:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Lecture: In 1929, Elizabeth Simon (Simon Boske) won the Miss Hungary beauty pageant and then went on to become Miss Europa. After Hungary’s defeat in World War I and its huge territorial losses in 1920, the victory of Miss Hungary over all of the other European contestants was welcomed by Hungarian nationalists as a sign of Hungary’s indomitable spirit . . . until they realized that Elizabeth Simon was a Jew. This talk will examine the debates in interwar Europe about the Jewish Question, national identity and “Jewish” beauty. It will also compare the Miss Hungary pageant to explicitly “Jewish” beauty pageants in the late 1920s, such as the Miss Judea pageant in Warsaw and the Queen Esther pageant in Tel Aviv, shedding light on the divergent attitudes towards assimilation and acculturation in the Hungarian, Polish and Zionist contexts.
Speaker: Michael L. Miller is an Associate Professor in the Nationalism Studies program at Central European University in Budapest, where he helped to establish the Jewish Studies Program. He is currently the Louis and Helen Padnos Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, where he specialized in Jewish and Central European History. His research focuses on the impact of nationality conflicts on the religious, cultural, and political development of Central European Jewry in the nineteenth century. He has recently published articles in Slavic Review, Austrian History Yearbook, and Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook. Miller’s book, Rabbis and Revolution: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation, was just published by Stanford University Press.
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Friday, November 19th Mediated Politics: Ukrainian Context
Date Time Location Friday, November 19, 2010 2:00PM - 3:30PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Throughout the 20 century the role of media in politics has continued to grow steadily. Growing circulation of newspapers, emergence of radio and television made it possible to spread the news with previously unprecedented speed. New technologies opened new forms of cooperation between the politics and the media and strengthened not only the two-way interaction but also the two-way influence. As a result, in the modern world of politics voters are constantly covered by the influence of media: media coverage provides the lens through which political events are viewed and evaluated by the majority of the population. These new forms of interaction have changed the very concept of mass behavior, introduced and developed Gustave Le Bon and Gabriel Tarde. Now that the space between a couch and a TV is perfectly enough to create the effect of mass communication, you can talk about the phenomenon of mediated politics.
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Tuesday, November 23rd Beyond the Official Narratives: Life Stories of the Former Soldiers of the 14th Waffen SS Division Galicia
Date Time Location Tuesday, November 23, 2010 5:00PM - 7:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Since its creation in 1943, the history of the Galicia Division and its wartime record has remained one the most politicized and controversial subjects in Ukrainian history during WWII. The Division’s soldiers are claimed as “collaborators-traitors,” “war criminals” or “ fighters for Ukrainian independence” by different historiographic traditions. This speech is focused on the role of the Division as viewed by its former soldiers. In particular, it will examine how the memory of the former soldiers is being (re)constructed by the veterans themselves through the prism of their collective memory formation and commemoration practices. Individual motivations for joining the Division are one of the most important research objectives in this area.
As well as referring to a number of theoretical works, the main sources for this research are interviews conducted with the former soldiers of the Galicia Division who are living now in Ukraine and Canada as part of my ongoing project “The Galicia Division through the Eyes of its Former Soldiers”. Published memoirs, materials of the Ukrainian state archives and of the Ukrainian-Canadian Documentation and Research Centre (Toronto, Canada) are used as well.
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Wednesday, November 24th Having Fun with History -- Confessions of a Young German Novelist
Date Time Location Wednesday, November 24, 2010 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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DAAD Symposium on Young German Literature
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A humorous novel from Germany? Written by a German? On German history?
Never heard of such a thing? Yet, it does exist. Moritz Rinke, one of Germany’s finest young playwrights and novelists, will discuss the perils and possibilities of having fun with history and read from his new novel Der Mann, der durch das Jahrhundert fiel (The Man Who Fell Through The Century).
Reading and discussion in English.
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Wednesday, November 24th Archival Co-operation between the Polish Institute of National Remembrance and the Security Service of Ukraine on the History of the Holodomor
Date Time Location Wednesday, November 24, 2010 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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In 2008 the Polish Senate and Sejm passed declarations regarding the Famine of 1932–33 in Ukraine on the 75th anniversary of that event. That same year the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (INR) and the State Archives Branch of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) jointly published a collection of documents in Polish about the Holodomor (as part of a series “Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s–1940s: Unknown Documents from the Archives of the Secret Services”), which appeared the following year in English translation. The compilation was notable for its inclusion of materials from Polish diplomatic sources and intelligence officers, and many of the items included had never been previously published. This presentation will discuss the history of co-operation between the INR and SSU on archival projects as well as examine the collection Holodomor: The Great Famine in Ukraine, 1932–1933.
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Thursday, November 25th Contemporary German Theatre: A Playwright's Perspective (in German)
Date Time Location Thursday, November 25, 2010 2:15AM - 4:00PM External Event, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Odette Hall, 50 St. Joseph Street, Room 323 + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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DAAD Symposium on Young German Literature
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Moritz Rinke, born in 1967 in Worpswerde, is one of the best‐known German playwrights. While studying Applied Theatre in Gießen, he began writing for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit and Theater heute. From 1994 to 1996 he was a trainee and then journalist for the Berliner Tagesspiegel. For his reporting on “A Day with Marlene” (1995) and the 1997 Love Parade he twice received the prestigious Axel‐Springer‐Prize. In 2001 his play “The Vineta Republic“ was chosen as best German‐language play. In 2010 his first novel was published: “Der Mann, der durch das Jahrhundert fiel.“
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Thursday, November 25th Ukrainian Film Series
Date Time Location Thursday, November 25, 2010 7:00PM - 10:00PM External Event, Innis Town Hall, Innis College, University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Ave + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Ukrainian Cinema since Independence
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Friday, November 26th Ukrainian Film Series
Date Time Location Friday, November 26, 2010 6:00PM - 8:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Ukrainian Cinema since Independence
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December 2010
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Friday, December 3rd Lost in Cultural Translation: Signifying Estonia, Signifying Europe
Date Time Location Friday, December 3, 2010 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Estonia’s reputation as a scrappy and successful small EU nation since 2004 is not only a composite of economic and political strategies and attempts to explain and represent a conflicted history. Cultural translation subtends and even defines these processes, offering a fruitful approach to how Estonia has signified itself with reference to (Eastern and Western) Europe in the first decade of the 21st century, while distancing and dissociating from (post)Soviet social realities. Examples of hazards, dissonances, and failures in cultural semiotics can be seen in academic restructuring, public manifestations of xenophobia and incivility, and literary “marketing” of versions of the recent past. Seen astutely, the Estonian case can symptomatically articulate some fantasies and misprisions of Europe that are also currently manifested in larger societies of the former “Eastern Europe.”
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Thursday, December 9th Boyko Borisov, the Judiciary, and the Fight against Corruption
Date Time Location Thursday, December 9, 2010 5:30PM - 8:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Distinguished Leaders in Bulgaria Lecture Series
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Maria Popova is an assistant professor of political science at McGill University. Her dissertation on judicial independence in Russia and Ukraine won the American Political Science Association’s 2007 award for best dissertation in public law. Her new project examines the effects of institutional structure on the judiciary’s willingness and capability to tackle political corruption.
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Friday, December 17th Transatlantic Dialogues: Immigration, Citizenship, and Modernity
Date Time Location Friday, December 17, 2010 4:00PM - 6:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs
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Randall Hansen: Is Multiculturalism Dead?: Angela Merkel’s Germany
Dirk Jacobs: Design and Use of the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX): Germany and Europe
David Leal: Latino Political Influence: Myths, Realities, and Prospects
Chris Wright: Policy Legacies and Labour Immigration Policy Oscillations in the UK, 1997-2010
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January 2011
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Thursday, January 20th Legal Transition and Judicial Reform in Post-Communist Europe: The Impact of the EU
Date Time Location Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:00AM - 5:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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It is conventional wisdom that real democracy, as opposed to its electoral variety, requires rule of law, whereby rulers are constrained by legal principles that they do not control and that are enforced by impartial and empowered courts. How such a legal order emerges in the context of movement from authoritarian to democratic rule remains largely unknown. In the second half of the 20th century, very few countries completed such a legal transition, with Spain as the one clear example, but as the new millennium began, there was hope for some of the post communist members of the European Union, if only because of the presence of political competition and pressure from the EU. Still, as of 2010 none of these countries had yet achieved the degree of judicial impartiality or power needed to qualify as modern legal orders.
The purpose of this Workshop is to explore why this is the case. This goal requires consideration of the impact of EU pressures and the domestic politics of judicial reform. It requires probing the role of and relationship between institutional and cultural change, and the impact of informal practices. It calls for consideration of the working of judicial bureaucracy in its socialist variant (with its peculiar incentive structure), as well as the persistence of positivist and formalistic approaches to law. Another issue is the presence or absence of demand for law among politicians and business leaders and their attitudes toward courts. Finally, there is the impact of new constitutional courts, which often represent a different approach to law from that manifested by regular courts or shared by political leaders.
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Friday, January 21st Narrating Wartime Subjectivity: Women’s Experience in World War II
Date Time Location Friday, January 21, 2011 12:00PM - 1:30PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Description
Tetyana Dzyadevych will speak about women’s experience during World War II. Her analysis focuses on stories of ordinary women who did not participate in any military actions or resistant movements even if they sympathized with any of them. The subjects of this study are women who lived under occupation or in evacuation.
At the center of her research is the everyday life of women in wartime. Her focus will be comparative and cross-national. The sources for her research are women’s personal narrations like diaries, memoirs, and oral interviews. Dr. Dzyadevych will discuss dominant patterns in women’s personal narrations during the War, aiming to look at both what and how women wrote at wartime. She will share results of her inquiry into wartime female subjectivity through the study of reflections of the women’s inner world in their personal narratives. What did they think about? What did they write? How did they feel during the war campaign?
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Wednesday, January 26th Public reading, presentation and discussion of Timothy Snyder's new book, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin
Date Time Location Wednesday, January 26, 2011 7:00PM - 9:00PM External Event, 620 Spadina Avenue, Toronto (St. Vladimir Institute) + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
Wine and Cheese reception to follow.
Registration is closed for Timothy Snyder’s talk on January 26. The room has reached maximum capacity.
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Thursday, January 27th Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin
This event has been relocated
Date Time Location Thursday, January 27, 2011 4:00PM - 6:00PM External Event, First floor, Room 100A (conference room), Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street Registration Full Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Registration is closed for Timothy Snyder’s talk on January 27. The room has reached maximum capacity.
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Friday, January 28th Germany in Afghanistan
Date Time Location Friday, January 28, 2011 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Canada was not the only country in Afghanistan that stumbled into an “unexpected war.” For the Germans, the war in Afghanistan came even more unexpected. The German public discourse about humanitarian intervention is characterized by a decidedly civilian perspective. Military aspects are regarded as secondary and played down. Bundeswehr soldiers came to Afghanistan without an idea about what they would have to cope with. The equipment and the training of the units were deficient. This was not discussed in Germany until the number of wounded and killed soldiers began to rise with unexpected frequency. The “Kunduz Incident” (4/11/09) generated a general shock in Germany.
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