Dr. Anton Symkovych (Petro Jacyk Visiting Scholar) is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine. For the past fourteen years his research interest has been in the area of prisons, spanning from Californian juvenile correctional institutions and British medium-security prisons, to a Ukrainian correctional colony. He holds degrees from Ukraine, USA, and UK. His PhD thesis (University of Cambridge, 2011), entitled “Power Relations in a Ukrainian Prison”, was the first study of the Ukrainian prison in the English language of its kind, and one of the first to examine the dramatic transformations within the prison system following the collapse of the Communist régime. In 2012-2013 Dr Symkovych was a member of the Ukraine-Council of Europe expert group charged with designing a training course and writing a manual for Ukrainian prison governors and area managers. At CERES, Dr. Symkovych will work on a paper based on his doctoral research, as well as on a new course. He will be coming to the centre in spring of 2014. He will give two public talks while in Toronto. To get in touch with Dr. Symkovych, email sveta.frunchak@utoronto.ca.
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CERES talk details:
Room 108, North Building, Munk School of Global Affairs (1 Devonshire Place)
Wednesday, March 26, 12-2 PM
