Monday, April 29th, 2019 Between Trauma and Nostalgia: Public Opinion and Identities in Donbas after 2014

DateTimeLocation
Monday, April 29, 20193:00PM - 5:00PMSeminar Room 108N, 1 Devonshire Place

Description

Oleksii Polegkyi is a Bayduza Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta and member of Political Communication Research Unit at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Previously he was a research fellow at the Graduate Institute of Russian Studies, National Chengchi University, Taiwan and visiting post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg in Hungary. He earned PhD in Political Sciences from the University of Wroclaw, Poland and the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He received an MA in Philosophy from the T. Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine and was a recipient of the Taiwan Fellowship Program, Lane Kirkland Fellowship, Open Society Foundation Fellowship as well as research grants from Polish National Science Centre, Erste Foundation and others. His research interests include post-communist transformations in post-Soviet area, media and political discourse in Ukraine, foreign policy, nation and identity building in the post-Soviet states.


Speakers

Oleksii Polegkyi
Speaker
Bayduza Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta

Lucan Way
Chair
Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine, University of Toronto


Main Sponsor

Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine

Co-Sponsors

Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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