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From the Director
The current focus of the programme is in several directions: 1. The collection of materials on contemporary Ukraine from various sources so that it is available as a resource base for scholars and graduate students. 2. Occasional sponsorship and/or organization of academic panels pertaining to current events in Ukraine on the university campus. 3. Personal projects of the director and research assistants devoted to Ukrainian issues. 4. Current articles on Ukraine that have appeared in the media or academic sources, or which have been written directly for the program or by well-known experts on contemporary Ukraine. 5. The Stasiuk program blog page "Current Politics in Ukraine". 6. The annual lecture on Ukraine at Cambridge University, an initiative undertaken in association with the Ukrainian Students and Centre for Russian and East European Studies at Cambridge University. The 2007 speaker, the fifth lecture in the series, was Dr. Andrew Wilson, Senior Lecturer at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. The 2008 speaker, slated for 22 February, will be Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk, Associate Professor, University of Victoria. 7. The Program continues to serve as a resource base on the Chornobyl disaster in Ukraine, and a new volume has been commissioned by Pearson Education, UK, that should be available in 2008. 8. The Programs monitors new studies and provides analysis of the tragic 1933 Famine in Ukraine, now approaching its 75th anniversary.
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The Stasiuk Program is a leading centre for the study of contemporary Ukraine. It contains one of the largest archives of the dramatic period of change in the period 1986-91, in addition to the Solchanyk Archive, which is particularly strong on the topic of Ukrainian dissidence. Over the past few years, the Program has provided briefs for the media, for government and non-government organizations, and has hired assistants to carry out specific research projects.