Yaroslav Hrytsak is a professor of history at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. He is the author of numerous publications on the modern history of Ukraine, including a book of essays on the formation of the modern Ukrainian nation in the 19th-20th centuries (Narysy istoriїUkraїny; 2019) and Ivan Franko and His Community (English translation, 2019).
Serhii Plokhii is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. He has published extensively in English, Ukrainian, and Russian. His latest book is Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance (2019).
Professor Hrytsak will discuss the question of whether Volodymyr Zelensky's April 2019 presidential victory could be considered the start of Ukraine's "Third Maidan," as has been stated by some observers, or whether a new Maidan can be expected at all.
Professor Plokhii will address the question of why and how Ukraine became involved in the impeachment scandal in the US, and what this might signify for US-Ukraine relations.