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Forum | Ukraine Finding Its Way: An International Forum

Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 6:00 pm

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Free reception to start at 6 PM followed by the speaker series at 6:30 PM.

Please join the NYU community at an international forum on Ukraine, featuring five distinguished speakers, each influential experts in their field, who will speak on a wide-rage of topics relating to the current situation in Ukraine.

Following the speakers series, there will be a Q&A session with a chance to ask the speakers questions.

The speakers:

Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev, Representative of the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations, will be speaking about Ukraine on the international stage and it's relationship with the EU and the UN.

Dr. Hiroaki Kuromiya, Professor at Indiana University, Author of "Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s-1990s", will be speaking about the Donbas region of Ukraine, its long, complicated history and its uncertain future.

Dr. Yuri Shevchuk, Professor at Columbia University, Ukrainian Language Specialist and Educator, will be speaking about the representation and manipulation of the Ukrainian language in the media and the issue of bilingualism and russification in Ukraine.

Ayla Bakkalli, Executive Member of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars and USA Representative of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, will be speaking about the effects of the Russian annexation of Crimea on the Crimean Tatar population and their future.

Peter Zalmayev, Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative and a Donetsk native, will be speaking about information politics in Ukraine and personal experiences from Donbas.

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