International Conference on Ukraine Will Take Place at Yale University, April 23 -- 24

Academic authorities and prominent representatives of Ukrainian and international institutions will meet in a two-day conference at Yale to view the past, take stock of the present, and ponder the future of Ukraine from a historical, cultural, economic and political perspective. Hosted by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and the Yale-Ukraine Initiative, the conference will cover such topics as national identity and nation-building; the legacy of the Soviet past and its implications for post-Soviet Ukraine; the political and economic history of Ukraine in the 20th century; and the development of a distinctive Ukrainian society within its larger political, economic and cultural confines.