Presenters

Bringing together internationally recognized scholars, experts, and thought leaders as a vital forum for critical debate on Ukraine’s role in shaping contemporary understandings of global history, society, and the humanities.

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  • Alim Aliev

    Deputy Director, Ukrainian Institute (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine)

  • Dominique Arel

    Professor of Political Science and Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa

  • Jars Balan

    Director, Kule Ukrainian Canadian Studies Centre, CIUS

  • Marta Baziuk

    Executive Director, Holodomor Research and Education Consortium, CIUS

  • Olenka Bilash

    Director, Ukrainian Language Education Centre, CIUS

  • Serhiy Bilenky

    Research Associate, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research, CIUS

  • Larysa Bilous

    Historian & Research Associate, CIUS

  • Vitaly Chernetsky

    Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies & Coordinator, Ukrainian Diaspora Studies Initiative, University of Kansas

  • Serge Cipko

    Assistant Director, Research, CIUS

  • N Cmoc

    Natalka Cmoc

    Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine (2023–26)

  • Heather Coleman

    Professor and Chair, Department of History, Classics, and Religion & Director, Research Program on Religion and Culture, CIUS

  • Oksana Dudko

    Assistant Professor of German and Slavic Studies and Political Science, University of Manitoba

  • Rory Finnin

    Professor of Ukrainian Studies, University of Cambridge

  • Gelinada Grinchenko

    Professor, Dnipro Honchar National University & Editor-in-Chief, Ukraina Moderna

  • Guido Hausmann

    Professor, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, University of Regensburg

  • Kristina Hook

    Assistant Professor of Conflict Management, Kennesaw State University

  • Yaroslav Hrytsak

    Professor, Ukrainian Catholic University & Director in Lviv, CIUS

  • Tamara Hundorova

    Principal Reseracher, Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

  • Natalia Khanenko-Friesen

    Professor and Huculak Chair, Kule Folklore Centre & CIUS Director, University of Alberta

  • Andriy Kohut

    Director, Sectoral State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine

  • Bohdan Krawchenko

    Principal Research Fellow, Graduate School of Development, University of Central Asia

  • Hiroaki Kuromiya

    Emeritus Professor of History, Indiana University, Bloomington

  • Serhiy Kvit

    President, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy & Professor, Kyiv-Mohyla School of Journalism

  • Nykkie Lugosi-Schimpf

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta

  • David Marples

    Professor, Department of History, Classics, and Religion, University of Alberta

  • Oleksandra Matviichuk

    Head of the Centre for Civil Liberties, Kyiv; 2022 Nobel Peace Prize recipient

  • Elmira Muratova

    Post-Doctoral Researcher, European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg

  • Alla Nedashkivska

    Professor of Slavic Applied Linguistics, University of Alberta

  • Janush Panchenko

    Ethnographer and Romani Studies Scholar & Affiliate Researcher, Institute of Ethnology, CAS

  • Oleksandr Pankieiev

    Director, Kule Folklore Centre; Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography, University of Alberta

  • Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

    Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies, Northwestern University

  • Olenka Pevny

    University Associate Professor of Early Slavonic and Ukrainian Studies, University of Cambridge

  • Serhii Plokhy

    Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University

  • Dominique Reill

    Professor of History & Director of the Wirth Institute of Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta

  • Lila Roldán Vázquez

    Ambassador & Secretary General, Argentine Council for International Relations

  • Vic Satzewich

    Professor of Sociology, McMaster University

  • Oxana Shevel

    Professor of Political Science, Tufts University

  • Marci Shore

    Chair in European Intellectual History, Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto

  • Marko Stech

    Director of CIUS Press and Scholarly Publications, CIUS

  • Frank Sysyn

    Historian and Professor, University of Alberta & Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research, CIUS

  • Roman Waschuk

    President, Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre; Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine (2014–19)

  • Andrew Wilson

    Professor, University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies

  • Serhy Yekelchyk

    Professor of History and Slavic Studies, University of Victoria

  • Volodymyr Yermolenko

    Associate Professor, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy