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.
Please check back as our list of presenters expands.
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Alim Aliev
Deputy Director, Ukrainian Institute (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine)
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Dominique Arel
Professor of Political Science and Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa
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Jars Balan
Director, Kule Ukrainian Canadian Studies Centre, CIUS
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Marta Baziuk
Executive Director, Holodomor Research and Education Consortium, CIUS
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Olenka Bilash
Director, Ukrainian Language Education Centre, CIUS
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Serhiy Bilenky
Research Associate, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research, CIUS
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Larysa Bilous
Historian & Research Associate, CIUS
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Vitaly Chernetsky
Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies & Coordinator, Ukrainian Diaspora Studies Initiative, University of Kansas
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Serge Cipko
Assistant Director, Research, CIUS
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Natalka Cmoc
Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine (2023–26)
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Heather Coleman
Professor and Chair, Department of History, Classics, and Religion & Director, Research Program on Religion and Culture, CIUS
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Oksana Dudko
Assistant Professor of German and Slavic Studies and Political Science, University of Manitoba
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Rory Finnin
Professor of Ukrainian Studies, University of Cambridge
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Gelinada Grinchenko
Professor, Dnipro Honchar National University & Editor-in-Chief, Ukraina Moderna
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Guido Hausmann
Professor, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, University of Regensburg
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Kristina Hook
Assistant Professor of Conflict Management, Kennesaw State University
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Yaroslav Hrytsak
Professor, Ukrainian Catholic University & Director in Lviv, CIUS
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Tamara Hundorova
Principal Reseracher, Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
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Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
Professor and Huculak Chair, Kule Folklore Centre & CIUS Director, University of Alberta
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Andriy Kohut
Director, Sectoral State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine
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Bohdan Krawchenko
Principal Research Fellow, Graduate School of Development, University of Central Asia
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Hiroaki Kuromiya
Emeritus Professor of History, Indiana University, Bloomington
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Serhiy Kvit
President, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy & Professor, Kyiv-Mohyla School of Journalism
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Nykkie Lugosi-Schimpf
Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta
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David Marples
Professor, Department of History, Classics, and Religion, University of Alberta
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Oleksandra Matviichuk
Head of the Centre for Civil Liberties, Kyiv; 2022 Nobel Peace Prize recipient
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Elmira Muratova
Post-Doctoral Researcher, European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg
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Alla Nedashkivska
Professor of Slavic Applied Linguistics, University of Alberta
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Janush Panchenko
Ethnographer and Romani Studies Scholar & Affiliate Researcher, Institute of Ethnology, CAS
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Oleksandr Pankieiev
Director, Kule Folklore Centre; Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography, University of Alberta
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Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies, Northwestern University
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Olenka Pevny
University Associate Professor of Early Slavonic and Ukrainian Studies, University of Cambridge
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Serhii Plokhy
Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University
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Dominique Reill
Professor of History & Director of the Wirth Institute of Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta
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Lila Roldán Vázquez
Ambassador & Secretary General, Argentine Council for International Relations
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Vic Satzewich
Professor of Sociology, McMaster University
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Oxana Shevel
Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
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Marci Shore
Chair in European Intellectual History, Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
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Marko Stech
Director of CIUS Press and Scholarly Publications, CIUS
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Frank Sysyn
Historian and Professor, University of Alberta & Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research, CIUS
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Roman Waschuk
President, Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre; Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine (2014–19)
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Andrew Wilson
Professor, University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies
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Serhy Yekelchyk
Professor of History and Slavic Studies, University of Victoria
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Volodymyr Yermolenko
Associate Professor, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

