Dr. Valentin Yemelin (Norway) with a talk on: “Environmental impact of the Conflict in Ukraine"
Maria Snegovaya (PhD, Columbia University) is a Senior Fellow with the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. The key focus of her research is democratic backsliding and re-autocratization in postcommunist Europe, and Russia's domestic and foreign policy.
Dr. Robert McCollister received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1992 with a major in International Relations and a minor in Comparative Politics. He specialized in national security policy, arms control, US foreign policy, and Soviet politics.
Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky (Slavic Dept, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA;
URIS Fellow. University of Basel, Switzerland) talking on A Farewell to Empire Revisited: Ukraine's Cultural Decolonization in Regional Contexts."
Vladyslav Faraponov, Head of the Board, Institute of American Studies (Kyiv), Internews Ukraine analyst talking on "US-Ukraine Strategic Partnership during the War."
Born and raised in Ukraine, Vladyslav has graduated from Wright State University, Ohio (USA). The Institute of American Studies is a Ukrainian think tank promoting and explaining US foreign and domestic policy:
https://inam.org.ua/
Dmitry Valuev (Washington, DC) of Russian America for Democracy in Russia
(Организация диаспоры про-демократических и антивоенных россиян в США)
https://democracy4russia.org/
Dr. Pavel Gol'din (b. 1978) is an Ukrainian zoologist, researcher of modern and extinct marine mammals: dolphins, whales, seals and sea cows. Born in Crimea, in 2014 he had to move due to invasion by the Russian army. Gol'din discovered several genera of fossil whales from the Eocene and Miocene of Europe and found some new facts on evolution and ecology of Black Sea dolphins.
We welcome Frank Hickey (joining from New York, NY), an American volunteer in Odessa who will tell us about his ongoing wartime work in Ukraine.
Mikhail Naumovich Epstein (b. 1950) is a Russian-American literary scholar and essayist who is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University, Atlanta, US since 1990. He has also worked as a professor of Russian and Cultural Theory at Durham University, UK, from 2012 to 2015, where he was the founder and Director of the Centre for Humanities Innovation at Durham University.
Semyon Reznik (b. 1938, Moscow) is known in particular for his study of the blood libel and the resurgence of Neonazism in Russia.
He was the longtime editor of the important Soviet era biographical book series "Lives of Remarkable People" (ZhZL) to which he also contributed several items as an author. He emigrated to the United States in 1982, where he became a radio personality and a writer for the Russian desk of the Voice of America.
We welcome back a great friend of our program Dr. Petro Strizhak who joins us from Kyiv. Dr. Strizhak is a chemistry professor, Corresponding Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department at L.V. Pisarzhevsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
We are honored to host again our local colleagues, the amazing group
Sunflower Seeds - Tri-State Aid for Ukraine, with their update report
https://sunflowerseedstristate.com/
Dr. Motyl is a professor of political science at Rutgers-Newark. A specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the USSR, and on nationalism, revolutions, empires, and theory.
Anastasiia O. Lutsenko, M.Sc., M.Phil. originally from Ukraine, is currently residing in Germany. She works at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition.
Maryna Lyovska a chemistry researcher originally from Kharkiv, Ukraine currently organizes individual's in the nation's capitol to lobby in support of Ukraine. She is joined by her colleague, a Ukrainian activist, Sonia Nali. They share photos of a peaceful demonstrations they held next to events attended by Russian citizens living in D.C.
We welcome Patrick Grace and Pamela Hines. Patrick Grace (Huntington, WV, USA, is a local journalist, editor, and a former foreign correspondent (in Rome) for The Associated Press. Mr. Grace is a Vice President of Sunflower Seeds: Tri-State Aid for Ukraine (www.sunflowerseedstristate.com).
We will welcome our friend and colleague Dr. Slav Gratchev (Marshall University, Huntington, WV, USA) who will present his new historical novel TRI SHAGA K SVOBODE (THREE STEPS TO FREEDOM). Three Steps to Freedom is the first novel of a historical trilogy based on true events that will draw you into the enormous devastation and struggle for life in the Soviet Union during Stalin’s “Great Purge,” Second World War, and life under the Communist regime in the 1980s.
We welcome Artemii Levkoy (Oxford, UK), Cultural Events Secretary at the Oxford University New Russian Society who will tell us about the cultural events and political activism of this non-profit organization. He is joined by Anastasia Ardasheva and Alexander Soldatkin.
https://newrussiansociety.web.ox.ac.uk/
We are honored to welcome back Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev (New Jersey, USA) who will talk on how "We can and must win this war"
Sunflower Seeds: Tri-State Aid for Ukraine
We are honored to host our local colleagues, the amazing group Sunflower Seeds: Tri-State Aid for Ukraine
https://sunflowerseedstristate.com/
Eyewitness Account
Resilience Amidst Adversity: Life of Researchers in Kharkiv
We are always honored to host colleagues from Ukraine. Our guests are chemistry researchers from Ukraine, among them Dr. Ilias Shcherbakov (Karazin University, Kharkiv) and Dr. Petro Strizhak (Academy of Sciences, Kyiv), to join us with a report on life and work during the war.
Dr. Joshua Kreimeyer is an associate professor of counseling at Colorado Christian University. A veteran-turned-counselor, Dr. Kreimeyer has been to Ukraine twenty times over the years – both before and during the war. He has trained counselors there and helped create a Master's program in counseling in Kyiv.
Dead Soul of Russia
Dr. Victor Fet is Professor of Biology at Marshall University, West Virginia.
From Pushkin to Gogol, from Dostoevsky to Solzhenitsyn, search for a national idea/myth/mentality, indeed a mystical destiny, was central to the intellectuals of Russia. Alas, the major focus of this concept was, and still is, Russia's tragic juxtaposition to the (European) civilization.
Putin’s Western Supporters
Ilya Somin is Professor of Law at George Mason University (Virginia). He is the author of Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom (rev. ed., 2022), Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter (rev. ed. 2016), and The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain (2015).
Eyewitness Account
Science in the Time of War: Voices from Ukraine
Dr. Taras Oleksyk (Oakland University, Michigan, USA, Biologist)
THE YEAR OF POETRY 2023
ГОД ПОЭЗИИ 2023
Kyiv, December 2023
(in Russian)
Publisher: Oleg Fedorov
Editor: Victor Fet
520 pp.,
105 authors
Jens Alstrup is a Danish journalist and volunteer. facebook.com/jens.alstrup.sibirien
Please read about his work in Ukraine here:
novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/01/09/active-duty-en
Analysis of the Risks of Regional Spillover from the Russia-Ukraine War
Dr. Tabyshalieva (PhD, Kyrgyz National University, 1985; MS in International Public Policy, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2003) is an expert on post-Soviet history, sociology, and policy issues, especially in Central Asia and Eurasia.
Family History in Ukraine
Маrina Tyurina Oberlander (Washington, DC) -- a poet, writer and well-known translator of Scandinavian and English prose and poetry into Russian. Marina was born in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia, into the family of a world-renowned soil scientist, Ivan V. Tyurin. She holds a Master's Degree in Philology from Moscow State University.
Marshall University professors co-moderate weekly panel discussions along with invited guests and experts outside of Marshall University about the War in Ukraine. Updates are followed by in-depth discussions on the war’s relevance to Ukraine, Russia and other nations. Sponsored by Marshall University Libraries.
*Content contained in this video is the expressed opinions of faculty, staff and guests of Marshall University and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or views of Marshall University.
Gary Light (Chicago, USA), is a lawyer and a poet. Born in Kyiv, he writes poetry in Russian and English. He emigrated to the USA with his family at the age of 12. His book, Doloroso, was published in Kyiv.
History
"Jewish Roots in Ukraine and the Holocaust" with Joseph Menaker, Michael Levin, and Leo Vayn.
Welcome the Tsal Kaplun Foundation (TKF) with an overview of Jewish roots in Ukraine and the Holocaust in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2024
We welcome Frank Hickey (joining from Odesa, Ukraine), and American volunteer who will tell us about his wartime work.
The Trauma of War
Galina Itskovich is, a clinical social worker, Brooklyn-based developmental psychotherapist and lecturer on subjects of trauma and child development and, most recently, a director at the PPSC 's Refugee Support Project; she is also a poet. She will touch upon the topic of chronic stress and associated burnout that becomes a marker of the second year of war. Galina also will read some of her poems in English translation.
Eyewitness update
Dr Petro Strizhak (Kyiv, Ukraine) is a chemistry professor, Corresponding Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department at L.V. Pisarzhevsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. We welcome back Dr Strizhak with his update of current events. researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Strizhak
Family Histories
The MUkraine moderators, Dr. Kateryna Schray and Dr. Victor Fet (both Professors at Marshall University) will talk about their family histories in Ukraine over the last century, spanning two world wars, revolutions, emigration, Holodomor, Holocaust, and survival. We humbly dedicate these personal stories to those who perished, and to those heroes who are fighting now for freedom and independence. Dr. Leo Rudnitsky will also speak.
Nina Gade (Copenhagen, Denmark), on working with the Ukrainian refugees in Denmark. facebook.com/nina.gade.37
She is originally from Moscow, a writer, translator, and a poet. We will read a couple of her poems in the original Russian and in English translation.
Iryna Skachko (Kharkiv, Ukraine), a journalist and a member of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) tells about her work and life in Kharkiv today.
Iryna Skachko, Nikolay Komarovskyi and Denys Volokha (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
https://khpg.org/en/ (part 1)
Historical Analysis:
“Remembering the Holodomor”
Mykola Konopinsky (Germany), on Remembering the Holodomor, and his family history in Ukraiane, Q&A. 90 yearsafter the Holodomor, Ukraine continues to fight Moscow and will never forget what kind of enemy it faces.
Pastor John Yeager and Dr. Bob McCollister
“Sunflower Seeds Inc., Tristate Aid for Ukraine”
Dr. Karen Petrone (University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA) speaking on "Russia's War Myth and the Russia-Ukraine War.” Dr. Petrone is Professor of History at the University of Kentucky and co-director of the UK-JHF Holocaust Education Initiative. She is the author of Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin and The Great War in Russian Memory and is currently researching war memory in twenty-first-century Russia.
Dr. Walter Clemens (Massachusetts, USA) speaking on: "Can Russia Survive? Can Ukraine? Can the USA?"
Dr. Mikhail Epstein (Emory University, Atlanta, GA ) speaking on "The Russian Anti-World, or Schizofascism
Timothy D. Hoyt is Professor of Strategy and Policy, Director of the Advanced Strategy Program, and the John Nicholas Brown Chair of Counterterrorism Studies at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
Miguel Dams (Porto, Portugal) will talk about volunteer work in support of Ukraine.
Miguel Dams is 51 years old, born in Porto, consultant, humanitarian activist and specialist in International Regional Relations. Since 26th of February 2022, together with some Ukrainian expats, he joined the mission of planning, organizing and delivering humanitarian aid from Portugal to Ukraine.
Analysis
Dr. Alexander J. MOTYL (Rutgers University, NJ) returns to MUkraine after a year from his last talk (see September 30, 2022). A specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the USSR, and on nationalism, revolutions, empires, and theory, he is the author of 10 books of nonfiction,
Historical Analysis
Alik Gomelsky, talking on “Avraam Shifrin and his archive: Importance of archives for History and Political Science.” Mr. Gomelsky (Toronto, Canada; originally from Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a prolific writer and a historian of Ukrainian-Jewish relationships in 19-20th centuries.
Pamela Hines (Morgantown, West Virginia), President, Gold & Blue United. goldandblueunited.com
Carla Fredlock Engle and Steve Engle (Bridgeport, West Virginia) will tell about their support of a children art therapy group in Ukraine that is run by Margaryta Kuznietsova (Kamianske, Dnipro Province, Ukraine).
Culture
Dr. Andrei Rogatchevski (Norway) and Dr. David-Emil Wickström (Germany) with their joint presentation, A WAR OF SONGS.
Dr. Maryna Baydyuk (Washington, DC), President and Executive Director, United Help Ukraine. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Dr. Maryna Baydyuk has successfully led United Help Ukraine as the President of the Board of Directors during the most trying and successful years of its existence. In 2022 alone, United Help Ukraine provided over 45.5 million dollars in humanitarian, medical, and psychological assistance to Ukrainians affected by the war.
Dr. Sergei Mosyakin (Kyiv, Ukraine) "Ecocide and biodiversity losses: some environmental aspects of Russia's aggression against Ukraine." Professor Mosyakin is a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; the Director of M. G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; and President of the Ukrainian Botanical Society.
Analysis
Dr. Kateryna Shinkaruk (Washington, DC)
“War implications for the European & Euro-Atlantic security”
Activism
Ekaterina (Katia) Margolis (Venice, Italy), an artist, book illustrator, linguist, culturologist, journalist. She is also a political activist and a popular blogger who vigorously opposes Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and takes an active part in programs helping Ukraine. She discusses Ruscism and presents The Venetian Manifesto.
Sunflower Seeds: Tri-State Aid for Ukraine
Pastor John Yeager (Enslow Park Presbyterian Church (Huntington, WV) will report on the work of this newly founded non-profit group for support of Ukrainian refugees.
Dr. Robert McCollister will give his update on the events in Ukraine. Sunflower Seeds: Tri-State Aid for Ukraine is at sunflowerseedstristate.com/
Carina Cockrell-Ferre, a writer, journalist, lecturer and blogger who has lived and worked in the United Kingdom for 32 years. The area of Carina’s special interest and attention is history. She has closely followed the events of the Russian aggression against Ukraine since its beginning on humanitarian and political levels. We asked her to talk about the possible impact of the war on the future of both countries.
Yulia and Nick Piazza (Wyoming) Financial analysis of US aid to Ukraine. Presentation of a report done in April 2023 by SP Capital Management. They have put together a report highlighting how US funding for the war has been spent and explaining what US oversight bodies monitor this funding. https://www.spcapital.management/about-us
Analysis
John Sennett (from the USA, living in Kyiv) “Living through the Ukraine War. Part 2: The Current Orthodox Church Situation”
Eyewitness accounts
John and Natasha Sennett - PART 1
(from the USA, based in Kyiv)
This U.S. couple have remained in Kiev from before the start of the war.
https://www.voanews.com/a/it-s-home-now-defiant-us-couple-stick-in-kyiv-/6473546.html
Eyewitness accounts
Marianna Epstein (Boston, USA), the founder of Empathy for Ukraine (E4U)
Galina Itskovich (Brooklyn, NY), a clinical social worker, Brooklyn-based developmental psychotherapist and lecturer on subjects of trauma and child development.
A memorial panel for Dr Sergii Kurbatov who passed away on June 1, 2023. Speakers include Dr Ausra Padskocimaite (Sweden), Dr Pär Gustaffson Kurki (Sweden), Dr Petro Strizhak (Kyiv), Dr Andrei Rogatchevski (Arctic University of Norway), by recorded video.
Dr. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Northwestern University, Chicago, IL)
"Ukrainian Jews at War: transformations of a homo sovieticus" Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and a Professor of Jewish History in History Department at Northwestern University. He teaches a variety of courses that include early modern and modern Jewish history; Jewish material culture; history and culture of Ukraine; origins of Zionism; and Slavic-Jewish literary interaction.
Historical analysis
Dr. Adrian Mandzy, Professor of History at Morehead State University (Kentucky, USA), has been conducting research in Ukraine since 1989. Born in Rochester, NY, both his parents were refugees who came to the US from Ukraine after WW2. Dr. Mandzy grew up within the Ukrainian community where he took part in Ukrainian Scouts (Plast) and attended a Ukrainian Saturday School.
Dr. Pavlo Kozlenko (Odesa, Ukraine) speaking on "How to Preserve the Memory of Holocaust"
A look back on Marshall University's 65 weekly episodes covering the war in Ukraine.
Andrej Lushnycky, an Honorary Council of Ukraine in Switzerland, President of the Ukrainian Society of Switzerland https://swiss-ukrainian.ch/en/
Eye witness accounts
Natalia Petrenko, Director, V. H. Korolenko State Scientific Library of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Head of the Kharkiv Regional Branch of the Ukrainian Library Association.
Sergey Green (Kharkiv, Ukraine): "Ukraine: One Year After"
Gabriella Reznowski, Librarian at Washington State University, Pullman, USA
Margaryta Kuznetsova (Kamenne, Ukraine): introducing the 25th Territorial Defense Brigade.
Dr. Pavel Gol'din (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kyiv, Ukraine)on ecological impact of Russia’s war against Ukraine on the Black Sea dolphins.
Оleg Fedorov, publisher (Kyiv, ‘Drukarski dvir Olega Fedorova’), on wartime book publishing in both Ukrainian and Russian languages; presentation/review of books/authors of the war year.
Analysis
Kateryna Odarchenko (DC) is a political strategist and a partner of the Strategic Information & Communication (SIC) Group Ukraine, a management consulting company. Kateryna has nine years of experience in democracy building and democracy campaign management.
Analysis:
Dr. Ilya Somin, on the Western response to the refugee crisis. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered what may be the largest refugee crisis since World War II. Some 7-8 million Ukrainians have fled the war and resulting Russian occupation of Ukrainian territory, and about 1 million Russians have fled Vladimir Putin’s increasingly repressive regime.
Dr. Sergiy Kurbatov (Kyiv National Economic University & National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine), was also a guest researcher at Uppsala Centre for Russian Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden. He will speak on University Education during Pandemic Situation and War in Ukraine: Opportunities and Threats.
Grassroots Aid to Ukraine
Iryna Ivankovych (Philadelphia). https://www.facebook.com/dobrodijka Born in Ternopil region (Ukraine) in 1975, she received a BA in English as a Second Language at Czestochowa Institute of Foreign Languages and Economics (Poland, 1996), an MA in Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw (Poland, 1999), and a Doctorate summa cum laude from the Ukrainian Free University (Germany, 2012) with a dissertation on the sociolinguistic Polish-American influences on the language of the Ukrainian diaspora in the USA.
Historical Analysis: Bandera
Oleksandr Yakovyshyn, a European Studies scholar, specializing in the problems of memory and heritage in Eastern Europe. Born in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, he is currently an MA student in Central and Eastern European Studies program, Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland). He defended his research on “Classifying the Hauntological in the Post-Soviet Music Scene” in 2021.
Analysis
Round Table Discussion about the first year of the war and the MUkraine online broadcast. Speakers include Dr. Robert McCollister with Sunflower Seeds: Tri-State Aid for Ukraine, Dr. Kateryna Schray, Dr. Anara Tabyshelieva, Dr. Victor Fet, Maryna Lvovska, and others.
Analysis and poetry readings
Dr. McCollister provides updates on the war, including the downing of a U.S. drone by Russian pilots, and the ICC issuing of an arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes and what this may mean for China’s cooperation with Russia. Dr. Victor Fet shares poetry from a large anthology about the war that was authored by Russian expats and published in Kiev on the 1st anniversary of the invasion.
Dr. Robert McCollister (Huntington, WV), will speak on “The War in Ukraine and US National Security.”
Mykola Konopinsky (formerly of Odessa, Ukraine, now lives in Germany),
a journalist and an engineer, will talk on the situation in Germany as related to the war.
Analysis
Yuri Felshtinsky, PhD, DSc (Boston, MA) is a Russian-American historian, and one of the most prominent critics of Putin’s regime.
PhD (Rutgers U.), D.Sc. (Moscow Academy of Sciences, 1993).
Historical Analysis
Alik Gomelsky
(Toronto, Canada; originally from Kharkiv)
Mr. Gomelsky is a prolific writer and a historian of Ukrainian-Jewish relationships in 19-20th centuries. He dеbunks a lot of stereotyped myths, many promulgated via Russian-Soviet-KGB imperial-colonial narrative…
https://www.facebook.com/alik.gomelsky.1
"SUNFLOWER SEEDS" - a new local Tri-State (i.e. West Virginia/Ohio/Kentucky) group from our own town (Huntington, WV).
Eyewitness account
Dr. Petro Strizhak (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Tribute to a hero
Dr. Leonid Rudnytzky (Philadelphia, PA; b. 1935, Lviv, Ukraine)
Analysis
Dr. Harley Balzer “How Putin's Aggression is Destroying Russia's Future: Economy, Education, Technology"
Маrina Tyurina Oberlander (Washington, DC) -- a poet, writer and well-known translator of Scandinavian and English prose and poetry into Russian. Marina was born in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia, into the family of a world-renowned soil scientist, Ivan V. Tyurin. She holds a Master's Degree in Philology from Moscow State University.
Cultural reflections / Eyewitness
Maryna Lvovska is a native Russian speaker of Jewish heritage born in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Alina Stovbun is a teacher and also an award-winning singer, songwriter and choir conductor, originally from Nizhyn. Ukraine.
Analysis: Dr. Victor Fet (Marshall University), one of the MUkraine moderators, talks today about complexity of identities (ethnic, linguistic, ideological) using his own example (born in Ukraine; raised in Russia; living in the USA for 34 years; fully bilingual in English and Russian). Dr Fet also writes and publishes poetry in his native Russian language. He shared a few poems from his recent books, published in Scotland and Ukraine. Since the war started, he wrote over 200 poems triggered by this tragedy, and addressing complex issues including fate and bankruptcy of the very language and culture in which this poetry is rooted.
Dr. Steven M. Miner with Ohio University and margarita Kuznetsova are previous guests from the beginning of the war.
Margarita Kuznetsova, a teacher and a volunteer from near front lines in Ukraine (Kamenskoye, Dnipro Region)
Igor Mandel. "War in Art: then and now" - Part 2
(Part 1 was broadcast on December 2, 2022) The presentation covers about 150 works of mainly European and American art related to war. The works are broken not by authors, styles, countries, or periods, but into ten broad categories such as “Suffering,” “Submission,” “Aftermath,” etc. Since logic, politics, diplomacy, and business interests still could not prevent a Russian invasion of Ukraine and a following horrible war – perhaps, art would add something genuine into the mix, placing it into the broader context of the past and the future, but retaining most striking signs of our days.
Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev(USA) "The War in Ukraine as a Global Conflict Between Totalitarianism and Democracy"
Alik Gomelsky
(Toronto, Canada; originally from Kharkiv)
Mr. Gomelsky is a prolific writer and a historian of Ukrainian-Jewish relationships in 19-20th centuries. He dеbunks a lot of stereotyped myths, many promulgated via Russian-Soviet-KGB imperial-colonial narrative…
https://www.facebook.com/alik.gomelsky.1
Igor Mandel. "War in Art: then and now" - Part 1
(Part 2 will follow on December 30)
The presentation covers about 150 works of mainly European and American art related to war.
Analysis: Galina Itskovich (NY): a psychologist who works with refugees
Eye witness:
Alexander Volodarsky (Kyiv, now in Stuttgart, Germany) (b. 1954, a Ukrainian-Jewish author, playwright, screenplay writer) - about the first month of the war in Kyiv. Victor Fet is the translator.
Analysis: Dr. Leonid Rudnytsky and Dr. Oksana Kis
Eye witness;
Marharyta Kuznietsova (Kamenskoe, Dnipro Province, Ukraine, and Isay Bodansky (Florida, originally from Kharkiv)
Analysis:
Sergei Erofeev (Rutgers U. NJ, sociologist):
"IF PUTIN WILL NOT BE REMOVED FROM POWER, HE WILL COMMIT SUICIDE"
How the War in Ukraine Can Turn into a War in Russia. Before leaving Russia in 2015 and joining Rutgers University in the US, Sergei Erofeev was a pioneer of post-Soviet global education and cultural sociology.
Masha Udensiva-Brenner (Harriman Institute, Columbia University, NY), a journalist and creator of the "Voices of Ukraine" project, which is entirely about the war and will be in its second season this fall.
Dr. Pavel Gol'din (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kyiv) and Maksym Strikha (Kyiv), PhD, DSc, a well-known Ukrainian physicist, poet, translator, statesman
Eye witness
Grygorii Falkovych (b. 1940, Kyiv) - Ukrainian and Russian poet, translator, essayist, literary critic.
Zoya Polevaya (New Jersey), with an essay on Falkovich's poetry.
Yefim Leshchinsky (Chicago), who performs three songs written by him to Falkovich's lyrics.
Rudy the dog, featured in the brilliant children's poem "Rudy and The Milky Way."
Alexander J. Motyl, PhD (Rutgers University, NJ)
Eye witness accounts: Оksana Tserkovna (Оdessa, Ukraine) and Andrei Zagdansky (NY)
Eyewitness account
Mykola Konopinsky (formerly of Odessa, Ukraine, now lives in Germany),
a journalist and an engineer, talks about his travels to war-time Odessa in the spring of 2022.
Cultural reflections / War Effort
Anna Bogachova (musician, piano teacher, emigrated from Dnipro, Ukraine, now lives in Australia)
Maryna Lvovska (chemist, Washington DC, formerly of Kharkiv), on war effort and organizing help for Kharkiv.
Eye witness accounts on the war and organizing help for Kharkiv:
Еvgeny Grizodub, MD (Kharkiv - Warsaw, Poland),
Arkady Blyumin (San Jose, CA, formerly of Kharkiv)
Olga Shpak, PhD, Kharkiv, Ukraine, marine biologist, volunteer (see Ilya Kolmanovsky on her, 22 July)
Maryna Prykhodko, Kharkiv, Ukraine. She will speak about Razom activities and share insights. Currently she is in Kharkiv, Ukraine
maryna.prykhodko@razomforukraine.org
Margarita Kuznetsova, a teacher and a volunteer from near front lines in Ukraine and Oleg Lipchenko (Toronto, Canada), Ukrainian-Canadian artist
Dr. George Liber, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Dr. Oleksandr Polianichev, Postdoctorate Research Fellow. Södertörn University, Sweden
Eyewitness accounts:
Alexei Oskolski, PhD, a biologist, formerly of St.Petersburg, Russia.
Sergiy Camyshan (Kyiv, Ukraine), a chemist and an amateur historian of Ukrainians in Siberia
Eye Witness: Margarita Kuznetsova works with children near the frontline of the war by helping them to express themselves through visual art. She also helps to gather provisions for those who remain in Russian occupied regions.
Nina Polchaninova, Karazin University, Kharkiv, Ukraine, professor of biology) and Sergiy Kurbatov, Kyiv National Economic University & National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine
Dr. Ilya Kolmanovsky, formerly of Moscow, Russia, is a science journalist, biologist, podcaster, teacher and activist.
Special guests Maryna Okhrymovskaya and Igor Mikhalevich-Kaplan
Eyewitness accounts:
Dr. Vladislav Ivanov (Univ. of Oulu, Finland; expat biologist from Belarus) - on Belarus situation
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/... and Anton Chertkovsky
Eyewitness accounts & poetry: Tatyana Voltskaya is a freelance Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty correspondent and a Russian poet, formerly of St. Petersburg, Russia; now in Georgia (Caucasus). Yana Kane (New Jersey), Dmitry Manin (California), Richard Coombes (United Kingdom) and Gary Light (Chicago) will read their English translations of Ms. Voltskaya poems.
Eyewitness accounts / Cultural reflections: Iryna Skoryk, a scholar based in Ukraine coming to Philadelphia on a Humanitarian visa at the end of June. She has fled twice from the Russians…once from her home in Donetsk in 2014 and once again in 2022 from her home in Kyiv.
Expert analysis
Mark Thomas, Professor from La Salle University
Eyewitness accounts / Cultural reflections:
Dr. Dmitry Sporov (a historian from Moscow; now in Georgia)
Alex Kapin (a musician from Moscow, with family roots in Odessa, Ukraine; now in Montgomery, WV)
Expert analysis:
Dr. Oleg Itskhoki, a Professor of Economics University of California, Los Angeles
Eyewitness accounts:
Lia McDonald (Huntington, WV), our local former Peace Corps worker in Ukraine (Ivano-Frankivsk)
This week’s special guests:
Irene Firsow (Washington, DC), aka former Voice of America anchor Nora Bodro, Kyiv-born in 1939, came to the USA as a refugee at age 10.
Cultural reflections:
Dina Perepelitsky (writer) / Elena Kimelblat (artist) (NJ),
(Kyiv-born, emigrated to the USA in 1988; twin sisters) (introduced by Victor Fet).
Expert analysis:
Vladimir Osechkin (France/Russia, a vocal critic of the Kremlin and human rights activist who runs the anti-corruption website https://gulagu.net/) Topics: Russian army, Ukrainian POW, corruption and human rights issues in Russia (introduced by Anara). About Osechkin, see: https://www.rightsinrussia.org/person-of-the-week-97/... Eyewitness accounts: Dr. Grigory Yablonsky (St. Louis U./Washington U), a chemistry professor, born 1940 in Kiev. In 1941,
Alexander Motyl (Rutgers University), PhD, is an American historian, political scientist, poet, writer, translator and artist-painter. He is a resident of New York City. He is professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, and a specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the Soviet Union.
Markian Dobczansky (Harvard University, Ukrainian Research Institute), PhD, is a historian of Ukraine, Russia, and the Soviet Union.
Galina Itskovich (NY) Galina was with us on April 15. She is a clinical social worker, a Brooklyn-based developmental psychotherapist and lecturer who's been working with Ukrainian based groups.
Dr. Viktor Vus (Kyiv, Ukraine), PhD in psychology, Associate Professor, PgPS in Management (UK), Director-at-Large (2021-2023), World Federation for Mental Health Editor-in-chief, Mental Health: Global Challenges Journal (www.mhgcj.org ) Coordinator of the International Conference on Mental Health Care “Mental Health: global challenges of XXI century” (www.mhgc21.org ) Institute for Social and Political Psychology, NAES Ukraine.
Dr. Alina Zapalska, Professor of Economics, Director of Prestigious Scholarships Program at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Anton Kononuchenko, Cadet at the Coast Guard Academy.
Dr. Adrian Mandzy, Associate Professor of History in the Dept. of History, Philosophy, Politics, Global Studies & Legal Studies (School of Humanities & Social Sciences), Morehead State University, KY.
Dr. Steven M. Miner is Professor in the Department of History at Ohio University. He is a specialist in recent Russian/Soviet and East European history.
Dr. Yana Kane-Esrig was born in the Soviet Union and came to the US as a refugee at the age of 16. She has a PhD in Statistics from Cornell University. She also writes, translates and publishes poetry. Examples of her work are available at https://littrantor.wixsite.com/lito/yana-kane
Galina Itskovich, a poet and psychologist from NY. She works with a group in Ukraine who help refugees in Lviv: https://communityselfhelp.org
Dr. Andrei Korobkov | Faculty - Middle Tennessee State University https://www.mtsu.edu/faculty/andrei-k...
Dr. Karen Petrone, History Professor at University of Kentucky
David Curp is an associate professor in the Department of History at Ohio University.
Philipp Markovich, 33, is a screenwriter and DJ, who, until recently, lived and worked in Kyiv.
Semyon Reznik (Washington, DC), is a Russian-Jewish writer. Emigrated to the USA in 1982.
Boris Chertkovsky (Charleston, WV). Born in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1955, graduated from Odessa Polytechnical Institute. His son Anton Chertkovsky organized a support group, Help Ukraine, Oswego NY.
Liudmyla Ostapenko (Sumy, Ukraine), CEO of LLC “CPC “Business Perspectives," fled Sumy, Ukraine in February with three kids and pets.
Olga Schetinina: An independent evaluation consultant. Dr. Yuliya Bidenko is Associate Professor at Karazin Kharkiv National University, Political Science Department. Dr. Valery Korneyev: Head of the Department of Entomology and Collection Management. Dr. Nikolai Formozov: Formerly a Professor at the Higher School of Economics and Moscow State University, Russia, ecologist, biologist, historian. Maj. Bob Luther is an Army Special Forces Officer.
Patrick McGinley: West Virginia University Law professor.
Suzanne Weise: West Virginia University College of Law Child and Family Advocacy Law Clinic.
3/16: guest cohost Dr. Victor Fet and I talk to Natalie Pithers, of Genealogy Stories, about a 24 Hour event she's hosting 12 pm, March 26-1 pm, March 27, UK time (time change happens that night) to raise funds for Ukraine.
Dr. Chris White (Marshall University) moderates a discussion with Dr. Karen Petrone, History Professor at University of Kentucky, and Steven Miner, History Professor at Ohio University.
The humanitarian crisis, Putin's plan, how far this war will spead, Russian propaganda, what the war means for China and other countries, and MUkraine, Marshall University's Ukraine information hub.
