Williams to Host Panel Focusing on Recent Crimean Crisis

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected]

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., April 11, 2014— Williams College will host a roundtable discussion titled “The Crimean Crisis & Its Geopolitical Significance” on Sunday, April 13. Four panelists will address the issues that have led to the crisis and its implications for the area and beyond. The event will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Griffin Hall, room 3. The event is free and open to the public.

Nadiya Kravets of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute will present “What Caused the Ukraine-Russia Crisis?” Kravets’ areas of expertise include theories of international relations, Soviet and post-Soviet Russian foreign policy, foreign policy of the European Union, Ukraine’s foreign and security policies, and relations among former Soviet republics. She is currently coordinating research projects on the security of the Black Sea, the economy and politics of energy intermediaries in Ukraine, and Ukrainian foreign policy. Kravets received her B.A. from San Francisco State University in 2005 and her Ph.D. from Oxford University in 2012.

Lisa Koriouchkina, an independent scholar and associate of Harvard’s Davis Center, will present “Quasi-Soviet Logic of Crimean Annexation: Notions of Citizenship & Ethnicity in Russia’s Intervention in Ukraine.” Koriouchkina’s work focuses on migration, citizenship, ethnicity, nationalism, conflicts, demography, and social change. She is currently working on a project titled “Contingent Ethnicity in States of Change: The Journey of Meskhetian Turks from the USSR to the Post-Soviet World.” Koriouchkina received her Ph.D. from Brown University.

Rosemary Kelanic, assistant professor of political science at Williams College, will present “The Crimean Crisis & U.S.-Russian Relations.” Kelanic’s research focuses on energy security and international relations theory. She has taught at the Elliot School of International Affairs at The George Washington University and was a predoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Kelanic received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 2002 and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2012.

Oleh Kotsyuba of the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at Harvard University will present “Ukraine Inside Out: Representations of the Ukrainian Revolution & the Crimean Crisis in and outside of Ukraine.” Kotsyuba’s research interests include contemporary Ukrainian literature and culture, Ukrainian and Russian literature in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, colonial and post-colonial studies, and Russian-Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Polish relations. He is actively involved in building civil society in Ukraine. Kotsyuba has received master’s degrees from the National Pedagogical University of Ternopil, Ukraine; Wayne State University; and the University of Munich, Germany.

Yuliya Ladygina, visiting assistant professor of Russian at Williams, will moderate the panel. She is a fellow this spring at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. At Williams, Ladygina teaches courses on 19^th and 20^th-century Russian literature, Western films dealing with the subject of terrorism, and representations of the Caucasus in Russian literature and film. Ladygina received her B.A. from Kyiv Shevchenko National University in 2000 and her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, in 2013.

The event is sponsored by Williams’ Center for Development Economics; the departments of German, Russian, history, anthropology, and sociology; the program in justice and law studies; the program in leadership studies; the Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; and the Ford Schumann Fund for Democratic Studies.

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