UHES 2024

Video Description

All are invited to watch this year’s Ukrainian Historical Encounters Series special event, entitled, “The Heart of Eastern Europe Revisited: A Look at Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian Relations Past-Present-Future." The forum will be held on Saturday, 21 September 2024, at the The Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City. The gathering is scheduled to run two highlight sessions and three panel discussions geared to take a fresh look the Past, Present, and Future state of relations between Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine. Session One – Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian Relations: The Historical Dimension Discussion Leader: Frank Sysyn [CIUS Jacyk Centre Director & Professor of History/University of Alberta] Speakers: John Micgiel [Visiting Professor/East Central European Center/University of Warsaw], Agnia Grigas [Senior Fellow/Atlantic Council of the United States], Adrian Karatnycky [Author of ‘Battleground Ukraine’] Session Two - Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian Relations: Divining the Present & Future State of Affairs [State to State] Discussion Leader: Alexander Motyl [Professor of Political Science/Rutgers University] Speakers: Jan Pieklo [PL Ambassador to UA 2015-2018], Juozas Kazlas [OSCE Mission Officer to Ukraine 2014-2015], Ostap Kryvdyk [Director/Ukrainian Strategic Initiative/National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy] The organizers would like to thank this year’s conference Patrons for all of their support in making this year’s special event come to fruition: Self Reliance NY Federal Credit Union, SUMA Federal Credit Union, the Heritage Foundation Of First Security Federal Savings Bank, the Vovk Foundation , the Kosciuszko Foundation, the Ukrainian Institute of America, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, Illinois Division, and the Jurkiw Family Foundation.