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His lecture is entitled “What does the word ‘Nation' in Ukrainian Nation stand for?”

Since the Orange Revolution in 2004/2005, Ukraine has been repeatedly in the news as a deeply divided country. It is split between a Russian-speaking East, looking towards Moscow, and a Ukrainian-speaking West, looking towards Brussels.

These rifts have recently found expression in hotly contested elections, but they also have their history. In this multi-ethnic country, where Ukrainians make up a majority, followed by Russians, Belarusians, Moldovans and other ethnic groups, the concept of ‘nation' appears particularly complex.

This lecture will shed light on some of the contested aspects of the ‘Ukrainian Nation'.

Serhy Yekelchyk is Professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the ̽��ֱ�� of Victoria, Canada. He is a specialist in nationalism as a cultural phenomenon, drawing on a wide variety of sources including novels, opera, and paintings to illuminate how the past was represented and how those representations were received.

His publications include Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation and Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination.

Friday's event has been organised by the Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies (CamCREES) and with the support of the Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� Ukrainian Society.

̽��ֱ��event has been sponsored by the Stasiuk Programme for Contemporary Ukraine, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, ̽��ֱ�� of Alberta.

̽��ֱ��public are welcome and entry is free. ̽��ֱ��lecture is due to begin at 5pm at the Umney Lecture Theatre, Robinson College.