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2023-24 Meetings

Formal UGG-NCR meetings for this season follows our traditional approach of being convened on the fourth Tuesday of each month, with the exception of December where there we will not be any meeting.  Meetings will also be suspended for the summer months of June, July and August. Start time is 7:30 PM (Eastern) unless otherwise noted.

Since the start of January 2020, the UGG-NCR’s formal monthly meetings have been delivered as on-line “Webinars” rather than in-person presentations / discussions.

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  • “Crimea: the most distinctive region of Ukraine” by Dr. John (Ivan) Jaworsky

    This presentation provided a brief introduction to Crimea. It included some historical background information, but emphasized demographic changes and the situation of Crimea’s diverse populations from the 19th century to the present day.

    Dr. John (Ivan) Jaworsky is Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo (retired in 2018). His research interests include dissent and its legacies in the Soviet Union and its successor states, regional issues and inter-ethnic relations in Ukraine, civil-military relations in Ukraine, and the politics of ethnicity in Canada. Between 2000 and 2010 he was a research associate with the “Building Democracy in Ukraine” and “Democratic Education in Ukraine” projects (Queen’s University). Beginning in 1997 and prior to 2013 Prof. Jaworsky made numerous trips to Crimea. He is the author of The Military-Strategic Significance of Recent Developments in Ukraine (1993), Ukraine: Stability and Instability (1995), and several articles. He also prepared, for publication, the memoirs of Ukraine’s first minister of defence, Kostiantyn Morozov (Above and Beyond, 2000), and of the political prisoner Danylo Shumuk (Life Sentence, 1984).

    A video recording of Dr. Jaworsky’s Webinar presentation can be found here.  We also have recordings of the Introductory and Q&A segments from that evening.

    © Dr. Jaworsky 2024. All rights reserved. No images or content from this presentation may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the presenter. Access to this recording is solely for educational and informational purposes.