#UAQuestRoundtable

#UAQuestRoundtable! Part 2 of Ukraine’s Quest for Mature Nation Statehood, Roundtable XXII, streamed Live from the University Club of DC on October 21.

This year’s Ukraine’s Quest for Mature Nation Statehood Roundtable was entitled "Forging A Strong Yet Forbearing National Identity – Past Endeavors," the first in a new critically important trilogy of Roundtables (2021-23) essentially dedicated to exploring and evaluating Ukraine’s efforts to establish a distinctive but broadminded national identity. The proceedings will also look at the various DEZINFORM campaigns that were launched to deform the process, including Putin’s recent ‘Memory Wars’ campaign.

Full Conference program: https://bit.ly/30Jaz3s

*Due to a series of technical malfunctions, some presentations did not make it to the livestream in full.*

Part 2 speakers:
• Ostap Kryvdyk [Director/Ukraine and the World Program/UCU]
• Myroslav Marynovych [Vice-Rector/Ukrainian Catholic University]
• Michael Sawkiw, Jr. [Director/Ukrainian National Information Service]
• Mary Mycio [Author/Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chornobyl]
• Irene Jarosewich [Editor-in-Chief Emeritus/Svoboda 2000-2007]
• Mykhailo Ratushnyi [Previous Member of Ukraine’s Parliament – the Verkhovna Rada 1994-2006]
• Mark Thomas [Asst. Professor of History/La Salle University]
• Andrii Levus [Previous Member of Ukraine’s Parliament – the Verkhovna Rada 2014-2019]
• Phillip Karber [President/Potomac Foundation]
• Petro Kormylo [Director/Ukrainian Information Service – UIS London]
• Lubomyr Luciuk [Professor of Political Geography/Royal Military College of Canada]
• Serhiy Kvit [Previous Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine 2014-2016]

This full-day conference was the first in-person collaboration in Washington, D.C. since March 2020 by the following co-sponsoring organizations:
Center for U.S.-Ukrainian Relations (CUSUR) http://www.usukrainianrelations.org/​
American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) https://www.afpc.org/​
Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) https://ucca.org/​
Ukrainian National Information Service (UNIS) https://ucca.org/​unis

Attendees were able to participate free of cost due to the generous contributions of the:
Self Reliance New York Federal Credit Union -https://www.selfrelianceny.org/​
SUMA (Yonkers) Federal Credit Unionhttps://www.sumafcu.org/
Heritage Foundation of the First Security Federal Savings Bank https://uaheritagefoundation.org/​
the Jurkiw Family Fund and a gift from Iryna and Artur Hryhorowych