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RIDRU Symposium on Higher Education Reform in Ukraine December 8-9, 2016
Welcome to RIDRU’s 2016 Symposium on higher education reform in Ukraine. The Research Initiative of the Democratic Reform of Ukraine, RIDRU, began in 2015 under a research grant from the Kule Institute of Advanced Studies (KIAS). RIDRU is a joint venture of 12 universities in 5 countries and explores reform initiatives in language and culture,…
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Two International On-Line Academic Conferences Discuss Ukraine
On October 27 and 28 two international on-line academic conferences were held to discuss the newest research from around the world about language, culture and higher education reform in post-Maidan Ukraine. Offered in English, the peer-reviewed presentations featured 30 speakers from 18 universities in eight countries (five universities in Ukraine, five in Canada, two each…
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Language and Culture in Post-Maidan Ukraine: Transformations at Work AND Higher Education Reform in Post-Maidan Ukraine
Day I Thursday, October 27, 2016 KEYNOTE 1 Laada Bilaniuk (bilaniuk@uw.edu) University of Washington, USA PANEL A: Multilingual Ukraine: Language Practices, Identity and Shifts in Post-Maidan Ukraine Svitlana Zhabotynska (saz9@ukr.net) Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University in Cherkasy, Ukraine “Individual Bilingualism in Ukraine: Dominance Shifts to the Ukrainian Language” * * * Taras Tkachuk (trtp22@yahoo.com) Vinnytsia Teachers’…
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It Takes a City to Raise a Nation. Moral Learning and Fighting Corruption. The Experience of Lviv and Chernivtsi
Ruud Meij (University of Humanistic Studies in the Netherlands (www.uvh.nl), Nijmegen, The Netherlands) is philosopher and co-founder of Governance & Integrity, an international working consulting company, with activities in the Netherlands, Belgium, the Carribean and Ukraine. Together with his collegue Frans Geraedts he founded G&I Ukraine. He is co-author of Lviv. A City of Paradox (www.lvivbook.com).…
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Call for Papers: “Higher Education Reform in Post-Maidan Ukraine”
First Online Conference of the Higher Education Reform Cluster Of the Research Initiative on Democratic Reforms in Ukraine (RIDRU) project WHEN: October 27-28, 2016 WHERE: You may participate in this conference online from a location of your choice or join in discussions at Video-conference centres. Precise locations TBA. ABOUT RIDRU: RIDRU is supported by the Kule…
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Volodymyr Kulyk. Globalization and the Persistence of Russian in the Post-Soviet Realm: Ukraine in A Comparative Context
The obvious use by the Russian authorities of Russian-speakers abroad for the purposes of information war highlights the continued reliance on the former imperial language by millions of citizens of the new independent states. Although this reliance is usually considered a remnant of the Soviet rule, it is no less an effect of globalization which is…
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