06 April 2011

Oxford Model Ukraine Conference - Today

Ukrainain, European, Canadian/US Experts to Gather in Oxford to Discuss Governance Model for Ukraine

Oxford Conference brings together international experts to share knowledge, experience, and ideas in order to improve democratic governance in Ukraine

6-8 April 2011, Oxford

Today, experts from across Europe, Canada, the US will gather in Oxford, UK to discuss leading issues in domestic and foreign affairs of Ukraine.

The third Oxford Model Ukraine Conference will take place at St. Antony’s College and New College at the University of Oxford on 6,7, and 8 April 2011. The conference is sponsored and organised by the alumni of the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Programme (CUPP), and the Oxford University Ukrainian Society, in cooperation with the Russian and Eurasian Studies Center. Prominent participants include: Yuriy Yekhanurov, former Prime Minister of Ukraine, Borys Tarasyuk, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, and current head of the parliamentary committee on European integration, HE Leigh Turner, the UK Ambassador to Ukraine, HE Volodymyr Khandogiy, Ukraine's Ambassador to the UK, Giorgi Vashadze, Deputy-Minister of Justice of Georgia, and Ambassador Jose Manuel Pinto Teixeira, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine. Among the scholars of Ukraine and the region the conference will host James Sherr of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Andreas Umland of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kataryna Wolczuk of the University of Birmingham, Andrew Wilson, University College London, Oxana Pachlovska of the University of Rome, and Oxford’s leading scholars including Paul Chaisty, Kalypso Nicolaidis, Alex Pravda and Sarah Whitmore.

“This will be one of the more significant conferences organised outside of Ukraine,” said Toronto-based lawyer, Ihor Bardyn, Committee Chair of the Oxford Model Ukraine Conference. Oxford University Ukrainian Society President Anzhela Yevgenyeva, St. Hilda's College, announced that “The conference will draw talented students, prominent scholars, political leaders, and professionals from various fields, and may be the largest gathering of Ukraine’s best and brightest outside of Ukraine”.

80 individuals from Ukraine, Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the UK, and the USA have registered for the conference. The Oxford Conference is the third in a cycle of four Model Ukraine Conferences, which brings together CUPP alumni and experts in government, economics, law, diplomacy, education, and health to share knowledge, experience, and ideas in order to improve democratic governance in Ukraine. The aim of the conference is to distil recommendations discussed and present a new model of governance to the Government of Ukraine.

More information

Anton Krasun, Secretary for External Relations, Oxford University Ukrainian Society

anton.krasun@stx.ox.ac.uk

Ihor Bardyn, Committee Chair of the Oxford Model Ukraine Conference

iwbardyn@rogers.com

For further information on Fellowship in Ukrainian Studies at Oxford, please contact:

Ranjit Majumdar

ranjit.majumdar@sant.ox.ac.uk

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