Date	Title	Location
October 6-8, 2006	The 9th Annual Fulbright Conference "Ethical Standards in Education & Scholarship"	Institute of Post-Diploma Studies Kyiv Shevchenko National University

Date	Title	Summary	Location
October 7-9, 2005	8th annual Fulbright conference "The Intellectual and Government"		Institute of Historical Research of the Lviv National University of Ivan Franko
October 22-24, 2004	VII Annual Fulbright Conference "Ukrainian Area Studies — Limits And Dimensions"	(Conference story, 726 Kb)	Kyiv, Institute of Postdiploma Education, 36a Vasylkivska St.
March 12, 2004	"International Politics in the Modern Information Age" (PDF) (Fulbright Conference Organized jointly with US Fulbrighter Natalka Fedushak)	This year will be a politically decisive year for the fate of electoral democracies. Despite intense domestic scrutiny and campaigning, international interests do not disappear. At the same time, countries tend to look inward and media coverage of international politics is at a risk of taking a back seat in favor of reporting on multiple presidential elections. What happens to foreign policy and foreign investments in a country when the international media pays little attention to them? What are the possibilities for maintaining an international media presence and coverage in the countries where elections take place? At what point is the media reporting and informing, and when is it intruding in domestic affairs? Do different media outlets (including non-traditional information sources) need to rely on each other in covering both domestic and international affairs? Such questions will be posed at this conference investigating the media's role in international relations.	Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevhcenko Kyiv National University
March 18-19, 2004	"The Library and Access to Information in the University" (PDF)	If the university is a community dependent on a library, what is the fate of an université that cannot boast of a vibrant, accessible, and functioning bibliothèque? Given that a library is more than just a repository of information, we must begin by understanding precisely what its goals are. If a library is truly to become an interactive and research institution, then it needs funding, technology, staff, faculty, networks and access. The state of Ukrainian university libraries is undoubtedly fragile, and the objective of this conference is to analyze how a network of scholars (especially Fulbright alumni) can take initiatives that can change the fate of a library, its relations with faculty and students, and its future as the central meeting house for university minds.	Kharkiv
March 26, 2004	"Security Studies: Linking Research, University and the Public Sphere" (PDF)	Many American universities have a close bond between scholars, non-governmental research institutions, and policy-making institutions. The research university has never been far removed from consulting those institutions, which have been directly involved in formulating public opinion and public policy. Hence, the quality of the research university has a direct influence on the quality of the information provided for national decision makers. One of the best examples of such cooperation is in the field of political science, and more specifically International Relations (IR). Security Studies are usually a separate category found under IR departments, but often take on a life of their own, given the importance they hold in advising on national and international security issues. In spite of the fact that Ukraine is on both the historical and geographical crossroads of Europe and Asia, it does not have a strong university-level infrastructure for studying and teaching security studies. It has an even weaker relation between scholars and public representatives. The object of this conference is to discuss the possible future of security studies in Ukraine and strategies for implementing effective techniques for teaching and research into Ukrainian university programs.	Kyiv
April 16-17, 2004	"Exporting Religion, Translating Belief: American Religions in Europe"	Beginning in the fifteenth century, many Europeans traveled to the land that would come to be called "America" with the purpose of converting the land's inhabitants to Christianity. More recently, the flow of religious missionaries has reversed and thousands of citizens of the United States now seek converts in Europe. What messages do these missionaries bring with them? How are they received in Europe and how do they go about winning converts? What has been the historic connection between Europeans and the followers of American-based religions? The purpose of this conference will be:  To ask how religions with specifically American histories and religious organizations with headquarters in the United States bring their message to European countries; To explore the influence of religious practices and religious language developed in the United States on the established Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Orthodox communities of Europe; To examine the relationship between American religion and American capitalism whose simultaneous presence in Europe and particularly Eastern Europe seem poised to effect significant, and controversial, cultural change.	Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv
May 20-21, 2004	International Fulbright Conference "Ethical Standards in Higher Education" (PDF)	Not surprisingly, a theme that constantly echoed throughout Fulbright-Ukraine's October Conference was the role of ethics in determining the role of the university. The last working group discussed the question of a permanent crisis in the university worldwide, and it was suggested that Ukraine is no different from other countries. In other words, just as other universities worldwide were weakened by unethical behavior, so were those in Ukraine. And since this problem was evidently not unique to Ukraine, it is possible that Ukraine could benefit from the experience of other nations that have battled corruption and unethical practices (including discrimination) at the university level. The objective of this conference is threefold: to discuss the philosophical principles behind ethics in education, to review possibilities on the legislative level for decreasing corrupt and unethical practices in the university, and to devise "moral codes" at the university level for both faculty and students. We hope that the mere discussion of such topics can provoke individuals to think outside of the status quo, but even the physical presence of a document (such as an "honor code") may influence the behavior of officials, instructors and students.	Mykolajiv
May 20-22, 2004	Fulbright Conference on Area Studies (Environmental Studies) (PDF)	Scholarship is of course interconnected, and disciplinary divisions have to be breached for anyone to become truly educated. The contents of a discipline change, and new disciplines emerge continually. A true intellectual spans a number of scholarly areas, and we all admit that a narrow specialist hardly qualifies to be considered a truly wise person. Periodically, clusters of issues arise that span a number of different traditional disciplines, yet address a related problem. How does the university accommodate such sets of information, study, and knowledge? How does the university encourage its faculty and students to explore areas that need to be studied? How can we see the topics we study in a different fashion that will show us more of the topic we are studying? Can the academic structure accommodate innovative study without violating its standards? One "solution" developed about 50 years ago was the notion of "area studies" that Area Studies, essentially, tailor a program around a concrete geographical area or around a specific topic, drawing together various disciplines. American universities, being very diverse organizations, were the first institutions to provide a formal framework of students and faculty to specialize in an area, but the system as such is in no means reflective of specifically US considerations. This approach is little understood in Ukraine; hence we will discuss two areas that are being taught in Ukraine without having actually provision for institutionalization of the field. We will focus on environmental studies, as taught in L'viv by Fulbright Alumni.	L'viv

Date	Conference Name	Address	Documents
October 10-12, 2003	6th Annual Fulbright Alumni Conference "The Idea of a University" (PDF)	Kyiv	Background (25 Kb) Summary of Panels (36 Kb) Program (36 Kb) Summary (81 Kb)
February 13-15, 2004	Mid-year Conference Comparative Studies: Bridges for Understanding and Knowledge Incoming orientation and one-day study tour	Kyiv	Conference Agenda & Panel descriptions >>

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