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Papers and Lectures “Planned Economics and Defense Conversion in the Soviet Union,” Economics and Security in the Soviet Union, Council on Economic Priorities/ISKAN, Moscow, 22 November 1990. “Industrial Concentration,” The Economic Disintegration of the Soviet Union, Institute for International Economics, Vienna, 22 April 1992. “Memory and Policy in Polish-Lithuanian Relations,” International Congress of the Political Psychology Association, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 12 June 1994. “The Evolution of the Political Thought of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz,” Graduate Seminar on Methodology, Faculty of History, Oxford, 19 May 1995. “Polish Eastern Policy,” The International Relations of Poland, Polish Studies Association, Warsaw, 19 August 1995. “The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Since 1989,” Recasting Political and Social Identities in Eastern Europe, University of Colorado at Boulder, 26 October 1996. “When Do National Myths Matter? Five Examples From Contemporary Eastern Europe,” Graduate Student Seminar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 11 March 1996. “Nationalism and Rationalism: A Theory of the Influence of Identity upon Foreign Policy Choices,” Olin Institute, Harvard University, 1 April 1996. “How Revenge is Recalled: The Polish-Ukrainian Conflicts of 1943-1947 in Law and Memory,” Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, 22 November 1996. “National Narratives and National Security: Historical Myth in Relations among Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine Since 1989,” Olin Institute, Harvard University, 3 March 1997. “Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe in the Thought of Kazimierz Kelles- Krauz,” Seminar on East-Central Europe, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 8 May 1997. “The Polish Eastern Diasporas,” Diasporas in the Former Soviet Union, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 7 June 1997. “European National Questions in the Thought of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz,” Occasional Seminar, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 26 June 1997. “Postwar National Conflict and Post-Cold War National Legitimation: Ukraine and Poland,” Prelude to Homogeneity, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, 17 January 1998. “Poland’s Eastern Border: Historical Problems and Present Regional Policy,” Subregional Cooperation, Institute for EastWest Studies, Kyiv, 19 February 1998. 1 “Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz on Nationality and Nationalism,” Institute of History, Warsaw University, Warsaw, 23 February 1998, delivered in Polish. “Poland’s Eastern Policy,” The Eastern Boundary of an Enlarged European Union, College d’Europe, Natolin (Warsaw), 20 June 1998. “National Memory and International Relations: Poland and Its Eastern Neighbors Lithuania and Ukraine, 1938-1998,” Memory and Power in Postwar Europe, All Souls College, Oxford, 27 June 1998. “A Theory of National Identity and State Action,” Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, 22 October 1998. “Public Intellectuals in the Czech Republic,” The Fate of the Public Intellectual in East Central Europe, Society for Austrian and Habsburg History, Washington DC, 8 January 1999. “Ethnic Cleansing and National Legitimacy: Poland and Ukrainians, 1939-1999,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 10 January 1999. “Poland’s Eastern Policy,” Russian Foreign Policy Seminar, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, 4 February 1999, Lecture at Georgetown University, 6 April 1999. “Kelles-Krauz as a Student of Modern Nationalism,” Lecture at School for Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 11 February 1999. “Ukrainian-Polish Relations: Past Conflict and Present Peace,” Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 1 March 1999, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 15 October 1999 “War and Peace in Polish-Ukrainian Relations, 1939-1999,” History of the Intelligentsia Seminar, Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, 21 May 1999, delivered in Polish. “Peace in the Northeast: Polish Eastern Policy, 1989-1999,” Miller Center Forum, University of Virginia, 16 September 1999. “The Ethnic Cleansing of Volhynia and Galicia by Ukrainians and Poles, 1943-1947,” Lecture prepared for the Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, 16 September 1999, also presented at the Davis Center for Russian Studies Historians’ Seminar, Harvard University, 24 September 1999, and MIT Forced Migrations Seminar, 20 October 1999. “A Brief History of National Conflict in Northeastern Europe and a Brief Explanation of its Resolution,” Postcommunist Studies Weekly Seminar, Harvard University, 7 October 1999, and Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, 21 October 1999. “A New Dividing Line or a New Incentive for Regional Cooperation: The Consequences of the First NATO Enlargement in Eastern Europe,” at “NATO Enlargement,” the Euro-Atlantic Center of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova, 26 November 1999. “The Wall Around the West: State Power, Economic Integration, and Border Control,” Globalization and Culture seminar, Harvard University, 9 December 1999, with Peter Andreas. 2 “The Polish Success Story: Foreign Policy,” Stanford University, History Department, 12 January 2000. “Poland Since 1989: A Decade of Surprising Successes,” University of California at Berkeley, Center for Slavic and East European Studies Teacher Outreach Conference, 12 March 2000. “The Ukrainian Minority in Poland,” conference on “Ukraine and Central Europe,” Wilson Center, Washington D.C., 19 May 2000. “Legacies of Fascism to Communism,” Central European University, Budapest, 6 June 2000. “Central Europe and the East,” conference on “Where is Central Europe Now?” St. Antony’s College, Oxford, 30 June 2000. “Non-governmental Organizations and National Reconciliation,” MIT Forced Migrations Seminar, 2 November 2000. “Ethnic Cleansing and the Early Cold War,” panel discussion, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, 13 February 2001. “The Wall around Europe,” special seminar on state power and border controls, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 23 March 2001; also Institute for Strategic Studies, Yale University, 8 November 2001. “From Ethnic Cleansing to Interstate Peace: Poland and its Eastern Neighbors, 1939 to the present,” MIT-Macarthur Transnational Security Series, 2 April 2001. “Confronting the Holocaust in Poland,” participant in round-table discussion at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum devoted to Jan Gross’s Neighbors and its reception in Poland, 20 April 2001, Washington, DC. “The Devil's Playground: Poles and Ukrainians Since 1939,” The Poles, Their Past, and Their Neighbors, Wilson Center, Washington DC, 2 May 2001. “Northeastern Europe: Anatomy of a Success?” Building States, Building Nations, St. Antony's College, 30 June 2001. “Research on Identity in Ukraine,” Redefining Europe, Meeting of Title VI and EU Centers, New York, 30 November 2001. “Ethnic Cleansing in Europe and North America,” participant in panel discussion, Lamar Center, Yale University, 31 November 2001. “Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Deportation: How Volhynia Became West Ukraine, 1939- 1946,” New York University, 25 January 2002, Kennan Institute Lecture, Washington, 31 January 2002, Yale University History Department, 12 February 2002; Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, 7 March 2002 3 “Akcja 'Wisla' a homogeniczność polskiego społeczeństwa” (“Operation Vistula and the homogeneity of Polish society”), conference on Operation Vistula, Krasiczyn, Poland, 19 April 2002. Delivered in Polish. “Brotherlands: Family History, National Politics, Ethnic Cleansing,” Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 11 March 2002; Biography Working Group, Yale University, 24 April 2002. “Historia rodzinna, narodowe wybory, i polityka narodowosciowa, 1914-1945” (“Family History, National Choices, and Nationality Policy, 1914-1945,” for “Neighbors in Times of War and Peace: Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, Lithuania,” Borderland Foundation, Sejny, Poland, 23 June 2002. Delivered in Polish and English. Also delivered in Polish at History of the Intelligentsia Seminar, Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, 18 July 2003. “The Causes of Ukrainian-Polish Ethnic Cleansing, 1943,” Anglo-American Conference of Historians, London, 5 July 2002; Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 22 April 2003; Stanford University, Stanford, California, 15 May 2003. “The Variety of Mass Murder in Ukraine, 1648-1948,” Genocide Studies Seminar, Yale University, 3 October 2002. “Federalism and Nationalism in Polish Eastern Policy,” Poland and Europe, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, 12 October 2002. Discussed in Gazeta Wyborcza, 15 October 2002. “Volhynia 1943: The Genesis of Events,” Warsaw University, 20 March 2003. Delivered in Polish. “Jews in Interwar Poland,” Simon Dubnow Institute, Polish-Jewish Historical Commission (Carnegie Council), Leipzig, 5 April 2003. “Statebuilding in East Europe and the Middle East,” Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Washington DC, 10 April 2003. “A Grand Strategy for the End of the Cold War: Paris Kultura and Polish Ostpolitik, 1973- 2003,” ISS, Yale University (“Lives and Consequences” conference), 25 April 2003; Cold War Seminar, Davis Center for Russian Studies, 30 April 2003; Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University, 15 May 2003. “State and Nation: A Conceptual Distinction and a Diplomatic Definition,” Eurasia Seminar, Davis Center for Russian Studies, 1 May 2003. “Toleration, Espionage,
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