“Ukrainian Historical Encounters Series” Special Event “Ukraine at 30”: Prelude – Three Maidans and a War – A Glimpse Forward September 18 2021/New York NY

Forum Venue: Ukrainian Institute of America [Second Floor – Conference Hall]

8:45 am – 9:20 am — Registration

9:20 am – 9:50 am — Forum Word of Welcome

Host & Ukrainian Institute of America President Katherine Nalywajko

Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations HE Serhii Kyslytsya

9:50 am – 10:55 am — Opening Highlight Session: Prelude to the Last Thirty Years (1984-1990)

Chair: Herman Pirchner [President of the American Foreign Policy Council]

Speakers:

Orest Deychakiwsky [Policy Adviser/US Helsinki Commission 1981-2017]

Josef Zissels [Ukrainian Helsinki Group Member 1978-1988; VAAD Co-President]

10:55 am – 11:00 am — Coffee Break

11:00 am – 12:30 pm — Panel Discussion I — The 1st Maidan – The Revolution on Granite/ Independence (1990-1992)

Discussion Leader: Marianna Budjeryn [Research Associate/Belfer Center/Harvard University]

Panelists:

Valeriy Kuchynsky [DCM/Embassy of UA to the US 1992-93; Permanent Rep. of UA to the UN 2000-2006]

Roman Popadiuk [Ambassador of the United States to Ukraine 1992-1993]

Serhii Plokhii [Director of Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute]

12:30 pm – 1:15 pm - Lunch Break [Second Floor - Visitors’ Room]

Exhibit on the First Floor - Coping with Conflict in the Donbas

1:15 pm – 2:45 pm — Panel Discussion II — The 2nd Maidan – The Orange Revolution (2004- 2005)

Discussion Leader: Myroslava Gongadze [Chief/Ukrainian Service/Voice of America]

Panelists:

Borys Tarasyuk [Foreign Minister of Ukraine 1998-2000, 2005-2007]

John Herbst [Ambassador of the United States to Ukraine 2003-2006]

Adrian Karatnycky [President/Orange Circle 2005-2010]

2:45 pm – 2:50 pm — Coffee Break

2:50 pm – 4:25 pm —Panel Discussion III — The 3rd Maidan and a War – Revolution of Dignity & ATO (2013-2021)

Discussion Leader: Glen Howard [President/Jamestown Foundation]

Panelists:

Andriy Parubiy [Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine 2015-2019]

Kurt Volker [US Ambassador to NATO 2008-2009; US Special Envoy to Ukraine 2017-2019]

Alexander Motyl [Professor of Political Science/Rutgers University]

Special Discussant:

Eugene Fishel [Division Chief/ U.S. Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research]

4:25 pm – 5:30 pm — Concluding Highlight Session: Looking Forward to Next Thirty Years

Chair: Andriy Futey [President of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America]

Featured Speakers:

Victoria Nuland [United States Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs][TBC]

Dmytro Kuleba [Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine]

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Forum Reception [Venue: Third Floor - Visitors’ Room]

Featured Remarks: HE Oksana Markarova [Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States]