[Aaus-list] a modest proposal

[Plokhii, Serhii]

Everyone who is interested in seeing a select list of interviews and articles given or written by HURI faculty, staff and associates, I invite to visit the HURI website at http://www.huri.harvard.edu/

Best wishes,
Serhii

-----Original Message-----
From: Max Pyziur [mailto:pyz at brama.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 1:52 PM
To: Plokhii, Serhii; vote2012 at ukrainiansforobama.com
Cc: Holodomor Research and Education Consortium; aaus-list at ukrainianstudies.org
Subject: Re: [Aaus-list] a modest proposal

On Sat, 22 Mar 2014, Plokhii, Serhii wrote:

> 
> Dear Colleagues,
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> 
> HURI has such a list (that is how we are dealing with the media 
> requests since December), and some people on our list, including myself, are also on the list of experts put together by the people at the  UCCA. We are currently adding new names to our list and will be happy to provide it to the AAUS.

The proposal was made almost ten years ago.

Where/When/How can we see this list? Will you put it on a website? Will you provide the link?

Who is/will be marketing it: contacting media organizations, follow-ups. 
Will there be someone responsible for this with a clear set of benchmarks?

Let's set a deadline: public visibility by Tuesday 3/25/2014.
   
Furthermore, if there has been activity since December, ho has been contacted? Have their interviews been published?

> 
> Vitaly, many thanks for taking initiative to compile a comprehensive list of experts.

He never took initiative.

> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Serhii

MP
pyz at brama.com

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> From: Holodomor Research and Education Consortium 
> [mailto:hrec at ualberta.ca] Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 10:47 AM To:
> ajmotyl at andromeda.rutgers.edu Cc: aaus-list at ukrainianstudies.org; 
> motria.caudill at gmail.com Subject: Re: [Aaus-list] a modest proposal
> 
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> 
> Yes, such an effort is overdue. A packet to the media coming from HURI 
> would be most effective, or perhaps jointly with AAUS and CIUS?
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> Motria Poshyvanyk Cahill (prof. at UJC School of Public Health & 
> Environ. Scientist, US Environ. Protection Agency) maintains a blog of current articles by experts/scholars on Ukraine that could serve as a basis for the effort.   I've copied her on this email.
> 
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> http://ukrainescholarsofnorthamerica.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/march-17
> -19/  Also Twitter: https://twitter.com/UkraineScholars
>
>  *  In her blog (weekly compendium of articles), you can click on the following scholars' names, links to articles, etc. (She has also included Sysyn,
>     Dyczok, Karatnyky, Ostapchuk, etc., but they are not yet 
> listed/linked.)
>  *  Alexander Motyl, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers 
> University
>  *  Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University
>  *  Taras Kuzio, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University 
> of Alberta
>  *  Vitaly Chernetsky, Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures, 
> University of Kansas
>  *  Serhii Plokhii, Professor of History, Harvard University
>  *  Dominique Arel, Professor of Political Studies, University of 
> Ottawa
>  *  Serhy Yekelchyk, Professor of Slavic Studies, University of 
> Victoria
>  *  Yuliya Komska, Professor of German Studies, Dartmouth University
>  *  William Risch, Professor of History, Georgia College
>  *  Serhiy Kudelia, Professor of Political Science, Baylor University
>  *  Oxana Shevel, Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
> 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> What some institutions are doing:
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> - 
> http://www.aseees.org/news-events/aseees-blog-feed/online-guides-resou
> rces-about-crisis-ukraine
> 
> - 
> http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brookings-now/posts/2014/03/brookings-s
> cholars-on-ukraine-crimea-crisis-march-20
> 
> - 
> http://fsi.stanford.edu/news/stanford_experts_weigh_in_on_the_ukrainia
> n_crisis_20140304/
> 
> - http://www.wilsoncenter.org/expert-list/Ukraine
> 
> - 
> http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.ca/2013/12/european-extreme-right-an
> d-russian.html
> 
> - http://carnegieendowment.org/regions/?fa=list&id=331
> 
> - http://www.cfr.org/region/ukraine/ri311
> 
> - http://ukraineanalysis.wordpress.com/
> 
>  
> 
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 7:31 AM, <ajmotyl at andromeda.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> 
> As you all know, the North American media are constantly looking for 
> Ukraine experts to interview. Because so few genuine Ukraine experts 
> are known to them, media outlets either go to bogus experts or to the 
> same handful of genuine experts.
> 
> I have a modest proposal to make to the AAUS, HURI, and CIUS. Why 
> don't you all get together and compile a simple press packet with 
> names of experts, areas of expertise, and contact info. Then e-mail it 
> to all of us, to various listserves, and to all possible journalists. 
> If the packet has these three institutions' imprimatur, it will be 
> regarded with respect by the media.
> 
> This has to be done quickly, but, fortunately, compiling such a packet 
> in the form of a simple PDF can be done in a few hours. And remember:
> everyone who studies Ukraine--even if it's culture, literature, or 
> history--knows infinitely more about Ukraine than the bogus experts. 
> So no need to be modest. Help spread real knowledge about Ukraine. 
> Dare I say it's our obligation as scholars?
> 
> ajm
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