The document outlines the schedule for the 40th Educator Outreach Conference on Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies titled "Ukraine after Maidan" which will take place on Saturday, April 30, 2016 at the Richard & Rhoda Goldman Theater at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California. The conference will include morning and afternoon sessions on topics such as reforms in post-Maidan Ukraine, economic and human costs of the war in Ukraine, sovereignty and the Donbas conflict, and Western policy responses to the crisis. Speakers will include professors from UC Berkeley and other universities who will discuss political, economic and social issues in Ukraine following the 2014 revolution.

1. 40th Educator Outreach Conference
on Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Ukraine after Maidan
Saturday, April 30, 2016
Richard & Rhoda Goldman Theater
David Brower Center
Berkeley, California
Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
John Connelly
Director, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies;
Professor of History
University of California, Berkeley
Morning Session
10:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Chair: John Connelly
Director, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies;
Professor of History
University of California, Berkeley
“Ukraine, plus ça change...?”
Lucan Way
Professor of Political Science; Co-Director of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine
University of Toronto
“Reforming Post-Maidan Ukraine”
Gérard Roland
E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
LUNCH BREAK
12 noon – 1:30 p.m.
Afternoon Session pt. 1
1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Chair: Edward Walker
Executive Director, Berkeley Program in Eurasian and East European Studies;
Associate Adjunct Professor of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
“Economic Developments in Post-Maidan Ukraine”
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Associate Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
“The Human and Social Costs of the War in Ukraine”
Sarah D. Phillips
Professor of Anthropology; Director of the Russian and East European Institute
Indiana University
COFFEE BREAK
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Afternoon Session pt. 2
3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Chair: Jeffrey Pennington
Executive Director, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies,
University of California, Berkeley.
“Sovereignty and the Donbas Conflict”
Edward Walker
Executive Director, Berkeley Program in Eurasian and East European Studies;
Associate Adjunct Professor of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
“The US/EU Response to the Crisis:
Where Do Western Policymakers Stand Today?”
Alina Polyakova
Deputy Director, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Atlantic Council
Concluding Panel Discussion
4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

2. Saturday, April 30, 2016
Richard & Rhoda Goldman Theater
David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
40th Educator Outreach Conference
on Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Ukraine after Maidan
The 40th Educator Outreach Conference is
co-sponsored by the Institute of Slavic, East
European, and Eurasian Studies and the EU Jean
Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of
California,Berkeley.Thisconferenceismadepossible
by a U.S. Department
of Education grant
under Title VI and
with the support
of the Erasmus+
programme of the
European Union.