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Spring semester: April 2014
Topic: “Social Movements and Political Change in the United States”
The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv is recruiting graduate and undergraduate students with an advanced English level from Ukraine’s higher education institutions studying International Relations, History, American Studies or other related fields to attend the “American Studies Institute of the US Embassy” online lecture series.
Lectures :
April 1 - Dr. Robert Schaeffer, Kansas State University, professor of global sociology and author of Social Movements and Global Social Change: The Rising Tide
April 22 or 29 - Dr. William Jones, University of Wisconsin-Madison, professor of history and author of The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights
 Announcement-Application_spring2014 (3).pdf | [ ] | 137 kB |
| Spring 2014 Lecture Series Speakers.pdf | [ ] | 40 kB |
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Wednesday, February 19, at 13:10 - American Library will hold a meeting with Carl Plesner, mediator of non-violent methods of conflict resolution, on a topic: "How to Intervene with Violence". In this interactive presentation Carl Plesner introduces the principles of nonviolence and offers a strategy to resolve the present crisis in Ukraine.
Where: American Library, Media Room. When: Wednesday, February 19. Start at 13:10.
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Washington's Birthday, also known as Presidents' Day, is a federal holiday held on the third Monday of February. The day honors presidents of the United States, including George Washington, the USA's first president.
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Valentine's Day was brought to the United States in the nineteenth century by British settlers. By 1847, Esther Howland had made the first mass-produced commercial Valentine card in the United States. By the twentieth century, the giving of chocolates and other gifts became popular in the United States.
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On Wednesday, February 12 American Library held the Video-Conference (VC#1) Among Canadian and Ukrainian Universities. During this event we also tested new technologies for video – conferences from CISCO.
