{"id":26853,"date":"2014-03-07T14:07:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T19:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=26853"},"modified":"2014-03-07T14:07:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T19:07:42","slug":"brock-profs-to-host-panel-discussion-on-crisis-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/03\/brock-profs-to-host-panel-discussion-on-crisis-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock profs to host panel discussion on crisis in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26863\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ukraine-flag1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26863\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-26863\" title=\"ukraine-flag1\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ukraine-flag1-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"    \" width=\"504\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">    <\/p><\/div>\n<p>A group of professors at Brock University will host a public panel discussion next Wednesday on the political crisis in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The professors will share their perspectives and historical contexts on the ongoing situation in the Eastern European country &#8211; from the deployment of Russian troops in Ukraine to the Crimean autonomy referendum scheduled for March 16.<\/p>\n<p>The talk takes place Wednesday, March 12, from 7 to 9 p.m. in Thistle 248 at the University.<\/p>\n<p>This community discussion is open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Panelists include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Viktor Avdeev,<\/strong> a visiting professor from the Faculty of World Politics at Moscow State University who is teaching Russian history at Brock this term<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charles Burton,<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/departments-and-centres\/political-science\/faculty-and-staff\/professors-by-area\/charles-burton\">associate professor of political science<\/a>, who specializes in comparative politics and China<\/li>\n<li><strong>Juris Dreifelds,<\/strong> an <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/departments-and-centres\/political-science\/faculty-and-staff\/professors-by-area\/juris-dreifelds\">associate professor of political science<\/a> of Latvian origin who specializes in Russian and Ukrainian politics<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bohdan Y. Nebesio,<\/strong> an <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/departments-and-centres\/cpcf\/ma-in-popular-culture\/faculty-staff\/bohdan-nebesio\">associate professor of communication, popular culture and film<\/a>, of Ukrainian decent, who published a <em>Historical Dictionary of Ukraine<\/em> in 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of professors at Brock University will host a public panel discussion next Wednesday on the political crisis in Ukraine. The professors will share their perspectives and historical contexts on the ongoing situation in the Eastern European country &#8211; from the deployment of Russian troops in Ukraine to the Crimean autonomy referendum scheduled for March 16. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[75,42,1429,1552,1676],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26853"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26867,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26853\/revisions\/26867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}