Delegates' Biographies

Ettore Cinnella, University of Pisa, has only provided a dry and essential profile, so I take the initiative and responsibility of introducing him as one of the best Western European scholars on the ex USSR, Russia and Ukraine. He teaches at the university of Pisa and has written, among others, huge studies on 1905 and 1917 and shorter ones on Nestor Makhno and the Anarchist movement in Ukraine. Together with Prof. Federigo Argentieri, he edited Robert Conquest's Harvest of Sorrow Italian edition, which had been translated in 1987 but was only published in 2004, and to which he contributed a remarkable updating study, entitled "Il Golgota ucraino".

Nigel Linsan Colley, a UK informational technology professional, came upon his family's legacy, when he visited his great aunt, the sister of Gareth Jones. There, he discovered material left by the young journalist, before his untimely death in 1935.
Nigel then helped his mother, Siriol Colley, a retired physician, form the material into a (2001) book; 'Gareth Jones: A Manchukuo Incident'; relating the final months of the young Welshman; who unbeknown at the time to the Colleys, was the first-named journalist to expose the Holodomor.
This led to contact with the Ukrainian Diaspora through a website, who recognised the significance of the information and led to further discoveries - including the probable involvement of the Soviets, in his great uncle's death.
Over the last 5-years, Nigel has dedicated his time and energy to telling the story around the world. Most recently, he has narrated his relative's articles, letters and diary notes left by Gareth Jones for Sergiy Bukovsky's new Holodomor Documentary; 'The Living'.
 

Yuri Shevchuk, Ph.D. in Germanic Languages, Kyiv State University, 1987.
Lecturer of Ukrainian Language and Culture Department of Slavic Languages and the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. The founding director of the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University. His forthcoming publication is the article "Linguistic Strategies of Imperial Appropriation" in the collective monograph "Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe", Sharp, April 2009. Currently works on history of early Ukrainian Cinema 1896-1920.