June 6, 2019By Anastasiia Strakhova Ph. D. candidate in History, Emory University; research fellow at the Center for Jewish History in New York City The field of Jewish Studies has been going through the process of fast development in Ukraine since the country gained independence in 1991. Archival collections that had ... Continue reading
May 23, 2019Name: Emily Channell-Justice Current Hometown: Oxford, OH Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University (until June 2019); Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University (effective July 2019) Professional Interests: economic development in Ukraine and Romania, with particular interest in ... Continue reading
May 16, 2019 Tamara Martsenyuk is Associate Professor of Sociology, the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine) and author of the recent book, Чому не варто боятися фемінізму. Within the framework of the project “Fearless: They Are Making Feminism in Ukraine” (Безстрашні: вони творять фемінізм в Україні), she interviewed gender scholars in ... Continue reading
April 6, 2019The Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University hosted a panel discussion on the reintegration of Donbas. On 18 January 2018, the Ukrainian parliament adopted the law on the peculiarities of state policies in the temporarily occupied territories in Donetsk oblast and Luhansk oblast. The presidential decree of 7 ... Continue reading
April 2, 2019The Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University (UFCCU), in collaboration with the non-profit organization Razom, held a screening of the documentary “Invisible Battalion” at Columbia University on March 29, 2019. The documentary provided insights into the participation of women in the war in eastern Ukraine from the perspective of women. ... Continue reading
April 2, 2019Name: Oleh Wolowyna Current Hometown: Chapel Hill, North Carolina Current Position: Research Fellow, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Director of the Center for Demographic and Socio-economic Research of Ukrainians in the U.S. at the Shevchenko Scientific Society U.S. Professional Interests: Demography and ... Continue reading
March 12, 2019Members of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations (WFUWO) and the Shevchenko Scientific Society attended the 63rd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, held at the UN Headquarters in New York City. At the core of WFUWO’s mission is supporting the dignity and integrity of ... Continue reading
February 26, 2019 By Olena Nikolayenko This month marks the fifth anniversary since the end of the anti-government protests in Kyiv and the ouster of the incumbent president from power. Many members of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the United States analyzed the causes and ... Continue reading
February 22, 2019By Ostap Kin, Archivist The Archives of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in New York consist of over two hundred collections of papers provided by individuals and organizations. These collections highlight a wide range of topics pertaining to the history and culture of Ukraine, as well as life and activities of ... Continue reading
January 30, 2019Name: Adriana Helbig Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA Current Position: Associate Professor of Music, Assistant Dean of Undergraduates, University of Pittsburgh Professional Interests: Applied Ethnomusicology – Activism/Advocacy; Music and Disability Studies, Critical Race Studies, Critical Prison Studies (Pitt Prison Education Project), Development Studies, Minority and Migration Studies (Romani Music and Human Rights ... Continue reading
