39th Annual Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Conference

March 3, 2019

Anna Procyk, George G. Grabowicz, Oles Fedoruk, and Ostap Sereda

Тhe Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh-A), jointly with the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. (UVAN), the Ukrainian Institute of America (UIA) and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI), jheld the 39th Annual Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Conference at the Ukrainian Insitute of America. 

Anna ProcykLearned Secretary of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., made opening remarks. Participants were:

  •  Oles Fedoruk (Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences) “Taras Shevchchenko in Kulish’s illustrations to his novel “Chorna rada” [The Black Council]);
  • Ostap Sereda (Ukrainian Catholic University/HURI) “Shevchenko, Kulish, and the shaping of Ukrainian National Populism in Habsburg Galicia in the 1860s and 70s;”
  • George G.  Grabowicz (Harvard University/NTSh-A) “Taras Shevchenko and Kulish: the Reception Reconsidered.” Concluding remarks were given by George G. Grabowicz. 

View the videos from the conference below.