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Lecture “Quo Vadis, Ukraine? Ethnicity and Nationality in Today’s Ukraine”
Presenter(s): Dr. Oleh Kozachuk
Associate Professor at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine, and a Fulbright scholar 2019-2020
One of the key methodological issues in political science in Ukraine is how to define interethnic problems in Ukraine, what…
Find out more »Lecture “Echolocation Techniques of Bats and Blind Humans Can Improve Robot Sensing”
Presenter(s): Dr. Roman Kuc
Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science
Sonar (SOund NAvigation and Ranging) is a sensing modality that extracts environmental features from echoes. Conventional sonars detect only the…
Find out more »Yuriy Tarnawsky Presents his Novels: “Warm Arctic Nights” and “The Iguanas of Heat”
Presenter(s): Dr. Yuriy Tarnawsky
The author will read excerpts from both novels. “Warm Arctic Nights” is probably the only literary work that, from a…
Find out more »Presentation of the book “The Case of Vasyl Stus”
Presenter(s): Vakhtang Kipiani
Ukrainian journalist, historian, founder of the Museum-Archives of the Ukrainian Press in Kyiv, and Editor-in-Chief of the online “Istorychna Pravda”
Vakhtang Kipiani’s book “The Case of Vasyl Stus,” (Vivat Publishing Ltd., Ukraine), the poet’s criminal case documents, presently reside at…
Find out more »Roundtable of the Theodosius Dobzhansky Genetics Club
Presenter(s): Dr. Roman Shirokov, Dr. Olya Yarychkivska and Dr. Iryna Ivasyk
Shevchenko Scientific Society’s Medicine and Biology Section invites all to a roundtable of the Theodosius Dobzhansky Genetics Club. Dobzhansky was a…
Find out more »Lecture “The Chungul Kurgan Grave Goods in the Black Sea Steppe of the Thirteenth Century”
Presenter(s): Dr. Renata Holod
Professor Emerita and Curator in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania
This presentation interprets as trophies many of the grave goods excavated from the burial of a steppe leader - likely…
Find out more »Lecture “Exhibiting Trauma: Memorialization of the Holodomor in Ukrainian Museums”
Presenter(s): Dr. Valentyna Kharkhun
Professor and Head of Ukrainian Literature Department at Mykola Gogol State University in Nizhyn, Ukraine
This presentation analyzes how the Holodomor is presented in Ukrainian museums and exhibition projects. It examines exhibitions in national, state…
Find out more »International Conference Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Panteleimon Kulish, 1819-2019
Presenter(s): Drs. George G. Grabowicz, Tamara Hundorova, Oles Fedoruk, Anna Procyk, Vasyl Ivashkiv, Andrii Danylenko, and Halyna Ivashkiv
Sponsored by the Shevchenko Scientific Society, the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the US, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute,…
Find out more »Lecture “Renewable Energy in Ukraine and Worldwide: A Comparative Analysis”
Presenter(s): Dr. Iryna Sotnyk
Professor in the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration at Sumy State University, Ukraine
The lecture provides an economic analysis of the evolution and prerequisites for renewable energy development worldwide with a focus on…
Find out more »Film premiere of “New York. Malaniuk” (2019)
Presenter(s): Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko
The film reconstructs the New York period (after WWII) of the distinguished Ukrainian emigre poet Ievhen Malaniuk (1897-1968) - how…
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