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Book launch “New Generation Political Activism in Ukraine: 2000–2014 (Routledge, 2018)”
Presenter(s): Dr. Christine Emeran
This book explains how socio-cultural experiences shape an individual’s choices to become an activist in the authoritarian space of post-Soviet…
Find out more »Film screening of “Krynytsia dla sprahlykh” (“Spring for the Thirsty),” directed by Yuriy Illienko, screenplay by Ivan Drach
The event is dedicated to the memory of Ivan Drach (1936-2018), a prominent Ukrainian poet and political leader. Opening remarks…
Find out more »Lecture “Letters from the ‘Old Country’: Understanding Ukrainian Transatlantic Family Correspondence in the 20th Century”
Presenter(s): Dr. Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
Event commemorating Bohdan Rubchak (1935-2018)
Event commemorating Bohdan Rubchak (1935-2018), a well-known Ukrainian poet, scholar, literary critic, member of the New York Group of Poets…
Find out more »Conference commemorating of the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the independence of the Western Ukrainian Republic and its unification with the Ukrainian National Republic
Presenter(s): Dr. Oleh Pavlyshyn (Ukraine), Dr. Orest Popovych (USA) and Dr. Ihor Hyrych (Ukraine)
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the independence of the Western Ukrainian Republic and its…
Find out more »Lecture “The Idea of the Belarusian-Ukrainian Federation: from Realpolitik to Utopia (1918-1920)”
Presenter(s): Dr. Gennadi Korolov (Institute of Ukrainian History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
Lecture “Cultural Encounters: Japan meets Ukraine through the Prism of Literature Translation”
Presenter(s): Dr. Olga Khomenko (Associate Professor, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Department of History, a Fulbright fellow at Harvard Ukrainian Institute).
Book launch of “The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology”
Presenter(s): Dr. Mark Andrychyk
The publication of The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology commemorates the tenth year of the Contemporary…
Find out more »Alcoholism, Degeneration, and Ukrainian Nationalism: Doctor Sofia Parfanovych and the Vidrodzhennia Anti-Alcohol Society in the Interwar Galicia
Presenter(s): Kateryna Ryban
New York University
Analyzing writings of Dr. Parfanovych, a political activist and the head of the Vidrodzhennia (Renaissance) Anti-Alcohol Society allows to see…
Find out more »Reading by Yurii Andrukhovych
Well-known Ukrainian writer Yurii Andrukhovych will present his latest novel «Lovers of Justice» (2018). Andrukhovych is the author of…
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