Shevchenko Scientific Society
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Arts & Music

VIRKO BALEY,
director

History, Social Sciences & Law

ALEXANDRA HRYCAK,
director
IVANNA BILYCH, vice director
MARKIAN DOBCZANSKY, secretary

Mathematics & Sciences

 
ROMAN BRUKH, director
Members Collaborating with Ukrainian Researchers

Medicine & Biology

ROMAN E. SHIROKOV,
director

Philology
Institute of Source Studies

GEORGE G. GRABOWICZ,
director
Center for Demographic & Social-economics Research
of Ukrainians in the US
OLEH WOLOWYNA, director

Upcoming Events

Oct 16
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Religious Freedom in Wartime: The Case of Ukraine

Nov 9
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Book Launch: Battleground Ukraine. From Independence to the War with Russia by Adrian Karatnycky

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The panelists will discuss religious freedom in wartime, particularly the case of contemporary Ukraine. They will focus on the recently adopted and controversial Ukrainian law concerning religious organizations with ties to a hostile state - which is generally understood as targeting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate. The presenters will deal with the political context, social expectations, and populism; how the issue affects Russian Orthodox outside Ukraine, particularly in the United States; and both domestic and international legal considerations of human rights, the rule of law, and Europe-Ukraine relations. The presentations will be in English. They will be followed by a discussion among the presenters, after which they will entertain questions from the public.
Religious Freedom in Wartime: The Case of Ukraine - A Panel Discussion
Since the Maidan and the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine in spring 2014, one can observe significant changes in the public discourse on normative femininity in Ukraine – a remarkable trend towards the normalization of the image of the female soldier. Its validity is often legitimized by direct references to the strong and vivid historical legacy of Ukrainian women’s military service in the 20th century, while others seek empowerment in folk traditions (such as witchcraft). As full citizens, Ukrainian women claim their role in defense efforts on an equal footing with men, while emphasizing women’s gendered ways and means of contributing to the national project. In this talk, Dr. Kis will examine verbal and visual materials from conventional and social media to show how the image of a militant woman (referring to both soldiers and civilians) evolves and gains momentum as a hybrid form of femininity that is more inclusive in terms of its diverse and seemingly opposing constituents.<br /><br />Oksana Kis is a feminist historian and anthropologist, senior scholars and head of the Department of Social Anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (in Lviv). Dr. Kis is president of the Ukrainian Association for Research in Women’s History. Her book Ukraïnky v GULAGu: Vyzhyty znachyt´ peremohty (Lviv, 2017; 2nd rev. ed. 2020) was included in the Ukrainian Book Institute’s list of the 30 most significant books of the Ukrainian Independence period in 2021. Its English version, Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag (Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies, 2021), received the Translated Book Award from the Peterson Literary Fund (2021). She also edited and coedited several award-winning volumes including on women’s history. Her most recent edited collection, Women’s Dimensions of the Past: Perceptions, Experiences, Representations (in Ukrainian), was published in December 2023. Dr. Kis is a recipient of several academic awards, including two Fulbright Research Fellowships (2003 and 2011). The areas of her expertise include women’s lives in pre-industrial Ukrainian peasant families and rural communities, Ukrainian women’s experiences of the Holodomor 1932/33, women’s participation in the Ukrainian national anti-Soviet resistance in the 1940–1950s, gendered experiences of Ukrainian female political prisoners in the Gulag, and gender transformations in post-socialist countries.<br /><br />The lecture will be delivered in Ukrainian. Discussion in Ukrainian and English.
Militant Femininity: Transformations of the Image of a Ukrainian Woman in Public Discourse - Ukr War
Marking 150 years of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, this conference features three panels with scholars from the US, Ukraine, Canada, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, and Austria. Speakers will discuss the history of the Society’s establishment, the contexts of its activity, and its influence on Ukrainian intellectual and cultural life from its founding to the present day. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE 9:00–9:15 Welcome from Vitaly Chernetsky, conference organizer, First Vice President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society 9:15–11:00 Panel I: Nineteenth-Century Ukrainian Intellectual Life under Russian Imperial Rule Chair: Halyna Hryn (Shevchenko Scientific Society/Harvard University) George Grabowicz (Harvard University): Rethinking the Cyrilo-Methodian Brotherhood: Problems of Historiography and Some New and Old Aporias Serhiy Bilenky (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta): Before NTSh-A: Scholarship and Politics in 1870s Kyiv Fabian Bauman (University of Heidelberg): Academic Ukrainophilism and Ukrainian Politics in the Russian Empire under the Ems Ukaz Discussant: Susan Smith-Peter (College of Staten Island, City University of New York) 11:00–11:15 Break 11:15–1:15 Panel ІІ: The Shevchenko Scientific Society and Its Impact, in Galicia and Beyond Chair: Oksana Kis (University of Richmond/National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) Martin Rohde (University of Vienna): Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Making of Ukrainian “National Science”, 1892–1939 Tomasz Hen-Konarski (Polish Academy of Sciences): The Sorcerer and His Apprentice: Kyrylo Studyns′kyi and Amvrozii Androkhovych as Historians of the Greek Catholic Clerical Education Jan Surman (Czech Academy of Sciences): (Re)writing Ukrainian Academic Language from Habsburg Galicia to the Soviet Union Discussant: Frank Sysyn (University of Alberta) 1:15–2:30 Break 2:30–4:30 Panel III: Ukrainian Scholarship and Its Sociopolitical Contexts, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Chair: Olena Nikolayenko (Fordham University) Anton Kotenko (University of Düsseldorf): “Scientific Society” or an “Institution of the Most Radical Ukrainophile party”? NTSh in the Materials of the Romanov Imperial Censorship Maryna Paliienko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv/New York University): Ukrainian Diaspora Archives During and After World War II as a Target of Nazi and Soviet Security Services Steven Seegel (University of Texas, Austin): The NTSh and Geography: On Some Challenges and Legacies in the Making of Modern Ukrainian Maps, from the 1860s to Stepan Rudnyts’kyi and The February 24th Archive Project Discussant: Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas) 4:30–4:45 Break 4:45–6:00 Concluding Discussion
The Shevchenko Scientific Society in the Context of Ukrainian Intellectual History: 150 Years
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A Visit to the Society by Connecticut College Students About eighteen students from Professor Andrea Lanoux's Ukrainian history class at Connecticut College visited our headquarters in NYC on October 4, 2024. This, being the third year that the students have visited, is fast becoming an autumnal tradition at the Society.Following a brief introduction to the Society by Vasyl' Makhno, we had a reading of three of his poems including "If Bach Kept Bees" solsticelitmag.org/content/if-bach-kept-bees/Then Marko Slyz gave a brief talk about the Society's archives and library.After the first half of their course, the students will conduct projects on individually-chosen research topics on Ukraine. For this, the Society's resources may be helpful.We thank Professor Lanoux and her class for making the trek down to New York City. ... See MoreSee Less

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28 вересня 2024 року в НТШ-А відбулася доповідь доктора історичних наук, завідувачки відділу соціальної антрпології Інституту народознавства НАН України Оксани Кісь на тему "Войовнича жіночість: трансформація образу української жінки в публічному дискурсі під час російсько-української війни".Доповідачка проаналізувала як змінювалися стереотипи про жінок після Майдану та від початку війни pосії проти України навесні 2014 року в публічному дискурсі. Вона відзначила помітні зміни щодо нормативної фемінності в Україні та показала на численних прикладах як ця виразна тенденція до нормалізації образу жінки-воїна відбувається від 24 лютого 2024 року.Після завершення доповіді Оксана Кісь відповіла на чисельні запитання присутніх. ... See MoreSee Less

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The top-ranked Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is undertaking a $9 million campaign to add more Ukrainian scholarship and programming.
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    • Zapysky NTSh-A : New Series
    • Articles
    • Op-Ed Pieces
    • Institute of Source Studies
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    • Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Diaspora
    • E-Books
  • Grants
    • SEF Fellowships 2022
      • SEF Fellows Announcement
    • Publications Grants
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      • Past Publications Grants
    • Ukraine Mathematics Award Program
      • Переможці конкурсу “Найкращий молодий математик України”
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    • Scholarships
      • Special Scholarship Program Winners
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