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February 4 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Ukrainian Music Initiative Introductions: Ukrainian Classical Music

About the Ukrainian Music Initiative Ukrainian resistance to Russia’s genocidal invasion has inspired the world. Ukrainian culture, including art,...

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Alexander Shcheglovitov: Studying Autism-Associated Disorders Using Human Brain Organoids Generated from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

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Book Launch: Still City (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024) by Oksana Maksymchuk

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Mykola Riabchuk: Mapping a “Nation from Nowhere”: The Toxic Influence of “Imperial Knowledge” and the Challenges of Decolonization

The poems in Oksana Maksymchuk’s debut English-language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality, temporality, mortality, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event. While some of the poems were composed in the months preceding the full-scale invasion of the poet’s homeland, others emerged in its wake. Navigating between a chronicle, a chorus, and a collage, Still City reflects the lived experiences of liminality, offering different perspectives on the war and its aftermath. The collection engages a wide range of sources, including social media posts, news reports, witness accounts, recorded oral histories, photographs, drone video footage, intercepted communication, and official documents, making sense of the transformations that war affects in individuals, families, and communities. Now ecstatic, now cathartic, these poems shine a light on survival, mourning, and hope through moments of terror and awe.

Oksana Maksymchuk is a bilingual Ukrainian-American poet, scholar, and literary translator. Her debut English-language poetry collection “Still City” was published by University of Pittsburgh Press (US) and Carcanet Press (UK) and was long-listed for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2025 Pen/Voelcker Award for Poetry. Her poems appeared in The Guardian, The Paris Review, The Poetry Review and many other journals. She co-edited an anthology, “Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine,” and co-translated several poetry collections. She is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, the Scaglione Prize for Literary Translation from the Modern Language Association, the American Association for Ukrainian Studies Translation Prize, and other honors. Oksana holds a PhD in philosophy from Northwestern University.

Moderator: Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky (U of Kansas/Shevchenko Scientific Society)

Book Launch: Still City Oksana Maksymchuk

Approximately 1 in 31 children in the United States are diagnosed with autism-associated disorders. The underlying causes remain poorly understood, and there are currently no effective treatments for affected individuals. Brain organoids provide a novel powerful model for studying human brain development and disease. In my lab, we generate brain organoids from patients with specific autism-associated genetic mutations to investigate the disrupted cellular and molecular mechanisms. In this presentation, I will share our approach to using brain organoids to study human brain development and autism-associated brain disorders.

Dr. Alexander Shcheglovitov is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Utah and a Faculty Director for the Utah Cellular Translational Research Core at Utah CTSI. He earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in applied physics from the National Technical University of Ukraine, followed by a PhD in biophysics from the Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kyiv, Ukraine. He completed Postdoctoral training at the University of Virginia with Dr. Ed Perez-Reyes and Stanford University with Dr. Ricardo Dolmetsch. His lab studies human brain development and autism-associated neurodevelopmental disorders using brain organoids. Dr. Shcheglovitov is a recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Innovation Research Award from the International Society for Autism Research, NARSAD Young Investigator Award, and Alex’s Lemonade Stand Innovation Award.

Moderator: Dr. Roman Shirokov (Rutgers U)

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Alexander Shcheglovitov: Studying Autism-Associated Disorders Using Human Brain Organoids

Presenter(s): Dr. Darya Tsymbalyuk
University of Chicago
September 13 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Russia’s war on Ukraine has not only destroyed millions of human lives, it has also been catastrophic for the environment. Forests and fields have been burned to the ground, animal and plant species pushed to the brink of extinction, soil and water contaminated with oil products, debris, and mines. On a single day in June 2023, the breached Kakhovka Dam flooded thousands of kilometers of protected natural habitat, as well as villages, towns, and agricultural land. The devastation of biodiversity and ecosystems across Ukraine has been immeasurable, long-lasting and its consequences stretch beyond national borders. In this poignant book, Ukrainian researcher Darya Tsymbalyuk offers an intimate portrait of her beloved homeland against the backdrop of Russia’s war and ecocide. In elegant and moving prose, she describes the damage to the country’s rivers, the grasslands of the steppes, animals, insects, and colonies of birds, as a result of Russia’s ground and air operations. Alongside the everyday experiences of people in Ukraine living with the environmental consequences of the war, we share Tsymbalyuk’s own reckoning with the changing nature of cherished places and the loss of familiar worlds caused by the ongoing Russian invasion.

Darya Tsymbalyuk is an interdisciplinary researcher, and her practice includes writing and image-making. She serves as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization (CEGU), University of Chicago. Darya is the author of Ecocide in Ukraine: the Environmental Cost of Russia’s War (Polity 2025). Among her many shorter scholarly publications is a double special issue on the environmental humanities of Ukraine co-edited with Tanya Richardson and forthcoming with East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies. The issue includes an article “Constellations of Ukrainian Thought and the Environmental Humanities”, in which Tsymbalyuk and Richardson attempt to trace the development of environmental thought in Ukraine from the 20th century until today. Her other scholarly texts have been published by Nature Human Behaviour, Journal of International Relations and Development, Narrative Culture, REGION: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, to name a few. Her public-facing writing appeared in BBC Future Planet, openDemocracy, The Funambulist, KAJET, NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment, Klassiki and many other platforms.

Moderator: Dr. Olena Nikolayenko (Fordham U)

Book Launch: Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War by Darya Tsymbalyuk

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