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October 31 @ 6:00 pm - November 1 @ 5:30 pm

Shevchenko Workshop in Ukrainian Studies

The Shevchenko Scientific Society in the United States, in partnership with the American Association for Ukrainian Studies and Razom for...

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

Oct 31

October 31 @ 6:00 pm - November 1 @ 5:30 pm

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Online webinar: New Perspectives on the Holodomor

Professor Riabchuk argues that the long-standing “invisibility” of Ukraine on the mental maps of the world—as well as the persistent factual misunderstandings—stems from the global community’s uncritical acceptance of the Russian perspective, both on Russia itself and on the peoples it has colonized. This perspective is articulated through a system of narratives developed by the empire to undermine the agency of subordinated nations, rendering them nearly invisible and voiceless to the outside world, and insignificant or inferior in their own eyes. Following Edward Said, Riabchuk identifies this discursive system as “imperial knowledge” and demonstrates how, over the past two centuries, the empire has successfully institutionalized and disseminated it globally as supposedly “scientific knowledge”—and therefore unquestionable, normalized, and elevated to the status of “common truths.” The deconstruction of this “knowledge” within the broader context of ongoing global decolonization processes must become a priority for both Ukrainian and international intellectuals.<br /><br />Mykola Riabchuk is a leading research fellow at the Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a visiting professor at both the University of Warsaw and the Ukrainian Catholic University. He is the author of around twenty books, several of which have been translated into Polish, Serbian, Hungarian, German, and French. In recent years, driven by the need to communicate the truth about Ukraine to international audiences, he has written primarily in English. He is the author of three books in English, including Eastern Europe since 1989: Between the Loosened Authoritarianism and Unconsolidated Democracy (Warsaw, 2020), and At the Fence of Metternich’s Garden: Essays on Europe, Ukraine, and Europeanization (Stuttgart, 2021). Riabchuk is also a recipient of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine for his 2022 collection of essays Leksykon natsionalista.<br /><br />The lecture will be delivered In Ukrainian.<br /><br />Discussion in Ukrainian and English.

Картографування “нації нізвідки”. Токсичний вплив “імперського знання” та виклики деколонізації

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)

Admission to this event is free. Registration is required.

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

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