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April 4 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Book Launch: War in My Home: When Conflict Becomes Everyday Life

Paweł Pieniążek Experienced reporter, journalist, and war correspondent "War in My Home" by Paweł Pieniążek describes the horrific, unending reality...

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Book Launch: War in My Home: When Conflict Becomes Everyday Life

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5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Chornobyl as a Gateway to the Uncanny: Representing the Disaster First World Documentaries

Daniel J. Epstein (Harvard University)

Dr. Konstantin Frank, born in Odessa in 1900, became a path-breaking agricultural scientist of wine-making against difficult obstacles in Soviet-dominated Ukraine. He pioneered technologies to grow true European wine grapes (vinifera) in continental climate zones with cold winters, previously thought impossible. He fled Ukraine at the end of World War II and eventually came to upstate New York with a large family and no English, but eventually founded his own winery (still flourishing on Keuka Lake today). He taught Americans how to cultivate vinifera in any region (previously it had only been grown in California). Through his indomitable devotion, Ukrainian agricultural scientific practices were adapted to spawn wine-growing industries in almost every state in America, from upstate New York to Virginia to Texas to the Pacific Northwest. Could he be a new cultural hero for Ukraine in America?

Daniel J. Epstein did his undergraduate degree in Slavic Studies at Harvard University, and later continued on to receive his PhD in Government, also from Harvard University. His early work focused on political parties and elections in the wake of regime change in Eastern Europe and Latin America. He has taught political science at the University of Rochester, Colgate University and Texas Tech University, and also served as a Fulbright Scholar in 2011. Since 2021, he has been a Lecturer on Government at Harvard University. His research focus has shifted to nationalism and identity in times of war (he has traveled three times to Ukraine since the full-scale invasion. He currently works at Harvard University’s Davis Center as Assistant Director for Scholars Without Borders, an initiative to support scholars affected by Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Dr. Konstantin Frank, (Viti)cultural Hero? How Ukrainian Science Transformed American Winemaking

Webinar. XLV Annual Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Conference
March 7 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
The Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh-A) and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI)

Opening remarks

Vitaly Chernetsky (President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society/University of Kansas)

Speakers:

Shevchenko in Vilnius: Catalyst of Formation

Rory Finnin (University of Cambridge, UK)

Rory Finnin is Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. He launched the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme in 2008. His recent book is Blood of Others: Stalin’s Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (2022). He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Слідчі справи кирило-мефодіївців як джерело Шевченкової текстології

Михайло Назаренко (Київський національний університет ім. Т. Г. Шевченка)

Михайло Назаренко – літературознавець, кандидат філологічних наук, доцент кафедри східнослов’янської філології та інформаційно-прикладних студій Навчально-наукового інституту філології Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Основні книжкові публікації: Поховання на могилі (Шевченкова біографія у фольклорі та фейклорі) (2006, доп. і випр. видання — 2017), Крім «Кобзаря». Антологія української літератури. 1792–1883 (2021, Національна премія імені Тараса Шевченка), Тілько істинна правда. З українських повір’їв (2025). Разом із Олександром Боронем упорядкував і прокоментував видання «Тарас Шевченко в критиці» (т. І–ІІ, 2013–2016), «Тарас Шевченко у спогадах» (т. І, 2023).

Testaments to Memory: Examining the Re-Formations of Taras’ Hill

Grace Mahoney (University of Michigan)

Grace Mahoney is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. She studies Ukraine through the lenses of literary studies, cultural history, memory studies, translation, and feminist theory. Recently she has assumed leadership of Lost Horse Press, an independent literary press known for its Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series.

Discussant

George G. Grabowicz (Shevchenko Scientific Society/ Harvard University)

XLV Annual Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Conference

Ivan Almes (Ukrainian Catholic University)

The presentation focuses on the concept and publishing series Kyivan Christianity, which aims to reconceptualize the religious history (and broader cultural history) of Central and Eastern Europe from Kyiv’s perspective. During the event, the historian from Lviv will present the research project implemented at UCU since 2012, which has resulted in a 40-volume series published by UCU Press and aims to release 100 volumes. At the very heart of such research stands Kyiv as a religious center, not Rome, Constantinople, or Moscow. From Kyiv, the culture was spread to the north (up to the territory of Courland – modern Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia), to the south (Slavo-Vlachia – modern Moldova and Northern Romania), to the west (Peremyshl and Mukachevo eparchies), and to the East (for example, the Bilhorod eparchy). This tradition or culture has been preserved not only in visible forms such as St. Sophia Cathedral, but also in narratives, images, songs, architecture, etc, investigated by researchers from the perspective of Kyiv.

Ivan Almes is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Ukrainian Catholic University, where he also serves as Director of the Ihor Skochylias Center for Religious Culture and Coordinator of the research program Kyivan Christianity. He is the editor-in-chief of the Kyivan Christianity publishing series, issued by UCU Press. Almes has co-organized several international scholar conferences in Rome: in 2021 on the Zamość Sobor; in 2023 on St Josaphat Kuntsevych; and in 2024 on Kyivan Metropolitan Yosyf Veliamyn Rutsky. His most recent volume is In Search of Centres: Early Modern Kyivan Christianities (co-edited with Svitlana Potapenko, Oksana Prokopyuk, Vitalii Tkachuk, and Valerii Zema; Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, 2026). Currently, he is a visiting scholar at the Nanovic Institute of European History at the University of Notre Dame, IN.

“Kyivan Christianity”: The New Concept of Early Modern Religious History of Central and E. Europe

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