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SUMMARY:Religious Freedom in Wartime: The Case of Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL PANEL DISCUSSION \nREGISTER \nThe 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. \n(Mis)communication: Religious Freedom and the Russian Church outside of Ukraine\nProtodeacon Nicholas Denysenko\nProfessor of Theology\, Valparaiso University in Indiana \nContexts and Undertexts of the New Ukrainian Law Banning the Russian Orthodox Church\nArchimandrite Cyril Hovorun\nProfessor of Ecclesiology\, International Relations and Ecumenism\, Sankt Ignatios College\, University College Stockholm \nThe Banning of Religious Organizations as a Legal Problem: The Ukrainian Context\nDmytro Vovk\nVisiting associate professor\, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law\, Yeshiva University\, New York \nModerator\nAndrew Sorokowski\nShevchenko Scientific Society \nAbout the panelists:\nProtodeacon Nicholas Denysenko is Emil and Elfriede Jochum University Professor and Chair and Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University in Indiana. Denysenko is the author of numerous articles and books on liturgical theology and religion in Ukraine\, including The Church’s Unholy War: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Orthodoxy (Cascade Books\, 2023). \n\nArchimandrite Cyril Hovorun is a professor of ecclesiology\, international relations and ecumenism at Sankt Ignatios College\, University College Stockholm\, and a director of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Theological Academy in Kyiv and National University in Athens\, he accomplished his doctoral studies at Durham University. He was a chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church\, first deputy chairman of the Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church\, and later research fellow at Yale and Columbia Universities\, visiting professor at the University of Münster in Germany. He is an international fellow at Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life at the University of Alberta in Canada and an invited professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. \n\nDmytro Vovk is a visiting associate professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law\, Yeshiva University\, New York. Vovk has been a rule of law\, constitutional law\, and religious freedom expert for several international institutions\, including the UN Population Fund\, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief\, UN Independent Expert on SOGI issues\, the OSCE\, several EU projects\, and the USAID. He also testified before the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and briefed U.S. State Department institutions. He has served as an expert and academic advisor for the Ukrainian Constitutional Court and the Ukrainian Government. Among his recent publications are the volume Human Dignity\, Judicial Reasoning and the Law [italics] (Routledge 2024); the volume “Freedom of religion and gender equality across the OSCE region” for the Review of Faith and International Affairs (2022); the volume “The Soviet and post-Soviet law: failed transition from socialist legality to the rule of law” for the Ideology and Politics Journal (2021); and the volume Religion During the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict (Routledge 2019). Vovk is a co-editor of the ICLRS Talk About: Law and Religion blog. \n\nAndrew Sorokowski was admitted to the California bar in 1980. He served as researcher on religion in Ukraine at Keston College (UK) in 1984-1987. Dr. Sorokowski was managing editor of the journal Harvard Ukrainian Studies from 1993 to 1997. He has taught history at colleges and universities in the US and Ukraine. Retired from a historical research position at the US Department of Justice\, he has edited and contributed to works on Ukrainian church history\, and published numerous reviews\, articles\, and translations. \nREGISTER
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SUMMARY:Militant Femininity: Transformations of the Image of a Ukrainian Woman in Public Discourse in the Time of Russia’s War on Ukraine by Oksana Kis
DESCRIPTION: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. \nOksana 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. \n  \nThe lecture will be delivered in Ukrainian. Discussion in Ukrainian and English. \nAdmission to this event is free\, registration is required. Suggested donation is $10. Building capacity is limited\, please register below to secure your spot. \nTICKETS \nWatch the streamed event here
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SUMMARY:A Tribute to Virko Baley: 85th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Institute of America\, Music at the Institute present\nA TRIBUTE TO VIRKO BALEY: An 85th Birthday Celebration\nSeptember 15\, 2024  2:00 PM\nUkrainian Institute of America\n2 E 79th St\,  New York\, NY 10075\nVirko Baley is a Ukrainian-American composer in residence and distinguished professor of music emeritus at the University of Nevada. He serves as co-director of NEON\, an annual composers’ conference at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, and was the Music Director and Conductor of the Nevada Symphony Orchestra from 1980-1995. A recipient of a 2007 Grammy® Award as recording co-producer for TNC Recordings and the prestigious 2008 Academy Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, Baley’s accolades are numerous. \nThroughout his career\, Baley has tirelessly worked to disseminate accurate information about Ukrainian composers in the United States. He was awarded the Shevchenko Prize for Music in 1996 by the Ukrainian government and has authored numerous articles on various musical topics. He has contributed to both the New Grove Opera and the New Grove 2000 Dictionary of Music on the subject of Ukrainian music. Together with Ivan Karabyts\, Baley founded the first international music festival in Ukraine\, the Kyiv Music Fest. He co-produced and composed the music for Yuri Illienko’s film Swan Lake: The Zone\, which won two top prizes at Cannes in 1990\, and for Illienko’s last film\, A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa. He has led the Kyiv Camerata in recordings of over fifteen CDs of orchestral music by composers ranging from Mozart and Beethoven to Valentyn Sylvestrov and Yevhen Stankovych\, and has worked with the Shevchenko Opera Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. Virko Baley is a former Jacyk Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and a current vice-president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US. \nProgram – Music of Virko Baley\nEmily Dickinson Songbook for soprano and piano\nJourney After Loves for baritone and piano\nPersona II\, “Borys Liatoshynsky” for Solo Clarinet (B-Flat Clarinet)\nDreamtime Suite for clarinet\, violin and piano \nPerformed by  \nCorrine Byrne\, soprano\nThomas Meglioranza\, baritone\nReiko Uchida\, piano\nVictoria  Luperi\, clarinet\nSolomiya Ivakhiv\, violin \nAdmission: \nNTSh and UIA Members – free\nnon members: regular admission $35\nstudents/seniors $20 \nBuy Tickets Here
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SUMMARY:The Shevchenko Scientific Society in the Context of Ukrainian Intellectual History: 150th Anniversary Conference
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY\, MAY 19\, 2024 | 9:00AM – 7:00PM\nUkrainian Institute of America\, 2 E 79th St\, New York\, NY 10075\nMarking 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. \nWATCH ON YOUTUBE\nCONFERENCE SCHEDULE\n9:00–9:15\nWelcome from Vitaly Chernetsky\, conference organizer\, First Vice President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society \n9:15–11:00\nPanel I: Nineteenth-Century Ukrainian Intellectual Life under Russian Imperial Rule\nChair: Halyna Hryn (Shevchenko Scientific Society/Harvard University) \nGeorge Grabowicz (Harvard University): Rethinking the Cyrilo-Methodian Brotherhood: Problems of Historiography and Some New and Old Aporias \nSerhiy Bilenky (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies\, University of Alberta): Before NTSh-A: Scholarship and Politics in 1870s Kyiv \nFabian Bauman (University of Heidelberg): Academic Ukrainophilism and Ukrainian Politics in the Russian Empire under the Ems Ukaz \nDiscussant: Susan Smith-Peter (College of Staten Island\, City University of New York) \n11:00–11:15\nCoffee \n11:15–1:15\nPanel ІІ: The Shevchenko Scientific Society and Its Impact\, in Galicia and Beyond\nChair: Oksana Kis (University of Richmond/National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) \nMartin Rohde (University of Vienna): Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Making of Ukrainian “National Science\,” 1892–1939  \nTomasz 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 \nJan Surman (Czech Academy of Sciences): (Re)writing Ukrainian Academic Language from Habsburg Galicia to the Soviet Union \nDiscussant: Frank Sysyn (University of Alberta) \n1:15–2:30\nLunch Break \n2:30–4:30\nPanel III: Ukrainian Scholarship and Its Sociopolitical Contexts\, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present\nChair: Olena Nikolayenko (Fordham University) \nAnton Kotenko (University of Düsseldorf): “Scientific Society” or an “Institution of the Most Radical Ukrainophile Party”? NTSh in the Materials of the Romanov Imperial Censorship \nMaryna 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 \nSteven 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 \nDiscussant: Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas) \n4:30–4:45\nCoffee \n4:45–6:00\nConcluding Discussion \n6:00–7:00\nClosing Reception \nWATCH ON YOUTUBE\n\nConference Speakers: \nFabian Baumann is a historian of Eastern Europe\, with a focus on the history of nationalism and empire in Ukraine\, Russia\, and East Central Europe. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Basel in 2020 and was a SNSF.Mobility postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago and the University of Vienna before joining the University of Heidelberg in 2023. His book Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism\, which deals with the nationally divided Shul’gin/Shul’hyn family of Kyiv\, was published by Cornell University Press in 2023. \n\nSerhiy Bilenky is a Research Associate at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies\, University of Alberta and\, since 2023\, Editor-In-Chief of East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies. He also has been Program Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI) since 2015. Born in Kyiv\, Ukraine\, Bilenky graduated from Kyiv National Shevchenko University\, from which he also received his Candidate of Sciences degree in 1997. In 2007\, he received his PhD in History from the University of Toronto. Bilenky has taught courses on Russian\, Ukrainian\, and East European history at the University of Toronto\, Columbia University\, and Harvard University. His monographs include Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Russian\, Polish\, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations (Stanford University Press\, 2012) and Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands: Kyiv\, 1800-1905 (University of Toronto Press\, 2018). He is the editor of Fashioning Modern Ukraine: Selected Writings of Mykola Kostomarov\, Volodymyr Antonovych\, and Mykhailo Drahomanov (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies\, 2014). Bilenky’s most recent book is Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine between Empire and Nation\, 1772–1914 (McGill-Queen’s University Press and CIUS\, 2023)\, a multidisciplinary history of Ukraine during the “long” 19th century. \n\nVitaly Chernetsky is professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization (2007; Ukrainian-language version\, 2013)\, Intersections and Breakthroughs: Ukrainian Literature and Cinema between the Global and the Local (forthcoming\, Krytyka)\, and articles on modern and contemporary Slavic and East European literatures and cultures. He has edited volumes dealing with contemporary Ukrainian poetry and film and an annotated Ukrainian translation of Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism. His translations into English include Yuri Andrukhovych’s novels Moscoviad and Twelve Circles and a forthcoming edition of Sophia Andrukhovych’s Felix Austria (HURI). Professor Chernetsky is a past president of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies (2009–2018)\, the current first vice president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S.\, and the current president of the Association for Slavic\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). \n\nGeorge G. Grabowicz is the Dmytro Čyževs’kyj Research Professor of Ukrainian Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University\, where he has served as chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (1983–1988) and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute (1989–1996). He has been president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S. (2012–2018) and is currently a member of the Board of Directors. In 1997 he founded and since then has been editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian monthly Krytyka\, a leading intellectual journal in Ukraine. He has written on Ukrainian\, Polish\, and Russian literature and on literary theory. His first book on Shevchenko (The Poet as Mythmaker) was voted the most influential academic book of the post-Soviet period in Ukraine. In March 2022 he was awarded the Shevchenko Prize\, Ukraine’s highest award in the humanities and arts\, for his series of articles on modernism and the poet Pavlo Tychyna. \n\nTomasz Hen-Konarski is a full-time researcher at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History\, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (IH PAN). He holds a Magister degree from the University of Warsaw\, where his teachers included Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz\, Dariusz Kołodziejczyk\, and Zofia Zielińska. He has a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (2017)\, where he worked under the supervision of Lucy Riall and Pieter Judson. Apart from Florence and Warsaw\, Tomasz either studied\, carried out his research\, or taught in Bielefeld\, Budapest\, London\, Lviv\, and Vienna. Most recently (in 2023)\, he was a Fulbright-funded visiting scholar at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. His research interests include: Polish and Ukrainian nation-building in Galicia\, Catholic Enlightenment\, and the Greek Catholic Church as a political institution of the Austrian Monarchy.  \n\nAnton Kotenko is a research fellow at the Chair of Eastern European History of the University of Düsseldorf. His recent publications include “Ukrainians as ‘Aliens’ (Inorodtsy): Governmental Regulation of Ukrainian Cultural Associations\, 1905–17\,” published in March in Russian Review\, and “For Fame and Fortune: The Origins of St Petersburg’s Zoo\,” forthcoming in Urban History. Currently he is finalizing a book manuscript entitled “In Search of Ukraine: A Conceptual History of Nationalism\, 1840s–1921” and is starting a new project\, “Zootopia: History of Zoological Gardens in the Romanov Empire.” \n\nMaryna Paliienko is a Doctor of Historical Sciences and head of the Department of Archival Science and Special Branches of History at Taras Shevchenko National University. She is also editor-in-chief of the journal Archives of Ukraine and is the author of several monographs and numerous scholarly articles on archival theory\, history\, and practice; the role of the Ukrainian diaspora in the preservation of cultural heritage; and the digital transformation of Ukrainian archives and their visibility in the modern information space. Thanks to a grant from the Fulbright Program\, she is currently conducting research in the United States at New York University on the topic “Archives in the Time of War and Emergency: Problems of the Cultural Heritage Preservation and Usage (from the Experience of the USA and Ukraine).” \n\nMartin Rohde is a senior post-doc at the University of Vienna\, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) with the project “Transregional Region-Making in the Eastern Carpathians. Ukrainian Knowledge Production and Its Challenges\, 1921–1939.” Rohde studied History and Slavic Studies in Salzburg and Göttingen and received a PhD in history from the University of Innsbruck in 2020 with a dissertation called “National Science Between Two Empires. Shevchenko Scientific Society\, 1892-1918.” Former workplaces include universities of Innsbruck and Halle/Wittenberg\, the Historical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences\, and the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg. His research interests include history of science and knowledge; history of photography; approaches to postcolonial\, imperial\, and spatial history with a focus on Ukraine; the Habsburg and Russian Empires; Poland; and Czechoslovakia. \n\nSteven Seegel is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe (University of Chicago Press\, 2018)\, Ukraine under Western Eyes (Harvard University Press\, 2013)\, and Mapping Europe’s Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire (University of Chicago Press\, 2012). He has contributed to the fourth and fifth volumes of the University of Chicago’s international History of Cartography series\, and has translated over 300 entries from Russian and Polish for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum‘s Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos\, 1933-1945\, in multiple volumes\, published jointly by USHMM and Indiana University Press. Professor Seegel is a former director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute‘s summer exchange program. He hosts author-feature podcast interviews on the popular New Books Network. He is the founder of The February 24th Archive\, an ongoing community-driven\, public-facing digital project (follow @steven_seegel on Twitter/X) that focuses on building global solidarities during Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine.   \n\nSusan Smith-Peter is Professor of History and Director of the Public History program at the College of Staten Island/City University of New York. She has worked on the history of Russian regionalism for more than 20 years\, publishing Imagining Russian Regions in 2018\, among other works. Since the full-scale invasion\, she has advocated for the decolonization of the field of Russian history in the U.S. Her new research includes work on the influence of Ukrainian thinkers on the Siberian regionalists in the 19th century. \n\nJan Surman is a historian of Central and Eastern Europe currently based at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Science\, Prague. Surman holds a PhD in history from the University of Vienna and has most recently been working at the Herder-Insitute\, Marburg; IFK\, Vienna; and Higher School of Economics\, Moscow. His interests are history of internationalism\, language of science\, and history of Ukrainian science. His recent publications include Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space (Purdue University Press 2018);  “Science and Terminology in-between Empires: Ukrainian Science in a Search for its Language in the nineteenth century” in History of Science 57:2 (2019)\, 260-287; and “Imperial Science in Central and Eastern Europe” in Histories 2:3 (2022)\, 352–361.  \n\nFrank E. Sysyn is director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS)\, professor in the Department of History\, Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Alberta\, and editor-in-chief of the Hrushevsky Translation Project\, the English translation of the multi-volume History of Ukraine-Rus’ (12 volumes). He is head of the executive committee of the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) at CIUS\, a member of the editorial board of Harvard Ukrainian Studies and East-West: A Journal of Ukrainian Studies\, and head of the advisory board of the Ukrainian Program at the Harriman Institute. He has taught at the University of Alberta\, Harvard University\, Columbia University\, Stanford University\, and other institutions.
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SUMMARY:Pre-Launch Reading From "The God of Freedom" and conversation with Julia Musakovska
DESCRIPTION:  \nYuliya Musakovska celebrates the upcoming release of her poetry collection\, The God of Freedom\, in English translation from Arrowsmith Press with cover art by Anastasiia Starko. Joining her will be her translator Olena Jennings. The event will feature a reading in both Ukrainian and English. Vasyl Makhno will moderate a discussion about the wartime reality of Ukraine under the Russian invasion and the role of cultural activism in the Ukrainian resistance. Yuliya and Olena will also speak about their translation process.\nPublished in Ukraine in 2021\, The God of Freedom reflects on many events of Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine that began in 2014 before taking its full-scale form in 2022. The collection was shortlisted for the Lviv UNESCO City of Literature Prize and named in the top eight nominees for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize. Poems from the collection have been translated into many languages and published in The Southern Review\, AGNI\, Tupelo Quarterly\, NELLE\, The Common\, and other journals and anthologies.\n  \nYuliya Musakovska is an award-winning Ukrainian poet and translator. She has published five poetry collections\, among them Hunting for Silence (2014) Men\, Women\, and Children (2015)\, and The God of Freedom (2021). She received many awards in Ukraine\, including the prestigious Smoloskyp Prize for young authors (2010) and the DICTUM Prize (2013). Her work has been translated into over thirty languages and published worldwide. Yuliya Musakovska translates poetry from and to Swedish and English\, focusing on the translation of contemporary Ukrainian authors. She is a member of PEN Ukraine.\nOlena Jennings is the author of the poetry collection The Age of Secrets (Lost Horse Press\, 2022)\, the chapbook Memory Project\, and the novel Temporary Shelter (Cervena Barva Press\, 2021). She is a translator of collections by Ukrainian poets\, Kateryna Kalytko\, together with Oksana Lutsyshyna\, and Vasyl Makhno. She was shortlisted for the Ukrainian Literature in Translation Prize 2023 for her translations of Yuliya Musakovska’s poetry. She founded and curates Poets of Queens reading series and press.\n 
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SUMMARY:The 5th Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival
DESCRIPTION:Our Society is proud to co-sponsor the 5th edition of the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival. See below for more information on events. \n+++ \nDEFENSE-DEFIANCE-DEDICATION\nMARCH 28 | 7PM \nSince the start of Russia’s current war against Ukraine in 2014\, Ukrainian music has taken on new purposes. Each of the works on this program has a function\, but their utility goes beyond conventional music for use\, such as entertainment or education. In the face of a decade of Russian aggression these works reveal how music can serve new purposes for composers and their audiences. \n\nVIRKO BALEY AT 85\nMARCH 29 | 7PM \nFamed Ukrainian-American composer Virko Baley celebrates his 85th birthday with the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival. \n\nTRAVEL DIARIES\nMARCH 30 | 7PM \nEach of the pieces on this program evokes a story of travel: escape\, emigration\, education and employment abroad\, eternal farewell. The works of a young generation of Ukrainian composers are paired with established voices from Ukraine\, including the country’s most famous living composer and two of contemporary music’s leading figures. \n  \nUCMF AFTERDARK\nMARCH 30 | 9PM \nUCMF’s first ever after-hours event at Mriya Gallery in Tribeca. Performance by electronic-folk duo Hopanka from Montreal. Doors open at 8:30PM
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SUMMARY:Ukrainian Archives in the Challenges of War
DESCRIPTION:The report is dedicated to highlighting the importance and role of Ukrainian archives in the processes of state formation\, preservation of national memory and identity\, as well as threats that historically existed and were connected with Russia’s imperial\, aggressive policy and were actualized with new force in the course of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. \nThe general outline of the process of creation\, preservation and transfer of Ukrainian archives in the whirlwind of events of national state formation and the Second World War will be characterized. \nThe main focus will be on the assessment of the situation and challenges related to the preservation of archives and documentary heritage in the conditions of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine\, which are faced today by government authorities\, society\, and archivists of Ukraine\, and require greater cooperation and support of the international community. \nWatch Livestream\n \nMaryna Paliienko is a Ukrainian historian\, archivist\, Doctor of Historical Sciences\, professor\, Head of the Department of Archival Science and Special Branches of History at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv\, editor-in-chief of the journal “Archives of Ukraine”. \nShe is the author of several monographs and books and numerous academic articles devoted to the problems of Archival Science theory\, history and practice in Ukraine and worldwide\, the activities of the Ukrainian emigration on the preservation of archival\, museum and library collections in Europe and North America\, displacement of cultural heritage during the Second World War. She researched Ukrainian archival collections in Austria\, Germany\, Poland\, Russia\, France\, and the Czech Republic. Some of her works are devoted to the ongoing digitization at Ukrainian archival institutions and the representation of their documentary resources on the Internet. \nIn the 2023–2024 academic year\, having received a grant from the Fulbright Program\, she is conducting research in the USA at New York University on the topic “Archives in the Time of War and Emergency: Problems of the Cultural Heritage Preservation and Usage (from the Experience of the United States and Ukraine)”.
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/ukrainian-archives-in-the-challenges-of-war-and-preservation-of-memory/
LOCATION:Shevchenko Scientific Society\, 63 Fourth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Resistance\, Resilience\, Renewal: Two Years of the Full-Scale War in Ukraine.
DESCRIPTION:Resilience\, Resistance\, Renewal: Two Years of the Full-Scale War in Ukraine \nPresented by the Shevchenko Scientific Society in collaboration with the Cooper Union and the Ukrainian Research Institute\, Harvard University \nLocation: The Great Hall at The Cooper Union\, 7 East 7th Street\, New York\, NY 10003 (enter at corner of Astor Place and Cooper Square) \nAfter two years of Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine\, the world remains inspired by Ukrainian resilience and resistance in the face of genocide and atrocities. What does an act of Ukrainian resistance look like? What are the obstacles confronting Ukrainian society and its partners abroad? How do we defend Ukrainian culture and identity as cities are being razed to the ground? Ukraine’s formidable challenges range from documenting ongoing war crimes to facing political complications that become inevitable in the midst of a colonial war. On the eve of the war’s second anniversary\, leading experts convene to explore where the full-scale invasion stands\, how we arrived at this current moment\, and\, most importantly\, what needs to be done to ensure a lasting Ukrainian victory. \nSpeakers include 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner and head of the Center for Civil Liberties\, Oleksandra Matviichuk (joining virtually); Volodymyr Yermolenko\, president of PEN Ukraine; and Kristina Hook\, nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. \nAbout the Speakers: \n \nA Ukrainian human rights lawyer\, Oleksandra Matviichuk heads the human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties\, the first Ukrainian organization to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She has been with the Center\, which works to protect human rights and establish democracy in Ukraine and the OSCE region\, since its founding in 2007. In 2021\, Matviichuk was nominated to the United Nations Committee against Torture\, making history as Ukraine’s first female candidate to the UN treaty body. She attended Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. \n \nVolodymyr Yermolenko is a Ukrainian philosopher\, journalist\, and writer who serves as the president of PEN Ukraine. A recipient of the Yurii Sheveliov Prize and Petro Mohyla Award\, he is also the analytics director at Internews Ukraine\, editor-in-chief of UkraineWorld.org\, and an associate professor at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. His work has appeared in outlets such as The Economist\, the Financial Times\, and The New York Times. \n \nKristina Hook is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. She specializes in genocide and mass atrocity prevention\, emerging technologies\, and post-conflict reconstruction. She is also an Assistant Professor of Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University\, where she specializes in genocide prevention and international human rights. An expert in Ukraine-Russian relations\, she is a former Fulbright Scholar to Ukraine and has served as a U.S. Department of State policy advisor for mass atrocity prevention. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology and Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame. \n 
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/resisting-genocide-two-years-of-russias-full-scale-war-against-ukraine/
LOCATION:The Great Hall at Cooper Union Foundation Building 7 East 7th Street\, New York\, NY 10003\, 7 East 7th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Drahomanov School by Lesia Ukrainka: Classes for Decolonization" (lecture and presentation of the book "Леся Українка. Книги Сивілли" )
DESCRIPTION:Lesia Ukrainka was named Mykhailo Drahomanov’s intellectual daughter and his “right hand.” How the relationship between the uncle and niece developed\, how Larysa Kosach’s three renaming of herself are related to him\, and how Drahomanov became the father of Ukrainian modern nationalism. All of this and much more will be addressed in the lecture by  the  well-known literary critic Tamara Hundorova as part of the presentation of her book  “Леся Українка. Книги Сивілли” (2023). \nWatch the streamed event here \nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XMV30AVC9Bk
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/drahomanov-school-by-lesia-ukrainka-classes-for-decolonization-lecture-and-presentation-of-the-book-%d0%bb%d0%b5%d1%81%d1%8f-%d1%83%d0%ba%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%97%d0%bd%d0%ba%d0%b0-%d0%ba%d0%bd/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231216T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231216T183000
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SUMMARY:The Fall of the Pan-Russian Idea: The Russo-Ukrainian War in Historical Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Despite repeated warnings from the White House\, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war—and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united\, while Russia grows increasingly isolated. \nSerhii Plokhy\, a leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War\, offers a definitive account of this conflict\, its origins\, course\, and the already apparent and possible future consequences. Though the current war began eight years before the all-out assault—on February 27\, 2014\, when Russian armed forces seized the building of the Crimean parliament—the roots of this conflict can be traced back even earlier\, to post-Soviet tensions and imperial collapse in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Providing a broad historical context and an examination of Ukraine and Russia’s ideas and cultures\, as well as domestic and international politics\, Plokhy reveals that while this new Cold War was not inevitable\, it was predictable. \nUkraine\, Plokhy argues\, has remained central to Russia’s idea of itself even as Ukrainians have followed a radically different path. In a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons\, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international order\, and a resurgence of populist nationalism\, Ukraine is now more than ever the most volatile fault line between authoritarianism and democratic Europe. \nSerhii Plokhy\, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University\, is a leading authority on the history of the Cold War. He is the author of Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters and Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis\, among many other works. He lives in Burlington\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/the-fall-of-the-pan-russian-idea-the-russo-ukrainian-war-in-historical-perspective/
LOCATION:Shevchenko Scientific Society\, 63 Fourth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231216T140000
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SUMMARY:150th Anniversary Inaugural Symposium (for members only)
DESCRIPTION:150th Anniversary Inaugural Symposium\nDecember 16\, 2023 2:00–4:00 pm\nSecond Floor Lecture Hall \nPANEL: Ukrainian Scholarship in Light of the Russian War on Ukraine \nThe Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US\, just as the original Society founded 150 years ago\, has always been tasked with formulating scholarly and intellectual responses to existential questions confronting Ukrainian society. The outbreak of the current Russian war on Ukraine galvanized our members to a remarkable degree as they shared their expert knowledge on all fronts. As the war grinds toward its third year\, this panel examines our respective academic disciplines to see what progress has been made in both discourse and institutional structures and\, specifically\, what next steps would be most effective. \nVitaly Chernetsky “Confronting Epistemic Injustice: Why Centering Ukraine in Humanities and Social Science Research Is an Urgent Imperative.” Vitaly Chernetsky will examine the changing place of Ukrainian studies within the broader field(s) through the prism of critical epistemology—questions of epistemic injustice\, epistemic imperialism\, and others. \nSusan Smith-Peter “How the Field Was Colonized: Russian History’s Ukrainian Blind Spot”. The field of Russian history in the United States was transplanted from Russia\, and specifically from V.O. Kliuchevskii’s idea of Russian history. For Kliuchevskii (1841–1911)\, resettlement and colonization were the key features of that history\, and only the “Great Russian” people had agency. Susan Smith-Peter will discuss how Russian and Ukrainian studies in the United States still receive unequal resources and scholarly attention and potential strategies to enact meaningful change. \nOxana Shevel “Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories\, Diverging States”.  Since 1991 Russia and Ukraine have diverged politically\, ending up on a collision course. As Ukraine built a democratic nation-state\, Russia refused to accept it and came to see it as an “anti-Russia” project. Oxana Shevel will trace the history from 1991 to explain how divergences in self-perception of Russian and Ukrainian elites laid the foundations to the broader causes of the war. \nGeorge G. Grabowicz “Is Cancel Culture the Answer to Russia’s War on Ukraine?” George G. Grabowicz will speak on the challenges facing Ukrainian Studies in Ukraine and abroad and how we can use this moment to effect change in the various institutions of higher learning. A special focus will be placed on how Ukrainian scholars and artists in Ukraine are responding to Russia—often by “cancelling” Russian culture by not participating in any public fora with Russians. The task then falls upon scholars doing Ukrainian studies in the West to steer a course between these difficult if not impossible positions. \nMeet the speakers: \nVitaly Chernetsky is professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization (2007; Ukrainian-language version\, 2013)\, Intersections and Breakthroughs: Ukrainian Literature and Cinema between the Global and the Local (forthcoming\, Krytyka)\, and of articles on modern and contemporary Slavic and East European literatures and cultures. He has edited or co-edited volumes dealing with contemporary Ukrainian poetry and film\, an annotated Ukrainian translation of Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism. His translations into English include Yuri Andrukhovych’s novels Moscoviad and Twelve Circles and a forthcoming edition (HURI) of Sophia Andrukhovych’s Felix Austria. Professor Chernetsky is a past president of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies (2009–2018) and the current first vice president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S. He will begin his term as president of the Association for Slavic\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in January 2024. \nSusan Smith-Peter is professor of history and director of the public history program at the College of Staten Island/ City University of New York.  She has written widely on Russian regionalism and Russian-American relations.  She is the author of Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia as well as the editor of a newly published 19th century manuscript by Aleksei Evstaf’ev titled The Great Republic Tested by the Touch of Truth. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine\, she has engaged in the debate over how to decolonize Russian history. \nOxana Shevel is associate professor of political science at Tufts University and director of the Tufts International Relations Program. Her research and teaching focus on the post-Soviet region and topics such as nation-building\, identity\, citizenship and memory politics\, church-state relations\, and democratization processes. She is co-author (with Maria Popova) of Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories\, Diverging States (2023). Her earlier book Migration\, Refugee Policy\, and State Building in Postcommunist Europe won the American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) best book prize. Prof. Shevel serves as Vice President of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) and of the AAUS. She is also a country expert on Ukraine for the EU Global Citizenship Observatory\, a member of the PONARS Eurasia scholarly network\, a board member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US\, and an associate of both the Davis Center and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. \nGeorge G. Grabowicz is the Dmytro Čyževs’kyj Research Professor of Ukrainian Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University\, where he has served as chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (1983–1988) and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute (1989–1996). He has been president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US (2012–2018) and is currently a vice-president. In 1997 he founded and since then has been editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian monthly Krytyka\, a leading intellectual journal in Ukraine. He has written on Ukrainian\, Polish\, and Russian literature and on literary theory. His first book on Shevchenko (The Poet as Mythmaker) was voted the most influential academic book of the post-Soviet period in Ukraine. He currently heads an international team of scholars working on a history of Ukrainian literature. In March 2022 he was awarded the Shevchenko Prize\, Ukraine’s highest award in the humanities and arts\, for his series of articles on modernism and the poet Pavlo Tychyna.
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/150th-anniversary-inaugural-symposium/
LOCATION:Shevchenko Scientific Society\, 63 Fourth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Kiev:20231208T140000
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SUMMARY:Програма заходів із відзначення у Києві 150-річчя НТШ
DESCRIPTION:  \n8 грудня (п’ятниця)\, 14.00 \nЮвілейна сесія Загальних зборів Національної академії наук України до 150-річчя Наукового товариства імені Шевченка. \nВеликий конференц-залі НАН України\, м. Київ\, вул. Володимирська\, 55. \nПрограма Ювілейної сесії: \n\nВітальне слово президента НАН України академіка НАН України Анатолія ЗАГОРОДНЬОГО\n\nНАУКОВІ ДОПОВІДІ: \n\nНаукове товариство імені Шевченка: історія\, сьогодення і майбутнє академік НАН України Роман КУШНІР\nНТШ як суспільно-політичний проєкт Михайла Грушевського доктор історичних наук\, професор Ігор ГИРИЧ\nІван Франко і проблема національно-культурної ідентифікації України академік НАН України Микола ЖУЛИНСЬКИЙ\nЗбірник Математично-природописно-лікарської секції НТШ: велична місія академік НАН України Ігор МРИГЛОД\nУкраїнська мова – домінанта діяльності НТШ доктор філологічних наук\, професор Павло ГРИЦЕНКО\nЛітературне товариство імені Шевченка (1873–1892) в історичній пам’яті українців доктор історичних наук\, професор Ігор СОЛЯР\nЕнциклопедична спадщина НТШ: від «Енциклопедії українознавства» до Енциклопедії «Наукове товариство імені Шевченка» кандидат філологічних наук Микола ЖЕЛЕЗНЯК\n\n​ \nТема: НАН України \nЧас: 8 грудня 2023\, 14.00 Київ \nУвійти Zoom Конференціяhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/89056257708?pwd=gb1TTtcuuKMbcViMvINnykPwRULWi3.1 \nІдентифікатор конференції: 890 5625 7708Код доступу: 287225 \n  \nПосилання на програму заходів із відзначення 150-річчя НТШ \nhttps://www.ntsh.org/ \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%be%d0%b3%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%bc%d0%b0-%d0%b7%d0%b0%d1%85%d0%be%d0%b4%d1%96%d0%b2-%d1%96%d0%b7-%d0%b2%d1%96%d0%b4%d0%b7%d0%bd%d0%b0%d1%87%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%bd%d1%8f-%d1%83-%d0%bb%d1%8c%d0%b2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231203T100000
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SUMMARY:What Does Decolonization Mean for Ukrainian Academic Institutions?
DESCRIPTION:With Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine\, Ukrainian studies programs and organizations in Europe and North American found themselves at the center of both public and academic attention. Calls for decolonizing Russian\, Eurasian\, and East European studies fueled additional interest in Ukrainian politics\, history\, language\, literature\, and culture\, and raised important questions about the role that Ukrainian academic programs and institutions can play in the process of decolonizing the field.This roundtable brings together leaders and representatives of six Ukrainian programs: the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University\, the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies\, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US\, the Ukrainian studies programs at Columbia University and Cambridge University (UK) and last but not least the Ukrainian Institute in Kyiv\, Ukraine\, to discuss what exactly “decolonization” means for these institutions and the field of Ukrainian studies as a whole. Participants will address the challenges and opportunities presented by the paradigm of decolonization. Reflecting on how institutions adapt their work and mission to changing geopolitical and societal realities\, this roundtable also marks the 50th anniversary of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard\, the oldest university-based center supporting the study of Ukraine in the United States.
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/what-does-decolonization-mean-for-ukrainian-academic-institutions/
LOCATION:Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T213000
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Reading at the ASEEES Annual Convention
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Reading (in person) will be taking place at the ASEEES Annual Convention on Saturday\, December 2\, 8:00 PM\, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown\, 5th Floor\, Salon I.
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/contemporary-ukrainian-poetry-reading-at-the-aseees-annual-convention/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T173000
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SUMMARY:The Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on Ukrainian Studies
DESCRIPTION:The Russia-Ukraine War had far-reaching implications for the development of East European Studies and in particular Ukrainian Studies in North America. In recent months\, many departments in Slavic Languages and Literature have begun to re-examine their programming and consider the decolonization of Slavic Studies. Anthropologists drew on their ethnographic understanding of the cultural terrain to deepen our understanding of the sources\, dynamics\, and consequences of the war. Furthermore\, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine rekindled interest in East European politics and invigorated a debate over the explanatory power of international relations theories and the role of disinformation campaigns. This roundtable brings together scholars in anthropology\, linguistics\, literature\, and political science to problematize and reflect upon ways in which the field of Ukrainian Studies has changed and shaped changes in Slavic Studies.
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/the-impact-of-the-russia-ukraine-war-on-ukrainian-studies/
LOCATION:Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T210000
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SUMMARY:AAUS/ Shevchenko Scientific Society/HURI
DESCRIPTION:Reception: American Association for Ukrainian Studies/Shevchenko Scientific Society/Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute \nPhiladelphia Marriott Downtown\, Floor: 3rd Floor\, Meeting Room 309
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/aaus-shevchenko-scientific-society-huri/
LOCATION:Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T170000
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SUMMARY:55th ASEEES Annual Convention Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of ASEEES
DESCRIPTION:ASEEES 55th Annual Convention 75th Anniversary of ASEEES\nVirtual Convention\, October 19-20\, 2023 Philadelphia\, Marriott Downtown\, November 30 – December 3\, 2023\nTheme: Decolonization
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/55th-aseees-annual-convention-celebrating-the-75th-anniversary-of-aseees/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231118T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231118T190000
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SUMMARY:Jewish-Ukrainian Relations and the Birth of a Political Nation: Adrian Karatnycky in conversation with journalist Vladislav Davidzon
DESCRIPTION:This is a selection of essays and dispatches from a veteran observer of the development of Ukrainian culture and politics over the course of a decade. The volume deals with the issue of Ukrainian-Jewish relations and its historical legacy in the context of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. It charts the events that took place in Ukraine after the 2013-2014 Euromaidan Revolution and focuses on the place of Ukrainian Jewry within a quickly developing Ukrainian political nation. \nAdrian Karatnycky\, formerly the president of Freedom House\, is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and a Board Member and Co-Director of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter\, a Canadian charitable nonprofit organization. He is a contributor to Foreign Affairs\, Newsweek\, The Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, the Financial Times\, Foreign Policy\, The New York Times\, and many other periodicals. He is author of the forthcoming book Battleground Ukraine: From Independence to the War with Russia.. \nVladislav Davidzon is the European culture correspondent at Tablet\, a fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center\, and the author of From Odessa With Love: Political and Literary Essays in Post-Soviet Ukraine. He was the founder and Chief Editor of The Odessa Review. He is a contributor to Foreign Policy Magazine and the Opinion Section of the Wall Street Journal. He studied human rights law in Venice. \n  \nLink to book\, with graphic \nhttps://cup.columbia.edu/book/jewish-ukrainian-relations-and-the-birth-of-a-political-nation/9783838215099 \n 
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/jewish-ukrainian-relations-and-the-birth-of-a-political-nation-adrian-karatnycky-in-conversation-with-journalist-vladislav-davidzon/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T203000
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SUMMARY:Of Rage and Longing: Poetry by Alex Averbuch
DESCRIPTION:Alex Averbuch will read\, in the original Ukrainian and in English translation\, from his latest book Zhydivsky korol (The Jewish King\, a 2023 finalist for the Shevchenko National Prize)\, as well as from his upcoming collection\, Of Rage and Longing\, and answer questions from the audience. Averbuch’s poetry deals with interwoven Jewish-Ukrainian relations through the prism of his family history and Ukraine’s multiethnic past and present. The book features poeticized documentary materials related to the Second World War: letters by Ukrainian Ostarbeiters sent to their relatives in Ukraine\, interwoven with letters by Jewish Holocaust survivors who returned to devastated villages in Ukraine in search of their murdered relatives\, as well as poems about the Russo-Ukrainian war currently taking place in his home region of Luhans’k. Unsettling butultimately liberatory de-specifications of ethnos\, language\, and sexuality relieve trigger-points in Ukraine’s history through the confessional intimacy of family\, shame\, pleasure\, and thereconciliation of self and other. \nAlex Averbuch\, a poet\, translator\, and scholar\, is the author of four books of poetry and an array of literary translations between Hebrew\, Ukrainian\, English\, and Russian. English translations ofhis poems have appeared in the Manhattan Review\, Copper Nickel\, Plume\, Birmingham Poetry Review\, Words Without Borders\, Sugar House Review\, Constellations\, and Common Knowledge. His latest book Zhydivs’kyi korol (The Jewish King)\, from which most of the forthcoming English collection Of Rage and Longing derives\, was a finalist for the Shevchenko National Prize\, Ukraine’s highest award for culture and literature. Averbuch is active in promoting Ukrainian-Jewish relations. He has translated into Hebrew and published over thirty selections of poetry by contemporary Ukrainian poets. Currently he is compiling and editing an anthology of contemporary Ukrainian poetry in Hebrew translation. \nОлександр Авербух \nПІСНІ ЛЮТІ Й ТУГИ \nМодератор: Олег Коцюба\nПереклади читатиме: Сашко Крапівкін  \nОлександр Авербух читатиме вірші в оригіналі й англійському перекладі зі своєї останньої збірки «Жидівський король» (яка увійшла до фіналу Шевченківської премії у 2023 році) та з майбутньої збірки «Пісні люті й туги»\, а також відповідатиме на запитання авдиторії. Головними темами його віршів є російсько-українська війна\, яка точиться\, зокрема\, й на території рідної для Авербуха Луганщини\, та єврейсько-українські стосунки крізь призму власної родинної історії та багатонаціонального минулого й сьогодення України. Окрім того\, автор поетично опрацьовує документальні матеріали часів Другої світової війни: листи українських остарбайтерів\, написані рідним в Україну\, та листи євреїв\, що пережили Голокост і повернулися до зруйнованих українських сіл в пошуках своїх убитих родичів.\nОлександр Авербух – поет\, перекладач і літературознавець. Народився у Новоайдарі на Луганщині. Автор чотирьох поетичних збірок і низки літературних перекладів івритом\, російською\, українською та англійською мовами. Фіналіст Шевченківської премії зі збіркою “Жидівський король”. У своїх творах торкається питань етнічної фрагментації та межовости\, множинних ідентичностей\, багатомовності\, документалістичного письма й памʼяті. Авербух є організатором численних літературних заходів. У 2020 організував фестиваль сучасної української поезії та упорядкував розділ шостого числа журналу перекладів “Ukrainian Literature: A Journal of Translations”\, присвячений поезії учасників цього фестивалю. Активно займається промоцією українсько-єврейських відносин. У 2022 році організував першу в своєму\nWatch the streamed event here
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/of-rage-and-longing-poetry-by-alex-averbuch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231104T170000
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SUMMARY:Дивізія “Галичина”: історичний контекст і сучасні питання
DESCRIPTION:В історичній науці та в інтелектуальному дискурсі час до часу зринають питання\, які набувають суспільного розголосу. Нещодавно такого розголосу набула тема військового формування Другоїсвітової війни—Дивізії «Галичина». Професор М. Шкандрій присвятив цій темі ґрунтовну монографію In the Maelstrom: The Waffen SS “Galicia” Division and Its Legacy (McGill-Queen’s University Press\, 2023). Під час доповіді науковець з’ясує генезу створення Дивізії\, її участь у військових діях\, відмежувавши строгі історичні факти від пропаганди та\, зокрема\, відповість на питання\, над яким полемізує чимало істориків: Чому молодь зголошувалася до Дивізії? Чому назва Ваффен-СС? Була це українська чи німецька армія? Чи можна уважати дивізійників воєнними злочинцями? Як розуміти теперішню контроверсію про памʼятники? \nLive stream \n\nМирослав Шкандрій – професор-емерит Манітобського університету та колишній керівник кафедри германістики та славістики. Досліджує аспекти сучасної української та російської культурної історії\, зокрема аванґард\, радянську літературну політику\, націоналізм\, імперіалізм та сучасні дебати навколо деколонізації. Статті Шкандрія публікувалися в Canadian Slavonic Papers\, Nationalities Papers\, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics\, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society\, Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal та інших періодичних виданнях. Автор та редактор кількох книг і куратор кількох художніх виставок.
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/%d0%b4%d0%b8%d0%b2%d1%96%d0%b7%d1%96%d1%8f-%d0%b3%d0%b0%d0%bb%d0%b8%d1%87%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d1%96%d1%81%d1%82%d0%be%d1%80%d0%b8%d1%87%d0%bd%d0%b8%d0%b9-%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%bd%d1%82/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T130000
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DTSTAMP:20260403T173612
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SUMMARY:Ukraine and the World at the Tenth Anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity: A Round Table on the Role of Culture in the Midst of Ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War
DESCRIPTION:LIVE STREAM \n\nIn conjunction with the theatrical release of the acclaimed documentary A Rising Fury that follows its heroes from the start of the protests at the Maidan in 2013 to the escalation of Russia’s war against Ukraine in 2022\, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US is honored to host a round table that brings together filmmakers and academics\, to reflect on the role of culture in the context of history in the making\, as Ukrainians first rose to reject attempts to deny their European aspirations and impose Russian-style authoritarian rule and shortly thereafter had to fight to protect their country’s independence and freedom against the Russian invasion. How can film directors\, musicians\, writers\, journalists\, scholars\, and other creatives help overcome the Ukraine fatigue in the West? What are the most effective ways to educate the public about Ukrainian history and continue to inspire people around the world to help Ukraine win against Putin’s totalitarian regime? \nChair: Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas) Participants: Tamara Hundorova (Princeton University)\, Christine Emeran (New School\, NCAC)\, Lesya Kalynska (Filmmaker\, NYU)\, TJ Collins (Film producer\, Poseidon)\, Olha Onyshko (Filmmaker\, American University) \n  \nVitaly Chernetsky is a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization (McGill-Queen’s University Press\, 2007; Ukrainian-language version\, 2013) and of articles on modern and contemporary Slavic and East European literatures and cultures where he seeks to highlight cross-regional and cross-disciplinary contexts. A book in Ukrainian\, Intersections and Breakthroughs: Ukrainian Literature and Cinema between the Global and the Local\, is forthcoming from Krytyka. He co-edited a bilingual anthology of contemporary Ukrainian poetry\, Letters from Ukraine (2016)\, and an annotated Ukrainian translation of Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism (2007)\, and guest-edited a special issue on Ukraine for the film studies e-journal KinoKultura (2009). His translations into English include Yuri Andrukhovych’s novels The Moscoviad (2008) and Twelve Circles (2015) and a volume of his selected poems\, Songs for a Dead Rooster (2018\, with Ostap Kin). Translations of Sophia Andrukhovych’s novel Felix Austria and of Winter King\, a poetry collection by Ostap Slyvynsky (with Iryna Shuvalova) are forthcoming. He is a past president of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies (2009-2018) and the current first vice president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S. Prof. Chernetsky is serving in 2023 as Vice President/President-Elect of the Association for Slavic\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)\, and will serve as its president in 2024. \nProf. Tamara Hundorova is Principal Research Scholar at Shevchenko Institute of Literature (Kyiv)and Associate Fellow at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Currently she is Research Schola rand Lecturer at Princeton University. She is the member of PEN Ukraine. She is the author of Lesia Ukrainka. Knyhy Sybilly (2023)\, The Post-Chornobyl Library. The Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s (2019)\, Tranzytna kul’tura. Symptomy postkolonial’noitravmy (2013)\, Kitsch i Literatura. Travestii (2008)\, Franko i/ne Kameniar (2006); Feminamelancholica. Stat’ i kul’tura v gendernij utopii Ol’hy Kobylians’koi (2002) and others. Her field of interests are modernism\, postmodernism\, feminism\, postcolonial studies and history of Ukrainian literature. She taught the courses at Harvard University (USA)\, Toronto University (Canada)\, Greifswald University (Germany)\, Ukrainian Free University (Germany)\, Kyiv-Mohyla University (Ukraine)\,Kyiv National University (Ukraine). Prof. Hundorova is a former Fulbright Scholar (1998\, 2009)\,Visiting scholar of Monash university (Australia\, 1991) and a recipient of Yacyk Distinguished Fellowship (2009)\, Shklar fellowship (HURI\, 2001-2002)\, Foreign visitors fellowship (Hokkaido University\, 2004)\, MUNK School of Global Affair fellowship (University of Toronto\, 2017)\, and Fellowship of Philipp Schwartz-Initiative of Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (University of Giessen). \nLesya Kalynska is a Ukrainian-American NYC based award-winning director\, producer\, and screenwriter. Born and raised in Kyiv\, Ukraine\, she holds a PhD in Literature and an MFA in film writing and directing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Lesya then worked in Kyiv as a director of a docuseries about World War II “Level of Secrecy 18”. After completing several award-winning short films Kalynska wrote\, directed\, and produced the feature documentary “A Rising Fury” about the Russo-Ukrainian war that was filmed for nearly 10 years. The World Premiere took place at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2022. It was the winner of several awards including the Supreme Jury Award and the Best International Director Award at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. The film was nominated for the Bronze Horse Award at the Stockholm FF\, Best Documentary at the Warsaw IFF and the Golden Duke Award at the Odessa IFF. \nChristine Emeran is director of the Youth Free Expression Program at the New York based non-profit\, National Coalition Against Censorship(ncac.org). She writes on contemporary issues about young people\, social media and social movements in the U.S. and Western/Eastern Europe. Dr. Emeran is a Fulbright Fellow and the author of New Generation Political Activism in Ukraine 2000–2014 (Routledge\, 2018)\,a book chapter titled “The March for Our Lives Movement in the USA: Generational Change and the Personalization of Protest” featured in a global social movement book series\, When Students Protest: Secondary and High Schools (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers\, 2021)\, a book chapter titled “Students Fight Back Against School Censorship” featured in an edited manuscript\, Sociological Research and Urban Children and Youth (Emerald Publishing\, In Press/2023)\, and a book chapter “Censoring Books in Schools Hits a Crisis Point” featured in Project Censored’s State of the Free Press (In Press/2023). An international researcher as well as an academic\, Dr. Emeran has taught political theory and sociology at Manhattan College\, NY\, St. John’s University\, NY\, and Sciences Po Paris\, France. \nTJ Collins is an award-winning filmmaker with over a dozen films produced including short and feature narratives. His feature film debut WILLETS POINT received the Audience Award at the Long Island International Film Expo and was theatrically released in the fall of 2010 with positive reviews in the New York Times. He is a NALIP Producers Academy and Screenwriters Lab Fellow 2009. Additionally\, his screenplay THE DRIVEN was one of ten nationally selected projects for the NALIP Screenwriters Lab sponsored by The Walt Disney Company\, NBC Universal\, FOX and HBO. Collins completed the narrative feature sports drama THE DRIVEN serving as writer\, director and producer and the film held its World Premiere at the 25th Dances With Films Festival – NYC edition. Since 2016 Collins also produced and co-wrote a feature documentary about the war in Ukraine A RISING FURY. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June of 2022 and is the winner of the Supreme Jury Prize at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. The theatrical premiere of A RISING FURY is planned for the fall of 2023. FILM THREAT Magazine gives the film 10/10 and hails it as “One of the best films of the year”. \nOlha Onyshko is an award-winning Ukrainian documentary filmmaker and script writer whose works include Women of Maidan (2017 Best Documentary\, Fort Myers Film Festival) and Three Stories of Galicia (screened in 12 countries and translated to 4 languages). Olha’s documentary in progress Quo Vadis? is about a Polish hotel owner helping 270 Ukrainian refugees\, 32 of which still live in his hotel. Her script She Who Became Queen about  Olga of Kyiv\, won the Best Unproduced script at the Madrid International Film Festival. Olha currently lives and works in the Washington D.C. area\, where she teaches a visual storytelling workshop called My Story – My Power. She is a teaching artist at Docs in Progress and has taught photography and Foundation of Arts at Thomas Wootton Highschool. Her current photo collection\, The Universe Within – Restore Your Light is a traveling exhibit.  Olha spotlights stories that bring hope\, empower vulnerability and awaken the goodness of humanity. Her favorite memories involve growing up on the outskirts of Lviv\, Ukraine\, where she played in the rose garden planted by her grandfather Yulko near their long standing family well\, listened to his endless stories and watched her grandfather’s doves circling above. Some of these stories she recorded in her two upcoming fairytale books “Legends of Water” (November 2023)  and “The Song of Freedom ” (January of 2024)
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/ukraine-and-the-world-at-the-tenth-anniversary-of-the-revolution-of-dignity-a-round-table-on-the-role-of-culture-in-the-midst-of-ongoing-russo-ukrainian-war/
LOCATION:Shevchenko Scientific Society\, 63 Fourth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Film: A Rising Fury
DESCRIPTION:The Shevchenko Scientific Society is proud to partner in supporting the critically acclaimed feature documentary A Rising Fury about the Russo-Ukrainian War\, which will have a limited theatrical release in New York City at Cinema Village from Oct 27 – Nov 2\, 2023. This theatrical premiere will commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity in Kyiv\, Ukraine.  Tickets are on sale now. \nA RISING FURY: Ukraine\, 2022\, 82 min. In English/Ukrainian. Directed by Lesya Kalynska and Ruslan Batytskyi; Producers: Lesya Kalynska\, Ruslan Batytskyi\, TJ Collins\, Jonathan Borge Lie; Screenwriters: Lesya Kalynska\, TJ Collins; Director of Photography: Ruslan Batytskyi; Editors: Araby Kelley\, Lesya Kalynska\, Ruslan Batytskyi; Composer: Emiliano Mazzenga. Pomegranate Studios in co-production with Batytskyi production and UpNorth Film. \n\nA Rising Fury premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film festival and screened at numerous international film festivals. The film is directed by Ukrainian American filmmaker Lesya Kalynska and Ukrainian filmmaker Ruslan Batytskyi. They produced it along with TJ Collins (USA) and Jonathan Borge Lie (Norway). The film was nominated for best documentary and other top awards in nine international film festivals including Stockholm IFF\, Warsaw IFF\, Oslo Films from the South FF\, Cleveland IFF\, and won several awards including the Supreme Jury Award at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival in 2023. \nFilm Threat gives A Rising Fury 5 stars and says it’s “A masterclass of documentary filmmaking… brilliant on every level. One of the best films of the year.” FILM INK gives it4.5 stars and says it’s a “Wake up call… a powerful statement as to what the Ukrainians are fighting for. Filmmaker Magazine says it’s “A breathtakingly cinematic explainer of current events”. \nA Rising Fury reveals the true untold story of how the Russo-Ukrainian war began in2014 and proves that it was prepared as far back as 2007. This is a unique film that explains how we arrived at this point in history through events and personal accounts on the ground. The film team followed several people for nearly 10 years from the Revolution of Dignity in 2013 to the battlefields in Eastern Ukraine\, and during the full-scale invasion in 2022. It’s a story about love\, revolution\, betrayal\, and war told through intimate verité material. It required multiple expeditions to the front lines and extensive filming in Kyiv. \nThis theatrical release is made possible with the support of the following organizations:\nProduction company: Pomegranate Studios\, Inc.\nEvent sponsor: Ukrainian Congress Committee of America.\nAssociate event sponsor: Ukrainian American Business and Professionals Association\nPartners: Shevchenko Scientific Society and The Brighter Ukraine Foundation. \nAbout the Directors: \nLesya Kalynska is a Ukrainian-American NYC based award-winning director\, producer\, and screenwriter. Born and raised in Kyiv\, Ukraine\, she holds a PhD in Literature andan MFA in film writing and directing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Lesya then worked in Kyiv as a director of a docuseries about World War II “Level of Secrecy 18”.After completing several award-winning short films Kalynska wrote\, directed\, and produced the feature documentary “A Rising Fury” about the Russo-Ukrainian war that was filmed for nearly 10 years. The World Premiere took place at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2022. It was the winner of several awards including the Supreme Jury Award and the Best International Director Award at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. The film was nominated for the Bronze Horse Award at the Stockholm FF\, Best Documentary at the Warsaw IFF and the Golden Duke Award at the Odessa IFF. \nRuslan Batytskyi was born in the Dnipropetrovs’k region of Eastern Ukraine on Aug3rd\, 1986. After finishing school in 2003 he entered Dnipropetrovs’k National University where he received a Master’s degree in cybernetics and management. In 2009 he began studying cinema at the Kyiv National University of Theater\, Cinema\, and Television. His several short films “Lethargy”\, “Reed” and “Ukrainian Lessons” were presented at international festivals and received several awards. In 2016-2018 he created a short documentary series “The least part of the work”. The series told the stories of people with neurosurgical diseases\, how it changed their lives and their spirit going through many challenges. Ruslan has worked alongside Lesya Kalynska to debut “A Rising Fury”. The film is about the war in Ukraine and has been filming nearly 10years. The World Premiere of “A Rising Fury” took place at the Tribeca Film Festival in June of 2022.
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/film-a-rising-fury/
LOCATION:Cinema Village Movie Theatre\, 22 East 12th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T183000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch and Roundtable Discussion "The Enemy Archives".
DESCRIPTION:  \nProfessor Luciuk will be joined in discussion by Alexander Motyl\, Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and Myroslav Shkandrij\, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manitoba and a former head of the Department of German and Slavic Studies. The discussion will be moderated by Olena Nikolayenko\, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Fordham University. \nLubomyr Luciuk is professor of political geography at the Royal Military College of Canada\, a Fellow of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto\, and the author of numerous publications dealing with the political history of the Canadian Ukrainian community and contemporary Ukraine. A founding member of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association\, Dr. Luciuk was distinguished in 2019 with Ukraine’s Cross of Ivan Mazepa. He has been a GIC appointee to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada and the Parole Board of Canada\, and was\, for many years\, active on the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund\, which he helped establish. He is currently writing his memoirs and completing a monograph on the redress campaign. His most recent book (with Dr. V. Viatrovych) is Enemy Archives: Soviet Counterinsurgency Operations and the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement (McGill-Queen’s University Press\, 2023). He lives in Kingston\, Ontario\, Canada. \nAlexander J. Motyl is professor emeritus of political science at Rutgers University – Newark. He is the author of six academic books and seven novels\, including Who Killed Andrei Warhol (2007). His academic work focuses on Ukraine\, Russia\, nationalism\, revolutions\, and empires. \nMyroslav Shkandrij is Professor Emeritus of the University of Manitoba and a former head of the Department of German and Slavic Studies. He researches aspects of modern Ukrainian and Russian cultural history\, including the avant-garde\, Soviet literary politics\, nationalism\, imperialism\, and contemporary debates around decolonization. His articles have appeared in Canadian Slavonic Papers\, Nationalities Papers\, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics\, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society\, Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal\, and other periodicals. He is the author\, editor\, or translator of several books and curator of several art exhibitions. \nOlena Nikolayenko is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Fordham University. She is also an Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University. Her research interests include comparative democratization\, contentious politics\, civil resistance\, and political behavior\, with a regional focus on Eastern Europe. Her recent book Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press\, 2017) examined interactions between nonviolent youth movements and incumbent governments during national elections in five post-communist states: Azerbaijan\, Belarus\, Georgia\, Serbia\, and Ukraine. Her current book project examines women’s participation in the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine.
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/book-launch-and-roundtable-discussion-the-enemy-archives/
LOCATION:Ukrainian Institute of America\, 2 East 79th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10075
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231014T170000
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SUMMARY:A New Reality in the Making: Russia's War on Ukraine and the Future of Euro-Atlantic Security
DESCRIPTION:Russia’s war on Ukraine created a new security reality in Europe. This talk combines a practitioner’s and scholarly perspectives on what was wrong with the ‘old reality’\,  what factors shaped Eastern Europe’s security ‘grey zone’\, and whether the institutional West is gradually responding to this new reality. Kateryna Shynkaruk will discuss the first lessons learned from the exposed challenges and vulnerabilities of Euro-Atlantic security and the contours of a new postwar security order. \n  \nDr. Kateryna Shynkaruk is a senior lecturer at the Texas A&M University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service in Washington DC\, where she teaches courses in East European Politics\, European Security\, and International Relations Theory. Dr. Shynkaruk is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has over 15 years’ experience of working in academia\, with think tanks\, and diplomatic missions. In 2016-2022\, she taught at the International Relations Department of the National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy in Kyiv\, Ukraine. Her research interests cover Ukraine’s foreign and security policy\, European security\, and the role of ideas in International Relations. She holds a Ph.D. in Global Political Affairs (2011) from National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv. In 2013-2020\, during a critically important period in the US – Ukraine relations\, Dr. Shynkaruk worked as a Political Analyst at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine. She received several high-level awards from the Department of State\, including Superior Honor Award (2018). \nPresentation in English. Discussion in English and Ukrainian.\nLive stream: https://youtu.be/a9IsiWEq37Y
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/a-new-reality-in-the-making-russias-war-on-ukraine-and-the-future-of-euro-atlantic-security/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230930T170000
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SUMMARY:Fiber Optics: Communication with the Speed of Light
DESCRIPTION:To date\, more than 4 billion kilometers of optical fibers have been installed in the world (approximately the distance between the Earth and the planet Neptune\, the farthest planet from Earth). This talk will be an introduction to fiber optic communications\, which are the backbone of most communication systems around the world. \nAndrew R. Chraplyvy received the B.S. degree in physics in 1972 from Washington University\, St. Louis\, Missouri\, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Cornell University in 1975 and 1977\, respectively. He joined the physics department at General Motors Research Labs in 1977 as a Research Scientist where he studied vibrational modes of gases and impurity modes in solids using ultra-high resolution spectroscopy. Since 1980\, he has been with Bell Laboratories\, where he has held a number of research and management positions. He holds over 90 patents worldwide in the areas of lightwave systems and fiber optics and has authored hundreds of publications. Along with Bob Tkach\, Andrew Chraplyvy invented a new type of optical fiber\, NZDF\, that is widely deployed in intercontinental and long-haul terrestrial networks. In addition\, they are responsible for a number of inventions that greatly increased the capacity and speed of optical networks\, in particular the concept of dispersion management of optical nonlinearities. These inventions and technologies are found in most high-capacity optical networks worldwide. \nModerator – Roman Brukh \nDirector of the Mathematical\, Physical\, and Applied Sciences Section\,Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US. \nThe presentation will be conducted in Ukrainian\, followed by discussion in Ukrainian and English. \n  \nLive stream: \nhttps://youtube.com/live/ThR_N3B7H74?feature=share
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/fiber-optics-communication-with-the-speed-of-light/
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SUMMARY:Ukraine in Ruins 1941–42\, 2022–23. Paintings by Alexander Motyl
DESCRIPTION:Тhe exhibit consists of 18 black and white acrylic-and-pen paintings\, 9”x12”\, on canvas sheets. Seven depict central Kyiv in ruins in 1941–42\, as a result of explosions set off by the Soviets; the paintings were completed in mid-2021. Eleven depict Ukraine in ruins in 2022–23\, as a result of Russia’s genocidal war; these were completed during the war\, in 2022–23. All the paintings were done on the basis of photographs.
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/ukraine-in-ruins-1941-42-2022-23-paintings-by-alexander-motyl/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T190000
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SUMMARY:"The Zelensky Effect": Book discussion with co-author Professor Olga Onuch
DESCRIPTION:With Russian shells raining on Kyiv and tanks closing in\, American forces prepared to evacuate Ukraine’s leader. Just three years earlier\, his apparent main qualification had been playing a president on TV. But Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly retorted\, ‘I need ammunition\, not a ride.’ Ukrainian forces won the battle for Kyiv\, ensuring their country’s independence even as a longer war began for the southeast. You cannot understand the historic events of 2022 without understanding Zelensky. But the Zelensky effect is less about the man himself than about the civic nation he embodies: what makes Zelensky most extraordinary in war is his very ordinariness as a Ukrainian. The Zelensky Effect explains this paradox\, exploring Ukraine’s national history to show how its now-iconic president reflects the hopes and frustrations of the country’s first ‘independence generation’. Interweaving social and political background with compelling episodes from Zelensky’s life and career\, this is the story of Ukraine told through the journey of one man who has come to symbolize his country. \nThe event will be streamed: \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VHUmDRKhTk
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/the-zelensky-effect-book-discussion-with-co-author-professor-olga-onuch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230916T170000
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SUMMARY:Understanding Ukraine. Between Trauma and the New Reality with Yevhen Hlibovytsky
DESCRIPTION:Modern Ukraine has become one of the most misinterpreted countries in the world. This talk will focus on Ukraine’s trajectory of development\, how it failed conventional analytical tests\, and the country’s future prospects. Yevhen Hlibovytsky will look into Ukraine’s security\, demography\, political culture\, religions\, economy\, and governance and will explain how these factors impact Ukraine’s future options. \nYevhen Hlibovytsky is a lecturer at Ukrainian Catholic University and a public intellectual who has been actively studying how cultural factors influence institution building and long-term prospects for Ukraine. He runs pro.mova\, a think tank and consultancy\, and is actively involved in Ukraine’s reforms sector. Yevhen Hlibovytsky is a member of the supervisory board of Suspilne\, the Ukrainian Public Broadcaster. \nDiscussants: \nOlena Nikolayenko\, Professor and Chair\, Department of Political Science\, Fordham University \nGeorge G. Grabowicz\, Dmytro Čyževskyj Research Professor of Ukrainian Literature\, Harvard University\, and Editor in Chief\, Krytyka Publishers \nPresentation in Ukrainian. Discussion in Ukrainian and English \nLive stream:https://youtube.com/live/jiAmQhUYP_4?feature=share
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/understanding-ukraine-between-trauma-and-the-new-reality/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230513T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230513T190000
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SUMMARY:DON’T CLOSE YOUR EYES: Ukrainian Poets Respond to the War
DESCRIPTION:Poets and translators Carolyn Forche\, Marie Howe\, Olga Livshin\, Lev Friedman\, Maya Chabra\, Olena Jennings\, Vasyl Makhno\, and Hanna Melnyczuk-Stecewycz will read the work of Halyna Kruk\, Lyudmyla Khersonska\, Yulia Musakovska and others.  Introduced by Askold Melnyczuk \n  \nMaya Chhabra’s translations have appeared in The White Review\, Cardinal Points\, and PoetryTravels. She is the author of a novel in verse\, Chiara in the Dark\, and several other children’s books including Stranger on the Home Front. Her short stories and original poetry have appeared in Strange Horizons\, Pod Castle\, and various anthologies. \nLev Fridman is a speech-language pathologist based in New York City. He has facilitated translationprojects and publications\, and his own writing\, translations and reviews have appeared in variouspublications. He is co-editor of “Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul”: Mykola (Nik) Bazhan’s Early Experimental Poetry (Academic Studies Press\, 2020). \nCarolyn Forché has published five books of poems\, most recently In the Lateness of the World\, afinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2021. Her works also include translations\, anthologies\, and a memoir.She is a professor at Georgetown University. \nMarie Howe is the author of four volumes of poetry: Magdalene: Poems (W.W. Norton\, 2017); The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (W.W. Norton\, 2009); What the Living Do (1997); and The Good Thief (1988). She is also the co-editor of a book of essays\, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). From 2012-2014\, she served as the Poet Laureate of New York State. She is the poet in residence at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine\, and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. \nOlena Jennings is the author of the poetry collection The Age of Secrets (Lost Horse Press\, 2022) and the chapbook Memory Project (Underground Books\, 2018.) Her novel Temporary Shelter was released in 2021 from Cervena Barva Press. Her translation from Ukrainian with Oksana Lutsyshyna of Nobody Knows Us Here\, and We Don’t Know Anyone by Kateryna Kalytko was released in September 2022 from Lost Horse Press. Her translation of Vasyl Makhno’s collection Paper Bridge was released in October 2022 from Plamen Press. She co-edited the anthology of poetry Ukrainian American Poets Respond released from Poets of Queens Press and Yara Arts Group. Her textile art has been shown at Bliss on Bliss Art Projects and the NYC Poetry Festival. She is the founder and curator of Poets of Queens. \nOlga Livshin’s poetry and translations appear in The New York Times\, Ploughshares\, the Kenyon Review\, and other journals. She is the author of A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman (Poets & Traitors Press\, 2019). Livshin is a co-translator of A Man Only Needs a Room\, a volume of Vladimir Gandelsman’s poetry (New Meridian Arts Books\,2022). \nVasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet\, prose writer\, and essayist. He is the author of fourting collectionsof poetry. He has also published a book of short stories\, The House in Baiting Hollow (2015)\, anovel\, The Eternal Calendar (2019)\, and five books of essays. Makhno’s works have been widely translated into many languages; his books have been published in Germany\, Israel\, Poland\, Romania\,Serbia and the US. Three poetry collections\, Thread and Other New York Poems (2009)\, Winter Letters (2011)\, and Paper Bridge (2022) were published in English translation. He is the recipient of Kovaliv Fund Prize (2008)\, Serbia’s International Povele Morave Prize in Poetry (2013)\, the BBC Book of the Year Award (2015)\, and Ukrainian-Jewish  Literary Prize “Encounter” (2020). \nAskold Melnyczuk’s book of stories\, The Man Who Would Not Bow\, appeared in 2021. His four novels have variously been named a New York Times Notable\, an LA Times Best Books of the Year\, and an Editor’s Choice by the American Library Association’s Booklist. He is also co-editor of From Three Worlds\, an anthology of Ukrainian Writers. His published translations include work by Oksana Zabuzhko\, Marjana Savka\, Bohdan Boychuk\, Ivan Drach\, and Hryhorij Skovoroda. His shorter work\, includingessays\, stories\, and reviews\, have appeared in The Paris Review\, The New York Times\, The Missouri Review\, The Times Literary Supplement (London)\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Harvard Review andelsewhere. He’s received a three-year Lila Wallace-Readers’ Digest Award in Fiction\, the McGinnis Award in Fiction\, and the George Garret Award from AWP for his contributions to the literary community. As founding editor of Agni he received PEN’s Magid Award for creating “one of America’s\, and the world’s\, leading literary journals.” Founding editor of Arrowsmith Press\, he has taught at Boston University\, Harvard\, Bennington College and currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston. \nHanna Melnyczuk-Stecewycz received an MFA from Mass College of Art. Her work has appeared atArt Space in Maynard\, MA\, University of Massachusetts Lowell Mahoney Gallery\, The Gallery at thePiano Factory\, the Danforth Museum\, Tufts Gallery\, Brush Gallery\, Fountain Street Gallery\, New ArtCenter\, and more. She has curated two art exhibits: Agni Magazine of Emerging Artists (published by Agni Press as Agni 37: Standing on the Verge: Emerging Poets & Artists alongside poetry curated byJoseph Lease and Thomas Sayers Ellis); the other\, a travelling exhibit of Ukrainian artists’ works\,Don’t Close Your Eyes\, responding to the current war. Hanna teaches Drawing and 2D Design atUniversity of Massachusetts Lowell\, and lives in Groton with her husband Joseph\, her daughter Lara\,and their cat Tello. You can see more of her work at www.hannamelnyczuk.com.
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/dont-close-your-eyes-ukrainian-poets-respond-to-the-war/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T170000
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SUMMARY:Зустріч із композиторкою Марією Олійник\,  стипендіяткою програми Фулбрайта 2022-2023 рр.
DESCRIPTION:  \nМарія Олійник – композиторка\, випускниця Львівської Музичної Академії та Королівської Консерваторії в Гаазі (Нідерланди). Співавторка опери «Ukraine-Terra Incognita». Викладачка катедри Композиції Львівської Музичної Академії ім. М. В. Лисенка. Стипендіятка Президента України\, Міністра Культури та Спорту Республіки Польща (Gaude Polonia)\, уряду Нідерландів (Nuffic). \nПід час зустрічі презентуватимуться оркестрові твори\, написані композиторкою протягом останніх п’яти років\, в основу яких покладено мелос української пісні. Слухачі зможуть познайомитися із уривками з опери «Ukraine – Terra Incognita» (2020)\, присвяченої оперному співаку та воїну Василю Сліпаку\, а також усім мужнім воїнам-захисникам України.
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/%d0%b7%d1%83%d1%81%d1%82%d1%80%d1%96%d1%87-%d1%96%d0%b7-%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%bc%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%b7%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%be%d1%80%d0%ba%d0%be%d1%8e-%d0%bc%d0%b0%d1%80%d1%96%d1%94%d1%8e-%d0%be%d0%bb%d1%96%d0%b9/
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