Shevchenko Scientific Society

Modern Shevchenko Studies: Multidisciplinary Discourses
2025-03-11 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
11 березня 2025 році в Навчально-науковому інституті філології відбудеться Міжнародна науково–практична конференція «Сучасне шевченкознавство: мультидисциплінарні дискурси», присвячена 211-ій річниці від дня народження Тараса Шевченка
Організатори:
Міністерство освіти і науки України Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка
Навчально-науковий інститут філології КНУ імені Тараса Шевченка
Кафедра історії української літератури, теорії літератури і літтворчості
Всеукраїнський навчально-науковий центр шевченкознавства University of Alberta,
Віденський університет, Інститут славістики,
Варшавський університет, Інститут україністики,
Познанський університет імені Адама Міцкевича, Кафедра україністики,
Інститут літератури ім.Т.Г.Шевченка НАН України, Відділ шевченкознавства,
Наукове товариство ім. Шевченка в США,
Осередок НТШ на Західну Канаду (Едмонтон)
Тематика і напрями:
Феномен Тараса Шевченка в контексті війни України з Росією.
Тарас Шевченко та світова культура.
Наукова і критична рецепція творчості Тараса Шевченка.
Тарас Шевченко в сучасних історико-літературних дослідженнях.
Творчість Тараса Шевченка в сучасних перекладах мовами світу.
Лінгвістичні прочитання творчості Тараса Шевченка.
Фольклористичні та інтермедіальні студії.
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XLIV Наукова Шевченківська Конференція
2025-03-08 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Програма:
Cпадок романтизму та народництва від ХІХ ст. до сьогодення
Сергій Біленький
УНІГУ/Колумбійський університет
Читачі Шевченка: автокоментар і сучасна вау-рецепція
Тамара Гундорова
Принстонський університет/Інститут літератури НАНУ ім. Т. Г. Шевченка
“Щоденник” Шевченка
Григорій Грабович
НТШ-А/Гарвардський університет
Модератор:
Віталій Чернецький, Президент Наукового Товариства ім. Шевченка.
Доповіді виголошуватимуться українською мовою.
Дискусія – українською й англійською.
Вхід – вільний. Реєстрація обов’язкова. Рекомендована пожертва – 20 дол.

РЕЄСТРАЦІЯ
ДИВИТИСЯ ПОДІЮ В ОНЛАЙНІ

Сергій Біленький – професор-гість Колумбійського університету та головний редактор Схід/Захід: журнал українознавства (з 2023). Програмний директор Гарвардської літньої школи українознавтсва з 2015 року. Закінчив Київський університетет ім. Т. Г. Шевченка, в якому здобув ступінь кандидата наук (1997). Отримав ступінь доктора філософії з історії в Торонтонському університеті (2007). Викладав курси російської, української та східноєвропейської історії в Торонтонському, Колумбійському університетах та Гарвардській літній школі українознавтства. Серед його публікацій: Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations (Stanford University Press, 2012) та Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands: Kyiv, 1800-1905 (University of Toronto Press, 2018).). Він також є редактором вибраних творів провідних українських інтелектуалів ХІХ ст., Fashioning Modern Ukraine: Selected Writings of Mykola Kostomarov, Volodymyr Antonovych, and Mykhailo Drahomanov (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 2014). Найновіша розвідка – мультидисциплінарна історія України протягом «довгого» 19 століття – Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine between Empire and Nation, 1772–1914 (McGill-Queen’s University Press and CIUS Press, 2023).

Тамара Гундорова – професор-гість та наукова співробітниця Прінстонського університету, провідна наукова співробітниця Інституту літератури НАН України, асоційована наукова співробітниця Гарвардського українського наукового інституту та декан Українського вільного університету. Віцепрезидентка Українського ПЕН. Авторка багатьох книжок, зокрема про Лесю Українку «Книги Сивілли» (2023), «Постчорнобильська бібліотека. Український постмодернізм 1990-х» (2019), «Транзитна культура. Симптоми постколоніальної травми» (2013; 2024), «Кітч і література. Травестії» (2008), «Франко і/не Каменяр» (2006); «Femina melancholica.. Стать і культура в гендерних утопіях Ольги Кобилянської» (2002), а також багатьох статей та розвідок про модернізм, постмодернізм, фемінізм, постколоніальні дослідження та історію української літератури. Була стипендіаткою програми Фулбрайта, університету Монаша, фонду імені Петра Яцика, університету Хоккайдо та Ініціативи Філіпа Шварца Фонду Олександра фон Гумбольдта тощо

Григорій Грабович – професор-дослідник катедри української літератури ім. Дмитра Чижевського в Гарвардському університеті. Професор Грабович був директором Українського наукового інститут у Гарварді (1989–1996) і одним із засновників і президентом (1991–1993) Міжнародної асоціації україністів. З 2012 по 2018 був президентом Наукового Товариства ім. Шевченка в США; нині є членом Управи. У 1997 році заснував український щомісячник «Критика», який став провідним інтелектуальним часописом в Україні. Перша книга Грабовича про Шевченка («Поет як міфотворець» (The Poet as Mythmaker), 1982; українські видання: 1991, 1997) була відзначена найбільш впливовою академічною книгою в Україні пострадянського періоду. 2013 року опублікував працю «Шевченкові ‘Гайдамаки’. Поема і критика». Грабович також був головним редактором видання «Тарас Шевченко в критиці» (т.1, 2013; т.2, 2016). Автор каталогу-монографії «Тарас Шевченко. Поет, художник, ікона (1814–1861)» (2014 р.). Редактор міжнародного проєкту «Історія української літератури», головний офіс якого знаходиться в Університеті Санкт-Ґаллена, Швейцарія. Лауреат Національної премії ім. Т. Г. Шевченка.

Віталій Чернецький – Президент Наукового Товариства ім. Шевченка в Америці (з грудня 2024), літературознавець, кінознавець, перекладач. Професор славістики Канзаського університету, у 2009-2018 роках був президентом Американської асоціації україністів. Здобув ступінь Ph.D. у порівняльному літературознавстві та теорії літератури в Університеті Пенсильванії. Автор монографії Картографуючи посткомуністичні культури: Росія та Україна в контексті глобалізації (вид. ун-тів МакҐил та Квінс, 2007; україномовна версія, вид. «Критика», 2013) та статей про модерні та сучасні слов’янські та східноєвропейські літератури і культури, де він наголошує на міжреґіональних та міждисциплінарних контекстах. Нова книга українською, Перетини і прориви: Українська література і кіно поміж глобальним та локальним, готується до друку у видавництві «Критика». Співредактор двомовної антології сучасної української поезії Листи з України (2016) та анотованого українського перекладу Культури й імперіялізму Едварда Саїда (2007), запрошений редактор спеціального числа електронного часопису КіноКультура, присвяченого Україні (2009). Серед його перекладів англійською романи Юрія Андруховича Московіада (2008) та Дванадцять обручів (2015), а також збірка його вибраних поезій, Пісні для мертвого півня (2018, спільно з Остапом Конем), а також збірка поезій Остапа Сливинського Зимовий король (2023, спільно з Іриною Шуваловою). Переклад роману Софії Андрухович Фелікс Австрія готується до друку. Протягом 2024 року проф. Чернецький був президентом Асоціації слов’янських, східноєвропейських та євразійських досліджень (ASEEES).

Program:
The Legacy of Romanticism and Narodnytsvo from the 19th Century to the Present
Serhiy Bilenky, HURI/Columbia University
Shevchenko’s Readers: Auto-commentary and Modern Wow-Reception
Tamara Hundorova, Princeton University/Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences
Shevchenko’s “Diary”
George Grabowicz, Shevchenko Scientific Society/ Harvard University
Moderator:
Vitaly Chernetsky, President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society

Serhiy Bilenky is a visiting assistant professor at Columbia University and Editor-In-Chief of East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies (since 2023). He also has been Programs Director of Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute since 2015. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, he graduated from Kyiv National Shevchenko University, from which he also received his Candidate of Sciences degree (1997). He received his PhD in History from the University of Toronto (2007). Bilenky taught courses on Russian, Ukrainian, and east European histories at the University of Toronto, Columbia University, and Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute. Among his publications is 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’s also the editor of the selected writings of the leading 19th-century Ukrainian intellectuals Fashioning Modern Ukraine: Selected Writings of Mykola Kostomarov, Volodymyr Antonovych, and Mykhailo Drahomanov (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 2014). His most recent book is Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine between Empire and Nation, 1772–1914 (McGill-Queen’s University Press and CIUS Press, 2023) – a multidisciplinary history of Ukraine during the “long” 19th century.

Tamara Hundorova is currently a Visiting Professor and Scholar at Princeton University. She is also a Principal Scholar at the Institute of Literature, NAS of Ukraine, an Associate Fellow at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and a Dean at Ukrainian Free University. Vice President of PEN Ukraine. Tamara Hundorova authored multiple books, including Lesia Ukrainka. Knyhy Syvilly (2023), The Post- Chornobyl Library. The Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s (2019), Tranzytna kul’tura. Symptomy postkolonial’noi travmy (2013; 2024), Kitsch i Literatura. Travestii (2008), Franko i/ne Kameniar (2006); Femina melancholica. Stat’ i kul’tura v gendernij utopii Ol’hy Kobylians’koi (2002) and many articles and chapters on modernism, postmodernism, feminism, postcolonial studies, and the history of Ukrainian literature. She is a former Fulbright Scholar, Visiting Scholar of Monash University, recipient of Yacyk Distinguished Fellowship, Foreign Visitors Fellowship (Hokkaido University), and Fellowship of Philipp Schwartz-Initiative of Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, among others.

George G. Grabowicz is the Dmytro Čyževs’kyj Research Professor of Ukrainian Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1965 and his PhD in comparative literature from Harvard in 1975. Professor Grabowicz has been Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard (1983-1988) and Director of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute (1989-1996). From 2012 to 2018 he was President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US and is currently a Vice-President there. 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, 1982; Ukrainian editions: 1991 and 1997) has been 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 that is due to appear shortly. 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. His most recent publication is an Introduction to vols 1 and 2 of Taras Shevchenko in Memoirs: A Critical Edition, Kyiv, 2023.

Vitaly Chernetsky is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas. A native of Ukraine, he began his university education at Moscow State University, and continued it at Duke University, arriving in the US as an exchange student in the fall of 1989. He received his MA (1993) and PhD (1996) in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to coming to KU in 2013, he taught at Columbia, Northeastern, and Miami University (Ohio), and has held research fellowships at Cornell and Harvard. At KU, he also served as CREES Director from 2015 to 2020, and is currently on the executive committee of the Jewish Studies Program and the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. Chernetsky is an ASEEES/AAASS member since 1993 and an active member of Q*ASEEES. He is a past president of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) and the current President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S., the autonomous U.S. branch of the oldest Ukrainian learned society, founded in 1873. He is the author of Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007; Ukrainian-language edition 2013; co-winner, AAUS book prize; winner, best Ukrainian book in the humanities, Ukraine’s Book of the Year awards) and of numerous articles on modern and contemporary Russian and Ukrainian culture where he seeks to highlight cross-regional and cross-disciplinary contexts.

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Why Did Russia Invade? [Portland, OR & virtual]
2025-02-27 20:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Vollum College Center, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
The History, Social Sciences, and Law Section of the Shevchenko Scientific Society invites you to a timely talk by political scientists Maria Popova (McGill University) and Oxana Shevel (Tufts University).
In their recent book, Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States, Popova and Shevel challenge the narrative that NATO expansion provoked the invasion. Instead, they argue that Russia’s slide into authoritarianism led its government to view Ukraine’s democratic, pro-European trajectory as a direct threat. Their talk will explore Russia’s refusal to accept Ukrainian sovereignty and how it has relied on geopolitical tensions with the West to justify aggression. Their analysis provides crucial insights into the real causes of the war.
This event will take place in-person at Reed College and virtually online.
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Analysis and Reflections on How War has Changed Ukraine's Religious Communities. Day 1096, The Third Anniversary of Russia's Full-Scale Invasion
2025-02-24 13:00 - 14:15 (America/New_York)
Join us for an informative discussion where each speaker will share their insights on the main changes they’ve observed in their research on religion since the full-scale invasion. They will highlight important developments and topics they intend to focus on in the future. Each speaker will do a presentation followed by a general Q&A session.
Join via Zoom link at 1:00 PM ET on Monday February 24th, 2025.

Andriy Fert holds a PhD in History and is currently a lecturer in the Public History and Memory Studies Program at the Kyiv School of Economics. He serves as the Ukrainian PI for the international research project “Memories of Soviet Repressions in Post-Soviet Spaces.” Since 2017, he has been working for the Institute for International Cooperation of the Deutscher Volkshochschul-Verband e.V. (DVV), coordinating projects related to history education in secondary schools in Ukraine. His studies focus on religion in the Soviet period and religion’s role in memory processes.
Pavlo Smytsnyuk is a Petrach Fellow at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University in D.C., where he is working on a project on religious peacebuilding. He specializes in political theology, modern Greek and Slavic Orthodoxy, and religious nationalism. From 2019-2022, Dr. Smytsnyuk was the Director of the Institute of Ecumenical Studies and a Senior Lecturer at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. Pavlo studied philosophy and theology in Rome, Athens, and St. Petersburg, and holds a Doctorate from the University of Oxford. Before coming to Washington, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University.
Dmytro Vovk is a visiting associate professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where he teaches international human rights, law and religion, and the rule of law. He is also an affiliated researcher of the Cardozo Institute of Holocaust and Human Rights and the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law at University of Queensland. Vovk has been a rule of law, constitutional law, and religious freedom expert for several international institutions. He also testified before the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and briefed the U.S. State Department. He has published extensively on religious freedom and church-state relations in post-Soviet countries and beyond. Vovk is a co-editor of the BYU Law International Center for Law and Religion Studies blog “Talk About: Law and Religion blog.”

The War in Europe
2025-02-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Goethe-Institut Boston 170 Beacon Street Boston MA 02116 USA, 170 Beacon Street, Boston, MA, 02116
How we got here, Where we stand now, and What might be required in the aftermath͏‌
Arrowsmith Press, in collaboration with AGNI, Irish Pages, Brookline Booksmith, The Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, The Shevchenko Scientific Society & Boston University’s Center for the Study of Europe, presents
WAR IN EUROPE
a conversation
On the eve of the third anniversary of the bloodiest war in Europe in eighty years, we’ll reflect on how we got here, where we stand now, and what might be required in the aftermath–for the United States, Europe, and of course, Ukraine. Three of the world’s leading authorities on Ukraine will assist us in exploring these matters. Serhii Plokhii, Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, will offer an update on the current situation in Ukraine, along with relevant background on the war; Professor of Modern European Intellectual History at Yale University Marci Shore will examine the intellectual framework that enabled the war, together with its impact and implications for Ukrainian, and European, culture. Economist Liudmyla Kurnosikova, currently a McCloy Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School, will speak about plans for the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine. The panel will be moderated by writer and editor (and founder of AGNI!) Askold Melnyczuk, University of Massachusetts Boston.

This panel discussion marks the publication of a special issue of Ireland’s leading literary journal, Irish Pages, guest-edited by Askold Melnyczuk, on the topic of The War in Europe.
Copies of Irish Pages will be available for sale.
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Serhii Plokhii interests include the intellectual, cultural, and international history of Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on Ukraine. He is the author of, among others, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History (W.W. Norton, 2023); Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (W.W. Norton, 2022); The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present (HURI, 2021); Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (W. W. Norton, 2021); Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance (Oxford University Press, 2019); Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Basic Books, 2018); and The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (Basic Books, 2015). His books have won numerous awards, including the Ballie Gifford Prize and the Shevchenko National Prize (2018).

Marci Shore is professor of history at Yale University and a regular visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. She is on leave in 2024-2025 at the Munk School for Global Affairs at University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of twentieth and twenty-first century Central and Eastern Europe. She is the translator of Michał Głowiński’s The Black Seasons and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe. A new edition of her third book, The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution, was published in March 2024. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Eurozine, The Atlantic, The Yale Review, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. In 2018 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for the book project about phenomenology in East-Central Europe tentatively titled In Pursuit of Certainty Lost: Central European Encounters on the Way to Truth.

Liudmyla Kurnosikova is currently pursuing a Master in Public Administration as a McCloy Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her academic focus centers on the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, with a particular emphasis on fostering investment. Before joining HKS, she worked as a senior manager in management consulting, operating across Europe and Central Asia, with her primary base in Germany. Liudmyla holds an M.Sc. in International Economics and Economic Policy from Goethe University Frankfurt, along with two separate bachelor’s degrees in Economics from the University of Goettingen and Philology from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Askold Melnyczuk has published four novels and a book of stories. What Is Told (Faber, 1994) was the first commercially published novel in English to highlight the Ukrainian refugee experience and was named a New York Times Notable. Others have been cited as an LA Times Best Books of the Year and an Editor’s Choice by the American Library Association’s Booklist. His selected poems, The Venus of Odesa, will appear in 2025. A book of essays and selected non-fiction, With Madonna in Kyiv: Why Literature Matters More than Ever will appear from the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute in 2026. A co-edited anthology of contemporary Crimean Tatar literature is forthcoming in 2025. He has also edited a book of essays on the St. Lucian Nobel-prize winning poet Derek Walcott and is co-editor of From Three Worlds, an anthology of Ukrainian writers from the 1980s generation. Founding editor of AGNI Magazine and Arrowsmith Press, he has taught at Boston University and Harvard and currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston. In 2024 he edited a special issue of Irish Pages, Ireland’s leading literary journal, on The War in Europe.

Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma
2025-02-15 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Презентація книжки Тамари Гундорової «Транзитна культура і постколоніальна травма» (Віхола: Київ, 2024)
Тамара Гундорова розглядає пострадянський транзит і говорить про покоління, тіло і пам’ять в українській культурі між двома Майданами (2004-2014). В її фокусі – реконструкція національної історії з фрагментів та слідів стертого і втраченого минулого, візія «моєї Європи» і тема «останнього радянського покоління», а також феномен «лузера» 2000-х як емблеми посттоталітарної травми. В центрі уваги – романи «Музей покинутих секретів» (2009) О. Забужко, «Ворошиловград» (2010) С. Жадана, «Записки українського самашедшего» (2010) Л. Костенко.
Модератор: Сергій Біленький
Презентація відбудеться українською мовою.
Дискусія українською та англійською.
Тамара Гундорова – професор-гість та наукова співробітниця Прінстонського університету, провідна наукова співробітниця Інституту літератури НАН України, асоційована наукова співробітниця Гарвардського українського наукового інституту та декан Українського вільного університету. Членкиня Українського ПЕН.
Авторка багатьох книжок, зокрема про Лесю Українку «Книги Сивілли» (2023), «Постчорнобильська бібліотека. Український постмодернізм 1990-х» (2019), «Транзитна культура. Симптоми постколоніальної травми» (2013; 2024), «Кітч і література. Травестії» (2008), «Франко і/не Каменяр» (2006); «Femina melancholica.. Стать і культура в гендерних утопіях Ольги Кобилянської» (2002), а також багатьох статей та розвідок про модернізм, постмодернізм, фемінізм, постколоніальні дослідження та історію української літератури.
Була стипендіаткою програми Фулбрайта, університету Монаша, фонду імені Петра Яцика, університету Хоккайдо та Ініціативи Філіпа Шварца Фонду Олександра фон Гумбольдта тощо
Вхід – вільний. Реєстрація обов’язкова. Рекомендована пожертва – $20.
РЕЄСТРАЦІЯ
Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma by Tamara Hundorova (Vihola, Kyiv, 2024)
Tamara Hundorova explores the post-Soviet transition and examines themes of the body, generations, and memory in Ukrainian culture between the two Maidans (2004–2014). She focuses on the reconstruction of national history from the fragments and traces of an erased and lost past, the vision of ‘my Europe,’ the concept of the ‘last Soviet generation,’ and the phenomenon of the ‘loser’ of the 2000s, which has become emblematic of post-totalitarian trauma. Central to her analysis are the novels The Museum of Abandoned Secrets (2009) by Oksana Zabuzhko, Voroshilovgrad (2010) by Serhiy Zhadan, and Notes of a Ukrainian Madman (2010) by Lina Kostenko.
Moderator: Dr. Serhiy Bilenkyi (Columbia University)
The book launch will be presented in Ukrainian.
Discussion in Ukrainian and English.

Prof. Tamara Hundorova is currently a Visiting Professor and Scholar at Princeton University. She is also a Principal Scholar at the Institute of Literature, NAS of Ukraine, an Associate Fellow at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and a Dean at Ukrainian Free University. She is a member of PEN Ukraine.
Tamara Hundorova authored multiple books, including Lesia Ukrainka. Knyhy Syvilly (2023), The Post- Chornobyl Library. The Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s (2019), Tranzytna kul’tura. Symptomy postkolonial’noi travmy (2013; 2024), Kitsch i Literatura. Travestii (2008), Franko i/ne Kameniar (2006); Femina melancholica. Stat’ i kul’tura v gendernij utopii Ol’hy Kobylians’koi (2002) and many articles and chapters on modernism, postmodernism, feminism, postcolonial studies, and the history of Ukrainian literature.
She is a former Fulbright Scholar, Visiting Scholar of Monash University, recipient of Yacyk Distinguished Fellowship, Foreign Visitors Fellowship (Hokkaido University), and Fellowship of Philipp Schwartz-Initiative of Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, among others.
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Ukrainian Music Initiative Introductions: Ukrainian Classical Music
2025-02-04 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York)
About the Ukrainian Music Initiative
Ukrainian resistance to Russia’s genocidal invasion has inspired the world. Ukrainian culture, including art, literature, design and music, which for centuries has been suppressed and threatened with elimination, is a key element of the fight.
UMI, a new world-class effort, was created to elevate Ukrainian classical music to its rightful place in the Western canon and to fill a significant gap in the US’ cultural landscape. This is being accomplished by having skilled and knowledgeable musicians of Ukrainian heritage perform Ukrainian music in accessible venues on a regular basis.
A collaboration of four independent artists, UMI consists of contralto Vira Slywotzky, cellist Valeriya Sholokhova, and pianists Margarita Rovenskaya and Pavlo Gintov. All of whom have a longstanding history of commitment to Ukrainian music and are sought after performers in New York City and beyond. Joining them in their mission are musicologist Leah Batstone and business entrepreneur Alex Gamota.
UMI is presented by Vira & Friends, a non-profit corporation under the auspices of the Ukrainian American Educational Center of Boston, a 501(c)(3).

Українське суспільство через три роки після початку повномасштабної війни
2025-01-25 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
Через три роки після початку повномасштабної війни українське суспільство втратило частину феноменальної єдності й опірності, яку демонструвало в перші місяці після 24 лютого 2022 року, але все ще має достатній запас міцності, щоби витримати воєнні злигодні й не вимагати від влади поступок аґресорові. Спираючись на двох соціологічних опитуваннях, проведених на різних етапах великої війни, Володимир Кулик аналізуватиме тяглість і зміни в поглядах різних категорій українського населення. Особливу увагу буде надано змінам в ідентифікаціях і мовних практиках, які демонструють незворотність руху України в напрямку геть від Москви.

Володимир Кулик є професором Київської школи економіки. Протягом багатьох років він працював в Інституті політичних і етнонаціональних досліджень Національної академії наук України. Він також викладав у Колумбійському, Стенфордському та Єйльському університетах, а також проводив дослідження в Гарварді, Стенфорді, Університеті Джорджа Вашинґтона, Центрі імені Вудро Вілсона та інших наукових осередках США й інших країн. Він є фахівцем із політики мови, памʼяті й ідентичності в Україні та мовної політики багатомовних країн світу, автором чотирьох книжок і понад сімдесяти наукових статей українською, англійською та іншими мовами.
Доповідь відбудеться українською мовою.Дискусія українською та англійською.
Вхід – вільний. Реєстрація обов’язкова.Рекомендована пожертва – 20 дол.
РЕЄСТРАЦІЯ
UKRAINIAN SOCIETY THREE YEARS INTO THE FULL-SCALE WAR
Three years into the full-scale war, Ukrainian society has lost some of its phenomenal unity and resilience, which it demonstrated in the first months after February 24, 2022, but it still has enough strength to continue withstanding wartime hardships without demanding that the authorities make concessions to the aggressor. Based on two nationwide surveys conducted at different stages of the full-scale war, Volodymyr Kulyk will analyze continuity and change in the views of different categories of the Ukrainian population. Of particular importance will be the changes in identifications and language practices, which demonstrate the irrevocability of Ukraine’s movement away from Moscow.
Volodymyr Kulyk is a professor at Kyiv School of Economics. For many years, he worked at the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He has also taught at Columbia, Stanford and Yale Universities as well as conducting research at Harvard, Stanford, George Washington University, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and other scholarly institutions in various Western countries. He is an expert on the politics of language, memory and identity in Ukraine and language policies of multilingual countries across the world. Kulyk is the author of four books and more than 70 scholarly articles in Ukrainian, English and other languages.
The lecture will be delivered in Ukrainian.Discussion in Ukrainian and English.
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Pianist Roksolana Kit performs works by Ukrainian composers
2025-01-11 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
Program:
Kateryna Palachova – “Prayer”
Serhiy Bortkiewicz – Sonata no.2, op. 60 (1 and 2 movements)
Theodore Akimenko – “Urania. Heaven’s Muse”
Borys Lyatoshynsky – Prelude op.44, no.4
Vitaly Vyshynsky – “Kitch music”
Antin Rudnytsky – Sonata op.10
Mykola Leontovych – “Shchedryk” (arrang. Sergiy Yushkevych)

Moderator: Pavlo Gintov

Roksolana Kit is a Ukrainian pianist, event organizer, and founder of various music initiatives. In 2023, she performed in Arkan alongside Roman Himey and Yarema Malanchuk at the Kyiv Biennial, and in 2024, she joined the IRON Collective at the Warsaw Autumn Festival. As the Grand Prize winner of the Ukrainian Music Competition, Roksolana is set to perform Antin Rudnytsky’s Piano Sonata at Carnegie Hall. Earlier this year, she has performed this Sonata at the Klavier Festival in Bayreuth, Germany.
Roksolana studied at the “Workshop of Cultural Practitioners” at the Ukrainian Catholic University in 2021 and further honed her craft at the XV International Piano Forum Bieszczady bez granic in Syanok, Poland (2020), as well as in early music masterclasses at the Mid Europe Early Music Festival in Kielce, Poland (2022). She also won the special project award for the 20th anniversary of the Hnatyshyn Foundation, Ukraine – Heritage, Spirit, and Future, in Canada (2022).
In 2023, she co-founded Etc.duo with flutist Natalia Kozhushko-Maksimiv, a duo focused on performing works by Ukrainian composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. She is also the co-founder of the Ukrainian podcast Without Experts and a regular contributor to the classical music publication The Claquers.
Roksolana holds a bachelor’s degree from the Mykola Lysenko National Academy of Music and a master’s degree from the H. and K. Bacewicz Music Academy in Łódź, Poland.

Pianist Pavlo Gintov has been described as “a poet of the keyboard” by Marty Lash of the Illinois Entertainer, a “musical storyteller” by the Japanese publication Shikoku News, and “a fantastic pianist and extraordinary artist” by Jerry Dubins of the Fanfare Magazine. Following his debut at the Kyiv Philharmonic Hall at the age of 12, Mr. Gintov has been touring throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and the United States, appearing at such stages as Carnegie Hall in New York, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Teatro Verdi Nationale in Milan and Kioi Hall in Tokyo. He has been a soloist with Tokyo Royal Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, the National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic and Manhattan Chamber Orchestra under such conductors as Michiyoshi Inoue, Victor Yampolsky, Thomas Sanderling, Volodymyr Sirenko and Tomomi Nishimoto.
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Bringing Ukrainian Studies to New Audiences
2024-12-14 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
In connection with the members-only general meeting taking place earlier in the day, we are pleased to invite the broader community to meet our board members and find out more about their research. Please join a panel of three leading Shevchenko Scientific Society scholars, the outgoing First Vice President and candidate for President, Prof. Vitaly Chernetsky, the outgoing Learned Secretary and candidate for Vice President, Prof. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, and Full Member and candidate for Learned Secretary, Prof. Catherine Wanner, as they discuss their current Ukraine-focused research projects that aim to appeal to broader and new audiences, while also encouraging the core audience of Ukrainian studies to discover new dimensions of Ukraine’s global importance.

Сhair: Dr. Halyna Hryn, President, Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US; Editor, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Harvard University
Participants:

Rethinking Odesa’s City Myth: Multidirectional Memory and the Challenges of Decolonization
Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky, University of Kansas
Odesa is one of Ukraine’s most internationally famous cities. An oft-mythologized image of it, however, largely derives from Russian-language literary texts and has trickled into a stereotypical version exploited for decades by the Russian mass culture and propaganda. This outdated cliché narrative obscures many facets of the city’s cultural diversity both past and present. The sea is at the center of both the old myth, on the one hand, and of the revisionist decolonial Ukrainian narratives, on the other. For the latter, Odesa is envisioned as a threshold linking the Black Sea with the “sea” of the Ukrainian steppe. The narratives it has generated tap into the cross-cultural contacts this contact zone has generated and into the aura of the city’s climate and landscape, as emphasized by its nonconformist visual artists. This talk discusses the contemporary Odesa-focused revisionist projects pursued by writers and visual artists, as well as the efforts by local intellectuals to decolonize the Odesa narrative in the context of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
What Putin Gets Wrong: National Revival and Philosemitism in Ukraine 1991-2022
Dr. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Northwestern University
Based on his recently edited volume (with Zeev Khanin) After Soviet State Antisemitism about the transformation of Jewish life in the FSU countries, Petrovsky-Shtern will outline ten radical changes in Jewish life that occurred in post-1991 Ukraine entirely reshaping Jewish communities in the country. Exploring how democratization processes affected Ukrainian Jews, he will coffer ways to reconsider Russian propaganda insinuations about Ukraine as a xenophobic right-wing polity.
Ecocide and War: How Animals Experience the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Dr. Catherine Wanner, Pennsylvania State University
What could be gained by looking at war from the perspective of animals? How would evaluations change as to what constitutes a “just war” or a “just peace” if we considered the rights of animals and the rights of nature? Until now, such questions have been almost entirely absent from discussions of the ethics of war. The goal of my research on analyzing how different types of animals – companion animals, livestock, wildlife and exotic animals – experience war is to make a case for the introduction of ecocide as a war crime by raising awareness of the environmental costs to a region, if not the planet, of waging war. Correspondingly, restorative justice must include compensation for environmental damage as well as for damage to the material infrastructure of a country.
Dr. Vitaly 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 (2007), of five edited or co-edited volumes, and numerous 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. His published translations into English include two novels, two poetry collections, and numerous shorter literary works, as well as scholarly articles and historical documents. Translation of Sophia Andrukhovych’s novel Felix Austria is forthcoming. He is the editor of the Ukrainian Studies book series at Academic Studies Press. Prof. Chernetsky is a past president of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies. In 2024, he is serving as the President of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES).
Dr. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is the Crown Family Chair of Jewish Studies and a Professor of Jewish History in History Department at Northwestern University. He focuses on political, cultural and multiethnic interference in comparative literature, early modern and modern Jewish history, and East Europe with a focus on Ukraine. For his expertise, Petrovsky-Shtern has been appointed a Fulbright Specialist on Eastern Europe; a Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; a Full Professor at the Free Ukrainian University in Munich, a Recurrent Visiting Professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, the Lady Davis Professor at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, the Kosciuszko Visiting Professor at Warsaw University, and the honorary doctor of the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv.
Dr. Catherine Wanner is a historical anthropologist and Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History, Anthropology, and Religious Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Using ethnographic and archival methods, her research centers on the politics of religion and increasingly on conflict mediation, ecocide, and trauma healing. In addition to several other books on Ukraine, her two most recent publications are Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine (Cornell, 2022), which won two book prizes, and an edited volume, Dispossession: Anthropological Perspectives on Russia’s War Against Ukraine (Routledge, 2024). She is currently writing a book on ecocide, animals, and empathy after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She has been the convenor of the Working Group on Lived Religion since 2014. In 2016-17, she was a visiting professor at the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University, and in 2019-20 she was a Fulbright Scholar at the Ukrainian Catholic University. In 2020 she was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Prize from the Association for the Study of Eastern Christianity and in 2023 she received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Association of Women in Slavic Studies. She was the Petro Jacyk Distinguished Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute for 2023-24. As of 2024, she serves as the Senior Advisor responsible for the Ukraine portfolio for the Religion and Inclusive Societies program at the United States Institute of Peace.
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General Meeting and Elections
2024-12-14 13:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Управа Наукового Товариства ім. Шевченка в Америці
повідомляє своїх членів, що
ЗАГАЛЬНІ ЗБОРИ
Наукового Товариства ім. Шевченка в Америці
та вибори нової Управи НТШ-А
відбудуться в суботу 14 грудня 2024 о 1:00 годині по пол.
Засідання Наукових Cекцій 11:00 – 12:30
в будинку НТШ-А
63 Fourth Ave New York, NY 10003
Сердечно запрошуємо всіх членів.
The GENERAL MEETING will take place on
Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 1:00 pm
Scholarly Sections will hold their meetings from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
at the Shevchenko Scientific Society
63 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY 10003
All members of the Shevchenko Society are invited to attend the General Meeting.
A reception will follow.
For additional information please call (212) 254-5130 or email info@shevchenko.org.

НОМІНАЦІЙНА КОМІСІЯ НТШ-А
Голова: Оксана Шевель
Члени: Вірко Балей, Юрій Добчанський, Олена Ніколаєнко, Зенон Василів
ПРОПОНУЄ ТАКИЙ СКЛАД УПРАВИ НТШ-А НА КАДЕНЦІЮ 2024-2027:
Президія
Президент: Віталій Чернецький
Перший Віце-президент:Олена Ніколаєнко
Науковий секретар: Кетрін Ваннер
Скарбник: Роман Широков
Академічні Віце-президенти:
Йоханан Петровський-Штерн (історія)
Вірко Балей (музика і мистецтво)
Роман Широков (природничі науки)
Григорій Грабович (філологія)
Протоколярний Секретар
Лев Чабан
Голови комісій
Бібліотечно-архівна: Роман Юзвишин
Видавнича: Лада Біланюк
Дорадчо-правнича: Іванна Білич
Зовнішніх зв’язків: Марія Соневицька
Зв’язків з науковими установами: Олександра Грицак
Інформаційних технологій: Олег Коцюба
Комунікацій: Наталія Шпильова Саїд
Осередків: Роман Гриців
Стипендійна: Мейгіл Фавлер
Статутова: Андрій Сороковський
Фінансова: Зенон Василів
Членства: Маркіян Добчанський
Вільні члени
Марґаріта Бальмаcеда
Андрій Даниленко
Юрій Добчанський
Павло Ґінтов
Денис Єщенко
Василь Заячківський
Соломія Івахів
Альберт Кіпа
Аскольд Мельничук
Оксана Шевель
Контрольна комісія
Галина Гринь (голова)
Адріяна Гельбіґ (заступниця)
Катерина Наливайко (секретар)
Орест Дейчаківський
Тарас Філевич
Усі кандидати на листі Номінаційної комісії погодились обійняти пости, на які вони номіновані. Після виборів, обрані Голови комісій підберуть собі членів для своїх комісій. Всі зацікавлені повинні зголоситися до Голів комісій після виборів до 31 січня. Членство комісій затверджується на засіданні нової Управи.

THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE OF THE SHEVCHENKO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY IN THE US
Chair: Oxana Shevel
Members: Virko Baley, Jurij Dobczansky, Olena Nikolayenko, Zenon Wasyliw
PROPOSES THE FOLLOWING SLATE OF CANDIDATES FOR THE BOARD OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE 2024–2027 TERM:
Executive
President: Vitaly Chernetsky
First Vice President: Olena Nikolayenko
Learned Secretary: Catherine Wanner
Treasurer: Roman Shirokov
Academic Vice Presidents:
Virko Baley (arts)
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (history)
George Grabowicz (philology)
Roman Shirokov (sciences)
Recording Secretary
Lev Chaban
Committee Chairs
Archives/Library: Ray Uzwyshyn
Bylaws: Andrew Sorokowski
Chapters: Roman Hryciw
Communications: Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Finance: Zenon Wasyliw
Information Technology: Oleh Kotsyuba
Institutional Liaison: Alexandra Hrycak
Law Advisory: Ivanna Bilych
Membership: Markian Dobczansky
Outreach: Maria Sonevytsky
Publications: Laada Bilaniuk
Scholarship and Grants: Mayhill Fowler
Members-at-Large
Margarita Balmaceda
Andriy Danylenko
Jurij Dobczansky
Denis Echtchenko
Pavlo Gintov
Solomiya Ivakhiv
Albert Kipa
Askold Melnyczuk
Oxana Shevel
Vasyl Zayachkivsky
Audit Committee
Halyna Hryn (chair)
Adriana Helbig (deputy chair)
Katerina Nalywajko (secretary)
Orest Deychakiwsky
Taras Filewych
All candidates of the Nominating Committee’s proposed slate have agreed to serve in the positions to which they are nominated. After the elections, committee chairs select members for their relevant committees. All members who would like to serve on a committee are invited to contact the committee chairs after the elections, by January 31. Committee members are confirmed at the first or second post-election Board meeting.

Book Launch: Battleground Ukraine. From Independence to the War with Russia by Adrian Karatnycky
2024-11-09 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Battleground Ukraine. From Independence to the War with Russia by Adrian Karatnycky. Yale University Press. 2024, 368 pp.

In 1991, after seventy years of imperial Soviet rule, Ukraine became an independent country. Since 2022, it has been fighting an existential war against an unprovoked, brutal, and ongoing invasion by Russia. At the center of its resistance is the resilience of a united people. Ukraine expert Adrian Karatnycky provides an eyewitness account of the history of the modern Ukrainian state and of the nation through the tenures of the six presidents who have led Ukraine since the collapse of the USSR, including Volodymyr Zelensky. Karatnycky shows how—despite the influence of corrupt oligarchs, pressures from Russia, and the legacies of Soviet rule—an inclusive and united Ukrainian nation has emerged that inspires the world as it defends the principle that states and peoples have the right to their national sovereignty.
Adrian Karatnycky is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and co-director of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. Through the council’s Ukraine program, as a labor union official, and as CEO of Freedom House, he has been deeply engaged in Ukraine for over three decades. He has written about Ukraine for leading newspapers and journals including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, where he is a regular commentator.
Reviews and Praise
“Fascinating and highly informative. . . . Mr. Karatnycky . . . has been studying Ukraine for decades and is especially well placed to tell its story and offer a convincing analysis of the fateful turns in Ukraine’s past as well as a picture of its possible future.”—Arthur Herman, Wall Street Journal
Listed by Wall Street Journal among “12 Books to Read: The Best Reviews of June”
“An authoritative account [and] an important addition to the literature. . . . Karatnycky combines eyewitness accounts with historical analysis, adding depth and insight to the bulletins of war.”—Kirkus Reviews
“[A] comprehensive account of Ukraine’s recent history by a writer who is thoroughly familiar with Ukraine’s identity, international context and the intricacies of Ukraine’s cultural and historic contemporary developments.”—Katya Soldak, Forbes
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Book launch: Carols of Birds, Bells, and Sacred Hymns from Ukraine: An Anthology and Cultural Companion by Marika C. Kuzma.
2024-11-02 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Ukraine’s abundant heritage of singing includes thousands of carols for the Christmas and New Year’s season. This book introduces an ancient culture that is nevertheless new to world audiences. The carols within it become a prism through which all of Ukraine’s history, culture, and resilient spirit are brought to light. As an anthology, the book includes the internationally celebrated Carol of the Bells—in its original version as a winter song of gratitude and resilience, and it spans sacred and secular pieces from early monophonic chant to elaborate, new choral fantasies. Transliterations and translations make the carols accessible to a broad audience. As a cultural companion, the book shares the stories behind each carol: historical context, biographies of composers, explanations of winter rituals. Written during Russia’s war on Ukraine, the book is also journalistic. These carols often carry gripping narratives of a unique choral activism that has helped Ukraine, its language, and its people to survive.
Marika Kuzma’s work is invaluable for any conductor, singer or musicologist interested in the rich heritage of Ukrainian choral music. The recent horrendous invasion of Ukraine has given heightened urgency to the study and promulgation of Ukrainian culture. Marika’s comprehensive anthology and passionate scholarship shines a bright light on the vital choral tradition in Ukraine and makes it accessible to choirs, conductors and music lovers around the world.—Grant Gershon, Grammy Award Winning Artistic Director—Los Angeles Master Chorale
Dr. Marika Kuzma grew up in Hartford, CT, in a close-knit Ukrainian diaspora community. Ukrainian songs and hymns were among the first music she sang with her family at home and in their Ukrainian Catholic church choir. After attaining a bachelor’s degree in voice as a Morehead Scholar at UNC Chapel Hill, a master’s degree from Stanford University, and her doctorate at Indiana University in choral conducting, she was hired at the University of California, Berkeley. As a professor of music there, she directed its large University Chorus and Chamber Chorus, taught conducting and music history, and led its solo vocal program for some twenty-five years. She also guest directed choirs at Dartmouth College, Oklahoma City University, and the University of Virginia. In 2007–2009, she served as chef de choeur (chorusmaster) to maestro Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony and led the St. Lawrence Choir of Montreal.
Moderator:
Dr. Maria Sonevytsky is an associate professor of Anthropology and Music at Bard College, an award-winning author, and founder of Chornobyl Songs Project: Living Culture from a Lost World, a public ethnomusicology program. Her areas of interest include folklore revivals after state socialism, critical organology, the science of musical instruments, and Soviet children’s music. She is the author of Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine (2019), several book chapters and journal articles in Music & Politics, Public Culture, The World of Music, Journal of Popular Music Studies, and winner of the Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society. Dr. Sonevytsky taught at Bard College and the University of California, Berkeley. She is also an accordionist, vocalist, and pianist.
In conversation with:
Archbishop Borys Gudziak is the Metropolitan-Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, founder of the Institute of Church History, and president of the Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv. He served as the Eparch of the Paris Eparchy of St. Volodymyr the Great or France, Switzerland, and Benelux (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church), head of the Department of External Church Relations, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He is the author of academic articles and books on church history, spirituality, theology, among them a doctoral dissertation, Crisis and Reform: The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest (1998). Borys Gudziak received Jan Nowak-Jezioranski Award (Wroclaw, Poland).
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Religious Freedom in Wartime: The Case of Ukraine
2024-10-16 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Virtual
VIRTUAL PANEL DISCUSSION
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The panelists will discuss religious freedom in wartime, particularly the case of contemporary Ukraine. They will focus on the recently adopted and controversial Ukrainian law concerning religious organizations with ties to a hostile state – which is generally understood as targeting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate. The presenters will deal with the political context, social expectations, and populism; how the issue affects Russian Orthodox outside Ukraine, particularly in the United States; and both domestic and international legal considerations of human rights, the rule of law, and Europe-Ukraine relations. The presentations will be in English. They will be followed by a discussion among the presenters, after which they will entertain questions from the public.
(Mis)communication: Religious Freedom and the Russian Church outside of Ukraine
Protodeacon Nicholas Denysenko
Professor of Theology, Valparaiso University in Indiana
Contexts and Undertexts of the New Ukrainian Law Banning the Russian Orthodox Church
Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun
Professor of Ecclesiology, International Relations and Ecumenism, Sankt Ignatios College, University College Stockholm
The Banning of Religious Organizations as a Legal Problem: The Ukrainian Context
Dmytro Vovk
Visiting associate professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York
Moderator
Andrew Sorokowski
Shevchenko Scientific Society
About the panelists:
Protodeacon 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).

Archimandrite 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.

Dmytro 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.

Andrew 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.
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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
2024-09-28 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
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.
Oksana Kis is a feminist historian and anthropologist, senior scholars and head of the Department of Social Anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (in Lviv). Dr. Kis is president of the Ukrainian Association for Research in Women’s History. Her book Ukraïnky v GULAGu: Vyzhyty znachyt´ peremohty (Lviv, 2017; 2nd rev. ed. 2020) was included in the Ukrainian Book Institute’s list of the 30 most significant books of the Ukrainian Independence period in 2021. Its English version, Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag (Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies, 2021), received the Translated Book Award from the Peterson Literary Fund (2021). She also edited and coedited several award-winning volumes including on women’s history. Her most recent edited collection, Women’s Dimensions of the Past: Perceptions, Experiences, Representations (in Ukrainian), was published in December 2023. Dr. Kis is a recipient of several academic awards, including two Fulbright Research Fellowships (2003 and 2011). The areas of her expertise include women’s lives in pre-industrial Ukrainian peasant families and rural communities, Ukrainian women’s experiences of the Holodomor 1932/33, women’s participation in the Ukrainian national anti-Soviet resistance in the 1940–1950s, gendered experiences of Ukrainian female political prisoners in the Gulag, and gender transformations in post-socialist countries.

The lecture will be delivered in Ukrainian. Discussion in Ukrainian and English.
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A Tribute to Virko Baley: 85th Anniversary Celebration
2024-09-15 14:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Institute of America, Music at the Institute present
A TRIBUTE TO VIRKO BALEY: An 85th Birthday Celebration
September 15, 2024 2:00 PM
Ukrainian Institute of America
2 E 79th St, New York, NY 10075
Virko 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.
Throughout 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.
Program – Music of Virko Baley
Emily Dickinson Songbook for soprano and piano
Journey After Loves for baritone and piano
Persona II, “Borys Liatoshynsky” for Solo Clarinet (B-Flat Clarinet)
Dreamtime Suite for clarinet, violin and piano
Performed by
Corrine Byrne, soprano
Thomas Meglioranza, baritone
Reiko Uchida, piano
Victoria Luperi, clarinet
Solomiya Ivakhiv, violin
Admission:
NTSh and UIA Members – free
non members: regular admission $35
students/seniors $20
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The Shevchenko Scientific Society in the Context of Ukrainian Intellectual History: 150th Anniversary Conference
2024-05-19 09:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 East 79th St., New York, NY, 10075
SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2024 | 9:00AM – 7:00PM
Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 E 79th St, New York, NY 10075
Marking 150 years of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, this conference features three panels with scholars from the US, Ukraine, Canada, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, and Austria. Speakers will discuss the history of the Society’s establishment, the contexts of its activity, and its influence on Ukrainian intellectual and cultural life from its founding to the present day.
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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
9:00–9:15
Welcome from Vitaly Chernetsky, conference organizer, First Vice President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society
9:15–11:00
Panel I: Nineteenth-Century Ukrainian Intellectual Life under Russian Imperial Rule
Chair: Halyna Hryn (Shevchenko Scientific Society/Harvard University)
George Grabowicz (Harvard University): Rethinking the Cyrilo-Methodian Brotherhood: Problems of Historiography and Some New and Old Aporias
Serhiy Bilenky (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta): Before NTSh-A: Scholarship and Politics in 1870s Kyiv
Fabian Bauman (University of Heidelberg): Academic Ukrainophilism and Ukrainian Politics in the Russian Empire under the Ems Ukaz
Discussant: Susan Smith-Peter (College of Staten Island, City University of New York)
11:00–11:15
Coffee
11:15–1:15
Panel ІІ: The Shevchenko Scientific Society and Its Impact, in Galicia and Beyond
Chair: Oksana Kis (University of Richmond/National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
Martin Rohde (University of Vienna): Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Making of Ukrainian “National Science,” 1892–1939
Tomasz Hen-Konarski (Polish Academy of Sciences): The Sorcerer and His Apprentice: Kyrylo Studyns′kyi and Amvrozii Androkhovych as Historians of the Greek Catholic Clerical Education
Jan Surman (Czech Academy of Sciences): (Re)writing Ukrainian Academic Language from Habsburg Galicia to the Soviet Union
Discussant: Frank Sysyn (University of Alberta)
1:15–2:30
Lunch Break
2:30–4:30
Panel III: Ukrainian Scholarship and Its Sociopolitical Contexts, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Chair: Olena Nikolayenko (Fordham University)
Anton Kotenko (University of Düsseldorf): “Scientific Society” or an “Institution of the Most Radical Ukrainophile Party”? NTSh in the Materials of the Romanov Imperial Censorship
Maryna Paliienko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv/New York University): Ukrainian Diaspora Archives During and After World War II as a Target of Nazi and Soviet Security Services
Steven Seegel (University of Texas, Austin): The NTSh and Geography: On Some Challenges and Legacies in the Making of Modern Ukrainian Maps, from the 1860s to Stepan Rudnyts’kyi and The February 24th Archive Project
Discussant: Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas)
4:30–4:45
Coffee
4:45–6:00
Concluding Discussion
6:00–7:00
Closing Reception
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Conference Speakers:
Fabian 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.

Serhiy 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.

Vitaly 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).

George 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.

Tomasz 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.

Anton 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.”

Maryna 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).”

Martin 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.

Steven 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.

Susan 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.

Jan 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.

Frank 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.

Pre-Launch Reading From "The God of Freedom" and conversation with Julia Musakovska
2024-04-27 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Yuliya 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.
Published 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.

Yuliya 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.
Olena 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.

The 5th Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival
2024-03-28 - 2024-03-30
Our Society is proud to co-sponsor the 5th edition of the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival. See below for more information on events.
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DEFENSE-DEFIANCE-DEDICATION
MARCH 28 | 7PM
Since 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.

VIRKO BALEY AT 85
MARCH 29 | 7PM
Famed Ukrainian-American composer Virko Baley celebrates his 85th birthday with the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival.

TRAVEL DIARIES
MARCH 30 | 7PM
Each 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.

UCMF AFTERDARK
MARCH 30 | 9PM
UCMF’s first ever after-hours event at Mriya Gallery in Tribeca. Performance by electronic-folk duo Hopanka from Montreal. Doors open at 8:30PM

Ukrainian Archives in the Challenges of War
2024-03-02 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States
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.
The 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.
The 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.
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Maryna 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”.
She 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.
In 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)”.

Resistance, Resilience, Renewal: Two Years of the Full-Scale War in Ukraine.
2024-02-23 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | 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
Resilience, Resistance, Renewal: Two Years of the Full-Scale War in Ukraine
Presented by the Shevchenko Scientific Society in collaboration with the Cooper Union and the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
Location: The Great Hall at The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, New York, NY 10003 (enter at corner of Astor Place and Cooper Square)
After 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.
Speakers 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.
About the Speakers:

A 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.

Volodymyr 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.

Kristina 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.

"Drahomanov School by Lesia Ukrainka: Classes for Decolonization" (lecture and presentation of the book "Леся Українка. Книги Сивілли" )
2024-02-17 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
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).
Watch the streamed event here
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XMV30AVC9Bk

The Fall of the Pan-Russian Idea: The Russo-Ukrainian War in Historical Perspective
2023-12-16 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States
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.
Serhii 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.
Ukraine, 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.
Serhii 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.

150th Anniversary Inaugural Symposium (for members only)
2023-12-16 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States
150th Anniversary Inaugural Symposium
December 16, 2023 2:00–4:00 pm
Second Floor Lecture Hall
PANEL: Ukrainian Scholarship in Light of the Russian War on Ukraine
The 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.
Vitaly 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.
Susan 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.
Oxana 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.
George 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.
Meet the speakers:
Vitaly 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.
Susan 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.
Oxana 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.
George 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.

Програма заходів із відзначення у Києві 150-річчя НТШ
2023-12-08 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Kiev)
8 грудня (п’ятниця), 14.00
Ювілейна сесія Загальних зборів Національної академії наук України до 150-річчя Наукового товариства імені Шевченка.
Великий конференц-залі НАН України, м. Київ, вул. Володимирська, 55.
Програма Ювілейної сесії:

Вітальне слово президента НАН України академіка НАН України Анатолія ЗАГОРОДНЬОГО

НАУКОВІ ДОПОВІДІ:

Наукове товариство імені Шевченка: історія, сьогодення і майбутнє академік НАН України Роман КУШНІР
НТШ як суспільно-політичний проєкт Михайла Грушевського доктор історичних наук, професор Ігор ГИРИЧ
Іван Франко і проблема національно-культурної ідентифікації України академік НАН України Микола ЖУЛИНСЬКИЙ
Збірник Математично-природописно-лікарської секції НТШ: велична місія академік НАН України Ігор МРИГЛОД
Українська мова – домінанта діяльності НТШ доктор філологічних наук, професор Павло ГРИЦЕНКО
Літературне товариство імені Шевченка (1873–1892) в історичній пам’яті українців доктор історичних наук, професор Ігор СОЛЯР
Енциклопедична спадщина НТШ: від «Енциклопедії українознавства» до Енциклопедії «Наукове товариство імені Шевченка» кандидат філологічних наук Микола ЖЕЛЕЗНЯК

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Тема: НАН України
Час: 8 грудня 2023, 14.00 Київ
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Ідентифікатор конференції: 890 5625 7708Код доступу: 287225

Посилання на програму заходів із відзначення 150-річчя НТШ
https://www.ntsh.org/

What Does Decolonization Mean for Ukrainian Academic Institutions?
2023-12-03 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
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.

Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Reading at the ASEEES Annual Convention
2023-12-02 20:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York)
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.

The Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on Ukrainian Studies
2023-12-02 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
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.

AAUS/ Shevchenko Scientific Society/HURI
2023-12-01 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
Reception: American Association for Ukrainian Studies/Shevchenko Scientific Society/Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: 3rd Floor, Meeting Room 309

55th ASEEES Annual Convention Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of ASEEES
2023-11-30 08:00 - 2023-12-04 17:00 (America/New_York)
ASEEES 55th Annual Convention 75th Anniversary of ASEEES
Virtual Convention, October 19-20, 2023 Philadelphia, Marriott Downtown, November 30 – December 3, 2023
Theme: Decolonization
