Shevchenko Scientific Society

Film screening of “Krynytsia dla sprahlykh” ("Spring for the Thirsty),” directed by Yuriy Illienko, screenplay by Ivan Drach
2018-10-20 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
The event is dedicated to the memory of Ivan Drach (1936-2018), a prominent Ukrainian poet and political leader. Opening remarks by Leonid Hrabovsky and Vasyl Makhno
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Book launch “New Generation Political Activism in Ukraine: 2000–2014 (Routledge, 2018)”
2018-10-13 17:00 - 19:00
This book explains how socio-cultural experiences shape an individual’s choices to become an activist in the authoritarian space of post-Soviet Ukraine by applying a cultural, actor-centred approach using qualitative methods of interviews and ethnography. Using biographical narratives gathered among activists involved in the three largest protests since Ukrainian independence in 1991, it offers an account of the dynamics of individual decision making between participants in collective protest actions under repressive conditions.

Lecture “Transatlantic Youth Activism of Young Ukrainian Immigrants"
2018-10-06 17:00 - 19:00
The presentation will explore the transnational activism of young Ukrainian immigrants in the United States during and after the Euromaidan protests and their contribution to democratization of Ukraine from abroad. While the existing research details the influence of the Ukrainian diaspora on the democratic development of Ukraine, especially since the proclamation of its independence (Koinova, 2009; Satzewich, 2002), it rarely discusses whether and how young Ukrainians who emigrated to the United States in the last two decades have contributed to the democratization of their homeland from abroad. Drawing on the transnational activism literature (Faist, 2010; Levitt & Jaworsky, 2007; Smith & Guarnizo, 1998), this presentation will highlight motivations of young Ukrainian immigrants to engage and support the Euromaidan movement from abroad; the diversity of strategies they employed to enable political, economic, and social change during and after the Euromaidan; and the subsequent impact they created in Ukraine and the United States. The presentation will draw on a qualitative case study that examined the non-profit organization Razom, which was established by a group of young Ukrainians in New York City in the wake of Euromaidan in December 2013 to support democracy, human rights, and social justice in Ukraine

Lecture “The Ukrainian-Polish joint expedition to Kholm: The artifacts of King Danylo from the 13th Century”
2018-09-22 17:00 - 19:00 | Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Сенсаційна знахідка у День Незалежності України
24 cерпня 2018 в місті Холмі у Польщі під час археологічних досліджень місця колишнього замку–резиденції короля Русі Данила Романовича знайдено три унікальні артефакти, що підтверджують літописні згадки про архітектуру королівського храму. У Галицько-Волинському літописі стверджувалося, що: «Звів також [Данило] церкву святого Іоанна [Златоустого], красну і гожу. І споруда її була така: … троє вікон прикрашені [були] склом римським (тобто вітражами); … внутрішній же поміст її був вилитий з міді і з чистого олова, так що блищав він, як дзеркало. Дверей же її двоє [були] прикрашені каменем тесаним — галицьким білим і зеленим холмським…» (текст за Л.Махновцем).
Наведений у літописі опис, дотепер мав лише часткове підтвердження. При розкопках на місці колишнього замку короля Данила в Холмі у попередні роки було знайдено декілька фрагментів різьблених кам’яних деталей із місцевого холмського зеленого каменю (глауконітиту). Але білокам’яних архітектурних деталей, які би підверджували правдивість літописних рядків, дотепер не було виявлено. Від початку серпня цього року на замковій горі у Холмі продовжилися археологічні розкриття. І симптоматично, що 24 серпня у розкопі №46 нарешті знайдено велику архітектурну деталь з білого вапняку. Деталь має мистецьки виконану частину, яка вказує, що це ймовірно кронштейн арки дверного порталу – див. фото 1. За архітектурною стилістикою ця деталь подібна до попередньо виявлених зелених глауконітитових деталей.
У цьому ж розкопі паралельно було виявлено ще одну унікальну знахідку. Її теж можна віднести до найбільш цікавих мистецьких знахідок. Віднайдено фрагмент бронзової плитки, яка підверджує літописну згадку про поміст вилитий з міді та олова (фото 2). Поки що це перший малий фрагментик літописного помосту у вівтарній частині храму, який ще належить дослідити лабораторним способом на предмет техніки його виготовлення та мистецького вистрою.
Ще одна, не менш сенсаційна знахідка цього дня, – пластина товстого дуже якісно виготовленого скла неправильних геометричних форм, оправленої в тонку мідну смугу металу. Наймовірніше це є фрагмент згаданого у літописі вітража (римського скла), оскільки знайдено його у румовищі скісно виконаних архітектурних деталей, що можуть бути елементами колишнього віконного прорізу.
Археологічні рештки резиденції короля Данила Романовича у Холмі досліджує вже 7-ий сезон експедиція з Інституту Археології та Етнології Польської Академії Наук під керівництвом професора Анджея Буко. Безпосереднє виконання розкопок відбувається під наглядом археолога з Холма Станіслава Голуба. До складу експедиції як консультанти запрошуються епізодично українські вчені. Свідками сенсаційних знахідок стали спеціалісти зі Львова – Микола Бевз, Юрій Лукомський, Василь Петрик, Володимир Бевз.

Символічно, що такі значущі знахідки артефактів української історії XIII ст. сталися у День святкування 27-ої річниці Незалежності.
Проф., до габ. Анджей Буко
Проф., др. арх. Микола Бевз
Археолог Станіслав Голуб

Presentation of the Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Diaspora, Volume 1, United States of America, Book 3
2018-09-15 17:00 - 19:00 | Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States
НТШ-А. 15 вересня 2018 р. Відбулася презентація Третьої книги Американського тому Енициклопедії Української Діяспори. Зі вступним словом виступила д-р Галина Гринь, президент НТШ-А.
Д-р Орест Попович, головний редактор Треньої книги, у своєму виступі, розповів історію енциклопедичного видання і, зокрема, про працю над Третьою книгою. Відзначив, що це видання має історичну вагу.
“Американський Том ЕУД зафіксовує для історії внески і досягнення українців у своїх громадах – це очевидне, але Третя Книга представляє також ряд українців, яких досягнення є загально-американського, а то й світового значення. Кілька прикладів, вибірково: Ігор Сікорський, винахідник гелікоптера; Йосиф Харик, творець американської системи комунікаційних сателітів в просторі; астронавтка Стефанишин-Пайпер, яка ходила в космічному просторі; член НТШ-А (свого часу й Управи) Андрій Храпливий, світової слави піонер в галузі волоконної оптики (файбер оптікс); Степан Тимошенко, академік, світової слави науковець, основоположник теорій міцности матеріялів, пружности та коливань; Святослав Трофименко, довголітній член і віце-президент НТШ-А, міжнародньої слави хемік; Віра Фарміґа, фільмова і телевізійна зірка; Василь (Вільям) Шуст, театральний актор. Цей список слави можна б продовжити.
А накінець про нашу найцікавішу знахідку: усі ми знаємо ту найславнішу американську картину з 2 Світ. війни, де відділ Американської Морської Піхоти підносить прапор на острові Іво Джіма – з неї у Вашінґтоні спорудили бронзовий пам’ятник. Але мало хто знає, що провідником того відділу був іміґрант з Пряшівщини, старший сержант Михайло Стренк. Академік НАНУ Микола Мушинка, колишній голова НТШ у Словаччині, дослідив, що родина Стренків, яка дотепер живе коло Пряшева в українському селі, уважає себе українцями і належить до українського товариства. ЕУД є першим джерелом у діяспорі, якед відзначило цього амриканського героя українського роду. Ми маємо для Стренка гасло з його світлиною, а на обкладинці дали ту “ікону“ з підняттям прапора на острові Іво Джіма. Слід згадати, що кілька днів після підняття того прапора, Михайло Стренк поляг в бою з японцями. Ми подарували примірник Третьої Книги академікові Мушинці. Він відписав захоплено, що книгою “любується“ (його слова), і що напише рецензію на цілий Американський Том.” (з виступу д-ра Ореста Поповича)

Наукове Товариство ім. Шевченка в Америці видало Третю книгу Американського тому Енциклопедії Української Діяспори (ЕУД), літери С-Я. Обсяг книги складається з 517 сторінок основного тексту, 16 сторінок вступу та 8 сторінокілюстрацій. У книзі 1322 гасла, 850 світлин та ілюстрацій, 4 таблиці з числовими даними і дві кольорові карти.
Головний редактор Орест Попович, співредактор Олександер Лужницький

Першу книгу Американського тому ЕУД, літери А-К видано у 2009 році; Другу книгу, літери Л-Р – в 2012 році.
Редактори перших двох книг – Василь і Дарія Маркусі.
Замовляти Енциклопедію Української Діяспори. Т.1. США, Книги 1 (А-К), 2 (Л-Р). 3 (С-Я) за адресою:
63 4th Ave., New York, NY 10003 або info@shevchenko.org
Ціна комплекту з 3-х книг – $100 (з пересилкою)Ціна однієї книги – $40 (для членів НТШ-А – $32) + пересилка $6.

Urban scenes of New York and Lviv: Landscapes and Etchings
2018-05-24 19:00 - 21:00

Lecture: The amazing neutron star merger GW170817
2018-05-19 11:00 - 12:00
The Mathematics and Physics section of the Shevchenko Scientific Society invite you to a lecture by Dr. Melania Nynka, X-ray astronomer, postdoctoral researcher at the McGill Space Institute, studying our universe using cutting-edge space-based telescopes. She is broadly interested in our complex and crowded Galactic Center.

The LIGO and Virgo observatories have been detecting gravitational waves from two colliding black holes since 2015. These groundbreaking detections have already earned a Nobel Prize in Physics! But on August 17, 2017, the LIGO observatory detected the first ever gravitational wave emission of a neutron star merger and yet again dramatically changed the landscape of astrophysics.
Neutron stars, or two extremely dense cores left over after supernovae, produce both gravitational and electromagnetic radiation when they collide together. The neutron star merger was so powerful that light from every wavelength – radio, IR, visible, UV, X-ray and gamma-ray – dramatically erupted in the sky, and a third of the professional astronomy community and 70 world-class observatories around the globe raced to capture a detection.
Dr. Nynka is part of a small team at McGill University which tracking the evolution of the merger using powerful space-based X-ray telescopes. The data they collect, especially when combined with other wavelengths, help deepen our understanding of the universe. We now know how neutron star mergers create, for example, most of the metals we use in jewelry and construction. Dr. Nynka will first give a brief overview of X-ray telescopes and her experiences helping built an X-ray optic. She will then focus on both the astrophysical processes the neutron star merger has revealed as well as the unanswered questions we are still trying to answer.

Lecture “Lingvo-Semiotic Dominants in Taras Shevchenko’s Poetic Works” by Dr. Antonina Berezovenko
2018-05-05 17:00 - 19:00

Pray to the Empty Wells: Iryna Shuvalova and Vasyl Makhno
2018-05-04 19:00 - 21:00
Join us for a reading of Ukrainian poetry by IRYNA SHUVALOVA and VASYL MAKHNO with English translations by OLENA JENNINGS. Translations include works in progress from a collection of Shuvalova’s work to be released by Lost Horse Press in 2019.
IRYNA SHUVALOVA is a Ukrainian poet, translator and scholar. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1986, she started writing from an early age and later developed a scholarly interest in literature. She published three collections of poems in Ukrainian: ‘Ran’ (2011), ‘Os’ (2014) and ‘Az’ (2014), and undertook a number of writing residencies in different parts of Europe: among them, the Hawthornden Fellowship in 2015. In 2009, she co-edited ‘120 pages of Sodom’ – the first queer anthology in Ukraine. She went on to win a number of writing and translation awards, including the Joseph Brodsky / Stephen Spender Prize in 2012. Her most recent book-length translation into Ukrainian was Yann Martel’s ‘Life of Pi’ (2016). Her poetry has been translated into nine languages and published in ‘Modern Poetry in Translation’, ‘Ambit’, ‘Podium Literatur’, ‘Radar’, ‘The Wolf’ and ‘International Poetry Review’ among others. She was featured in the CBC Arts documentary project “Interrupt This Program: Kiev”, and her poetry was recently read from stage at the Royal Court Theater in London. She performed widely at the readings and festivals abroad, including Yara’s Winter Festival in New York and, most recently, the Oslo International Poetry Festival of 2017 where she also delivered the opening keynote speech. Iryna holds an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College where she studied on a Fulbright scholarship. Currently, she is a PhD student and Gates scholar at the University of Cambridge where her research centers on the role of oral poetry in war-affected communities. She also serves as an assessor for English PEN.
VASYL MAKHNO is a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, essayist, and translator. He is the author of twelve collections of poetry: Skhyma (1993), Caesar’s Solitude (1994), The Book of Hills and Hours (1996), The Flipper of the Fish (2002), 38 Poems about New York and Some Other Things (2004), Cornelia Street Café: New and Selected Poems(2007), Winter Letters (2011), I Want to be Jazz and Rock’n’Roll (2013), Bike (2015) Jerusalem Poems (2016) and most recently Paper Bridge (2017). He has also published a collection of short stories The House in Baiting Hollow (2015), two books of essays The Gertrude Stein Memorial Cultural and Recreation Park (2006) and Horn of Plenty(2011), and two plays Coney Island (2006) and Bitch/Beach Generation (2007). He has also translated Zbigniew Herbert’s and Janusz Szuber’s poetry from Polish into Ukrainian, and edited an anthology of young Ukrainian poets from the 1990’s. Makhno’s work has been widely translated, and volumes of his selected poems, essays and short stories were published in Israel, Poland, Romania, Serbia and the USA. He is the 2013 recipient of Serbia’s Povele Morave Prize in Poetry and the BBC Book of the Year Award 2015. Makhno currently lives in New York City.

Book launch of “Lines. Crossings. Accents. Composer Leonid Hrabovsky" edited by Oleksandr Shchetynsky (2018)
2018-04-28 17:00 - 19:00

Book launch of “Dukhovenstvo Peremys’koi eparkhii ta Apostol’s’ki administratsii Lemkivshchyny” (2015) by Rev. Dr. Bohdan Prach
2018-04-21 17:00 - 19:00

Book launch of “Mykola Velychkivskyi: Under Two Occupations (Memoirs and Documents)" edited by Taras Hunczak (2017)
2018-04-14 17:00 - 19:00

Book launch of “Ukraine’s Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991-2011” (2018) by Maria G. Rewakowicz
2018-03-24 17:00 - 20:00
Ukraine’s Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011 is the first study that looks at the literary process in post-independence Ukraine comprehensively and attempts to draw the connection between literary production and identity construction. In its quest for identity Ukraine has followed a path similar to other postcolonial societies, the main characteristics of which include a slow transition, hybridity, and identities negotiated on the center-periphery axis. This monograph concentrates on major works of literature produced during the first two decades of independence and places them against the background of clearly identifiable contexts such as regionalism, gender issues, language politics, social ills, and popular culture. It also shows that Ukrainian literary politics of that period privileges the plurality and hybridity of national and cultural identities. By engaging postcolonial discourse and insisting that literary production is socially instituted, Maria G. Rewakowicz explores the reasons behind the tendency toward cultural hybridity and plural identities in literary imagination. Ukraine’s Quest for Identity will appeal to all those keen to study cultural, social and political ramifications of the collapse of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe and beyond.

Lecture “What is the Future of Cities in Eastern Ukraine?” by Anastasia Ponomarova (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2018-03-17 17:00 - 20:00
Ms. Ponomarova’s projects are aimed at changing public spaces, involving local communities and using methods and tools new to Ukraine that are realized in Slavyansk, Mariupol, Lysychansk, Severodonetsk, Konstantinovka, Bahmut, and Pokrovsk.

Lecture “Translation Renaissance of the 1920s-30s: Between Russia and the West” by Dr. Lada Kolomiyets
2018-03-10 17:00 - 20:00

38th Annual Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Conference
2018-03-03 16:00 - 19:00
The Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh-A) jointly with the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. (UVAN) and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) invite all to the 38th Annual Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Conference. Albert Kipa, President of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., will make the opening remarks. The participants include Oleksandr Boron (Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences) “Shevchenko’s Stay at Priorka in Kyiv in 1859: Biographical Fact or Legend?”, Olga Poliukhovych (National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”) “Contrasting Images of St. Petersburg in Iurii Kosach and Taras Shevchenko”, Valentyna Kharkhun (Mykola Hohol State University of Nizhyn) “One Hundred Years with Shevchenko: Soviet, Post-Soviet and Maidan Shevchenkiana”. George G. Grabowicz, President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S., will make the concluding remarks.

Lecture “Art, Borders, and Exile in Present-Day Ukraine” by Dr. Nazar Kozak (National University of Lviv)
2018-02-24 17:00 - 19:00

Book launch of “Ukraine: Pages From a Family Album”
2018-02-17 17:00 - 19:00
Book launch of “Ukraine: Pages From a Family Album” (ArtHuss, 2017), by Valentyna Kyrylova. Ms. Kyrylova, former editor-in-chief of the publishing house “Osnovy,” is the general manager of project NOMINA

Lecture “110th Anniversary of Petro Grigorenko's Birth: Celebrations in Today's Ukraine”
2018-02-10 17:00 - 19:00
General Petro Grigorenko (1907-1987), was a high-ranking Soviet Army commander of Ukrainian descent, who in his fifties became a dissident, a writer and one of the architects of the human-rights movement in the Soviet Union.

Kyiv arts group Nova Opera
2018-01-28 14:00 - 16:00
NOVA OPERA is a Kyiv arts group, whose aim is to search for new ways of developing music theatre. Musicians create new synthetic genres and experiment with atypical music and stage performances. Composers Illia Razumeiko and Roman Grygoriv, and soloist/manager of information Andriy Koshman will present excerpts from six operas: opera-requiem “IYOV” (based on “The Book of Job”); opera-dream “UnSIMPLE” (based on the novel of Taras Prohasko); opera-circus “BABYLON,” where circus artists take part; opera-ballet “THE ARK;” trap-opera “WOZZECK” (in collaboration with the Ukrainian poet Yurii Izdryk); and drama-per-musica “HAMLET.”

International Conference in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Revolution 1917-1921
2018-01-21 12:30 - 21:00 | Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 East 79th St., New York, NY, 10075
The Shevchenko Scientific Society, the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. and the Ukrainian Institute of America are pleased to sponsor an international conference in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Revolution and the Proclamation of Ukraine’s Independence to be held on Saturday, January 20, at the Shevchenko Scientific Society, and Sunday, January 21, 2018 at the Ukrainian Institute of America.
Conference Program
Ukrainian Institute of America
2 East 79th St.
Panel: Political Aspects of the Ukrainian Revolution
12:30 pm
Martha Bohachevsky Chomiak, Fulbright Program: Chair
Anna Procyk, KBCC of the City University of New York: Policies and Tactics of ‘WhiteRussia’ toward the Ukrainian Central Rada and Its Successors
Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria: A Soldier of Three Armies: Yurko Tiutiunnyk as a Symbol of the Ukrainian Revolution
Alexander Motyl, Rutgers University: Ukrainian State-building in Comparative Perspective
Lubomyr Hayda, Harvard University: Discussant
2:30 – 3:30 pm: Luncheon
Panel: Cultural Aspects of the Ukrainian Revolution
3:30 pm
Myroslava Znayenko, Rutgers University: Chair
Tamara Hundorova, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: The Nation as Aesthetics:Modernism and Nationalism of ‘Ukrains’ka khata’
George Grabowicz, Harvard University: Pavlo Tychyna, the Revolution, and Modernism: theCase of Instead of Sonnets and Octaves
Valentyna Kharkhun, Mykola Gogol State University: Between Two Powers: Nationalist vs.Bolshevik in Volodymyr Vynychenko’s Works about the Ukrainian Revolution
Henry Abramson, Touro College: Should We Tear Down Statues of Khmelnytskyi andPetliura? Contemporary Reflections on Conflicting Visions of National Heroism and Villainy
Halyna Hryn, Harvard University: Discussant
Concert and Reception
7:00 pm

International Conference in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Revolution 1917-1921
2018-01-20 16:00 - 20:00 | Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States
The Shevchenko Scientific Society, the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. and the Ukrainian Institute of America are pleased to sponsor an international conference in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Revolution and the Proclamation of Ukraine’s Independence to be held on Saturday, January 20, at the Shevchenko Scientific Society, and Sunday, January 21, 2018 at the Ukrainian Institute of America.
Conference Program
Panel: The Ukrainian Revolution in Historical Perspective
Anna Procyk, KBCC, CUNY: Chair
Vladyslav Verstiuk, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Вплив революційних подій1917 -1921 рр на історію України ХХ ст.
Oleksander Lushnytzkyj, University of Minnesota: Українська революція і українськадіяспора Америки
Zenon Wasyliw, Ithaca College: Iuliian Bachynskyi: Ukrainian Independence, the UnitedStates, and Transnational Discourse
Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria: Discussant
Reception

Annual Literary Bazaar: Golden Echoes of Pavlo Tychyna, dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Revolution 1917-1921
2017-12-16 17:00 - 19:00
Participants Olena Jennings, Svitlana Makhno, Maria G. Rewakowicz, and Vasyl Makhno will read poems from Tychyna’s collections Clarinets of the Sun (1918), Instead of Sonnets and Octaves (1920), The Plow (1920), The Wind from Ukraine (1924). The readings will be in Ukrainian and English.
Vasyl Makhno will introduce the program. Reception to follow.
Read Dr. George G. Grabowicz’s articles on the poet and his works:
Pavlo Tychyna (1891-1967)
Tycyna’s Cernihiv
A Decade of Tycyniana

Lecture “The Role of Men in Fighting Gender-Based Violence” by Dr. Tamara Martsenyuk
2017-12-09 17:00 - 19:00
Dr. Martsenyuk’s research interest focuses on the social structure of society, particularly gender relations. In 2017-2018 she is a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University, Harriman Institute. Introductory remarks will be provided by Martha Kichorowska Kebalo, PhD, Main Representative from the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations to the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

Celebration of the 20th anniversary of Krytyka
2017-12-02 17:00 - 19:00
Krytyka was founded in 1997 by Harvard University professor of Ukrainian literature George G. Grabowicz, and a few Ukrainian intellectuals. Krytyka took as its inspiration The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement and the Polish, Paris-based journal Kultura. The publication continues to offer detailed and research-based analyses of historical, political, and cultural developments in Ukraine, Russia, and Eastern Europe; its main audience consists of intellectuals, university faculty, and graduate students. Krytyka is an avant-garde journal for discussions on issues otherwise less discussed in the Ukrainian context: historical memory, xenophobia, gender and sexual discrimination, revisions of the literary canon, problems of Ukrainian scholarship and education, and so on.

Yurii Kosach's Pro-Soviet Stance: Challenges, Interpretations, Reception
2017-11-18 17:00 - 19:00
Join us for a Dr. Olha Koliukhovych’s lecture on Yurii Kosach.
Dr. Poliukhovych is a Fulbright Researcher at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

Art exhibit opening “Ukrainika by Mykhailo Turovsky”
2017-11-11 17:00 - 19:00
The Shevchenko Scientific Society invites all to an art exhibit opening “Ukrainika by Mykhailo Turovsky”. Mr. Turovsky was born in Kyiv in 1933, graduated graduated from the Kyiv Art Institute the under the guidance of famous Ukrainian artist Tetyana Yablonska (1917-2005). Turovsky’s work is represented in permanent collections at the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv, the Yad Vashem Memorial Art Museum in Jerusalem, the Herbert Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in New York, and the Notre Dame University Art Museum in Indiana, as well as many public and private collections. Mr. Turovsky is a Distinguished National Artist of Ukraine and a member of Ukrainian Academy of Art. The exhibit will include portraits, drawings and illustrations in literary works by Ivan Franko, Vasyl Stefanyk and Lesia Ukrainka. Introductory remarks by Leonid Hrabovsky; music by Roman Turovsky (lute) and Julian Kytasty (bandura).

AAUS and SSS Business Meeting and Reception at ASEEES Conference
2017-11-10 15:45 - 19:30
The American Association for Ukrainian Studies and Shevchenko Scientific Society will hold its business meeting and reception at the 2017 Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies convention on Friday, November 10th, 3:45-7:30 at the Chicago Marriott Downtown, fourth floor, State Avenue.
After the scheduled meetings, there will be a discussion on the forthcoming Academic Studies Press (Boston, MA) volumes The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology compiled and edited by Mark Andryczyk and Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine edited by Oksana Maksymchuk & Max Rosochinsky.
Read more here.

Architects of the Polish-Ukrainian Discourse Between the Wars
2017-11-04 17:00 - 19:00
Join us for a lecture by Prof. Ola Hnatiuk, a board member of the Ukrainian PEN Club and a literary scholar and translator, is a researcher of Ukrainian intellectual history of the 20th century.

Book launch “The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941.A Sourcebook.” (Amsterdam University Press. 2016)
2017-10-21 17:00 - 19:00
Dr. Motyl will present the book “The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941.A Sourcebook.” (Amsterdam University Press. 2016), edited by Alexander J. Motyl and Ksenia Kiebuzynski. The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre оf 1941 is important for several reasons. First, although it is one of the greatest atrocities committed, by the Soviet state, the Massacre is largely unknown. Second, the Massacre is critical to an understanding of state-sponsored mass killings in the twentieth century and to human rights violations more generally. Third, the Massacre is central to making sense of Ukrainian and Polish attitudes toward World War II, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Jews. How nationally conscious Ukrainians and Poles responded to World War II and the Holocaust cannot be understood without an appreciation of the magnitude of the trauma of the Massacre of 1941.
