Shevchenko Scientific Society

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

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.

Lecture “War test. New Relations in Ukrainian Society, 2014-2017"
2017-10-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Mr. Riabchuk currently is president of PEN Club in Ukraine, political analyst, literary critic and writer.

An Evening Dedicated to the Memory of Bohdan Boychuk (1927-2017)
2017-10-07 17:00 - 19:00
Bohdan Boychuk, a well-known Ukrainian poet, co-founder and member of the New York Group of Poets. He was active member of the Ukrainian émigré cultural community, he was cofounder and coeditor of the New York Group’s serial publication Novi poeziï and the main organizer of the group’s publishing house. He was also an editor of literature(between 1961 and 1973) of the journal Suchasnist’, and a cofounder and coeditor of the literary journal Svito-vyd in Kyiv (1990–99). Boychuk’s published modernist poetry, strongly influenced by the philosophy of Existentialism, includes Chas boliu (The Time of Pain, 1957), the long poem Zemlia bula pustoshnia (The Earth Was a Wasteland, 1959), Spomyny liubovy (Memories of Love, 1963), Virshi dlia Mekhiko (Poems for Mexico, 1964), Mandrivka til (The Journey of Bodies, 1967), Podorozh z uchytelem (Travels with the Teacher, 1976), Virshi, vybrani i peredostanni (Poems, Selected and Next to the Last, 1983), Tretia osin’ (Third Autumn, 1991), and Kyivs’ki ekslibrysy (Kyiv Ex-Librises, 2006). A two volume edition of his selected poetry was published in Kyiv in 2007. His prose works include Dvi zhinky Al’berta (Albert’s Two Women, 2002), Try romany (Three Novels, 2004), Nad sakral’nym ozerom (At the Sacred Lake, 2006), and Moï feministky (My Feminists, 2011). He is also the author of Dvi dramy (Two Dramas, 1968) and a memoir Spomyny v biohrafiï (Memoirs within a Biography, 2003).
Participants include Dr. Yuriy Tarnawsky, Dr. Bohdan Rubchak, Dr. George G. Grabowicz, Dr. Maria Rewakowicz and Vasyl Makhno. Event will take place at the Society’s building, 63 Fourth Avenue (between 9th and 10th sts.) at 5 p.m. For additional information, call (212) 254-5130.

Lecture “Political Situation in Contemporary Ukraine” by Myroslav Marynovych (Lviv, Ukraine)
2017-09-30 17:00 - 19:00
Mr. Marynovych currently is a vice-president of Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukrainian dissident 1970-1989s and member of Ukrainian Helsinki Group

Lecture “One Hundred Years Since Mysterious Death of Soter Ortynsky (1866-1916), Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church” by Dr. Alexander Lushnytsky
2017-09-23 17:00 - 19:00 | Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States

Roundtable “ The Situation in Contemporary Ukraine”
2017-09-09 17:00 - 19:00 | Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States
The Shevchenko Scientific Society invites all to a roundtable “ The Situation in Contemporary Ukraine”. Participants include Prof. George G. Grabowicz (Harvard U),Vitaly Chernetsky (U of Kansas), Prof. Alexander J. Motyl (Rutgers U), Dr. Yuri Shevchuk (Columbia U), Lyuba Shipovich (Razom for Ukraine). Emceed by Vasyl Makhno. For additional information, call (212) 254-5130.

Shevchenko Scientific Society's Annual Meeting with Reports
2017-05-20 15:00 - 17:00 | Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States
The Shevchenko Scientific Society invites its members to participate in the Society’s Annual Meeting with Reports, which is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. Preceding the Annual Meeting there will be meetings of the Scholarly Sections from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. A reception will follow the Annual Meeting.

Lecture by Dr. Ostap Sereda
2017-05-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States
“From “Slovo” to “Dilo”: early narodovtsi (populists) and formation of Ukrainian identity in Galicia in the 1860-1870’s.”
by Dr. Ostap Sereda, (UCU in Lviv). Dr. Sereda is Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at the Ukrainian Catholic University.
Остапа Середи. Український Католицький Університет, завідувача катедри нової і новітньої історії УКУ.
Від “Слова” до “Діла”: ранні народовці й формування української ідентичності в Галичині у 1860-1870-і роки.
