Shevchenko Scientific Society

"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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Посилання на програму заходів із відзначення 150-річчя НТШ
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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

Jewish-Ukrainian Relations and the Birth of a Political Nation: Adrian Karatnycky in conversation with journalist Vladislav Davidzon
2023-11-18 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
This is a selection of essays and dispatches from a veteran observer of the development of Ukrainian culture and politics over the course of a decade. The volume deals with the issue of Ukrainian-Jewish relations and its historical legacy in the context of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. It charts the events that took place in Ukraine after the 2013-2014 Euromaidan Revolution and focuses on the place of Ukrainian Jewry within a quickly developing Ukrainian political nation.
Adrian Karatnycky, formerly the president of Freedom House, is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and a Board Member and Co-Director of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, a Canadian charitable nonprofit organization. He is a contributor to Foreign Affairs, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, and many other periodicals. He is author of the forthcoming book Battleground Ukraine: From Independence to the War with Russia..
Vladislav Davidzon is the European culture correspondent at Tablet, a fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, and the author of From Odessa With Love: Political and Literary Essays in Post-Soviet Ukraine. He was the founder and Chief Editor of The Odessa Review. He is a contributor to Foreign Policy Magazine and the Opinion Section of the Wall Street Journal. He studied human rights law in Venice.

Link to book, with graphic
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/jewish-ukrainian-relations-and-the-birth-of-a-political-nation/9783838215099

Of Rage and Longing: Poetry by Alex Averbuch
2023-11-10 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Alex Averbuch will read, in the original Ukrainian and in English translation, from his latest book Zhydivsky korol (The Jewish King, a 2023 finalist for the Shevchenko National Prize), as well as from his upcoming collection, Of Rage and Longing, and answer questions from the audience. Averbuch’s poetry deals with interwoven Jewish-Ukrainian relations through the prism of his family history and Ukraine’s multiethnic past and present. The book features poeticized documentary materials related to the Second World War: letters by Ukrainian Ostarbeiters sent to their relatives in Ukraine, interwoven with letters by Jewish Holocaust survivors who returned to devastated villages in Ukraine in search of their murdered relatives, as well as poems about the Russo-Ukrainian war currently taking place in his home region of Luhans’k. Unsettling butultimately liberatory de-specifications of ethnos, language, and sexuality relieve trigger-points in Ukraine’s history through the confessional intimacy of family, shame, pleasure, and thereconciliation of self and other.
Alex Averbuch, a poet, translator, and scholar, is the author of four books of poetry and an array of literary translations between Hebrew, Ukrainian, English, and Russian. English translations ofhis poems have appeared in the Manhattan Review, Copper Nickel, Plume, Birmingham Poetry Review, Words Without Borders, Sugar House Review, Constellations, and Common Knowledge. His latest book Zhydivs’kyi korol (The Jewish King), from which most of the forthcoming English collection Of Rage and Longing derives, was a finalist for the Shevchenko National Prize, Ukraine’s highest award for culture and literature. Averbuch is active in promoting Ukrainian-Jewish relations. He has translated into Hebrew and published over thirty selections of poetry by contemporary Ukrainian poets. Currently he is compiling and editing an anthology of contemporary Ukrainian poetry in Hebrew translation.
Олександр Авербух
ПІСНІ ЛЮТІ Й ТУГИ
Модератор: Олег Коцюба
Переклади читатиме: Сашко Крапівкін
Олександр Авербух читатиме вірші в оригіналі й англійському перекладі зі своєї останньої збірки «Жидівський король» (яка увійшла до фіналу Шевченківської премії у 2023 році) та з майбутньої збірки «Пісні люті й туги», а також відповідатиме на запитання авдиторії. Головними темами його віршів є російсько-українська війна, яка точиться, зокрема, й на території рідної для Авербуха Луганщини, та єврейсько-українські стосунки крізь призму власної родинної історії та багатонаціонального минулого й сьогодення України. Окрім того, автор поетично опрацьовує документальні матеріали часів Другої світової війни: листи українських остарбайтерів, написані рідним в Україну, та листи євреїв, що пережили Голокост і повернулися до зруйнованих українських сіл в пошуках своїх убитих родичів.
Олександр Авербух – поет, перекладач і літературознавець. Народився у Новоайдарі на Луганщині. Автор чотирьох поетичних збірок і низки літературних перекладів івритом, російською, українською та англійською мовами. Фіналіст Шевченківської премії зі збіркою “Жидівський король”. У своїх творах торкається питань етнічної фрагментації та межовости, множинних ідентичностей, багатомовності, документалістичного письма й памʼяті. Авербух є організатором численних літературних заходів. У 2020 організував фестиваль сучасної української поезії та упорядкував розділ шостого числа журналу перекладів “Ukrainian Literature: A Journal of Translations”, присвячений поезії учасників цього фестивалю. Активно займається промоцією українсько-єврейських відносин. У 2022 році організував першу в своєму
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Дивізія “Галичина”: історичний контекст і сучасні питання
2023-11-04 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
В історичній науці та в інтелектуальному дискурсі час до часу зринають питання, які набувають суспільного розголосу. Нещодавно такого розголосу набула тема військового формування Другоїсвітової війни—Дивізії «Галичина». Професор М. Шкандрій присвятив цій темі ґрунтовну монографію In the Maelstrom: The Waffen SS “Galicia” Division and Its Legacy (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023). Під час доповіді науковець з’ясує генезу створення Дивізії, її участь у військових діях, відмежувавши строгі історичні факти від пропаганди та, зокрема, відповість на питання, над яким полемізує чимало істориків: Чому молодь зголошувалася до Дивізії? Чому назва Ваффен-СС? Була це українська чи німецька армія? Чи можна уважати дивізійників воєнними злочинцями? Як розуміти теперішню контроверсію про памʼятники?
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Мирослав Шкандрій – професор-емерит Манітобського університету та колишній керівник кафедри германістики та славістики. Досліджує аспекти сучасної української та російської культурної історії, зокрема аванґард, радянську літературну політику, націоналізм, імперіалізм та сучасні дебати навколо деколонізації. Статті Шкандрія публікувалися в Canadian Slavonic Papers, Nationalities Papers, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal та інших періодичних виданнях. Автор та редактор кількох книг і куратор кількох художніх виставок.

Ukraine and the World at the Tenth Anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity: A Round Table on the Role of Culture in the Midst of Ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War
2023-10-28 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States
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In conjunction with the theatrical release of the acclaimed documentary A Rising Fury that follows its heroes from the start of the protests at the Maidan in 2013 to the escalation of Russia’s war against Ukraine in 2022, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US is honored to host a round table that brings together filmmakers and academics, to reflect on the role of culture in the context of history in the making, as Ukrainians first rose to reject attempts to deny their European aspirations and impose Russian-style authoritarian rule and shortly thereafter had to fight to protect their country’s independence and freedom against the Russian invasion. How can film directors, musicians, writers, journalists, scholars, and other creatives help overcome the Ukraine fatigue in the West? What are the most effective ways to educate the public about Ukrainian history and continue to inspire people around the world to help Ukraine win against Putin’s totalitarian regime?
Chair: Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas) Participants: Tamara Hundorova (Princeton University), Christine Emeran (New School, NCAC), Lesya Kalynska (Filmmaker, NYU), TJ Collins (Film producer, Poseidon), Olha Onyshko (Filmmaker, American University)

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 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007; Ukrainian-language version, 2013) and of articles on modern and contemporary Slavic and East European literatures and cultures where he seeks to highlight cross-regional and cross-disciplinary contexts. A book in Ukrainian, Intersections and Breakthroughs: Ukrainian Literature and Cinema between the Global and the Local, is forthcoming from Krytyka. He co-edited a bilingual anthology of contemporary Ukrainian poetry, Letters from Ukraine (2016), and an annotated Ukrainian translation of Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism (2007), and guest-edited a special issue on Ukraine for the film studies e-journal KinoKultura (2009). His translations into English include Yuri Andrukhovych’s novels The Moscoviad (2008) and Twelve Circles (2015) and a volume of his selected poems, Songs for a Dead Rooster (2018, with Ostap Kin). Translations of Sophia Andrukhovych’s novel Felix Austria and of Winter King, a poetry collection by Ostap Slyvynsky (with Iryna Shuvalova) are forthcoming. He is a past president of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies (2009-2018) and the current first vice president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S. Prof. Chernetsky is serving in 2023 as Vice President/President-Elect of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), and will serve as its president in 2024.
Prof. Tamara Hundorova is Principal Research Scholar at Shevchenko Institute of Literature (Kyiv)and Associate Fellow at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Currently she is Research Schola rand Lecturer at Princeton University. She is the member of PEN Ukraine. She is the author of Lesia Ukrainka. Knyhy Sybilly (2023), The Post-Chornobyl Library. The Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s (2019), Tranzytna kul’tura. Symptomy postkolonial’noitravmy (2013), Kitsch i Literatura. Travestii (2008), Franko i/ne Kameniar (2006); Feminamelancholica. Stat’ i kul’tura v gendernij utopii Ol’hy Kobylians’koi (2002) and others. Her field of interests are modernism, postmodernism, feminism, postcolonial studies and history of Ukrainian literature. She taught the courses at Harvard University (USA), Toronto University (Canada), Greifswald University (Germany), Ukrainian Free University (Germany), Kyiv-Mohyla University (Ukraine),Kyiv National University (Ukraine). Prof. Hundorova is a former Fulbright Scholar (1998, 2009),Visiting scholar of Monash university (Australia, 1991) and a recipient of Yacyk Distinguished Fellowship (2009), Shklar fellowship (HURI, 2001-2002), Foreign visitors fellowship (Hokkaido University, 2004), MUNK School of Global Affair fellowship (University of Toronto, 2017), and Fellowship of Philipp Schwartz-Initiative of Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (University of Giessen).
Lesya Kalynska is a Ukrainian-American NYC based award-winning director, producer, and screenwriter. Born and raised in Kyiv, Ukraine, she holds a PhD in Literature and an MFA in film writing and directing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Lesya then worked in Kyiv as a director of a docuseries about World War II “Level of Secrecy 18”. After completing several award-winning short films Kalynska wrote, directed, and produced the feature documentary “A Rising Fury” about the Russo-Ukrainian war that was filmed for nearly 10 years. The World Premiere took place at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2022. It was the winner of several awards including the Supreme Jury Award and the Best International Director Award at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. The film was nominated for the Bronze Horse Award at the Stockholm FF, Best Documentary at the Warsaw IFF and the Golden Duke Award at the Odessa IFF.
Christine Emeran is director of the Youth Free Expression Program at the New York based non-profit, National Coalition Against Censorship(ncac.org). She writes on contemporary issues about young people, social media and social movements in the U.S. and Western/Eastern Europe. Dr. Emeran is a Fulbright Fellow and the author of New Generation Political Activism in Ukraine 2000–2014 (Routledge, 2018),a book chapter titled “The March for Our Lives Movement in the USA: Generational Change and the Personalization of Protest” featured in a global social movement book series, When Students Protest: Secondary and High Schools (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021), a book chapter titled “Students Fight Back Against School Censorship” featured in an edited manuscript, Sociological Research and Urban Children and Youth (Emerald Publishing, In Press/2023), and a book chapter “Censoring Books in Schools Hits a Crisis Point” featured in Project Censored’s State of the Free Press (In Press/2023). An international researcher as well as an academic, Dr. Emeran has taught political theory and sociology at Manhattan College, NY, St. John’s University, NY, and Sciences Po Paris, France.
TJ Collins is an award-winning filmmaker with over a dozen films produced including short and feature narratives. His feature film debut WILLETS POINT received the Audience Award at the Long Island International Film Expo and was theatrically released in the fall of 2010 with positive reviews in the New York Times. He is a NALIP Producers Academy and Screenwriters Lab Fellow 2009. Additionally, his screenplay THE DRIVEN was one of ten nationally selected projects for the NALIP Screenwriters Lab sponsored by The Walt Disney Company, NBC Universal, FOX and HBO. Collins completed the narrative feature sports drama THE DRIVEN serving as writer, director and producer and the film held its World Premiere at the 25th Dances With Films Festival – NYC edition. Since 2016 Collins also produced and co-wrote a feature documentary about the war in Ukraine A RISING FURY. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June of 2022 and is the winner of the Supreme Jury Prize at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. The theatrical premiere of A RISING FURY is planned for the fall of 2023. FILM THREAT Magazine gives the film 10/10 and hails it as “One of the best films of the year”.
Olha Onyshko is an award-winning Ukrainian documentary filmmaker and script writer whose works include Women of Maidan (2017 Best Documentary, Fort Myers Film Festival) and Three Stories of Galicia (screened in 12 countries and translated to 4 languages). Olha’s documentary in progress Quo Vadis? is about a Polish hotel owner helping 270 Ukrainian refugees, 32 of which still live in his hotel. Her script She Who Became Queen about Olga of Kyiv, won the Best Unproduced script at the Madrid International Film Festival. Olha currently lives and works in the Washington D.C. area, where she teaches a visual storytelling workshop called My Story – My Power. She is a teaching artist at Docs in Progress and has taught photography and Foundation of Arts at Thomas Wootton Highschool. Her current photo collection, The Universe Within – Restore Your Light is a traveling exhibit. Olha spotlights stories that bring hope, empower vulnerability and awaken the goodness of humanity. Her favorite memories involve growing up on the outskirts of Lviv, Ukraine, where she played in the rose garden planted by her grandfather Yulko near their long standing family well, listened to his endless stories and watched her grandfather’s doves circling above. Some of these stories she recorded in her two upcoming fairytale books “Legends of Water” (November 2023) and “The Song of Freedom ” (January of 2024)

Film: A Rising Fury
2023-10-27 - 2023-11-02 | Cinema Village Movie Theatre, 22 East 12th Street, New York, NY, 10003
The Shevchenko Scientific Society is proud to partner in supporting the critically acclaimed feature documentary A Rising Fury about the Russo-Ukrainian War, which will have a limited theatrical release in New York City at Cinema Village from Oct 27 – Nov 2, 2023. This theatrical premiere will commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity in Kyiv, Ukraine. Tickets are on sale now.
A RISING FURY: Ukraine, 2022, 82 min. In English/Ukrainian. Directed by Lesya Kalynska and Ruslan Batytskyi; Producers: Lesya Kalynska, Ruslan Batytskyi, TJ Collins, Jonathan Borge Lie; Screenwriters: Lesya Kalynska, TJ Collins; Director of Photography: Ruslan Batytskyi; Editors: Araby Kelley, Lesya Kalynska, Ruslan Batytskyi; Composer: Emiliano Mazzenga. Pomegranate Studios in co-production with Batytskyi production and UpNorth Film.

A Rising Fury premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film festival and screened at numerous international film festivals. The film is directed by Ukrainian American filmmaker Lesya Kalynska and Ukrainian filmmaker Ruslan Batytskyi. They produced it along with TJ Collins (USA) and Jonathan Borge Lie (Norway). The film was nominated for best documentary and other top awards in nine international film festivals including Stockholm IFF, Warsaw IFF, Oslo Films from the South FF, Cleveland IFF, and won several awards including the Supreme Jury Award at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival in 2023.
Film Threat gives A Rising Fury 5 stars and says it’s “A masterclass of documentary filmmaking… brilliant on every level. One of the best films of the year.” FILM INK gives it4.5 stars and says it’s a “Wake up call… a powerful statement as to what the Ukrainians are fighting for. Filmmaker Magazine says it’s “A breathtakingly cinematic explainer of current events”.
A Rising Fury reveals the true untold story of how the Russo-Ukrainian war began in2014 and proves that it was prepared as far back as 2007. This is a unique film that explains how we arrived at this point in history through events and personal accounts on the ground. The film team followed several people for nearly 10 years from the Revolution of Dignity in 2013 to the battlefields in Eastern Ukraine, and during the full-scale invasion in 2022. It’s a story about love, revolution, betrayal, and war told through intimate verité material. It required multiple expeditions to the front lines and extensive filming in Kyiv.
This theatrical release is made possible with the support of the following organizations:
Production company: Pomegranate Studios, Inc.
Event sponsor: Ukrainian Congress Committee of America.
Associate event sponsor: Ukrainian American Business and Professionals Association
Partners: Shevchenko Scientific Society and The Brighter Ukraine Foundation.
About the Directors:
Lesya Kalynska is a Ukrainian-American NYC based award-winning director, producer, and screenwriter. Born and raised in Kyiv, Ukraine, she holds a PhD in Literature andan MFA in film writing and directing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Lesya then worked in Kyiv as a director of a docuseries about World War II “Level of Secrecy 18”.After completing several award-winning short films Kalynska wrote, directed, and produced the feature documentary “A Rising Fury” about the Russo-Ukrainian war that was filmed for nearly 10 years. The World Premiere took place at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2022. It was the winner of several awards including the Supreme Jury Award and the Best International Director Award at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. The film was nominated for the Bronze Horse Award at the Stockholm FF, Best Documentary at the Warsaw IFF and the Golden Duke Award at the Odessa IFF.
Ruslan Batytskyi was born in the Dnipropetrovs’k region of Eastern Ukraine on Aug3rd, 1986. After finishing school in 2003 he entered Dnipropetrovs’k National University where he received a Master’s degree in cybernetics and management. In 2009 he began studying cinema at the Kyiv National University of Theater, Cinema, and Television. His several short films “Lethargy”, “Reed” and “Ukrainian Lessons” were presented at international festivals and received several awards. In 2016-2018 he created a short documentary series “The least part of the work”. The series told the stories of people with neurosurgical diseases, how it changed their lives and their spirit going through many challenges. Ruslan has worked alongside Lesya Kalynska to debut “A Rising Fury”. The film is about the war in Ukraine and has been filming nearly 10years. The World Premiere of “A Rising Fury” took place at the Tribeca Film Festival in June of 2022.

Book Launch and Roundtable Discussion "The Enemy Archives".
2023-10-20 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 East 79th St., New York, NY, 10075
Professor Luciuk will be joined in discussion by Alexander Motyl, Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and Myroslav Shkandrij, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manitoba and a former head of the Department of German and Slavic Studies. The discussion will be moderated by Olena Nikolayenko, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Fordham University.
Lubomyr Luciuk is professor of political geography at the Royal Military College of Canada, a Fellow of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, and the author of numerous publications dealing with the political history of the Canadian Ukrainian community and contemporary Ukraine. A founding member of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Dr. Luciuk was distinguished in 2019 with Ukraine’s Cross of Ivan Mazepa. He has been a GIC appointee to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada and the Parole Board of Canada, and was, for many years, active on the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund, which he helped establish. He is currently writing his memoirs and completing a monograph on the redress campaign. His most recent book (with Dr. V. Viatrovych) is Enemy Archives: Soviet Counterinsurgency Operations and the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023). He lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Alexander J. Motyl is professor emeritus of political science at Rutgers University – Newark. He is the author of six academic books and seven novels, including Who Killed Andrei Warhol (2007). His academic work focuses on Ukraine, Russia, nationalism, revolutions, and empires.
Myroslav Shkandrij is Professor Emeritus of the University of Manitoba and a former head of the Department of German and Slavic Studies. He researches aspects of modern Ukrainian and Russian cultural history, including the avant-garde, Soviet literary politics, nationalism, imperialism, and contemporary debates around decolonization. His articles have appeared in Canadian Slavonic Papers, Nationalities Papers, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal, and other periodicals. He is the author, editor, or translator of several books and curator of several art exhibitions.
Olena Nikolayenko is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Fordham University. She is also an Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University. Her research interests include comparative democratization, contentious politics, civil resistance, and political behavior, with a regional focus on Eastern Europe. Her recent book Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2017) examined interactions between nonviolent youth movements and incumbent governments during national elections in five post-communist states: Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Serbia, and Ukraine. Her current book project examines women’s participation in the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine.

A New Reality in the Making: Russia's War on Ukraine and the Future of Euro-Atlantic Security
2023-10-14 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Russia’s war on Ukraine created a new security reality in Europe. This talk combines a practitioner’s and scholarly perspectives on what was wrong with the ‘old reality’, what factors shaped Eastern Europe’s security ‘grey zone’, and whether the institutional West is gradually responding to this new reality. Kateryna Shynkaruk will discuss the first lessons learned from the exposed challenges and vulnerabilities of Euro-Atlantic security and the contours of a new postwar security order.

Dr. Kateryna Shynkaruk is a senior lecturer at the Texas A&M University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service in Washington DC, where she teaches courses in East European Politics, European Security, and International Relations Theory. Dr. Shynkaruk is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has over 15 years’ experience of working in academia, with think tanks, and diplomatic missions. In 2016-2022, she taught at the International Relations Department of the National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine. Her research interests cover Ukraine’s foreign and security policy, European security, and the role of ideas in International Relations. She holds a Ph.D. in Global Political Affairs (2011) from National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv. In 2013-2020, during a critically important period in the US – Ukraine relations, Dr. Shynkaruk worked as a Political Analyst at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine. She received several high-level awards from the Department of State, including Superior Honor Award (2018).
Presentation in English. Discussion in English and Ukrainian.
Live stream: https://youtu.be/a9IsiWEq37Y

Fiber Optics: Communication with the Speed of Light
2023-09-30 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
To date, more than 4 billion kilometers of optical fibers have been installed in the world (approximately the distance between the Earth and the planet Neptune, the farthest planet from Earth). This talk will be an introduction to fiber optic communications, which are the backbone of most communication systems around the world.
Andrew R. Chraplyvy received the B.S. degree in physics in 1972 from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Cornell University in 1975 and 1977, respectively. He joined the physics department at General Motors Research Labs in 1977 as a Research Scientist where he studied vibrational modes of gases and impurity modes in solids using ultra-high resolution spectroscopy. Since 1980, he has been with Bell Laboratories, where he has held a number of research and management positions. He holds over 90 patents worldwide in the areas of lightwave systems and fiber optics and has authored hundreds of publications. Along with Bob Tkach, Andrew Chraplyvy invented a new type of optical fiber, NZDF, that is widely deployed in intercontinental and long-haul terrestrial networks. In addition, they are responsible for a number of inventions that greatly increased the capacity and speed of optical networks, in particular the concept of dispersion management of optical nonlinearities. These inventions and technologies are found in most high-capacity optical networks worldwide.
Moderator – Roman Brukh
Director of the Mathematical, Physical, and Applied Sciences Section,Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US.
The presentation will be conducted in Ukrainian, followed by discussion in Ukrainian and English.

Live stream:
https://youtube.com/live/ThR_N3B7H74?feature=share

Ukraine in Ruins 1941–42, 2022–23. Paintings by Alexander Motyl
2023-09-22 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Тhe exhibit consists of 18 black and white acrylic-and-pen paintings, 9”x12”, on canvas sheets. Seven depict central Kyiv in ruins in 1941–42, as a result of explosions set off by the Soviets; the paintings were completed in mid-2021. Eleven depict Ukraine in ruins in 2022–23, as a result of Russia’s genocidal war; these were completed during the war, in 2022–23. All the paintings were done on the basis of photographs.

"The Zelensky Effect": Book discussion with co-author Professor Olga Onuch
2023-09-21 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
With Russian shells raining on Kyiv and tanks closing in, American forces prepared to evacuate Ukraine’s leader. Just three years earlier, his apparent main qualification had been playing a president on TV. But Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly retorted, ‘I need ammunition, not a ride.’ Ukrainian forces won the battle for Kyiv, ensuring their country’s independence even as a longer war began for the southeast. You cannot understand the historic events of 2022 without understanding Zelensky. But the Zelensky effect is less about the man himself than about the civic nation he embodies: what makes Zelensky most extraordinary in war is his very ordinariness as a Ukrainian. The Zelensky Effect explains this paradox, exploring Ukraine’s national history to show how its now-iconic president reflects the hopes and frustrations of the country’s first ‘independence generation’. Interweaving social and political background with compelling episodes from Zelensky’s life and career, this is the story of Ukraine told through the journey of one man who has come to symbolize his country.
The event will be streamed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VHUmDRKhTk

Understanding Ukraine. Between Trauma and the New Reality with Yevhen Hlibovytsky
2023-09-16 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Modern Ukraine has become one of the most misinterpreted countries in the world. This talk will focus on Ukraine’s trajectory of development, how it failed conventional analytical tests, and the country’s future prospects. Yevhen Hlibovytsky will look into Ukraine’s security, demography, political culture, religions, economy, and governance and will explain how these factors impact Ukraine’s future options.
Yevhen Hlibovytsky is a lecturer at Ukrainian Catholic University and a public intellectual who has been actively studying how cultural factors influence institution building and long-term prospects for Ukraine. He runs pro.mova, a think tank and consultancy, and is actively involved in Ukraine’s reforms sector. Yevhen Hlibovytsky is a member of the supervisory board of Suspilne, the Ukrainian Public Broadcaster.
Discussants:
Olena Nikolayenko, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Fordham University
George G. Grabowicz, Dmytro Čyževskyj Research Professor of Ukrainian Literature, Harvard University, and Editor in Chief, Krytyka Publishers
Presentation in Ukrainian. Discussion in Ukrainian and English
Live stream:https://youtube.com/live/jiAmQhUYP_4?feature=share

DON’T CLOSE YOUR EYES: Ukrainian Poets Respond to the War
2023-05-13 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Poets and translators Carolyn Forche, Marie Howe, Olga Livshin, Lev Friedman, Maya Chabra, Olena Jennings, Vasyl Makhno, and Hanna Melnyczuk-Stecewycz will read the work of Halyna Kruk, Lyudmyla Khersonska, Yulia Musakovska and others. Introduced by Askold Melnyczuk

Maya Chhabra’s translations have appeared in The White Review, Cardinal Points, and PoetryTravels. She is the author of a novel in verse, Chiara in the Dark, and several other children’s books including Stranger on the Home Front. Her short stories and original poetry have appeared in Strange Horizons, Pod Castle, and various anthologies.
Lev Fridman is a speech-language pathologist based in New York City. He has facilitated translationprojects and publications, and his own writing, translations and reviews have appeared in variouspublications. He is co-editor of “Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul”: Mykola (Nik) Bazhan’s Early Experimental Poetry (Academic Studies Press, 2020).
Carolyn Forché has published five books of poems, most recently In the Lateness of the World, afinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2021. Her works also include translations, anthologies, and a memoir.She is a professor at Georgetown University.
Marie Howe is the author of four volumes of poetry: Magdalene: Poems (W.W. Norton, 2017); The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (W.W. Norton, 2009); What the Living Do (1997); and The Good Thief (1988). She is also the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). From 2012-2014, she served as the Poet Laureate of New York State. She is the poet in residence at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Olena Jennings is the author of the poetry collection The Age of Secrets (Lost Horse Press, 2022) and the chapbook Memory Project (Underground Books, 2018.) Her novel Temporary Shelter was released in 2021 from Cervena Barva Press. Her translation from Ukrainian with Oksana Lutsyshyna of Nobody Knows Us Here, and We Don’t Know Anyone by Kateryna Kalytko was released in September 2022 from Lost Horse Press. Her translation of Vasyl Makhno’s collection Paper Bridge was released in October 2022 from Plamen Press. She co-edited the anthology of poetry Ukrainian American Poets Respond released from Poets of Queens Press and Yara Arts Group. Her textile art has been shown at Bliss on Bliss Art Projects and the NYC Poetry Festival. She is the founder and curator of Poets of Queens.
Olga Livshin’s poetry and translations appear in The New York Times, Ploughshares, the Kenyon Review, and other journals. She is the author of A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman (Poets & Traitors Press, 2019). Livshin is a co-translator of A Man Only Needs a Room, a volume of Vladimir Gandelsman’s poetry (New Meridian Arts Books,2022).
Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, and essayist. He is the author of fourting collectionsof poetry. He has also published a book of short stories, The House in Baiting Hollow (2015), anovel, The Eternal Calendar (2019), and five books of essays. Makhno’s works have been widely translated into many languages; his books have been published in Germany, Israel, Poland, Romania,Serbia and the US. Three poetry collections, Thread and Other New York Poems (2009), Winter Letters (2011), and Paper Bridge (2022) were published in English translation. He is the recipient of Kovaliv Fund Prize (2008), Serbia’s International Povele Morave Prize in Poetry (2013), the BBC Book of the Year Award (2015), and Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize “Encounter” (2020).
Askold Melnyczuk’s book of stories, The Man Who Would Not Bow, appeared in 2021. His four novels have variously been named a New York Times Notable, an LA Times Best Books of the Year, and an Editor’s Choice by the American Library Association’s Booklist. He is also co-editor of From Three Worlds, an anthology of Ukrainian Writers. His published translations include work by Oksana Zabuzhko, Marjana Savka, Bohdan Boychuk, Ivan Drach, and Hryhorij Skovoroda. His shorter work, includingessays, stories, and reviews, have appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Missouri Review, The Times Literary Supplement (London), The Los Angeles Times, The Harvard Review andelsewhere. He’s received a three-year Lila Wallace-Readers’ Digest Award in Fiction, the McGinnis Award in Fiction, and the George Garret Award from AWP for his contributions to the literary community. As founding editor of Agni he received PEN’s Magid Award for creating “one of America’s, and the world’s, leading literary journals.” Founding editor of Arrowsmith Press, he has taught at Boston University, Harvard, Bennington College and currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Hanna Melnyczuk-Stecewycz received an MFA from Mass College of Art. Her work has appeared atArt Space in Maynard, MA, University of Massachusetts Lowell Mahoney Gallery, The Gallery at thePiano Factory, the Danforth Museum, Tufts Gallery, Brush Gallery, Fountain Street Gallery, New ArtCenter, and more. She has curated two art exhibits: Agni Magazine of Emerging Artists (published by Agni Press as Agni 37: Standing on the Verge: Emerging Poets & Artists alongside poetry curated byJoseph Lease and Thomas Sayers Ellis); the other, a travelling exhibit of Ukrainian artists’ works,Don’t Close Your Eyes, responding to the current war. Hanna teaches Drawing and 2D Design atUniversity of Massachusetts Lowell, and lives in Groton with her husband Joseph, her daughter Lara,and their cat Tello. You can see more of her work at www.hannamelnyczuk.com.

Зустріч із композиторкою Марією Олійник, стипендіяткою програми Фулбрайта 2022-2023 рр.
2023-04-22 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Марія Олійник – композиторка, випускниця Львівської Музичної Академії та Королівської Консерваторії в Гаазі (Нідерланди). Співавторка опери «Ukraine-Terra Incognita». Викладачка катедри Композиції Львівської Музичної Академії ім. М. В. Лисенка. Стипендіятка Президента України, Міністра Культури та Спорту Республіки Польща (Gaude Polonia), уряду Нідерландів (Nuffic).
Під час зустрічі презентуватимуться оркестрові твори, написані композиторкою протягом останніх п’яти років, в основу яких покладено мелос української пісні. Слухачі зможуть познайомитися із уривками з опери «Ukraine – Terra Incognita» (2020), присвяченої оперному співаку та воїну Василю Сліпаку, а також усім мужнім воїнам-захисникам України.

"ТРИМАЙСЯ РІВНО І ДИВИСЯ В СЕБЕ": зустріч із відомою українською поеткою Наталкою Білоцерківець
2023-04-01 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Наталка БІЛОЦЕРКІВЕЦЬ – авторка шести поетичних книжок та вибраного “Ми помрем не в Парижі” (три видання – 2015, 2018 і 2022). Її вірші перекладені багатьма мовами світу і удостоєні кількох національних та міжнародних відзнак. Народилася і зростала в селі Куянівка на Сумщині в сім’ї вчителів. Закінчила філологічний факультет Київського державного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Працювала науковим співробітником музею Максима Рильського в Києві, у видавництві “Молодь”, і понад двадцять років редактором відділу літератури та мистецтва в журналі “Українська культура”. Авторка збірки літературно-критичних статей “У контексті епохи” (1990). Останніми роками писала прозу, але, після вторгнення Росії в Українy в лютому 2022 року, повертається до поезії. Живе в Києві.
Сильний і чистий ліричний голос Наталки Білоцерківець лунає в українській літературі вже протягом кількох десятиліть. Її поезія перетворює історичне на інтимне з ніжністю та ретельною точністю, врівноважуючи думки та емоції на терезах лінґвістичної музики.

У пошуках власного "я": антиколоніальний дискурс радянського українського кіно 1920-тих рр.
2023-03-25 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Lecture by Yana Prymachenko, Senior Researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and Visiting Scholar at Princeton University.

In 1922, the All-Ukrainian photo and cinema office (Ukrainian abbreviation – VUFKU) was created. It was a vertically integrated structure with a closed cinema production and distribution cycle. The VUFKU had a difficult task – to fill the cinema with Ukrainian content and create national cinematography. Young Ukrainian Soviet cinema had to overcome the colonial legacy of the tsarist’s time. The script crisis affected the movie production. There was a constant shortage of Ukrainian-trained personnel, especially film directors and actors, who could satisfy the demands for new images. Despite hardships, Ukrainian silent movie production thrived. VUFKU imported its production abroad and became a rival to Russian-based production studios, which caused a ‘customs war’ between the Russian and Ukrainian Soviet Republics.
Ukrainian cinema denied the right of the former colonial rule to stay the re-translator of new ideas, technical achievements, and cultural progress of the West. Ukrainization gave the voice to Ukrainian artists to form the image of Ukraine by themselves. The overcoming of consequences caused by the colonization of Ukrainian discourse by tsarist Russia that in official Soviet ideology was treated as a “prison of peoples” opened to the Kremlin leaders the unexpected truth about Ukrainian identity, that Ukraine has more civilization ties with Europe than with Moscow.
Yana Prymachenko is a senior researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In the fall of 2022, she joined the History Department at Princeton University as a visiting scholar. Her research interests vary greatly, ranging from Soviet culture of the 1920s-1930s, the history of the Second World War, memory politics in Russia and Eastern Europe, to the study of Soviet propaganda and informational wars. She has made a significant media contribution to promoting historical knowledge in the public sphere. Her current research focuses on the mediatization of history and historical fakes in media.

У ПОШУКАХ ВЛАСНОГО ‘Я’: АНТИКОЛОНІАЛЬНИЙ ДИСКУРС РАДЯНСЬКОГО УКРАЇНСЬКОГО КІНО 1920-Х РОКІВ
доповідь Яни Примаченкокандидата історичних наук, старшої наукової співробітниці Інституту історії НАН України, запрошеної дослідниці Принстонського університету
У 1922 році було створено Всеукраїнське фотокіноуправління (ВУФКУ). Це булавертикально інтегрована структура із замкнутим циклом виробництва та прокатукінопродукції. Перед ВУФКУ стояло складне завдання – наповнити кінематографукраїнським контентом і створити національний кінематограф. Молоде українськерадянське кіно мало подолати колоніальну спадщину царських часів. Сценарна криза вплинула на кіновиробництво. Постійно бракувало підготовлених в Україні кадрів, особливо режисерів та акторів, які могли б задовольнити попит на нові образи. Незважаючи на труднощі, українське виробництво німого кіно процвітало. ВУФКУ імпортувало свою продукцію за кордон і стало конкурентом російським кіностудіям, що спричинило «митну війну»; між Російською та Українською радянськими республіками.
Українське кіно заперечувало право колишньої метрополії залишатися ретранслятором нових ідей, технічних досягнень і культурного прогресу Заходу. Українізація надала право українським митцям самим формувати образ України. Подолання наслідків колонізації українського дискурсу царською Росією, яка в офіційній радянській ідеології трактувалася як «тюрма народів»;, відкрило кремлівським лідерам несподівану правду про українську ідентичність, про те, що Україна має більше цивілізаційних зв’язків з Європою, ніж з Москвою.
Яна Примаченко – старший науковий співробітник Інституту історії України Національної Національної академії наук України. Восени 2022 року вона приєдналася до історичного факультету Прінстонського університету як запрошена дослідниця. Її дослідницькі інтереси широко варіюються від радянської культури 1920-30-х років, історії Другої світової війни, політики пам’яті в Росії та Східній Європі до вивчення радянської пропаганди та інформаційних війн. Вона зробила значний медійний внесок у просування історичних знань у публічну сферу. Її поточні дослідження зосереджені на медіатизації історії та історичних фейках у медіа.

In Search of Self: Anticolonial Discourse of Soviet Ukrainian Cinema in the 1920s
2023-03-25 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Lecture by Yana Prymachenko, Senior Researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and Visiting Scholar at Princeton University.
In 1922, the All-Ukrainian photo and cinema office (Ukrainian abbreviation – VUFKU) was created. It was a vertically integrated structure with a closed cinema production and distribution cycle. The VUFKU had a difficult task – to fill the cinema with Ukrainian content and create national cinematography. Young Ukrainian Soviet cinema had to overcome the colonial legacy of the tsarist’s time. The script crisis affected the movie production. There was a constant shortage of Ukrainian-trained personnel, especially film directors and actors, who could satisfy the demands for new images. Despite hardships, Ukrainian silent movie production thrived. VUFKU imported its production abroad and became a rival to Russian-based production studios, which caused a ‘customs war’ between the Russian and Ukrainian Soviet Republics.
Ukrainian cinema denied the right of the former colonial rule to stay the re-translator of new ideas, technical achievements, and cultural progress of the West. Ukrainization gave the voice to Ukrainian artists to form the image of Ukraine by themselves. The overcoming of consequences caused by the colonization of Ukrainian discourse by tsarist Russia that in official Soviet ideology was treated as a “prison of peoples” opened to the Kremlin leaders the unexpected truth about Ukrainian identity, that Ukraine has more civilization ties with Europe than with Moscow.

Yana Prymachenko is a senior researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In the fall of 2022, she joined the History Department at Princeton University as a visiting scholar. Her research interests vary greatly, ranging from Soviet culture of the 1920s-1930s, the history of the Second World War, memory politics in Russia and Eastern Europe, to the study of Soviet propaganda and informational wars. She has made a significant media contribution to promoting historical knowledge in the public sphere. Her current research focuses on the mediatization of history and historical fakes in media.

У ПОШУКАХ ВЛАСНОГО ‘Я’: АНТИКОЛОНІАЛЬНИЙ ДИСКУРС РАДЯНСЬКОГО УКРАЇНСЬКОГО КІНО 1920-Х РОКІВ
доповідь Яни Примаченко
кандидата історичних наук, старшої наукової співробітниці Інституту історії НАН України, запрошеної дослідниці Принстонського університету

У 1922 році було створено Всеукраїнське фотокіноуправління (ВУФКУ). Це булавертикально інтегрована структура із замкнутим циклом виробництва та прокатукінопродукції. Перед ВУФКУ стояло складне завдання – наповнити кінематографукраїнським контентом і створити національний кінематограф. Молоде українськерадянське кіно мало подолати колоніальну спадщину царських часів. Сценарна криза вплинула на кіновиробництво. Постійно бракувало підготовлених в Україні кадрів, особливо режисерів та акторів, які могли б задовольнити попит на нові образи. Незважаючи на труднощі, українське виробництво німого кіно процвітало. ВУФКУ імпортувало свою продукцію за кордон і стало конкурентом російським кіностудіям, що спричинило «митну війну»; між Російською та Українською радянськими республіками.
Українське кіно заперечувало право колишньої метрополії залишатися ретранслятором нових ідей, технічних досягнень і культурного прогресу Заходу. Українізація надала право українським митцям самим формувати образ України. Подолання наслідків колонізації українського дискурсу царською Росією, яка в офіційній радянській ідеології трактувалася як «тюрма народів»;, відкрило кремлівським лідерам несподівану правду про українську ідентичність, про те, що Україна має більше цивілізаційних зв’язків з Європою, ніж з Москвою.
Яна Примаченко – старший науковий співробітник Інституту історії України Національної Національної академії наук України. Восени 2022 року вона приєдналася до історичного факультету Прінстонського університету як запрошена дослідниця. Її дослідницькі інтереси широко варіюються від радянської культури 1920-30-х років, історії Другої світової війни, політики пам’яті в Росії та Східній Європі до вивчення радянської пропаганди та інформаційних війн. Вона зробила значний медійний внесок у просування історичних знань у публічну сферу. Її поточні дослідження зосереджені на медіатизації історії та історичних фейках у медіа.

XLIII Шевченківська наукова конференція і презентація перших двох томів «Спогадів про Тараса Шевченка. Критичне видання»
2023-03-11 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Програма
Відкриття
Альберт Кіпа, Президент УВАН
Григорій Грабович, УНІГУ/НТШ-А
“Спогади про Тараса Шевченка: головні питання жанру, культурного тла і психологічного змісту”
Тамара Гундорова, Принстонський університет/Інститут літератури НАНУ ім. Т. Г. Шевченка
“Емпатія і місце авторау творчості Шевченка”
Михайло Назаренкo, Київський національний університет ім. Т. Г. Шевченка
“Критичне видання спогадів про Тараса Шевченка: проблеми упорядкування і коментування”
Олександр Боронь Інститут літератури НАНУ ім. Т. Г. Шевченка
“Нові видання в рамках Шевченківського проєкту НТШ-А: здобутки і перспективи”
Закриття
Григорій Грабович Віце-Президент НТШ-А

Григорій Грабович – професор кафедри слов’янських мов та літератур ім. Дмитра Чижевського Гарвардського університету. Голова слов’янського відділу (1983-1988) і директор УНІГУ (1989-1996). Один із засновників і президент Міжнародної асоціації україністів (1991-1993), президент Наукового Товариства ім. Шевченка в Америці (2012-2018). З 1997 року засновник і головний редактор видавництва і часопису «Критика». Найновішою фундаментальною публікацією Грабовича є двотомник «Шевченко в критиці» (2013, 2016), в якому він виступив головним редактором та автором вступних статтей. Лавреат Національної премії ім. Т. Г. Шевченка за цикл статтей про модернізм і Павла Тичину (2022).

Тамара Гундорова – літературознавка і культурогиня, професорка, доктор наук, членкиня-кореспондентка НАН України. Працює в Інституту літератури імені Шевченка НАН України, є деканом Українського Вільного університету (Німеччина) та асоційованою вченою Гарвардського українського інституту (США). З 2023 року – запрошена дослідниця і лекторка Принстонського університету. Членкиня українського ПЕН. Тамара Гундорова є авторкою багатьох книг, найновіша з яких – Леся Українка. Книги Сивілли (2023). Стипендіатка Fulbright Scholar (1997 і 2009), а також грантів Yacyk Distinguished Fellowship (HURI, 2009), США, 2005), Shklar fellowship (HURI, 2001-2002), Foreign visitors fellowship (Hokkaido University, 2004), MUNK School of Global Affair fellowship (University of Toronto, 2017), Philippe Schwartz Initiative of Humboldt foundation (Giessen university, 2022-2023).

Михайло Назаренко – літературознавець, критик, перекладач, кандидат філологічних наук, доцент Інституту філології Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Автор праць з історії української, російської та англомовних літератур, в тому числі книжок «Реальність дива (Про книги Марини та Сергія Дяченків)» (2005), «Поховання на могилі (Шевченкова біографія у фольклорі та фейклорі)» (2006, випр. і доп. 2017; премія «ЛітАкцент року»), «Крім “Кобзаря”. Антологія української літератури. 1792–1883» (2021; премії КНУ та «Книжка року»). Разом з Олександром Боронем – співупорядник та співкоментатор зведень «Тарас Шевченко в критиці» (т. I–II, 2013–2016) і «Тарас Шевченко у спогадах» (т. I, 2023).

Олександр Боронь – шевченкознавець, доктор філологічних наук, завідувач відділу шевченкознавства, заступник директора з наукової роботи Інституту літератури імені Т. Г. Шевченка НАН України. Член Наукового товариства ім. Шевченка. Лауреат Державної премії України в галузі науки і техніки (у складі авторського колективу) за шеститомну «Шевченківську енциклопедію». Автор п’яти книжок про Шевченкову творчість. Разом із Михайлом Назаренком – співупорядник та співкоментатор зведень «Тарас Шевченко в критиці» (т. I–II, 2013–2016) і «Тарас Шевченко у спогадах» (т. I, 2023).

Book launch "Name of the Father" by Anna Frajlich
2023-02-11 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Name of the Father is the first collection of poetry by Anna Frajlich translated into Ukrainian. This volume of poems includes selected works from several previous collections published in Poland and abroad. Highly regarded by Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, Frajlich’s poetry uniquely combines Polish, American, and Jewish motifs, turning biography, place, and time into important details of poetics and ways of talking to the world with subtle hints. The central work, “Name of the Father,” concentrates tragedy, irony, and a Jewish worldview of uneasiness in simple questions without answers.
The book was compiled and translated by Vasyl Makhno.
Anna Frajlich is a Polish poet and essayist. She is Sr. Lecturer Emerita at the Department of Slavic Languages and Associate Faculty Member, Harriman Institute at Columbia University in New York City. Frajlich is the author of 18 books of poetry. Her works are translated into many languages and were awarded the Kościelski Foundation literary Prize (1981), the Knight’s Cross of Order of Merit (2002), the W. & N. Turzański Foundation Prize (2003), the Prize for life achievements of the Union of Polish Writers in Exile (2015), the Susanne Lotarski Distinguished Achievement Award (2021), and the Oscar Halecki Prize (2021).
The presentation is in Ukrainian and Polish.
До книжки віршів польської поетки Анни Фрайліх увійшли вибрані твори з кількох попередніх книжок, що видавалися в Польщі та за її межами. Високо поцінована Чеславом Мілошем та Віславою Шимборською, поезія авторки своєрідно поєднує польські, американські та єврейські мотиви, перетворюючи біографію, місце і час на важливі деталі поетики та способи розмовляти зі світом тонкими натяками. В центральному творі «Ім’я батька» зосереджено трагізм, іронію та єврейське світовідчуття незатишності, що постають простими питаннями без відповідей.
Уклав та переклав книжку Василь Махно.

Гуртування довкола прапора: соціально-політичні зміни в Україні протягом першого року війни
2023-01-28 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Український жорсткий і досить добре організований опір російській аґресії виявився неабиякоюнесподіванкою для багатьох експертів, котрі протягом років змальовували українську державу якбезнадійно скорумповану й дисфункціонално, а суспільство – як глибоко поділене й нездоланнорозколоте. З’ясувалось, однак, що українці, як і кожен народ, здатні в критичних умовах, перед лицемекзистенційних загроз, консолідуватися, відкидаючи партикулярні інтереси та суперечності накористь загальнонаціональної єдності та солідарності. Соціологи називають таку суспільну реакціюна зовнішні виклики «гуртуванням довкола прапора» (rallying round the flag). Жодні загрози не здатні,однак, об’єднати людей у націю, якщо для того немає певних передумов. Чим, власне, є в Україні ціоб’єднавчі чинники, які особливості їхнього формування, наскільки ймовірним є їхнє збереження унормальних умовах «сталого розвитку», поза екстремальними обставинами? На ці та деякі іншізапитання доповідач спробує відповісти на підставі аналізу соціально-політичних процесів в Україніостанніх десятиліть та відповідних змін у ціннісних настановах, ідентичностях і політичних орієнтаціях.
Микола Рябчук, доктор політичних наук,провідний науковий працівник Інституту політичних та етнонаціональних досліджень Національної Академії наук України. Почесний президент Українського ПЕН-клубу,співзасновник та член редколеґії часопису “Критика”

Дискутант: Науковий секретар НТШ-А,професор Йоханан Петровський-Штерн

20th Century Ukrainian Nationalism and Memory Politics (in person)
2022-12-17 17:00 (America/New_York) | Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States
This event will also be livestreamed on our Youtube channel.
Panel Discussion
20th century Ukrainian nationalism, in particular the Ukrainian underground known as the OUN and UPA., has in the last two decades been the subject of numerous books, articles and conferences. Highly negative views have been voiced about this movement, but increasingly in recent years Ukrainian society has also expressed positive attitudes. The panel will offer thoughts about how to unpack and explain these conflicting assessments, which have historical and political significance.
Participants:
Alexander Motyl (Rutgers University-Newark)
Considering Ukrainian Nationalism

Alexander Motyl is professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark and the author of National Questions (Ibidem, 2022) and Ostatnia Stacja Pituna (Insignis, 2022)

Myroslav Shkandrij (University of Manitoba)
Reconsidering Ukrainian Nationalism

Myroslav Shkandrij is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba and is presently a Visiting Professor at Columbia University. He is author of several books on Ukrainian literature, art and politics, including Ukrainian Nationalism 1929-1956 (Yale UP, 2015).

Bohdan Vitvitskyi (Former Special Advisor to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General)
Historiography, Political Judgement and Memory Politics

Bohdan Vitvitsky has written on legal, historical and philosophical subjects, including an early attempt to explain differences in perspectives on the Nazi Holocaust. He has formerly served as a U.S. diplomat to Ukraine and as the Special Advisor to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General.

Book Release Celebration: Jennings, Makhno, Tkacz, Turczyn
2022-12-10 17:00 (America/New_York) | Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States
December 10, 2022, 5:00 PM
In-person event at the Shevchenko Scientific Society
63 Fourth Ave (between 9th and 10th Streets) New York, NY10003

In celebration of poetry books released in 2022, Shevchenko Scientific Society presents four poets. Olena Jennings will read from The Age of Secrets (Lost Horse Press.) Vasyl Makhno will read from Paper Bridge (Plamen Press.) Virlana Tkacz will read from Three Wooden Trunks (Lost Horse Press.) Christina Turczyn will read from The Sky Inside Your Body (Poets of Queens Press and Yara Arts Group.) Join us in launching these books!
Books will be available at the event.
OLENA JENNINGS is a writer and translator. Her novel Temporary Shelter was released in 2021 from Cervena Barva Press. Her poetry collection, The Age of Secrets, was released in September from Lost Horse Press. Her translation with Oksana Lutsyshyna from Ukrainian of Kateryna Kalytko’s Nobody Knows Us Here, and We Don’t Know Anyone was released in October from Lost Horse Press, and her translation of Vasyl Makhno’s poetry collection Paper Bridge is forthcoming from Plamen Press. She is the founder and curator of the Poets of Queens reading series and small press.
VASYL MAKHNO is a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, essayist, and translator. He is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, the most recent of which is One Sail House (2021). He has also published a book of short stories, The House in Baiting Hollow (2015), a novel, The Eternal Calendar (2019), and four books of essays, The Gertrude Stein Memorial Cultural and Recreation Park (2006), Horn of Plenty (2011), Suburbs and Borderland (2019), and Biking along the Ocean (2020). Makhno’s works have been widely translated into many languages; his books have been published in Germany, Israel, Poland, Romania, Serbia, and the US., and most recently, Paper Bridge,(2022), translated by Olena Jennings.
VIRLANA TKACZ is the artistic director of Yara Arts Group, a resident company at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York and has created thirty-nine original productions that performed in New York, Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Bishkek, Ulan Ude, and Ulaanbaatar, as well as China. Virlana is the recipient of the NEA Poetry Translation Fellowship, three Fulbright Fellowships, the National Theatre Translation Award and numerous NYSCA grants for her translations with Wanda Phipps. In 2019, their translation of poems by Serhiy Zhadan, What We Live For, What We Die For, was published by Yale University Press. Three Wooden Trunks is a collection of poems about memory and Virlana’s family in America.
CHRISTINA TURCZYN, a writer and visual artist, has contributed watercolors to twenty exhibits including Cornell Has Talent. In her career as a writer, she has over one hundred publications in diverse magazines and journals. Those span international events covered at the Guggenheim and The World Around Summit. She is a member of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group. The Sky Inside Your Body is a convergence between poetry and nature. Among the seasons, winter stands out most, as we witness how the trauma of war and the pains of being a refugee are reflected in the next generation. Turczyn shows her mastery over the prose poem and closes the books with a cinematic universe.
