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SUMMARY:Village to Modern Daylong Symposium
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Ukrainian Museum and the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US are partnering to host a seminal event celebrating the Museum’s new exhibition Village to Modern. \nThe influence of Ukrainian folk art on the Ukrainian avant-garde in the early 20th century was transformative. With its vibrant colors\, geometric patterns\, and unique symbols\, Ukrainian folk art played a significant role in shaping the development of new artistic movements and pushing the boundaries of artistic expression for innovative and groundbreaking works. Pioneering avant-garde artists such as Kazimir Malevich and Alexandra Exter were inspired by the authenticity of Ukrainian folk art\, which had its creative roots in small villages across the country. \nJoin us for a daylong symposium with visual presentations by distinguished art historians\, an exhibition walkthrough with the Museum’s director\, and a roundtable discussion culminating with an audience Q&A. Our distinguished group of guest speakers include Dr. Myroslava Mudrak\, Oksana Semenik\, and Dr. Alisa Lozhkina. The program will be held throughout the day in both locations\, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US and The Ukrainian Museum\, with a light lunch at mid-day. The full schedule is provided below. This event will be held both in person and online (live stream)\, and tickets for both options are available on Eventbrite. For online ticket purchases\, the exhibition walkthrough at the Museum is not included. The live stream link to the event will be sent via email from the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US the day before the event. \n  \nSymposium Program \nLocation: Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US \n63 4th Avenue \n9:30 am – Coffee Reception \n10:05 am – 10:15 am – Welcome by Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky\, President of Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US                              \n10:15 am -12:30 pm – Visual Presentations by Guest Speakers (there will be breaks between presentations) \n  \nLocation: The Ukrainian Museum \n222 East 6th Street \n1 – 2 pm – Light Lunch Reception \n2 – 3 pm – Walkthrough of the Village to Modern Exhibition with Museum Director Peter Doroshenko \n  \nLocation: Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US \n63 4th Avenue \n3:30 – 5 pm – Roundtable and Q&A\n  \n\n  Buy Tickets
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/village-to-modern-daylong-symposium/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom by Greta Uehling
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn this ground-breaking book\, distinguished anthropologist Greta Uehling illuminates the untold stories of Russia’s occupation of Crimea from 2014 to the present\, revealing the traumas of colonization\, foreign occupation\, and population displacement. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in Ukraine\, including over 90 personal interviews\, Uehling brings her readers into the lives of people who opposed Russia’s Crimean operation\, many of whom fled for government-controlled Ukraine. Via the narratives of people who traversed perilous geographies and world-altering events\, Uehling traces the development of a new sense of social cohesion that encompasses diverse ethnic and religious groups. The result is a compelling story—one of resilience\, transformation\, and ultimately\, the unwavering pursuit of freedom and autonomy for Ukraine\, regardless of ethnicity or race. Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom demonstrates how understanding Crimea is essential to understanding Ukraine – and the war with Russia – today. \nGreta Uehling is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in the study of war\, conflict\, and population displacement. A Professor at the University of Michigan\, she teaches seminars on human rights and humanitarianism for the Program in International and Comparative Studies. She is the author of Beyond Memory: The Deportation and Repatriation of the Crimean Tatars (2004) and Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas\, Ukraine (2023). \nModerator: Dr. Maria Sonevytsky\, Bard College \nRegistration
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/book-launch-decolonizing-ukraine-the-indigenous-people-of-crimea-and-pathways-to-freedom-by-greta-uehling/
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SUMMARY:Serhii Tereshchenko: Theory of Cultural Change in Yevhen Malaniuk's Poetry and Scholarship
DESCRIPTION:After the Ukrainian National Republic was taken over in 1919\, the army officer Yevhen Malaniuk\, then 22 years old\, moved to Poland. He lived there for twenty years until another world war forced him to move to Czechoslovakia\, then Germany\, and finally to New York\, where he found a job in engineering. Malaniuk\, with his ties to academia and many publications\, is a little-known public thinker who has already discussed important issues that Ukrainians face today: how to showcase the Ukrainian nation to the world and how cultural politics affects people’s well-being. He presented his ideas about culture in poetry in the books The Stiletto and the Stylus (1925) and The Power (1951). He also developed a cultural theory on how a nation under occupation can move towards a democratic open society in his quasi-anthropological studies\, including Essays in the History of Our Culture (1954)\, On the Problem of Bolshevism (1956)\, and A Book of Observations (1962). \nSerhii Tereshchenko is a visiting assistant professor at the University at Albany\, State University of New York (SUNY). He teaches literature and film from Ukraine\, Central Europe\, and Central Asia. Serhii defended his dissertation at Columbia University\, where he studied how science fiction promoted plurality and inclusivity in the Soviet Union and Socialist Bloc to dismantle the one-party centralized power through mass media. He presented his research at the Center for Science Fiction Studies at the University of Kansas and the Science Fiction Consortium at the University of South Africa. Dr. Serhii Tereshchenko is now developing the book “Lyrical Games: Gender and Nation in Polish Hip-Hop” (Palgrave McMillan\, the US) and translating from Ukrainian an edition of text titled “Cultural Paratroopers: Ukrainian Literary Organizations in the 1840s-1990” (Glagoslav\, the Netherlands). \nRegistration
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/serhii-tereshchenko-theory-of-cultural-change-in-yevhen-malaniuks-poetry-and-scholarship/
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SUMMARY:Leonid Hrabovsky: A 90th Anniversary Celebration A Concert Featuring the Music of the Composer
DESCRIPTION:Program: \nKeepsake for Elissa (1988)\nForrest Eimold\, piano \n  \nTrio for violin\, double bass and piano (1964)\nAndrii Didorenko\, violin\nMarguerite Cox\, bass\nPavlo Gintov\, piano \n  \nHlas 1 (1990)\nClara Cho\, cello \n  \nEQVIN (2019)\nAlexander Yakub\, violin\nForrest Eimold\, piano \n  \nRegistration \nLeonid Hrabovsky (b. 1935) is a Ukrainian composer\, laureate of the Boris Lyatoshynsky Prize (1993)\, and Honorary Professor of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy (2010). He is the author of Four Ukrainian Songs\, four Homeomorphies\, the melodrama La Mer for narrator\, mixed choir\, and large symphony orchestra on texts by the French poet Saint-John Perse\, the symphony-legend Evening on Ivan Kupalo\, the symphonic poem Vorzel in memory of B. Lyatoshynsky\, and many other compositions. Using a wide range of modern compositional techniques developed in the 20th century\, he created his own system and method of algorithmic composition. After many years of work\, he completed the computerization of this method and returned to active composing. Since 2016\, he has written 12 Two-Voice Inventions for harpsichord\, Tetragon\, ARRY\, EQVIN\, and STR-O(r)GAN for organ. While living and working in the U.S. since 1990\, Hrabovsky has maintained a close relationship with the musical life of independent Ukraine\, arranging lectures\, talks\, and creative meetings. His works have been performed at numerous events in Ukraine\, the U.S.\, Europe\, and both North and South America. This year\, a festival celebrating the 90th anniversaries of three composers—Arvo Pärt\, Giya Kancheli\, and Leonid Hrabovsky—is planned in the city of Bonn. \n  \nForest Eimold\, piano \nNew York-based composer-keyboardist Forrest Eimold (b. 1999) has been hailed as “incredible” and “fearless” by The Boston Musical Intelligencer\, “extremely impressive” by Harmonie\, and as having “ably responded to the many virtuosic demands” of today’s compositional vanguard by The Washington Post. Forrest’s compositional honors include the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts from Columbia University\, a Density Labs Fellowship from the Juilliard School\, a Blueprint Fellowship from National Sawdust\, and multiple awards from the National YoungArts Foundation. A publication of Forrest’s organ transcription of Gerald Barry’s Chevaux-de-frise is forthcoming from Schott Music. Having graduated in 2022 from the dual program between the Juilliard School and Columbia University\, Forrest currently studies composition at the Yale School of Music. Having served as Music and Organ Scholar at Trinity Church Wall Street (2018–22)\, he now works as Staff Pianist at the Juilliard School (2021–present). \nClara Cho\, cello \nClara Cho is a Korean cellist based in New York City. She collaborates closely with living composers including Reiko Füting\, Ashkan Behzadi\, and Samuel Torres to contribute to the development of emerging repertoire. As she seeks to integrate diverse forms of art with her performance beyond the boundaries of classical and contemporary music\, Clara has also collaborated with rising jazz musicians\, choreographers\, visual artists\, and fashion designers including Miro Magloire (New Chamber Ballet\, Columbia Ballet Collaborative)\, Christian McGhee\, Emmanuel Michael\, Nicola Caminiti\, Jahari Stampley\, Jingu Jun (“The Last Garment”\, fashion brand)\, Youngsu Jo on various projects. Recently\, she was featured on Reiko Füting’s latest album “distant: violin. sound”\, as a part of the ensemble\, Noise Catalogue. Clara holds BM\, MM\, and PS degrees from the Manhattan School of Music\, where she studied under Julia Lichten and Philippe Muller. Her upcoming performances include a Contemporary Chamber Music Concert on May 19th at St. John’s in the Village\, and a Noise Catalogue concert featuring George Crumb’s Black Angels on May 31st at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. \nAndrii Didorenko\, violin \nA New York-based violinist and composer Andrii Didorenko was born in Dnipro\, Ukraine\, to a family of professional violinists. He took his first violin lessons with his parents and made his debut with an orchestra at the age of 10. He earned his graduate and postgraduate degrees from Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and appeared as a soloist with Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Moscow Camerata Chamber Orchestra. From 1999 to 2004\, Andrii lived in Taiwan where he taught\, performed\, and debuted as a composer. Since moving to New York in 2006\, he has performed regularly as a soloist and chamber. Andrii is also a leader of a contemporary rock fusion ensemble\, Lost World Band\, which has released several critically acclaimed albums. Since the start of the war\, he has written several pieces inspired by Ukrainian folk music and participated in many fundraising events to aid Ukraine. \nMarguerite Cox\, bass \nMarguerite Cox is a double bassist from Northeast Ohio\, currently a fellow in Carnegie Hall’s renowned Ensemble Connect program. She is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music—where she was the first person to earn a master’s degree in double bass performance—and Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music\, where she also earned a minor in Poverty\, Justice\, and Human Capabilities.A versatile musician\, Marguerite’s work spans classical\, experimental\, folk\, and improvised traditions. She performs regularly with ensembles such as A Far Cry\, Palaver Strings\, New Canaan Chamber Music\, and Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players. Recent highlights include appearances with the Baltimore and Charleston Symphonies\, and solo recitals presented by Illuminate Women’s Music\, Summer Strings Academy for Girls\, and the Cincinnati Bass Club’s 2025 tribute to François Rabbath.Marguerite is a dedicated advocate for new and experimental music. She has premiered works by Nick Dunston\, Matt Aucoin\, and Ted Babcock; performed at the ensemble mise-en festival and the Museum of Modern Art; and held creative residencies at Avaloch Farm and Brown University. In 2023\, she was a member of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra.She is also a core member of Big Bend\, an improvising folk band that has toured nationally with performances at Le Poisson Rouge (NYC)\, Constellation (Chicago)\, The 5 Spot (Nashville)\, and studio collaborations with Grammy-winning producer Shahzad Ismaily. Her improvisation duo\, Goal Weight\, with violinist Jennifer Gersten\, has performed at P.I.T.\, Cutelab\, and Freddy’s Bar.Marguerite has held fellowships at the Tanglewood Music Center\, Aspen Music Festival\, Spoleto Festival USA\, and the Music Academy of the West\, and studied with mentors including Edgar Meyer\, Paul Ellison\, Tim Pitts\, Leigh Mesh\, and Tracy Rowell. \nPavlo Gintov\, piano \nPavlo Gintov has been described as “a poet of the keyboard” by Marty Lash of the Illinois Entertainer\, a “musical storyteller” by the Japanese publication Shikoku News\, and “a fantastic pianist and extraordinary artist” by Jerry Dubins of the Fanfare Magazine. Following his debut at the Kyiv Philharmonic Hall at the age of 12\, Pavlo has been touring throughout Europe\, Asia\, Africa\, South America and the United States\, appearing at such stages as Carnegie Hall in New York\, Berlin Philharmonic Hall\, Teatro Verdi Nationale in Milan and Kioi Hall in Tokyo. He has been a soloist with Tokyo Royal Chamber Orchestra\, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine\, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa\, the National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic and Manhattan Chamber Orchestra under such conductors as Michiyoshi Inoue\, Victor Yampolsky\, Thomas Sanderling\, Volodymyr Sirenko and Tomomi Nishimoto. \nAlexander Yakub\, violin \nAlexander “Sasha” Yakub received a graduate diploma in violin performance in 2024 as the first student of Leila Josefowicz at the Mannes School of Music on a full scholarship\, where he also completed his masters as a President’s Scholar under Miranda Cuckson in 2022. Sasha holds a bachelors in music from Harvard\, where he received the 2020 Robert Levin Prize in Musical Performance and was a 2019 Harvard Office for the Arts Development Fellow. Sasha was also a 2022-2024 Akademist at the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra\, 2021 Bang On a Can Summer Festival Fellow\, 2020 Yamaha Young Artists Competition honorable mention winner\, and a 2017-18 Tanglewood Music Center Violin Fellow\, during the second year of which he served as concertmaster for the 2018 Myrios recording of “In Seven Days” by Thomas Adès (Kirill Gerstein\, soloist). The eponymous album—containing it—was the 2021 winner of the contemporary category in the International Classical Music Awards. In 2024\, he won runner-up at the Mannes School of Music Concerto Competition for his performance of Adès’ Concentric Paths violin concerto. Some of Sasha’s notable public performances include the world premiere of Paul Mortilla’s violin concerto “Animal Brain: ad infinitum perplexus confixium” with New Music New Haven at the Yale School of Music and the performance of “Synchronisms No. 9” at the Harvard Music Department’s memorial concert for Prof. Emeritus Mario Davidovsky. Sasha lives in New York\, where he has contracted with Lincoln Center Stage and the American Composers Alliance and serves as concertmaster of the BeComEnsemble. \nRegistration
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/leonid-hrabovsky-a-90th-anniversary-celebration-a-concert-featuring-the-music-of-the-composer/
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SUMMARY:Chornobyl and Its Legacies Today: Ecocide\, Cultural Responses\, and Critical Geopolitics. Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a timely discussion on the anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster\, exploring its enduring impact through the lenses of environmental violence\, cultural memory\, and geopolitical critique. Featuring presentations by Stanislav Menzelevskyi (Indiana University)\, Nathaniel Pickett (National Institute for Children’s Health Quality)\, and Darya Tsymbalyuk (University of Chicago)\, along with a screening of Chornobyl 22\, a short film by Oleksiy Radynski. \nModerated by Vitaly Chernetsky\, President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. \nStanislav Menzelevskyi is a film scholar\, archivist\, and co-founder of the Medusa publishing project in Ukraine. Stanislav headed the Research and Programming Department of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Center for over a decade.  He is the co-author of the compilation films Atomopolis. Assembling Utopia (2016) and Lviv-Intervision (2018). Currently\, he is pursuing a Ph.D. at the Media School at Indiana University\, Bloomington\, after spending time as a Fulbright Fellow at UC Berkeley (2018) and a Carnegie Fellow at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute (2013). \nNathaniel Ray Pickett received his doctorate from the Department of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Kansas in 2022. Over the course of his academic career\, he has published work on a variety of topics at the intersection of power\, knowledge\, and space\, including articles on territorial cleansing; incorporating Science\, Technology\, and Society methodologies in geographic research; and the long-term effects of the Chornobyl disaster on Ukrainian society\, politics\, and culture. In 2015-16\, Dr. Pickett was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Ukraine where he conducted archival research and interviews for his dissertation work. Most recently\, he published “Chornobyl Body Politics: Making Environmental Violence Visible” with Dr. Shannon O’Lear in Exploring Environmental Violence (2024). He currently works at the National Institute for Children’s Health Quality. \nDarya Tsymbalyuk is an interdisciplinary researcher\, and her practice includes writing and image-making. Most of Darya’s work lies at the intersection of environmental humanities and artistic research. Darya is the author of Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War (Polity Press 2025). Among her many shorter publications is a double special issue on the environmental humanities of Ukraine co-edited with Tanya Richardson and forthcoming with East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies. In addition to writing\, Darya also works with images through drawing\, painting\, collage\, and film essays. Darya serves as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Committee on Environment\, Geography\, and Urbanization (CEGU)\, University of Chicago. \n\n  Join via Zoom
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/chornobyl-and-its-legacies-today-ecocide-cultural-responses-and-critical-geopolitics-webinar/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Selected Works in Two Volumes by Vasyl Makhno
DESCRIPTION:  \nVasyl Makhno is regarded as one of the contemporary Ukrainian poetic voices on the global stage\, with his works translated into more than twenty languages. Skhyma is the most comprehensive collection of his poetry\, featuring works written between 1993 and 2023. In addition to his poetry\, Makhno’s essays offer a unique insight into his artistic and personal world. The book Chickens Don’t Fly gathers essays written from 2002 to 2023. These essays intertwine memories\, autobiographical stories\, and reflections on others\, with some resembling short stories that form a cohesive tapestry\, while others take readers on a journey through various spaces — and ultimately\, through life. \nVasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet\, prose writer\, essayist\, and translator. He is the author of fourteen 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)\, Paper Bridge (2017)\, A Poet\, the Ocean and Fish (2019)\, and most recently 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 five books of essays\, The Gertrude Stein Memorial Cultural and Recreation Park (2006)\, Horn of Plenty (2011)\, Suburbs and Borderland (2019)\, Biking along the Ocean (2020)\, and From Consonants to Vowels: an Encyclopedia of Names\, Places\, Birds\, Plants and Other Things (2023). Makhno’s works have been widely translated into many languages; his books have been published in Germany\, Israel\, Lithuania\, Poland\, Romania\, Serbia and the US. \nHe translated Zbigniew Herbert’s\, Janusz Szuber’s\, Bohdan Zadura’s and Anna Frajlich’s poetry from Polish into Ukrainian\, and edited an anthology of young Ukrainian poets from the 1990’s. 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 International Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize “Encounter” (2020). \nFeaturing: pianist Pavlo Gintov and singer Alla Rodina (soprano). \nModerator: Tamara Hundorova (Princeton University) \nThe presentation will be delivered in Ukrainian. \nAdmission to this event is free. Registration is required. Suggested donation is $20 \nРеєстрація
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/book-launch-selected-works-in-two-volumes-by-vasyl-makhno/
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SUMMARY:Lesia Ukrainka. The Drama of Awareness of the Shadow by Yevheniia Kononenko
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nUkrainian researchers have offered a wide variety of interpretations of Lesia Ukrainka’s works\, especially her dramaturgy. Writer Yevheniia Kononenko offers an interpretation of Lesia Ukrainka’s dramaturgy using the analytical psychology apparatus of Carl Gustav Jung\, one of the most prominent thinkers of the 20th century. The author analyzes not only the ideas of Lesia Ukrainka’s dramas but also the personalities of the characters in these dramas\, who are carriers of various ideas. The main marker of the study is the concept of consciousness. How aware are Lesya’s characters? And how aware was the poetess herself\, giving them life? \nYevheniia Kononenko was born in Kyiv in 1959. In 1981\, she graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv\, then worked for several years as a programmer in various institutions in Kyiv. She made her debut in Ukrainian literature as a translator from French\, and in 1993\, she received the Mykola Zerov Prize for translating French poetry. Kononenko is the author of collections of short stories\, novels\, books for children\, and collections of essays. She is a laureate of national awards and a participant in international programs. In 2003\, she participated in the International Writing Program at Iowa State University. \nShe is currently working on a historical novel as a Fulbright scholar. \nThe presentation will be delivered in Ukrainian. \nAdmission to this event is free. Registration is required. Suggested donation is $20 \n\nРеєстрація
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/lesia-ukrainka-the-drama-of-awareness-of-the-shadow-by-yevheniia-kononenko/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Art in Ukraine Between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance. Edited by Svitlana Biedarieva
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nThis edited volume traces the development of art practices in Ukraine from the 2004 Orange Revolution\, through the 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity\, to the ongoing Russian war of aggression. \nContributors explore how transformations of identity\, the emergence of participatory democracy\, relevant changes to cultural institutions\, and the realization of the necessity of decolonial release have influenced the focus and themes of contemporary art practices in Ukraine. The chapters analyze such important topics as the postcolonial retrieval of the past\, the deconstruction of post-Soviet visualities\, representations of violence and atrocities in the ongoing Russian war against Ukraine\, and the notion of art as a mechanism of civic resistance and identity-building. \nThe book will be of interest to scholars of art history\, Eastern European studies\, cultural studies\, decolonial studies\, and postcolonial studies. \n  \n \nSvitlana Biedarieva is an art historian\, artist\, and curator. She is the author of the book Ambicoloniality and War: The Ukrainian-Russian Case (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2025)\, the editor of Art in Ukraine Between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance (Routledge\, 2024) and Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art: Political and Social Perspectives\, 1991-2021 (ibidem Press\, 2021)\, and the co-editor of At the Front Line. Ukrainian Art\, 2013-2019 (Editorial 17\, 2020). She has published texts in leading academic journals and media outlets\, such as October\, Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, Financial Times\, and The Art Newspaper. She holds a PhD in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art\, University of London. \nModerator: Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky\, \nPresident of the Shevchenko Scientific Society
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/book-launch-art-in-ukraine-between-identity-construction-and-anti-colonial-resistance-edited-by-svitlana-biedarieva/
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SUMMARY:Displacing a Person: Memoirs\, Diary Entries\, and Photographs by Juchym Charczenko\, the Engineer
DESCRIPTION:Переміщення особи: Спогади\, щоденникові записи і фотодокументи інженера Юхима Харченка. Нью-Йорк: Наукове Товариство ім. Шевченка в Америці\, 2024. 272 с. \nУ рамках проєкту публікування архівних матеріалів НТШ-А вийшла книга споминів та щоденникових записів інженера Юхима Харченка (1912–2004). Пропоноване видання складається з двох частин: перша – це авторові спомини від часу та місця народження\, родинного кола аж до потрапляння у концентраційний табір Бухенвальд\, а друга – щоденникові записи про українське життя в переселенчому таборі Корнберґ. Видання ілюстровано світлинами з повоєнного періоду. \nПід час презентації демонструватиметься виставка фоторобіт Стефанії Харченко “Хроніка Нью-Йорка: солідарність з Україною”. \nЗа участі: Андріана Каратницького\, Стефанії Харченко та Василя Махна. \nПрезентація відбудеться українською мовою. \nВхід – вільний. Реєстрація обов’язкова. \nРекомендована пожертва – 20 дол. \n\nРеєстрація\n\nДивитися подію в онлайні \n\nAs part of the project to publish archival materials\, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the USpresents a book of memoirs and diary entries by engineer Juchym Charczenko (1912–2004). The publication consists of two parts: the first includes the authors recollections from his birth and family circle to his time in the Buchenwald concentration camp\, and the second contains diaryentries about Ukrainian life in the Cornberg displaced persons camp. The publication isillustrated with photographs from the post-war period. \nDuring the presentation\, we will show an exhibition of photographs by Stefania Charczenko titled Chronicle of New York: Solidarity with Ukraine. \nWith the participation of Adrian Karatnycky\, Stefania Charczenko\, and Vasyl Makhno. \nThe presentation will be delivered in Ukrainian. \nAdmission to this event is free. \nRegistration is required. Suggested donation is $20 \n\nRegister\n\nWatch the streamed event
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/displacing-a-person-memoirs-diary-entries-and-photographs-by-juchym-charczenko-the-engineer/
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SUMMARY:Modern Shevchenko Studies: Multidisciplinary Discourses
DESCRIPTION:  \n11 березня 2025 році в Навчально-науковому інституті філології відбудеться Міжнародна науково–практична конференція «Сучасне шевченкознавство: мультидисциплінарні дискурси»\, присвячена 211-ій річниці від дня народження Тараса Шевченка \nОрганізатори: \nМіністерство освіти і науки України Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка \nНавчально-науковий інститут філології КНУ імені Тараса Шевченка \nКафедра історії української літератури\, теорії літератури і літтворчості \nВсеукраїнський навчально-науковий центр шевченкознавства University of Alberta\, \nВіденський університет\, Інститут славістики\, \nВаршавський університет\, Інститут україністики\, \nПознанський університет імені Адама Міцкевича\, Кафедра україністики\, \nІнститут літератури ім.Т.Г.Шевченка НАН України\, Відділ шевченкознавства\, \nНаукове товариство ім. Шевченка в США\, \nОсередок НТШ на Західну Канаду (Едмонтон) \nТематика і напрями: \nФеномен Тараса Шевченка в контексті війни України з Росією. \nТарас Шевченко та світова культура. \nНаукова і критична рецепція творчості Тараса Шевченка. \nТарас Шевченко в сучасних історико-літературних дослідженнях. \nТворчість Тараса Шевченка в сучасних перекладах мовами світу. \nЛінгвістичні прочитання творчості Тараса Шевченка. \nФольклористичні та інтермедіальні студії. \nhttps://www.facebook.com/philology.knu.ua
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/modern-shevchenko-studies-multidisciplinary-discourses/
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SUMMARY:XLIV Наукова Шевченківська Конференція
DESCRIPTION:Програма:\nCпадок романтизму та народництва від ХІХ ст. до сьогодення\nСергій Біленький\nУНІГУ/Колумбійський університет \nЧитачі Шевченка: автокоментар і сучасна вау-рецепція\nТамара Гундорова\nПринстонський університет/Інститут літератури НАНУ ім. Т. Г. Шевченка \n“Щоденник” Шевченка\nГригорій Грабович\nНТШ-А/Гарвардський університет \nМодератор:\nВіталій Чернецький\, Президент Наукового Товариства ім. Шевченка. \nДоповіді виголошуватимуться українською мовою.\nДискусія – українською й англійською. \nВхід – вільний. Реєстрація обов’язкова. Рекомендована пожертва – 20 дол. \n\nРЕЄСТРАЦІЯ \nДИВИТИСЯ ПОДІЮ В ОНЛАЙНІ \n\n\nСергій Біленький – професор-гість Колумбійського університету та головний редактор Схід/Захід: журнал українознавства (з 2023). Програмний директор Гарвардської літньої школи українознавтсва з 2015 року. Закінчив Київський університетет ім. Т. Г. Шевченка\, в якому здобув ступінь кандидата наук (1997). Отримав ступінь доктора філософії з історії в Торонтонському університеті (2007). Викладав курси російської\, української та східноєвропейської історії в Торонтонському\, Колумбійському університетах та Гарвардській літній школі українознавтства. Серед його публікацій: Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Russian\, Polish\, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations (Stanford University Press\, 2012) та Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands: Kyiv\, 1800-1905 (University of Toronto Press\, 2018).). Він також є редактором вибраних творів провідних українських інтелектуалів ХІХ ст.\, Fashioning Modern Ukraine: Selected Writings of Mykola Kostomarov\, Volodymyr Antonovych\, and Mykhailo Drahomanov (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies\, 2014). Найновіша розвідка – мультидисциплінарна історія України протягом «довгого» 19 століття – Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine between Empire and Nation\, 1772–1914 (McGill-Queen’s University Press and CIUS Press\, 2023). \n\nТамара Гундорова – професор-гість та наукова співробітниця Прінстонського університету\, провідна наукова співробітниця Інституту літератури НАН України\, асоційована наукова співробітниця Гарвардського українського наукового інституту та декан Українського вільного університету. Віцепрезидентка Українського ПЕН. Авторка багатьох книжок\, зокрема про Лесю Українку «Книги Сивілли» (2023)\, «Постчорнобильська бібліотека. Український постмодернізм 1990-х» (2019)\, «Транзитна культура. Симптоми постколоніальної травми» (2013; 2024)\, «Кітч і література. Травестії» (2008)\, «Франко і/не Каменяр» (2006); «Femina melancholica.. Стать і культура в гендерних утопіях Ольги Кобилянської» (2002)\, а також багатьох статей та розвідок про модернізм\, постмодернізм\, фемінізм\, постколоніальні дослідження та історію української літератури. Була стипендіаткою програми Фулбрайта\, університету Монаша\, фонду імені Петра Яцика\, університету Хоккайдо та Ініціативи Філіпа Шварца Фонду Олександра фон Гумбольдта тощо \n\nГригорій Грабович – професор-дослідник катедри української літератури ім. Дмитра Чижевського в Гарвардському університеті. Професор Грабович був директором Українського наукового інститут у Гарварді (1989–1996) і одним із засновників і президентом (1991–1993) Міжнародної асоціації україністів. З 2012 по 2018 був президентом Наукового Товариства ім. Шевченка в США; нині є членом Управи. У 1997 році заснував український щомісячник «Критика»\, який став провідним інтелектуальним часописом в Україні. Перша книга Грабовича про Шевченка («Поет як міфотворець» (The Poet as Mythmaker)\, 1982; українські видання: 1991\, 1997) була відзначена найбільш впливовою академічною книгою в Україні пострадянського періоду. 2013 року опублікував працю «Шевченкові ‘Гайдамаки’. Поема і критика». Грабович також був головним редактором видання «Тарас Шевченко в критиці» (т.1\, 2013; т.2\, 2016). Автор каталогу-монографії «Тарас Шевченко. Поет\, художник\, ікона (1814–1861)» (2014 р.). Редактор міжнародного проєкту «Історія української літератури»\, головний офіс якого знаходиться в Університеті Санкт-Ґаллена\, Швейцарія. Лауреат Національної премії ім. Т. Г. Шевченка. \n\nВіталій Чернецький – Президент Наукового Товариства ім. Шевченка в Америці (з грудня 2024)\, літературознавець\, кінознавець\, перекладач. Професор славістики Канзаського університету\, у 2009-2018 роках був президентом Американської асоціації україністів. Здобув ступінь Ph.D. у порівняльному літературознавстві та теорії літератури в Університеті Пенсильванії. Автор монографії Картографуючи посткомуністичні культури: Росія та Україна в контексті глобалізації (вид. ун-тів МакҐил та Квінс\, 2007; україномовна версія\, вид. «Критика»\, 2013) та статей про модерні та сучасні слов’янські та східноєвропейські літератури і культури\, де він наголошує на міжреґіональних та міждисциплінарних контекстах. Нова книга українською\, Перетини і прориви: Українська література і кіно поміж глобальним та локальним\, готується до друку у видавництві «Критика». Співредактор двомовної антології сучасної української поезії Листи з України (2016) та анотованого українського перекладу Культури й імперіялізму Едварда Саїда (2007)\, запрошений редактор спеціального числа електронного часопису КіноКультура\, присвяченого Україні (2009). Серед його перекладів англійською романи Юрія Андруховича Московіада (2008) та Дванадцять обручів (2015)\, а також збірка його вибраних поезій\, Пісні для мертвого півня (2018\, спільно з Остапом Конем)\, а також збірка поезій Остапа Сливинського Зимовий король (2023\, спільно з Іриною Шуваловою). Переклад роману Софії Андрухович Фелікс Австрія готується до друку. Протягом 2024 року проф. Чернецький був президентом Асоціації слов’янських\, східноєвропейських та євразійських досліджень (ASEEES). \n\n  \nProgram:\nThe Legacy of Romanticism and Narodnytsvo from the 19th Century to the Present\nSerhiy Bilenky\, HURI/Columbia University \nShevchenko’s Readers: Auto-commentary and Modern Wow-Reception\nTamara Hundorova\, Princeton University/Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences \nShevchenko’s “Diary”\nGeorge Grabowicz\, Shevchenko Scientific Society/ Harvard University \nModerator:\nVitaly Chernetsky\, President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society \n\nSerhiy Bilenky is a visiting assistant professor at Columbia University and Editor-In-Chief of East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies (since 2023). He also has been Programs Director of Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute since 2015. Born in Kyiv\, Ukraine\, he graduated from Kyiv National Shevchenko University\, from which he also received his Candidate of Sciences degree (1997). He received his PhD in History from the University of Toronto (2007). Bilenky taught courses on Russian\, Ukrainian\, and east European histories at the University of Toronto\, Columbia University\, and Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute. Among his publications is Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Russian\, Polish\, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations (Stanford University Press\, 2012) and Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands: Kyiv\, 1800-1905 (University of Toronto Press\, 2018). He’s also the editor of the selected writings of the leading 19th-century Ukrainian intellectuals Fashioning Modern Ukraine: Selected Writings of Mykola Kostomarov\, Volodymyr Antonovych\, and Mykhailo Drahomanov (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies\, 2014). His most recent book is Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine between Empire and Nation\, 1772–1914 (McGill-Queen’s University Press and CIUS Press\, 2023) – a multidisciplinary history of Ukraine during the “long” 19th  century. \n\nTamara Hundorova is currently a Visiting Professor and Scholar at Princeton University. She is also a Principal Scholar at the Institute of Literature\, NAS of Ukraine\, an Associate Fellow at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute\, and a Dean at Ukrainian Free University. Vice President of PEN Ukraine. Tamara Hundorova authored multiple books\, including Lesia Ukrainka. Knyhy Syvilly (2023)\, The Post- Chornobyl Library. The Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s (2019)\, Tranzytna kul’tura. Symptomy postkolonial’noi travmy (2013; 2024)\, Kitsch i Literatura. Travestii (2008)\, Franko i/ne Kameniar (2006); Femina melancholica. Stat’ i kul’tura v gendernij utopii Ol’hy Kobylians’koi (2002) and many articles and chapters on modernism\, postmodernism\, feminism\, postcolonial studies\, and the history of Ukrainian literature. She is a former Fulbright Scholar\, Visiting Scholar of Monash University\, recipient of Yacyk Distinguished Fellowship\, Foreign Visitors Fellowship (Hokkaido University)\, and Fellowship of Philipp Schwartz-Initiative of Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung\, among others. \n\nGeorge G. Grabowicz is the Dmytro Čyževs’kyj Research Professor of Ukrainian Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1965 and his PhD in comparative literature from Harvard in 1975. Professor Grabowicz has been Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard (1983-1988) and Director of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute (1989-1996).   From 2012 to 2018 he was President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US and is currently a Vice-President there.  In 1997 he founded and since then has been editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian monthly Krytyka\, a leading intellectual journal in Ukraine. He has written on Ukrainian\, Polish and Russian literature and on literary theory.  His first book on Shevchenko (The Poet as Mythmaker\, 1982; Ukrainian editions: 1991 and 1997) has been voted the most influential academic book of the post-Soviet period in Ukraine.  He currently heads an international team of scholars working on a history of Ukrainian literature that is due to appear shortly.  In March\, 2022 he was awarded the Shevchenko Prize\, Ukraine’s highest award in the humanities and arts\, for his series of articles on modernism and the poet Pavlo Tychyna.  His most recent publication is an Introduction to vols 1 and 2 of Taras Shevchenko in Memoirs: A Critical Edition\, Kyiv\, 2023. \n\nVitaly Chernetsky is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas. A native of Ukraine\, he began his university education at Moscow State University\, and continued it at Duke University\, arriving in the US as an exchange student in the fall of 1989. He received his MA (1993) and PhD (1996) in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to coming to KU in 2013\, he taught at Columbia\, Northeastern\, and Miami University (Ohio)\, and has held research fellowships at Cornell and Harvard. At KU\, he also served as CREES Director from 2015 to 2020\, and is currently on the executive committee of the Jewish Studies Program and the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. Chernetsky is an ASEEES/AAASS member since 1993 and an active member of Q*ASEEES. He is a past president of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) and the current President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S.\, the autonomous U.S. branch of the oldest Ukrainian learned society\, founded in 1873. He is the author of Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization (McGill-Queen’s University Press\, 2007; Ukrainian-language edition 2013; co-winner\, AAUS book prize; winner\, best Ukrainian book in the humanities\, Ukraine’s Book of the Year awards) and of numerous articles on modern and contemporary Russian and Ukrainian culture where he seeks to highlight cross-regional and cross-disciplinary contexts. \n\nThe conference will be delivered in Ukrainian. \nAdmission to this event is free. Registration is required. Suggested donation is $20 \n\nRegister\n\nWatch the streamed event
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/xliv-annual-taras-shevchenko-scholarly-conference/
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SUMMARY:Why Did Russia Invade? [Portland\, OR & virtual]
DESCRIPTION:The History\, Social Sciences\, and Law Section of the Shevchenko Scientific Society invites you to a timely talk by political scientists Maria Popova (McGill University) and Oxana Shevel (Tufts University). \nIn their recent book\, Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories\, Diverging States\, Popova and Shevel challenge the narrative that NATO expansion provoked the invasion. Instead\, they argue that Russia’s slide into authoritarianism led its government to view Ukraine’s democratic\, pro-European trajectory as a direct threat. Their talk will explore Russia’s refusal to accept Ukrainian sovereignty and how it has relied on geopolitical tensions with the West to justify aggression. Their analysis provides crucial insights into the real causes of the war. \nThis event will take place in-person at Reed College and virtually online. \nJoin via Zoom \nEvent page at Reed College \n5:00 pm Pacific Time\n8:00 pm Eastern Time
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/the-third-anniversary-of-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine-why-did-russia-invade/
LOCATION:Vollum College Center\, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
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SUMMARY:Analysis and Reflections on How War has Changed Ukraine's Religious Communities. Day 1096\, The Third Anniversary of Russia's Full-Scale Invasion
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an informative discussion where each speaker will share their insights on the main changes they’ve observed in their research on religion since the full-scale invasion. They will highlight important developments and topics they intend to focus on in the future. Each speaker will do a presentation followed by a general Q&A session. \nJoin via Zoom link at 1:00 PM ET on Monday February 24th\, 2025. \n\nAndriy Fert holds a PhD in History and is currently a lecturer in the Public History and Memory Studies Program at the Kyiv School of Economics. He serves as the Ukrainian PI for the international research project “Memories of Soviet Repressions in Post-Soviet Spaces.” Since 2017\, he has been working for the Institute for International Cooperation of the Deutscher Volkshochschul-Verband e.V. (DVV)\, coordinating projects related to history education in secondary schools in Ukraine. His studies focus on religion in the Soviet period and religion’s role in memory processes. \nPavlo Smytsnyuk is a Petrach Fellow at the Institute for European\, Russian\, and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University in D.C.\, where he is working on a project on religious peacebuilding. He specializes in political theology\, modern Greek and Slavic Orthodoxy\, and religious nationalism. From 2019-2022\, Dr. Smytsnyuk was the Director of the Institute of Ecumenical Studies and a Senior Lecturer at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. Pavlo studied philosophy and theology in Rome\, Athens\, and St. Petersburg\, and holds a Doctorate from the University of Oxford. Before coming to Washington\, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University. \nDmytro Vovk is a visiting associate professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where he teaches international human rights\, law and religion\, and the rule of law. He is also an affiliated researcher of the Cardozo Institute of Holocaust and Human Rights and the Centre for Public\, International and Comparative Law at University of Queensland. Vovk has been a rule of law\, constitutional law\, and religious freedom expert for several international institutions. He also testified before the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and briefed the U.S. State Department. He has published extensively on religious freedom and church-state relations in post-Soviet countries and beyond. Vovk is a co-editor of the BYU Law International Center for Law and Religion Studies blog “Talk About: Law and Religion blog.”
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/analysis-and-reflections-on-how-war-has-changed-ukraines-religious-communities-day-1096-the-third-anniversary-of-russias-full-scale-invasion/
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SUMMARY:The War in Europe
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nHow we got here\, Where we stand now\, and What might be required in the aftermath͏‌ \nArrowsmith Press\, in collaboration with AGNI\, Irish Pages\, Brookline Booksmith\, The Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University\, The Shevchenko Scientific Society & Boston University’s Center for the Study of Europe\, presents \nWAR IN EUROPE\na conversation\nOn the eve of the third anniversary of the bloodiest war in Europe in eighty years\, we’ll reflect on how we got here\, where we stand now\, and what might be required in the aftermath–for the United States\, Europe\, and of course\, Ukraine. Three of the world’s leading authorities on Ukraine will assist us in exploring these matters. Serhii Plokhii\, Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute\, will offer an update on the current situation in Ukraine\, along with relevant background on the war; Professor of Modern European Intellectual History at Yale University Marci Shore will examine the intellectual framework that enabled the war\, together with its impact and implications for Ukrainian\, and European\, culture. Economist Liudmyla Kurnosikova\, currently a McCloy Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School\, will speak about plans for the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine. The panel will be moderated by writer and editor (and founder of AGNI!) Askold Melnyczuk\, University of Massachusetts Boston. \n  \nThis panel discussion marks the publication of a special issue of Ireland’s leading literary journal\, Irish Pages\, guest-edited by Askold Melnyczuk\, on the topic of The War in Europe. \nCopies of Irish Pages will be available for sale. \nRSVP to Attend in Person \nRegister Here for the Webinar \n\nSerhii Plokhii interests include the intellectual\, cultural\, and international history of Eastern Europe\, with an emphasis on Ukraine. He is the author of\, among others\, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History (W.W. Norton\, 2023); Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (W.W. Norton\, 2022); The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present (HURI\, 2021); Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (W. W. Norton\, 2021); Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance (Oxford University Press\, 2019); Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Basic Books\, 2018); and The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (Basic Books\, 2015). His books have won numerous awards\, including the Ballie Gifford Prize and the Shevchenko National Prize (2018). \n\nMarci Shore is professor of history at Yale University and a regular visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. She is on leave in 2024-2025 at the Munk School for Global Affairs at University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of twentieth and twenty-first century Central and Eastern Europe. She is the translator of Michał Głowiński’s The Black Seasons and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism\, 1918-1968\, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe. A new edition of her third book\, The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution\, was published in March 2024. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, Foreign Policy\, Eurozine\, The Atlantic\, The Yale Review\, The New York Review of Books\, The Times Literary Supplement\, The New York Times\, and The Wall Street Journal. In 2018 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for the book project about phenomenology in East-Central Europe tentatively titled In Pursuit of Certainty Lost: Central European Encounters on the Way to Truth. \n\nLiudmyla Kurnosikova is currently pursuing a Master in Public Administration as a McCloy Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her academic focus centers on the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine\, with a particular emphasis on fostering investment. Before joining HKS\, she worked as a senior manager in management consulting\, operating across Europe and Central Asia\, with her primary base in Germany. Liudmyla holds an M.Sc. in International Economics and Economic Policy from Goethe University Frankfurt\, along with two separate bachelor’s degrees in Economics from the University of Goettingen and Philology from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. \n\nAskold Melnyczuk has published four novels and a book of stories. What Is Told (Faber\, 1994) was the first commercially published novel in English to highlight the Ukrainian refugee experience and was named a New York Times Notable. Others have been cited as an LA Times Best Books of the Year and an Editor’s Choice by the American Library Association’s Booklist. His selected poems\, The Venus of Odesa\, will appear in 2025. A book of essays and selected non-fiction\, With Madonna in Kyiv: Why Literature Matters More than Ever will appear from the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute in 2026. A co-edited anthology of contemporary Crimean Tatar literature is forthcoming in 2025. He has also edited a book of essays on the St. Lucian Nobel-prize winning poet Derek Walcott and is co-editor of From Three Worlds\, an anthology of Ukrainian writers from the 1980s generation. Founding editor of AGNI Magazine and Arrowsmith Press\, he has taught at Boston University and Harvard and currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston. In 2024 he edited a special issue of Irish Pages\, Ireland’s leading literary journal\, on The War in Europe.
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/war-in-europe/
LOCATION:Goethe-Institut Boston  170 Beacon Street Boston MA 02116 USA\, 170 Beacon Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116
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SUMMARY:Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma
DESCRIPTION:Презентація книжки Тамари Гундорової «Транзитна культура і постколоніальна травма» (Віхола: Київ\, 2024) \nТамара Гундорова розглядає пострадянський транзит  і говорить про покоління\, тіло і пам’ять в українській культурі між двома Майданами (2004-2014). В її фокусі –  реконструкція національної історії з фрагментів та слідів стертого і втраченого минулого\, візія «моєї Європи» і тема «останнього радянського покоління»\, а також феномен «лузера» 2000-х як емблеми посттоталітарної травми. В центрі уваги – романи  «Музей покинутих секретів» (2009) О. Забужко\, «Ворошиловград» (2010) С. Жадана\, «Записки українського самашедшего» (2010) Л. Костенко.    \nМодератор: Сергій Біленький \nПрезентація відбудеться українською мовою. \nДискусія українською та англійською. \nТамара Гундорова – професор-гість та наукова співробітниця Прінстонського університету\, провідна наукова співробітниця Інституту літератури НАН України\, асоційована наукова співробітниця Гарвардського українського наукового інституту та декан Українського вільного університету. Членкиня Українського ПЕН. \nАвторка багатьох книжок\, зокрема про Лесю Українку «Книги Сивілли» (2023)\, «Постчорнобильська бібліотека. Український постмодернізм 1990-х» (2019)\, «Транзитна культура. Симптоми постколоніальної травми» (2013; 2024)\, «Кітч і література. Травестії» (2008)\, «Франко і/не Каменяр» (2006); «Femina melancholica.. Стать і культура в гендерних утопіях Ольги Кобилянської» (2002)\, а також багатьох статей та розвідок про модернізм\, постмодернізм\, фемінізм\, постколоніальні дослідження та історію української літератури. \nБула стипендіаткою програми Фулбрайта\, університету Монаша\, фонду імені Петра Яцика\, університету Хоккайдо та Ініціативи Філіпа Шварца Фонду Олександра фон Гумбольдта тощо \nВхід – вільний. Реєстрація обов’язкова. Рекомендована пожертва – $20. \nРЕЄСТРАЦІЯ \nTransit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma by Tamara Hundorova (Vihola\, Kyiv\, 2024) \nTamara Hundorova explores the post-Soviet transition and examines themes of the body\, generations\, and memory in Ukrainian culture between the two Maidans (2004–2014). She focuses on the reconstruction of national history from the fragments and traces of an erased and lost past\, the vision of ‘my Europe\,’ the concept of the ‘last Soviet generation\,’ and the phenomenon of the ‘loser’ of the 2000s\, which has become emblematic of post-totalitarian trauma. Central to her analysis are the novels The Museum of Abandoned Secrets (2009) by Oksana Zabuzhko\, Voroshilovgrad (2010) by Serhiy Zhadan\, and Notes of a Ukrainian Madman (2010) by Lina Kostenko. \nModerator: Dr. Serhiy Bilenkyi (Columbia University) \nThe book launch will be presented in Ukrainian. \nDiscussion in Ukrainian and English. \n  \nProf. Tamara Hundorova is currently a Visiting Professor and Scholar at Princeton University. She is also a Principal Scholar at the Institute of Literature\, NAS of Ukraine\, an Associate Fellow at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute\, and a Dean at Ukrainian Free University. She is a member of PEN Ukraine. \nTamara Hundorova authored multiple books\, including Lesia Ukrainka. Knyhy Syvilly (2023)\, The Post- Chornobyl Library. The Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s (2019)\, Tranzytna kul’tura. Symptomy postkolonial’noi travmy (2013; 2024)\, Kitsch i Literatura. Travestii (2008)\, Franko i/ne Kameniar (2006); Femina melancholica. Stat’ i kul’tura v gendernij utopii Ol’hy Kobylians’koi (2002) and many articles and chapters on modernism\, postmodernism\, feminism\, postcolonial studies\, and the history of Ukrainian literature. \nShe is a former Fulbright Scholar\, Visiting Scholar of Monash University\, recipient of Yacyk Distinguished Fellowship\, Foreign Visitors Fellowship (Hokkaido University)\, and Fellowship of Philipp Schwartz-Initiative of Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung\, among others. \nAdmission to this event is free. Registration is required. Suggested donation is $20 \nREGISTRATION
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/transit-culture-and-postcolonial-trauma/
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SUMMARY:Ukrainian Music Initiative Introductions: Ukrainian Classical Music
DESCRIPTION:  \nAbout the Ukrainian Music Initiative \nUkrainian resistance to Russia’s genocidal invasion has inspired the world. Ukrainian culture\, including art\, literature\, design and music\, which for centuries has been suppressed and threatened with elimination\, is a key element of the fight. \nUMI\, a new world-class effort\, was created to elevate Ukrainian classical music to its rightful place in the Western canon and to fill a significant gap in the US’ cultural landscape. This is being accomplished by having skilled and knowledgeable musicians of Ukrainian heritage perform Ukrainian music in accessible venues on a regular basis. \nA collaboration of four independent artists\, UMI consists of contralto Vira Slywotzky\, cellist Valeriya Sholokhova\, and pianists Margarita Rovenskaya and Pavlo Gintov.  All of whom have a longstanding history of commitment to Ukrainian music and are sought after performers in New York City and beyond.  Joining them in their mission are musicologist Leah Batstone and business entrepreneur Alex Gamota. \nUMI is presented by Vira & Friends\, a non-profit corporation under the auspices of the Ukrainian American Educational Center of Boston\, a 501(c)(3).
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/ukrainian-music-initiative-introductions-ukrainian-classical-music/
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SUMMARY:Українське суспільство через три роки після початку повномасштабної війни
DESCRIPTION:Через три роки після початку повномасштабної війни українське суспільство втратило частину феноменальної єдності й опірності\, яку демонструвало в перші місяці після 24 лютого 2022 року\, але все ще має достатній запас міцності\, щоби витримати воєнні злигодні й не вимагати від влади поступок аґресорові. Спираючись на двох соціологічних опитуваннях\, проведених на різних етапах великої війни\, Володимир Кулик аналізуватиме тяглість і зміни в поглядах різних категорій українського населення. Особливу увагу буде надано змінам в ідентифікаціях і мовних практиках\, які демонструють незворотність руху України в напрямку геть від Москви. \n  \nВолодимир Кулик є професором Київської школи економіки. Протягом багатьох років він працював в Інституті політичних і етнонаціональних досліджень Національної академії наук України. Він також викладав у Колумбійському\, Стенфордському та Єйльському університетах\, а також проводив дослідження в Гарварді\, Стенфорді\, Університеті Джорджа Вашинґтона\, Центрі імені Вудро Вілсона та інших наукових осередках США й інших країн. Він є фахівцем із політики мови\, памʼяті й ідентичності в Україні та мовної політики багатомовних країн світу\, автором чотирьох книжок і понад сімдесяти наукових статей українською\, англійською та іншими мовами. \nДоповідь відбудеться українською мовою.Дискусія українською та англійською. \nВхід – вільний. Реєстрація обов’язкова.Рекомендована пожертва – 20 дол. \nРЕЄСТРАЦІЯ \nUKRAINIAN SOCIETY THREE YEARS INTO THE FULL-SCALE WAR \nThree years into the full-scale war\, Ukrainian society has lost some of its phenomenal unity and resilience\, which it demonstrated in the first months after February 24\, 2022\, but it still has enough strength to continue withstanding wartime hardships without demanding that the authorities make concessions to the aggressor. Based on two nationwide surveys conducted at different stages of the full-scale war\, Volodymyr Kulyk will analyze continuity and change in the views of different categories of the Ukrainian population. Of particular importance will be the changes in identifications and language practices\, which demonstrate the irrevocability of Ukraine’s movement away from Moscow. \nVolodymyr Kulyk is a professor at Kyiv School of Economics. For many years\, he worked at the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies\, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He has also taught at Columbia\, Stanford and Yale Universities as well as conducting research at Harvard\, Stanford\, George Washington University\, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and other scholarly institutions in various Western countries. He is an expert on the politics of language\, memory and identity in Ukraine and language policies of multilingual countries across the world. Kulyk is the author of four books and more than 70 scholarly articles in Ukrainian\, English and other languages. \nThe lecture will be delivered in Ukrainian.Discussion in Ukrainian and English. \nAdmission to this event is free.Registration is required. Suggested donation is $20 \nREGISTRATION 
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/%d1%83%d0%ba%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%97%d0%bd%d1%81%d1%8c%d0%ba%d0%b5-%d1%81%d1%83%d1%81%d0%bf%d1%96%d0%bb%d1%8c%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%be-%d1%87%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%b7-%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b8-%d1%80%d0%be%d0%ba/
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SUMMARY:Pianist Roksolana Kit performs works by Ukrainian composers
DESCRIPTION:Program: \nKateryna Palachova – “Prayer” \nSerhiy Bortkiewicz – Sonata no.2\, op. 60 (1 and 2 movements) \nTheodore Akimenko – “Urania. Heaven’s Muse” \nBorys Lyatoshynsky – Prelude op.44\, no.4 \nVitaly Vyshynsky – “Kitch music” \nAntin Rudnytsky – Sonata op.10 \nMykola Leontovych – “Shchedryk” (arrang. Sergiy Yushkevych) \n  \nModerator: Pavlo Gintov \n  \n \nRoksolana Kit is a Ukrainian pianist\, event organizer\, and founder of various music initiatives. In 2023\, she performed in Arkan alongside Roman Himey and Yarema Malanchuk at the Kyiv Biennial\, and in 2024\, she joined the IRON Collective at the Warsaw Autumn Festival. As the Grand Prize winner of the Ukrainian Music Competition\, Roksolana is set to perform Antin Rudnytsky’s Piano Sonata at Carnegie Hall. Earlier this year\, she has performed this Sonata at the Klavier Festival in Bayreuth\, Germany. \nRoksolana studied at the “Workshop of Cultural Practitioners” at the Ukrainian Catholic University in 2021 and further honed her craft at the XV International Piano Forum Bieszczady bez granic in Syanok\, Poland (2020)\, as well as in early music masterclasses at the Mid Europe Early Music Festival in Kielce\, Poland (2022). She also won the special project award for the 20th anniversary of the Hnatyshyn Foundation\, Ukraine – Heritage\, Spirit\, and Future\, in Canada (2022). \nIn 2023\, she co-founded Etc.duo with flutist Natalia Kozhushko-Maksimiv\, a duo focused on performing works by Ukrainian composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. She is also the co-founder of the Ukrainian podcast Without Experts and a regular contributor to the classical music publication The Claquers. \nRoksolana holds a bachelor’s degree from the Mykola Lysenko National Academy of Music and a master’s degree from the H. and K. Bacewicz Music Academy in Łódź\, Poland. \n  \n \nPianist Pavlo Gintov has been described as “a poet of the keyboard” by Marty Lash of the Illinois Entertainer\, a “musical storyteller” by the Japanese publication Shikoku News\, and “a fantastic pianist and extraordinary artist” by Jerry Dubins of the Fanfare Magazine. Following his debut at the Kyiv Philharmonic Hall at the age of 12\, Mr. Gintov has been touring throughout Europe\, Asia\, Africa\, South America and the United States\, appearing at such stages as Carnegie Hall in New York\, Berlin Philharmonic Hall\, Teatro Verdi Nationale in Milan and Kioi Hall in Tokyo. He has been a soloist with Tokyo Royal Chamber Orchestra\, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine\, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa\, the National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic and Manhattan Chamber Orchestra under such conductors as Michiyoshi Inoue\, Victor Yampolsky\, Thomas Sanderling\, Volodymyr Sirenko and Tomomi Nishimoto. \nAdmission to this event is free\, registration is required. Suggested donation is $20. Building capacity is limited\, please register below to secure your spot. \nREGISTRATION
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/musical-performance-by-roksolana-kit/
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SUMMARY:Bringing Ukrainian Studies to New Audiences
DESCRIPTION:In connection with the members-only general meeting taking place earlier in the day\, we are pleased to invite the broader community to meet our board members and find out more about their research. Please join a panel of three leading Shevchenko Scientific Society scholars\, the outgoing First Vice President and candidate for President\, Prof. Vitaly Chernetsky\, the outgoing Learned Secretary and candidate for Vice President\, Prof. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern\, and Full Member and candidate for Learned Secretary\, Prof. Catherine Wanner\, as they discuss their current Ukraine-focused research projects that aim to appeal to broader and new audiences\, while also encouraging the core audience of Ukrainian studies to discover new dimensions of Ukraine’s global importance. \n  \nСhair: Dr. Halyna Hryn\, President\, Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US; Editor\, Harvard Ukrainian Studies\, Harvard University \nParticipants: \n  \nRethinking Odesa’s City Myth: Multidirectional Memory and the Challenges of Decolonization \nDr. Vitaly Chernetsky\, University of Kansas \nOdesa is one of Ukraine’s most internationally famous cities. An oft-mythologized image of it\, however\, largely derives from Russian-language literary texts and has trickled into a stereotypical version exploited for decades by the Russian mass culture and propaganda. This outdated cliché narrative obscures many facets of the city’s cultural diversity both past and present. The sea is at the center of both the old myth\, on the one hand\, and of the revisionist decolonial Ukrainian narratives\, on the other. For the latter\, Odesa is envisioned as a threshold linking the Black Sea with the “sea” of the Ukrainian steppe. The narratives it has generated tap into the cross-cultural contacts this contact zone has generated and into the aura of the city’s climate and landscape\, as emphasized by its nonconformist visual artists. This talk discusses the contemporary Odesa-focused revisionist projects pursued by writers and visual artists\, as well as the efforts by local intellectuals to decolonize the Odesa narrative in the context of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. \nWhat Putin Gets Wrong: National Revival and Philosemitism in Ukraine 1991-2022 \nDr. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern\, Northwestern University \nBased on his recently edited volume (with Zeev Khanin) After Soviet State Antisemitism about the transformation of Jewish life in the FSU countries\, Petrovsky-Shtern will outline ten radical changes in Jewish life that occurred in post-1991 Ukraine entirely reshaping Jewish communities in the country. Exploring how democratization processes affected Ukrainian Jews\, he will coffer ways to reconsider Russian propaganda insinuations about Ukraine as a xenophobic right-wing polity. \nEcocide and War:  How Animals Experience the Russian Invasion of Ukraine \nDr. Catherine Wanner\, Pennsylvania State University \nWhat could be gained by looking at war from the perspective of animals?  How would evaluations change as to what constitutes a “just war” or a “just peace” if we considered the rights of animals and the rights of nature? Until now\, such questions have been almost entirely absent from discussions of the ethics of war.  The goal of my research on analyzing how different types of animals – companion animals\, livestock\, wildlife and exotic animals – experience war is to make a case for the introduction of ecocide as a war crime by raising awareness of the environmental costs to a region\, if not the planet\, of waging war. Correspondingly\, restorative justice must include compensation for environmental damage as well as for damage to the material infrastructure of a country. \nDr. Vitaly Chernetsky is a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization (2007)\, of five edited or co-edited volumes\, and numerous articles on modern and contemporary Slavic and East European literatures and cultures where he seeks to highlight cross-regional and cross-disciplinary contexts. A book in Ukrainian\, Intersections and Breakthroughs: Ukrainian Literature and Cinema between the Global and the Local\, is forthcoming. His published translations into English include two novels\, two poetry collections\, and numerous shorter literary works\, as well as scholarly articles and historical documents. Translation of Sophia Andrukhovych’s novel Felix Austria is forthcoming. He is the editor of the Ukrainian Studies book series at Academic Studies Press. Prof. Chernetsky is a past president of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies. In 2024\, he is serving as the President of the Association for Slavic\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). \nDr. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is the Crown Family Chair of Jewish Studies and a Professor of Jewish History in History Department at Northwestern University. He focuses on political\, cultural and multiethnic interference in comparative literature\, early modern and modern Jewish history\, and East Europe with a focus on Ukraine. For his expertise\, Petrovsky-Shtern has been appointed a Fulbright Specialist on Eastern Europe; a Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; a Full Professor at the Free Ukrainian University in Munich\, a Recurrent Visiting Professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv\, the Lady Davis Professor at Hebrew University\, Jerusalem\, the Kosciuszko Visiting Professor at Warsaw University\, and the honorary doctor of the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv. \nDr. Catherine Wanner is a historical anthropologist and Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History\, Anthropology\, and Religious Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Using ethnographic and archival methods\, her research centers on the politics of religion and increasingly on conflict mediation\, ecocide\, and trauma healing. In addition to several other books on Ukraine\, her two most recent publications are Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine (Cornell\, 2022)\, which won two book prizes\, and an edited volume\, Dispossession: Anthropological Perspectives on Russia’s War Against Ukraine (Routledge\, 2024). She is currently writing a book on ecocide\, animals\, and empathy after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She has been the convenor of the Working Group on Lived Religion since 2014. In 2016-17\, she was a visiting professor at the Institute of European Ethnology\, Humboldt University\, and in 2019-20 she was a Fulbright Scholar at the Ukrainian Catholic University. In 2020 she was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Prize from the Association for the Study of Eastern Christianity and in 2023 she received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Association of Women in Slavic Studies. She was the Petro Jacyk Distinguished Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute for 2023-24. As of 2024\, she serves as the Senior Advisor responsible for the Ukraine portfolio for the Religion and Inclusive Societies program at the United States Institute of Peace. \nAdmission to this event is free\, registration is required. Suggested donation is $10. Building capacity is limited\, please register below to secure your spot. \nREGISTER
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/bringing-ukrainian-studies-to-new-audiences/
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SUMMARY:General Meeting and Elections
DESCRIPTION:Управа Наукового Товариства ім. Шевченка в Америці\nповідомляє своїх членів\, що \nЗАГАЛЬНІ ЗБОРИ\nНаукового Товариства ім. Шевченка в Америці\nта вибори нової Управи НТШ-А\nвідбудуться в суботу 14 грудня 2024 о 1:00 годині по пол.\nЗасідання Наукових Cекцій 11:00 – 12:30\nв будинку НТШ-А\n63 Fourth Ave New York\, NY 10003\nСердечно запрошуємо всіх членів. \nThe GENERAL MEETING will take place on\nSaturday\, December 14\, 2024 at 1:00 pm \nScholarly Sections will hold their meetings from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm\nat the Shevchenko Scientific Society\n63 Fourth Avenue\, New York\, NY 10003\nAll members of the Shevchenko Society are invited to attend the General Meeting.\nA reception will follow.\nFor additional information please call (212) 254-5130 or email info@shevchenko.org. \n\nНОМІНАЦІЙНА КОМІСІЯ НТШ-А\nГолова: Оксана Шевель\nЧлени: Вірко Балей\, Юрій Добчанський\, Олена Ніколаєнко\, Зенон Василів \nПРОПОНУЄ ТАКИЙ СКЛАД УПРАВИ НТШ-А НА КАДЕНЦІЮ 2024-2027:\nПрезидія\nПрезидент: Віталій Чернецький \nПерший Віце-президент:Олена Ніколаєнко\nНауковий секретар: Кетрін Ваннер\nСкарбник: Роман Широков \nАкадемічні Віце-президенти:\nЙоханан Петровський-Штерн (історія)\nВірко Балей (музика і мистецтво)\nРоман Широков (природничі науки)\nГригорій Грабович (філологія) \nПротоколярний Секретар\nЛев Чабан \nГолови комісій\nБібліотечно-архівна: Роман Юзвишин\nВидавнича: Лада Біланюк\nДорадчо-правнича: Іванна Білич\nЗовнішніх зв’язків: Марія Соневицька\nЗв’язків з науковими установами: Олександра Грицак\nІнформаційних технологій: Олег Коцюба\nКомунікацій: Наталія Шпильова Саїд\nОсередків: Роман Гриців\nСтипендійна: Мейгіл Фавлер\nСтатутова: Андрій Сороковський\nФінансова: Зенон Василів\nЧленства: Маркіян Добчанський \nВільні члени\nМарґаріта Бальмаcеда\nАндрій Даниленко\nЮрій Добчанський\nПавло Ґінтов\nДенис Єщенко\nВасиль Заячківський\nСоломія Івахів\nАльберт Кіпа\nАскольд Мельничук\nОксана Шевель \nКонтрольна комісія\nГалина Гринь (голова)\nАдріяна Гельбіґ (заступниця)\nКатерина Наливайко (секретар)\nОрест Дейчаківський\nТарас Філевич \nУсі кандидати на листі Номінаційної комісії погодились обійняти пости\, на які вони номіновані. Після виборів\, обрані Голови комісій підберуть собі членів для своїх комісій. Всі зацікавлені повинні зголоситися до Голів комісій після виборів до 31 січня. Членство комісій затверджується на засіданні нової Управи.  \n\n THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE OF THE SHEVCHENKO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY IN THE US\nChair: Oxana Shevel\nMembers: Virko Baley\, Jurij Dobczansky\, Olena Nikolayenko\, Zenon Wasyliw \nPROPOSES THE FOLLOWING SLATE OF CANDIDATES FOR THE BOARD OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE 2024–2027 TERM:\nExecutive \nPresident: Vitaly Chernetsky \nFirst Vice President: Olena Nikolayenko\nLearned Secretary: Catherine Wanner\nTreasurer: Roman Shirokov \nAcademic Vice Presidents:\nVirko Baley (arts)\nYohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (history)\nGeorge Grabowicz (philology)\nRoman Shirokov (sciences) \nRecording Secretary\nLev Chaban \nCommittee Chairs\nArchives/Library: Ray Uzwyshyn\nBylaws: Andrew Sorokowski\nChapters: Roman Hryciw\nCommunications: Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed\nFinance: Zenon Wasyliw\nInformation Technology: Oleh Kotsyuba\nInstitutional Liaison: Alexandra Hrycak\nLaw Advisory: Ivanna Bilych\nMembership: Markian Dobczansky\nOutreach: Maria Sonevytsky\nPublications: Laada Bilaniuk\nScholarship and Grants: Mayhill Fowler \nMembers-at-Large\nMargarita Balmaceda\nAndriy Danylenko\nJurij Dobczansky\nDenis Echtchenko\nPavlo Gintov\nSolomiya Ivakhiv\nAlbert Kipa\nAskold Melnyczuk\nOxana Shevel\nVasyl Zayachkivsky \nAudit Committee\nHalyna Hryn (chair)\nAdriana Helbig (deputy chair)\nKaterina Nalywajko (secretary)\nOrest Deychakiwsky\nTaras Filewych \nAll candidates of the Nominating Committee’s proposed slate have agreed to serve in the positions to which they are nominated. After the elections\, committee chairs select members for their relevant committees. All members who would like to serve on a committee are invited to contact the committee chairs after the elections\, by January 31. Committee members are confirmed at the first or second post-election Board meeting.
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LOCATION:Shevchenko Scientific Society\, 63 Fourth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Battleground Ukraine. From Independence to the War with Russia by Adrian Karatnycky
DESCRIPTION:Battleground Ukraine. From Independence to the War with Russia by Adrian Karatnycky. Yale University Press. 2024\, 368 pp.  \n \nIn 1991\, after seventy years of imperial Soviet rule\, Ukraine became an independent country. Since 2022\, it has been fighting an existential war against an unprovoked\, brutal\, and ongoing invasion by Russia. At the center of its resistance is the resilience of a united people.   Ukraine expert Adrian Karatnycky provides an eyewitness account of the history of the modern Ukrainian state and of the nation through the tenures of the six presidents who have led Ukraine since the collapse of the USSR\, including Volodymyr Zelensky. Karatnycky shows how—despite the influence of corrupt oligarchs\, pressures from Russia\, and the legacies of Soviet rule—an inclusive and united Ukrainian nation has emerged that inspires the world as it defends the principle that states and peoples have the right to their national sovereignty. \nAdrian Karatnycky is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and co-director of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. Through the council’s Ukraine program\, as a labor union official\, and as CEO of Freedom House\, he has been deeply engaged in Ukraine for over three decades. He has written about Ukraine for leading newspapers and journals including the Wall Street Journal\, Washington Post\, New York Times\, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy\, where he is a regular commentator. \nReviews and Praise \n“Fascinating and highly informative. . . . Mr. Karatnycky . . . has been studying Ukraine for decades and is especially well placed to tell its story and offer a convincing analysis of the fateful turns in Ukraine’s past as well as a picture of its possible future.”—Arthur Herman\, Wall Street Journal \nListed by Wall Street Journal among “12 Books to Read: The Best Reviews of June” \n“An authoritative account [and] an important addition to the literature. . . . Karatnycky combines eyewitness accounts with historical analysis\, adding depth and insight to the bulletins of war.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“[A] comprehensive account of Ukraine’s recent history by a writer who is thoroughly familiar with Ukraine’s identity\, international context and the intricacies of Ukraine’s cultural and historic contemporary developments.”—Katya Soldak\, Forbes \nAdmission to this event is free\, registration is required. Suggested donation is $10. Building capacity is limited\, please register below to secure your spot. \nREGISTER 
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/book-launch-battleground-ukraine-from-independence-to-the-war-with-russia-by-adrian-karatnycky/
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SUMMARY:Book launch: Carols of Birds\, Bells\, and Sacred Hymns from Ukraine: An Anthology and Cultural Companion by Marika C. Kuzma.
DESCRIPTION:Ukraine’s abundant heritage of singing includes thousands of carols for the Christmas and New Year’s season. This book introduces an ancient culture that is nevertheless new to world audiences. The carols within it become a prism through which all of Ukraine’s history\, culture\, and resilient spirit are brought to light. As an anthology\, the book includes the internationally celebrated Carol of the Bells—in its original version as a winter song of gratitude and resilience\, and it spans sacred and secular pieces from early monophonic chant to elaborate\, new choral fantasies. Transliterations and translations make the carols accessible to a broad audience. As a cultural companion\, the book shares the stories behind each carol: historical context\, biographies of composers\, explanations of winter rituals. Written during Russia’s war on Ukraine\, the book is also journalistic. These carols often carry gripping narratives of a unique choral activism that has helped Ukraine\, its language\, and its people to survive. \nMarika Kuzma’s work is invaluable for any conductor\, singer or musicologist interested in the rich heritage of Ukrainian choral music. The recent horrendous invasion of Ukraine has given heightened urgency to the study and promulgation of Ukrainian culture. Marika’s comprehensive anthology and passionate scholarship shines a bright light on the vital choral tradition in Ukraine and makes it accessible to choirs\, conductors and music lovers around the world.—Grant Gershon\, Grammy Award Winning Artistic Director—Los Angeles Master Chorale \nDr. Marika Kuzma grew up in Hartford\, CT\, in a close-knit Ukrainian diaspora community. Ukrainian songs and hymns were among the first music she sang with her family at home and in their Ukrainian Catholic church choir. After attaining a bachelor’s degree in voice as a Morehead Scholar at UNC Chapel Hill\, a master’s degree from Stanford University\, and her doctorate at Indiana University in choral conducting\, she was hired at the University of California\, Berkeley. As a professor of music there\, she directed its large University Chorus and Chamber Chorus\, taught conducting and music history\, and led its solo vocal program for some twenty-five years. She also guest directed choirs at Dartmouth College\, Oklahoma City University\, and the University of Virginia. In 2007–2009\, she served as chef de choeur (chorusmaster) to maestro Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony and led the St. Lawrence Choir of Montreal. \nModerator: \nDr. Maria Sonevytsky is an associate professor of Anthropology and Music at Bard College\, an award-winning author\, and founder of Chornobyl Songs Project: Living Culture from a Lost World\, a public ethnomusicology program. Her areas of interest include folklore revivals after state socialism\, critical organology\, the science of musical instruments\, and Soviet children’s music. She is the author of Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine (2019)\, several book chapters and journal articles in Music & Politics\, Public Culture\, The World of Music\, Journal of Popular Music Studies\, and winner of the Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society. Dr. Sonevytsky taught at Bard College and the University of California\, Berkeley. She is also an accordionist\, vocalist\, and pianist. \nIn conversation with:\nArchbishop Borys Gudziak is the Metropolitan-Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia\, founder of the Institute of Church History\, and president of the Ukrainian Catholic University\, Lviv. He served as the Eparch of the Paris Eparchy of St. Volodymyr the Great or France\, Switzerland\, and Benelux (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)\, head of the Department of External Church Relations\, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He is the author of academic articles and books on church history\, spirituality\, theology\, among them a doctoral dissertation\, Crisis and Reform: The Kyivan Metropolitanate\, the Patriarchate of Constantinople\, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest (1998). Borys Gudziak received Jan Nowak-Jezioranski Award (Wroclaw\, Poland). \nAdmission to this event is free\, registration is required. Suggested donation is $10. Building capacity is limited\, please register below to secure your spot. \nREGISTER
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/book-launch-carols-of-birds-bells-and-sacred-hymns-from-ukraine-an-anthology-and-cultural-companion-by-marika-c-kuzma/
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SUMMARY:Religious Freedom in Wartime: The Case of Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL PANEL DISCUSSION \nREGISTER \nThe panelists will discuss religious freedom in wartime\, particularly the case of contemporary Ukraine. They will focus on the recently adopted and controversial Ukrainian law concerning religious organizations with ties to a hostile state – which is generally understood as targeting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate. The presenters will deal with the political context\, social expectations\, and populism; how the issue affects Russian Orthodox outside Ukraine\, particularly in the United States; and both domestic and international legal considerations of human rights\, the rule of law\, and Europe-Ukraine relations.  The presentations will be in English. They will be followed by a discussion among the presenters\, after which they will entertain questions from the public. \n(Mis)communication: Religious Freedom and the Russian Church outside of Ukraine\nProtodeacon Nicholas Denysenko\nProfessor of Theology\, Valparaiso University in Indiana \nContexts and Undertexts of the New Ukrainian Law Banning the Russian Orthodox Church\nArchimandrite Cyril Hovorun\nProfessor of Ecclesiology\, International Relations and Ecumenism\, Sankt Ignatios College\, University College Stockholm \nThe Banning of Religious Organizations as a Legal Problem: The Ukrainian Context\nDmytro Vovk\nVisiting associate professor\, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law\, Yeshiva University\, New York \nModerator\nAndrew Sorokowski\nShevchenko Scientific Society \nAbout the panelists:\nProtodeacon Nicholas Denysenko is Emil and Elfriede Jochum University Professor and Chair and Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University in Indiana. Denysenko is the author of numerous articles and books on liturgical theology and religion in Ukraine\, including The Church’s Unholy War: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Orthodoxy (Cascade Books\, 2023). \n\nArchimandrite Cyril Hovorun is a professor of ecclesiology\, international relations and ecumenism at Sankt Ignatios College\, University College Stockholm\, and a director of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Theological Academy in Kyiv and National University in Athens\, he accomplished his doctoral studies at Durham University. He was a chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church\, first deputy chairman of the Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church\, and later research fellow at Yale and Columbia Universities\, visiting professor at the University of Münster in Germany. He is an international fellow at Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life at the University of Alberta in Canada and an invited professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. \n\nDmytro Vovk is a visiting associate professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law\, Yeshiva University\, New York. Vovk has been a rule of law\, constitutional law\, and religious freedom expert for several international institutions\, including the UN Population Fund\, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief\, UN Independent Expert on SOGI issues\, the OSCE\, several EU projects\, and the USAID. He also testified before the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and briefed U.S. State Department institutions. He has served as an expert and academic advisor for the Ukrainian Constitutional Court and the Ukrainian Government. Among his recent publications are the volume Human Dignity\, Judicial Reasoning and the Law [italics] (Routledge 2024); the volume “Freedom of religion and gender equality across the OSCE region” for the Review of Faith and International Affairs (2022); the volume “The Soviet and post-Soviet law: failed transition from socialist legality to the rule of law” for the Ideology and Politics Journal (2021); and the volume Religion During the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict (Routledge 2019). Vovk is a co-editor of the ICLRS Talk About: Law and Religion blog. \n\nAndrew Sorokowski was admitted to the California bar in 1980. He served as researcher on religion in Ukraine at Keston College (UK) in 1984-1987. Dr. Sorokowski was managing editor of the journal Harvard Ukrainian Studies from 1993 to 1997. He has taught history at colleges and universities in the US and Ukraine. Retired from a historical research position at the US Department of Justice\, he has edited and contributed to works on Ukrainian church history\, and published numerous reviews\, articles\, and translations. \nREGISTER
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SUMMARY:Militant Femininity: Transformations of the Image of a Ukrainian Woman in Public Discourse in the Time of Russia’s War on Ukraine by Oksana Kis
DESCRIPTION:Since the Maidan and the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine in spring 2014\, one can observe significant changes in the public discourse on normative femininity in Ukraine – a remarkable trend towards the normalization of the image of the female soldier. Its validity is often legitimized by direct references to the strong and vivid historical legacy of Ukrainian women’s military service in the 20th century\, while others seek empowerment in folk traditions (such as witchcraft). As full citizens\, Ukrainian women claim their role in defense efforts on an equal footing with men\, while emphasizing women’s gendered ways and means of contributing to the national project. In this talk\, Dr. Kis will examine verbal and visual materials from conventional and social media to show how the image of a militant woman (referring to both soldiers and civilians) evolves and gains momentum as a hybrid form of femininity that is more inclusive in terms of its diverse and seemingly opposing constituents. \nOksana Kis is a feminist historian and anthropologist\, senior scholars and head of the Department of Social Anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology\, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (in Lviv). Dr. Kis is president of the Ukrainian Association for Research in Women’s History. Her book Ukraïnky v GULAGu: Vyzhyty znachyt´ peremohty (Lviv\, 2017; 2nd rev. ed. 2020) was included in the Ukrainian Book Institute’s list of the 30 most significant books of the Ukrainian Independence period in 2021. Its English version\, Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag (Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies\, 2021)\, received the Translated Book Award from the Peterson Literary Fund (2021). She also edited and coedited several award-winning volumes including on women’s history. Her most recent edited collection\, Women’s Dimensions of the Past: Perceptions\, Experiences\, Representations (in Ukrainian)\, was published in December 2023. Dr. Kis is a recipient of several academic awards\, including two Fulbright Research Fellowships (2003 and 2011). The areas of her expertise include women’s lives in pre-industrial Ukrainian peasant families and rural communities\, Ukrainian women’s experiences of the Holodomor 1932/33\, women’s participation in the Ukrainian national anti-Soviet resistance in the 1940–1950s\, gendered experiences of Ukrainian female political prisoners in the Gulag\, and gender transformations in post-socialist countries. \n  \nThe lecture will be delivered in Ukrainian. Discussion in Ukrainian and English. \nAdmission to this event is free\, registration is required. Suggested donation is $10. Building capacity is limited\, please register below to secure your spot. \nTICKETS \nWatch the streamed event here
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SUMMARY:A Tribute to Virko Baley: 85th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Institute of America\, Music at the Institute present\nA TRIBUTE TO VIRKO BALEY: An 85th Birthday Celebration\nSeptember 15\, 2024  2:00 PM\nUkrainian Institute of America\n2 E 79th St\,  New York\, NY 10075\nVirko Baley is a Ukrainian-American composer in residence and distinguished professor of music emeritus at the University of Nevada. He serves as co-director of NEON\, an annual composers’ conference at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, and was the Music Director and Conductor of the Nevada Symphony Orchestra from 1980-1995. A recipient of a 2007 Grammy® Award as recording co-producer for TNC Recordings and the prestigious 2008 Academy Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, Baley’s accolades are numerous. \nThroughout his career\, Baley has tirelessly worked to disseminate accurate information about Ukrainian composers in the United States. He was awarded the Shevchenko Prize for Music in 1996 by the Ukrainian government and has authored numerous articles on various musical topics. He has contributed to both the New Grove Opera and the New Grove 2000 Dictionary of Music on the subject of Ukrainian music. Together with Ivan Karabyts\, Baley founded the first international music festival in Ukraine\, the Kyiv Music Fest. He co-produced and composed the music for Yuri Illienko’s film Swan Lake: The Zone\, which won two top prizes at Cannes in 1990\, and for Illienko’s last film\, A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa. He has led the Kyiv Camerata in recordings of over fifteen CDs of orchestral music by composers ranging from Mozart and Beethoven to Valentyn Sylvestrov and Yevhen Stankovych\, and has worked with the Shevchenko Opera Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. Virko Baley is a former Jacyk Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and a current vice-president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US. \nProgram – Music of Virko Baley\nEmily Dickinson Songbook for soprano and piano\nJourney After Loves for baritone and piano\nPersona II\, “Borys Liatoshynsky” for Solo Clarinet (B-Flat Clarinet)\nDreamtime Suite for clarinet\, violin and piano \nPerformed by  \nCorrine Byrne\, soprano\nThomas Meglioranza\, baritone\nReiko Uchida\, piano\nVictoria  Luperi\, clarinet\nSolomiya Ivakhiv\, violin \nAdmission: \nNTSh and UIA Members – free\nnon members: regular admission $35\nstudents/seniors $20 \nBuy Tickets Here
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/a-tribute-to-virko-baley-85th-anniversary-celebration/
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SUMMARY:The Shevchenko Scientific Society in the Context of Ukrainian Intellectual History: 150th Anniversary Conference
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY\, MAY 19\, 2024 | 9:00AM – 7:00PM\nUkrainian Institute of America\, 2 E 79th St\, New York\, NY 10075\nMarking 150 years of the Shevchenko Scientific Society\, this conference features three panels with scholars from the US\, Ukraine\, Canada\, Germany\, Czech Republic\, Poland\, and Austria. Speakers will discuss the history of the Society’s establishment\, the contexts of its activity\, and its influence on Ukrainian intellectual and cultural life from its founding to the present day. \nWATCH ON YOUTUBE\nCONFERENCE SCHEDULE\n9:00–9:15\nWelcome from Vitaly Chernetsky\, conference organizer\, First Vice President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society \n9:15–11:00\nPanel I: Nineteenth-Century Ukrainian Intellectual Life under Russian Imperial Rule\nChair: Halyna Hryn (Shevchenko Scientific Society/Harvard University) \nGeorge Grabowicz (Harvard University): Rethinking the Cyrilo-Methodian Brotherhood: Problems of Historiography and Some New and Old Aporias \nSerhiy Bilenky (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies\, University of Alberta): Before NTSh-A: Scholarship and Politics in 1870s Kyiv \nFabian Bauman (University of Heidelberg): Academic Ukrainophilism and Ukrainian Politics in the Russian Empire under the Ems Ukaz \nDiscussant: Susan Smith-Peter (College of Staten Island\, City University of New York) \n11:00–11:15\nCoffee \n11:15–1:15\nPanel ІІ: The Shevchenko Scientific Society and Its Impact\, in Galicia and Beyond\nChair: Oksana Kis (University of Richmond/National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) \nMartin Rohde (University of Vienna): Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Making of Ukrainian “National Science\,” 1892–1939  \nTomasz Hen-Konarski (Polish Academy of Sciences): The Sorcerer and His Apprentice: Kyrylo Studyns′kyi and Amvrozii Androkhovych as Historians of the Greek Catholic Clerical Education \nJan Surman (Czech Academy of Sciences): (Re)writing Ukrainian Academic Language from Habsburg Galicia to the Soviet Union \nDiscussant: Frank Sysyn (University of Alberta) \n1:15–2:30\nLunch Break \n2:30–4:30\nPanel III: Ukrainian Scholarship and Its Sociopolitical Contexts\, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present\nChair: Olena Nikolayenko (Fordham University) \nAnton Kotenko (University of Düsseldorf): “Scientific Society” or an “Institution of the Most Radical Ukrainophile Party”? NTSh in the Materials of the Romanov Imperial Censorship \nMaryna Paliienko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv/New York University): Ukrainian Diaspora Archives During and After World War II as a Target of Nazi and Soviet Security Services \nSteven Seegel (University of Texas\, Austin): The NTSh and Geography: On Some Challenges and Legacies in the Making of Modern Ukrainian Maps\, from the 1860s to Stepan Rudnyts’kyi and The February 24th Archive Project \nDiscussant: Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas) \n4:30–4:45\nCoffee \n4:45–6:00\nConcluding Discussion \n6:00–7:00\nClosing Reception \nWATCH ON YOUTUBE\n\nConference Speakers: \nFabian Baumann is a historian of Eastern Europe\, with a focus on the history of nationalism and empire in Ukraine\, Russia\, and East Central Europe. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Basel in 2020 and was a SNSF.Mobility postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago and the University of Vienna before joining the University of Heidelberg in 2023. His book Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism\, which deals with the nationally divided Shul’gin/Shul’hyn family of Kyiv\, was published by Cornell University Press in 2023. \n\nSerhiy Bilenky is a Research Associate at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies\, University of Alberta and\, since 2023\, Editor-In-Chief of East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies. He also has been Program Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI) since 2015. Born in Kyiv\, Ukraine\, Bilenky graduated from Kyiv National Shevchenko University\, from which he also received his Candidate of Sciences degree in 1997. In 2007\, he received his PhD in History from the University of Toronto. Bilenky has taught courses on Russian\, Ukrainian\, and East European history at the University of Toronto\, Columbia University\, and Harvard University. His monographs include Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Russian\, Polish\, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations (Stanford University Press\, 2012) and Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands: Kyiv\, 1800-1905 (University of Toronto Press\, 2018). He is the editor of Fashioning Modern Ukraine: Selected Writings of Mykola Kostomarov\, Volodymyr Antonovych\, and Mykhailo Drahomanov (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies\, 2014). Bilenky’s most recent book is Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine between Empire and Nation\, 1772–1914 (McGill-Queen’s University Press and CIUS\, 2023)\, a multidisciplinary history of Ukraine during the “long” 19th century. \n\nVitaly Chernetsky is professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization (2007; Ukrainian-language version\, 2013)\, Intersections and Breakthroughs: Ukrainian Literature and Cinema between the Global and the Local (forthcoming\, Krytyka)\, and articles on modern and contemporary Slavic and East European literatures and cultures. He has edited volumes dealing with contemporary Ukrainian poetry and film and an annotated Ukrainian translation of Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism. His translations into English include Yuri Andrukhovych’s novels Moscoviad and Twelve Circles and a forthcoming edition of Sophia Andrukhovych’s Felix Austria (HURI). Professor Chernetsky is a past president of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies (2009–2018)\, the current first vice president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S.\, and the current president of the Association for Slavic\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). \n\nGeorge G. Grabowicz is the Dmytro Čyževs’kyj Research Professor of Ukrainian Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University\, where he has served as chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (1983–1988) and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute (1989–1996). He has been president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S. (2012–2018) and is currently a member of the Board of Directors. In 1997 he founded and since then has been editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian monthly Krytyka\, a leading intellectual journal in Ukraine. He has written on Ukrainian\, Polish\, and Russian literature and on literary theory. His first book on Shevchenko (The Poet as Mythmaker) was voted the most influential academic book of the post-Soviet period in Ukraine. In March 2022 he was awarded the Shevchenko Prize\, Ukraine’s highest award in the humanities and arts\, for his series of articles on modernism and the poet Pavlo Tychyna. \n\nTomasz Hen-Konarski is a full-time researcher at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History\, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (IH PAN). He holds a Magister degree from the University of Warsaw\, where his teachers included Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz\, Dariusz Kołodziejczyk\, and Zofia Zielińska. He has a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (2017)\, where he worked under the supervision of Lucy Riall and Pieter Judson. Apart from Florence and Warsaw\, Tomasz either studied\, carried out his research\, or taught in Bielefeld\, Budapest\, London\, Lviv\, and Vienna. Most recently (in 2023)\, he was a Fulbright-funded visiting scholar at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. His research interests include: Polish and Ukrainian nation-building in Galicia\, Catholic Enlightenment\, and the Greek Catholic Church as a political institution of the Austrian Monarchy.  \n\nAnton Kotenko is a research fellow at the Chair of Eastern European History of the University of Düsseldorf. His recent publications include “Ukrainians as ‘Aliens’ (Inorodtsy): Governmental Regulation of Ukrainian Cultural Associations\, 1905–17\,” published in March in Russian Review\, and “For Fame and Fortune: The Origins of St Petersburg’s Zoo\,” forthcoming in Urban History. Currently he is finalizing a book manuscript entitled “In Search of Ukraine: A Conceptual History of Nationalism\, 1840s–1921” and is starting a new project\, “Zootopia: History of Zoological Gardens in the Romanov Empire.” \n\nMaryna Paliienko is a Doctor of Historical Sciences and head of the Department of Archival Science and Special Branches of History at Taras Shevchenko National University. She is also editor-in-chief of the journal Archives of Ukraine and is the author of several monographs and numerous scholarly articles on archival theory\, history\, and practice; the role of the Ukrainian diaspora in the preservation of cultural heritage; and the digital transformation of Ukrainian archives and their visibility in the modern information space. Thanks to a grant from the Fulbright Program\, she is currently conducting research in the United States at New York University on the topic “Archives in the Time of War and Emergency: Problems of the Cultural Heritage Preservation and Usage (from the Experience of the USA and Ukraine).” \n\nMartin Rohde is a senior post-doc at the University of Vienna\, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) with the project “Transregional Region-Making in the Eastern Carpathians. Ukrainian Knowledge Production and Its Challenges\, 1921–1939.” Rohde studied History and Slavic Studies in Salzburg and Göttingen and received a PhD in history from the University of Innsbruck in 2020 with a dissertation called “National Science Between Two Empires. Shevchenko Scientific Society\, 1892-1918.” Former workplaces include universities of Innsbruck and Halle/Wittenberg\, the Historical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences\, and the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg. His research interests include history of science and knowledge; history of photography; approaches to postcolonial\, imperial\, and spatial history with a focus on Ukraine; the Habsburg and Russian Empires; Poland; and Czechoslovakia. \n\nSteven Seegel is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe (University of Chicago Press\, 2018)\, Ukraine under Western Eyes (Harvard University Press\, 2013)\, and Mapping Europe’s Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire (University of Chicago Press\, 2012). He has contributed to the fourth and fifth volumes of the University of Chicago’s international History of Cartography series\, and has translated over 300 entries from Russian and Polish for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum‘s Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos\, 1933-1945\, in multiple volumes\, published jointly by USHMM and Indiana University Press. Professor Seegel is a former director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute‘s summer exchange program. He hosts author-feature podcast interviews on the popular New Books Network. He is the founder of The February 24th Archive\, an ongoing community-driven\, public-facing digital project (follow @steven_seegel on Twitter/X) that focuses on building global solidarities during Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine.   \n\nSusan Smith-Peter is Professor of History and Director of the Public History program at the College of Staten Island/City University of New York. She has worked on the history of Russian regionalism for more than 20 years\, publishing Imagining Russian Regions in 2018\, among other works. Since the full-scale invasion\, she has advocated for the decolonization of the field of Russian history in the U.S. Her new research includes work on the influence of Ukrainian thinkers on the Siberian regionalists in the 19th century. \n\nJan Surman is a historian of Central and Eastern Europe currently based at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Science\, Prague. Surman holds a PhD in history from the University of Vienna and has most recently been working at the Herder-Insitute\, Marburg; IFK\, Vienna; and Higher School of Economics\, Moscow. His interests are history of internationalism\, language of science\, and history of Ukrainian science. His recent publications include Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space (Purdue University Press 2018);  “Science and Terminology in-between Empires: Ukrainian Science in a Search for its Language in the nineteenth century” in History of Science 57:2 (2019)\, 260-287; and “Imperial Science in Central and Eastern Europe” in Histories 2:3 (2022)\, 352–361.  \n\nFrank E. Sysyn is director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS)\, professor in the Department of History\, Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Alberta\, and editor-in-chief of the Hrushevsky Translation Project\, the English translation of the multi-volume History of Ukraine-Rus’ (12 volumes). He is head of the executive committee of the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) at CIUS\, a member of the editorial board of Harvard Ukrainian Studies and East-West: A Journal of Ukrainian Studies\, and head of the advisory board of the Ukrainian Program at the Harriman Institute. He has taught at the University of Alberta\, Harvard University\, Columbia University\, Stanford University\, and other institutions.
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LOCATION:Ukrainian Institute of America\, 2 East 79th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10075
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SUMMARY:Pre-Launch Reading From "The God of Freedom" and conversation with Julia Musakovska
DESCRIPTION:  \nYuliya Musakovska celebrates the upcoming release of her poetry collection\, The God of Freedom\, in English translation from Arrowsmith Press with cover art by Anastasiia Starko. Joining her will be her translator Olena Jennings. The event will feature a reading in both Ukrainian and English. Vasyl Makhno will moderate a discussion about the wartime reality of Ukraine under the Russian invasion and the role of cultural activism in the Ukrainian resistance. Yuliya and Olena will also speak about their translation process.\nPublished in Ukraine in 2021\, The God of Freedom reflects on many events of Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine that began in 2014 before taking its full-scale form in 2022. The collection was shortlisted for the Lviv UNESCO City of Literature Prize and named in the top eight nominees for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize. Poems from the collection have been translated into many languages and published in The Southern Review\, AGNI\, Tupelo Quarterly\, NELLE\, The Common\, and other journals and anthologies.\n  \nYuliya Musakovska is an award-winning Ukrainian poet and translator. She has published five poetry collections\, among them Hunting for Silence (2014) Men\, Women\, and Children (2015)\, and The God of Freedom (2021). She received many awards in Ukraine\, including the prestigious Smoloskyp Prize for young authors (2010) and the DICTUM Prize (2013). Her work has been translated into over thirty languages and published worldwide. Yuliya Musakovska translates poetry from and to Swedish and English\, focusing on the translation of contemporary Ukrainian authors. She is a member of PEN Ukraine.\nOlena Jennings is the author of the poetry collection The Age of Secrets (Lost Horse Press\, 2022)\, the chapbook Memory Project\, and the novel Temporary Shelter (Cervena Barva Press\, 2021). She is a translator of collections by Ukrainian poets\, Kateryna Kalytko\, together with Oksana Lutsyshyna\, and Vasyl Makhno. She was shortlisted for the Ukrainian Literature in Translation Prize 2023 for her translations of Yuliya Musakovska’s poetry. She founded and curates Poets of Queens reading series and press.\n 
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/pre-launch-reading-from-the-god-of-freedom-and-conversation-with-julia-musakovska/
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SUMMARY:The 5th Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival
DESCRIPTION:Our Society is proud to co-sponsor the 5th edition of the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival. See below for more information on events. \n+++ \nDEFENSE-DEFIANCE-DEDICATION\nMARCH 28 | 7PM \nSince the start of Russia’s current war against Ukraine in 2014\, Ukrainian music has taken on new purposes. Each of the works on this program has a function\, but their utility goes beyond conventional music for use\, such as entertainment or education. In the face of a decade of Russian aggression these works reveal how music can serve new purposes for composers and their audiences. \n\nVIRKO BALEY AT 85\nMARCH 29 | 7PM \nFamed Ukrainian-American composer Virko Baley celebrates his 85th birthday with the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival. \n\nTRAVEL DIARIES\nMARCH 30 | 7PM \nEach of the pieces on this program evokes a story of travel: escape\, emigration\, education and employment abroad\, eternal farewell. The works of a young generation of Ukrainian composers are paired with established voices from Ukraine\, including the country’s most famous living composer and two of contemporary music’s leading figures. \n  \nUCMF AFTERDARK\nMARCH 30 | 9PM \nUCMF’s first ever after-hours event at Mriya Gallery in Tribeca. Performance by electronic-folk duo Hopanka from Montreal. Doors open at 8:30PM
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/the-5th-ukrainian-contemporary-music-festival/
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SUMMARY:Ukrainian Archives in the Challenges of War
DESCRIPTION:The report is dedicated to highlighting the importance and role of Ukrainian archives in the processes of state formation\, preservation of national memory and identity\, as well as threats that historically existed and were connected with Russia’s imperial\, aggressive policy and were actualized with new force in the course of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. \nThe general outline of the process of creation\, preservation and transfer of Ukrainian archives in the whirlwind of events of national state formation and the Second World War will be characterized. \nThe main focus will be on the assessment of the situation and challenges related to the preservation of archives and documentary heritage in the conditions of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine\, which are faced today by government authorities\, society\, and archivists of Ukraine\, and require greater cooperation and support of the international community. \nWatch Livestream\n \nMaryna Paliienko is a Ukrainian historian\, archivist\, Doctor of Historical Sciences\, professor\, Head of the Department of Archival Science and Special Branches of History at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv\, editor-in-chief of the journal “Archives of Ukraine”. \nShe is the author of several monographs and books and numerous academic articles devoted to the problems of Archival Science theory\, history and practice in Ukraine and worldwide\, the activities of the Ukrainian emigration on the preservation of archival\, museum and library collections in Europe and North America\, displacement of cultural heritage during the Second World War. She researched Ukrainian archival collections in Austria\, Germany\, Poland\, Russia\, France\, and the Czech Republic. Some of her works are devoted to the ongoing digitization at Ukrainian archival institutions and the representation of their documentary resources on the Internet. \nIn the 2023–2024 academic year\, having received a grant from the Fulbright Program\, she is conducting research in the USA at New York University on the topic “Archives in the Time of War and Emergency: Problems of the Cultural Heritage Preservation and Usage (from the Experience of the United States and Ukraine)”.
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/ukrainian-archives-in-the-challenges-of-war-and-preservation-of-memory/
LOCATION:Shevchenko Scientific Society\, 63 Fourth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Resistance\, Resilience\, Renewal: Two Years of the Full-Scale War in Ukraine.
DESCRIPTION:Resilience\, Resistance\, Renewal: Two Years of the Full-Scale War in Ukraine \nPresented by the Shevchenko Scientific Society in collaboration with the Cooper Union and the Ukrainian Research Institute\, Harvard University \nLocation: The Great Hall at The Cooper Union\, 7 East 7th Street\, New York\, NY 10003 (enter at corner of Astor Place and Cooper Square) \nAfter two years of Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine\, the world remains inspired by Ukrainian resilience and resistance in the face of genocide and atrocities. What does an act of Ukrainian resistance look like? What are the obstacles confronting Ukrainian society and its partners abroad? How do we defend Ukrainian culture and identity as cities are being razed to the ground? Ukraine’s formidable challenges range from documenting ongoing war crimes to facing political complications that become inevitable in the midst of a colonial war. On the eve of the war’s second anniversary\, leading experts convene to explore where the full-scale invasion stands\, how we arrived at this current moment\, and\, most importantly\, what needs to be done to ensure a lasting Ukrainian victory. \nSpeakers include 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner and head of the Center for Civil Liberties\, Oleksandra Matviichuk (joining virtually); Volodymyr Yermolenko\, president of PEN Ukraine; and Kristina Hook\, nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. \nAbout the Speakers: \n \nA Ukrainian human rights lawyer\, Oleksandra Matviichuk heads the human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties\, the first Ukrainian organization to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She has been with the Center\, which works to protect human rights and establish democracy in Ukraine and the OSCE region\, since its founding in 2007. In 2021\, Matviichuk was nominated to the United Nations Committee against Torture\, making history as Ukraine’s first female candidate to the UN treaty body. She attended Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. \n \nVolodymyr Yermolenko is a Ukrainian philosopher\, journalist\, and writer who serves as the president of PEN Ukraine. A recipient of the Yurii Sheveliov Prize and Petro Mohyla Award\, he is also the analytics director at Internews Ukraine\, editor-in-chief of UkraineWorld.org\, and an associate professor at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. His work has appeared in outlets such as The Economist\, the Financial Times\, and The New York Times. \n \nKristina Hook is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. She specializes in genocide and mass atrocity prevention\, emerging technologies\, and post-conflict reconstruction. She is also an Assistant Professor of Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University\, where she specializes in genocide prevention and international human rights. An expert in Ukraine-Russian relations\, she is a former Fulbright Scholar to Ukraine and has served as a U.S. Department of State policy advisor for mass atrocity prevention. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology and Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame. \n 
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/resisting-genocide-two-years-of-russias-full-scale-war-against-ukraine/
LOCATION:The Great Hall at Cooper Union Foundation Building 7 East 7th Street\, New York\, NY 10003\, 7 East 7th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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