BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Shevchenko Scientific Society - ECPv5.16.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Shevchenko Scientific Society
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://shevchenko.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Shevchenko Scientific Society
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20260308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20261101T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184918
CREATED:20250917T182519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T142421Z
UID:14991-1762020000-1762029000@shevchenko.org
SUMMARY:Our Life Behind Barbed Wire: Photography\, Poetry\, and Song from Ukraine’s Shadows
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with \n \nThe Shevchenko Scientific Society gallery will host an evening of scholarship and performance centered on the experiences of Ukrainian forced laborers (Ostarbeiters) in Nazi Germany. \n  \nSchedule \n6:00 pm Lecture by Alex Averbuch and opening of the Ostarbeiter photography exhibit «Our Life Behind Barbed Wire” \n7:00 pm Musico-poetic performance with poet Alex Averbuch\, translators Oksana Maksymchuk & Max Rosochinsky\, and composer-vocalist Olga Zaitseva-Herz (part of the Ukrainian Cultural Festival by Razom for Ukraine) \nThe public lecture by Alex Averbuch will open an exhibition dedicated to the photography and correspondence of Ukrainian Ostarbeiters who were displaced to Nazi Germany during World War II. The show brings together rare images and personal letters that record daily life\, coercion\, and resilience. The materials trace intimate struggles\, including young women’s pregnancies in captivity\, secret marriages\, and clandestine efforts to send forbidden news home\, as well as acts of resistance and survival under totalitarian rule. \nThe exhibition will remain on view through January 1\, 2026. \nFollowing the talk at 7:00 pm\, guests are invited to view the exhibition and attend an immersive musico-poetic program by Averbuch and Zaitseva-Herz. Blending poetry\, voice\, and sound\, it brings forward often-silenced histories\, from deported Ostarbeiters and victims of the Holocaust to those suffering under Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Staged within the exhibit space itself\, the performance resonates with Ukraine’s historical “shadows\,” enveloping the audience in poetry\, song\, and storytelling that bridge past traumas with the present struggle for survival and dignity. \n  \nAlex Averbuch\, a native of Novoaidar\, Luhansk region\, Ukraine\, is a poet\, translator\, and scholar. He is the author of several books of poetry and an array of over seventy selections of literary translations between Hebrew\, Ukrainian\, Russian\, and English. His poems have appeared in English translation in Beloit\, Manhattan Review\, Copper Nickel\, Birmingham Poetry Review\, Plume\, Words Without Borders\, Sugar House Review\, Constellations\, and Common Knowledge\, as well as in anthologies in English\, Italian\, French\, Romanian\, Hebrew\, Finnish\, Estonian\, and Polish translation. His works have been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Averbuch’s latest poetry book was a finalist for the Shevchenko National Prize\, Ukraine’s highest award for culture and literature\, and is forthcoming in English translation by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky under the title Furious Harvests from HURI/Harvard UP. Standalone collections of his poetry have been or will soon be published in Polish\, Italian\, and German. He is currently an assistant professor of Ukrainian literature and culture in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. \nOlga Zaitseva-Herz is an ethnomusicologist and postdoctoral fellow at the Kule Folklore Centre\, University of Alberta. Originally from Dnipro\, she completed her PhD in 2024 with a dissertation on Ukrainian songs in Canada\, exploring their interconnectedness and the transculturality of singing styles. Her current research interest is in the strategic role of popular music in Russia’s war on Ukraine\, with particular attention to cultural resilience in digital spaces and AI-mediated communication. Alongside her academic work\, she is an active performer and composer with extensive international concert experience. In 2011\, she founded the band Zaitsa in Germany\, reimagining traditional Ukrainian songs through jazz\, pop\, and klezmer elements. With this ensemble\, she has performed hundreds of concerts across Europe\, including a premiere at the Mela Festival in England\, associated with the opening of the London Olympic Games in 2012. She has also performed as a solo singer with different orchestras and also played in orchestras on international tours with Andrea Bocelli and David Garrett. An installment of her contemporary opera Bakhmut Rhapsody\, based on frontline soundscapes and ethnographic fieldwork combined with poetry by T. Shevchenko and L. Ukrainka\, premiered at the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival in New York City in 2024. Her current artistic research project focuses on the sonification of Ukrainian embroidery\, where traditional patterns are transcribed into musical compositions. In this innovative work\, embroidered stitches become notes\, and colors shape pitch and timbre\, creating polyphonic soundscapes that translate the intangible cultural heritage of Ukrainian embroidery into sonic form. \nOksana Maksymchuk is a bilingual Ukrainian-American poet\, scholar\, and literary translator. Her debut English-language poetry collection Still City: Diary of an Invasion (University of Pittsburgh Press (US)/Carcanet (UK)) was long-listed for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize and Pen/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She co-edited an anthology Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine (Academic Studies Press\, 2017) and co-translated several poetry collections\, most recently\, Alex Averbuch’s Furious Harvests (Harvard University Press\, 2025). Oksana holds a PhD in philosophy from Northwestern University. \nMax Rosochinsky is a scholar\, translator and poet from Simferopol/Crimea. His translations have featured in publications including Modern Poetry in Translation\, Words Without Borders\, Poetry International and the Best European Fiction series from Dalkey Archive Press\, while his translation of Lyuba Yakimchuk’s Prayer was performed by the author at the 2022 Grammy Awards Ceremony. A co-winner of  first place in the Joseph Brodsky-Stephen Spender Prize translation competition\, he co-edited Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine\, an anthology of contemporary Ukrainian poetry with Oksana Maksymchuk\, and co-translated Apricots of Donbas\, a collection of selected poems by Lyuba Yakimchuk\, and The Voices of Babyn Yar\, a book of poetry by Marianna Kiyanovska. \nRegister
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/our-life-behind-barbed-wire-photography-poetry-and-song-from-ukraines-shadows/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184918
CREATED:20251010T155952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T012510Z
UID:15022-1762257600-1762263000@shevchenko.org
SUMMARY:Rostyslav Konta: Online Webinar. How Ethnology Saved a Nation: The History of the Shevchenko Scientific Society Between Science and Politics
DESCRIPTION:Доповідь присвячено аналізу ролі Наукового Товариства імені Шевченка в розвитку етнологічної науки в Україні та її значенню для збереження національної ідентичності в умовах складних політичних обставин. \nРостислав Конта народився 1977 р. на Чернігівщині. 1999 р. закінчив історичний факультет \nКиївського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. В 2004 р. захистив кандидатську дисертацію на тему: «Ідея державотворення в суспільно-політичному житті України в першій половині ХІХ століття: історіографія проблеми» та закінчив аспірантуру вказаного навчального закладу. В 2003-2004 рр. працював асистентом кафедри філософських та соціальних наук Київського національного торговельно-економічного університету.  2006-2008 рр. – доцент кафедри філософії та гуманітарних дисциплін Українського державного університету економіки та фінансів. З 2007 р. асистент\, 2008 р. доцент\, а з 2018 р. професор кафедри етнології та краєзнавства Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Автор близько 140 праць. Наукові інтереси: історіографія національної ідеї в Україні в ХІХ столітті; дослідження науково-організаційної етнологічної діяльності в Науковому Товаристві імені Шевченка у Львові (1892-1940 рр.). \nМодератор: Віталій Чернецький\, Президент НТШ-А \n\n  Реєстрація\n\n  \nThe lecture will analyze the role of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the development of ethnological scholarship in Ukraine and its importance for preserving national identity amid complex political circumstances. \nRostyslav Konta was born in 1977 in the Chernihiv region. He graduated in 1999 from the Faculty of History at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In 2004\, he defended his Ph.D. dissertation\, “The Idea of State-Building in the Socio-Political Life of Ukraine in the First Half of the 19th Century: Historiography of the Problem\,” and completed his postgraduate studies at the same institution. From 2003 to 2004\, Konta worked as an assistant at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics. From 2006 to 2008\, he served as an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at the Ukrainian State University of Economics and Finance. Since 2007\, he has been affiliated with the Department of Ethnology and Local History at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv – first as an assistant (2007)\, then as an associate professor (2008)\, and since 2018 as a full professor. Konta is the author of about 140 publications. His research interests include the historiography of the national idea in 19th-century Ukraine and the organization of the ethnological scholarly activities of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv (1892–1940). \n  \nModerator: Vitaly Chernetsky\, President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US (NTSh-A) \n 
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/rostyslav-konta-online-webinar-how-ethnology-saved-a-nation-the-history-of-the-shevchenko-scientific-society-between-science-and-politics/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251115T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251115T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184918
CREATED:20251009T173940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251106T215406Z
UID:15018-1763226000-1763231400@shevchenko.org
SUMMARY:Online webinar: New Perspectives on the Holodomor
DESCRIPTION:Iryna Skubii\, ‘Our Village Was Also Helped by Nature’: Remembering Survival in the Holodomor \nIryna Skubii is the inaugural Mykola Zerov Fellow in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Melbourne. She holds a PhD from Queen’s University\, Kingston (Canada) and a Candidate of Science Degree from V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine). Dr. Skubii is the author of Trade in Kharkiv in the Years of NEP: Economy and Everyday Life (1921–1929) (2017). Her article on food waste and survival practices during the Soviet famines in Ukraine received the Best Article Prize from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies. Her current research explores the global history of sunflowers in Ukraine\, and she is preparing book manuscripts on survival\, environment\, and material culture during the Soviet famines\, as well as on the history of consumption in early Soviet Ukraine.  \nJohn Vsetecka\, “The Holodomor as Current History: Russian Disinformation about the Holodomor as part of its Historical War against Ukraine” \nJohn Vsetecka is Assistant Professor of History at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale\, FL. He is a scholar of East European and Soviet history\, with a specific interest in the history of Ukraine. His research and writing focus on the history of famine\, mass violence\, and transitional justice. Dr. Vsetecka is finishing his first book\, entitled\, In the Wake of Hunger: Confronting the Legacies of the 1932-1933 Famine (Holodomor) in Soviet Ukraine during the 1930s. He is also a co-editor (with Daria Mattingly) of The Holodomor in Global Perspective: How the Famine in Ukraine Shaped the World (ibidem-Verlag/Columbia University Press)\, which will be published in late October 2025. He is also the founder of H-Ukraine (part of the larger H-Net platform)\, which shares and promotes academic and scholarly content related to the study of Ukraine.  \nDaria Mattingly\, “Stalin’s Activists: Rank-and-File Perpetrators of the Holodomor” \nDaria Mattingly is a historian of the Soviet Union and modern Ukraine and a Lecturer at the University of Chichester. Her research focuses on the Holodomor\, collectivization\, and the social history of violence\, with particular attention to rank-and-file perpetrators and memory. She is completing a monograph\, Stalin’s Activists: The Rank-and-File Perpetrators of the Holodomor and together with John Vsetecka co-edited the volume The Holodomor in Global Perspective. Dr. Mattingly’s work has appeared in leading journals and edited volumes\, and she frequently contributes public-facing scholarship on Ukrainian history and its contemporary resonances. \n  \nModerator Dr. Catherine Wanner (Pennsylvania State University/Shevchenko Scientific Society) \nRegistration
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/new-perspectives-on-the-holodomor-online-webinar/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184918
CREATED:20250926T160405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250930T143412Z
UID:15002-1765040400-1765047600@shevchenko.org
SUMMARY:The Taste of a  Nation: The Battle over Ukrainian Cuisine in the Twentieth Century
DESCRIPTION:СМАК НАЦІЇ: БОРОТЬБА ЗА КУЛЬТУРУ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ КУХНІ У ХХ СТОЛІТТІ \nУ 2022 році Україна отримала значний розголос коли культуру приготування борщу внесли до списку нематеріальної спадщини ЮНЕСКО. Ейфорія що виникла\, породила чимало шкідливих історичних міфів та призвела до значної політизації питання. Сьогодні\, це створює ризики у популяризації знань про цю важливу частину національної ідентичності. Об’єктивні\, науково перевірені знання про роль та місце української кухні в частині ідеологічного\, політичного та національного опору нації у ХХ столітті допоможуть уникнути пастки відомої під терміном “gastronativism”. Доповідь доктора історичних наук Ігоря Лиля про зв’язок між смаком\, ідентичністю та баченням майбутнього. \nДоктор Ігор Лильо – історик і антрополог зі Львова\, спеціаліст з європейської історії та культурі. Він отримав ступінь доктора філософії в Львівському національному університеті імені Івана Франка і викладав у кількох європейських університетах. Зараз він є запрошеним професором на факультетах слов’янських\, німецьких та євразійських студій та історії в Університеті Канзасу. Навесні 2024 року викладав для студентів бакалаврату курси Understanding Russia and Eastern Europe та історії України. Автор і співавтор кількох популярних книг з історії української кухні. Як співавтор книги «Україна: їжа та історія» (Київ\, 2021)\, отримав престижну премію Gourmand World Cookbook Award в Іспанії. \n  \nTHE TASTE OF A NATION: THE BATTLE OVER UKRAINIAN CUISINE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY \nIn 2022\, Ukraine drew worldwide attention when the cultural tradition of preparing borscht was added to UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Yet\, alongside the celebration came new historical myths and a wave of politicization that now risk distorting our understanding of this critical part of national identity. How can food reflect not only culture but also history\, politics\, and even national resistance? And how can we avoid falling into the trap of what some call “gastronativism”? \nIn this talk\, historian Dr. Ihor Lylo will explore the fascinating connections between taste\, identity\, and visions of the future\, showing how Ukrainian cuisine has become more than nourishment\, emerging instead as a powerful language of survival and self-expression.. \n  \nDr. Ihor Lylo is a historian and anthropologist from Lviv\, specializing in European history and culture. He earned a Ph.D. from Ivan Franko National University in Lviv and has taught at several European universities. He is currently a visiting professor in the Departments of Slavic\, German\, and Eurasian Studies and History at the University of Kansas. In Spring 2024\, he taught undergraduate courses on Understanding Russia and Eastern Europe and the history of Ukraine. He is also the author and co-author of several widely read books on the history of Ukrainian cuisine. As co-author of Ukraine: Food and History (Kyiv\, 2021)\, he received the prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Spain. \n  \nThe lecture will be delivered in Ukrainian. \nDiscussion will take place in Ukrainian and English. \n  \nAdmission to this event is free. \nRegistration is required. Suggested donation is $20 \n  \n  \n\n  Register
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/the-taste-of-a-nation-the-battle-over-ukrainian-cuisine-in-the-twentieth-century/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251209T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184918
CREATED:20251121T164507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251201T151506Z
UID:15060-1765281600-1765287000@shevchenko.org
SUMMARY:Webinar. (Un)solved Problems of Modern Mathematics
DESCRIPTION:Olena Karlova holds a Doctor of Sciences degree in Geometry and Topology (Lviv National University\, 2017). She is a Professor at the Department of Mathematical Analysis of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University (Chernivtsi\, Ukraine) and a Professor at the Department of Mathematics of Jan Kochanowski University (Kielce\, Poland).  She is the author of more than 80 scientific papers published in international mathematical journals. She has been an invited speaker at international conferences and symposia in the Czech Republic\, France\, Italy\, and Poland\, and has received several distinctions\, including the Best Young Mathematician of Ukraine Award (2016) from the Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukraine–USA Foundation\, the Andrew Bruckner Award (2023) for contributions to Real Analysis\, and the Talents for Ukraine Grant (2023) from the Kyiv School of Economics Foundation. As the founder of the Mathematical Workshop community in Chernivtsi and the MiniMudryk mathematics club for gifted pupils\, she is deeply engaged in fostering young mathematical talent\, cultivating a research culture among youth\, and strengthening ties between academic institutions. Since 2022\, she has served as the President of the Chernivtsi Mathematical Society. \nModerator: Prof. Rostyslav Grigorchuk (Texas A&M University) \n\n  Register
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/webinar-olena-karlova-unsolved-problems-of-modern-mathematics/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184918
CREATED:20251121T165321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251201T152719Z
UID:15068-1765645200-1765652400@shevchenko.org
SUMMARY:Evening of Ukrainian Piano Trios
DESCRIPTION:Program: \nMykhailo Verbytsky / Martin Kennedy – Ukrainian National Anthem\, arranged for Piano Trio \nIryna Alexiychuk – Signs on the Water for Piano Trio \nBorys Liatoshynsky – Piano Trio no. 1\, op. 7 \n  \nLara St. John\, violin \nAfter performing for decades around the globe as a “high-powered soloist” (The New York Times)\, Canadian-born violinist Lara St. John has chosen to dispense with a conventional biography\, preferring instead to offer the following personal statement:  “I began playing the violin when I was two years old and have continued to do so ever since. But even though my career has had many high points and offered real artistic satisfaction\, I cannot honestly say I would do it all over again. It has required horrific sacrifices – including my experiences with child sexual abuse and being treated as little more than a commodity by a long list of presenters\, administrators and so-called educators. “Rampant misogyny continues to be depressingly commonplace in the world of classical music\, incredibly\, even as we fumble our way toward the middle of the 21st century. This has drained away a lot of the sheer joy of making music for me. “At the same time\, I have made some wonderful friends in this business. I will always have faith in them and in the profound power of music to inspire and to heal. I will never stop being amazed by the possibility within a simple instrument like the violin. But my desire to use it as a tool for making a living has fallen off to almost nothing.” Lara now only performs for causes she cares about\, like elevating Ukrainian music. Lara has performed as a soloist with most of the world’s major orchestras. She owns her own recording label\, Ancalagon\, which she founded in 1999. In 2022\, she released she/her/hers\, her label’s 16th album\, featuring solo violin works by women. After going public with her own experience of being raped by her professor at the Curtis Institute of Music when she was 14 years old\, Lara heard from many other survivors of abuse at the hands of music teachers\, conductors and colleagues\, with the complicity of their respective institutions. She has now finished Dear Lara\, a documentary film on this subject\, premiering early 2026. In 2021 Lara was invested with the Order of Canada\, her country’s highest honor. She is a knight of Burgundy and a reptile enthusiast. She owns and performs on a 1779 Guadagnini\, a 2011 David Wiebe and a 2024 Isabelle Wilbaux. \nValeriya Sholokhova\, cello \nUkrainian-American cellist Valeriya Sholokhova is a versatile soloist and chamber musician based in New York City. She has performed on renowned stages such as Carnegie Hall\, Wigmore Hall\, The Kennedy Center\, and Saturday Night Live\, and has toured extensively through Europe and the United States. Valeriya is a co-founder of Trio Fadolin\, which has received Chamber Music America’s Ensemble Forward Grant and recorded an album of commissioned works. As a soloist\, Valeriya performed the U.S. premiere of Peteris Vasks’ Cello Concerto No. 2 in Boston as well as Camille Pepin’s double concerto\, “The Sound of Trees” at the Kennedy Center. A founder of the Ukrainian Music Initiative\, Valeriya actively champions the works of Ukrainian composers through recitals\, fundraisers\, and her ongoing involvement with the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival. A laureate of international competitions\, Valeriya holds principal positions with The New Orchestra of Washington\, The Refugee Orchestra Project\, and The Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra. A full-scholarship graduate of the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music\, she is also dedicated to community outreach through Sing for Hope. \nPavlo Gintov\, piano \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\, when he performed Mozart Concerto in D minor K 466 with Kyiv Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Roman Kofman\, 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\, the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory and Kioi Hall in Tokyo. He has been a soloist with Tokyo Royal Chamber Orchestra\, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine\, Shizuoka Symphony Orchestra\, 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. A passionate advocate for Ukrainian music\, Pavlo is a founding member of the Ukrainian Music Initiative and a co-founder of the Ukrainian Music Competition that takes place annually in New York City. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music\, where he studied with Nina Svetlanova. \nRegistration is required. Suggested donation is $20 \n \n\n  Register
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/evening-of-ukrainian-piano-trios/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260117T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260117T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184918
CREATED:20260108T174940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260108T195535Z
UID:15103-1768669200-1768676400@shevchenko.org
SUMMARY:A Musical Performance by Andrii Dorofeiev
DESCRIPTION:Andrii Dorofeiev is a prominent Ukrainian pianist known for his brilliant technique and explosive stage energy. A graduate of the Feliks Nowowiejski Music Academy in Bydgoszcz\, Poland\, he holds a Master’s degree (2024) with a research focus on the works of Mykola Lysenko. Andrii is a laureate of numerous international competitions\, including the Grand Prix at the 20th F. Chopin Piano Competition in Ukraine and the “Golden Parnas” at the International Piano Festival in Poland. \nModerator: Pavlo Gintov \nCONCERT PROGRAM  \nPart I: \n\nS. Bortkiewicz — Etude No. 9\, Op. 15\nM. Lysenko — Rhapsody No. 1 on Ukrainian Themes\nM. Lysenko — Rhapsody No. 2 “Dumka-Shumka”\n\nPart II: \n\nG. Gershwin — 3 Preludes\nL. Godowsky — Passacaglia (44 Variations\, Cadenza\, and Fugue on the opening theme of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony)\n\nEncore: M. Lysenko/Illia Fialko – «My cogitations» (transcr. «Dumy moi Dumy») \n  \nRegistration is required. Suggested donation is $20 \n\n  Register
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/a-musical-performance-by-andrii-dorofeiev/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184918
CREATED:20260108T190902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260113T142759Z
UID:15106-1769256000-1769261400@shevchenko.org
SUMMARY:Webinar: Experiences of Time after Displacement
DESCRIPTION:Wars inevitably produce displacement and dispossession. Such experiences also rupture understandings of the past\, everyday routines\, and visions of the future. The speakers on this panel will explore how the uncertain present serves as a precarious moment from which past displacements during World War II and experiences following the russian invasion affect visions of the future for individual Ukrainians and for Ukraine collectively. \n \nJulia Buyskykh (Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University) \n  \n \nNatalia Otrishchenko (Center of Urban History in Lviv) \n  \n \nIryna Koval-Fuchylo (Maksym Rylsky Institute of Art History\, Folklore and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv) \nModerator: Catherine Wanner (Penn State University) \nJulia Buyskykh is an anthropologist with a Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences) in History and Ethnology from the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw in 2015-2016 and was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Pennsylvania State University (2019-2020). She held a Sanctuary Fellowship at University College Cork\, Ireland\, from September 2022 to February 2023. Her research focuses on lived religion (Orthodoxy and Catholicism) in Ukraine and Poland\, inter-confessional relationships\, pilgrimages\, memory studies\, borderlands\, and ethics and empathy in ethnographic research. She is currently writing her second Ph.D. dissertation in Anthropology at the Study of Religions Department at University College Cork\, Ireland\, and is a visiting scholar at the German Historical Institute\, Warsaw and the Institute of History\, the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her book To the West of the Bug: Diaries from the Borderlands (in Ukrainian) was shortlisted for the Yuri Shevelyov Award (2024) from PEN Ukraine for the Best Collected Work of Non-Fiction Essays. \nNatalia Otrishchenko is a sociologist and a research fellow at the Center for Urban History in Lviv. From 2019 to 2022\, she was an associate researcher at the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam\, and during the 2022–2023 academic year\, she was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology\, Columbia University. Since March 2022\, she has led the Ukrainian team of the “24/02/22\, 5 am” documentation initiative. Her research interests include qualitative methods\, oral history\, memory studies\, urban sociology\, and sociology of expertise. She holds a PhD in sociological methodology from the Institute of Sociology\, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. \nIryna Koval-Fuchylo earned a doctorate in philology from the Ivan Franko University of Lviv with a dissertation titled “Ukrainian Lamentations: Genesis and Poetics.” Since 2002\, she has been at the Maksym Rylsky Institute of Art History\, Folklore\, and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv. She is the author of more than 260 publications\, including three books and three co-authored books\, that have been published in 11 countries. Her research focuses on the autobiographical narratives of the Ukrainian diaspora\, the oral histories of refugees from the Russo-Ukrainian war\, as well as traditional Slavic culture\, including rituals\, songs\, and the history of Ukrainian folklore. In 2022-2023\, she was affiliated with the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology at the Centre for Ethnology and Contemporary Anthropology in Warsaw\, the Institute of Cultural Research at the University of Tartu\, the Department of Slavic Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris\, and the Archive Department of the Finnish Literary Society in Helsinki. \nRegistration is required \n\n  Register
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/webinar-experiences-of-time-after-displacement/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184918
CREATED:20260203T200434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T200453Z
UID:15145-1770292800-1770296400@shevchenko.org
SUMMARY:Science at Risk - Livestream Ukraine Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this unique opportunity to meet and learn about scientists doing heroic work under the most extreme conditions. What does the world lose when researchers are denied safety\, resources\, and the ability to work openly? Show support for academic freedom and for Ukraine!  \nThursday\, February 5\, EST 12:00-1PM \nIn-person at Fries Center for Global Studies\, Wesleyan University\, Middletown CT \nJOIN ONLINE! \nKyiv: 7:00 PM | EST Noon | Central Time: 11:00AM | Mountain: 10:00AM | Pacific Time: 9:00AM \nLivestream Link\nIn conjunction with the Freedom in the Equation Exhibit on display in the Exley Science Library. \nLocal sponsors: Wesleyan University \nCollege of the Environment \nRussian\, East European Eurasian Studies Department \nActivating Library Spaces Initiative \nShevchenko Scientific Society
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/science-at-risk-livestream-ukraine-conversation/
LOCATION:Fries Center for Global Studies\,\, 262 High Street\, Middletown\, CT\, 06459\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184918
CREATED:20260109T215528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T165303Z
UID:15115-1770400800-1770408000@shevchenko.org
SUMMARY:Lens of the Witnesses: A Solo Show of Lesia Khomenko
DESCRIPTION:The Shevchenko Scientific Society\, New York is pleased to present Lens of the Witnesses\, an exhibition of new works by Lesia Khomenko\, on view at 63 4th Ave\, from February 6th through August 31st\, 2026. This is Lesia’s fourth solo exhibition in the United States\, and her third solo exhibition in New York. A reception with the artist will be held on Friday\, February 6\, from 6–8 PM. \nIn a new body of large-scale paintings based on raw footage from the frontline of the Russian-Ukrainian war\, Khomenko incorporates various records—including drone footage\, soldiers’ body cameras\, and civilians’ phone records—into seemingly abstract\, semi-representational paintings. The Russian-Ukrainian war is the most heavily documented war in history. There is “big data” in the form of diverse records made by both soldiers and civilians documenting every aspect of life during the war. The phenomenon of photographic and video documentation made by military drones or firearm optics also opens onto a new view of wartime representation\, channeling a gaze that bridges the human and the machine. \nIn her Montage series\, composed of large-scale\, landscape-oriented paintings\, Khomenko focuses on video footage recorded by random witnesses or participants in hostilities that were shared on social media during Russia’s full-scale invasion. In these semi-abstract compositions\, the artist selects frames from videos that ultimately last but a few seconds\, and then arranges them into a sequential timeline that reveals only the beginning and end of the story. The resulting images exist in the tense space between representation and abstraction\, yielding an ambiguity that is not invented but directly extracted from lived reality. \nIn her research\, the artist adopts the methodology of war-crimes investigators\, watching graphic content frame by frame. In turn\, Khomenko employs a sharp analytical lens that reads wartime documentation visually rather than forensically. The sheer variety of images allows her to construct a dialogue between historical wars and recent battles by referencing battle paintings produced under the conditions of postwar socialist realism and the contemporary realities of cyberwar. \nThe final series presented in the exhibition is based on footage taken from surveillance and combat drones. Due to the low resolution of the drone’s cameras\, dynamic disposal\, and vertical perspective\, the captured figures are abstracted\, evoking futurist sculptures or fantastic insects. \n \nLesia Khomenko is a multidisciplinary artist who reconsiders the role of painting: she deconstructs narrative images and transforms paintings into objects\, installations\, performances\, or videos. \nLesia Khomenko (b. 1980 in Kyiv\, Ukraine)\, graduated National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in 2004. She is a co-founder and member of the R.E.P. group (since 2004) and of the curatorial group Hudrada (since 2008) in Ukraine. She was on the shortlist for the Pinchuk Art Prize (2009\, 2011\, and 2013); together with the R.E.P. group\, for the Future Generations Art Prize\, founded by the Pinchuk Art Centre (2012); and the Kazimir Malevich Artist Award (2012 and 2016). \nKhomenkoʼs works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions\, among others at the Ukrainian Museum in New York (US); Museum de Fundatie\, Zwolle (NL)\, Albertinum\, Dresden (DE); Collateral Event of the 59th International Art Exhibition the Venice Biennial\, Venice (IT); the European Parliament (BE); Museum Folkwang (DE); Fridman Gallery\, NYC (US)\, Voloshyn Gallery\, Miami (US). \nHer works are in public collections including M HKA (BEL)\, Ludwig Museum (HU)\, Art Collection Telecom (DE)\, Kupferstich-Kabinett (DE)\, the Ukrainian Museum (USA)\, Zuzeum Art Centre (Latvia)\, Mystetskyi Arsenal (UA)\, Maidan Museum (UA)\, Pinchuk Art Centre (UA). \nShe participated in residencies at the Oasis Pointe Residency\, Miami\, FL\, USA (2022-2023)\, the Martha MOCA Artist Residency\, NJ\, USA (2022)\, the Emergency Residency at Ujazdowski Castle\, Warsaw\, Poland (2022)\, the Working Room\, Ivano-Frankivsk\, Ukraine (curated and participated) (2022)\, the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts\, Salzburg\, Austria (2021)\, LIA (Leipzig International Art)\, Leipzig\, Germany (2008). \nKhomenko’s works have been covered and reviewed by The New York Times\, The Brooklyn Rail\, The Washington Post\, The New Yorker\, The Art Newspaper\, and Frieze\, among others. She has taken part in panels and public talks at the MoMA\, NY\, NY (2022)\, the Eastern Connecticut State University\, Willimantic\, CT (2022)\, the James Gallery at CUNY\, NY (2023)\, the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts\, Tallahassee\, FL (2023)\, the Scandinavia House\, NY\, NY (2023). \nShe currently lives in New York City\, NY\, USA. \n  \nRegistration is required. Suggested donation is $20 \n\n  Register
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/lens-of-the-witnesses-a-solo-show-of-lesia-khomenko/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260214T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260214T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184918
CREATED:20260109T215935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T170115Z
UID:15119-1771088400-1771095600@shevchenko.org
SUMMARY:Ukraine in the Coordinates of the Ottoman Empire through the Prism of Ottoman Archival Documents
DESCRIPTION:Андрій Живачівський \nУкраїна в координатах Османської держави крізь призму османських архівних документів \nОсманська держава протягом багатьох століть мала безпосередній кордон із землями теперішньої України. Зрештою\, різні реґіони України знаходились під владою османського султана. Історична пам’ять українців зображає османів як ворогів\, але стосунки українців з османами були не тільки ворожими. Це була столітня постійна взаємодія від конфронтації до співпраці та культурного обміну. На основі численних оригінальних османських документів\, знайдених доповідачем в архівах Стамбула та Європи покажемо як османці бачили нас українців\, а також через призму іншої – османської сторони\, подивимось на різні віхи та події спільної історії. Спробуємо спростувати міфи та стереотипи про Османську державу\, які побутують серед українців. \nАндрій Живачівський — історик. Протягом 2010–2012 років навчався в Центрі Східноєвропейських студій Варшавського університету\, а у 2011–2017 роках працював над кандидатською дисертацією в Інституті історії імені Тадеуша Мантейфеля Польської академії наук у Варшаві\, зосередивши дослідження на історії османської провінції Кефе у XVI–XVII століттях. Свої наукові вишукування він проводив в архівах Москви\, Кракова\, Бахчисарая\, Феодосії\, Києва\, Стамбула та Варшави. У 2014 році отримав стипендію від турецького уряду (TÜBİTAK) у Стамбулі. Автор низки наукових статей\, присвячених історії османського Криму\, Кримського ханату та кримських татар. Позаштатний науковий співробітник Інституту історії Польської Академії Наук та Центру медієвістичних студій. \nAndrii Zhyvachivskyi \nUkraine in the Coordinates of the Ottoman Empire through the Prism of Ottoman Archival Documents \nThe Ottoman Empire\, for many centuries\, had a direct border with the lands of present-day Ukraine. Indeed\, various regions of Ukraine at some point came under the rule of the Ottoman sultan. The historical memory of Ukrainians portrays the Ottomans as enemies\, but relations between Ukrainians and Ottomans were not only hostile. It was a centuries-long\, continuous interaction ranging from confrontation to cooperation and cultural exchange. Based on numerous original Ottoman documents discovered by the speaker in the archives of Istanbul and Europe\, we will show how the Ottomans viewed us\, Ukrainians\, and\, through the lens of the “other” — the Ottoman side — we will look at various milestones and events of our shared history. We will attempt to dispel myths and stereotypes about the Ottoman Empire that persist among Ukrainians. \nAndrii Zhyvachivskyi is a historian. He graduated from the Faculty of History at the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University in Ivano-Frankivsk. He studied at the Center for East European Studies of the University of Warsaw (2010-2012)\, was working on his Ph.D. at The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History\, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (2011-2017)\, with a dissertation focusing on the Ottoman province of Kefe in the 16th-17th centuries. He conducted his research in the archives of Moscow\, Krakow\, Bakhchisaray\, Feodosia\, Kyiv\, Istanbul\, and Warsaw. He received a scholarship from the Turkish government\, TÜBİTAK\, in Istanbul in 2014. He is the author of several scholarly articles on the topic of Ottoman Crimea\, the Crimean Khanate\, and Crimean Tatars. \n  \nДоповідь відбудеться українською мовою.\nДискусія українською та англійською. \n  \nThe presentation will be held in Ukrainian.\nThe discussion will be in Ukrainian and English. \n \nRegistration is required. Suggested donation is $20 \nRegister
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/ukraine-in-the-coordinates-of-the-ottoman-empire-through-the-prism-of-ottoman-archival-documents/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184918
CREATED:20260210T163055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T163055Z
UID:15165-1771529400-1771534800@shevchenko.org
SUMMARY:Ukrainian Music Initiative. Consonance: Ukrainian Composers and the Western Canon
DESCRIPTION:The Shevchenko Scientific Society is thrilled to welcome Ukrainian Music Initiative as they launch their second season back to where it all started.  You don’t want to miss contralto Vira Slywotzky\, cellist Valeriya Sholokhova\, pianist Pavlo Gintov and pianist Margarita Rovenskaya as they celebrate two centuries of musical dialogue and cultural exchange between Ukrainian composers and their counterparts further west in an all new program featuring works by Theodore Akimenko\, Oleg Bezborodko\, Dmytro Bortniansky\, Sergei Bortkiewicz\, Vladimir Dyck\, Bohuslav Martinu\, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Stefania Turkewich. \nUkrainian Music Initiative was created in 2025 to elevate Ukrainian classical music to its rightful place in the Western canon and to fill a significant gap in the US’ cultural and educational landscape. This is being accomplished by having skilled and knowledgeable musicians of Ukrainian heritage perform and educate about Ukrainian music and composers in accessible venues on a regular basis.  Ukrainian Music Initiative also collects and makes available music scores and composer biographies through various media.  Since its inaugural concert\, Ukrainian Music Initiative has performed to standing room only audiences throughout the US.  Come experience Ukrainian classical music at its finest at the iconic Shevchenko Scientific Society! This concert is presented by Vira + Friends in partnership with Shevchenko Scientific Society. \nArtWine wine-tasting reception to follow
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/ukrainian-music-initiative-consonance-ukrainian-composers-and-the-western-canon/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184918
CREATED:20260123T201849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260123T201849Z
UID:15139-1772298000-1772305200@shevchenko.org
SUMMARY:Poetry Reading by Mykola Vorobiov
DESCRIPTION:  \nМикола Воробйов народився 12 жовтня 1941 року на Черкащині. Один із фундаторів літературного угруповання “Київська школа”. Був замовчуваний і недрукований протягом 20 років після першої публікації в Черкаський газеті “Молодь”\, 1962 р.\, з передмовою Василя Симоненка. Учасник Міжнародного літературного фестивалю у Торонто\, Канада\, 1992 р. Лауреат літературних премій: імені Павла Тичини (1992)\, “Благовіст” (1993)\, “Приятелів Руху”\, США (1994)\, Національної премії України ім. Т. Г. Шевченка (2005). Автор багатьох поетичних збірок\, найновіші – Затонулі персні та Сходження (обидві 2024). В 1989 році на Державній студії “Укркінохроніка” було знято фільм “Майстер”\, який висвітлював творчий шлях Миколи Воробйова як поета-філософа та самобутнього маляра. \nМодерує: Д-р Марія Ревакович \nMykola Vorobiov was born on October 12\, 1941\, in the Cherkasy region of Ukraine. He is one of the founders of the literary group known as the Kyiv School. His first publication appeared in 1962 in the Cherkasy newspaper Molod\, with an introduction by Vasyl Symonenko. Soon thereafter\, Vorobiov was silenced and remained unpublished for nearly twenty years. He participated in the International Literary Festival in Toronto\, Canada\, in 1992. Vorobiov is the recipient of numerous literary awards\, including the Pavlo Tychyna Prize (1992)\, the Blahovist Prize (1993)\, the Friends of the RUKh Prize (USA\, 1994)\, and the National Taras Shevchenko Prize of Ukraine (2005). He is the author of many poetry collections; his most recent books are Zatonuli persni and Skhodzennia (both 2024). In 1989\, the documentary film Master was produced at the State Studio Ukrkinokhronika\, highlighting Mykola Vorobiov’s creative path as a poet-philosopher and an original painter. A volume of his selected poetry in English translation by Maria Rewakowicz\, Mountain and Flower\, was published by the Lost Horse Press in 2020. \nModerator: Dr. Maria G. Rewakowicz \nThe poetry reading will be held in Ukrainian. \nRegistration is required. Suggested donation is $20 \nWatch the streamed event here \n  \nЧитання відбудеться українською мовою. \nРеєстрація обов’язкова. Рекомендована пожертва – 20 дол. \nПодію дивитися тут
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/poetry-reading-by-mykola-vorobiov/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184918
CREATED:20260225T200649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260305T152458Z
UID:15201-1772884800-1772892000@shevchenko.org
SUMMARY:Webinar. XLV  Annual Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh-A) and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) \nOpening remarks \nVitaly Chernetsky (President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society/University of Kansas) \nSpeakers: \nShevchenko in Vilnius: Catalyst of Formation \nRory Finnin (University of Cambridge\, UK) \nRory Finnin is Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College\, Cambridge. He launched the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme in 2008. His recent book is Blood of Others: Stalin’s Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (2022). He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. \nСлідчі справи кирило-мефодіївців як джерело Шевченкової текстології \nМихайло Назаренко (Київський національний університет ім. Т. Г. Шевченка) \nМихайло Назаренко – літературознавець\, кандидат філологічних наук\, доцент кафедри східнослов’янської філології та інформаційно-прикладних студій Навчально-наукового інституту філології Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Основні книжкові публікації: Поховання на могилі (Шевченкова біографія у фольклорі та фейклорі) (2006\, доп. і випр. видання — 2017)\, Крім «Кобзаря». Антологія української літератури. 1792–1883 (2021\, Національна премія імені Тараса Шевченка)\, Тілько істинна правда. З українських повір’їв (2025). Разом із Олександром Боронем упорядкував і прокоментував видання «Тарас Шевченко в критиці» (т. І–ІІ\, 2013–2016)\, «Тарас Шевченко у спогадах» (т. І\, 2023). \nTestaments to Memory: Examining the Re-Formations of Taras’ Hill \nGrace Mahoney (University of Michigan) \nGrace Mahoney is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. She studies Ukraine through the lenses of literary studies\, cultural history\, memory studies\, translation\, and feminist theory. Recently she has assumed leadership of Lost Horse Press\, an independent literary press known for its Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. \nDiscussant \nGeorge G. Grabowicz (Shevchenko Scientific Society/ Harvard University) \nRegistration Required – https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ch8rV0GRScqdhFaOH6IUMw
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/webinar-xlv-annual-taras-shevchenko-scholarly-conference/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260314T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260314T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184918
CREATED:20260210T211151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260304T151311Z
UID:15169-1773507600-1773514800@shevchenko.org
SUMMARY:“Kyivan Christianity”: The New Concept of Early Modern Religious History of Central and Eastern Europe
DESCRIPTION:Ivan Almes (Ukrainian Catholic University) \nThe presentation focuses on the concept and publishing series Kyivan Christianity\, which aims to reconceptualize the religious history (and broader cultural history) of Central and Eastern Europe from Kyiv’s perspective. During the event\, the historian from Lviv will present the research project implemented at UCU since 2012\, which has resulted in a 40-volume series published by UCU Press and aims to release 100 volumes. At the very heart of such research stands Kyiv as a religious center\, not Rome\, Constantinople\, or Moscow. From Kyiv\, the culture was spread to the north (up to the territory of Courland – modern Lithuania\, Latvia\, and Estonia)\, to the south (Slavo-Vlachia – modern Moldova and Northern Romania)\, to the west (Peremyshl and Mukachevo eparchies)\, and to the East (for example\, the Bilhorod eparchy). This tradition or culture has been preserved not only in visible forms such as St. Sophia Cathedral\, but also in narratives\, images\, songs\, architecture\, etc\, investigated by researchers from the perspective of Kyiv. \n  \nIvan Almes is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Ukrainian Catholic University\, where he also serves as Director of the Ihor Skochylias Center for Religious Culture and Coordinator of the research program Kyivan Christianity. He is the editor-in-chief of the Kyivan Christianity publishing series\, issued by UCU Press. Almes has co-organized several international scholar conferences in Rome: in 2021 on the Zamość Sobor; in 2023 on St Josaphat Kuntsevych; and in 2024 on Kyivan Metropolitan Yosyf Veliamyn Rutsky. His most recent volume is In Search of Centres: Early Modern Kyivan Christianities (co-edited with Svitlana Potapenko\, Oksana Prokopyuk\, Vitalii Tkachuk\, and Valerii Zema; Böhlau Verlag\, Cologne\, 2026). Currently\, he is a visiting scholar at the Nanovic Institute of European History at the University of Notre Dame\, IN. \nRegistration is required. Suggested donation is $20 \n\n  Register
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/kyivan-christianity-the-new-concept-of-early-modern-religious-history-of-central-and-eastern-europe/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184918
CREATED:20260210T211741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260304T152025Z
UID:15173-1774717200-1774724400@shevchenko.org
SUMMARY:Dr. Konstantin Frank\, Unlikely (Viti)cultural Hero?  The Legacy of Ukrainian Agriculture Science that Transformed American Winemaking
DESCRIPTION:Daniel J. Epstein (Harvard University) \nDr. Konstantin Frank\, born in Odessa in 1900\, became a path-breaking agricultural scientist of wine-making against difficult obstacles in Soviet-dominated Ukraine. He pioneered technologies to grow true European wine grapes (vinifera) in continental climate zones with cold winters\, previously thought impossible. He fled Ukraine at the end of World War II and eventually came to upstate New York with a large family and no English\, but eventually founded his own winery (still flourishing on Keuka Lake today). He taught Americans how to cultivate vinifera in any region (previously it had only been grown in California). Through his indomitable devotion\, Ukrainian agricultural scientific practices were adapted to spawn wine-growing industries in almost every state in America\, from upstate New York to Virginia to Texas to the Pacific Northwest. Could he be a new cultural hero for Ukraine in America? \nDaniel J. Epstein did his undergraduate degree in Slavic Studies at Harvard University\, and later continued on to receive his PhD in Government\, also from Harvard University.  His early work focused on political parties and elections in the wake of regime change in Eastern Europe and Latin America.  He has taught political science at the University of Rochester\, Colgate University and Texas Tech University\, and also served as a Fulbright Scholar in 2011.  Since 2021\, he has been a Lecturer on Government at Harvard University.  His research focus has shifted to nationalism and identity in times of war (he has traveled three times to Ukraine since the full-scale invasion.  He currently works at Harvard University’s Davis Center as Assistant Director for Scholars Without Borders\, an initiative to support scholars affected by Russia’s war on Ukraine. \n  \nRegistration is required. Suggested donation is $20 \n\n  Register
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/dr-konstantin-frank-unlikely-viticultural-hero-the-legacy-of-ukrainian-agriculture-science-that-transformed-american-winemaking/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184918
CREATED:20260226T222129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260304T153358Z
UID:15205-1775322000-1775329200@shevchenko.org
SUMMARY:Book Launch: War in My Home: When Conflict Becomes Everyday Life
DESCRIPTION:Paweł Pieniążek  \nExperienced reporter\, journalist\, and war correspondent \n“War in My Home” by Paweł Pieniążek describes the horrific\, unending reality of conflict\, often focusing on the Donbas region in Ukraine\, where war becomes a normalized part of daily life\, affecting civilians profoundly\, with Pieniążek sharing raw\, ground-level perspectives on survival\, disillusionment\, and the struggle to find meaning amidst continuous struggle\, showcasing how ordinary people endure extraordinary circumstances. \nPaweł Pieniążek is a journalist and non-fiction writer. He studies Russia\, Eastern Europe\, and Central Asia at Harvard University. Pieniążek has reported from Afghanistan\, Nagorno-Karabakh\, Iraq\, Syria\, and Ukraine\, capturing the human cost of conflict with rare empathy and precision. He is the author of several books\, including War in My Home: When Conflict Becomes Everyday Life (Znak Literanova\, 2025). His work has been nominated for the Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage\, and in 2019\, he received the MediaTory Award for excellence in journalism. In 2015\, he was a Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale University. \nModerator: Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky (President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society) \nRegistration is required. Suggested donation is $20 \n\n  Register
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/book-launch-war-in-my-home-when-conflict-becomes-everyday-life-znak-literanova-2025/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184918
CREATED:20260226T222334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260304T153811Z
UID:15207-1777136400-1777143600@shevchenko.org
SUMMARY:Chornobyl as a Gateway to the Uncanny: Representing the Disaster First World Documentaries
DESCRIPTION:Tetyana Dzyadevych (University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign) \nOne of the most significant global consequences of the Russian war against Ukraine is the threat of ecological catastrophe posed by nuclear disaster. In February 2022\, as Russian military troops crossed the Ukrainian border from Belarus and occupied the Chornobyl nuclear power station\, the haunting memories of the 1986 disaster resurfaced. In that year\, the world learned that atomic energy\, which was once viewed as a peaceful alternative\, could be just as dangerous as nuclear weapons. With the occupation of both the Chornobyl and Zaporizhzhia nuclear sites— the latter being the largest in Europe and among the ten biggest atomic stations in the world—fears of a global nuclear catastrophe emerged from a repressed collective memory. \nTetyana Dzyadevych is a researcher\, commentator\, and analyst of modern Ukrainian and Russian culture and literature. She was born and raised in Kyiv\, Ukraine. Tetyana received her education in Europe and the USA. Dr. Dzyadevych holds two PhD degrees: one from Maria Curie-Sklodowska University of Lublin in Poland\, and the other from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Dzyadevych has multiple publications on Slavic romanticism\, modernism\, and late Soviet and post-Soviet literature and culture. Her most current publication is Nostalgia\, Anxiety\, Politics: Media and Performing Arts\, from Egypt to Central-Eastern Europe\, Including Russia (2025). She is currently working on her monograph\, “Voices of Political Revival in Post-Soviet Russian and Ukrainian Cultural Field.” In the US\, she worked at UIC\, New College of Florida\, and Grinnell College and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University’s Davis Center. In the fall of 2024\, she joined the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign. \nRegistration is required. Suggested donation is $20 \n\n  Register
URL:https://shevchenko.org/event/chornobyl-as-a-gateway-to-the-uncanny-representing-the-disaster-first-world-documentaries/
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR