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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
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Both Sides Face East/Durable Words (Academic Studies Press\, 2025). Edited by Julia Sushytska\, Alisa Slaughter and ariel rosé.
DESCRIPTION:A multilingual anthology of various authors responding to the war in Ukraine in their respective languages\, along with translations to Ukrainian and English. The book is a fruit of an international project under the auspices of Marci Shore\, with the support of Fondation Jan Michalski and the International Renaissance Institute. A Ukrainian journalist ends each day “scorched by another person’s grief.” A schoolgirl in Croatia cherishes her Barbie and learns to dread air raid sirens more than her geometry homework. A poet imagines the spiritual life of a fish who escapes the hook. An exiled artist recreates her homeland in the shape of a bird. The writers assembled in this volume dream and document and remember\, they translate one another’s work and meditate on fragility and resilience in the face of nihilism and obliteration. The collection gathers poems\, essays\, and stories written and translated in nine languages\, reflecting an ongoing effort to communicate and understand across cultures. Both Sides Face East – Durable Words began as a response to the invasion of Ukraine\, but stakes a wider claim on behalf of human value and integrity. \n  \nariel rosé–poet\, essayist\, illustrator\, author of the books morze nocą jest mięśniem serca\, PIW2022 (the sea at night is a muscle of the heart) and Północ Przypowieści\, Znak 2019 (North:Parables)\, and forthcoming: “Ukraine–A Polyphony” and “ways of swimming”; co-editor of Both Sides Face East/Durable Words (Academic Studies Press 2025)\, Borders De Todos Lados /Fronteras from all Directions (ibidem 2026). ariel is a member of PEN Berlin and Circolo Scandinavo in Rome. Twice a year they have been inviting poets from underrepresented countries to Oslo for a reading–the fruit of which is an anthology to be issued by HOF\, Norway2026. ariel is originally from Poland\, a resident of Norway\, living as a nomad between languages and countries. \nRegistration is required. \nDue to technical difficulties\, this event will not be livestreamed however\, a recording of the event will be posted to our YouTube Channel. \nSuggested donation is $20
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SUMMARY:Shevchenko Scietific Society Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Shevchenko Scientific Society invites all of its members to participate in the Society’s Annual Meeting\, which is scheduled for 2:00-4:00 p.m. Preceding the meeting will be sessions of the scholarly sections\, starting at 1:00p.m.\, following lunch at 12:00. The program will take place at the Society’s building\, 63 Fourth Ave. (between 9th and 10th streets).  For additionalinformation call (212) 254-5130. \n  \nНаукове Товариство ім. Шевченка в Америці \nзапрошує своїх членів на \nРІЧНІ ЗБОРИ НТШ В АМЕРИЦІ \nв суботу 23 травня 2026 р. \nПОЛУДЕНОК – 12:00 \nЗАСІДАННЯ СЕКЦІЙ – 1:00 – 2:00 \nЗВІТНІ ЗБОРИ – 2:00 – 4:00 \nЗапрошуємо всіх членів до участи\, дискусії і зустрічі. \nЗбори відбудуться \nв будинку НТШ: \n63 Fourth Ave (між 9-ою і 10-ою вулицями) \nNew York\, NY 10003 \nRegister \nhttps://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/shevchenko-scietific-society-annual-meeting
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SUMMARY:Panel on New Books in Ukrainian Studies
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the annual world convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities\, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US and the Ukrainian Museum present a panel on new books in Ukrainian Studies followed by a reception. The panel will begin at 5 p.m. and feature three authors of recently published books in English: Olena Nikolayenko\, Sophia Wilson\, and Marina Sapritsky-Nahum. It will be held at the Shevchenko Scientific Society premises at 63 Fourth Ave.\, New York\, NY 10003. After the panel\, the guests are invited to proceed to the Ukrainian Museum\, located at 222 East 6th St.\, New York\, NY 10003\, just a few minutes walking distance from the Society\, for a reception that will begin at 7 p.m. \nInvisible Revolutionaries: Women’s Participation in Ukraine’s Euromaidan by Olena Nokolayenko. Cambridge University Press\, 2025 \nWomen play a vital role in civil resistance to the entrenchment of authoritarianism. Yet\, women’s engagement in contemporary revolutions often appears to be invisible in the public discourse and the academic literature. Based on women’s motivations for engagement\, modes of women’s participation during a period of mass mobilization\, and gender outcomes of revolution\, the book distinguishes three models of participation: (1) patriarchal\, (2) emancipatory\, and (3) hybrid. Using the case of the 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity (Euromaidan) in Ukraine\, the book analyzes women’s involvement in a revolution. Drawing on data from large-N surveys and oral history projects\, the book uncovers various motivations for women’s involvement in a revolution\, identifies diverse forms of women’s participation\, and traces the multifaceted outcomes of women’s activism. In addition\, the book improves our understanding of the sources of Ukraine’s fierce resistance to Russia’s invasion and the role of Ukrainian women in the struggle for national independence\, democratic development\, and cultural heritage. \nMaidan: Ukraine’s Democratic Revolution by Sophia Wilson. McGill-Queens University Press\, 2026 \nThe 2013–14 Maidan Revolution\, or Revolution of Dignity\, was far more than a series of protests: the coalescence of complex social networks formed a powerful grassroots movement that restored democracy to a country slipping into authoritarianism. Maidan gives a carefully researched account of the underbelly of the resistance process\, investigating how participants self-organized to create the resistance\, why the peaceful movement eventually turned to violence\, and how the revolutionary process changed those who came to change the country. Democratic revolution is a state–society dialogue about rights\, and the regime that results depends on the ideas negotiated during revolutionary socialization. Offering an unparalleled opportunity to see that negotiation in action\, Maidan draws on more than one hundred personal interviews\, oral histories\, legal documents\, and court hearings. The Ukrainian state used violence and violations of due process to suppress the resistance\, thereby declaring new boundaries in rights relations. In turn\, the people pushed back in multiple arenas – the protest square\, courtrooms\, hospitals\, churches\, and media – to successfully challenge the constitutionality of the state’s actions. Western media accounts tend to oversimplify the Revolution of Dignity as backlash against President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision not to sign a European Union agreement. The reality had far deeper implications for the geopolitics of the region. Sophia Wilson’s account of the revolution\, and the Kremlin propaganda about it\, underscores why it is impossible to understand Russia’s invasion of Ukraine without first understanding what fuelled the Maidan: the affirmation of democracy and the rooting out of Russian puppet authoritarianism. \nJewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine by Marina Sapritsky-Nahum. Indiana University Press\, 2024 \nJewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine explores the rich Jewish history and contemporary Jewish life in Ukraine’s port city of Odesa. Long considered both a uniquely cosmopolitan and Jewish place\, Odesa’s Jewish character has shifted as ethnic and cultural identities have dramatically changed since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the independence of Ukraine.  Drawing on extensive field research\, Marina Sapritsky-Nahum examines how the role of Russian language and culture\, alongside lingering memories of the Soviet era\, have been critically re-evaluated\, leading to new forms of expression for Odesa’s Jewish community within the broader Ukrainian national context. Jewish Odesa reveals how a city once famous for its progressive and secular Jewish traditions has been shaped by migration and altered by competing projects of Jewish revival. Russia’s war in Ukraine has further challenged Jewish communal life while simultaneously fostering a deeper sense of Ukrainian-Jewish belonging \nOlena Nikolayenko is Professor of Political Science and Director of the FCRH Honors Program at Fordham University\, and the First Vice President at Shevchenko Scientific Society in the United States. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto and held a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy\, Development\, and the Rule of Law before joining Fordham. Her research interests include comparative democratization\, civil resistance\, and social movements\, with a regional focus on Eastern Europe. She is the author of three books: Citizens in the Making in Post-Soviet States (Routledge\, 2011)\, Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press\, 2017)\, and Invisible Revolutionaries: Women’s Participation in Ukraine’s Euromaidan (Cambridge University Press\, 2025). \nSophia Wilson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and President of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies. \nWilson received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington and held fellowships at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute\, Indiana University Law School\, and Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. She taught at the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute in 2017\, 2019 and 2025. Dr. Wilson’s book\, Maidan: Ukraine’s Democratic Revolution (McGill-Queens University Press) is an extensive analysis of the grassroots 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity\, which renegotiated the social contract and reaffirmed democracy in Ukraine. She is currently working on her new book\, Fascism vs. Communism: Ukraine under Three Occupations. \nMarina Sapritsky-Nahum is a social anthropologist based in London\, UK. She is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE) and an Honorary Research Associate at University College London (UCL). Her academic interests include Ukraine\, post-Soviet Jewish identities\, religious revival\, migration\, and philanthropy. She is currently conducting research with Ukrainian Jewish refugees in Germany and across Europe\, exploring the impact of the Russian full-scale invasion on Jewish cultural heritage and community life. Her work has appeared in various edited volumes\, academic journals and other publications such as Tablet Magazine\, Haaretz\, Jewish Renaissance. She is also a regular contributor to LSE Religion and Global Society blog. \nModerator: Vitaly Chernetsky\, President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US and Professor at the University of Kansas \nRegistration is required. Suggested donation is $20 \nRegister \nhttps://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/panel-on-new-books-in-ukrainian-studies \nWatch the streamed event here
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