Shevchenko Scientific Society

Symposium dedicated to Dr. Yuriy Tarnawsky (b. 1934), an eminent Ukrainian poet, prose writer, literary critic, member of the New York Group of Poets
2020-02-01 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, United States
The Shevchenko Scientific Society invites all to a Symposium dedicated to Dr. Yuriy Tarnawsky (b. 1934), an eminent Ukrainian poet, prose writer, literary critic, member of the New York Group of Poets of avant-garde Ukrainian diaspora writers, and co-founder and co-editor of the journal New Poetry, as well as member of the US innovative writers’ collaborative Fiction Collective. He writes fiction, poetry, plays, translations, and criticism in both Ukrainian and English. His works have been translated into Azerbaijani, Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, and Russian. Participants are: George G. Grabowicz, Vasyl Makhno, and Maria Shuvalova.

Dr. Anna Procyk's presentation of her book "Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World"
2020-01-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 East 79th St., New York, NY, 10075
The Shevchenko Scientific Society, the Ukrainian Institute of America and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences invite all to a presentation by Anna Procyk of her book Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World (University of Toronto Press, 2019). The work examines the intellectual currents in Eastern Europe that attracted educated youth after the Polish Revolution of 1830. Focusing on the political ideas brought to the Slavic world from the West by Polish émigré conspirators, Anna Procyk explores the core message that the Polish revolutionaries carried, a message based on the democratic principles espoused by Young Europe’s founder, Giuseppe Mazzini. The documentary sources used in this study testify that at its inception the political nationalism in Eastern Europe was republican-democratic in nature and that the clandestine groups in Eastern Europe were closely cooperating with one another through underground channels. It was through this cooperation that the better-educated Poles and Ukrainians in the political underground became aware that the interests of their nations, bound together by the forces of history and political necessity, were best served when they worked closely together.

Presentation of Vasyl Makhno’s novel “Eternal Calendar” (Lviv: Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva, 2019)
2019-12-21 17:00 - 19:00
Vasyl Makhno is the author of twelve books of poetry and three collections of essays, as well as the translator of Polish poets Zbigniew Herbert and Janusz Szuber. In 2015, his short story collection The House in Baiting Hollow won the BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year Award. A frequent participant of various international poetry festivals, Makhno is a past winner of the Morave International Poetry Prize in Serbia. His works have been translated into twenty-five languages. In an interview after the publication of this novel, Vasyl Makhno said that he had wanted to write an epic work about small places and to depict the particular “dirt of life.” The events in this massive novel stretch from the 17th Century to the present day.

Vasyl Makhno, Eternal Calendar

Lecture “Ukrainian Gastronomy Identity in Ukraine and Diaspora”
2019-12-14 17:00 - 19:00
The Shevchenko Scientific Society invites all to a lecture “Ukrainian Gastronomy Identity in Ukraine and Diaspora,” by Marianna Dushar, a graduate of Lviv University in biology and biophysics and a Fulbright scholar 2019-2020. The presentation is dedicated to the distinct Ukrainian culinary/taste traditions, which serve as an instrument of ethnic identification, as well as intercultural communication.

Film premiere of “New York. Malaniuk” (2019)
2019-12-07 17:00 - 19:00
The film reconstructs the New York period (after WWII) of the distinguished Ukrainian emigre poet Ievhen Malaniuk (1897-1968) – how he lived, how he wrote and how he loved. Opening remarks by Vasyl Makhno and Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko. The film includes comments on this key figure in Ukrainian literature of the 20th Century, by: Bohdan Boychuk, Bohdan Rubchak, Yuri Tarnawsky, George Grabowicz, Vasyl Makhno, Yuri Andrukhovych, Tamara Skrypka, and Anna Procyk. Based on Ukrainian archives in New York and New Jersey, the film also presents unique readings by the author on radio”Svoboda.”

Lecture “Renewable Energy in Ukraine and Worldwide: A Comparative Analysis”
2019-11-23 17:00 - 19:00
The lecture provides an economic analysis of the evolution and prerequisites for renewable energy development worldwide with a focus on reducing the cost of energy from renewable energy sources, the dynamics of investment in the industry and the economic stimulation of green energy facilities deployment. The author summarizes the results of renewable energy development in the world by solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and bioenergy sectors, as well as the impact of the industry on employment growth. In addition, the outcomes of the green energy deployment in Ukraine are compared with the world achievements. On this basis, objective and subjective reasons that impede the extension of renewable energy technologies worldwide are identified, as well as additional barriers specific to Ukrainian reality. Regarding the reasons outlined above, the author provides recommendations for governments to improve national policies in this area. Considering the economic and political situation in Ukraine, additional economic mechanisms have been developed, the use of which will stimulate green energy growth in the country

International Conference Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Panteleimon Kulish, 1819-2019
2019-11-17 15:00 - 19:00 | Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 East 79th St., New York, NY, 10075
Sponsored by the Shevchenko Scientific Society, the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the US, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and the Ukrainian Institute of America;
Speakers and Topics:
George G. Grabowicz, “Panteleimon Kuish and his Role in Ukrainian Culture”
Oles Fedoruk, “The State of Kulish Studies Today: Problems and Perspectives”
Anna Procyk, “Young Europe’s Influence on the Political Thought of Panteleimon Kulish and his Milieu”
Тamara Hundorova, “Panteleimon Kulish and the Question of Ukrainian Populism”
Vasyl Ivashkiv, “Folklore in the Scholarly and Belletristic Discourse of Panteleimon Kulish in the 1840s and 1850s”
Andrii Danylenko, “About a “Poor Parlance” and One “Russian Jesuit” or, How Kulish Invented the Biblical Style»”
Halyna Ivashkiv, “Panteleimon Kulish and Taras Shevchenko in Ceramic Memorabilia”

Lecture “Exhibiting Trauma: Memorialization of the Holodomor in Ukrainian Museums”
2019-11-16 17:00 - 19:00
This presentation analyzes how the Holodomor is presented in Ukrainian museums and exhibition projects. It examines exhibitions in national, state and local history museums, discussing the main memory actors, narratives, and perception of each museum’s memory policy regarding the Holodomor. Special attention is paid to the evolution of the state-controlled narrative which ranges from trauma, loss and tragedy to an emphasis on resisting, opposing and overcoming the communist regime. In summary, the presentation details the role of museums portraying the Holodomor in comparison with other practices of commemoration, emphasizing the exclusive mission of museumification in creating the State’s grand narrative about the Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933.

Lecture “The Chungul Kurgan Grave Goods in the Black Sea Steppe of the Thirteenth Century”
2019-11-09 17:00 - 19:00
This presentation interprets as trophies many of the grave goods excavated from the burial of a steppe leader – likely a Polovtsian ‘prince’ – within the Chungul Kurgan in the steppes of southern Ukraine. Written sources about the culture of the Eurasian steppe of the 11th-13th centuries CE, comparative study of items in European collections, and the archaeological details of the exact manner of deposition have allowed the reconstruction of the meanings of these finds in daily life, and in the burial ritual. The grave goods allow us to propose a possible identity for the deceased, and his activities in the early 13th century

Roundtable of the Theodosius Dobzhansky Genetics Club
2019-11-02 17:00 - 19:00
Shevchenko Scientific Society’s Medicine and Biology Section invites all to a roundtable of the Theodosius Dobzhansky Genetics Club. Dobzhansky was a prominent Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist with major contributions to 20th century genetics.
Dr. Roman Shirokov, Associate Professor at Rutgers University’s Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, will introduce the event with his speech “Theodosius Dobzhansky’s Paradise.” Dr. Olya Yarychkivska (postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University) will speak about “Life and death of cells,” and Iryna Ivasyk (MD/PhD fellow at Rockefeller University) about “Genes, Social Behavior and Ants.” In closing, Dr. Roman Shirokov will present “Genealogy of Proteins: Observations and Predictions.”

Presentation of the book “The Case of Vasyl Stus”
2019-10-26 17:00 - 19:00
Vakhtang Kipiani’s book “The Case of Vasyl Stus,” (Vivat Publishing Ltd., Ukraine), the poet’s criminal case documents, presently reside at the SBU Archives in Kyiv. The dissident-poet, writer and journalist, Vasyl Stus (1938-1985), was constantly persecuted for his defense of human rights, opposition to Russification and anti-Ukrainian policies in general. His writings were forbidden in Ukraine and were published only abroad. Vasyl Stus remains one of Europe’s most distinguished poets of the 20th century. Mr. Kipiani will include discussions of circumstances and reasons for Stus’ arrest, as well as who his friends and enemies turned out to be during the criminal proceedings. Vakhtang Kipiani, a Ukrainian journalist, historian, and founder of the Museum-Archives of the Ukrainian Press in Kyiv, was also Editor-in-Chief of the online “Istorychna Pravda” on ZIK TV. However, in June 2019, as Viktor Medvedchuk became owner of the TV station, Mr. Kipiani resigned, along with several other leading journalists at ZIK.

Yuriy Tarnawsky Presents his Novels: “Warm Arctic Nights” and “The Iguanas of Heat”
2019-10-19 17:00 - 19:00
The author will read excerpts from both novels. “Warm Arctic Nights” is probably the only literary work that, from a child’s point of view, describes the fate of Ukrainians in the pre-WWII Poland, the WWII German-occupation years in Ukraine, and finally their migration to the West. In “The Iguanas of Heat,” a woman possessed by an inexplicable hatred for her husband, plans his death on their forthcoming trip to Mexico. Yuriy Tarnawsky is an author of some three dozen books of poetry, fiction, drama, essays, translations, and a linguist as well. To quote Alain Arias-Misson, “His writing has that ever rarer quality of a poetic language, the intensity and purity of which render his stories unforgettable.”

Lecture “Echolocation Techniques of Bats and Blind Humans Can Improve Robot Sensing”
2019-10-12 17:00 - 19:00
Sonar (SOund NAvigation and Ranging) is a sensing modality that extracts environmental features from echoes. Conventional sonars detect only the first echo to give the range of the nearest reflector. Biomimetic sonars apply techniques employed by bats to extract additional information. This talk describes echo processing that produces cognitive maps similar to those formed through echolocation by blind humans.

Lecture “Quo Vadis, Ukraine? Ethnicity and Nationality in Today’s Ukraine”
2019-10-05 17:00 - 19:00
One of the key methodological issues in political science in Ukraine is how to define interethnic problems in Ukraine, what conceptual framework might be suggested to put on the table the possible ways to solve these problems. Under the ‘nationality question,’ political, economic and cultural contradictions between ethnic groups inhabiting the same state, are considered.

Oleh Wolowyna’s presentation of his book “Atlas of Ukrainians in the United States: Demographic and Socio-economic Characteristics”
2019-09-28 17:00 - 19:00
In more than 300 maps, The Atlas describes the history of immigration from Ukraine to the US, provides a comprehensive picture of the current demographic and socio-economic status of Ukrainians in the US, and quantifies their relative place within American society. Special attention is given to the impact of the most recent immigration from Ukraine, the so-called fourth wave. Besides demographic characteristics such as age, sex and internal migration, the Atlas covers topics like education, labor force, citizenship, knowledge of English, language spoken at home, income and poverty status, housing characteristics, and more. Indicators based on a large data base from different censuses are used to show the spatial distribution and characteristics of Ukrainians in maps for each State and 55 Metropolitan Areas.

Lecture “Troubles with Books: Missing and Non-existent Books in the Theological Debates of the Seventeenth-Century Ukraine and Russia”
2019-09-21 17:00 - 19:00
Ievgeniia Sakal works on the religious history of early modern Ukraine, Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Her research investigates the circulation and availability of religious books, the use of patristic writings, and the culture of learned correspondence and doctrinal debates. A sixteenth-century Western theologian once said that the Reformation was carried out by books, not swords. The statement turned out to be correct for Eastern Europe as well. In the seventeenth century, a search for true Orthodoxy, initiated in Kyiv, spread north to Moscow as Ukrainian learned monks occupied positions at the tsarist court. There is little doubt that doctrinal debates required books.

Donor Appreciation Reception with a Presentation of the Society’s Latest Scholarly Projects
2019-09-14 17:00 - 20:00
The Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh-A) invites all to A Donor Appreciation Reception, with a presentation of the Society’s latest scholarly projects: Results of the Special Scholarship Program for the Victims of Maidan and the Russian-Ukrainian War; Video of the NTSh-A Student Scholarship Campaign; NTSh-A’s latest publications dedicated to Taras Shevchenko; NTSh-A-sponsored scholarship and publication projects; Digitalization of Archives and Library materials; Exhibit of NTSh-A scholarly publications; Selection of NTSh-A-sponsored videos. Closing with a performance by pianist Pavlo Gintov.
Seats limited. Please RSVP by 9/12/2019 5pm.

Cardiac Surgery in Ukraine in Light of Medical Reforms
2019-06-01 17:00 - 19:00

Lecture “Why Museums are Important for Tomorrow’s Education”
2019-05-18 17:00 - 19:00

Society's Annual Meeting with Reports
2019-05-11 15:00 - 17:00
Saturday, May 11, 2019

NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Society invites its members to participate in the Society’s Annual Meeting with Reports, which is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. Preceding the meeting will be lunch at 12:00 n. followed by meetings of the Scholarly Sections, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. The meeting will take place at the Society’s building, 63 Fourth Ave. (between 9th and 10th streets). For additional information please call (212) 254-5130.

Lecture “Contemporary Demographic Tendencies in Ukraine (2000-2017)”
2019-05-04 17:00 - 19:00
Dr. Lopukh is an economist and former Associate Professor at the Ternopil State University in Ukraine, where he was also Director of the Research Laboratory on “Regional problems of the labor force.” Since 2000, he has been the Director of Administration at the Shevchenko Scientific Society.

Book launch “Why Shouldn’t Feminism be Feared?” by Dr. Tamara Martsenyuk
2019-04-13 17:00 - 19:00

Lecture “Raphaël Lemkin’s Concept of Genocide and the Current State of the Holodomor Debates” by Dr. Gennady Poberezhny
2019-04-06 17:00 - 19:00

Lecture “Ukraine’s Three Unfinished Revolutions and One Undeclared War: Preliminary Results” by Mykola Riabchuk
2019-03-30 17:00 - 19:00
Mykola Riabchuk is a prominent Ukrainian political scientist and writer, as well as an ex-president of the Ukrainian PEN Club. A resident of Kyiv, Mr. Riabchuk is currently a scholar at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

Lecture “American Berdychiv: Jewish Immigrant Life in New York in the Gilded Age” by Anastasiia Strakhova
2019-03-23 17:00 - 19:00
Anastasiia Strakhova is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and this year a research fellow at the Center for Jewish History in New York. Internationally trained in Jewish Studies and History, she completed her undergraduate degree at International Solomon University in Ukraine, and then earned a master’s degree at Central European University in Hungary. Before the Immigration Act of 1924, thousands of Jewish immigrants were changing familiar life of Ukrainian “mistechka” for bustling New York. Trying to become Americanized, resettlers nevertheless were changing image of the metropolis itself. Some observers even referred to the Jewish neighborhood in New York as American Berdychiv.

Lecture “The Bike History Of Ukraine 1880-2020” by Dr. Olha Martynyuk
2019-03-16 17:00 - 19:00

Book launch of “Ukrainian Bishop, American Church: Constantine Bohachevsky and the Ukrainian Catholic Church” by Dr. Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak
2019-03-10 14:00 - 16:00
Constantine Bohachevsky was not a typical bishop. On the eve of his unexpected nomination as bishop to the Ukrainian Catholics in America, in March 1924, the Vatican secretly whisked him from Warsaw to Rome to be ordained. He arrived in America that August to a bankrupt church and a hostile clergy. He stood his ground, and chose to live simple missionary life. He eschewed public pomp, as did his immigrant congregations. He regularly visited his scattered churches. He fought a bitter fight for the independence of the church from outside interference – a kind of struggle between the Church and the state, absent both. He refashioned a failing immigrant church in America into a self-sustaining institution that half a century after his death could help resurrect the underground Catholic Church in Ukraine, which became the largest Eastern Catholic church today.

Book launch of “New York Elegies: Ukrainian Poems on the City” edited by Ostap Kin
2019-03-09 17:00
New York Elegies attempts to demonstrate how descriptions and evocations of New York City are connected to various stylistic modes and topical questions urgent to Ukrainian poetry throughout its development. The collection thus gives readers the opportunity to view New York through various poetic and stylistic lenses. Ukrainian poets connected themselves to a powerful myth of New York, the myth of urban modernity and problematic vitality. The city of exiles and outsiders sees itself reflected in the mirror that newcomers and exiles created. By adding new voices and layers to this amalgam, it is possible to observe the expanded picture of this worldly poetic city.
Available for purchase here.

39th Annual Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Conference
2019-03-02 15:00 - 17:00 | Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 East 79th St., New York, NY, 10075
The Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh-A), jointly with the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. (UVAN), the Ukrainian Institute of America (UIA) and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI), invites all to the 39th Annual Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Conference. Anna Procyk, Learned Secretary of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., will make the opening remarks. Participants include Oles Fedoruk (Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences) “Taras Shevchchenko in Kulish’s illustrations to his novel “Chorna rada” [The Black Council]); Ostap Sereda (Ukrainian Catholic University/HURI) “Shevchenko, Kulish, and the shaping of Ukrainian National Populism in Habsburg Galicia in the 1860s and 70s;” George G. Grabowicz (Harvard University/NTSh-A) “Taras Shevchenko and Kulish: the Reception Reconsidered.” Concluding remarks by George G. Grabowicz.

Roundtable “Presidential Election in Ukraine 2019”
2019-02-23 17:00 - 19:00
