The Shevchenko Scientific Society, the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. and the Ukrainian Institute of America are pleased to sponsor an international conference in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Revolution and the Proclamation of Ukraine’s Independence to be held on Saturday, January 20, at the Shevchenko Scientific Society, and Sunday, January 21, 2018 at the Ukrainian Institute of America.
Conference Program
Panel: The Ukrainian Revolution in Historical Perspective
Saturday, January 20, 2018 at 4:00 pm
Shevchenko Scientific Society
63 4th Ave, New York, NY 10003
Anna Procyk, KBCC, CUNY: Chair
Vladyslav Verstiuk, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Вплив революційних подій1917 -1921 рр на історію України ХХ ст.
Oleksander Lushnytzkyj, University of Minnesota: Українська революція і українськадіяспора Америки
Zenon Wasyliw, Ithaca College: Iuliian Bachynskyi: Ukrainian Independence, the UnitedStates, and Transnational Discourse
Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria: Discussant
Reception
Panel: Political Aspects of the Ukrainian Revolution
Sunday, January 21, at 12:30 pm
The Ukrainian Institute of America
2 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10075
Martha Bohachevsky Chomiak, Fulbright Program: Chair
Anna Procyk, KBCC of the City University of New York: Policies and Tactics of ‘WhiteRussia’ toward the Ukrainian Central Rada and Its Successors
Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria: A Soldier of Three Armies: Yurko Tiutiunnyk as a Symbol of the Ukrainian Revolution
Alexander Motyl, Rutgers University: Ukrainian State-building in Comparative Perspective
Lubomyr Hayda, Harvard University: Discussant
2:30 – 3:30 pm: Luncheon at the Ukrainian Institute
Panel: Cultural Aspects of the Ukrainian Revolution
Sunday, January 21, at 3:30 pm
The Ukrainian Institute of America
2 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10075
Myroslava Znayenko, Rutgers University: Chair
Tamara Hundorova, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: The Nation as Aesthetics:Modernism and Nationalism of ‘Ukrains’ka khata’
George Grabowicz, Harvard University: Pavlo Tychyna, the Revolution, and Modernism: theCase of Instead of Sonnets and Octaves
Valentyna Kharkhun, Mykola Gogol State University: Between Two Powers: Nationalist vs.Bolshevik in Volodymyr Vynychenko’s Works about the Ukrainian Revolution
Henry Abramson, Touro College: Should We Tear Down Statues of Khmelnytskyi andPetliura? Contemporary Reflections on Conflicting Visions of National Heroism and Villainy
Halyna Hryn, Harvard University: Discussant
Recital and Reception
Vira Slywotzky, soprano
David Sytkowski, piano
Presented in collaboration with the Ukrainian Institute of America Music at the Institute (MATI) Concert Series
Reception to follow
Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Ukrainian Institute of America
2 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10075
