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Past events for 2021

June 10, 2021
Мовна політика в багатомовних країнах | Language Policy in Multilingual Countries
May 15, 2021
Георгій Нарбут і візуальна ідентичність України | Heorhii Narbut and Ukraine’s Visual Identity
April 26, 2021
The Ukrainian Odesa of Vladimir Jabotinsky
March 13, 2021
41st Annual Shevchenko Conference: Taras Shevchenko in Memoirs
March 13, 2021
XLI наукова Шевченківська конференція: Тарас Шевченко в спогадах
January 24, 2021
Pavlo Gintov Plays Serhiy Bortkevych
January 23, 2021
Winter Poems | Зимові вірші: поетичне читання за участі Оксани Луцишиної, Сергія Жадана, Мар’яни Савки та Василя Махна

Upcoming Events

Nov 15
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Online webinar: New Perspectives on the Holodomor

Dec 6
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

The Taste of a Nation: The Battle over Ukrainian Cuisine in the Twentieth Century

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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.

Ростислав Конта народився 1977 р. на Чернігівщині. 1999 р. закінчив історичний факультет

Київського 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.).

Модератор: Віталій Чернецький, Президент НТШ-А
Rostyslav Konta: How Ethnology Saved a Nation: History of NTSh-A Between Science and Politics
Professor Riabchuk argues that the long-standing “invisibility” of Ukraine on the mental maps of the world—as well as the persistent factual misunderstandings—stems from the global community’s uncritical acceptance of the Russian perspective, both on Russia itself and on the peoples it has colonized. This perspective is articulated through a system of narratives developed by the empire to undermine the agency of subordinated nations, rendering them nearly invisible and voiceless to the outside world, and insignificant or inferior in their own eyes. Following Edward Said, Riabchuk identifies this discursive system as “imperial knowledge” and demonstrates how, over the past two centuries, the empire has successfully institutionalized and disseminated it globally as supposedly “scientific knowledge”—and therefore unquestionable, normalized, and elevated to the status of “common truths.” The deconstruction of this “knowledge” within the broader context of ongoing global decolonization processes must become a priority for both Ukrainian and international intellectuals.

Mykola Riabchuk is a leading research fellow at the Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a visiting professor at both the University of Warsaw and the Ukrainian Catholic University. He is the author of around twenty books, several of which have been translated into Polish, Serbian, Hungarian, German, and French. In recent years, driven by the need to communicate the truth about Ukraine to international audiences, he has written primarily in English. He is the author of three books in English, including Eastern Europe since 1989: Between the Loosened Authoritarianism and Unconsolidated Democracy (Warsaw, 2020), and At the Fence of Metternich’s Garden: Essays on Europe, Ukraine, and Europeanization (Stuttgart, 2021). Riabchuk is also a recipient of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine for his 2022 collection of essays Leksykon natsionalista.
Mykola Riabchuk: Mapping a “Nation from Nowhere”
The Shevchenko Scientific Society in the United States, in partnership with the American Association for Ukrainian Studies and Razom for Ukraine, will host a workshop in Ukrainian Studies this fall. Early-career scholars, including PhD candidates and post-doctoral fellows based in the United States, will present their research and engage in a multidisciplinary dialogue with experts in the field. The in-person workshop will be held in New York City on October 31 – November 1, 2025, which will provide participants with an opportunity to attend some events at the Ukrainian Cultural Festival.

Paul D’Anieri, University of California, Riverside
Shevchenko Workshop Keynote Address: Reflections on Ukrainian Studies During Wartime
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