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Past events for 2023

November 18, 2023
Jewish-Ukrainian Relations and the Birth of a Political Nation: Adrian Karatnycky in conversation with journalist Vladislav Davidzon
November 10, 2023
Of Rage and Longing: Poetry by Alex Averbuch
November 4, 2023
Дивізія “Галичина”: історичний контекст і сучасні питання
October 28, 2023
Ukraine and the World at the Tenth Anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity: A Round Table on the Role of Culture in the Midst of Ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War
October 20, 2023
Book Launch and Roundtable Discussion “The Enemy Archives”
October 14, 2023
A New Reality in the Making: Russia’s War on Ukraine and the Future of Euro-Atlantic Security
September 30, 2023
Fiber Optics: Communication with the Speed of Light
September 22, 2023
Exhibition opening: Ukraine in Ruins 1941–42, 2022–23. Paintings by Alexander Motyl
September 21, 2023
“The Zelensky Effect”: Book discussion with co-author Professor Olga Onuch
September 16, 2023
Understanding Ukraine. Between Trauma and the New Reality with Yevhen Hlibovytsky
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Upcoming Events

Oct 31
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Webinar. Oksana Shchur: Lystuvannia Sofii Iablons’koi, Volodymyra Vynnychenka ta Rozalii Vynnychenko, 1928-1935 (Kyiv: Komora, 2026)

Nov 4
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Webinar. Language(s), Religion, and Beyond: The Multidimensional Dynamics of Identity Construction

Nov 7
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Tamara Hundorova. The Feminism of Olha Kobylianska: Melancholy, High Culture, and Nationalism

Nov 10
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Curatorial Talk: Intergenerational Dialogue

Nov 22
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Presentation of a New Novel by Vasyl Makhno: The Angel and the Donkey: With Poems About Fire and Water

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This curatorial panel presentation called Intergenerational Dialogue features works from the NTSh-A’s permanent art collection and archives. During the event, the curatorial team will share insights into the project: how the exhibition idea took shape, how they selected the works, and what they found during the research and writing phases. Come learn about the artistic legacy of prominent representatives of the Ukrainian diaspora, such as Roman Patchovskyi, Mykhailo Moroz, Volodymyr Lasovsky, and Petro Andrusiv. The exhibition catalog will be presented during the talk. 


Speakers: 
Anastasia Gudko is a cultural producer, writer, and nonprofit professional. She leads the project’s curatorial vision and execution. In this project, she researched Roman Patchovskyi's artistic legacy. 

Maya Shkolnik is a Ukrainian-American interdisciplinary artist working across contemporary Slavic art, psychoanalysis, performance, photography, and film. A Columbia University graduate, she explores the intersections of Ukrainian, Russian, and American identities through personal and cultural memory. In this project, she researched Volodymyr Lasovsky's artistic journey. 

Iryna Borodin is a Ukrainian artist and graphic designer with Lemko roots, based in New York City. Her practice explores memory, identity, cultural heritage, and displacement. In this project, she translates the curatorial vision into exhibition graphics, spatial presentation, and visual communication. Iryna also contributed an essay on a painting of Bohdan-Ihor Antonych by Volodymyr Lasovsky to the catalog. 

A.M. LaVey is a senior librarian at The New York Public Library and a doctoral researcher at University College London. LaVey’s work focuses on archives, art, dance, exhibition studies, Slavic studies, and visual culture, and includes regular collaboration with The Ukrainian Museum in New York. In this project, LaVey wrote about Mykhailo Moroz’s artistic legacy.
Borshch of Art Curatorial Talk: Intergenerational Dialogue
The Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US invites you to a memorial evening honoring Yuriy Tarnawsky (1934–2025), a prominent Ukrainian-American writer and a Full Member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US (NTSh-A).

Program
- Presentations by Vitaly Chernetsky, Maria Rewakowicz, and Vasyl Makhno
- A reading of Tarnawsky’s poetry by Enei Olensky
- An exhibition of Tarnawsky’s publications
- A musical performance by Pavlo Gintov

The program will be presented in Ukrainian and English.
Memorial Evening for Yuriy Tarnawsky
The presentation will explore Makhno’s multilayered novel about journeys and returns, memory and creativity, history and personal experience. Set between Buchach and Jerusalem, the novel weaves together the lives of writers, philosophical reflection, parable-like narratives, and a novel-within-a-novel structure. The central character, writer Viktor Preisner, lives on the outskirts of Riverhead and has spent years working on a novel about Gospel times. Two small figurines—an angel and a donkey, souvenirs from Jerusalem—sit on his desk. After a devastating storm, he discovers the same figurines in a ruined house, raising questions about the fate of his manuscript and the meaning of memory, loss, and return.

The novel has been described by Ukrainian literary critics as a meditation on memory, creativity, migration, history, loss, and the elemental forces of fire and water, as well as a work that expands the possibilities of contemporary Ukrainian émigré literature.

The novel The Angel and the Donkey: With Poems About Fire and Water is stylistically diverse. Yet this rich palette of styles is precisely what makes it a distinctive hallmark of Vasyl Makhno’s unique voice – a mature master of prose.

— Ihor Nabytovych, Zbruch

The Angel and  the Donkey transforms from an émigré novel about a Ukrainian in America into an illustration of a new mode of existence for Ukrainian literature.

— Oksana Shchur, Ukrainska Pravda

At the level of plot, The Angel and the Donkey is a novel about two writers connected by the town of Buchach in the Ternopil region and by life trajectories that share striking similarities. Yet, contrary to what one might expect, the novel is not primarily about the act of writing itself. Rather, in a broader sense, it is a work about life.

—Zoya Shevchuk, Krytyka
The Angel and the Donkey: With Poems About Fire and Water
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