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Past events for 2024

September 28, 2024
Militant Femininity: Transformations of the Image of a Ukrainian Woman in Public Discourse in the Time of Russia’s War on Ukraine by Oksana Kis
September 15, 2024
A Tribute to Virko Baley: 85th Anniversary Celebration
May 19, 2024
The Shevchenko Scientific Society in the Context of Ukrainian Intellectual History: 150th Anniversary Conference
April 27, 2024
Pre-Launch reading from “The God of Freedom” and conversation with Yuliya Musakovska
March 2, 2024
Ukrainian Archives in the Challenges of War
February 23, 2024
Resilience, Resistance, Renewal: Two Years of the Full-Scale War in Ukraine
February 17, 2024
“Drahomanov School by Lesia Ukrainka: Classes for Decolonization” (lecture and presentation of the book “Леся Українка. Книги Сивілли” )
December 16, 2023
150th Anniversary Inaugural Symposium
December 16, 2023
The Fall of the Pan-Russian Idea: The Russo-Ukrainian War in Historical Perspective

Upcoming Events

Apr 25
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Chornobyl as a Gateway to the Uncanny: Representing the Disaster First World Documentaries

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Paweł Pieniążek

Experienced reporter, journalist, and war correspondent

“War in My Home” by Paweł Pieniążek describes the horrific, unending reality of conflict, often focusing on the Donbas region in Ukraine, where war becomes a normalized part of daily life, affecting civilians profoundly, with Pieniążek sharing raw, ground-level perspectives on survival, disillusionment, and the struggle to find meaning amidst continuous struggle, showcasing how ordinary people endure extraordinary circumstances.

Paweł Pieniążek is a journalist and non-fiction writer. He studies Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia at Harvard University. Pieniążek has reported from Afghanistan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine, capturing the human cost of conflict with rare empathy and precision. He is the author of several books, including War in My Home: When Conflict Becomes Everyday Life (Znak Literanova, 2025). His work has been nominated for the Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage, and in 2019, he received the MediaTory Award for excellence in journalism. In 2015, he was a Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale University.

Moderator: Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky (President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society)
Book Launch: War in My Home: When Conflict Becomes Everyday Life
Daniel J. Epstein (Harvard University)

Dr. Konstantin Frank, born in Odessa in 1900, became a path-breaking agricultural scientist of wine-making against difficult obstacles in Soviet-dominated Ukraine. He pioneered technologies to grow true European wine grapes (vinifera) in continental climate zones with cold winters, previously thought impossible. He fled Ukraine at the end of World War II and eventually came to upstate New York with a large family and no English, but eventually founded his own winery (still flourishing on Keuka Lake today). He taught Americans how to cultivate vinifera in any region (previously it had only been grown in California). Through his indomitable devotion, Ukrainian agricultural scientific practices were adapted to spawn wine-growing industries in almost every state in America, from upstate New York to Virginia to Texas to the Pacific Northwest. Could he be a new cultural hero for Ukraine in America?

Daniel J. Epstein did his undergraduate degree in Slavic Studies at Harvard University, and later continued on to receive his PhD in Government, also from Harvard University.  His early work focused on political parties and elections in the wake of regime change in Eastern Europe and Latin America.  He has taught political science at the University of Rochester, Colgate University and Texas Tech University, and also served as a Fulbright Scholar in 2011.  Since 2021, he has been a Lecturer on Government at Harvard University.  His research focus has shifted to nationalism and identity in times of war (he has traveled three times to Ukraine since the full-scale invasion.  He currently works at Harvard University’s Davis Center as Assistant Director for Scholars Without Borders, an initiative to support scholars affected by Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Link to video shared within Dr. Epstein's presentation - https://youtu.be/DikpKnEIpw8?si=7rH3xk_BXjMHHlqZ
Dr. Konstantin Frank, (Viti)cultural Hero? How Ukrainian Science Transformed American Winemaking
Webinar. XLV Annual Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Conference
March 7 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
The Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh-A) and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI)

Opening remarks

Vitaly Chernetsky (President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society/University of Kansas)

Speakers:

Shevchenko in Vilnius: Catalyst of Formation

Rory Finnin (University of Cambridge, UK)

Rory Finnin is Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. He launched the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme in 2008. His recent book is Blood of Others: Stalin’s Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (2022). He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Слідчі справи кирило-мефодіївців як джерело Шевченкової текстології

Михайло Назаренко (Київський національний університет ім. Т. Г. Шевченка)

Михайло Назаренко – літературознавець, кандидат філологічних наук, доцент кафедри східнослов’янської філології та інформаційно-прикладних студій Навчально-наукового інституту філології Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Основні книжкові публікації: Поховання на могилі (Шевченкова біографія у фольклорі та фейклорі) (2006, доп. і випр. видання — 2017), Крім «Кобзаря». Антологія української літератури. 1792–1883 (2021, Національна премія імені Тараса Шевченка), Тілько істинна правда. З українських повір’їв (2025). Разом із Олександром Боронем упорядкував і прокоментував видання «Тарас Шевченко в критиці» (т. І–ІІ, 2013–2016), «Тарас Шевченко у спогадах» (т. І, 2023).

Testaments to Memory: Examining the Re-Formations of Taras’ Hill

Grace Mahoney (University of Michigan)

Grace Mahoney is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. She studies Ukraine through the lenses of literary studies, cultural history, memory studies, translation, and feminist theory. Recently she has assumed leadership of Lost Horse Press, an independent literary press known for its Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series.

Discussant

George G. Grabowicz (Shevchenko Scientific Society/ Harvard University)
XLV Annual Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Conference
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    • Institute of Source Studies
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