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Past events for 2025

January 25, 2025
Українське суспільство через три роки після початку повномасштабної війни
January 11, 2025
Pianist Roksolana Kit performs works by Ukrainian composers
December 14, 2024
Bringing Ukrainian Studies to New Audiences
November 9, 2024
Book Launch: Battleground Ukraine. From Independence to the War with Russia by Adrian Karatnycky
November 2, 2024
Book launch: Carols of Birds, Bells, and Sacred Hymns from Ukraine: An Anthology and Cultural Companion by Marika C. Kuzma.
October 16, 2024
Religious Freedom in Wartime: The Case of Ukraine

Upcoming Events

Apr 25
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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

May 9
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Book Launch: Both Sides Face East/Durable Words (Academic Studies Press, 2025). Edited by Julia Sushytska, Alisa Slaughter and ariel rosé.

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A multilingual anthology of various authors responding to the war in Ukraine in their respective languages, along with translations to Ukrainian and English. The book is a fruit of an international project under the auspices of Marci Shore, with the support of Fondation Jan Michalski and the International Renaissance Institute. A Ukrainian journalist ends each day “scorched by another person’s grief.” A schoolgirl in Croatia cherishes her Barbie and learns to dread air raid sirens more than her geometry homework. A poet imagines the spiritual life of a fish who escapes the hook. An exiled artist recreates her homeland in the shape of a bird. The writers assembled in this volume dream and document and remember, they translate one another’s work and meditate on fragility and resilience in the face of nihilism and obliteration. The collection gathers poems, essays, and stories written and translated in nine languages, reflecting an ongoing effort to communicate and understand across cultures. Both Sides Face East – Durable Words began as a response to the invasion of Ukraine, but stakes a wider claim on behalf of human value and integrity.

A multilingual anthology of various authors Ariel Rosé – poet, essayist, illustrator, author of the books Morze Nocą Jest Mięśniem Serca, PIW 2022 (the sea at night is a muscle of the heart) and Północ Przypowieści, Znak 2019 (North: Parables), and forthcoming: “Ukraine–A Polyphony” and “ways of swimming”; co-editor of Both Sides Face East/Durable Words (Academic Studies Press 2025), Borders De Todos Lados / Fronteras from all Directions (ibidem 2026). ariel is a member of PEN Berlin and Circolo Scandinavo in Rome. Twice a year they have been inviting poets from underrepresented countries to Oslo for a reading–the fruit of which is an anthology to be issued by HOF, Norway 2026. ariel is originally from Poland, a resident of Norway, living as a nomad between languages and countries responding to the war in Ukraine in their respective languages, along with translations to Ukrainian and English. The book is a fruit of an international project under the auspices of Marci Shore, with the support of Jan Michalski Foundation and the International Renaissance Institute. A Ukrainian journalist ends each day “scorched by another person’s grief.” A schoolgirl in Croatia cherishes her Barbie and learns to dread air raid sirens more than her geometry homework. A poet imagines the spiritual life of a fish who escapes the hook. An exiled artist recreates her homeland in the shape of a bird. The writers assembled in this volume dream and document and remember, they translate one another’s work and meditate on fragility and resilience in the face of nihilism and obliteration. The collection gathers poems, essays, and stories written and translated in nine languages, reflecting an ongoing effort to communicate and understand across cultures. Both Sides Face East – Durable Words began as a response to the invasion of Ukraine, but stakes a wider claim on behalf of human value and integrity.
Book Launch: Both Sides Face East: Volume 1: Durable Words
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
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