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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

Oct 24
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Memorial Evening for Yuriy Tarnawsky

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)

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New Paradigms in Historical Research after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Does the empire exist within Ukrainian Studies, and if so, how should we respond?  Earlier efforts to reframe Ukrainian history were guided by derussification,  desovietization, and decommunization. The Russian invasion of Ukraine intensified efforts to decolonize and deimperialize knowledge production across disciplines. But what do these paradigms mean exactly for historians of the region and their efforts to rethink and reinterpret the Ukrainian historical experience in light of recent events? Four distinguished historians discuss new paradigms for reframing the Ukrainian past.

Steven Seegel (The University of Texas at Austin)

Frank E. Sysyn (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies)

Yaroslav Zhuravlov (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

Moderator: Catherine Wanner (Shevchenko Scientific Society/Penn State University)


Steven Seegel is Professor (tenured, full rank) in the Department of European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Ukraine under Western Eyes (Harvard University Press, 2013), and Mapping Europe’s Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2012). He has been a contributor to the fourth and fifth volumes of Chicago’s international history of cartography series and has translated over 300 entries from Russian and Polish for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, in multiple volumes, published jointly by USHMM and Indiana University Press. Professor Seegel is a former director at Harvard University of the Ukrainian Research Institute’s summer exchange program.

Frank E. Sysyn is director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta, and editor in chief of the Hrushevsky Translation Project. A specialist in Ukrainian and Polish history, he is the author of Between Poland and the Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600-1653 (1985), Mykhailo Hrushevsky: Historian and National Awakener (2001), and studies on the Khmelnytsy Uprising, Ukrainian historiography, and early modern Ukrainian political culture. He is also coauthor, with Serhii Plokhy, of Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine (2003). He is editor in chief of the publication of the collected works of Mykhailo Zubrytsky (1856-1919).

Yaroslav Zhuravlov is a Postdoctoral Researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, where he has worked since 2024 at the Imre Kertész Kolleg within the profile area Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century: Comparative Historical Experience. His current research project, Eastern European Debates of the Holocaust in Exile and Emigration, explores the intellectual and historical dimensions of Holocaust debates in Eastern European exile and émigré communities. In 2026, he conducted archival research in the United States at the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) in the United States, the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States (UVAN), the Ukrainian History and Education Center (UHEC), and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Archives. His research and teaching interests include East Central European Studies, particularly Ukraine, the USSR, and Poland, as well as Jewish history, Genocide Studies, Memory Studies, and Oral History.
New Paradigms in Historical Research after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Thanks to a grant from the Documentary Heritage Program, a statewide grant program administered by the New York State Archives, the Shevchenko Scientific Society recently completed processing the papers of the actor William Shust. Shust played roles on Broadway, Off-Broadway, television, and film, and was a lifelong member of the Ukrainian American community in New York City. Born in New York City to Ukrainian immigrant parents, he obtained his MFA in Theatre in 1954, which launched a career as an actor that lasted for over six decades.

This talk by the Shevchenko Scientific Society’s archives consultant Michael Andrec and DHP processing archivist Leila Jutton will provide an overview of Shust, the collection, and the surprises therein, as well as provide a picture of the archival labor that goes into making collections like this accessible to and usable by researchers.
The William Shust Papers at the Shevchenko Scientific Society: Adventures in Archival Processing
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
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