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New Issue of Bulletin Published

First published in 2022

The new double issue of the Society’s Bulletin No. 53-54, for January–December 2022 opens with a description of the Emergency Fund established by the Society in early 2022 to help Ukrainian scholars, writers and artists who have suffered from the Russian invasion that began on Feb. 24 of this year. A list of the ... Continue reading

Volume 2-3 of Zapysky NTSh-A: A New Series

First published in 2021

In November 2019 our Society, along with other Ukrainian Studies institutions in the US—the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the US, the Ukrainian Institute of America, and the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University—sponsored an international conference on the occasion of the bicentennial of Panteleimon Kulish, the author ... Continue reading

The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present

Serhii Plokhy

First published in 2021

The Frontline presents a selection of essays drawn together for the first time to form a companion volume to Serhii Plokhy’s The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. Here he expands upon his analysis in earlier works of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine’s complex relations with Russia and the West, the ... Continue reading

Regional 1932–1933 Famine Losses: A Comparative Analysis of Ukraine and Russia

Nataliia Levchuk, Oleh Wolowyna, Omelian Rudnytskyi, Alla Kovbasiuk and Natalia Kulyk

Levchuk, N., Wolowyna, O., Rudnytskyi, O., Kovbasiuk, A., & Kulyk, N. (2020). Regional 1932–1933 Famine Losses: A Comparative Analysis of Ukraine and Russia. Nationalities Papers, 1-21. doi:10.1017/nps.2019.55

Abstract Though the 1932–1933 Famine affected both Ukraine (UkrSSR) and Russia (RSFSR), there is still no clear concept of the causes of the Famine and its scale. This study is undertaken to make a comparative assessment of the 1932–1934 direct losses within and between UkrSSR and RSFSR in order to ... Continue reading

Monthly Distribution of 1933 Famine Losses in Soviet Ukraine and Russian Soviet Republic at the Regional Level

Oleh Wolowyna, Nataliia Levchuk and Alla Kovbasiuk

Wolowyna, O., Levchuk, N., & Kovbasiuk, A. (2020). Monthly Distribution of 1933 Famine Losses in Soviet Ukraine and Russian Soviet Republic at the Regional Level. Nationalities Papers, 1-19. doi:10.1017/nps.2019.52

Abstract One of the distinct characteristics of the 1932–1933 famine is that between 65 and 80 percent of all famine-related deaths (direct losses) in rural areas of Soviet Ukraine (UkrSSR) and its oblasts and some regions of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) occurred during the first six or ... Continue reading

A Demographic Framework for the 1932–1934 Famine in the Soviet Union

Oleh Wolowyna

Wolowyna, Oleh (2020) A Demographic Framework for the 1932–1934 Famine in the Soviet Union, Journal of Genocide Research, DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2020.1834741

Abstract Research on the 1932–1934 famine in the Soviet Union (or Famine)has reached the point where some analytical and theoretical synthesis is needed. We present a framework that provides a structure for organizing demographic research of the Famine within a broader demographic-historical context. Elements of the framework are: (a) definitions ... Continue reading

The Significance of Human Dignity for Social Movements: Mass Mobilisation in Ukraine

Nikolayenko, Olena. “The Significance of Human Dignity for Social Movements: Mass Mobilization in Ukraine.” East European Politics 36, no. 3 (2020): 445–462

Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with participants in the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine, this article argues that the notion of human dignity is critical to mass mobilisation at different phases of anti-government protests. At the start of mass protests, the affirmation of human dignity can serve as a ... Continue reading

Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada: Methodology and Practice of Research

Drs. S. V. Poliakova and Oleh Wolowyna

ІSSN 2072-9480. Demography and Social Economy, 2019, № 3 (37)

Abstract The aims of this paper are the estimation of demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, and the description of methodological problems arising in the process of its implementation.Population censuses, which represent the entire population of Canada, including those of Ukrainian origin,are considered as the most ... Continue reading

What We Live For, What We Die For

First published in 2019

What We Live For, What We Die For: Selected Poems Serhiy Zhadan; Translated in English by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps; Foreword by Bob Holman (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press) An introduction to an original poetic voice from eastern Ukraine with deep roots in the unique cultural landscape of ... Continue reading

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

First published in 2018

Serhii Plokhy (New York: Basic Books, 2018) Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, 2018 On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated ... Continue reading

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May 13, 2023Don't Close Your Eyes: Ukrainian Poets Respond to the WarMaya Chhabra’s translations have appeared in The White Review, Cardinal Points, and Poetry Travels. She is the author of a novel in verse, Chiara in the Dark, and several children’s books including Stranger on the Home Front. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in Strange Horizons, PodCastle, and various anthologies.Carolyn Forché has published five books of poems, most recently In the Lateness of the World, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2021. Her works also include translations, anthologies, and a memoir. She is a professor at Georgetown University.Lev Fridman is a speech-language pathologist based in New York City. His writing, translations and reviews have appeared in various publications. He is co-editor of Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul: Mykola (Nik) Bazhan’s Early Experimental Poetry.Marie Howe is the author of Magdalene: Poems; The Kingdom of Ordinary Time; What the Living Do; and The Good Thief. She is also co-editor of In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. She has served as Poet Laureate of New York State, is the poet in residence at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.Olena Jennings is the author of The Age of Secrets, the chapbook Memory Project, and the novel Temporary Shelter. She is translator with Oksana Lutsyshyna of Nobody Knows Us Here, and We Don’t Know Anyone by Kateryna Kalytko., as well as Vasyl Makhno’s Paper Bridge. She co-edited the anthology Ukrainian American Poets Respond, and she is the founder and curator of Poets of Queens.Dan Kraines teaches creative writing at the Fashion Institute of Technology. He is the author of a chapbook, Licht, and his work can also be found in The Adroit Journal, The Cortland Review, and Epiphany. Vasyl Makhno is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently, One Sail House; a book of short stories, The House in Baiting Hollow; a novel, The Eternal Calendar; and four books of essays: The Gertrude Stein Memorial Cultural and Recreation Park, Horn of Plenty, Suburbs and Borderland, and Biking along the Ocean. Makhno’s works have been widely translated, and he is the recipient of the Kovaliv Fund Prize; Serbia’s International Povele Morave Prize in Poetry; the BBC Book of the Year Award; and the Ukrainian-Jewish Literary “Encounter” Prize.Hanna Melnyczuk’s artwork has appeared at Art Space, The Mahoney Gallery, The Gallery at the Piano Factory, the Danforth Museum, Tufts Gallery, Brush Gallery, Fountain Street Gallery, New Art Center, and more. She has curated two art exhibits: Agni Magazine of Emerging Artists, and a traveling exhibit of Ukrainian artists’ works, Don’t Close Your Eyes. Hanna teaches at University of Massachusetts Lowell. Wanda Phipps is the author of Mind Honey, Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire, and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems. She curated readings at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, and is a founding member of the theater company Yara Arts Group.Victoria Redel is the author of four books of poetry and five books of fiction, most recently Paradise and the novel Before Everything. Victoria has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The NEA, and the Fine Arts Work Center. She is professor of Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Virlana Tkacz heads the Yara Arts Group and has directed forty original shows at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York, as well as in Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Bishkek, Ulaanbaatar, and Ulan Ude. She received an NEA Fellowship for her translations with Wanda Phipps of Serhiy Zhadan’s poetry, and is the author of Three Wooden Trunks. ... See MoreSee Less

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At the Society yesterday. Fabulous readings by American authors of Ukrainian war poems in superb translation. Beautiful and haunting, they represent another step forward to having this literature take its rightful place in the English-speaking world. Many thanks to Askold Melnyczuk of Arrowsmith Press for publishing these books and for bringing together Carolyn Forché, Marie Howe, Dan Crains, Victoria Redel, Patricia Smith, Maya Chhabra, with Lev Fridman, Olena Jennings, Virlana Tkacz, Wanda Phipps, Vasyl Makhno. Also Hanna Melnyczuk, who presented her powerful drawings. The live-stream recording is below. ... See MoreSee Less

DON’T CLOSE YOUR EYES: Ukrainian Poets Respond to the War

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Poets and translators Carolyn Forche, Marie Howe, Olga Livshin, Lev Friedman, Maya Chabra, Olena Jennings, Vasyl Makhno, Hanna Melnyczuk-Stecewycz, Wanda Phi...

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www.statenislandmuseum.org/event/nationalpoetrymonth/National Poetry Month: Readings by Ukrainian poet Vasyl Makhno with translator Olena JenningsSaturday, April 29, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pmStaten Island Museum at Snug HarborIntroduced and moderated by Prof Susan Smith-Peter, College of Staten Island/CUNYPaper Bridge is the first bilingual collection by Ukrainian poet Vasyl Makhno. Translated by Olena Jennings, this collection of personal poems communicates the present day Ukrainian experience.In Paper Bridge, Makhno is able to preserve an “enviable spiritual equilibrium…one that grinds out the music even in the toughest of days, a music that survived the twentieth century and keeps alive in the new horrors of the twenty-first,” in the words of Los Angeles Book Prize winner Ilya Kaminsky. ... See MoreSee Less

National Poetry Month: Readings by Ukrainian poet Vasyl Makhno with translator Olena Jennings - Staten Island Museum

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Paper Bridge is the first bilingual collection by Ukrainian poet Vasyl Makhno. Translated by Olena Jennings, this collection of personal poems communicates the present day Ukrainian experience.

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