BRAMA, May 28, 2003, 9:00 am ET
Press Release
Twenty-Second Annual Conference on Ukrainian Subjects
This scholarly event will be held at the Illini Union of the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 16-21. The conference is being organized
by the Ukrainian Research Program under chairmanship of Dmytro Shtohryn and
will be held within the framework of the Summer Research Laboratory on
Russia and Eastern Europe.
The main theme of this year's conference is "Ukraine Yesterday, Today,
Tomorrow" and thus its speakers will tackle a wide range of questions
dealing with development of Ukrainian historigraphy, culture, economics,
politics, and activities of churches in Ukraine and the diaspora.
The Program Committee of the conference comprises the following scholars:
John Fizer (Rutgers University at New Brunswick),
Assya Humesky (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,
Taras Hunczak (Rutgers University at Newark),
Miroslav Labunka (Ukrainian Catholic University),
Jaroslav Rozumnyj (University of Manitoba),
Bohdan Rubchak (University of Illinois at Chicago),
Leonid Rudnytzky (Ukrainian Free University).
Over fifty-five distinguished scholars will speak to some hundred conferees
from Canada, Germany, Poland, South Korea, Ukraine, and the United States.
From Ukraine alone the organizers expect about thirty-five educators,
scholarly researchers, and people of letters who are to attend the
conference; among them Ivan Drach, a poet and member of the Verkhovna Rada
of Ukraine; Dmytro Pavlychko, a poet and former ambassador
of Ukraine to Slovakia and to Poland; Georgij Pocheptsov, head of the
Office of Strategic Initiatives in the Office of the President of Ukraine;
Volodymyr Yatsenkivs'kyi, Minister Counselor of the Ukrainian Embassy in
Washington, D.C.; Oleh Romaniv, president of the Shevchenko Scientific
Society in Lviv; as well as rectors of five national and state universities
in Ukraine.
About fifty papers will be given in Ukrainian and English. They will be
included in twelve thematically designed sessions and two round-tables. The
conference evenings will be devoted to presentations of new publications
and poetry readings by their authors.
The conference is dedicated to the memory of George Y. Shevelov
(1908-2002), life member of the Scholarly Council of the Ukrainian Research
Program at the University of Illinois. Thus, one of the first sessions of
the conference will be devoted to Shevelov's life and work. The papers of
this session will be presented by Andriy Danylenko, John Fizer, Bohdan
Rubchak, and Oksana Solovey.
On June 22 (Sunday) a group of the conference participants will meet the
Ukrainian community of Chicago. The event will be organized and sponsored
by the Foundation for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies at the
University of Illinois under president Raisa Bratkiv. The meeting reception
will be held at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, 2247 West Chicago Avenue,
Chicago.
For more information regarding the conference contact Shtohryn at (217)
356-9195 or shtohryn@uiuc.edu; about reception in Chicago contact Bratkiv
at (847) 477-2150 or raisa@bratkiv.com.
Office of the Ukrainian Research Program.
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