For immediate release
September 14,1998
SEVERAL GENERATIONS OF UKRAINIAN AMERICAN SCHOLARS WILL PARTICIPATE IN A CONFERENCE HONORING THE SHEVCHENKO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY'S 125TH ANNIVERSARY
This October, The Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh), the oldest fuctioning
Ukrainian scholarly association, will be celebrating its 125th anniversary all
over the world. In New York the event will be marked by two conferences and a
banquet; on October 2nd (at Columbia University, honoring Prof. George
Shevelov), and a two-day conference on October 3rd and 4th, at NTSH in New
York, at 63 Fourth Avenue (between 9th and 10th).
Most of the presentations will be in Ukrainian. The Saturday program will
commence (at 10:30 am) with a session devoted to the history of NTSh; among
the topics will be "NTSh in Ukraine" (Oleh Romaniv from Lviv), "NTSh in the
US" (Wolodymyr Stojko, Manhattan College), "NTSh and the Natural Sciences "
(Sviatoslav Trofimenko, U. of Del.), "Publications of NTSh" (Dmytro Shtohryn,
U. of Ill. ), "NTSh Publications in English" (Leonid Rudnytzky (La Salle U.).
The session will be chaired by Martha Bohachevsky Chomiak (NEH).
The first afternoon session (1:30-3:50) will deal with specific aspects of
Ukrainian studies: language (Larissa Onyshkevych, Princeton Research Forum),
literature (John Fizer, Rutgers U.), historiography (Anna Procyk, Kingsborough
Col.), and political science (Vasyl Markus, Encycl. of Ukr. Diaspora). It
will be chaired by Taras Hunczak (Rutgers Univ.).
A glimpse into the future will be provided by the second session (4:00 -
6:00 pm), devoted to science and technology, which will present a prognosis of
the changes likely to occur in the 21st century. The topics will cover
electrochemistry and computers (Lubomyr Romankiw, IBM), medicine
(Larissa Bilaniuk, Univ. of Pennsylvania), optical physics (Andriy
Chraplywy, Lucent Tech.), nuclear
physics (Lew Chyrovsky, ATT), plus cybernetics and cyberspace (Vsevolod
Onyshkevych, Ronin Corp.). This session will be chaired by Roman Andrushkiw
(New Jersey Institute of Technology).
An exhibit of NTSh publications and books by NTSh members will be on display
(prepared by Tania Kejs and Svitlana Andrushkiw).
The Sunday program will commence (at 1:30) with an English-language session
on Ukrainian language (Michael Flier, Harvard U.) and religion (Thomas Bird,
Queens College), and will be chaired by Myroslava Znayenko. The second
session (in Ukrainian, 3:30-5:00) will present young Ph.D.'s and scholars and
their specific areas of specialization: Lidia Stefaniwska (literature,
Harvard U.), Daria Nebesh (ethnomusicology, U. of Maryland), Oksana Lassowsky
(topology, St. Johns Col.), Roman Samoliak (dynamical systems, NJIT), and
Bohdan Nebesh (the role of computers in everyday life in the future, Dept of
Defense). It will be chaired by Roman Voronka (NJIT).
The banquet will be held at the Ukrainian National Home at 142 Second Avenue,
on Sunday at 6:00 pm. It will also honor Prof. George Shevelov (to be
introduced by Assya Humesky) and the late Dr. Yaroslav Padoch (comments by L.
Rudnytzky). A musical program, based on music composed by Jaropolk Lassowsky
to texts by Marta Tarnawsky and Bohdan Krawciw (all NTSh members) will
follows, performed by The Lassowsky trio (J. Lassowsky. Oksana Lassowsky and
Daria Nebesh), with the poetry to be recited by Sofia Zielyk and Ksenia
Piasetsky. The highlight of the banquet will be a speech by the Ambassador of
Ukraine, Dr. Yuriy Shcherbak. Soprano solo by Lesia Hrabova (of Lviv) will
conclude the banquet.
Those interested to attend the banquet should send checks ($60/person) by
Sept. 21st to: Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Ave., New York, NY
10003. Information: (212) 254-5130.
A complete schedule of the weekend events is available at the Shevchenko Scientific Society website:
in Ukrainian CP1251: http://www.brama.com/sss/lecture.html
transliterated: http://www.brama.com/sss/lecturetr.html
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Dr. Roman Andrushkiw
Dept. of Mathematics, NJIT
E-mail: roandr@megahertz.njit.edu
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