[biblioteka] One day Conference at Columbia University, April 11, 2007

[M T Znayenko]

The Impact of "Young Europe" on Ukraine and Russia": The Brotherhood of 
St. Cyril and Methodius (Kyryllo-Mefodiivs'ke btastvo), l846-1847.
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The Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University,
in cooperation with Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Shevchenko Scientific 
Society, and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S.,
held a highly successful and productive one-day conference in commemoration
of the 160th anniversary of the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and 
Methodius on Wednesday, April ll, 2007 at Columbia University, titled:

The Impact of "Young Europe" on Ukraine and Russia: The Brotherhood of St. 
Cyril and Methodius (Kyryllo-Mefodiis'ke bratstvo), l846-1847

Wednesday, April 11 from 9:00am to 1:30pm
Room 1512, International Affairs Building (15th floor), Columbia University, 
420 W. 118th St., New York, NY

9:00-9:10am: Opening Remarks by Anna Procyk (Ukrainian Academy of Arts and 
Sciences in the U.S.; KBCC, City University of New York)

9:10-11:10am: Morning Session

Chair: Yuri Shevchuk (Columbia University)
Panelists:
-- Johannes Remy (University of Helsinki; Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute 
Skhlar Fellow): "Political Ideas of the Members of the Society of St. Cyril and 
St. Methodius"
-- Myroslava Znayenko (Shevchenko Scientific Society; Rutgers University): 
"Reverberations of Young Poland in Taras Shevchenko"
-- George Grabowicz (Harvard University Ukrainian Research Institute) 
"Cyril-Methodians and the Role of the Sacred"

Discussant: Rory Finnin (Columbia University)

11:10-11:20am: Coffee break

11:20am-1:20pm: Afternoon session

Chair: Richard Wortman (Columbia University)
Panelists:
-- Abbott Gleason (Brown University): "The Cyril-Methodius Brotherhood and 
"Young Europe"
-- Susan Heuman (City College of New York, Center for Worker Education): "The 
Quest for Citizenship in a Federal Context"
--Anna Procyk (Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Scince in U.S.; KBCC, City 
University of New York): "Hrushevsky's Idea of Ukrainian Statehood in the 
Context of Federation: Brotherhood's Legacy in Ukrainian Federalist Thought"

Discussants: Anna Procyk
              Martha-Bohachevsky-Chomiak

1:20-1:30pm: Closing Remarks by George Grabowicz
2:00pm: Lucheon for Participants

Young Europe, founded in 1834 by Italian, Polish and German revolutionaries 
fighting for the liberation of all subjugated nations from oppressive imperial 
regimes, envisioned as one of its ultimate objectives the formation of a loose 
European confederation of democratic republics joined together in accordance 
with the principles of equality and universal brotherhood. Mainly through the 
efforts of Giuseppe Mazzini and the Polish émigrés residing in France and 
England, these ideas were spread among the members of the nationally conscious 
intelligentsia of Eastern Europe who responded by establishing local branches 
of this international association.

The Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius was a short-lived secret 
political society that existed in Kyiv, Ukraine from December 1845 until it was 
suppressed by the Russian Empire in March 1847, with most of the members 
punished by exile or imprisonment. The goals of the society were liberalisation 
of the political and social system of the Imperial Russia, such as the 
abolition of serfdom and broad access to public education, in accordance with 
the members Christian principles and the Slavophile views that gained 
popularity among the country's liberal intelligentsia. Such prominent members 
included Taras Shevchenko and Panteleimon Kulish.

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