[mova] Lecture 'Ukrainian Under Attack in Its Homeland' at UM this weekend

[Hanya]

Lecture and book signing
"Ukrainian Under Attack in
Its Homeland"
Sunday, October 30, 2 p.m.
The Ukrainian Museum
222 East Sixth
Street
(between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)
212.228.0110 
http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ 


 Join us at 2 p.m. on October 30 as Dr. Yuri Shevchuk of
Columbia  University presents a talk entitled "Ukrainian Under Attack
in Its  Homeland: What Can We Do to Help?" and introduces his new
textbook, Beginner's Ukrainian. 
 Over the past decade, assimilationist
pressures on Ukrainian in its  homeland have grown exponentially, in all
spheres, and in ever newer  forms. Dr. Yuri Shevchuk will analyze the
current language situation in  Ukraine and the challenges it presents for
teaching Ukrainian as a  foreign language in North American universities
as well as to thousands  of foreign students who receive their training in
Ukraine. Dr.  Shevchuk's recently published textbook Beginner's
Ukrainian  offers new strategies aimed at restoring the Ukrainian
language to the  role and status it has been rapidly losing in Ukrainian
society. 
Copies of Beginner's Ukrainian (Hippocrene Books, 448 pages, 
$35) will be available for sale and signing by Dr. Shevchuk after his 
lecture. Admission to the event, which includes a reception, is $10; $5 
for students (tickets available online).


Print the flyer:
http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/enews/2011/1110/thumbs/111030shevchuk_flyer.jpg


-- 
Less is more, more or less.
- Mies van der
Rohe

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