U. of Illinois spotlights Ukrainian topics (05/04/97)

U. of Illinois spotlights Ukrainian topics

by Dmytro Shtohryn

URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The 16th annual Conference on Ukrainian Subjects will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on June 20-25. Organized by the Ukrainian Research Program, it is held within the framework of the Summer Research Laboratory on Eastern Europe. English and Ukrainian are the official languages of its proceedings.

This year's conference will focus on two main themes: "Library Cooperation Between Ukraine and North America" and "Ukrainian Language in Contemporary Ukraine."

The program committee for the first theme comprises the following persons: Marianna Tax Choldin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jurij Dobczansky (Library of Congress), Valentyna Pashkova (Kyiv State Institute of Culture), Luba Pendzey (University of Toronto), Mykola Senchenko (Book Chamber of Ukraine), Bohdan Wynar (Libraries Unlimited) and Bohdan Yasinsky (Library of Congress).

Members of the program committee for the second theme include: Andrij Hornjatkevyc (University of Alberta), Assya Humesky (University of Michigan), Lidia Kots-Hryhorchuk (National Museum of Ukraine at Lviv), Larissa Onyshkevych (Princeton Research Forum), Myroslava Tomorug-Znayenko (Rutgers University at Newark), Mykola Zhulynsky (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and Roksoliana Zorivchak (Ivan Franko State University of Lviv).

Prof. Dmytro Shtohryn, chairperson of the Ukrainian Research Program at the University of Illinois, and members of the program committees have been busy with preparations for the conference since mid-1996. More than 100 scholars and professionals have submitted the topics of their papers. From Ukraine alone, 76 persons have registered topics of papers.

Organizers anticipate approximately 45 speakers from the following cities in Ukraine: Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Kryvyi Rih, Kyiv, Luhansk, Lviv, Odesa, Poltava and Symferopol. The speakers from Ukraine are predominantly young scholars who make all possible efforts to adopt modern techniques and approaches in scientific research or library services and use the Ukrainian language at home, in schools and in their professional lives.

Most of the expenses connected with accommodations for participants of the conference from abroad will be covered by the Foundation for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Illinois headed by Raisa Bratkiv.

For more information about the conference proceedings, call Prof. Shtohryn at (217) 356-9195 or fax (217) 356-7982.

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