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Society plays leading role in conferences

The Shevchenko Scientific Society has organized, sponsored, or was associated with the following scholarly conferences in 1996.

• The 16th annual conference honoring Taras Shevchenko (March 1996) was held in conjunction with the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences of the U.S., and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Papers were read by Assya Humesky, Dmytro Shtorhyn and Anatol Yarema.
  
  
• To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear accident the society sponsored Prof. Dmytro Grodzinky's visit from Kyiv to deliver a lecture on the subject at Columbia University (April 1996) during the program sponsored by the Ukrainian community and The Harriman Institute.
  
  
• Shevchenko conferences, held in conjunction with the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences (May 1996), featured Hanna Chumachenko (Kherson), Nina Karavanska (Maryland) and Mykola Riabchuk (Kyiv).
  
  
• At the third International Congress of Ukrainists in Kharkiv (August 1996), the society sponsored the panel on "Problems of Contemporary Ukrainian Orthography." The participants were: Lidia Kots-Hryhorchuk (Lviv), Olena Huzar (Ternopil), Oleksandra Zakharkiv (Lviv).
  
  
• At the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in Boston (November 1996), the society sponsored two panels: "Chornobyl: A 10-Year Perspective," as reflected in science (paper by Oleksa Bilaniuk), literature (Larissa Onyshkevych), health and medicine (David Marples), Leonid Rudnytzky; and "Problems of Current Ukrainian Orthography," featuring Assya Humesky, Myroslava Znayenko, Tonia Berezovenko (Kyiv), Vera Andrushkiw, Svitlana Rohovyk.
  
  
• With the National University of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy the society co-sponsored a conference held in Kyiv (November 1996) on "The Functioning of Ukrainian as a State Language." The conference brought together over 120 scholars and graduate students from 27 cities of Ukraine (the largest numbers were from Kyiv, Lviv, Luhansk, Donetsk and Kharkiv). The American Association for Ukrainian Studies sent Prof. Oleksander Tsiovkh, as its representative.
  
  
• The society co-sponsored with La Salle University a conference on the Union of Brest of 1596 (December 1996). Participating were the following members: Leonid Rudnytzky, the Rev. Petro Bilaniuk, Thomas Bird and Albert Kipa.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, October 5, 1997, No. 40, Vol. LXV

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