Conference on Ukrainian Subjects slated at U. of Illinois for June 14-19 (06/06/99)

Conference on Ukrainian Subjects slated at U. of Illinois for June 14-19

CHAMPAIGN, ILL. - The 18th annual Conference of Ukrainian Subjects will be held June 14-19 at the University of Illinois.

The theme of the conference this year is "Between Modernism and Post Modernism: New Developments in Ukrainian Philosophy, Art and Literature." Sessions, which are free and open to the public, are scheduled for 9 a.m.-noon, 1-3 p.m. and 3:30-5:30 p.m. each day in Rooms 314 A and B of the Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana.

Dmytro Shtohryn, organizer of this and all previous Ukrainian conferences at the University of Illinios and chairperson of the University's Ukrainian Research Program, said that more than 40 speakers - primarily scholars from Canada, Germany, Ukraine and the United States - will present papers. Among the speakers are four members of the Ukrainian conference program committee: Assya Humesky, University of Michigan; Larissa Onyshkevych, Princeton Research Forum; Jaroslav Rozumnyj, University of Manitoba; and Bohdan Rubchak, University of Illinois at Chicago.

The conference, which will be conducted mostly in Ukrainian, is being held in conjunction with the university's Summer Research Lab, a function of the Russian and East European Center.

Prof. Shtohryn is professor emeritus of library administration in the Slavic and East European Library and of Ukrainian literature in the department of Slavic languages and literatures.

Earlier this year the Foundation for Ukrainian Studies in Australia invited Prof. Shtohryn to be guest speaker at the opening of the Archives of the Ukrainian Community in Australia at the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney.

Prof. Shtohryn also presented a special lecture for Ukrainian organizations in Sydney and Brisbane. In addition, he visited libraries and departments of Slavic studies at Macquarie University, the University of Newcastle and the University of Sydney.

Late last year, five Ukrainian libraries, institutes and societies invited Prof. Shtohryn to present papers at their conferences. They included the Volodymyr Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine and the National Parliamentary Library, both in Kyiv; the Maxim Gorky Scientific Library in Odesa; the State Pedagogical Institute in Kolomyia; and the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv.

The Shevchenko Scientific Society, which was celebrating its 125th anniversary, presented Prof. Shtohryn with the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Medal, given annually to a single designee for "distinguished contribution to the development of Ukrainian studies in Western countries." The ceremony was held in Lviv's opera house.

At the University of Illinois, Prof. Shtohryn continues to teach a course on Ukrainian culture in the department of Slavic languages and literatures, and conducts a seminar on the Ukrainian language.

For more information about the Ukrainian conference, contact Prof. Shtohryn at: (217) 356-9195; e-mail, [email protected].

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