PREVIEW OF EVENTS
Sunday, February 17
- NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Museum will present a lecture/slide presentation
(in Ukrainian) at 2 p.m. with Lidia Lykhach from Kyiv on the themes: "The
Veneration of the Female Image in Ukrainian Folk Icons" and "Ukrainian
Folk Icons: Research and Collecting in Ukraine." Admission: $10 per
person. Refreshments will be served following the lecture. The event is
organized in conjunction with the exhibition "Ukrainian Folk Icons
of the 18th-19th Centuries" from the collection of Ms. Lykhach. The
exhibit, currently on view at the museum, will close on February 17. For
information contact The Ukrainian Museum, 203 Second Ave.; telephone, (212)
228-0110; e-mail, [email protected];
website, www.ukrainianmuseum.org.
Saturday, February 23
- NEW YORK: Dr. Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, senior research associate,
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and author of "Trophies of War
and Empire" (Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies, 2001), will discuss
the archival heritage of Ukraine vis-à-vis Russia, World War II
and international politics of restitution. The presentation will be held
at the Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and
10th streets), at 4 p.m. For more information call (212) 254-5130.
- EAST HANOVER, N.J.: The New Jersey branch of the Ukrainian Engineers'
Society of America (UESA) invites its members and the public to a branch
meeting and presentation to be held at the Ramada Hotel, Route 10 (westbound).
The branch members' meeting will begin at 1 p.m. and will be followed at
3 p.m. by talks on "Assisting the Lviv Minor Academy of Sciences,"
by Oksana Maziar, president, Friends of Lviv University Inc., and on "Kyiv
and Beyond" (a review of Kyivan architecture), by Dorian Yurchuk,
Walter Melvin Architects, New York City. Refreshments will be served. For
more information contact Andrij Wowk, (908) 725-9733; e-mail [email protected];
or visit the UESA website, www.uesa.org.
Sunday, February 24
- Toronto: Pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky will appear in concert in a program
of works by Mozart, Skoryk, Revutsky, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Chopin. The
concert, sponsored by the Ukrainian Canadian Art Foundation, will be held
at 3 p.m. at the UCAF Gallery, 2118-A Bloor St. W. Tickets: $25. For tickets
and additional information call Luda Pawliw, UCAF Gallery, (416) 766-6802.
Monday, February 25
- CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) will
present a lecture by Stephen Shulman, assistant professor of political
science, at Southern Illinois University and Shklar Fellow at HURI, on
"Nationalism and Foreign Policy in Ukraine." The lecture will
be held in the institute seminar room, 1583 Massachusetts Ave., at 4-6
p.m. For more information contact the institute, (617) 495-4053, or [email protected].
Thursday, February 28
- CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute will present
a lecture by Amir Weiner, assistant professor of Soviet history, Stanford
University, titled "Wild West, Window to the West: The Soviet Frontier,
1939-1989." The lecture will be held in the institute seminar room,
1583 Massachusetts Ave., at 4-6 p.m. For more information contact the institute,
(617) 495-4053, or [email protected].
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17, 2002, No. 7, Vol. LXX
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