Conference on Ukrainian Subjects scheduled to begin on June 16 (06/01/03)

Conference on Ukrainian Subjects scheduled to begin on June 16

URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The 22nd annual Conference on Ukrainian Subjects will be held at the Illini Union of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on June 16-21. It is being organized by the Ukrainian Research Program under the chairmanship of Dmytro Shtohryn and will be held within the framework of the Summer Research Laboratory on Russian and East European Countries.

The main theme of this year's conference is "Ukraine Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow," and its speakers will tackle a wide range of questions dealing with development of Ukrainian historiography, culture, economics, politics and church activities in Ukraine and the diaspora.

The Program Committee of the conference comprises the following scholars: John Fizer (Rutgers University at New Brunswick), Assya Humesky (University of Michigan), Taras Hunzak (Rutgers University at Newark), Miroslav Labunka (Ukrainian Catholic University), Jaroslav Rozumny (University of Manitoba), Bohdan Rubchak (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Leonid Rudnytsky (Ukrainian Free University).

Over 55 distinguished scholars will speak to some 100 conferees from Canada, Germany, Poland, South Korea, Ukraine and the United States. From Ukraine alone, the organizers expect about 35 educators, scholarly researchers and people of letters who are to attend the conference; among them Ivan Drach, a poet and member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine; Dmytro Pavlychko, a poet and former ambassador of Ukraine to Slovakia and to Poland; Georgii Pocheptsov, head of the Office of Strategic Initiatives in the Office of the President of Ukraine: Volodymyr Yatsenkivskyi, minister counselor of the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, Oleh Romaniv, president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv; as well as rectors of five national and state universities in Ukraine.

About 50 papers will be give in Ukrainian or English. They will be included in 12 thematically designed sessions and two roundtables. The conference evenings will be devoted to presentations of new publications and poetry readings by their authors.

The conference is dedicated to the memory of George Y. Shevelov (1908-2002), life member of the Scholarly Council of the Ukrainian Research Program at the University of Illinois. Thus, one of the first sessions of the conference proceedings will be devoted to Prof. Shevelov's life and work. The papers at this session will be presented by Andriy Danylenko, Dr. Fizer, Prof. Rubchak and Oksana Solovey.

On Sunday, June 22, a group of the conference participants will meet the Ukrainian community of Chicago. The event will be sponsored by the Foundation for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Illinois under its president, Raisa Bratkiv. The meeting reception will be held at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, 2242 W. Chicago Ave.

For more information regarding the conference contact Prof. Shtohryn at (217) 356-9195 or [email protected]; regarding the reception in Chicago, contact Ms. Bratkiv at (847) 477-2150 or [email protected].

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