Institute of History of Ukraine National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

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The international conference Ukraine in North America: Diaspora Activism, Academic Initiatives is being organized for November 3-5, 2022 by the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. The conference will gather scholars from the United States, Canada, and Ukraine to focus on different waves of immigration from Ukraine to North America and on the organizational and political activity of these individuals, chiefly their establishment of Ukrainian studies in their new homelands. Having helped incorporate Ukraine as a subject of discussion at academic institutions in the U.S. and Canada, the diaspora has now itself become the subject of scholarly analysis in contemporary Ukraine. Among the topics to be examined during the conference: new approaches in defining the Ukrainian diaspora; the political engagement of the diaspora during the Twentieth century and today; the role of libraries and archives in the establishment of Ukrainian studies institutions in North America; and various avenues of study of the Ukrainian diaspora in today’s Ukraine.

Participating in the conference are: Olga Andriewsky, Mark Andryczyk, Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak, Simone Attilio Bellezza, Robert H Davis, Orest Deychakiwsky, Markian Dobczanky, Myroslava Gongadze, Boris Gudziak, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Edward Kasinec, Natalia Khanenko Friesen, Ksenya Kiebuzinski, Kateryna Kobchenko, Volodymyr Kravchenko, Valerii Kuchynskyi, Uliana Pasicznyk, Olha Poliukhovych, Anna Procyk, Roman Procyk, Peter Rudnytsky, Victor Satzewich, Yuri Shevchuk, Myroslav Shkandrij, Frank Sysyn, Oleh Wolowyna, and Sergei Zhuk.

The conference will commence on November 3rd with a keynote address by Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak and a reception at which Alexander Motyl will be presented an award for his contributions to the field of Ukrainian studies. The keynote and reception will take place in Columbia’s Faculty House (Garden Room 2/Ivy Lounge, 64 Morningside Drive). Days Two and Three will take place in Columbia’s Journalism School (World Room/ Lecture Hall, 2950 Broadway at 116th). Day Two’s conference panels will be followed by a screening organized by the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University of the film Zaporozhets za Dunaiem (The Zaporozhiian Beyond the Danube, 1937). The final day of the conference will conclude with a book launch of Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky’s Shchodennyky (Kyiv; Dukh i Litera, 2019).