Marking 150 years of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, this conference features three panels with scholars from the US, Ukraine, Canada, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, and Austria. Speakers will discuss the history of the Society’s establishment, the contexts of its activity, and its influence on Ukrainian intellectual and cultural life from its founding to the present day.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
9:00–9:15
Welcome from Vitaly Chernetsky, conference organizer, First Vice President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society
9:15–11:00
Panel I: Nineteenth-Century Ukrainian Intellectual Life under Russian Imperial Rule
Chair: Halyna Hryn (Shevchenko Scientific Society/Harvard University)
George Grabowicz (Harvard University): Rethinking the Cyrilo-Methodian Brotherhood: Problems of Historiography and Some New and Old Aporias
Serhiy Bilenky (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta): Before NTSh-A: Scholarship and Politics in 1870s Kyiv
Fabian Bauman (University of Heidelberg): Academic Ukrainophilism and Ukrainian Politics in the Russian Empire under the Ems Ukaz
Discussant: Susan Smith-Peter (College of Staten Island, City University of New York)
11:00–11:15
Break
11:15–1:15
Panel ІІ: The Shevchenko Scientific Society and Its Impact, in Galicia and Beyond
Chair: Oksana Kis (University of Richmond/National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
Martin Rohde (University of Vienna): Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Making of Ukrainian “National Science”, 1892–1939
Tomasz Hen-Konarski (Polish Academy of Sciences): The Sorcerer and His Apprentice: Kyrylo Studyns′kyi and Amvrozii Androkhovych as Historians of the Greek Catholic Clerical Education
Jan Surman (Czech Academy of Sciences): (Re)writing Ukrainian Academic Language from Habsburg Galicia to the Soviet Union
Discussant: Frank Sysyn (University of Alberta)
1:15–2:30
Break
2:30–4:30
Panel III: Ukrainian Scholarship and Its Sociopolitical Contexts, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Chair: Olena Nikolayenko (Fordham University)
Anton Kotenko (University of Düsseldorf): “Scientific Society” or an “Institution of the Most Radical Ukrainophile party”? NTSh in the Materials of the Romanov Imperial Censorship
Maryna Paliienko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv/New York University): Ukrainian Diaspora Archives During and After World War II as a Target of Nazi and Soviet Security Services
Steven Seegel (University of Texas, Austin): The NTSh and Geography: On Some Challenges and Legacies in the Making of Modern Ukrainian Maps, from the 1860s to Stepan Rudnyts’kyi and The February 24th Archive Project
Discussant: Vitaly Chernetsky (University of Kansas)
4:30–4:45
Break
4:45–6:00
Concluding Discussion