Next Saturday, March 8th, our Society is hosting the 44th Shevchenko Scholarly Conference. RSVP for in-person or watch online starting at 4:00 PM ET. Serhiy Bilenky, Tamara Hundorova, George Grabowicz will give presentations with Vitaly Chernetsky moderating. shevchenko.org/event/xliv-ann…

The case for funding Ukrainian studies made right here. Support the production of accurate knowledge on Ukraine and avoid garbage like 'Donbas is populated by people from Russia.' Btw, Olesya Khromeychuk & I are recording a new episode of the Ukraine Shelf on Donbas today. 👀

Call for Submissions: Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian Studies Deadline: April 15 aseees.org/award/pritsak-… The Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize recognizes a distinguished book in the field of Ukrainian studies.

Join us this Saturday March 29th at 5:00 PM in-person or online for a book launch by Svitlana Biedarieva 🇺🇦 moderated by Vitaly Chernetsky, Art in Ukraine: Between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance. Livestream below - youtube.com/live/riAJIVTCV…

A grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities may sound very abstract to someone far removed from implementing complex projects with dozens of moving parts such as translated literary works. But it means very concrete books for us—books that open the window to how rich, multifaceted, and diverse

such an illuminating lecture by brilliant Svitlana Biedarieva 🇺🇦 on my favorite topic. endless thanks to Vitaly Chernetsky for platforming these unique Ukrainian voices and defending their place in anti-colonial spaces

Our Society is distributing $2,000 fellowships for Ukrainian scholars, writers, and artists residing in Ukraine and those in the U.S. who have been displaced by the war. The deadline for submitting applications is May 1, 2025. Please see the link below. shevchenko.org/second-call-fo…

We are awarding Ukrainian language scholarships for US based applicants. Students who are accepted will receive a one-time payment of $2000 towards tuition, payable to the institution offering their program. The deadline to apply is May 15th read more here shevchenko.org/summer-languag…

Join us this Saturday April 26th at 11:00 AM ET for a webinar event commemorating the Chornobyl disaster with Stanislav Menzelevskyi, Nathaniel Ray Pickett and Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk with moderator Vitaly Chernetsky. Streaming on Zoom through the following link - us02web.zoom.us/j/89356400501

This forum, organized and put together by Anna Hajkova and Oksana Dudko, is out today. I’m grateful they invited me to contribute some words alongside such an amazing cast of scholars. Please take the time to read it. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-ar…

It was a pleasure to do an interview for this excellent podcast.

Join us this Friday, May 9th at 6:00 PM, for a talk by Serhii Tereshchenko, visiting assistant professor at the University at Albany (SUNY) on the WW I army officer Yevhen Malaniuk, an under appreciated Ukrainian intellectual. youtube.com/live/xzk1MCQjx…

🎶 Laboratory of Innovation: Ukrainian Music Past and Present 📅 19.05, 18:30–20:00 📍 79 Holland Park, London From avant-garde modernism to today’s wartime composers - discover a century of bold Ukrainian sound. tickettailor.com/events/ukraini…

Saturday, May 10th at 5:00 PM, University of Michigan Professor Greta Uehling will present her new book "Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom" at NTSh-A with moderation from Bard College professor Maria Sonevytsky. Watch live - youtube.com/live/4y9P_QUF5…

Grateful for the thoughtful conversation David A. Goldfarb @davidagoldfarb.bsky.social had with Sofia Andrukhovych and yours truly, in his excellent series "Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature." Watch for my translation of her novel Felix Austria coming out in a few months! books.huri.harvard.edu/books/felix-au…

Joy + disbelief!! Our translation w/Roman Ivashkiv of THE TEARS AND SMILE OF THINGS has won this year's AAUS Translation Prize. All credit and endless admiration to the gentle giant of Ukrainian literature, Andriy Sodomora! shorturl.at/Mdx38 shorturl.at/cYQIB

Victoria Amelina wins the Orwell prize with her unfinished book. It was painful to read it for a different reason. The parts already finished were so strong, that it hurt to understand again how much more she could have done if Russia hadn't killed her theguardian.com/books/2025/jun…

“The Quest for the Language of Socialist Modernisation: (Re)Writing Ukrainian Scientific Language in the Long 1920s” ia already at contemporary european history Many thanks to Bernhard Struck , Guilherme Fians , and Vitaly Chernetsky for making this happen! DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S09607….

Today's #bookmail! An exciting new anthology published by Arrowsmith Press! Crimean Fig is an anthology of Crimean Tatar poetry & fiction. Friends, please support & uplift this important collection.

It always amazes me how "historical arguments" that would be absurd if applied to western Europe are often treated as serious and valid when made by Russia about Ukraine👇