# Shevchenko Expertise-a-thon for Ukraine #### calendar\_today Date and Time **April 29, 2022** 09:00AM - 05:00PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Zoom (registration required) | YouTube | Facebook** Register for Zoom arrow\_circle\_right [Organized by the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US](https://shevchenko.org/upcoming_event/shevchenko-expertise-a-thon-for-ukraine/) Includes: **Emily Channell-Justice**, TCUP Director; **George G. Grabowicz**, Dmytro Čyževs’kyi Research Professor; **Olha Aleksic**, Petro Jacyk Bibliographer for Ukrainian Collections; and HURI Associates **Oxana Shevel**, **Markian Dobczansky**, and **Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern** [Register for Zoom](/%20https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aNwTRX-aSHOUPeeN2pGUMw) or join on YouTube or Facebook *Join us for an expertise marathon to benefit the Shevchenko Emergency Fund.* ![Shevchenko expertise-a-thon](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/huri/files/expertiseshevchenko_1-768x403.jpg) This event will feature NTSh-A members and guests giving 10-12 mini-lectures in the subjects of their expertise or experience, as related to the war. There will be presentations on culture, music, history, politics, medicine, math & sciences, volunteering and humanitarian aid, scholar rescue, and cultural preservation in conditions of war. ## Program (all times Eastern Daylight Time) **9:00 Introduction** **9:15-10:00 Volunteering and Humanitarian Aid** - “Self-Organization: From Maidan to the Front Line,” Emily Channell-Justice, anthropologist and director, Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University - “Introducing the February 24 Archive,” Steven Seegel, professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, The University of Texas at Austin - “On the Humanitarian Front Line: Working with Ukrainian Refugees in Poland and Beyond,” John Vsetecka, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Michigan State University **10:00-11:00 History and Politics** - “New Wartime Discourse: What it Tells Us About Ukraine,” Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and professor of history, Northwestern University - “Theater Then and Now: Understanding Ukraine through the Stage,” Mayhill Fowler, associate professor of history, Stetson University - “War and the City: Understanding Kharkiv through History,” Markian Dobczansky, associate, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University - “Looking to the Future: Ukrainian Identity and Ukrainian-Russian Relations after the War,” Oxana Shevel, associate professor of political science, Tufts University **11:00-12:00 Arts and Music** - “Where would ‘Great Russian Art’ be without the backwaters of Ukraine?” Myroslava Mudrak, professor emeritus, Department of History of Art, The Ohio State University - “Ukrainian Musical Diplomacy since February 24, 2022,” Maria Sonevytsky, associate professor of anthropology and music, Bard College - “Arts, Ideology, and Politics,” Virko Baley, professor emeritus, Department of Music, University of Nevada, Las Vegas - “Why Defining the History of Ukrainian Art Music is More Important than Ever,” Leah Batstone, musicologist and postdoctoral researcher, University of Vienna **12:00-1:00 Scholar Rescue and Cultural Heritage Preservation** - “All That We Have is a Voice….: Ukrainian Writers in a Time of War,” Askold Melnyczuk, writer, editor, and professor of English, University of Massachusetts Boston - “Preserving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online: The SUCHO Project,” Olha Aleksic, Petro Jacyk Bibliographer for Ukrainian Collections, Harvard University - “Scholar Rescue in a Global World,” Iryna Vushko, assistant professor of history, Princeton University - “Assistance Efforts for Scientists,” George Gamota, Science and Technology Management Associates **1:00-2:00 Math, Economics, and Technical Sciences** - “Supernetworks and Ukraine,” Anna Nagurney, Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst - “The Reconstruction of Ukraine,” Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Quantedge Presidential Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - “Promoting Ukrainian Narrative in Science,” Alexey Ladokhin, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, Medical Center, University of Kansas - “An Astrophysicist in Poland and Relief Efforts,” Melania Nynka, research scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology **2:00-3:00 Language, Literature, and Culture** - “The Language of War,” Laada Bilaniuk, professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington - “The Ukrainian Film Community Responds to the War,” Vitaly Chernetsky, professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas - “How has war changed Ukrainian poetry? (Lessons from an online archive)” Amelia Glaser, associate professor of Russian and comparative literature, University of California, San Diego - “The Contemporary Resonances of Shevchenko’s ‘Kavkaz’,” George Grabowicz, Dmytro Čyževs’kyi Research Professor, Harvard University **3:00-4:00 Medicine and Biology** - “Medicine Under Occupation: A Voice from Sumy,” Roman Moskalenko, doctor and professor, Sumy State University - “Essential Healthcare for people living with opioid use disorder and HIV during Russia’s war in Ukraine,” Jennifer Carroll, associate professor of anthropology, North Carolina State University - “Improving Health Care in Ukraine: The Mission of the American-Ukrainian Medical Foundation,” Bohdan Pichurko, critical care physician, Cleveland Clinic - “Revived Soldiers Ukraine at War,” Iryna Vashchuk Discipio, president, Revived Soldiers Ukraine **4:00-5:00 Interdisciplinary** - “Women and War in Ukraine,” Olena Nikolayenko, professor of political science, Fordham University - “Ukraine Scholars at Risk program at University of California Irvine,” Iryna Zenyuk, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, University of California, Irvine - “Ukraine’s Racial Minorities in Wartime,” Adriana Helbig, associate professor, Music Department, University of Pittsburgh - “Fighting for Intellectual Sovereignty: The Ukrainian Global University,” Tymofii Brik, acting wartime vice-president of international affairs, Kyiv School of Economics [Register for the Zoom event.](/%20https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aNwTRX-aSHOUPeeN2pGUMw) [Donate to the Shevchenko Emergency Fund](https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LHK5R8FE5RJHG) to support Ukrainians scholars and artists displaced by war. 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