BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Shevchenko Expertise-a-thon for Ukraine PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1435143_0 SUMMARY:Shevchenko Expertise-a-thon for Ukraine DESCRIPTION:

Organized by the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US
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

Join us for an expertise marathon to benefit the Shevchenko Emergency Fund.

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

Donate to the Shevchenko Emergency Fund to support Ukrainians scholars and artists displaced by war.

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