PREVIEW OF EVENTS
Friday, February 14
- NEW YORK: The Literary and Art Club is holding an evening of poetry
on the occasion of St. Valentine's Day. Reading their poetry will be Bohdan
Boychuk, Maria Rewakowycz and Yuri Tarnawsky; reading works of contemporary
poets will be Larysa Kukrytska and Volodymyr Lysniak. A musical interlude
will be provided by Lavrentia Turkevych and Andriy Miliavsky. Concurrently,
an exhibit of paintings by Maryna Tsesarska will be on view at the Mayana
Gallery, 136 Second Ave. The reading of poetry begins at 7 p.m.
- WOONSOCKET, R.I.: The Ladies' Sodality of St. Michael Ukrainian Orthodox
Church will hold its annual Lenten Kitchen in the parish hall at 874 Harris
Ave. The kitchen will be open every Friday beginning February 14 through
March 28, at 3-6:30 p.m. The Ukrainian meatless dishes may be eaten in
or taken out. For more information contact Gloria Hreczuck, (508) 883-8187,
or Anna Chaharyn, (401) 762-4511.
Sunday, February 16
- LAS VEGAS: The Ukrainian American Social Club of Las Vegas will hold
a Valentine's Day party /pot luck dinner to be held at 4301 Coran Land.
Cocktails and social hour, 5:30-7 p.m.; dinner, 7 p.m. Members, free; non-members,
$7. For more information and reservations call Steve, (702) 434-1187.
Tuesday, February 18
- JENKINTOWN, Pa.: Manor Junior College's office of continuing education
is offering, as part of its special interest courses, a course on Advanced
Ukrainian Embroidery to be held Tuesdays, February 18-March 25, at 7-9
p.m. For more information, or to enroll, contact the office, (215) 884-2218.
Monday, February 24
- CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute is holding
a lecture by Robert DeLossa, HURI, who will speak on the topic "Saint
Nicholas and the Politics of Translation." The lecture will be held
in the HURI seminar room, 1581-83 Massachusetts Ave., at 4-6 p.m.
- EDMONTON: The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University
of Alberta is holding a lecture by Dr. John-Paul Himka, University of Alberta,
who will speak on the topic "Cyclical Time and Linear Time, the Ukrainian
Past and Ukrainian History." The lecture will be held in the CIUS
library, 352 Athabasca Hall, at 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 27
- ATLANTA: The Center for Russian and East European Studies at Emory
University is holding a seminar titled "Financial Sector Reform in
the Former Soviet Union," with Ross Kendall, attorney with Glass,
McCullough, Sherrill and Harrold, and technical advisor to the National
Bank of Ukraine. The seminar will be held in Room 205, Rich Building, at
4 p.m. For additional information call (404) 727-6582.
ADVANCE NOTICE
Saturday, March 1
- KHERSON, Ukraine: An international conference titled "The Colonization
of Southern Ukrainian: Problems of Ethnic and Cultural Development,"
will be held May 19-25 in Kherson. The conference is being held to discuss
contemporary methodology and theory regarding ethnic and regional studies.
Among topics to be discussed are: the colonization of southern Ukraine
from the time of the Paleolithic to the 20th century; state policy and
cultural development of southern Ukraine in the 20th century; the state
of regional studies at universities, schools and cultural organizations;
ethnic studies and contemporary theory and methodology. Workshops for ethnologists
and folklorists will be held in the village of Zmievka, outside of Kherson.
The conference is sponsored, among others, by the Department of History
and Law at the Kherson State Pedagogical Institute, the Kherson Regional
Administration, the Department of History and Culture of Southern Ukraine
at the Institute of Art, Folkore and Ethnology of the Ukrainian Academy
of Sciences and the Ukrainian Association for Regional Studies. The working
languages at the conference will be Ukrainian, Russian and English. The
deadline for registration is March 1. Interested scholars, post-graduate
students and researchers may apply by submitting the following information:
name, professional status and affiliation, address as well as a short description
of work to be submitted. The material should be submitted to the conference
committee at: Prospekt Sorok Rokiv Zhovtnyia, 27; Khersonskyi Derzhavnyi
Pedahohichnyi Instytut, Istoryko-Pravoznavchyi Fakultet; Kherson, Ukraine,
32500; Sinkevych, Yevhen Hryhorovych. Telephone: (011-38-0552) 24-04-36;
fax: (011-38-0552) 24-21-14.
Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, February
9, 1997, No. 6, Vol. LXV
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