Lviv conference aims to tackle problems of Ukrainian terminology (05/12/02)

Lviv conference aims to tackle problems of Ukrainian terminology

NEW YORK - "SlovoSvit 2002," the seventh International Conference on Problems of Ukrainian Terminology, will take place at Lviv Polytechnic University in Ukraine on September 24-26. This year's conference will be held in honor of the late Anatole Wowk, author of several Ukrainian-English terminological dictionaries and the former head of the Ukrainian Terminological Center of America (UTCA).

The Lviv conference is sponsored by the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science, Lviv Polytechnic University, the Shevchenko Scientific Society, the Ukrainian Terminological Center of America and Canada, and other organizations. The themes of the conference will include the theoretical principles of terminological knowledge and lexicography, normalization and standardization of Ukrainian terminology, and the terminology of the natural sciences and humanities.

A seminar honoring Mr. Wowk will be held after the conference opening on September 24. Besides heading the UTCA until his death in 1992, Mr. Wowk was a long-time member of the Ukrainian Engineers' Society of America (UESA) and the Shevchenko Scientific Society, as well as the editor of a popular page about the Ukrainian language which appeared regularly in the daily newspaper Svoboda. His last terminological dictionary was published posthumously in Lviv in 1998, and is currently available in the United States.

The submission deadline for papers to be presented at the conference is May 30. For a conference application form or more information about the event, including hotel accommodations in Lviv, please contact Andrij Wowk at wowk@email.com, or the conference organizer, Prof. Bohdan Rytsar, at rytsar@polynet.lviv.ua.

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