2002: THE YEAR IN REVIEW: Scholarly activity spans the globe (01/12/03)

2002: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

Scholarly activity spans the globe

Spanning the globe - that might well be the best description of the activity of Ukrainian scholarly circles during 2002, as major events and developments were recorded in the United States, Germany, Ukraine, Canada and elsewhere.

Following is a chronological summary of the most significant news in the world of academia.

The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) in February announced plans to launch a website devoted to the Ukrainian translation of George Orwell's satire of Russian Communism, "Animal Farm." Ihor Sevcenko, a co-founder of HURI published the translation in 1947 under the pseudonym Ivan Cherniatynskyi, after exchanging letters with Orwell. The translation was seen by Orwell as a valuable tool for Eastern European intellectual circles in opposition to Stalin's tyranny. As part of the project, the original version and a previously unpublished reviewed version that Prof. Sevcenko worked out with Orwell will be made available. In addition, the website will feature Orwell and Sevcenko's correspondence and analysis of the work.
Also in February, HURI held a book presentation and reception for Patricia Kennedy Grimsted's trailblazing study "Trophies of War and Empire: The Archival Heritage of Ukraine, World War II, and the International Politics of Restitution" (Cambridge, Mass.: HURI, 2001). On this occasion, Dr. Grimsted presented an update on the recently published volume. Dr. Grimsted's book has had the most review requests of any HURI book and has won praise from specialists in such diverse fields as archival studies, history, the Holocaust, restitution studies and international law.
Ukrainian intellectual heavyweights from around the globe, including representatives of two respected academic societies, gathered in Kyiv on February 12 to announce the release of the first volume of the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine. The encyclopedia, which is expected to consist of 25 volumes with some 65,000 entries at its completion, was developed to document the development of Ukrainian society and culture in the 20th century and the transformation of the Ukrainian nation into an independent state, which today is a decade old. The encyclopedia was a joint effort of the National Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Kyiv, and the Shevchenko Scientific Society, an international organization centered in New York. Leading scholars of both organizations, from Ukraine and abroad, contributed to its development.
The Ukrainian Free University in Munich began its year with a special occasion, as Helmut Kohl, former chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, received Leonid Rudnytzky, rector of the Ukrainian Free University (UFU), in a special audience held in Berlin on February 14. The occasion was the presentation of a commemorative booklet containing photographs and speeches from a ceremony held on December 4, 2000, during which Chancellor Kohl was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Ukrainian State University of Forestry and Wood Technology in Lviv. Dr. Kohl had a lengthy conversation with Prof. Rudnytzky concerning life in contemporary Ukraine and the work of the Ukrainian Free University in Munich.
The Shevchenko Scientific Society of America (NTSh) hosted the 22nd annual scholarly conference dedicated to Taras Shevchenko on March 10 in New York City. The highlight of the conference was the presentation of two books published in Ukrainian by NTSh in 2001. One of the books, "A Concordance to the Poetic Works of Taras Shevchenko," compiled by Dr. Oleh Ilnytzkyj and George Hawrysch, is the first ever concordance on Ukrainian literature. The four-volume, 3,200-page work lists every word used by Shevchenko, presented in the context of the surrounding sentences. The concordance lets scholars easily trace nuances of meaning and grammatical structures, and is expected to facilitate a greater understanding of Shevchenko's work. The other book presented at the conference was "The Worlds of Taras Shevchenko," Vol. 2, a collection of articles edited by NTSh President Dr. Larissa Onyshkevych, Prof. Assya Humesky and Dr. John Fizer.

At the NTSh conference, Dr. Ilnytzkyj, a professor of Ukrainian literature at the University of Alberta, presented a lecture titled "The Word 'Zhyd' in the works of Shevchenko." Some of Shevchenko's critics have labeled him an anti-Semitist because his works contain the word "zhyd," which is an offensive term in Russian, but a benign one in Ukrainian. In fact, Dr. Ilnytzkyj noted that Shevchenko, in various works, openly opposed anti-Semitism in the Russian Empire. "Shevchenko and Post-Colonialism" was the topic explored by Prof. Vitaly Chernetsky of the Harriman Institute of Columbia University. Prof. Grabowicz of HURI spoke on "The Current State of Scholarly Research on Shevchenko: Some Thoughts on the Subject of Recent Publications and Presentations."

Some worrisome closing thoughts were shared by Dr. Olexa Bilaniuk, UVAN president, who traced the history of the struggle of the Ukrainian language for survival in the face of the imperialist Russian onslaught. Realizing that "the word is mightier than the sword," said Dr. Bilaniuk, tsarist Russia in the 19th century banned the Ukrainian language both from print and public speech. After a brief rebirth in the 1920s, the Ukrainian language fell victim to a new wave of compulsory Russification beginning in the early 1930s when, among other measures, some 40,000 Ukrainian terms were specifically excluded from usage by Moscow's edict. Russification reached its peak in the Brezhnev era, when the unconcealed policy of the Soviet regime was to mold all Soviet peoples into one Russian-speaking nation. "We all had expected," said Dr. Bilaniuk, that upon gaining national independence Ukraine would restore its original language and orthography but, sadly, this has not happened. A project of the Orthography Commission of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine which proposed a partial de-Russification of the Ukrainian orthography has just been canceled by Ukraine's government and the commission itself was suddenly disbanded. Thus, the struggle for the Ukrainian language has gone full cycle.

A short time later, on March 21, the Shevchenko Scientific Society was the beneficiary of a special recital held by world-renowned Metropolitan Opera soloist Paul Plishka and internationally acclaimed pianist Thomas Hrynkiw. The event was sponsored by India House, known as a gathering place for those engaged in foreign commerce. Funds raised at the benefit went toward the society's scholarship fund.
Ukraine was the principal focus of the seventh annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) held in New York on April 11-13. This year's convention featured 18 panels, roundtables and video presentations, the most of any other post-Soviet country, including Russia. The convention saw an unprecedented emphasis on language in Ukraine, explored in three different panels: "Nationality and Language in the 2001 Ukrainian Census," "Language Policies and Politics in Ukraine and Belarus" and "Political, Social and Linguistic Implications of Surzhyk in Ukraine Today." The "surzhyk" roundtable, organized by the Shevchenko Scientific Society of New York with the active participation of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, was particularly well-attended. Other panels and papers explored topics as diverse as "Dealing with Diasporas," "Ukraine's Loss of Human Resources: Immigrants from Ukraine to Canada, 1999-2001," "Civic Values and Religious Education in Ukraine Today" and "Lemko Separatism and Ethnic Politics of the Polish Government in the 21st Century."
In Canada on April 11-13, the University of Alberta looked at the topic of "Ukrainians in Canada from the Great War to the Cold War." Titled "A Rock and a Hard Place," the conference brought together Ukrainian Canadian specialists and enthusiasts to hear presentations on matters ranging from a history of the hemp seed oil press in east central Alberta to a treatment of the Vasile Avramenko dance repertoire within the "paradigm of national art." The conference was organized by the Ukrainian Canadian Program of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. The April date coincided with the 25th anniversary banquet of the CIUS and, thus, highlighted the institute's important role in the development of Ukrainian-Canadian studies over the last quarter-century.

The conference also provided an opportunity for representatives of the CIUS-UCP, the Ukrainian Resource and Development Center at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton, the Canadian Center for Ukrainian Culture and Ethnology at the University of Alberta, the Prairie Center for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage in Saskatoon, the Center for Ukrainian Canadian Studies at the University of Manitoba and the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies to get together before the conference to look at ways in which to best cooperate in the development of Ukrainian Canadian studies.

Meanwhile, in Switzerland, an international conference titled "Ukraine: Challenges of a Country in Transformation" was held on April 19-20, at the University of Fribourg. The organizers of the conference were: the Interfaculty Institute of East and Central Europe, the Institute for Ecumenical Studies, and the Ukrainian Society of Switzerland (Andrej N. Lushnycky, president). This was the second such symposium devoted exclusively to Ukrainian subjects. The first, in November 2001, was composed of many distinguished international guests, among them the former president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, and was dedicated to the celebration of 10 years of Ukrainian independence. The 2002 conference featured 16 speakers from nine countries and was held in the context of the annual "European Days" at the university, a celebration of the establishment of the Council of Europe. Topics covered included political changes, the media, security issues, economic cooperation, Church and religion, and literature and culture.
At the HURI-sponsored Vasyl and Maria Petryshyn Memorial Lecture at Harvard University, Dr. Natalia Yakovenko argued that the common view of the relationship between Orthodox and Catholics during the 16th and 17th centuries is rooted in myth rather than reality. The April 22 lecture - titled "Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants: Religious Co-Existence in Ukraine in the 16th-17th Centuries" - sought to prove that the perceived tensions between religious groups of that period came about because historians misread the works of church polemicists. According to Dr. Yakovenko, Churches were competing for the souls of Christians, and their rhetorical communications acquired the status of bona fide testimony. She pointed to much evidence that religious groups of that period co-existed peacefully and presented records showing a good deal of inter-faith marriage among Orthodox, Catholics and Protestants.
At the Shevchenko Scientific Society in New York on April 27, two noted Ukrainian scholars discussed the ongoing process of building a Ukrainian national state. Dr. Natalia Yakovenko, a professor of history at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and a visiting scholar at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute spoke of the dramatic contrast in the status of historiography before and after independence. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, she explained, discussions about history have been more honest and there has been an increased amount of collaboration with other European countries, resulting in more access to scholarly works.

Dr. Oleh Romaniv, a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the secretary general of the Shevchenko Scientific Society's World Council, spoke about the irregularities in Ukraine's parliamentary elections. Dr. Romaniv explained how President Leonid Kuchma's For a United Ukraine bloc had rigged votes in rural areas, sidestepping the European observers monitoring the ballots in major cities. In a fair election, Dr. Romaniv said, Victor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine bloc would have garnered up to 35 percent of the by-party vote, rather than the 23.6 percent it won in March.

"Language and Identity" was the theme of a conference held on April 27 at St. Vladimir's Institute in Toronto. Topics addressed included: How important is language for identity and vice versa? Who in Canada is speaking Ukrainian? Who is learning it? The conference organizers were the Educational Council of the Ukrainian World Congress, the Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada and the Ukrainian Canadian School Board-Toronto Branch; speakers included representatives of the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, the University of Alberta and Zielonogorski University in Poland. A presentation of Dr. Oleh Wolowyna's census-based research on the situation of the Ukrainian language (originally prepared for the Ukrainian Canadian Congress) was made to provide a demographic foundation to the language question in Canada.
An international conference entitled "Ivan Mazepa and his Followers: State Ideology, History, Religion, Literature, Culture" was held at the conference center of the University of Milan at Gargnano del Garda, Italy, on May 7-11. Sponsored by the Slavic and Ugro-Finnic Section of the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Philological Studies, the conference included papers by 11 Ukrainian scholars from Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv and Chernihiv, four from Canada, four from Poland, three from Italy, two from Russia, two from France, one from Germany, one from Estonia, and one from Israel. Conference organizer Prof. Giovanna Brogi-Bercoff of the University of Milan opened the proceedings with an exhortation that the time had come to discuss the multi-faceted figure of Mazepa and his age divorced from the political and ideological polemics that have dominated for the last three centuries.
The 250th anniversary of the composer and conductor Dmytro Bortniansky (1751-1825), generally recognized as a giant in Ukrainian religious music, was observed by the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) at its building in New York on May 18 with a musicological conference and a concert in his honor. The conference offered lectures richly illustrated with recordings of Bortniansky's choral and orchestral music, and was crowned with a live solo performance of a selection of his songs.
A roundtable organized by the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences (UVAN) with the Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada discussed the state and future of Ukrainian studies in Canada. Held at the Canadian Ukrainian Art Foundation gallery on May 25, the roundtable attracted participants from all across Canada. Speakers included scholars from York University, the University of Toronto, the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, the universities of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec, the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute at St. Paul's University and the University of Trent. The conclusion was that declining student enrollment in Ukrainian studies and courses is challenging academics to re-evaluate the field of Ukrainian studies. As the university which enjoys administrative and government support, Alberta is currently the functioning center of Ukrainian studies in Canada. The two other western universities - Manitoba and Saskatchewan - continue to hold their own and, although their enrollment numbers are falling, they are not yet considered to be at a crisis level. Although the Metropolitan Sheptytsky Institute has developed a niche for Ukrainian studies within Eastern Christian Studies, other Ontario universities need a variety of creative approaches to position Ukrainian courses and topics within the new societal and academic constellations.
The Toronto Office of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies celebrated 25 years of the institute's work on May 26, a date chosen to coincide with the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists, then being held on the University of Toronto campus. The festivities were enhanced by two interesting and significant academic events: the annual Danylo H. Struk Memorial Lecture and a book launch for the four-volume "Concordance to the Poetic Works of Taras Shevchenko."

The Struk Memorial Lecture - supported by a fund established in memory of Prof. Struk and administered by the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies - was delivered this year by Dr. Oleh Ilnytzkyj, professor of Ukrainian literature at the University of Alberta department of modern languages and Cultural Studies. In a most interesting and illuminating presentation titled "Deconstructing Gogol's/Hohol's two 'Souls'," Dr. Ilnytzkyj refuted the conventional explanation of Gogol/Hohol as a Russian writer and presented his views on Mykola Hohol's/Nikolai Gogol's national identity and the nature of the broad interplay between Ukrainian and Russian literature in the 19th century.

President Leonid Kuchma's decree "On the Commemoration of the 350th Anniversary of the Pereiaslav Kozak Council of 1654" - an event that led to the abolition of the independent Ukrainian state formed under Bohdan Khmelnytsky's leadership - raised the ire of the scholarly community. First to react in the diaspora was the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, led by Dr. Zenon E. Kohut, CIUS director; Dr. Frank Sysyn, director, Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Research; and Dr. Serhii Plokhy, director, Church Studies Program. In a June 14 open letter to Ukrainian historians, the CIUS argued that, "Intentionally or not, the presidential decree of March 13 politicizes historical scholarship in order to legitimize a possible change in the foreign policy of Ukraine and reorient the historical consciousness of the Ukrainian people. Your participation in these measures - commemorating an event that most historians on the organizing committee continue to regard as a decision forced upon our 'great Bohdan' - will lend legitimacy to those forces in Ukraine and beyond that seek to resurrect the empire that Pereiaslav helped create. That would be a disservice to Russia and Ukraine, whose progress requires not the rebuilding of the empire but the development of democratic nation-states." Similar reactions came from the Shevchenko Scientific Society of both the United States and Canada (July 3), the World Scholarly Council of the Ukrainian World Congress (July 12), the Ukrainian World Congress (July 16) and other quarters.
Dmytro Mymka, a retired farmer who died at age 98, left $500,000 to the Center for Ukrainian Studies at the University of Manitoba in what was one of the largest individual bequests ever received by the University of Manitoba. A university press release reported that Mr. Mymka had no connection to the university but wanted to remember his province and heritage. He was born in Ethelbert in 1903 to Ukrainian immigrants who arrived in 1897 among the first wave of Ukrainian settlers in Manitoba. Mr. Mymka worked on the Winnipeg-Churchill railroad and farmed in the Red River area until 1966, when he retired to Vancouver. The unsolicited gift from Mr. Mymka, which was announced in July, will increase the center's endowment significantly.

"Mr. Mymka has made a contribution to his community, his province and our university that cannot be underestimated," said Denis Hlynka, the center's acting director. Through the new Dmytro Mymka Research and Scholarship Endowment Fund, the center will be able to expand research and community service, and explore new ways of delivering courses. The center, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2001, funds up to 17 undergraduate courses in Ukrainian Canadian literature, language, history, economics, religion and arts as part of its mission to create, preserve and communicate knowledge relating to Ukrainian Canadian culture and scholarship.

"Ukrainian Archives in North America: Their Development and Their Future" was the main theme of the 21st annual conference on Ukrainian subjects held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on July 19-20. The conference was organized by the Ukrainian Research Program at the University of Illinois under the chairmanship of Prof. Dmytro Shtohryn and was held within the framework of the Summer Research Laboratory on Eastern European countries.
The Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute 2002 (HUSI) concluded on August 16. Thirty-four students from North America and Ukraine, Japan, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Italy took courses in Ukrainian studies that included Ukrainian language and history, as well as two pioneering courses: "Images of Ukraine in Western Culture" (Lubomyr Hajda and Ksenia Kiebuzinski) and "Ukraine as Linguistic Battlefield" (Michael Flier). The most significant event of the HUSI cultural calendar was the screening of "A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa," the latest film by the world-renowned Yuri Illienko - a film that had caused an uproar in Ukraine even before its release for the general viewer. The Harvard screening was the film's de facto North American premiere.
The International Foundation of Omelan and Tetiana Antonovych announced the laureates of its 21st annual awards for literary and scholarly achievement on August 17 at the newly remodeled Vasyl Stefanyk Scientific Library in Lviv. Historians Yurii Shapoval and Yaroslav Isaievych won the 2002 prizes in the scholarly category, while Hryhorii Huseinov, little-known outside Ukraine, was presented the award for literary achievement.

Dr. Shapoval, an internationally recognized expert on the Soviet secret police, a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and director of the Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies, has combed Kyiv and Moscow archives for years and written extensively on the dark world of the Soviet intelligence agencies, such as the KGB, NKVD, CheKa, MVD and GPU. He was recognized for his complete body of work, including "The Person and the System," published in 1994; "Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the GPU-NKVD," which was produced in 1996; as well as "Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s-1940s: Unknown Documents from the Archives of the Special Services," published in 2000 in two tomes. Prof. Isaievich, the director of the Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies and a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, has authored "The First Printer, Ivan Fedorov, and the Beginning of Printing in Ukraine," (1975); and "Ukrainian Book Publishing: Its Wellspring, Development and Problems;" (2001). He was recognized for his contribution to research on the development of book publishing in Ukraine.

Mr. Huseinov, was recognized for the Ukrainian-language literary magazine, Kurier KryvBas, which he has published and edited in his hometown of Kryvyi Rih since 1994. National Deputy Mykola Zhulynskyi, a member of the jury that decided on the winners, gave particular praise to Mr. Huseinov, who has published extensively in Ukraine and is the author of a five-volume book of literary works called "Hospodni Zerna" (God's Seeds). "He has supported Ukrainianism, Ukrainian themes and literature in an atmosphere not very conducive to the development of things Ukrainian," explained Dr. Zhulynskyi, referring to the very Russified character of the Kryvyi Rih region of southern Ukraine that Mr. Huseinov calls home. Writer and literary critic Ivan Dzyuba said of Mr. Husienov: "He is a Ukrainian marvel from the steppe. He has told us about the south of which we know too little. He has shown us how much of the truly Ukrainian is contained there."

An international conference titled "Ukraine-Russia: A Dialogue of Historiographies" was held on August 23-25 in Chernihiv, a city whose monuments and history are reminiscent of the 1,000-year history of Ukraine-Rus'. The conference was initiated and co-sponsored by the Kowalsky Program for the Study of Eastern Ukraine at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (Edmonton) and the Institute of European Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv). Others involved in sponsoring or organizing the conference included the Viacheslav Lypynsky East European Research Institute (Philadelphia), the Taras Shevchenko State Pedagogical University (Chernihiv) and the Siverian Institute of Regional Studies (Chernihiv). About 30 historians from Ukraine, Russia, the United States and Canada participated in the conference, which attempted to understand recent developments in both Ukrainian and Russian historiographies, which 10 years ago had embarked on the path of post-Soviet transformation.
The International Congress of Ukrainian Studies held in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, on August 26-29, elected Prof. Mark von Hagen of Columbia University as president of the International Association for Ukrainian Studies. Other officers elected at the congress were: First Vice-President Yaroslav Hrytsak (Ukraine); Vice-Presidents Joanna Berkoff (Italy), Tamara Hundorova (Ukraine), Stefan Kozak (Poland), Halyna Lisna (Russia), Wolf Moskovich (Israel), Marko Pavlyshyn (Australia) and Frank Sysyn (Canada); and Scholarly Secretaries Antonina Berezovenko (USA) and Serhii Lepiavko (Ukraine).
On October 13, The Ukrainian Weekly's front page featured a story headlined "Ukrainian Studies Fund announces campaign for new center at Columbia." The story reported that the USF had inaugurated a capital campaign to fund a new center for Ukrainian studies at the prestigious and influential Columbia University in New York City. A planned endowment fund of $5 million is to become the prime funding source for the center's programs. The first step in establishing the Ukrainian Studies Center is focused on the establishment of a new teaching position at Columbia in Ukrainian history. The USF's announced goal was to raise $1 million of capital within a year since that amount will be sufficient to initiate and sustain the teaching position in Ukrainian history. Founded in 1957 by students of the Ukrainian diaspora, the USF's mission is the advancement of knowledge about Ukraine in the United States and Canada, via the establishment and funding of centers of Ukrainian studies in North American universities.
An exhibit marking the event and highlighting some recently discovered documentation opened in Toronto on October 25. The exhibit was organized by the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Center with the support of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women's Organizations and was housed at the UCRDC's premises at St. Vladimir Institute. The focal point of the exhibit was the photographic prints of the 216 negatives of UPA activity that were found in 1999 in Yavoriv, Ukraine. The exhibit also featured original publications - ideological and pedagogical materials used by the UPA to inform the populace about the true face of the Soviet occupier - found in a hideout in Verkhovyna, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, and hidden by a teacher until 1992 when it was given to the UCRDC.
On October 26 the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies announced a campaign to increase funding for Ukrainian studies in Canada and elsewhere. "In the course of the last 27 years the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies has placed more than $3 million in the service of Ukrainian studies. This includes funding the publication of the English-language Encyclopedia of Ukraine, other scholarly works, as well as scholarships and other assistance given annually to students and scholars. The foundation wants to provide more because more is needed. For this reason we are undertaking an extensive fund-raising campaign to enable us to increase support for Ukrainian studies. This will benefit the Ukrainian community wherever it might be, in Canada, and worldwide, both now and for the next and succeeding generations," noted Olya Kuplowska, CFUS president, speaking at the foundation's annual meeting.
A book note published in November noted the release of Volume 8 of Mykhailo Hrushevsky's "History of Ukraine-Rus'." Titled "The Cossack Age, 1626-1650," the 808-page volume was released by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press. It is the third volume of the classic 10-volume work by Hrushevsky that has been produced by the Hrushevsky Translation Project of the Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Research.
In mid-November it was reported that Ihor Pasichnyk and Natalia Lominska, rector and vice-rector, respectively, of the National University of Ostroh Academy, who were in the United States visiting Ukrainian communities in Minneapolis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Washington, had announced the establishment of a Ukrainian Emigration History Center at Ostroh. The announcement was made, fittingly, at the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.
The National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy (KMA) and the Northwestern University Center for Technology and Innovation Management on December 2 officially announced a partnership and unveiled a new program of collaboration. Northwestern University is home to the Kellogg School of Management, ranked the best business school in the world in its MBA programs by The Economist (October 2002). The announcement was made in Kyiv at an official reception at the Imperia Restaurant of the Premier Palace Hotel. The program of cooperation began on December 2-3, with a two-day joint executive development seminar on "Stimulating and Managing Innovations" for senior managers of leading Ukrainian and international companies.

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