125TH ANNIVERSARY: SHEVCHENKO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY

[Hanya Krill]

For immediate release
September 14,1998

SEVERAL GENERATIONS OF UKRAINIAN AMERICAN SCHOLARS WILL PARTICIPATE IN A
CONFERENCE HONORING THE SHEVCHENKO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY'S 125TH ANNIVERSARY

This October, The Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh), the oldest
fuctioning Ukrainian scholarly association, will be celebrating its 125th
anniversary all over the world. In New York the event will be marked by two
conferences and a banquet; on October 2nd (at Columbia University, honoring
Prof. George Shevelov), and a two-day conference on October 3rd and 4th, at
NTSH in New York, at 63 Fourth Avenue (between 9th and 10th).

Most of the presentations will be in Ukrainian. The Saturday program will
commence (at 10:30 am) with a session devoted to the history of NTSh; among
the topics will be "NTSh in Ukraine" (Oleh Romaniv from Lviv), "NTSh in the
US" (Wolodymyr Stojko, Manhattan College), "NTSh and the Natural Sciences "
(Sviatoslav Trofimenko, U. of Del.), "Publications of NTSh" (Dmytro
Shtohryn, U. of Ill. ), "NTSh Publications in English" (Leonid Rudnytzky,
La Salle U.). The session will be chaired by Martha Bohachevsky Chomiak
(NEH). The first afternoon session (1:30-3:50) will deal with specific
aspects of Ukrainian studies: language (Larissa Onyshkevych, Princeton
Research Forum), literature (John Fizer, Rutgers U.), historiography (Anna
Procyk, Kingsborough Col.), and political science (Vasyl Markus, Encycl. of
Ukr. Diaspora). It will be chaired by Taras Hunczak (Rutgers Univ.).

A glimpse into the future will be provided by the second session (4:00 -
6:00 pm), devoted to science and technology, which will present a prognosis
of the changes likely to occur in the 21st century. The topics will cover
electrochemistry and computers (Lubomyr Romankiw, IBM), medicine (Larissa
Bilaniuk, Univ. of Pennsylvania), optical physics (Andriy Chraplywy, Lucent
Tech.), nuclear physics (Lew Chyrovsky, ATT), plus cybernetics and
cyberspace (Vsevolod Onyshkevych, Ronin Corp.). This session will be
chaired by Roman Andrushkiw (New Jersey Institute of Technology). An
exhibit of NTSh publications and books by NTSh members will be on display
(prepared by Tania Kejs and Svitlana Andrushkiw).

The Sunday program will commence (at 1:30) with an English-language session
on Ukrainian language (Michael Flier, Harvard U.) and religion (Thomas
Bird, Queens College), and will be chaired by Myroslava Znayenko. The
second session (in Ukrainian, 3:30-5:00) will present young Ph.D.'s and
scholars and their specific areas of specialization: Lidia Stefaniwska
(literature, Harvard U.), Daria Nebesh (ethnomusicology, U. of Maryland),
Oksana Lassowsky (topology, St. Johns Col.), Roman Samoliak (dynamical
systems, NJIT), and Bohdan Nebesh (the role of computers in everyday life
in the future, Dept of Defense). It will be chaired by Roman Voronka (NJIT).

The banquet will be held at the Ukrainian National Home at 142 Second
Avenue, on Sunday at 6:00 pm. It will also honor Prof. George Shevelov (to
be introduced by Assya Humesky) and the late Dr. Yaroslav Padoch (comments
by L. Rudnytzky). A musical program, based on music composed by Jaropolk
Lassowsky to texts by Marta Tarnawsky and Bohdan Krawciw (all NTSh members)
will follows, performed by The Lassowsky trio (J. Lassowsky. Oksana
Lassowsky and Daria Nebesh), with the poetry to be recited by Sofia Zielyk
and Ksenia Piasetsky. The highlight of the banquet will be a speech by the
Ambassador of Ukraine, Dr. Yuriy Shcherbak. Soprano solo by Lesia Hrabova
(of Lviv) will conclude the banquet.

Those interested to attend the banquet should send checks ($60/person) by
Sept. 21st to:
Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Ave., New York, NY 10003.
Information: (212) 254-5130.

A complete schedule of the weekend events is available at the
Shevchenko Scientific Society website:
Ukrainian (CP1251):     http://www.brama.com/sss/lecture.html
transliterated: http://www.brama.com/sss/lecturetr.html
this press release:     http://www.brama.com/news/press/ntsh091498.html



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Hanya Krill
akrill at shiva.hunter.cuny.edu
webmaster at brama.com
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