Lecture 'Ukrainian Under Attack in Its Homeland' at UM this weekend

[Max Pyziur]

Lecture and book signing
"Ukrainian Under Attack in Its Homeland"
Sunday, October 30, 2 p.m.
The Ukrainian Museum
222 East Sixth Street
(between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)
212.228.0110
http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/

Join us at 2 p.m. on October 30 as Dr. Yuri Shevchuk of Columbia
University presents a talk entitled "Ukrainian Under Attack in Its
Homeland: What Can We Do to Help?" and introduces his new textbook,
Beginner's Ukrainian.

Over the past decade, assimilationist pressures on Ukrainian in its
homeland have grown exponentially, in all spheres, and in ever newer
forms. Dr. Yuri Shevchuk will analyze the current language situation in
Ukraine and the challenges it presents for teaching Ukrainian as a foreign
language in North American universities as well as to thousands of foreign
students who receive their training in Ukraine. Dr. Shevchuk's recently
published textbook Beginner's Ukrainian offers new strategies aimed at
restoring the Ukrainian language to the role and status it has been
rapidly losing in Ukrainian society.
Copies of Beginner's Ukrainian (Hippocrene Books, 448 pages, $35) will be
available for sale and signing by Dr. Shevchuk after his lecture.
Admission to the event, which includes a reception, is $10; $5 for
students.

Tickets available online:
http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/shop/display.php?cat=26

Print the flyer:
http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/enews/2011/1110/thumbs/111030shevchuk_flyer.jpg


fyi,

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com

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