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Posts tagged as “Ukraine”

Film Screening & Discussion. An Unprecedented Campaign

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of director Mikhail Kaufman’s An Unprecedented Campaign (1931), followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Yuri Shevchuk. The film will be shown with English subtitles. An Unprecedented Campaign is the prominent avant-garde Soviet filmmaker Mikhail Kaufman’s rare cinematographic documentation of Stalin’s murderous campaign aimed at destroying Ukrainian peasantry. The film is about the 25,000 workers…

39th Annual Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Conference

Presenter(s): Anna Procyk, George G. Grabowicz, Oles Fedoruk, and Ostap Sereda. The Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh-A), jointly with the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. (UVAN), the Ukrainian Institute of America (UIA) and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI), invites all to the 39th Annual Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Conference. Anna Procyk, Learned Secretary of the Ukrainian Free…

Breaking Through the State Border as an Art Project

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Nazar Kozak (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). An example of border art, a politically motivated mode of art production, which is staged directly in site on state borders or has them in its primary focus, Maria Kulykivska’s endurance The Raft Crimea (2016) emerged as the artist’s personal reflection…