Ukraine’s Place in Europe: Toward a new understanding of interwar Ukrainian history (1921-1939)
This event, organized together with the Shevchenko Scientific Society and sponsored by: BCU Foundation and Ukrainian Cultural Centre Toronto, featured eminent Polish-Ukrainian Ola Hnatiuk and Roman Wysocki, who discussed their publishing project “Ukraine. Europe: 1921-1939,” the aim of which is to publish little-known documents that counteract falsifications of history, including a volume dedicated to documents of sociologist Olgerd Bochkovsky, who headed a Ukrainian emigre committee in Czechoslovakia that sought to bring international attention to the Holodomor and secure aid for the starving. Two volumes of Bochkovsky’s works have been published and the third is in print.
Presenters
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Ola Hnatiuk
is a professor at the University of Warsaw and at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and is vice-president of Ukrainian PEN-Centre. She served in the Polish diplomatic corps from 2006 to 2010. She is the recipient of the Polonia Restituta (Republic of Poland highest state award), the Antonovych Foundation Award for fostering Polish-Ukrainian cultural cooperation, and the Pruszynski Polish PEN-Club Award. Her last book, Courage and Fear, received awards in Ukraine and in Poland, and was published in English this year.
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Roman Wysocki
is a historian and lecturer at the Institute of History at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. He received his Ph.D. in history from the same university, on the topic The Organization of the Ukrainian Nationalists in Poland, 1929-1939. He is the author of three books and numerous articles on Polish-Ukrainian relations between the two World Wars and on Ukrainians and Belarusians in Poland.
Sponsors
Shevchenko Scientific Society
BCU Foundation and Ukrainian Cultural Centre Toronto
Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta)