The Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies presents a forthcoming book project: |
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Living the Independence Dream |
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Ukraine and Ukrainians in the Contemporary Socio-Political Context |
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Tuesday, April 18, 2023
10:00 am - 11:00 am EST
Hybrid Event
Elliott School of International Affairs
Lindner Family Conference Room (Room 602)
1957 E St NW, Washington, D.C. 20052
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For many Ukrainians, 1991 was a crucial point when their long-held dream of independence came true. The book project Living the Independence Dream takes a multi-dimensional look at the period of regained independence as a time of advancement towards the realization of collective dreams shaping the post-Soviet nation, even through everyday disappointments, anxiety, and uncertainty. The collection features personal accounts of several generations of Ukrainians who found themselves displaced by political upheavals in foreign lands, as well as the voices of recently displaced people who left the Donbas or other regions of Ukraine following the outbreak of the Russian aggression. It revisits the legacy of Soviet dissidents, and explores the ideologies of Ukrainian language revival and the ways that memory and language construct Ukrainian identity and generate vital energy amidst war.
The collection Living the Independence Dream aims to analyze the agency of contemporary Ukrainian people, and the role of media, literature, and digital folklore in creating new messages, meanings, and values formed during the Post-Independence decades.
The book will be published in 2023 by Vernon Press.
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Lada Kolomiyets
Harris Visiting Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College
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Dr. Lada Kolomiyets is the Harris Visiting Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College for the 2022-23 academic year and Professor of Translation Studies at Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. She is a widely published scholar on the long history of censorship in Ukraine, comparative literature, and Slavic studies, with over 130 scholarly publications, including three monographs, several co-edited collections, three poetry anthologies, and numerous peer-reviewed articles and chapters in edited volumes both in Ukrainian and English. A poet-translator and member of the National Writers Union of Ukraine, Prof. Kolomiyets studied Ukrainian diaspora in the USA as a Fulbright Scholar at Penn State University in 2017-18. Her current research involves post-communist transformation, Ukraine’s digital folklore and popular mobilization.
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Martha Bohachevska-Chomiak
Historian, researcher, and civic activist
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Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak, Ph.D., is Professor-emerita of history at Manhattanville College. She has taught at the George Washington U, Johns Hopkins U, Seton Hall U, Catholic U of America, Farleigh Dickinson U and Harvard U. She was a Senior Program Officer of the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1985-2000 and Director of the Fulbright Program in Ukraine in 2000-2006. Her numerous scholarly and academic publications include such books as: “Feminists Despite Themselves: Women in Ukrainian Community Life, 1884-1939” (Edmonton: U of Alberta Press, 1988), “Political Communities and Gendered Ideologies in Contemporary Ukraine” (Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies, 1994), “S.N. Trubetskoi: An Intellectual Among the Intelligentsia Prerevolutionary Russia” (Belmont, Mass.: Nordland Press, 1976). Her most recent book “Ukrainian Bishop, American Church” (Catholic University of America Press, 2018) appeared in Ukrainian translation in 2020 in Lviv. Dr. Bohachevsky-Chomiak is Doctor Honoris Causa at Ukrainian Catholic U, Lviv, 2013. Her research interests include Ukrainian social and intellectual history, women's studies. |
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Bohdan Futey
Senior Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims
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Judge Bohdan Futey was nominated Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims in 1987. He has been actively involved with Democratization and Rule of Law programs since 1991 organized by the Judicial Conference of the United States, the Department of State, and USAID in Ukraine. He was appointed as a Member of the Constitutional Commission of Ukraine (2015). He is a Visiting Professor at the National U of Kyiv Mohyla Academy and the Ukrainian Free University in Munich. He had widely published on legal and rule of law issues in the US, Canada, Ukraine and other European countries. His publications include a book “Establishing the Rule of Law: Ukraine 1991-2001 (Kyiv, Yurincom Inter, 2001), updated and republished in 2005 and 2011. Among his honors and awards are: Ukraine's Presidential Award (Distinguished Medal), 1995; Rule of Law Award, Ukrainian American Bar Association (UABA), 2002; James Madison Award, (U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 2006); Achievement Award, Ukrainian American Bar Association (UABA) 2007; Shevchenko Freedom Award, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (2012); Ukrainian World Congress (UWC), St. Volodymyr’s Life Achievement Award, Lviv, Ukraine (2013). |
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Antonina Berezovenko
Senior Visiting Fellow, IERES, Elliott School, George Washington University
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Dr. Berezovenko is an Associate Professor at the Department of Ukrainian Language, Literature, and Culture at the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorski Kyiv Polytechnic Institute,” and is also very involved with our partners at ASEEES. She received her Ph.D. in Slavic Philology and Linguistics from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and teaches primarily on language development, especially in the context of historic narratives and national identity. As an IERES Fellow, Dr. Berezovenko will conduct a research project titled “Ukrainian Identity in War Times: Directions, Means and Perspectives of Resistance,” which will examine the intersection between asymmetrically applied Ukrainian language policy and Russian propaganda on its claims to Ukraine, especially regarding the protection of Russian speakers.
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Olha Homilko
Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
(will be presenting online)
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Dr. Olha Homilko is Leading Researcher of H. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy (Department of Philosophy of Culture, Ethics, Aesthetics) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Her research arears are social/political philosophy, philosophy of education, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of culture, and environmental philosophy. The key subject of her research is the human body in its philosophical implications. She published the book “Metaphysics of the Human body”, and more than 160 articles. She teaches at Kyiv Mohula National University (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies), and Ukrainain State Drahomanov University (Department of Social Philosophy and Philosophy of Education). Her teaching courses are “Social (Political) Philosophy”, “Ontology of the Human Body”, “Philosophy of Music”, “Animal Philosophy”. She is Fulbright Scholar (Pennsylvania State University, 1998-1999). |
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This event is on record and open to the media. |
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The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)
Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
1957 E Street, NW / Suite 412 / Washington, DC 20052
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