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Проголошено Літературно-науковий конкурс ФУВУ серед праць, вперше опублікованих у 2020 році

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The Foundation of the Ukrainian Free University (FUU) announces the Literary and Scientific Competition among publications of 2020. The winners of the competition will be awarded cash prizes from the Foundation, established on December 31, 1997 by the families of Stefan and Emilia Volyanik and Theodore and Sofia Schwabinski from Ohio in the USA, as well as from additional funds donated by the Foundation itself. The competition is held every year. Please send your works that first appeared in print in 2020 (not reprints) by June 30, 2021 to the office of the Ukrainian Free University Foundation: Ukrainian Free University Foundation, 136 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003. The goal is to recognize the best scientific works with Ukrainian studies topics and literary works of various genres, written in Ukrainian or ... Read more

Maria Pryshlyak: The Ukrainian Free University has been operating for 100 years

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MUNICH. - 100 years ago, Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, co-author of the first draft of the charter of the Ukrainian Free University (UUU), wrote that the task of the university was first of all nation-building - in other words, the consolidation of Ukrainian identity and national consciousness, as well as the integration of Ukrainian education, science and culture into the world. During its hundred years of existence, UVU faithfully fulfilled this task. UVU became a pioneer of Ukrainian science. In Prague, in addition to teaching general disciplines - archeology, history, geography, history of Roman literature, Greek mythology, jurisprudence, pedagogy, organic chemistry, political economy, foreign languages, etc., UVU actually developed the first purely Ukrainian educational programs and conducted courses on Ukrainian historiography and source studies, history of Ukrainian art, ... Read more

The deadline for submitting papers to the Literary and Scientific Competition named after Volyanik-Shwabinskyi

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In view of the exceptional circumstances related to the pandemic, the Ukrainian Free University Foundation is extending the period for submission of papers to the Volyanik-Shwabinsky Literary and Scientific Competition until August 31, 2020. The best scientific works on Ukrainian studies and literary works of various genres, written in Ukrainian or English, which were published in book format in Ukraine or in the diaspora in 2019, can be submitted to the competition. Works or compilations, where the majority are reprinted materials, as well as works in which specifically members of the FUU Board of Directors or members of the jury were involved, are not allowed. Only printed works sent by the authors are considered. The competition also accepts master's theses and doctoral theses of graduates... Read more

Holodomor victims were honored with a scientific lecture and concert

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On Saturday, November 16, with the efforts of the Foundation of the Ukrainian Free University (FUU), the Academy of St. Yura and the Ukrainian People's House in New York, an extremely important event took place - in a scientific and educational sense. The event, dedicated to honoring the memory of the victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-1933, consisted of two parts: a scientific report by a well-known historian, prof. Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko, Volodymyr Serhiychuk and the art program. A large part of the crowded hall of the Ukrainian People's House were students of the Academy of St. Yura in New York. Therefore, the program of the evening provided an opportunity, first of all, for this youth to realize, to understand more deeply, and for some to discover this crime of the totalitarian Stalinist regime and its ... Read more

The UVU Foundation lecture marked the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932-1933.

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At the events of the Foundation of the Ukrainian Free University (FUU) in New York at the House of Ukrainian State Organizations on Sunday, October 14, I c.r. commemoration of the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 took place. Volodymyr Serhiychuk, a professor of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University invited to this commemoration, gave a lecture on the topic "Calculating the number of victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933." The event was opened and conducted by the head of the FUU, Dr. Askold Lozynskyi. In his lecture, Professor Serhiychuk conducted a broad and detailed analysis of the demographic situation in the Ukrainian SSR during the Holodomor. The calculation of the number of victims submitted by the professor was based on various source materials of the Soviet archives, and not only the censuses of 1926, 1937 and 1938... Read more