1970-1975, 1976-1980, 1981-1985, 1986-1990, 1991-1995, 1996-1998 HARVARD UKRAINIAN SUMMER INSTITUTE
LECTURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS
HARVARD UKRAINIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE
1991
27 June 1991.
"Psychological Portraits of Contemporary Writers."
Yuri Pokalchuk, author, translator and journalist, member of the Ukrainian Writers Union.1 July 1991.
"Ukrainian Poetry in Performance: A History of Experimentation."
Virlana Tkacz, Director of Yara Arts Group at La Mama Theater, New York City; and Wanda Phipps, 1991 Poetry Fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts.2 July 1991.
"The Lemko Question in Poland Today."
Yaroslav Moklak, Jagellonian University, Cracow.8-12 July 1991.
Theater workshop: "Poetry in Performance."
Virlana Tkacz, Director of Yara Arts Group at La Mama Theater, New York City.13 July 1991.
Performance: "Radio Eternity: Ukrainian Poetry from the 1920s and 1990s."
Virlana Tkacz, director; Watoku Ueno, set design; Carol Ann Pelletier, costume design; Slavko Halatyn, music; and Wanda Phipps, co-translator.15 July 1991.
"Nationality Problems in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Soviet Union: the Perspective of History."
John-Paul Himka, Professor of Central and East European History, University of Alberta.18 July 1991.
"National Movements in the USSR and Their Policies toward Ethnic Minorities: Ukraine in a Comparative Perspective."
Lubomyr Hajda, Research Fellow, Russian Research Center and Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.25 July 1991.
"The Ukrainian National Revival of the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries: a Comparative Perspective."
Roman Szporluk, Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University.2-3 August 1991.
Film festival: documentaries, including M. Donchyk's The Death of the Gods.5 August 1991.
"Ukrainian Poets Today: the Inner Profile."
Volodymyr Dibrova, prose writer, literary critic, and research associate of the T. Shevchenko Institute of Literature, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev.6 August 1991.
"Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry: The Process of de-Colonization."
Volodymyr Dibrova, prose writer, literary critic, and research associate of the T. Shevchenko Institute of Literature, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev.8 August 1991.
Prose reading: Volodymyr Dibrova.TBA
"Consciousness at a Juncture: Awareness of History and Native Musical Traditions in Ukraine."
Taras Filenko, Music Historian, Kiev.1992
1 July 1992.
"In the Light: Working on a Play about Les' Kurbas in Kiev with a Bilingual Cast."
Virlana Tkacz, Director of Yara Arts Group at La Mama Theater, New York City.6-10 July 1992.
Theater workshop: "Poetry in Love and Parody."
Virlana Tkacz, Director of Yara Arts Group at La Mama Theater, New York City.11 July 1992.
Performance: "Heart Pic(k)s: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ukrainian Love Poetry."
Virlana Tkacz, director; Wanda Phipps, dramaturg; Watoku Ueno, set design; Volodymyr Bebeshko and Vika Vradij, music; and Carol Ann Pelletier, costume design.14 July 1992.
Poetry reading: Olha Bohomolets, laureate of the Oberih Song Festival and of the Vasyl Stus Prize.21 July 1992.
Roundtable: "The Day after December 1, 1991."
Students and Instructors from Ukraine.23 July 1992.
Films: A. Donchyk's Zahybel bohiv (Death of the Gods) (1988); Videos: V. Honcharov's Once upon a Time There Lived Thoughts, The Sun and the Snow People, and The Four Inseparable Cockroaches and the Cricket.24 July 1992.
Concert: Sestrychka Vika.28 July 1992.
Prose reading: Volodymyr Dibrova.30 July 1992.
"True Confessions."
Natalka Husar, painter.4 August 1992.
"Ukrainian Stress Relief: The Linguistic Cure."
Michael S. Flier, Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology, Harvard University.6 August 1992.
Video: Yuri Suiarko's Zakon-The Law: A Surrogate Mother (1989).11 August 1992.
Videos: V. Honcharov's A Stone on the Road (1986), A Close-up of the Truth (1989), The Stone Age (1987), The Alternative (1987), The Road of the Salt Carter-The Milky Way, Their Sister Lybid: a Legend of Medieval Kiev, and Giordana Bruno; and N. Marchenkova's The Passionate Love and Death of an Ordinary Potato (1990), and My Family (1989).1993
8 July 1993.
"Museums in Post-Soviet Society: Culture, Politics and Ethnicity in Independent Ukraine."
Olena D. Pohonets, Chief Curator, Ukrainian State Museum of Books and Book-Printing; Natalia A. Shchekoldyna, Curator, All-Ukrainian Center of Museum Conservation and Restoration; Halyna Marchenko, Curator, Kiev-Pecherskyi State Historical and Cultural Reserve; and Natalia Holonshyna, Manager, Ethnographic Department, National Museum of Ukrainian History.9 July 1993.
"Yara's Work with the Ukrainian Summer Institute, at La Mama, and in Ukraine."
Virlana Tkacz, Director of Yara Arts Group at La Mama Theater, New York City.
"Blind Sight: Developing a Theater Project out of Poetry, and Work in Ukraine."
Wanda Phipps, poet, dramturg, and translator.12-16 July 1993.
Theater workshop: "Body Parts/Litaiucha holova."
Virlana Tkacz, Director of Yara Arts Group at La Mama Theater, New York City.17 July 1993.
Performance: Body Parts: Avant-garde Poetry from the 1990s."
Virlana Tkacz, director; Wanda Phipps, dramaturg and translator; Watoku Ueno, set design; Vika Vradij and Volodymyr Bebeshko, music; and Nadya Maryniak, costume design.19 July 1993.
Prose reading: Volodymyr Dibrova ("Kinderbalonen") and Yuriy Tarnawsky (Three Blondes and Death).21 July 1993.
Video: Yuri Suiarko's Zakon-The Law: A Surrogate Mother (1989).23 July 1993.
Concert: Fata Morgana (Ihor Shabliovskyj, Oleksa Kerekesha, and Serhij Komoijets).26 July 1993.
"A Case Study in Former Soviet Ukrainian Bureaucracy: The Komsomol."
Mykhailo O. Molchanov, Edmund Muskie Fellow, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University.28 July 1993.
Video: Valentyn Sperkach's Taras Shevchenko: A Documentary (1989).30 July 1993.
"History, Politics and the Politics of History (or, The Oddities of Being Ukrainian).
Bohdan Vitvitsky, Assistant United States Attorney, and Director of the Scholarship Program, The Education Fund of the Ukrainian American Professionals Businesspersons Association, Inc.3 August 1993.
Roundtable: "Ukraine: Post Colonial Realities in 1993."
Summer Institute students and teaching staff from Ukraine.4 August 1993.
"Psychiatry and Society in Ukraine."
Jurij Savyckyj, Cornell/New York Hospital.6 August 1993.
"Building a Braintrust for Ukraine."
Bohdan Oryshkevich, MD.11 August 1993.
"Beauplan, Mapmaking in the Seventeenth Century, and Historical Consciousness."
Edward L. Keenan, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History, Harvard University.1994
5 July 1994.
Introduction to Theater Workshop.
Virlana Tkacz, Director of the Yara Arts Group at La Mama Theater, New York City.5 July 1994.
Performance: "Grateful Erody."
Les Kurbas Young Theater of Lviv; Volodymyr Kuchinsky, director; and Kateryna Slipchenko, literary manager.6-9 July 1994.
Theater workshop: "Language of Space: Attics, Kitchens and Poems."
Virlana Tkacz, Director of the Yara Arts Group at La Mama Theater, New York City.10 July 1994.
Performance: "Language of Space: Attics, Kitchens and Poems."
Virlana Tkacz, director; Genji Ito, music; Watoku Ueno, set and lights; Moira L. Shaughnessey, costumes; Wanda Phipps and Kateryna Slipchenko, dramatrugs; and Karen-Angela Bishop and Andrei Vodichev, actors.12-14 July 1994.
Three evenings with Serhii Proskurnia.
Serhii Proskurnia, actor, writer, and Director of Theater Studio Budmo!.18 July 1994.
Video: Sergei Paradzhanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964).21 July 1994.
Music: Dimitri Diatchenko, guitarist.25 July 1994.
Video: Iurii Illienko's Swan Lake: The Zone (1990).27 July 1994.
"Chornobyl: Myths, On-Site Findings, and Their Implications."
Alexander Sich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.1 August 1994.
Roundtable: "Ukraine: Post Colonial Realities in 1994."
Summer Institute students and teaching staff from Ukraine.2 August 1994.
"Culture in Contemporary Ukraine."
Virko Baley, Professor of Music, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Music Director and Conductor of the Nevada
Symphony Orchestra.8 August 1994.
Video: Tetyana Mahar's Night of Questions (1993).10 August 1994.
"Ukraine's Armed Forces and Military Policy."
Mark Kramer, Russian Research Center, Harvard University, and Center for Foreing Policy Development, Brown University.1995
6 July 1995.
Video: Sergei Paradzhanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964).10 July 1995.
Video: Iurii Illienko's Swan Lake: The Zone (1990).13 July 1995.
"Culture in Contemporary Ukraine."
Mykola Ryabchuk, writer, critic, editor, and political commentator.17 July 1995.
Introduction to the Theater Workshop.
Virlana Tkacz, Director of Yara Arts Group at La Mama Theater, New York City.18-21 July 1995.
Theater workshop: "Growing Fangs, Tails and Wings."
Virlana Tkacz, Director of Yara Arts Group at La Mama Theater, New York City.22 July 1995.
Performance: Oceanic Consciousness: Growing Fangs, Tails and Wings."
Virlana Tkacz, director; Watoku Ueno, set design; and Oleh Drach, actor.25 July 1995.
Roundtable: "Youthful Perspectives on Contemporary Ukraine."
Summer Institute students and teaching staff from Ukraine.27 July 1995.
Video: Tetyana Mahar's Night of Questions (1993).31 July 1995.
Video: Borys Ivchenko's The Lost Letter (1969, released in the late 1980s).3 August 1995.
"The Challenge of Ukraine's Security Problems."
General Kostiantyn Morozov, President of the Center for the Study of Ukrainian Statehood (Kiev), and formerly Minister of Defense (1991-1993).8 August 1995.
Roundtable: "Problems of Ukraine's Economy and Prospects for Economic Reform."
Volodymyr Lanovyj, Member of Parliament and President of the Center for Market Reform (Kiev), formerly Minister of Economy and candidate in Ukraine's 1994 presidential elections; and Serhij Teryokhin, Member of Parliament and President of the Ukrainian Foundation for Reform Support (Kiev).