NEUSTERN is a project exploring how the Austrian government enabled the emergence of a new intellectual elite among the Greek Catholic clergy in Galicia and the impact of this process on the Crownland’s Ruthenian community as a whole.
On 5 April 2022, NEUSTERN’s Tomasz Hen-Konarski will give a talk within the framework of the Open Seminar convened at the National Library in Warsaw. The presentation will be devoted to the role of pastoral theology in the eighteenth-century Austrian state building.
For details (in Polish) click here.
Ukraine is fighting against a full-scale invasion carried out by the military of the Russian Federation. Within the framework of cooperation with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Polish Academy of Sciences has introduced a new tool supporting cooperation with Ukrainian researchers.
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In the six sessions of this seminar series, scholars specialised in different periods and regions will discuss the history of various Eastern Catholic communities from the Middle Ages until today.
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Three online panels on the Uniates are taking place within the framework of the ongoing ASEEES convention. Neustern’s Tomasz Hen-Konarski will speak about Mykhailo and Ivan Harasevych at one of them: „Contested Loyalties, Dynamic Subjectivities: Uniate Clergymen of the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Nineteenth Century” on Wednesday, December 1, at 12:00 to 2:30pm CST (7:00 to 9:30pm CET). This panel includes also Marc Raeff Prize Award Celebration for Andrey Ivanov’s A Spiritual Revolution The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia.
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A lecture by Serhii Plokhy opens another round of the Ukrainian Studies Online Colloquium convened by the Chair of Entangled History of Ukraine (European University Viadrina).
You can watch all the papers on the Youtube channel “Entangled History of Ukraine / PRISMA UKRAЇNA”.
For more details click here.
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies releases a new collective volume on various Eastern Christian communities in the Austrian Monarchy. Edited by J.-P. Himka and F. A. J. Szabo, it features contributions from P. R. Magocsi, B. Puskás, and A. Zayarnyuk.
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A new collection of articles on the Synod of Zamość has been released in Polish under the editorship of Przemysław Nowakowski CM. Especially exciting is the contribution of the late Ihor Skochylias.
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First Conference of the Ukrainian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will start in Lviv on 23 June. The event features Richard Butterwick, Penelope Corfield, Zenon Kohut, Volodymyr Sklokin, and Larry Wolff. There will be several panels on the Greek Catholic Church. All lectures and discussions will take place on ZOOM. For more info visit the website of the Humanities Faculty of the Ukrainian Catholic University.
