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.
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.
Visit our blog to learn about the time when Warsaw was a town on the Austrian border. It makes it one of only four European capitals that had (or still have) their urban territory shared by two states.
Check out the new issue of Acta Poloniae Historica for Tomasz Hen-Konarski’s extensive review of Volodymyr Sklokin’s study of the first autonomous region stripped of its privileges by Catherine the Great.
Visit our blog to read an obituary of Mykhailo Harasevych published in 1836 in Lviv and Vienna.
On Monday 18 January Tomasz Hen-Konarski will present the NEUSTERN project at the Ukrainian Studies Online Colloquium.
The eighteenth century has long been a marginal and even neglected period in the dominant master-narratives of Ukrainian history, but the last decade has seen renewed scholarly attention to that period. This conference aims to consider a shift in attitudes towards the eighteenth century, re-assess the established narratives and concepts, and entwine eighteenth-century Ukraine into the broader East European and global context. The organisers invite proposals for individual papers (deadline: 18 January 2021) as well as fully organized panels (deadline: 10 January 2021).
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Yesterday the Covid-19 pandemic took from us Professor Ihor Skochylias, the leading authority in the Uniate Church history, Head of the Kyivan Christianity initiative, and former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. He was an exemplary scholar and tireless organiser but more importantly a compassionate and joyful human, always kind to both neighbours and strangers. Вічная Пам’ять!
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IHPAN and DHI in Warsaw offer visiting fellowships to Belarusian scholars who cannot continue their research in their home country. For details (in Polish) click here.