4 April 2017

Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University

On 4th April 2017 Eighth International teleconference was held via Skype between master students in history of Seton Hall University, New Jersey, USA (supervisor Professor Daly D.K.) and master students in history of the Faculty of History and Philosophy Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University (supervisor Associate Professor Tarasenko O.O.).

Eighth International teleconference was devoted to Ukrainian historians’ report on the implementation of their part of USA-Ukrainian scientific-research project "Research on the history of Ukrainian diaspora in the example of New Jersey state through digital technologies in the humanities".

Ukrainian team of historians, consisted of master students Ivan Glaz and Daria Olejnik and supervisor of the project from Ukraine, PhD in History, associate professor of the Chair of the History of Ukraine Olga Tarasenko reported the results of the study Ukrainian and English.

In aconducted project Ukrainian team revealed kinds of Ukrainian migration and concluded that prevails in Ukraine external migration, revealed the historical reasons for migration of Ukrainians as well as internal and external factors of Ukrainian migration; pointed out the factors that lead to the formation of the Diaspora; found a difference between the concepts of "emigration" and "diaspora" and different interpretation of the concept of "Ukrainian Diaspora" and illustrated its division into western and eastern and its four waves.

The logical culmination of the project was the study activity of 60 Ukrainian-American organizations established by Ukrainian diaspora during the four waves in the state of New Jersey.

30-31 March 2017

Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University

30-31 March 2017 in Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University hosted the Third International Scientific Conference "Professional Art Education and Culture: Challenges of the XXI century".

At the conference was presented Lithuanian-Ukrainian collective monograph "The development of spiritual education", which was the result of academic cooperation of Lithuanian and Ukrainian scientists Marius Yanukonis, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Lithuania to Ukraine; Jurgis Hyedris Cultural Affairs of Lithuania and Viktor Ogneviuk, Rector of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University greeted the authors of collective monograph and participants of the Conference.

Among international guests were: Jonas Kevishas,  Doctor of University of Educational Sciences (Lithuania) Wojciech Markvitsa, professor of Institute of Music of Jagiellonian University (Poland); Jadwiga Ukhila-Zroski, Deputy Director of the Faculty of Arts of University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland); Alexandra Zeman, professor of the Faculty of Arts of University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland).