206 West 100th Street
New York, NY 10025
tel: 212-222-1866, fax: 212-864-3977
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206 West 100th Street New York, NY 10025 tel: 212-222-1866, fax: 212-864-3977
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Ãîäèíè ïðàö³: Êàíöåëÿð³ÿ - â³ä 10-î¿ ðàíêó äî 5-î¿ ïî îá³ä³. Á³áë³îòåêà - çà äîìîâëåííÿì. Àðõ³â - ùîâ³âòîðêà. Íàøà àäðåñà: Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences 206 West 100th Street New York, NY 10025 Òåëåôîí: (212) 222-1866 Ôàêñ (212) 864-3977 E-mail: Uvan@uvan.us Website: www.UVAN.us The Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S.A. is an association of scholars dedicated to the promotion and advancement of Ukrainian studies and culture in the United States. It was established in 1950 in New York City as heir to the tradition of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences of the 1920s in Kyiv (Kiev) and the Ukrainian academy-in-exile, founded in Augsburg, Germany, in 1945 and known as the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences (UVAN). Chapters of the Academy were also established in Detroit, Denver, Washington D.C., Philadelphia and Munich, Germany. Since 1961 the Academy is housed in its own landmark-designated Renaissance-style building, the former Bloomingdale Branch of the New York Public Library. Besides the Academy’s office and lecture hall, the building also contains a library of circa 55,000 volumes and museum-archival holdings (over 500,000 items) of Ucrainica, making it the most extensive archive outside Ukraine. Of the Academy’s circa 370 archives, one, the Volodymyr Vynnychenko Archive, is physically located in the Bakhmeteff Archive, Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Butler Library, Columbia University; access to the archive is jointly controlled by the Academy’s Executive Board and Columbia University.
Since its founding, the Academy has published over 130 books and journal issues, including such definitive treatises as O. Powstenko’s The Cathedral of St. Sophia in Kiev (1954), D. Chyzhevskyj’s History of Ukrainian Literature (1956), O. Kosach-Kryvyniuk’s Chronology of the Life and Work of Lesia Ukrainka (1970) and D. Doroshenko’s book on Hetman P. Doroshenko (1985). The official periodical publication of the Academy is The Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States. At present, the total membership of the Academy stands at over 240. Over one hundred are Full Members (Fellows), circa sixty are Corresponding Members, and over seventy are Senior and Junior Research Associates. The Academy regularly organizes and sponsors lectures, conferences, seminars, commemorative events, concerts and art exhibitions, both independently and in cooperation with other scholarly and cultural institutions in the United States and abroad, such as The Harriman Institute of Columbia University, the Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University, and the Slavic Institute of the Czech Academy of Arts and Sciences in Prague, to name just a few. Research opportunities are provided for scholars and qualified students, who have come from as close as Columbia and New York universities and from as far away as the Czech Republic, England (Oxford), France (Sorbonne), Germany, Israel and Ukraine. The work of the Academy is overseen by an Executive Board elected every four years. Its current president is Oleksa-Myron Bilaniuk, Centennial Professor of Physics Emeritus of Swarthmore College. His predecessors were M. Vetukhiv (1950-9), G. Y. Shevelov (1959-61; 1979-84), O. Arkhimovych (1961-70), O. Ohloblyn (1970-9), Y. Bilinsky (1984-90), M. Boretsky (Acting President, 1990-2), M. Antonovych (1993-1997) and W. Omelchenko (Acting President, 1995). Although research and education are the primary activities of the Academy, a Not-for-Profit Corporation, it also serves the general public interest in the City of New York by providing information and counseling to scholars and students regarding higher education in the United States and abroad, by sponsoring educational and cultural events open to the general public and, as noted above, by cooperating with other appropriate scholarly and cultural institutions. The Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S.A. is exempt from Federal income tax under Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. All donations to the Academy are tax deductible. |
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