UKRAINIAN STUDIES CENTRE National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv The Faculty of Philosophy

The Ukrainian Studies Centre began its work as an independent research unit within the system of the research and development division of Taras Shevchenko National University from August 30, 2000; from March 15 2007 the Ukrainian Studies Centre – in the structure of philosophy faculty. Its head is Doctor of Political science M.Obushnyj.

The scholarly potential of the Centre is nourished by different specialists who conduct comprehensive research in the field of Ukrainian studies:

Candidates of History S.Kahamlyk, K.Kobchenko, S.Koncha, B.Korolenko, I.Pasko, V.Piskun;

Candidates of Philosophy I.Hrabovska, T.Yemets, O.Mostiayev;

Candidates of Philology L.Sorochuk, T.Sheptycka, A.Tsipko;

Candidate of Psychology T.Voropayeva;

prominent historians, who work STW, L.Bozhuk, L.Kyryk;

philosopher of the I category, who work STW, N.Averyanova;

philologists III category, who work STW, L.Pavelkovska, N.Radchenko;

elder assistant L.Kovtun.

Alumni of the Centre work at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, at other institutions of higher learning both in the capital and regions.

The major research area is
Study of social and cultural transformations in historical experience and contemporaneity of Ukrainian community.

In the Centre, research teams work in the following directions:

• Theoretical and methodological principles of ethnical and cultural preserving;
• Philosophical and world outlook analysis of transformations of the Ukrainian society;
• Ethno-national and social and cultural transformations in the historical experience of the Ukrainian people;
• Results of Ukrainian community in context of world cultural and scientific progress;
• Educational aspects of selfpreserving and development of Ukrainian nation.

Historiosophic and psychological problems of the development of ethnos, nation and individual, Contribution of Ukrainians into the development of world science, education, and culture.

Scholars of the Centre work at major approaches to the understanding and interconnection of such notions, as the survival and preservation of ethnos, national identity, and modern view of national identity. Researchers of the

Centre cooperate with Ukrainian communities in various countries, specifically, in the sphere of scientific support of education of the Ukrainian Diaspora. Among such efforts are scientific and methodological workshops for teacher and methodological support for Ukrainian pupils and students abroad. In 2002, a syllabus was elaborated for Sunday schools in the Ukrainian Diaspora, entitled "The Ukrainian World."

It is more than information about the Center and its employees on the Ukrainian variant of a site

Address

The Ukrainian Studies Centre of The Philosophy Faculty
National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv
64, Volodymyrska street,
01033 Kyiv, Ukraine

Contact phones:
+38-044-239-31-84
+38-044-239-34-96
+38-044-239-34-10

Е-mail: uaznavstvo@univ.kiev.ua