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As New Jersey slowly reopens, we have been hard at work creating new virtual programming, with something for all!

Posted: 3 weeks 6 days ago

Perkhorovych and Hrebinets'ka papers now open

The UHEC Archives are pleased to announce that the Iurii and Ol'ha Perkhorovych and the Maria Hrebinets'ka papers are now open for researcher use.

Posted: 11 months 3 weeks ago

Petrykivka painting workshop with Halyna Nazarenko

On July 7, 2019 the UHEC was privileged to host the world-renowned master of Petrykivka painting Halyna Nazarenko for a sold-out hands-on workshop. The participants work was pretty amazing!

Posted: 1 year 1 month ago

First phase of DNU collaboration is complete

The first "pilot run" of the collaboration between the UHEC and the Department of Ukrainian History at Dnipro National University has been completed with great success. Sixteen students created time-coded subject annotations and other access points to more than 60 radio programs, interviews, live events, speeches, and other historical audio recordings digitized by the UHEC archives.

Posted: 1 year 1 month ago

UHEC Archives open Transcarpathia collections

Convention of the Prosivita Society in Uzhhorod, 1928

The UHEC archives has opened three collections related to the Ukrainian Transcarpathian region (or Zakarpats’ka oblast’): the Vikentii Shandor, Avhustyn Shtefan, and Volodymyr Komaryns’kyi papers.

Posted: 1 year 1 month ago

New collaboration with Dnipro National University

The UHEC is pleased to announce a brand new collaboration with the Department of Ukrainian History at Dnipro National University. Students at DNU will work on adding time-coded subject annotations and other access points to historical audio recordings digitized by the UHEC archives. The results of this work will be used to significantly improve the searchability of these audio recordings by UHEC staff fielding reference requests, by researchers at the archives, and by users of this website.

Posted: 1 year 2 months ago

Record-breaking pysanka workshops

This year's traditional adult and youth spring pysanka workshops broke records, with what is probably the largest group of youth students to date. It was a little unweildy, but it worked!

Posted: 1 year 4 months ago

Students learn about Ukrainian immigration

On November 10th, 2018, students of the St. Andrew Ukrainian School in S. Bound Brook/Somerset had a special treat: a chance to explore the lives of Ukrainian immigrants to the United States though a make-believe immigrant suitcase and using reproductions of actual items from the UHEC archives.

Posted: 1 year 9 months ago

Students visit Ukrainian Independence centennial exhibition

Students of the St. Andrew Ukrainian School in S. Bound Brook/Somerset visited the UHEC exhibition "Cultural Identity to Statehood: Ukraine 1917-1921", where they learned about how what is now a familiar symbol of the Ukrainian nation came to be "resurrected" in 1917, and how artists and musicians helped shape the newly independent nation.

Posted: 1 year 9 months ago

Cultural Identity to Statehood: Ukraine 1917-1921 exhibition opening

The UHEC opened its latest exhibition, "Cultural Identity to Statehood: Ukraine 1917-1921" on May 20, 2018 with a well-attended reception and gallery talk. It will remain on view through the Fall of 2018.

Posted: 2 years 2 months ago

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