Univ, Lviv Region—The Ark-2008, the third annual seminar for Jewish, Polish, and Ukrainian academic youth, started on 17 August and will last until 25 August 2008. The Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) is a co-organizer of the conference.
Univ, Lviv Region—The Ark-2008, the third annual seminar for Jewish, Polish, and Ukrainian academic youth, started on 17 August and will last until 25 August 2008. The Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) is a co-organizer of the conference.
“We’re all in one boat [ark]” is the motto of the meeting, with additional organizers including the Tkuma Center for Holocaust Studies and the Federation of Polish Organizations in Ukraine. Students, teachers, historians, psychologists, philosophers and journalists have come for the seminar.
Participants include Orthodox, Protestants, Roman and Greek Catholics, and Jews from all regions of Ukraine and from Poland.
The goal of the conference is to discuss the perspective of the three ethnic groups on the events that occurred in western Ukraine from 1939 to 1947.
“As a historian, allow me to express the following hypothesis: faith has gathered us here… If the aspect of faith will inspire our work together, the Ark, regardless of any storms, will sail forward together.” So said Dr. Oleh Turii, chair of UCU’s Department of Church History
“Various points of view of various historians exist on one and the same events, so the problems need to be studied stereoscopically and [we need] to be able to listen to one another.” So said Dr. Ihor Shchupak, director of the Tkuma Center.
Contact
Ukrainian Catholic University
vul. Ilariona Sventsitskoho, 17
Lviv, 79011, UKRAINE
