Let’s Talk About…

“Let’s Talk About” is   series of lectures which delves into the lives of outstanding Ukrainians who dedicated themselves to their homeland, as well as those who were forced to leave and continued their struggle for an independent state in exile.

What it meant for them to be Ukrainians and what significance they did for Ukraine, its culture, and national identity? Let’s talk about them and their life choices.

We’ve already talked about:

  • “Pavlo Skoropadsky – Hetman in Exile”.  Speaker is  Valeriy Plakyda, historian
  • “Mykola Plaviuk: The Last President of the UPR in Exile”. Speaker is  Valeriy Plakyda, historian
  • “Vasyl Avramenko: Freedom and Dance”.  Speaker is  Svitlana Oleksiuk, cultural studies scholar
  • “Krychevsky and Narbut – Creators of the State Emblem of Ukraine: Context and Details”. Speaker is Danylo Nikitin,  curator of the Graphics Collection at the National Art Museum of Ukraine
  • “Vasyl Krychevsky: Dreamer and Creator”. Speaker is Oleksandr Savchuk, cultural studies scholar and publisher 
  • “Jacques Hnizdovsky: The Search for the Ideal Form”. Speaker is Oksana Marychevska, art historian, researcher of Jacques Hnizdovsky
  • “Vasyl Krychevsky and the Literary Bohemia of the 1920s”. Speaker is Yaryna Tsymbal, literary scholar, researcher of ukrainian avant-garde
  • “Olena Teliha. The Poet of Fiery Borders”. Lecturer: Natalia Vasylyshyna, philologist, art historian
  • “Mykola Krychevsky. The first emigrant from the dynasty”. Lecturer: Anna Leksina, art historian, researcher of Mykola Krychevsky’s work, co-author of the album “Mykola Krychevsky. The Artist and the World”

2026

160 UAH
80 UAH (reduced)

Museum of Ukrainian Diaspora (40b, Princes of Ostrozki str. Kyiv)

Project curator: Svitlana Oleksiuk