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On the fourth Saturday of November, Ukraine and the world community will celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor of the Ukrainian people. On this occasion, on November 18, the Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey (USA) organized a special event – the screening of the film “The Red Necklace” and its discussion. Dr. Igor Shchupak was invited to participate in the discussion.
Read more: Screening of the film “The Red Necklace” by the Ukrainian diaspora in New Jersey (USA)
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On October 25, 2023, a meeting of the Fourth Round Table of Ukrainian-Korean Cooperation in the Field of Textbook Publishing took place in Kyiv. The event was organized as a result of the cooperation of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Ukraine, the Korean Educational Center in Kyiv, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, as well as the Institute for the Modernization of Education Content. It was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, members of author groups for the preparation of school curricula for the study of history, authors of textbooks and teaching aids, teachers and methodologists.
Read more: Ukrainian-Korean cooperation in the field of publishing textbooks
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On October 25, 2023, a meeting of the Scientific Council of the journal “Wojna i Pamięć” was held at the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, Dr. Igor Shchupak participated as a member of it.
Since 2019, 4 issues of the journal have been published, and the fifth is currently being published, dedicated to pedagogical problems in preserving the memory of the Second World War. The journal has already received recognition and high praise in the Polish academic environment.
Read more: Meeting of the Scientific Council at the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk
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Chronologically, the last and at the same time the main event of the second day of Lviv Book Forum was the “Zustrich” literary award ceremony, which took place on October 5. The award is designed to be based on the common centuries-old experience of Ukrainians and Jews, which has found expression in fiction and non-fiction literature. The award is awarded annually for the most influential work of fiction and non-fiction (alternating) that promotes Ukrainian-Jewish understanding, helping to strengthen Ukraine's position as a multi-ethnic society and embodying the motto “Our stories are incomplete without each other.”
The initiative to establish the “Zustrich” Award, as well as its implementation, takes place with the full support of the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter (UJE) initiative (Ukraine-Canada).
Read more: The ceremony of awarding the literary prize “Zustrich” at the Lviv Forum of Publishers
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On September 26-28, Warsaw (Poland) hosted the XXIII meeting of the Ukrainian-Polish Commission of Experts on Improving School Textbooks on History and Geography, which met live for the first time in the past few years. A Ukrainian delegation met with Polish colleagues in the premises of the Ministry of National Education: prof. Stanislav Kulchytskyi (Co-Chairman of the Commission), Raisa Yevtushenko, Roman Gladkovskyi, Dr. Igor Shchupak; Prof. Igor Hyrych and Dr. Yehor Vradii. Ukrainian educators studied new Polish history and geography textbooks; Polish colleagues studied Ukrainian ones.