A Night of Philosophy

Originally launched in Paris in 2010, A Night of Philosophy is a roaming event that takes place in a different major city each year. Thousands of people attended the program in London in 2013, and Berlin in 2014. Ms. Korichi, who conceived and organized the event in the above cities and cultural centers , will once again stage the upcoming creative happening – on the historic corner of 79th Street and Fifth Avenue. Highlights will include “Spinoza in Kiev,” a melodrama for two actresses, with piano improvisations, based on Bernard Malamud’s novel The Fixer, a full-text reading – in English – of the Marquis de Sade’s Philosophy in the Bedroom, and a wooden replica of the Mercury Seven space capsule serving as a stage.

UIA and CFF provided financial support for the Ukrainian team to participate in 2015 Jessup International Law Moot Court competition

The Ukrainian Institute of America and the Chopivsky Family Foundation were delighted to provide financial support for the 2015 Jessup International Law Moot Court competition team of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University. The White & Case International Rounds of the 2015 Jessup International Law Moot Court competition took place on April 5 – 11, 2015 in Washington, D.C. It was an honor for us, especially now, at the time of the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, to support the participation of talented Ukrainian students in such a high-level international event. The Kyiv Taras Shevchenko team finished in 32nd position out of a worldwide competition of more than 540 teams.

Essay Contest winners

We learn Shevchenko’s poems since childhood, we read about his hard life, about his sufferings and struggles and tears that he couldn’t hold because it was unbearable to endure everything that was happening to his dear Ukraine. Every conscious and educated Ukrainian can recite at least one of Shevchenko’s poems by heart. Each and every book that has ever been written about him says that he was one of the greatest and most outstanding figures in Ukrainian history, a hero, whose heart was beating and aching for the Ukrainian nation till it stopped. No matter how arduous it was, no matter what he was going through, Shevchenko never stopped pursuing the goal of his Fatherland’s revival. And his dream did come true.