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16 WWW. UNWLA.ORG “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЛИПЕНЬ - СЕРПЕНЬ 2013 As happens in most of the academic world during the months of July and August, the UNWLA Lectureship at the Ukrainian Catholic University is on break after a very successful first year. According to Coordinator of the Lectureship, Prof. Halyna Teslyuk, “As of today, nine lectures have been held as part of the UNWLA Women’s Studies Lectureship. In addition, the planned courses for the next two academic years have been formulate d and formally approved by the Univers i- ty.” (Please see details on two of the seminars on page 17 .) We are especially thrilled that Bishop Borys Gudziak presented the final seminar of the semester since he has been a staunch supporter of the Lectureship fr om the outset. For the two u p- coming years, two accredited courses and eight open seminars as well as two guest professors’ le c- ture series are scheduled. In the fall semester of 2013, sociologist Victoria Volod’ko will lecture on current labor migration in Ukraine and the world (from a women’s perspective); during the spring semester of 2014 , Prof. Myroslava Diadiuk will d e- liver lectures on the Ukrainian women’s s o- cial/political movement during the interwar per i- od. The goal of the latter course is to teach students to work the available resources, including archival documents. According to the Dean of Humanities at UCU, Ihor Skochylas, the proposal for the next two - year program was approved unanimously by the Uni versity's Vchena Rada (Learned Council). We look forward to sharing further details about the Lectureship with our readers in September, as the fall semester begins. On June 9th, I, First Vice - President Ulana Zinych, Vice - President for Cultural Affairs So phia Hewryk, and Vera Kushnir, Member at Large, a t- tended the Philadelphia Regional Council’s 75th anniversary. An interesting fact from the history of this Regional Council is that it was formed in June of 1938, at th e same time that Soyuz Ukrainok was dis banded in L’viv. This drastic step by the Polish government banded the branches of the Philadelphia area together (there were seven at this time). These branches immed i- ately gathered in order to plan a protest against this disturbing event. The protest was organized and telegrams were sent out to official U.S. orga n- izations and persons. This joint effort brought the branches closer. In May of 1937, the III UNWLA Convention had been held in Philadelphia. During this Convention, the delegates had proposed the creation of a “rada,” or what we know today as a Regional Council, of the branches in the Philade l- phia area. The proposal was implemented in June of 1938 and thus began the joint and extremely successful work of the Philadelphia Regional Council. Before the celebratory luncheon of this 75th Anniversary was held, a very interesting panel of members of the Regional Council pr e- sented their individual and personal reasons for joining the organization; some shared what the organization had given them while oth ers spoke of their vision for the future. I hope that this is the first step in developing and building an in - depth discussion of “Seventy - five years — what follows?” (the official name given to the afternoon panel) — and as a follow - up to the request in my ar ticle from the June issue of Our Life . The branches’ successful efforts during this 75 - year period to remain an integral player in the Philadelphia community demonstrate how important the role of the UNWLA has been and continues to be. At the end of May, the UNWLA, the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations (WFUWO) and the WFUWO representation to the United Nations received an invitation from the Human Rights, National Minorities and I n- ternational Relations Committee of the Parli a- ment of Ukra ine to participate in parliamentary hearings on the state of human rights in Ukraine. These hearings were scheduled for June 12th, 2013. The invitation was signed by Valerij Patskan, Chair of the Committee and member of the UDAR political party. Since neit her organiz a- tion could find a volunteer to travel on its behalf and present a joint statement і n person, a joint statement of recommendations was formulated and emailed to the Committee. As was reported back to us after the said hearings, addresses were made at the beginning of the meeting by the Speaker of Parliament V. Rybak, the Minister of Justice O. Lavrynovych, and Ombudsman V. Lutkowska. There were approximately 40 persons given 3 minutes each to address the hearings (i n- cluded among these were Iren a Lutsenko, Vitaly Klychko, H. Herman and others.) Although it a p- pears that there was no mention made of stat e- ments submitted in writing, from the diaspora or otherwise, we are hopeful that our statement will be read and incorporated into the official record, and feel that it was necessary to make our voices heard.
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