On April 21 Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University celebrated 150 anniversary from the day of South Slavic Boarding School Foundation in the terms of the II International Scientific Conference “Slavic Studies.” The solemn ceremony began at Mykolaiv Museum of Regional Ethnography “Staroflotski kazarmy (Old Fleet Barracks).”
Oleksandr Boron presented Shevchenko Encyclopedia in 6 volumes, unique reference publication about life and oeuvre of T.H. Shevchenko, that was published to 200 year anniversary at the supports of Shevchenko department at National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine. The work on this publication continued almost 20 years. Many lecturers of our University (for example, Iryna Danylenko, the head of the Department of Ukrainian Philology, Theory, and History of Literature), who wrote 12 articles, contributed to its creations.
During the plenary meeting, Valeri Katsunov and Volodymyr Hamsa presented the reprinted edition of the book “T. Minkov South Slavic Boarding School. Memories” written by Petro Abrashev. Kyryklo Halushko introduced the book “Ukrainian Nationalism.”
During the conference, Oleksandr Pronkevych, the director of the Institute of Philology and moreover the author and presenter of the movie “South Slavic Boarding School” represented the already mentioned movie to the world.
One more interesting event that happened during the conference was the Round Table on the topic “The role of Teodor Minkov South Slavic Boarding School in the preparation of national elite for the Balkan countries.” The representatives from Bulgaria, who took part in it, highly estimated the preparation for the conference “Slavic Studies.”
The work of the conference continued in different section meetings.
