Dr. Tetiana Hranchak, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, to Present on Libraries of Ukraine

Dr. Tetiana Hranchak, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, is presenting a lecture on Libraries of Ukraine: Together we Can Do More at Syracuse University Libraries.

Hranchak will reveal the impact on Ukraine’s libraries of the full-scale Russian war against Ukraine, illuminating how Ukraine’s libraries serve as memory institutions and their role in implementing the politics of national memory. Her talk will focus on the changes in library spaces and services during the war, and how libraries in Ukraine survive and remain centers of their communities, providing comprehensive support to their patrons. Attendees will also learn about the decolonization process in Ukrainian libraries and how the civilizational dimension of modern war and the Russian politics of cultural genocide have increased attention to cultural characteristics and spiritual values of communities, self-identity, preservation and transmission of historical memory.

About the Presenter:

Tetiana Hranchak is a historian with a Ph.D. in History, a Doctor of Sciences in Social Communications, a Professor, an expert of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and a member of the Board of the Ukrainian Library Association. Hranchak’s research interests include issues related to political and cultural communication, libraries’ participation in the implementation of the politics of memory, preservation and transmission of historical memory, formation of critical media literacy and countering information manipulation and propaganda. She is the author of the monograph “Library and Political Communication” (Kyiv, 2012) and a scientific and methodological guide “Libraries Participation in the Implementation of the Politics of National Memory” (Kyiv, 2021). During the Fall of 2023, Dr. Hranchak joined the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor. She is currently conducting research and teaching a course “History of Ukraine in European Context.” Before joining Syracuse University, Dr. Hranchak was an Adjunct Instructor at the School of Information Sciences of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Summer 2023), where she taught a course “Library and the Politics of Memory.” Before the University of Illinois, she researched for 20 years at the VI Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (2003-2023). She also has 10 years of experience teaching at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts.

To request an accommodation, please contact mlwagh@syr.edu by Feb. 29.