Day 1071: Ukraine event
Feb. 24th, 2023 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeToday I attended a university event honoring the year of resilience of the Ukrainian people under very challenging conditions. There were seven speakers, if I’m remembering correctly, and about 80 people altogether, including a Ukrainian priest and, eventually, several families way in the back with small children. I don’t know if any of the people with us were refugees; I assume the priest was from the Ukrainian church in my sister’s neighborhood (unless we have more than one such church now). Each of the speakers talked for 10 minutes or so, and all but one had interesting slides. There was time left at the end for Q&A, but by then I had a headache and I left.
The first speaker was my friend Julie Hessler, who’s a professor of Soviet history; she presented useful facts and figures.
The next speaker was Iryna Zagoruyko; she's a Ukrainian language teacher who told us all about the importance of the Ukrainian language for the war.
The next speaker was Iryna Stavynska, also from Ukraine. She told us about efforts to save Ukrainian folk art.
The fourth speaker was an architect from Ukraine whose first name was Andriy; he shared various thoughts and slides on related topics.
The fifth speaker was Iryna Volynets; she’s a Ukrainian architecture instructor whose students at our university worked on proposing ideas for some new building for a collaborating school in Lviv.
The sixth speaker was Tanya Bucierka, a local ER doctor whose grandparents on both sides are Ukrainian, and she grew up in a Ukrainian-American community in I think Rochester, NY. She’s been to Ukraine four times to help train people. Mostly she’s brought supplies and trained physicians in the use of an ultrasound technology that works via smartphone and that can very quickly assess various types of internal bleeding, etc., to help with triage, but she’s also worked with two friends as a mobile clinic and has trained children in orphanages how to make tourniquets, etc. Here's an article about her in our local alternative paper.
Last we had a retired diplomat with expertise in several other Slavic-language countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and he told us what he thinks it all portends for the future of NATO.
(I didn’t retain all the names; I had to look up the Irynas online when writing this post.)
The first speaker was my friend Julie Hessler, who’s a professor of Soviet history; she presented useful facts and figures.
The next speaker was Iryna Zagoruyko; she's a Ukrainian language teacher who told us all about the importance of the Ukrainian language for the war.
The next speaker was Iryna Stavynska, also from Ukraine. She told us about efforts to save Ukrainian folk art.
The fourth speaker was an architect from Ukraine whose first name was Andriy; he shared various thoughts and slides on related topics.
The fifth speaker was Iryna Volynets; she’s a Ukrainian architecture instructor whose students at our university worked on proposing ideas for some new building for a collaborating school in Lviv.
The sixth speaker was Tanya Bucierka, a local ER doctor whose grandparents on both sides are Ukrainian, and she grew up in a Ukrainian-American community in I think Rochester, NY. She’s been to Ukraine four times to help train people. Mostly she’s brought supplies and trained physicians in the use of an ultrasound technology that works via smartphone and that can very quickly assess various types of internal bleeding, etc., to help with triage, but she’s also worked with two friends as a mobile clinic and has trained children in orphanages how to make tourniquets, etc. Here's an article about her in our local alternative paper.
Last we had a retired diplomat with expertise in several other Slavic-language countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and he told us what he thinks it all portends for the future of NATO.
(I didn’t retain all the names; I had to look up the Irynas online when writing this post.)
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