Detachable Subdivision
"Rivne Professional College of
National University of Life
and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine"
On the eve of Ukrainian Statehood Day, a national holiday celebrated annually in Ukraine on the Day of the Baptism of Kyivan Rus-Ukraine (this year, July 15), an extremely informative online meeting with Ukrainian art historian Liliana Vezhbovska “Components of National Identity: A Culturological Aspect” was held. Liliana Vezhbovska is a candidate of art history, associate professor of the Department of Graphic Design, Faculty of Design and Advertising of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, and a member of the Volunteer Movement “Space of Freedom”. Lyudmila Buryachynska, head of the college’s library and information center, joined the event, organized by the Yevhen Pluzhnyk Library.
In an interesting, accessible, and professional manner, the participants of the meeting discussed the problems of national identity, which encompasses a complex of ideas, beliefs, practices, and symbols that unite people into a single nation. The culturological aspect of national identity focuses on those elements that form the common cultural space of the nation.
The speaker of the event thoroughly covered the issue of Ukrainian modernism as a national variant of European modernism; spoke about Heorhiy Narbut as the creator of the famous Ukrainian font, banknotes and postage stamps; about Vasyl Krychevsky as the developer of the State Emblem of the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918. The topic of the modern emblem of Ukraine and the peculiarities of the formation of culture during the Ukrainian Renaissance were also discussed.
The recording of the meeting broadcast can be viewed on Facebook, the page of the Yevhen Pluzhnyk Library at the following address: vocation.
For the Day of Ukrainian Statehood, the BIC reading room is open book exhibition "History of Ukrainian statehood", We invite users to familiarize themselves.
Lyudmila BURYACHYNSKA,
Head of the BIC
