# News and Events August 2022: Dr. Kotsyuba launched [*Ukraïnica: The Primary Database of Ukrainian Studies*](https://ukrainica.huri.harvard.edu)—a new digital resource to help college and high school educators locate and use Ukrainian content in their teaching. September 2020: Dr. Kotsyuba unveiled [HURI Books](https://books.huri.harvard.edu), the new website of HURI's book publishing program, whose design and programming he directed. February 2019: Dr. Kotsyuba unveils the new website of the journal *Harvard Ukrainian Studies* at , whose creation he oversaw. Read more [here](https://www.husj.harvard.edu/news/harvard-ukrainian-studies-has-launched-its-website). August 2018: Dr. Kotsyuba will teach two courses on Vladimir Nabokov as the Visiting Lecturer in the Russian Department at Wellesley College. read more [here](https://www.wellesley.edu/russian/welcome-oleh-kotsyuba). February 2018: Dr. Oleh Kotsyuba has joined the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard as its new Manager of Publications. Read more [here](/dr-oleh-kotsyuba-appointed-new-manager-publications-ukrainian-research-institute?admin_panel=1). November 2017: Presentation at the Convention of the Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (Chicago, IL). Panel "[Ukrainian Poetry of the 1970s and 1980s: Towards the Creation of an Alternative Cultural Identity](http://tinyurl.com/y7vdtr7d). Presentation title: "[Changing the Framework: Oleh Lysheha’s Interlocutors in Western Literature](https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aseees/aseees17/index.php?cmd=Online%20Program%20View%20Paper&selected_paper_id=1267011&PHPSESSID=mliei0cmkdrt7lk222b0g6ch84)." September 2017: Dr. Kotsyuba was awarded the Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Research Fellowship by the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. November 2016: Explore creative appropriations of Russian 19th century literature by students in Dr. Kotsyuba's Slavic 145 class. Proceed here to the Creative Appropriations site. November 17-20, 2016: Dr. Kotsyuba presents at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies in Washington, DC. Paper title: "Decommunized and Happy: Literary Reactions to Disappearing Soviet Symbols in Post-Maidan Ukraine, 2013-2016." Abstract and other information is available [here](http://tinyurl.com/gq2ksal). September 2016: Dr. Kotsyuba offers two courses in the fall term of 2016. "Russian Literature in Translation: The 19th Century Tradition" (Slavic 145) and "Narrative Strategies in Nikolai Gogol's Short Fiction" (Slavic 98a/158, Junior Tutorial for Slavic concentrators). July 13, 2016: Dr. Kotsyuba offers a poetry workshop at Harvard Ukrainian Institute: "[**On Poetry and Poets: Oleh Lysheha and His Creative Circle**](http://huri.harvard.edu/events/calendar/g-3-huv1k8g6vktftl3optuugv9cjk_201607132200.html)." Anatoly Sykley, who participated in this workshop, responds to it [here](http://www.huri.harvard.edu/husi/husi-blog/262-oleh-lysheha-and-his-creative-circle-a-response-to-oleh-kotsyuba-s-talk-by-anatole-sykley.html). July 2016: Dr. Kotsyuba is reappointed as College Fellow in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. August 2015: Oleh Kotsyuba was appointed College Fellow at Harvard University. Read more [here](/oleh-kotsyuba-appointed-college-fellow-harvard). November 12, 2014: Presentation at Harvard Slavic Department's Literary Colloquium titled "Between Traditionalism and Innovation: Soviet Ukrainian Literature of the 1980s" October 2014: [Presentation at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences workshop](/presentation-graduate-school-arts-and-sciences-workshop) titled "Traditionalism in Soviet Ukrainian Prose of the 1980s: Volodymyr Drozd's *Lystia zemli* (The Leaves of Earth)" September 2014: [Launch of Krytyka's English website](/launch-krytyka-magazines-english-website) July 2014: Workshop on contemporary Ukrainian literature for the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute: "The Secret of Success: Contemporary Ukrainian Literature in European Perspective" April 2014: [Roundtable discussion at Williams College on the Crimean crisis](/roundtable-discussion-crimean-crisis-its-geopolitical-significance%E2%80%9D-williams-college).