The NGO “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” became a co-organizer of the international scientific conference “STANISLAW VINCENZ’S HOMO AGENS”, dedicated to the European philosopher Stanisław Vincenz, who lived and worked in the Hutsul region, in the Ukrainian Carpathians. Stanisław Vincenz was called the “Homer of the Hutsul Region” for writing the monumental Hutsul epic “On the High Uplands”, based on Hutsul mythology, which has been the subject of research by philologists, ethnographers, historians and other scientists from all over the world for more than 80 years.
The conference was organized online by the Polish University Abroad (PUNO) with an office in London.
The event was attended by dozens of scientists from the world’s leading universities – in particular, Wroclaw and Lublin Universities, the University of Arts in Poznań, the University of Vienna, the University of Haifa and others, as well as Stanisław Vincenz’s relatives – in particular, the writer’s granddaughter Anna de Vincenz – a leading specialist of the Israel Institute of Archaeology.
Among the topics of the reports are “Hutsulshchyna yesterday and today”, “Vincenz on Gandhi’s humanism”, “Vincenz and Milos”, “Vincenz and Hedroits”, “Vincenz’s farewell to Lviv”, “Vincenz’s Greek wisdom”, “Vincenz reads Plato”, and others.
From the Ukrainian side, the acting chairman of the board of the All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum Yaryna Yasynevych and cultural project manager Maria Gurska took part in the “VINCENZ’S HOMO AGENS” Conference.
Yaryna Yasinevych delivered a report on Vincenz projects in Ukraine and talked about the most important current initiatives of the organization, such as the transportation of Stanisław Vincenz’s library to Ukraine for its scientific research at the Ukrainian Catholic University, the annual international conference “Vincenz Circle” in Verkhovyna Region, the Stanisław Vincenz Prize, which is awarded as part of the “VIA CARPATIA” forum, as well as translations of the most important works S. Vincenz in Ukrainian, which are taken care of by “Demforum”. “Making Vincenz’s literary heritage accessible is a fundamental task for our team. This is important not only for Ukrainians to read Vincenz. And – what is key – the projects of using his heritage would become more accessible in implementation”, – said Yaryna Yasinevych.
Maria Gurska introduced the conference participants to the project of the virtual Center for Intercultural Dialogue named after Stanisław Vincenz, which should be a continuation of the Concept of the Center, developed in 2019 with the support of UKF by Polish and Ukrainian scientists, and which is planned to be implemented in 2022, and in more detail – about the production of the film “On the High Uplands”, which is being created in a Polish-Ukrainian co-production. The script and pre-production of the film in 2019-2020 received the support of the UKF, and in 2021 the production of the film received funding from State Cinema. The producer of the film is Pylyp Illenko – filming will begin in 2022.
