Olha Poliukhovych
Vice President for Research and Academic Affairs, PhD in Philology, associate professor, Volodymyr Morenets Department of Literature of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
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Abstract. The article examines the academic connections and cooperation experience between the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the universities and academic institutions of the United States of America, both from a historical perspective and in the context of the contemporary full-scale russian-Ukrainian war.
The paper emphasises the role of the Ukrainian academic community as a whole and the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in particular in the general resistance against the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine. Students at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy are pursuing their education under conditions incomparable to those of their peers around the world, while the university’s faculty and researchers are working under constant alarms, stress, sleep deprivation, and daily tragic news.
The author of the article argues that Ukraine’s post-war recovery will substantially rely on Ukrainian universities, their research and expertise, and their graduates. Ukraine has considerable potential in the form of brilliant researchers, who must be given the opportunity to flourish for the sake of post-war reconstruction.
The article emphasises that neither the growing interest in Ukraine, its culture, history, language, society, politics, nor its post-war recovery can take place without the participation of the Ukrainian academic and university community. In this context, the experience of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy can serve as a benchmark and guide in the search for solutions to pressing issues in the context of the russian-Ukrainian war.
Keywords: academic diplomacy, Ukrainian culture, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, university communities, identity, scientific diplomacy
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