Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University joined the week of Czech Republic in Dnipropetrovsk region, which lasted from December 1 to 7, 2025. On December 2, as a part of this international initiative, Ukrainian-Czech Art and Humanities Studies were held at DNU.
University specialists prepared a meaningful online conference for the attention of the academic community. The event was opened with a bright performance by students-actors of the folk theater-studio “Masks” of the Palace of Culture of DNU. They presented literary and artistic readings about the national hero of the Czech Republic, the prophet of the nation Jan Hus based on Taras Shevchenko’s poem “The Heretic”.
Then, Rector of DNU Sergiy Okovytyy addressed the participants of the international art and humanities studies with welcoming words. He delivered an informative report “History of the formation and prospects for the development of cooperation between DNU and Charles University”. Vice-Rector for Scientific and Pedagogical Work and International Activities Viktor Gasso continued the conversation about the formation of academic cooperation between educational and scientific institutions of Ukraine and the Czech Republic.
Historical studies themselves were presented to the interested audience by leading scientists of the Faculty of History. Thus, in her presentation, Associate Professor of the Department of World History Valeria Lavrenko, using the example of Ukrainian students in interwar Czechoslovakia, considered the development of Ukrainian intellectual life in emigration
Her colleague in the department, Associate Professor Olga Kakovkina, prepared for the attention of the audience the research paper “Archival Code of Interaction: Ukrainian-Czech Relations of the Second Half of the 20th Century in the Sources of the State Archive of the Dnipropetrovsk Region”, where she described the information resource of sources in the regional archive about the relations between Ukraine and the Czech Republic in the 1950s–1990s.
And the acting Head of the department of special branches of historical knowledge and didactics of history, Olga Dyachenko, gave a lecture “From Prague to Kyiv: Historical Lessons of Suppression of Freedom”.
Philological and cultural studies at the conference were represented by Natalia Dyachok, Head of the Department of General Linguistics and Slavic Studies, Head of the Center for Czech Language and Culture of the DNU. She made an interesting scientific report on compressive nomination on the Internet in the Czech and Ukrainian languages.
The successful development of interlingual communication and the deepening of our cultural ties was also facilitated by the speech of Tereza Chlaňová, Head of the Ukrainian Studies Department at Charles University. From the online inclusion of Ms. Teresa from Prague, the participants of the studies learned more about the creation of the mental and psychological foundations of the formation of the national identity of the Ukrainian emigration in interwar Czechoslovakia - based on the illustrative life stories of famous intellectuals Olena Teliga, Leonid Mosendz, Yevhen Malaniuk.
And the cognitive arts and humanities studies at DNU were completed by the thematic block of philosophy. Here, Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy Viktoriya Vershyna spoke, who provided her own philosophical reception of the transformation of the understanding of the subject in the work of Franz Kafka - in the context of the global challenges of modernity.
Later, the Week of the Czech Republic at Alma Mater continued with a visit by the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Luboš Veselý. On December 5, the Czech diplomat gave a lecture to the students of DNU on the current features of international relations.
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