Awarding ceremony of the Winners of Ivan Franko International Prize
The third Awarding Ceremony of the Laureates of the Ivan Franko International Prize will be held on August 27, 2018 at 12:00 at the home of I. Franko in Drohobych in the Lviv region (Drohobych city, Ivan Franko str., 20).
Short. The prize will be awarded in two nominations. In the nomination “for significant advances (achievements) in the field of Ukrainian studies” will receive the doctor of philological sciences, a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) and the Ukrainian Free University (Munich), head of the Department of Philology of the Ukrainian Catholic University – YAROSLAVA MELNYK .In the nomination “For significant achievements in the field of social and human sciences”, the award will be awarded to a senior lecturer in East European History at the University of Helsinki – JOHANNES REMY.
Prize laureates from previous years:
In 2016, Lubomyr Husar, a Major Archbishop-emeritus, former head of the Ukrainian Greek
Catholic Church, won with his monograph “Andrey Sheptytsky, Metropolitan of the Galicia (1901-1944), a Precursor of Ecumenism”;
In 2017, a professor of the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna, Michael Moser, won in the nomination “for significant advances (achievements) in the field of Ukrainian studies” with his monograph «New Contributions to the History of the Ukrainian Language”;
In 2017, an honored professor of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, academic Oleh Shabliy, won in the nomination “for significant advances (achievements) in the field of social and human sciences” with his scientific work “Social Geography” in 2 volumes.
For reference. Ivan Franko International Prize is an honorary recognition of significant achievements and considerable services of scientists in the field of Ukrainian studies and social and humanitarian sciences. The Prize was established in order to promote comprehensive study of creative, scientific and social activities of Ivan Franko and encourage scientists from around the world to conduct relevant researches in the field of social sciences and humanities and Ukrainian studies emphasizing humanistic, national, spiritual, statist sense for learning and consolidation of scientific and cultural heritage of Ukraine in the global context. The founder of the Ivan Franko International Prize is his grandson, Roland Franko.
