At the Origins of International Scientific Cooperation o f M. T. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology: Significance of the Poet-Academician Maksym Rylskyi

Author

Vakhnina Larysa

a Ph.D. in Philology, a head of Ukrainian and Foreign Folkloristics Department of M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine). 

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1030-7140

At the Origins of International Scientific Cooperation o
f M. T. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology: Significance
of the Poet-Academician Maksym Rylskyi

Abstract

he article is devoted to the consideration of the history of international scientific relations of M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IASFE). M. Rylskyi as its director has facilitated the formation and development of them with his personal contribution and organizational activities. The process has been supported with both creative and scientific trips to Bulgaria, the former Yugoslavia, Poland and France. Peculiar attention is paid to his scientific and organizational activities as the head of the Ukrainian Committee of Slavists, to the promotion of development of Ukrainian-Polish, Ukrainian-Bulgarian, Ukrainian-Serbian relations in Folkloristics and Art Studies. Scientific cooperation with well-known foreign institutes has started in the difficult times of totalitarianism. It has become the base for future studies precisely thanks to the personal contribution of M. Rylskyi, his openness and Europeanism. It is important that M. Rylskyi has been able to contribute to the establishment of both personal contacts with foreign scientists and cultural figures of Europe. However, he has cared about scientific cooperation between academic institutions and university centers first of all. M. Rylskyi’s contacts with the German Slavist, Ukrainianist and translator Anna-Halia Horbach are considered separately. Slavic Studies are included into the sphere of Folkloristics and Art Studies. Attention in the article will be paid to the creation of the first Slavic group at the Folkloristics Department in the IASFE at the beginning, and later the Slavic Folkloristics Unit, headed by M. Rylskyi’s former postgraduate student, a Ph.D. in Philology V. Yuzvenko. In the early 1960s, dissertations devoted to Ukrainian-Polish, Ukrainian-Bulgarian, Ukrainian-Czechoslovak folklore ties have started to be carried out at the Institute (V. Yuzvenko, N. Shumada, M. Haidai). Joint expeditionary research on the study of the Bulgarians of Ukraine have been also supported by the poet-academician. Attention is also paid to the archival sources of M. Rylskyi and the research fellows of the IASFE V. Yuzvenko and V. Bobkova. A number of new scientific directions has been formed at the Institute. They are still important today. A memorial room to honour M. Rylskyi has been created at the Ukrainian and Foreign Folkloristics Department of IASFE on the initiative of the former director, academician H. Skrypnyk.  M. Rylskyi’s autographs on books, a work desk and a piano are stored there [2]. It should be also noted that the Institute not only bears his name, but also preserves the memory of the works he has initiated and continues them.

Keywords

M. Rylskyi, international scientific cooperation, Slavic Studies, Folkloristics, M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

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