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Oleksandr Grytsenko - director of Ukrainian Center for Cultural Studies

Oleksandr Grytsenko

Curriculum Vitae

Born in Vatutino, Ukraine, August 29, 1957.

Education: Master’s diploma in computer science from T.Shevchenko National University (Kyiv), Department of Economic Cybernetics, 1980.
PhD (Candidate of Sciences) in semi-automatic management systems, 1987.
Also trained at: Summer school on cultural policy in the UK (University of Warwick, Sept. 1994); European diploma in cultural management (1994).

Academic scholarships:
January-August 1997 - Fulbright scholarship at the Pennsylvania State University (Project: a study of public cultural policy and private patronage of the arts in the US).
September 2000 – February 2001: CEU Junior Visiting Fellowship (Budapest), Nationalism studies.
January 2002 – March 2003, International Policy Fellowship, Open Society Institute (Budapest).

Career:
Since July 2002: director, Ukrainian Center for Cultural Studies.
2005-2006 – leader of the task group for the preparation of Ukraine’s National Report on Cultural Policy in Ukraine for the Council of Europe (presented to the CoE in may, 2007).
January-April 2006 – leader of the task group for the drafting of the Road Map for the Program of the development of Ukrainian culture, commissioned by the President of Ukraine.
Since September, 1994: deputy director of the Ukrainian Center for Cultural Studies; head of Institute for Cultural Policy in this Center.
Since 1994 – assoc. member, CIRCLE (Cultural Information and Research Centers Liaison of Europe) network. Since 1990 - Member, Writers Union of Ukraine.
April 1998 - member, delegation of Ukraine, UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Conference on Cultural Policies for Development, Stockholm, 30.03-2.04.1998.
January-August 1997, Fulbright scholar at the Pennsylvania State University, taught a course in Ukrainian culture and civilization during Spring semester of 1997 at the Department of Slavic & Eastern European languages of the PennState University.
June 1993 to August 1994 - adviser to Minister of Culture of Ukraine.
1990-1993: editor of literary critique section, 'Vsesvit' Monthly of world literature.
1987-1990: researcher, Kyiv State University, Depart. of Economic Cybernetics;
1987 - published a book of poetry `Map of a Weekday` (in Ukrainian, Molod` Publishers, Kyiv).
1984-87, postgraduate studies, Kyiv State University, Depart. of Economic Cybernetics.
1980-1993 - engineer, researcher, Kyiv State University.
1980 - graduated from Kyiv State University.

University, department Course Time
1. Penn State Univ., Slavic Deprt Ukrainian culture and civilization Spring semester 1997
2. Jagiellonian Univ. (Krakow), Instytut Spraw Publicznych Public cultural policy and cultural industries in Eastern Europe Visiting lecturer, Fall 2002
3. Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine Public cultural policy (visiting lecturing for post-graduate trainees) 2001, 2005
4. Kyiv University of Culture and Arts, department of international cultural co-operation Public cultural policy; Management of international cultural co-operation; International cultural industries Regular lecturing since 2003

Main publications in cultural policy and cultural studies:

  1. Hrytsenko O. Kul'turna polityka: koncepciji i dosvid [Cultural Policy: Concepts And Experiences], 1994, 64 p. (in Ukrainian).
  2. Kul'turna polityka: metodolohichni, pravovi, ekonomichni problemy. Zbirnyk naukovykh prats' (O.Hrytsenko, ed.) [Cultural Policy: methodological, economic & legal aspects]. Kyiv, 1995. 64 p.
  3. Hrytsenko, O. Svoja mudrist': natsionalni mifolohiji ta hromadians'ka religija v Ukrajini [The Wisdom of Our Own: National Mythologies and Civil Religion in Contemporary Ukraine], 1998, 184 p.
  4. Narysy Ukrajins'koji popularnoji kul'tury [Essays in Ukrainian Popular Culture] (editor and main contributor), 1998, 760 p.
  5. Kul'tura v zakoni: stan ta problemy pravovoho reguliuvannia kul'tury v Ukrajini [Culture-In-Law: Current situation and main problems of legal regulation of cultural sphere in Ukraine] (in assoc. with V.Solodovnyk, M.Strikha, V.Vechersky), 1998, 102 p.
  6. Hrytsenko O. (ed.), Heroi i znamenytosti v Ukrajins’kij kul’turi (Heroes & Celebrities in Ukrainian Culture) – Kyiv, 1999, 360 p.
  7. Hrytsenko O., Strikha M. Konceptsia derzhavnoi kulturnoi polityky Ukrainy. Osnovni polozhennya [Concept for Ukraine’s public cultural policy. Basic principles] / Kultura i zhyttia, No 3, 1995
  8. Alexander Grytsenko. Cultural policy of Slovenia. A сritical appraisal - Oracle. International Cultural News, No 3, 1995.
  9. Hrytsenko O. Ekonomichni problemy ukrajins'koji kul'tury [Economic problems of Ukrainian culture] / Kul'tura i Zhyttia, No 15, April 19, 1995, Kyiv.
  10. A review: R.Lindheim and G.S.N.Luckyj (eds). Toward an Intellectual History of Ukraine: An Anthology of Ukrainian Thought From 1710 to 1995. Toronto, 1996./ by O.Hrytsenko. //Slavic and East European Journal, vol 41, No. 4, Winter 1997.
  11. Hrytsenko O. Kul’tura i Vlada: teoria i praktyka kul’turnoi polityky v suchasnomu sviti [Culture & Power: Theory & practice of cultural policy in modern world]. – Kyiv, 2000. – 228 p.
  12. Hrytsenko O. ‘Ukrajins’ka kul’tura mizh global’nym i natsional’nym’ (Ukrainian culture between the global and the national) // Krytyka, No 6(32), 2000.
  13. Hrytsenko O. (Ed.), Rozderzhavlennia v kulturnij sferi: svitovyj dosvid i Ukrajinski realii. – Kyiv, UCKD, 2001 (in Ukrainian).
  14. Hrytsenko O. (Ed.), Bahatokultirnist’ i osvita. Perspektyvy zaprovadzhenia zasad polikulturnosti v systemi osvity v Ukraini. [Multiculturality and Education. Perspectives for introducing multiculturalism in Ukrainian schools]– Kyiv, UCKD, 2001 (in Ukrainian). - 60 p.
  15. Hrytsenko O., Solodovnyk V. Proroky, Piraty, Polityky i Publika. Kulturni industrii ta derzhavna polityka v suchasnij Ukrajini. - Kyiv, 2003, 168 p.
  16. Hrytsenko O. Culture as a Nation-Building Tool in Contemporary Ukraine // Journal of Ukrainian Studies, V. 26, No. 1-2, Summer-Winter 2001, p. 223-38.
  17. Hrytsenko O. Imagining the Community: Perspectives on Ukraine’s Ethno-cultural Diversity // Nationalities Papers, vol. 36, issue 2, 2008, p. 197-222.
  18. Гриценко Александр. Риторика стабильности против риторики справедливости: системы ценностей и культурные идентичности в постреволюционной фазе (случай Украины) – в кн.: Антропология революции. Сборник статей XVI Банных чтений, «Новое литературное обозрение» – Москва, НЛО, 2009, с. 294-324.


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