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Ihor Sevcenko was educated in Classics and Byzantine Studies in Warsaw, Prague, Louvain and Brussels, and specializes in Byzantine cultural history, hagiography, Byzantine text editions, Byzantino-Slavic cultural relations, Byzantine epigraphy and Greek palaeography. Among his early publications in the field is Études sur la polémique entre Théodore Métochite et Nicéphore Choumnos (1962). His collections of essays include Society and Intellectual Life in Late Byzantium (1981), Ideology, Letters and Culture in the Byzantine World (1982) and Byzantium and the Slavs in Letters and Culture (1991). His latest book is Ukraine between East and West(1996), Ukrainian ed., 2001. Extracurricular publication: translation of George Orwell's Animal Farm into Ukrainian (1946, publ. 1947). He is a former Visiting Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1956), former Visiting Fellow at All Souls and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford (1979-80 and 1987 and 1993 respectively); Visiting Professor at the Collège de France (1985), Universities of Munich (1969), Cologne (1992, 1996) and at the Central European University of Budapest (1996, 1997); Guggenheim Fellow (1963); Guest of the Rector of Collegium Budapest (1998); Onassis Foundation Fellow (2002) recipient of Festschriften Okeanos (1984) and Chrysai Pylai (2002), of the Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (1985), of honorary doctorates from the Universities of Cologne (1994), Warsaw (2001), and Lublin (2005), of the M. Hrusevs'kyj Medal of the Scientific Sevcenko Society (L'viv) (1996) and Laureate of the Antonovych Literary Prize for 1999 (awarded in Kiev in 2000); member of a number of Learned Societies, among which American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia), American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Medieval Academy of America (Fellow), Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Accademia di Palermo, Accademia Pontaniana (Naples), Christian Archaeological Society (Athens), the British Academy, the Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna), Academy of Humanities Research (Moscow), the National Academy of Ukraine (Kiev), and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007). Between 1986 and 1996, he was President of the Assocation Internationale des Études Byzantines. He is now Honorary President of that Association, as well as Honorary President of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. (2003). His hobby is trout fishing.

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