Fantastic Course. 3.0 Why read fiction?

Why read fiction? To be ready for today. Whatever is unbelievable and terrible in our lives – we will not fall into a stupor, because we have already read about it. Fiction is like a vaccine for all mankind. Many things without which we cannot imagine our lives were once fantastic. We have already talked about the history of the genre, recalled the forgotten and almost forgotten authors, introduced to the classic works. 

Join us to 

• Follow the development of fiction genres; 
• Hear about how ideas were formed, changed and what they came up with; 
• Learn about the path of literature from myth (the first and the oldest form of fiction) and the Bible – the first science fiction book, to «American Gods» by Neil Gaiman, and how the images of gods and heroes have changed during this time. 

Come to the Fantastic Course meeting with your ideas and topics for conversation. 

15th of September at 18:00 in room 6.2 of the Library 

Webinar «Academic integrity and preparing teaching materials»

We invite you to join the webinar «Academic integrity and preparing teaching materials», which will take place on the 15th of September, 2021 at 16.00 

Key aspects of the webinar: 

• what to take into consideration when creating teaching materials; 
• legal and regulatory recommendations that will help create quality programs and materials that meet today’s requirements; 
• how the process of creating teaching materials relates to academic integrity in the educational institution. 

Organizers of the event: Unicheck Ukraine and the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education 

Event speakers: Olena Yeremenko – Deputy Head of the Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. She will talk about the requirements and recommendations for the design and content of teaching materials, requirements for authors and taking into account the interests of higher education students in creating programs. 

Ivan Nazarov is a member of the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Explain the legal regulation of academic integrity and the role of the National Agency in shaping the space of academic integrity and responding to its violations. 

Andriy Sidlyarenko – Academic Integrity Expert, Commercial Director of Unicheck Ukraine. He will share 5 key components of the culture of academic integrity and its implementation in higher education.

 Registration by link.

Presentation of the book by Anna Morozova «The Fourth Assistant of Saint Christopher»

Anna Morozova is a KPI graduate, a well-known traveler and writer. She has visited 70 countries, hitchhiked around the world, and now lives in the USA. 

Anna gave educational lectures, was a speaker at TEDx, created the first Travelage independent travel forum in Ukraine, was active in public life and motivated thousands of people to start traveling.

Her first novel reflects the author’s adventurous experience. 

The program of the event includes a presentation of a psychological novel about the adventures of a Ukrainian sailor, exchange of traveling experiences, lifehacks about travelling during the pandemic, and answers to your questions. 

We will meet in the student space Belka.

Registration.

The first meeting of the photo club «PhotoDrive»

On the 9th of September at 18:00 in the room 1.2 of the H. I. Denysenko Scientific and Technical Library the first meeting of the photography club «PhotoDrive» will be held. 

Do not forget about anti-epidemic requirements – protective masks and keeping the distance. 

At the first meeting we will talk about how the idea of creating a club appeared and discuss organizational issues. 

The head of the club Oleksandr will answer the questions. 

The club channel  in the Telegram.

Webinar «Criteria and procedure for selection of publications for Web of Science Core Collection»

We invite KPI researchers to participate webinar «Criteria and procedure for selection of publications for Web of Science Core Collection» from Clarivate company.

During the webinar we will discuss the following blocks:

• components of a successful publication;
• key figures of the journal: authors, reviewers, members of editorial boards. Their rights and responsibilities;
• technical, scientific quality criteria and mandatory elements of scientific publications: website, ISSN, doi, impact factor, quartile;
• submission procedure and selection criteria for the Web of Science Core Collection;
• publishers portal. How to determine how many citations has a publication that is not indexed by the Web of Science Core Collection database;
• which journals should yours be compared to and what can be borrowed for the development of your own journal;
• answers to participants’ questions from registration questionnaires.

12.08.2021, 10:15–11:15: Registration.

12.08.2021, 16:15-17:15: Registration.

Important: All participants who register and listen to at least 90% of the main time of the webinar will be able to receive electronic certificates of participation.

The webinar will take place on the WEBEX platform, which does not support the Windows XP operating system and some versions of browsers. So you need to find out if you can connect to a webinar on this platform in advance.

Lifesaving on the water

In summer, the best way to escape the heat is to rest on the water. However, this can turn into a real horror if you ignore the safety rules.

However, you should not panic! On the training of Kostiantyn Shevchenko «Lifesaving on the water» you can learn how to save your life being captured by the nature force.

Please hurry and register to participate.

Where:  lawn near the KPI Library.

When: July 22, 11:00 (gathering in front of the Library entrance).

Come to the event, it is going to be fascinating!

Book Arsenal at the Library

The jubilee X International «Book Arsenal Festival» will be partly held online and the Library will become its «embassy».

In reading room 1.2 you will be able to join the live broadcast of events that will take place online and live. 

Do you want to be filled with super-relevant and intellectual content of the best literary festival in the world? 

Get acquainted with the announcement, choose what you are interested in and come to us!

#bookarsenal_lib

23.06 (Wednesday) – 15:00 – 15:45

Webinar «We weren’t given the instructions: Q&A about the teenagers’ mental health»

24.06 (Thursday)  – 12:00 – 12:45

Canon of Ukrainian women writers: old and new names

24.06 (Thursday) – 13:30 – 14:15

Open dialogue «How to get to the library? Outspokenly about #reading»

24.06 (Thursday) – 15:00 – 15:45

«How to eat, drink and hear in Ukrainian?»

25.06 (Friday) – 13:30 – 14:15

Formats of reading classics: Lesia Ukrainka

26.06 (Saturday) – 13:30 – 14:15

To the 30th anniversary of Ukrainian Independence. Public talk «They fought for the Independence of Ukraine»

26.06 (Saturday) – 16:00 – 18:00

Event «Ukraine and Ireland: literature dimension»

KPI Library, room 1.2 (cultural and educational center)

French new wave

Improvisation, crazy gluing together and Belmondo with a blue face… All this and more – at the next meeting of the art project PostArt We are announcing a new lecture on the revolutionary «New Wave» in French cinema. 

«New Wave» is a turning point of the 60’s, which brought the cinema out of stagnation. Young directors Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Alain Rene, Louis Mal proposed a new syntax of cinematic language, taking to the streets with small cameras and placing screen events in a noisy urban environment.

 In the lecture we will touch on the following issues: 

• Who inspired the «new wave»? 
• Why is the «new wave» revolutionary? 
• Who belonged to the «new wave»?
• What tapes are worth watching? 

The meeting will take place on June 11 at 18:00. Registration via the link. 

Herbal tea: online meeting of the Tea Club project

We invite you to the next meeting of the Tea Club of the KPI Library. This time we will talk about herbal tea. 

Many people like to drink a cup of fragrant chamomile, lavender or other infusion, add honey or lemon to it… But can this drink be called tea? Where did the tradition of drinking herbal infusions come from? The words «compote», «potion» are coming to our mind here…

• So, by visiting us for evening tea you will learn: How the herbal collection became «tea»; 
• How traditional drinks differed from modern adaptations; 
• Which recipes were used more often at what time of the year; 
• What are the basic rules of combinations of different herbs and their optimal amount. 

The speaker this time will be Dmytro Mazurenko – the founder of the Club of Exquisite Taste «Mystic Masala», a chef, traveler, historian of cuisine, who has been studying traditional recipes of the world for over 12 years. 

The meeting of the Tea Club will take place on June 10 at Zoom, starting at 19.00. We invite everyone on condition of previous registration.

Ocean Life: an online lecture on World Oceans

Day On June 8, the world celebrates World Oceans Day. 

«It is quite inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when it is obvious that it is the Ocean», wrote Arthur Clarke, an English writer, scientist and inventor. 

The oceans cover 3/4 of the Earth’s surface, contain 97% of water reserves, and cover 99% of the planet’s surface area. The oceans are the world’s largest source of protein, with the lives of about 3 billion people completely dependent on the oceans. The theme of the Day in 2021 is «Ocean: life and livelihoods».

 Exactly on June 8 at 19:00 we will talk about the Southern Ocean and its inhabitants. Biologist Julia Ivanchykova, a graduate student of the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, will tell about her participation in the sea part of the 25th Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition. 

We will find out: 

• Whether it is always cold in Antarctica; 
• Who is stronger – an albatross or a petrel; 
• What produces the only Ukrainian industrial fishing vessel in the Southern Ocean and what desperate biologists are researching there; 
• How to go on an expedition for 6 weeks, and return in 4 months; 
• Whether it is possible to exist in the 21st century without access to Instagram and YouTube; 
• How to distinguish a humpback whale from a fin whale; 
• How to survive among endless icebergs and cold waves. 

And also Julia will answer your questions. We invite you to a lecture on conditions of pre-registration.