On Friday, 28 February 2014 renowned scholar George Grabowicz (Harvard) delivered the Twelfth Annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge. His presentation, part of Cambridge's Shevchenko2014.org bicentennial celebration, was entitled 'Taras Shevchenko: The Making of the National Poet.'

George Grabowicz is the Dmytro Cyzevs’kyj Professor of Ukrainian Literature at Harvard University. Among his most well-known publications are The Poet as Mythmaker: A Study of Symbolic Meaning in Taras Sevcenko (Harvard UP, 1982) and Toward a History of Ukrainian Literature (Harvard UP, 1981).