On February 24, a meeting with Natalia Dziubenko-Mace “Today our dead are choosing every one of us” will take place at the assembly hall of the International Institute of Education, Culture, and Liaisons with Diaspora of the National University “Lviv Polytechnic.” At the meeting the writer, James Mace’s widow will answer the questions of the audience. Besides, the appeal to the Lviv City Council with a proposal to name one of the city’s streets after the outstanding political writer, academic, and researcher of Holodomor will be made public. Apart from that, the students of the Lviv Polytechnic will organize a flash mob, dedicated to James Mace and his wife.
Taras Lylio, Ph. D. in philology, associate professor of the department of foreign press and information at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, commented: “At the department of journalism, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, we thoroughly study the academic and publicist heritage of James Mace, and we consider that not only time is needed to understand the importance of his works and to digest them, but this is also a test for the presence of conscience. James Mace has taught us several important lessons at the least. First, deep awareness, being rooted in the destiny of your people (in case of Mace, this is Indian tribe of Cherokee), not an escape from your national identity is a key to understanding, the ability to sympathize with the tragedy of other nations. Secondly, the quality of life is measured not only with high-quality highways, clean water, but also by the memory, a great warning for present day and future of the nation, which has tried to survive for a long time, and now is fighting for the right to live decently, not to be serving anyone. Thirdly, it’s an ethical lesson. James Mace with his life, as well as his tale of the life choice of such journalists as Gareth Jones, proved that journalism requires not only knowledge and conscience, but courage too. His article ‘A Tale of Two Journalists’ is a reference text for our students.”
It will be reminded that the abovementioned work, like other works by James Mace, who was an editor of the English-language version of Den, The Day, was published as part of Den’s Library.
