Ukrainians in Australia: An Eyewitness Account
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CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.<br /><br />The second Institute seminar, “Ukrainians in Australia: An Eyewitness Account," was presented by Dr. Celestin Suchowersky, formerly of the University library, on 2 October. In February 1979 Dr. Suchowersky visited the major Ukrainian centres in Australia: Sydney, Melbourne, the port of Adelaide and Canberra, Australia's capital. He met with representatives of Ukrainian religious, civic, cultural, economic and political organizations.<br /><br /> The Ukrainian Catholic church in Australia is well organized and has a number of accomplishments to its credit; the Ukrainian Orthodox church is somewhat weaker, being divided into three jurisdictions and representing a smaller number of faithful. Ukrainian community life is led by the SUOK, which might be compared to the Ukrainian Canadian Committee of Canada, although there are some differences. Every city has its own narodnl domy where all can gather; simultaneously there exist domy for specific church and civic groups such as SUM and Plast. The development of credit unions has been impressive, especially in Sydney and Melbourne. Political parties from "the old country" languish because of internal dissension. The speaker felt that Ukrainian students in Australia, as a whole, participate more actively in Ukrainian community life and speak more and better Ukrainian than do their Canadian counterparts. The speaker was most favourably impressed by the Tovarystvo universytetskykh graduantiv (Association of University Graduates) of Sydney and the surrounding area. The Tovarystvo invited Dr. Suchowersky to address its members on the cultural and academic achievements of Ukrainians in Canada and on the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies in particular. The older generation of Ukrainian Australians is troubled by a complex of questions familiar to Canadians concerning assimilation and the retention of a Ukrainian identity among the youth.<br /><br />Found in <a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1574">CIUS </a><span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;"><a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1574">Newsletter Vol 4 Issue 1 (Winter 1979)</a> </span>
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October 2, 1979
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The National Awakening in Ukraine, 1859–1863: Students in Kharkiv and Kyiv Universities
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CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.<br /><br />Dr. Roman Serbyn, of the history department at Universite du Quebec a Montreal, presented this year's last seminar which was entitled, "The National Awakening in Ukraine, 1859–1863: Students in Kharkiv and Kiev Universities."<br /><br />Heightened student activism emerging in post- Crimean Russia took on a specific, national coloring in the two universities situated in Ukraine. During this first "movement to the people", student activists drew closer to the common folk and, through the Ukrainian peasantry and the still un-Russified nascent working class, rediscovered Ukrainian language and culture. As "khlopophilism" blended with "Ukrainophilism" student activism found intellectual reinforcement in the Romantic literary tradition of the popular works of Taras Shevchenko and Marko Vovchok, as well as in the Ukrainian schools of Polish and Russian literature. A desire to promote the Ukrainian language, as well as a feeling of social debt, prompted students to set up Ukrainian language Sunday schools.<br /><br />More radical students organized in clandestine groups such as the revolutionary-minded Kharkiv Secret Political Society and the more moderate, or at least more heterogenous, Kyiv Student Hromada. Ukrainian student radicalism, leaning towards an eventually autonomous if not completely independent Ukraine, was acquiring a national consciousness and beginning to assert itself as a movement allied to, but independent of, Polish and Russian movements. The Ukrainian movement was also winning a grudging recognition, from Poles and Russians, as a partner in the common struggle against the tsarist regime. This development was cut short by the aborted Polish insurrection and renewed repression against Ukrainians. From then on, Ukrainophilism fell back into political moderation while the Russian radical movements siphoned off Ukrainian radicals into their own increasingly centralist organizations.<br /><br />Found in <a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1572">CIUS </a><span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;"><a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1572">Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)</a> </span>
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March 26, 1979
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