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Full Workshop Text (Transcription and Outline)

Tags: Alberta, Archives, Canada, Cemeteries, Chapels, Churches, Culture, Digitization, Documentation Project, Heritage, Icons, Manitoba, Prairies, Primary Sources, Religion, Saskatchewan, Tombstones, Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainian Studies

Part 1: What Is to Be Done?

CIUS conference audio (Part 1 of 16)John-Paul Himka opens the conference by outlining the goal of making sure that Ukrainian sacred culture on the prairies is well documented for future scholars and for future generations.Transcription found in this…

Part 10: Technical and Photographic Aspects

CIUS conference audio (Part 10 of 16)Outline of presentation:Google Maps: Byzantine Rite Churches in Alberta. We can use a GPS unit to get exact coordinates. Google Maps gives directions. Roughly 92 GC churches, 74 Ukrainian Orthodox, 24 OCA, 22…

Part 11: Making Virtual Reality Tours of Ukrainian and Canadian Churches

CIUS conference audio (Part 11 of 16)Outline of presentation:Virtual Reality Movies used in Ukrainian ethnographic research, spatial stuff. Used a parabolic mirror attached to a digital camera. Computer software can generate that into a panorama,…

Part 12: Open Discussion Directed by Frances Swyripa

CIUS conference audio (Part 12 of 16)Outline of presentation:Change of chair because JPH wanted to continue writing up the discussion.Need to do a survey of what’s already out there. (Ostap Skrypnyk)Churches were torn down, closed, burned down.…

Part 13: Announcements by John-Paul Himka

CIUS conference audio (Part 13 of 16) Short announcement by John-Paul Himka

Part 14: Digital Databases: Examples and Sources of Funding

CIUS conference audio (Part 14 of 16)Outline of presentation:hard copy (printouts from web)Interaction of content and digital development – something that needs to be worked out. Various scholarly disciplines (religious studies, history, art history,…

Part 15: Customized Database for Church-Related Digital Photographs

CIUS conference audio (Part 15 of 16)Outline of presentation:Churches are not just buildings – they are also people.He is very enthusiastic about churches. He’s prepared an internet database. Admires Ed Ledohowski’s site.The evolution of his…

Part 16: Discussion directed by Jars Balan

CIUS conference audio (Part 16 of 16) Outline of presentation:What structure? (JPH)Partnerships necessary with Saskatoon and Winnipeg (the Ukrainian centers). Apply for grants in different provinces. We should strike an initiative group. (Jars…

Part 2: What Has Been Done?

CIUS conference audio (Part 2 of 16)Outline of presentation:Overview of the preliminary survey. Organizing principles. There’s better coverage of Alberta. Please make additions and corrections to the list (following the format of the list). We want…

Part 3: A Geographer’s Perspective

CIUS conference audio (Part 3 of 16)Outline of presentation:Not really an architectural historian. But he has worked a bit on Ukrainian vernacular architecture on the prairies.We should look at location, parish boundaries, site situation, spacing.…

Part 4: Why Do This?

CIUS conference audio (Part 4 of 16)Outline of presentation:This is a political action by the Canadian Ukrainian community. Multicultural policy has faded. But an important part of our heritage were Ukrainian bloc settlements, Ukrainian areas of…

Part 5: Graveyards

CIUS conference audio (Part 5 of 16)Outline of presentation:Churchyards and graveyards. Renewal – examples of renewed cemeteries. They often have interesting historical information reproduced (terminology, cross shape).Physical decay. Wooden crosses…

Part 6: Discussion

CIUS conference audio (Part 6 of 16)Outline of presentation:Interesting additional information on graveyards, crosses (much discussion of three-barred crosses). (Bohdan Hrynyshyn, Jars Balan, Andrij Hornjatkevyc, others) It is important to note that…

Part 7: Prairie Churches in Manitoba

CIUS conference audio (Part 7 of 16)Outline of presentation:An overview of what’s going on in Manitoba. Has provided a cd for each participant.Manitoba did inventories, divided the province into survey districts (number), gave different kinds of…

Tags: Architecture, Archives, Canada, Cemeteries, Chapels, Churches, Culture, Digitization, Documentation Project, Ed Ledohowski, Heritage, Manitoba, Prairies, Primary Sources, Religion, Tombstones, Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainian Studies

Part 8: Manitoba

CIUS conference audio (Part 8 of 16)Outline of presentation:Stella Hryniukprepared text existsHow the book they wrote, Monuments of Faith, developed. In the 1980s there was not only the problem of abandonment, but also vandalism, security, disrepair.…

Tags: Archives, Canada, Cemeteries, Chapels, Churches, Culture, Digitization, Documentation Project, Heritage, Manitoba, Prairies, Primary Sources, Religion, Roman Yereniuk, Stella Hryniuk, Tombstones, Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainian Studies

Part 9: Building on and Learning from What's Been Done (discussion)

CIUS conference audio (Part 9 of 16)Outline of presentation:Directed by Frances SwyripaEd Ledohowski also knows an art photographer from Massachusetts who has been taking the churches. Looking for a repository for his work.Faith vs. heritage.…

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