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The first CIUS office at the Faculty of Education Building at the University of Alberta

CIUS general office in the Education Building North, University of Alberta, 1970s

First CIUS space at the University of Alberta

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The First Space Voyages in Ukrainian Science Fiction

Tags: Science Fiction, Ukrainian, Walter Smyrniw

The First Ukrainian Historiography Textbook in Independent Ukraine

Tags: Borys Biletsky, Independent Ukraine, Pavlo Mykhailyna, Ukrainian Historiography

The Formation of Modern National Identity and Interethnic Relations in the Galician Ukrainian Highlands: Some Findings of a Local/Oral History Project

Tags: Galicia, Leonid Heretz, Modern, National Identity, Oral History, Ukraine

The Fourth Wave of Ukrainian Immigration to Canada as Depicted in the Literature of Ukrainian Canadianists

CIUS seminar audio. On November 7, 2008, Taras Lupul (Department of History, Political Science and International Relations, Yurii Fedkovych National University of Chernivtsi), gave a seminar on the topic: “The Fourth Wave of Ukrainian Immigration to…

Tags: Canada, CIUS Seminar, Fourth Wave, Immigration, Literature, Post-1991, Taras Lupul, Ukraine, Ukrainians, Ukrainians in Canada

The Greek Catholic Rustic Gentry and the Ukrainian National Movement in Habsburg-Ruled Galicia

Tags: Andriy Zayarnyuk, Galicia, Greek Catholic, the Habsburgs, Ukrainian National Movement

The Historical and Literary Background to Ukrainian-Spanish Relations

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.On February 12, Oleh Romanyshyn, who is currently completing his Ph.D. in the field of Spanish-Ukrainian literary relations, gave a seminar entitled, "The Historical and Literary Background to Ukrainian- Spanish…

Tags: Catholics, Christianity, CIUS Seminar, Culture, Literature, Medieval Ukrainian History, Oleh Romanyshyn, Spain, Spaniards, Spanish-Ukrainian relations, Ukraine

The Holodomor and the Soviet Famines, 1931–33

CIUS seminar audio. The great Ukrainian-Kuban famine of 1932–33—the Holodomor—was one of the determinative events of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, it was largely ignored by scholars until the last few years of the existence of the Soviet…

Tags: 1932-33, 20th century, Andrea Graziosi, Caucasus, CIUS Seminar, Collectivization, Communist Party, Famine, Genocide, Holodomor, Kazakhstan, Kuban, Peasants, Soviet Union, Stalin, Ukraine, United Nations

The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace: Its Significance for Ukrainian Studies

Tags: Guides to Research, Lubomyr Y. Luciuk, Ukrainian Studies

The Hutsul Koliada and the Yara Group: Winter Songs and Rituals from the Carpathian Mountains

CIUS seminar audio. On October 16, 2012 Virlana Tkacz (Yara Arts Group, La MaMa Experimental Theater, New York), gave a seminar on the topic: “The Hutsul Koliada and the Yara Group: Winter Songs and Rituals from the Carpathian Mountains”Found in CIUS…

Tags: Art, Carols, Carpathian Mountains, CIUS Seminar, Culture, Folklore, Rituals, Songs, Theatre, Ukraine, Virlana Tkacz, Yara Arts Group

The impact of the Yalta Agreement of 1945 on East European geopolitics

CIUS seminar audio. On October 7, 2011, Serhii Plokhii (Mykhailo Hrushevsky chair of Ukrainian history at Harvard University) gave a seminar on the impact of the Yalta Agreement of 1945 on East European geopolitics.See more information in the CIUS…

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Eastern Europe, Geopolitics, Postwar, Serhii Plokhii, Ukraine, World War II

The Implications of Ukrainian Studies in Korea

CIUS seminar audio.On November 18, 2010, Joung Ho Park (Institute of Russian Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea), gave a seminar presentation on the topic: “The Implications of Ukrainian Studies in Korea.”Found in CIUS…

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Geopolitics, Joung Ho Park, Korea, Literature, Ukraine, Ukrainian Studies

The Influence of Populists on Ukrainian Grammar: The Plight of Active-Present Adjectival Participles in Ukrainian

Tags: Bohdan Strumins'kyj, Ukrainian Grammar

The Influence of Socialist Realism on Soviet Montage: The End of St. Petersburg, Fragment of an Empire, and Arsenal

Tags: Murray Smith, Oleksander Dovzhenko

The Influence of the Reformation on the History of Ukraine

Tags: History of Ukraine, James R. Payton Junior, Reformation

The Influence of the Ukrainian Revolution
on Ukrainians in Canada, 1917-22

Tags: Canadian Ukrainians, Nestor Makuch, Ukrainian Canadians

The Intelligentsia of Soviet Ukraine

CIUS Seminar Audio.The thirteenth Institute seminar at the University of Alberta took place on March 27, 1979. B. Krawchenko, research associate at the Institute and Visiting assistant professor of political science, spoke on "The Intelligentsia of…

Tags: 20th century, Bohdan Krawchenko, CIUS Seminar, Ethnicity, Intelligentsia, Inter-ethnic Relations, National Movement, Social Mobilization, Soviet Ukraine, Ukraine

The Issue That Keeps Coming Back: Language Politics in Post-Orange Ukraine

CIUS Seminar audio.In this recording Dominique Arel discusses language politics in post-orange revolution Ukraine. Arel focuses on how spoken language explains political behaviour, particularly examining the linkage between the Orange vote and…

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Dominique Arel, Elections, Language, Orange Revolution, Politics, Post-1991, Ukraine, Ukrainian Language

The Jewish Massacres in the Historiography of the Khmelnytsky Uprising

Tags: Frank E. Sysyn, History of Ukraine, Jewish Massacres

The Journey (translated by Marta D. Olynyk)

Tags: Emma Andijewska, Marta Olynyk

The Khmelnytsky Uprising and Ukrainian Nation-Building

Tags: Frank E. Sysyn, Nation-Building, Ukraine

The Language of Polarized Femininities in Contemporary Ukraine

Tags: Alla Nedashkivska, Ukrainian Language

The Last Debate with Stalin: Ukrainian Writers in Moscow, 1929

On May 3, 2018 Serhy Yekelchyk (Professor of History and Slavic Studies University of Victoria) gave the 19th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "The Last Debate with Stalin: Ukrainian Writers in Moscow, 1929"

Tags: 20th century, Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Literature, Russia, Serhy Yekelchyk, Soviet Union, Stalin, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, Ukrainian Studies, Writers

The Last Judgment Icon of Mshanets

Tags: Iconography, John-Paul Himka, Last Judgment

The Last Years of Mykhailo Slabchenko

Tags: Janusz Radziejowski, Mykhailo Slabchenko

The Legacy of Dmytro Chyzhevsky in Ukraine: Reconstruction, Research, Prospects and Tasks

Tags: Dmytro Chyzhevsky, Iryna Valiavko, Ukraine

The Legacy of the “Brazilian Fever”: The Ukrainian Colonization of Parana

Tags: "Brazilian Fever", Serge Cipko

The Leopolis Project: An Electronic Archive of the Art of Ukraine

CIUS seminar audio. Ihor Zhuk from the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine presents on “The Leopolis Project: An Electronic Archive of the Art of Ukraine” Found in CIUS Newsletter 2007

Tags: Archives, Art, CIUS Seminar, Ihor Zhuk, Post-1991, Primary Sources, Ukraine

The Limits of Britishness: Reflectionson Constitutional Institutions and Ethnic Affiliationin Light of the Irish Experience

Tags: History, Ireland, John Hutchinson

The Literary Career of Mykola Rudenko

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.The third Institute seminar in Edmonton was presented on 16 October by Markian Kowaluk, a graduate student in the Department of Slavic Languages. He spoke on "The Literary Career of Mykola Rudenko," which is also the…

Tags: 20th century, CIUS Seminar, Dissidents, Donbas, Literature, Markian Kowaluk, Mykola Rudenko, Nationalism, Poetry, Science Fiction, Ukraine, Ukrainian Helsinki Group, Ukrainian Literature, Writer

The Literary Fallout of Chornobyl

On May 26, 2006, Prof. Maxim Tarnawsky (University of Toronto) gave the 7th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "The Literary Fallout of Chornobyl"

Tags: 20th century, Chornobyl, Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Ideology, Literature, Maxim Tarnawsky, Post-1991, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature

The Making and Tempering of the Ukrainian American

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.The Institute’s third seminar was given by Dr. Myron Kuropas on "The Making and Tempering of the Ukrainian American."Between 1884 and 1915, the Rusin-American who emigrated to the United States with a weak…

Tags: America, CIUS Seminar, Communism, Ethnicity, Ethnonationality, Identity, Ideology, Monarchism, Myron Kuropas, Nationalism, Rusin, Ukraine, Ukrainian Americans, Ukrainian Catholic Church, United States

The Making of an Opera: On the Eve of Ivan Kupalo

CIUS seminar audio.On October 20, 2011, Anna Pidgorna (Department of Music, University of Calgary), gave a seminar on the topic: “The Making of an Opera: On the Eve of Ivan Kupalo” (co-sponsored by the Peter and Doris Kule Centre for Ukrainian and…

Tags: Anna Pidgorna, Art, Christianity, CIUS Seminar, Folklore, Literature, Opera, Paganism, Religion, Rituals, Songs, Ukraine

The Making of the Generation of 1917: Towards a Collective Biography

Tags: Biography, Generation of 1917, Olga Andriewsky

The McMaster Conference Ukraine and Russia in Their Historical Encounter

Tags: J. Marko Bojcun, McMaster University, Review, Russia, Ukraine

The Mechanics of Building the First Catholic University on the Territory of the Former Soviet Union

CIUS seminar audio. On November 23, 2007, Rev. Borys Gudziak of Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, gave the annual Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture on the topic: “The Mechanics of Building the First Catholic University on the Territory of the…

Tags: Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture, Borys Gudziak, Catholic Church, Christianity, Education, Lviv, Post-1991, Religion, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukrainian Catholic University, University

The Methodist Church and Ukrainians in Canada, 1901–1925: A Study in Assimilation Policy

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. Part 2 audio begins at 4:45.The seminar, "The Methodist Church and Ukrainians in Canada, 1901-1925: A Study in Assimilation Policy," was given by Vivian Olender on October 23. Anglo-Celtic Canadians at the turn of the…

Tags: 20th century, Assimilation, Canada, Catholic Church, Christianity, Churches, CIUS Seminar, Immigrants, Methodism, Methodist Church, Orthodox Church, Religion, Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainians, Vivian Olender

The Music of the Dumy

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.The Institute's seminar series at the University of Alberta commenced on 18 September. Dr. Andrij Hornjatkevyc, assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Slavic languages, spoke on "The Music of the…

Tags: Andrij Hornjatkevyč, Art, Bandura, CIUS Seminar, Culture, Duma, Folklore, Literature, Music, Narrative, Poetry, Songs, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature

The Nation of Cain: Poles in Samiilo Velychko’ s Skazanye

Tags: Frank E. Sysyn, Samiilo Velychko

The National Awakening in Ukraine, 1859–1863: Students in Kharkiv and Kyiv Universities

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.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…

The Nationalization of Identities: Ukrainians in Belgium, 1920-1950

Tags: Idesbald Goddeeris, Machteld Venken, Nationalization, Ukrainians in Belgium

The Nativist-Westernizer Controversy in Ukraine: The End or the Beginning?

Tags: Mykola Riabchuk, Ukraine

The Novelization of the Pamphlet: Aesthetic Compromise as Argument in Mykola Khvylovy’ s Woodcocks

Tags: Mykola Khvyliovyi, Mykola Khvylovy, Peter Sawczak

The Office of the Registrar General

Tags: Guides to Research, Nadia Kazymyra, Primary Sources

The Official Soviet View of Ukrainian Historiography

Tags: Soviet Ukrainian Historiography, Stephen Velychenko

The Origins of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1648

Stepan Velychenko THE ORIGINS OF THE UKRAINIAN.pdf

The Origins of Ukrainian Statist Historiography in the Context of Political, Ideological, Cultural, and Generational Change

Tags: Bohdan Klid, Change, Historiography

The Ostroh Academy as a Factor in the Education of Ukraine’s Elites Today

CIUS seminar audio.Following a short documentary film on the rebirth of the Ostroh Academy, Ihor Pasichnyk (Rector, Ostroh Academy National University), spoke on “The Ostroh Academy as a Factor in the Education of Ukraine’s Elites Today.”Found in…

Tags: Academy, CIUS Seminar, Education, Elites, Ihor Pasichnyk, Ostroh, Ukraine, University

The Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine and ‘The Cat’: Politics Meets Folklore

CIUS seminar audio.On October 12, 2012 CIUS hosted a round table on the topic: “The Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine and ‘The Cat’: Politics Meets Folklore” (cosponsored by the Kule Chair in Ukrainian Ethnography).Presenters included Bohdan…

Tags: Bohdan Harasymiw, CIUS Seminar, David Marples, Elections, Folklore, Myroslava Uniat, Natalie Kononenko, Parliamentary, Politics, Post-1991, Ukraine

The Parliamentary Elections of 30 September in Ukraine: A Preliminary Assessment of Results

CIUS seminar audio.In this recording, Bohdan Harasymiw (CIUS and the University of Calgary), David Marples (CIUS and the Department of History and Classics, U of A), Mykola Riabchuk (Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professor, Departments of Modern Languages…

Tags: Bohdan Harasymiw, CIUS Seminar, Communist Party, David Marples, Elections, Lytvyn Bloc, Mykola Riabchuk, Our Ukraine Bloc, Parliamentary, Party of Regions, Petro Symonenko, Post-1991, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, Volodymyr Lytvyn, Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, Yulia Tymoshenko, Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc

The Peasant and Alcohol in Eastern Galicia in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Note

Tags: Galicia, Stella M. Hryniuk

The Peasant Revolution in Ukraine

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.Bohdan Chomiak and Jars Balan, graduate students at the University of Alberta, presented a joint seminar entitled, "The Peasant Revolution in Ukraine" on April 3, 1979.The seminar began with a brief introduction of…

Tags: 20th century, Bohdan Chomiak, Bolshevik Party, Jars Balan, Marxism, Narodnik, Peasants, Politics, Populism, Russia, Ukraine, Ukrainian Revolution

The Peter Krawchuk Ponds at the National Archives of Canada

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The Poetics of Liminality: Bohdan Ihor Antonych in the Context of Interwar Polish Literature

Tags: Bohdan Ihor Antonych, Interwar, Lidia Stefanowska, Polish Literature

The Poetry of Kostiantyn Moskalets, Natalka Bilotserkivets, and Viktor Kordun

Tags: Halyna Koscharsky, Kostiantyn Moskalets, Natalka Bilotserkivets, Poetry, Viktor Kordun

The Polish Opposition and the Ukrainian Question

Tags: Poland, Taras Kuzio, Ukraine

The Political Thought of Soviet Ukrainian Dissent

Tags: Dissident, Ivan L. Rudnytsky, Ukraine

The Politics of Ethnicity in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Beyond Brubaker

Tags: Ethnicity, Post-Soviet Ukraine, Volodymyr Kulyk

The Politics of High Culture: Petro Karmansky’ s Mavp'iache Zerkalo

Tags: Myroslav Shkandrij, Petro Karmansky

The Politics of Multiculturalism: a Ukrainian-Canadian Memoir

The book Politics of Multiculturalism is the memoir of an academic whose expertise in the education of Canadian minorities led him to take on a major political role in the Canadian multicultural movement. Born in the Ukrainian bloc settlement of…

Tags: Alberta, Education, Manoly R. Lupul, Memoir, Multiculturalism, Ukrainian-Canadian

The Portrayal of Ukrainians in the Works of Morley Callaghan, W.O. Mitchell, Margaret Laurence, and Sinclair Ross

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.On January 29, a seminar was presented by Anna Balan of Toronto entitled, "The Portrayal of Ukrainians in the Works of Morley Callaghan, W.O. Mitchell, Margaret Laurence, and Sinclair Ross." The speaker focussed on…

Tags: Anglo-Canadian Literature, Ann Prychodko, Anna Balan, Canada, Literature, Margaret Laurence, Morley Callaghan, Nick Kazlik, Nick Miller, Novels, Peter Svarich, Sawbones Memorial, Sinclair Ross, Ukrainians, W.O. Mitchell, Writers

The Present State of Ukrainian Bibliography and Its Critical Tasks

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.On December 6, Edward Kasinec, librarian at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute , gave a seminar entitled, "The Present State of Ukrainian Bibliography and Its Critical Tasks."Mr. Kasinec began his seminar with a…

Tags: Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Archives, Bibliography, Canada, CIUS Seminar, Edward Kasinec, Libraries, Northern America, Private collections, Ukraine, Ukrainian Studies, United States

The Problem of Bessarabia and Bukovyna: the Intersection of the Sino-Soviet and Soviet-Rumanian Disputes

Tags: Alexander Motyl', Bessarabia, Bukovyna

The Problem of Writing in Kotsiubynsky

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.

Tags: Bohdan Rubchak, CIUS Seminar, Culture, Literature, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Ukrainian Literature

The Public Record Office: An Important Source for Archival Materials on Ukraine

Tags: Archives, Guides to Research, Lubomyr Y. Luciuk

The Rape of Civilization: Recurrent Structure in Myroslav Irchan’ s Prose

Tags: Myroslav Irchan, Myroslav Shkandrij

The Refugee experience : Ukrainian displaced persons after World War II

This volume, a collective study of the post-World War II Ukrainian emigrants in Germany and Austria, departs from the standard approach to immigration studies. Instead of focusing on the immigrants’ adjustment to their host societies (the United…

The Religious Programme of the Union of Brest in the Context of the Counter-Reformation in Eastern Europe

Tags: Mikhail Dmitriev, the Union of Brest

The Representation of Madness and Stalinism in Ukrainian Literature

CIUS seminar audio. On February 29, 2013, Natalia Kovaliova (MLCS, U of A), gave a seminar on the topic: “The Representation of Madness and Stalinism in Ukrainian Literature”Found in CIUS Newsletter 2013

Tags: 20th century, CIUS Seminar, Dissidents, Literature, Natalia Kovaliova, Soviet Union, Stalinism, Ukrainian Literature

The Response of the Ukrainian Canadians to the Displaced Persons Situation in Europe

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.Michael Savaryn, a law student at the University of Alberta, delivered the sixth Institute seminar in Edmonton on January 16 with the presentation, "The Response of the Ukrainian Canadians to the Displaced Persons…

Tags: 20th century, Camps, Canada, CIUS Seminar, Displaced Persons, Displacement, Europe, Immigration, John Esaiw, Michael Savaryn, Postwar, Refugees, Soviet Union, Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainians, World War II

The Return of a Symbol: Shevchenko's Kateryna in Contemporary Soviet Ukrainian Literature

Tags: Contemporary Soviet Ukrainian Literature, Jaroslav Rozumnyj, Taras Shevchenko

The Reverend Semen Sawchuk and the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of Canada

Tags: Canada, Oleh W. Gerus, Rev. Semen Sawchuk, Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church

The Revolution at Eighty: Reconstructing Past Identities after the “Linguistic Turn”

Tags: Serhy Yekelchyk, Ukraine

The Rhetoric and Politics of Kotliarevsky's Eneida

Tags: "Eneida", Ivan Kotliarevsky, Marko Pavlyshyn

The Role of Ukrainian Sports Teams, Clubs, and Leagues, 1924–52

Tags: K.W. Sokolyk, Ukrainian Sports Teams

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Tags: Archives, Doug Whyte, Guides to Research, Primary Sources, Ukrainian Canadians

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Surveillance of the Ukrainian Community in Canada

Tags: Myron Momryk, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Surveillance, Ukrainians in Canada

The Russian Imperial Authorities and Yevhen Chykalenko’ s Rozmovy pro Selske Khoziaistvo

Tags: David Saunders, Russian Empire, Yevhen Chykalenko

The Russian Social Democrats and the National Question

Tags: L. Rybalka [Lev Iurkevych], Russia, Social Democrats

The Search for the Ideal Place in Panteleimon Kulish's Chorna Rada

Ludmilla Bereshko-Hunter KULISH CHORNA RADA.pdf

Tags: Chorna Rada, Ludmilla Bereshko-Hunter, Panteleimon Kulish

The Soviet Destruction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 1929-36

Tags: Bohdan R. Bociurkiw, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

The Soviet Ukrainian Whimsical Novel

Tags: Marko Pavlyshyn, Soviet Ukrainian Prose

The Soviet Union through the Eyes of the New York Times

Tags: Alexander Motyl', New York Times

The Sovietization of Ukraine, 1917–1923

This work concerns the Bolsheviks' theory and practice of national self-determination with regard to Ukraine from the outbreak of the revolution in 1917 to the creation of the Soviet Union in 1923. In addition to presenting a detailed account of the…

Tags: 1917–1923, Jurij Borys, Sovietization, Ukraine