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Part 19: Emminent Outsiders: the Aesthetics of Assimilation and the Ukrainian Experience in Canada

Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest…

Tags: 20th century, Aesthetics, Assimilation, Canada, Conference, Immigration, Robert Klymasz, Ukrainian Canadians

Part 20: Reported Ethnicities and Languages in Canada: A Comparative Analysis of the Ukrainian Experience

Audio recorded from CIUS conference.On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest…

Tags: Canada, Conference, David Odynak, Ethnicity, Karol Krotki, Language, Primary Sources, Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainian Language

Part 21: Question period for Leonid Leshchenko, Oleksandr Sych, Yurii Zavhorodniev, Victor Buyniak, Alexandra Kruchka Glynn, Robert Klymasz, Karol Krotki, and David Odynak

Audio recorded from CIUS conference. In this recording, the panel is opened for questions from the audience.

Tags: 20th century, Alexandra Kruchka Glynn, Canada, Conference, David Odynak, Immigration, Karol Krotki, Leonid Leshchenko, Oleksandr Sych, Robert Klymasz, Ukrainian Canadians, Victor Buyniak, Yurii Zavhorodniev

Part 22: The First Ukrainian-Language Feature Film in Canada: Zaporozhets za Dunaiem

Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest…

Tags: Art, Bohdan Nebesio, Cinema, Cinematography, Conference, Culture, Film, Ukraine, Ukrainian Language

Part 23: The Ukrainian Nationalist Writer and his Place in Canadian Letters

Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest…

Tags: Bohdan Nebesio, Canada, Conference, Letters, Literature, Mary Shcherba, Nationalism, Primary Sources, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, Writers

Part 24: Ecomuseum Proposal and Concluding Remarks

Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest…

Tags: Canada, Conference, Ecomuseum, Jars Balan, Museum, Ukrainian Canadians

Interview with Peter Savaryn about Ukrainian Politicians in Alberta

Andrij Makuch interviews Peter Savaryn about Ukrainian Politicians in Alberta

Tags: Alberta, Andrij Makuch, Biography, Canada, Interviews, Peter Savaryn, Politics, Primary Sources, Ukraine, Ukrainian Canadians

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

Canada-Ukraine Relations and Developing Co-operation in Education and Scholarship

CIUS Seminar audio.His Excellency Ihor Ostash (Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada) spoke on Canada-Ukraine relations and developing co-operation in education and scholarship.Found in CIUS Newsletter 2007

Tags: Canada, Canada-Ukraine Relations, CIUS Seminar, Education, Ihor Ostash, Politics, Post-1991, Scholarship, Ukraine, University

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

2007: The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA): What Have We Learned 65 Years after Its Founding?

The 41st annual Shevchenko Lecture, co-sponsored by CIUS and the Ukrainian Professional and Business Club of Edmonton, was delivered on 30 March 2007 by Dr. Peter J. Potichnyj, a leading authority on Ukrainian wartime insurgency, who spoke on “The…

Tags: 20th century, Ideology, Jews, Nationalism, OUN, OUN-B, Peter Potichnyj, Shevchenko Annual Lecture, Soviet Union, Stepan Bandera, Ukraine, Ukrainian-Jewish Relations, Ukrainian-Polish Relations, UPA

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

Interview with Mykola Sukhaversky about the OUN

CIUS audio interview (3 parts).In this recording Bohdan Klid interviews Mykola Sukhaversky about his life experience and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).

Tags: Biography, Bohdan Klid, Canada, Interviews, Interwar, Mykola Sukhaversky, Nationalism, OUN, Postwar, Primary Sources, Ukraine, UPA, World War II

Ukrainian Sources in Russian Archives on Ivan Mazepa

CIUS seminar audio.Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva from the Department of History and Ukrainian Studies Centre at St. Petersburg University, Russian Federation speaks on “Ukrainian Sources in Russian Archives on Ivan Mazepa.” Dr. Tairova-Yakovleva also…

Tags: 18th century, Archives, Bibliography, CIUS Seminar, Hetman, Hetmanate, Ideology, Ivan Mazepa, Primary Sources, Russia, St. Petersburg, Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva, Ukraine

Interview with Marusia Petryshyn about CIUS

Marko Levitsky interviews Marusia Petryshyn about the state of CIUS.

Tags: Canada, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, CIUS, Interviews, Marko Levitsky, Marusia Petryshyn, Primary Sources, Ukraine, Ukrainian Studies

Fifteen Years with CIUS: A Conversation with Serhii Plokhii

CIUS audio interview.As Professor Serhii Plokhii was preparing to leave to leave CIUS in order to take up his new position as Mykhailo S. Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, he recorded the following conversation with the…

Tags: Canada, Frank Sysyn, Harvard University, Interviews, Primary Sources, Serhii Plokhii, Ukraine, Ukrainian Studies, United States, University of Alberta

Interview with Katherine Howell and Christina Palamarchuk: University of Alberta Students to Study at Lviv University

CIUS interview audio. Bohdan Klid interviews Ms. Howell and Ms. Palamarchuk. For the 2007-08 academic year, two students from the U of A—Katherine Howell and Christina Palamarchuk—will be going to study at Lviv University. Ms. Howell has completed…

Tags: Bohdan Klid, Canada, Christina Palamarchuk, Education, Interviews, Katherine Howell, Lviv, Students, Ukraine, Ukrainian Studies, University, University of Alberta

Interview with Mykola Sukhaversky about the OUN and Soviet occupation of Bukovyna

CIUS interview audio.Roman Shiyan interviews Mykola Sukhaversky about his biography and the Soviet occupation of Bukovyna in 1940.

Tags: Bukovyna, Canada, Immigration, Mykola Sukhaversky, Occupation, OUN, Primary Sources, Roman Shiyan, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukrainian Canadians, World War II

Ukrainian Archival Studies Since Independence: Gains and Losses

CIUS seminar audio.In this recording Iryna Matiash from the Ukrainian Archives and Documentation Research Institute in Kyiv speaks on the topic: “Ukrainian Archival Studies since Independence: Gains and Losses”Found in CIUS Newsletter 2007

Tags: Archival Studies, Archival Ucrainica, Archives, CIUS Seminar, Iryna Matiash, 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 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

Ukraine’s Current Foreign Policy

CIUS seminar audio. On January 31, 2008, his Excellency Ihor Ostash (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Canada), presented on “Ukraine’s Current Foreign Policy."Introductions begin at 3:25. Speech begins at 5:05.Found in CIUS…

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Democracy, Elections, Europe, European Union, Foreign Policy, Ihor Ostash, NATO, Post-1991, Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, Yulia Tymoshenko

2008: Representations of the Jew in Ukrainian Literature

Audio recording of 42nd Annual Shevchenko Lecture.On March 7, 2007, Myroslav Shkandrij of the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba speaks on: “Representations of the Jew in Ukrainian Literature.”Found in CIUS…

Tags: Culture, Jews, Literature, Myroslav Shkandrij, Shevchenko Annual Lecture, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, Ukrainian-Jewish Relations

Fellows and Travelers: Thinking about Ukrainian History in the Early Nineteenth Century

CIUS seminar audio.On March 27, 2008, Oleksiy Tolochko of Kyiv Mohyla Academy National University and Institute of Ukrainian History at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, spoke on the topic: “Fellows and Travelers: Thinking about…

Tags: 19th century, CIUS Seminar, Historical Memory, Kievan Rus', Oleksiy Tolochko, Travelers, Ukraine

Interview with Katherine Howell and Christina Palamarchuk: University of Alberta students returning from study at Lviv University

CIUS interview audio.Bohdan Klid interviews Ms. Howell and Ms. Palamarchuk after returning from their exchange. For the 2007-08 academic year, two students from the U of A—Katherine Howell and Christina Palamarchuk— went to study at Lviv University.…

Tags: Bohdan Klid, Canada, Christina Palamarchuk, Interviews, Katherine Howell, Lviv, Primary Sources, Students, Ukraine, Ukrainian Studies, University, University of Alberta

Rethinking Modern Ukrainian History

CIUS seminar audio. On September 25, 2008, Yaroslav Hrytsak (Institute for Historical Research, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and Chair of Modern World History, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv), presented on the topic: “Rethinking…

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Post-1991, Ukraine, Ukrainian Studies, Yaroslav Hrytsak

World War II in the Official Politics of Memory and in the Political Struggles in Ukraine Today

CIUS seminar audio. On November 3, 2008, Vladyslav Hrynevych (Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), spoke on the topic: “World War II in the Official Politics of Memory and in the Political Struggles in…

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Historical Memory, Ideology, Politics of Memory, Post-1991, Ukraine, World War II

The 1932–33 Famine-Holodomor in Ukraine as Part of Stalin's Preparations for War: A New Hypothesis on a Motive for Genocide

CIUS seminar audio.On November 4, 2008, Liudmyla Hrynevych (Institute of Ukrainian History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), presented on the topic: "The 1932–33 Famine-Holodomor in Ukraine as Part of Stalins Preparations for War: A New…

Tags: 1932-33, CIUS Seminar, Communist Party, Famine, Genocide, Holodomor, Ideology, Liudmyla Hrynevych, Politics of Memory, Soviet Union, Stalin, Ukraine, World War II

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

Interview with Petro Malofij

Bohdan Klid interviews Petro Malofij. God blessed him with a generous soul, a sensitive heart, and a deep love of Ukraine, the land where he grew up but had to leave in time of war. That love and desire to help his compatriots rebuild an independent…

Tags: Battle of Brody, Baturyn, Bohdan Klid, Canada, Donor, Education, Galician Division, Interviews, Petro Malofij, Primary Sources, Ukraine, Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainian Studies

Ukraine, Russia, and the Future of Europe

CIUS seminar audio.On April 22, 2009, Mykola Riabchuk (journalist and independent scholar, Kyiv), presented on the topic: “Ukraine, Russia, and the Future of Europe.” Found in CIUS Newsletter 2009

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Eastern Europe, Europe, Geopolitics, Identity, Ideology, Mykola Riabchuk, Nation, Politics, Russia, Ukraine, Ukrainian-Russian Relations

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

Interview with Demitrius Todosijczuk

CIUS interview audio.Mykola Soroka interviews Demitrius Todosijczuk.

Tags: Biography, Canada, Demitrius Todosijczuk, Demitrius Todosijczuk., Interviews, Mykola Soroka, Primary Sources

Interview with Jordan Vincent: University of Alberta student on exchange at Lviv University

CIUS interview audio.Bohdan Klid interviews Jordan Vincent. The student exchange program between the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Lviv University) and the University of Alberta (U of A) completed its third year in the spring of 2009.…

Tags: Bohdan Klid, Canada, Interviews, Jordan Vincent, Primary Sources, Students, Ukraine, Ukrainian Studies, University, University of Alberta

Interview with Exchange Students from Ukraine: Yuriy Kyrylych and Dmytro Hural

CIUS interview audio. Bohdan Klid interviews exchange students Yuriy Kyrylych and Dmytro Hural. The student exchange program between the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Lviv University) and the University of Alberta (U of A) entered its…

Tags: Biography, Bohdan Klid, Canada, Dmytro Hural, Interviews, Primary Sources, Students, Ukraine, Ukrainian Studies, University, University of Alberta, Yuriy Kyrylych

Teaching Ukrainian for Professional Purposes

CIUS seminar audio.Oksana Tyshchenko presents on the topic of teaching ukrainian for professional purposes, such as for students whose specialty is not language. The speaker discusses the language policy in Ukraine, focusing on the legislative basis…

Tags: Canada, CIUS Seminar, Education, Language Policy, Linguistics, Oksana Tyshchenko, Teaching, Ukraine, Ukrainian Language

Interview with Frank Sysyn: Biography and Academic Development

CIUS interview audio (4 parts).Interview with Frank Sysyn about his life as well as his academic and cultural development.

Tags: Biography, Canada, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, CIUS, Culture, Frank Sysyn, Interviews, Primary Sources, Ukraine, Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainian Studies, University

Moldova and Transnistria: Between Ukraine, Russia, and the EU

CIUS Seminar audio.On December 3, 2009, Eduard Baidaus (Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta), gave a seminar presentation on the topic: “Moldova and Transnistria: Between Ukraine, Russia, and the EU.”Found in CIUS Newsletter…

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Eastern Europe, Eduard Baidaus, Europe, European Union, Moldova, Post-1991, Russia, Transnistria, Ukraine

2009: Blood in the Borshch: An Illustrated Talk on Contemporary Ukraine

CIUS lecture audio.On March 27 2009, Natalka Husar (artist) and Janice Kulyk Keefer (Department of English, University of Guelph) gave the Forty-third annual Shevchenko Lecture on the topic: “Blood in the Borshch: An Illustrated Talk on Contemporary…

Tags: Art, Culture, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Literature, Natalka Husar, Post-1991, Shevchenko Annual Lecture, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature

National Mainstreaming: Major Trends in Women’s History in Ukraine since 1991

CIUS seminar audio.On March 19, 2010, Oksana Kis (Columbia University and Institute Natalya Tsymbal of Ethnology. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), gave a seminar presentation on the topic: “National Mainstreaming: Major Trends in Women’s…

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Feminism, Gender, Narrative, Oksana Kis, Post-1991, Ukraine, Women

Book launch: Archival Ucrainica in Canada: A Guide

On June 8, 2010, Iryna Matiash (State Committee on Archives of Ukraine) spoke at the book launch of Arkhivna ukrainika v Kanadi: dovidnyk (Archival Ucrainica in Canada: A Guide).More information found in CIUS Press Release 8 July 2010Audio begins at…

Tags: Archival Studies, Archival Ucrainica, Archives, Book Launch, Canada, Guide, Iryna Matiash, Post-1991, Primary Sources, Ukraine

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

Mobility and Security in the EU’s Neighbourhood: The Case of Ukraine

CIUS seminar audio.On December 2, 2010, Lyubov Zhyznomirska (Department of Political Science, University of Alberta), gave a seminar on the topic: “Mobility and Security in the EU’s Neighbourhood: The Case of Ukraine.”Found in CIUS Newsletter 2011

Tags: Borders, CIUS Seminar, European Union, Geopolitics, Lyubov Zhyznomirska, Migration, Mobility, Neighbourhood, Politics, Post-1991, Security, Ukraine

Official Attitudes to the Politics of History in Ukraine and Russia, 2005-2010: Concepts, Discussions, and Textbooks

CIUS seminar audio.On April 7, 2011, Kyrylo Halushko (Institute of Sociology, Psychology and Management, M. V. Drahomanov National Pedagogical University, Kyiv), gave a seminar on the topic: “Official Attitudes to the Politics of History in Ukraine…

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Great Northern War, Historical Memory, Holodomor, Kruty, Kyrylo Halushko, OUN-UPA, Politics of Memory, Post-1991, Russia, Textbooks, Tripillia, Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko

World War II through Women’s Personal Narration

CIUS seminar audio.On January 28, 2011, Tetyana Dzyadevych (Department of Literature and Foreign Languages, Kyiv Mohyla Academy National University), gave a seminar on the topic: “World War II through Women’s Personal Narration.”Found in CIUS…

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Diary, Film, Literature, Memoirs, Narrative, Oral History, Postcolonialism, Ukraine, Women, World War II

Group-sourcing Ukrainian Folklore: Involving the Community in Research

CIUS seminar audio.On February 17, 2011, Natalie Kononenko (Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography at the Kule Centre for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta), gave a seminar on the topic:…

Tags: Canada, CIUS Seminar, Community, Culture, Folklore, Natalie Kononenko, Ukrainian Canadians

2011: Shevchenko and Gogol (Hohol): The Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Imperial Culture

CIUS lecture audio.On March 1, 2011 Oleh Ilnytzkyj (Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta), gave the Forty-fifth annual Shevchenko Lecture on the topic: “Shevchenko and Gogol' (Hohof): The Ukrainian Intelligentsia…

Tags: 19th century, Culture, Intelligentsia, Literature, Mykola Hohol, Nikolai Gogol, Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, Russia, Russian Empire, Shevchenko Annual Lecture, Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, Writers

Book Launch: Mykhailo Hrushevsky's History of Ukraine-Rus'

CIUS book launch audio.On October 6, 2011, Serhii Plokhii and Frank Sysyn discussed volume 9, book 2, part 2 of Mykhailo Hrushevsky's History of Ukraine-Rus' the latest addition to this translation series issued by the Peter Jacyk Centre for…

Tags: 17th century, Bohdan Khmel'nyts'ky, Book Launch, Cossack State, Frank Sysyn, Hetmanate, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Serhii Plokhii, Ukraine, Ukraine-Rus', Ukrainian People’s Republic

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 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

Part 1: Recent Literature on the Ukrainian Famine of 1932–33: The Problem of Sacralization

CIUS conference audio part 1/5.On November 24, 2011, John-Paul Himka (Department of History and Classics; CIUS) gave a presentation on the topic: “Recent Literature on the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33: The Problem of Sacralization”Found in CIUS…

Tags: 1932-33, Famine, Genocide, Historiography, Holodomor, John-Paul Himka, Soviet Union, Stalin, Ukraine

Part 3: Ukrainian Diaspora Activism and the Politics of Holodomor Recognition

CIUS conference audio part 3/5.On November 24, 2011, Danielle Granville (Brasenose College, Oxford University), presented on the topic: “Ukrainian Diaspora Activism and the Politics of Holodomor Recognition”Found in CIUS Newsletter 2012

Tags: 1932-33, Activism, Danielle Granville, Diaspora, Famine, Genocide, Historiography, Holodomor, Politics, Soviet Union, Stalin, Ukraine

Interview with Exchange Students from Ukraine: Vira Holiyan and Ihor Kotsiuba

CIUS interview audio.The student exchange program between the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Lviv University) and the University of Alberta (U of A) has completed its sixth year. In the 2011-12 academic year, two exchange students from the…

Tags: Biography, Bohdan Klid, Canada, Ihor Kotsiuba, Interviews, Primary Sources, Students, Ukraine, Ukrainian Studies, University, University of Alberta, Vira Holiyan

The Ukrainian Question in the Russian Empire from the 1840s to the 1870s: New Archival Findings

CIUS seminar audio.On December 8, 2011, Johannes Remy (Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University), gave a seminar on the topic: “The Ukrainian Question in the Russian Empire from the 1840s to the 1870s: New Archival…

Tags: 19th century, Archives, CIUS Seminar, Johannes Remy, Russian Empire, Ukraine, Ukrainian-Russian Relations

Part 4: Commentary by Serge Cipko

CIUS conference audio part 4/5.On November 24, 2011, Serge Cipko (CIUS) gives brief commentary and impressions in review of the presentations given. Found in CIUS Newsletter 2012

Tags: 1932-33, Activism, Bohdan Klid, Danielle Granville, Diaspora, Famine, Genocide, Historiography, Holodomor, John-Paul Himka, Nationalism, Politics, Serge Cipko, Soviet Union, Stalin, Ukraine

Part 5: Question Period

CIUS conference audio part 5/5.Panelists are given questions from the audience.Found in CIUS Newsletter 2012

Tags: 1932-33, Activism, Bohdan Klid, Danielle Granville, Diaspora, Famine, Genocide, Historiography, Holodomor, John-Paul Himka, Nationalism, Politics, Serge Cipko, Soviet Union, Stalin, Ukraine

2012: Ukraine and the Russian Question

CIUS Shevchenko Annual Lecture audio.Co-organized by CIUS and the Ukrainian Professional and Business Club of Edmonton, the forty- sixth Shevchenko lecture at the University of Alberta was given by James Sherr, a senior fellow of the Russia and…

Tags: Authoritarianism, Europe, Geopolitics, Identity, Imperialism, Independence, James Sherr, Kievan Rus', Politics of Memory, Post-1991, Russia, Shevchenko Annual Lecture, Totalitarianism, Ukraine

Part 2: Stalin, Nationalism, and the 1932–33 Famine in Ukraine and the Kuban

CIUS conference audio part 2/5.On November 24, 2011, Bohdan Klid (CIUS; Department of History and Classics) presented on the topic: "Stalin, Nationalism, and the 1932–33 Famine in Ukraine and the Kuban”.Found in CIUS Newsletter 2012

Tags: 1932-33, Bohdan Klid, Famine, Genocide, Holodomor, Kuban, Nationalism, Soviet Union, Stalin, Ukraine

17 April 2000—The Peter Jacyk Centre Holds Hrushevsky Symposium at Harvard

Tags: Hrushevsky, Peter Jacyk Centre, Symposium

The Yara Arts Group: Dream and Destination

CIUS seminar audio. On February 2, 2012, Virlana Tkacz (Yara Arts Group, La MaMa Experimental Theater, New York), gave a seminar on the topic: “The Yara Arts Group: Dream and Destination” (cosponsored by the Peter and Doris Kule Centre for Ukrainian…

Tags: Art, CIUS Seminar, Culture, Songs, Theatre, Ukraine, Virlana Tkacz, Yara Arts Group

In Bed with the Elephant: Ukrainian-Russian Asymmetric’ Relations

CIUS seminar audio. On March 14, 2012, Mykola Riabchuk (political analyst and writer, Kyiv), gave a seminar on the topic: “In Bed with the Elephant: Ukrainian-Russian Asymmetric’ Relations”Found in CIUS Newsletter 2012

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Europe, Mykola Riabchuk, Politics, Post-1991, Postcolonialism, Ukraine, Ukrainian-Russian Relations

Ukrainians in Argentina, 1897–1950: The Making of a Community

CIUS book launch audio.On April 3, 2012, Serge Cipko spoke at the book launch for "Ukrainians in Argentina, 1897–1950: The Making of a Community" (co-sponsored by the Department of History and Classics)Found in CIUS Newsletter 2012

Tags: 19th century, 20th century, Argentina, Book Launch, CIUS Seminar, Community, Diaspora, Identity, Migration, Serge Cipko, Ukrainians in Argentina

The Status of Archives, Museums, and Academic Freedom in Ukraine

CIUS seminar audio. In this recording Ruslan Zabily gives a seminar about the status of archives, museums, and academic freedom in Ukraine.

Tags: Archives, CIUS Seminar, Historical Memory, Museums, Politics of Memory, Post-1991, Ruslan Zabily, Ukraine

Roundtable: Famine in Ukraine, 1928–1933

CIUS seminar audio (7 Parts)On November 21, 2012, CIUS hosted a round table on the topic: “Famine in Ukraine, 1928–1933” (co-sponsored by the Department of History and Classics, U of A).Presenters included: Stanislav Kulchytsky (Institute of…

Tags: 1932-33, Bohdan Klid, David Marples, Famine, Genocide, Heather Coleman, Holodomor, Lesia Onyshko, Liudmyla Hrynevych, Roman Serbyn, Stalin, Stanislav Kulchytsky, Stuart Murray, Ukraine, Volodymyr Kravchenko

18–20 May 1998—Israeli Conference

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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 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

Book Launch: Unbridled Dissonance: The Second World War and Socio-Political Attitudes in Ukraine, 1939–1941

CIUS seminar audio.On December 4, 2012, CIUS hosted a book launch for "Unbridled Dissonance: The Second World War and Socio-Political Attitudes in Ukraine, 1939–1941". The author, Vladyslav Hrynevych (Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies,…

Tags: Book Launch, CIUS, Ukraine, Vladyslav Hrynevych, World War II

Impressions of Election Observers during the Ukraine 2012 Parliamentary Election

CIUS seminar audio. Volodymyr Kravchenko begins with introductions. Michael Bociurkiw begins at 10:50. Bohdan Klid speaks at 21:20. Mykola Soroka speaks at 29:45. Halyna Klid begins at 41:35. Commentary and questions at 54:30.

Tags: Bohdan Klid, Canada, CIUS Seminar, Elections, Halyna Klid, Michael Bociurkiw, Mykola Soroka, Parliamentary, Politics, Post-1991, Ukraine, Volodymyr Kravchenko

30 January 1990—Iwanciw Endowment

Tags: Bohdan Krawchenko, Iwanciw Endowment

14 February 2011—New index to Hrushevsky's Istoriia Ukraїny-Rusy

Tags: Istoria Ukrainy-Rusy Index

24 February 2004—Supporters of Ukrainian Studies Back the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine Generously

Tags: Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Marko Stech

Visioning Forum: CIUS and its place in the University and wider communities (Vitaly Chernetsky)

CIUS seminar audio.On May 17-18, 2012, Vitaly Chernetsky (Associate Professor, Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages; Director, Film Studies Program, Miami University, Ohio) gave a speech as candidate for director of CIUS. He spoke…

Tags: Canada, CIUS, CIUS Seminar, Postcolonialism, University, Vitaly Chernetsky

Ministers of Righteousness? Greek Catholic Clergymen and Poles and Jews during World War II

Each year, the Program on Religion and Culture.hosts the Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture. This year’s lecture, held on 6 December 2012, was given by Marco Carynnyk, who spoke on the topic, “Ministers of Righteousness? Greek Catholic Clergymen and…

Tags: 20th century, Antisemitism, Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture, Catholic, Church, Culture, Greek Catholic Church, Holocaust, Jews, Marco Carynnyk, Poland, Poles, Religion, Ukraine, Ukrainian-Jewish Relations, World War II, Worship

Interview about Holodomor Experience in the Poltava region

CIUS interview audio.Jars Balan interviews an unidentified individual from the town "Moysensin" in the Poltava region.

Tags: Biography, Famine, Holodomor, Interviews, Jars Balan, Poltava, Primary Sources, Ukraine

Political Manipulations in Ukraine’s Presidential Elections, 2004–05 and 2009–10

CIUS seminar audio.On March 22, 2012, Andriy Kruglashov (Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Yuriy Fedkovych National University of Chernivtsi) spoke on the topic: “Political Manipulations in Ukraine’s Presidential Elections,…

Tags: Andriy Kruglashov, CIUS Seminar, Orange Revolution, Party of Regions, Politics, Post-1991, President, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, Viktor Yushchenko, Yulia Tymoshenko

Visioning Forum: CIUS and its place in the University and wider communities (Michael Moser)

CIUS seminar audio.On May 17-18, 2012, Michael Moser, candidate for the director of CIUS, spoke on his view of CIUS and its place in the University and wider communities.Found in CIUS press release

Tags: Canada, CIUS, CIUS Seminar, Linguistics, Michael Moser, Ukrainian Language, University

December 1991—New Study of Ukrainians in South Eastern Galicia

Tags: CIUS Publications, Peasants with Promise, Stella Hryniuk, Ukrainians in South Eastern Galicia

Interview with Bohdan Medwidsky

Bohdan Medwidsky is interviewed about his life and how he arrived in Canada.

Tags: Biography, Bohdan Medwidsky, Canada, Immigration, Interviews, Primary Sources, Ukraine, Ukrainian Canadians

Interview with Chrysant Dmytruk about his life

Mykola Soroka interviews Chrysant Dmytruk about his life.

Tags: Biography, Canada, Chrysant Dmytruk, Mykola Soroka, Primary Sources, Ukraine

November 1994—Director of Lviv Institute for Historical Research visits Toronto

Tags: Yaroslav Hrytsak

The Centre and Its Neighbours: Transcarpathia in the Context of European Integration and International Migration in Europe

CIUS seminar audio. On January 31, 2013, Ignacy Jozwiak (Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, U of A), gave a seminar on the topic: “The Centre and Its Neighbours: Transcarpathia in the Context of European Integration and…

Tags: Borderlands, Carpathian Mountains, Carpathians, CIUS Seminar, Europe, Hungary, Ignacy Jozwiak, Migration, Poland, Post-1991, Romania, Slovakia, Transcarpathia, Ukraine

Researching Blood and Salt: A Novel about the WWI Internment of Enemy Aliens in Canada

CIUS seminar audio. On February 8, 2013, Barbara Sapergia (author, Saskatoon), gave a seminar on the topic: “Researching Blood and Salt: A Novel about the WWI Internment of Enemy Aliens in Canada”Found in CIUS Newsletter 2013

Tags: Austrian-Hungarian empire, Barbara Sapergia, Camps, Canada, CIUS Seminar, Internment, Ukrainian Canadians, World War I

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

2013: Indifference to the Violation of Women’s Rights in Ukraine as a Social Problem

CIUS lecture audio.Co-organized by CIUS and the Ukrainian Professional and Business Club of Edmonton, the forty-seventh Shevchenko lecture at the University of Alberta was given by Kateryna Levchenko, who spoke on “Indifference to the Violation of…

Tags: Feminism, Gender, Human Rights, Kateryna Levchenko, Post-1991, Shevchenko Annual Lecture, Ukraine, Women, Women's Rights

November 1999—Volume seven of Hrushevsky's History published

Tags: CIUS Publications, History of Ukraine-Rus', Mykhailo Hrushevsky

The ‘Succession Issue at the Time of Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s Death and the ‘Ruin’ in Cossack Ukraine

CIUS seminar audio.On April 4, 2013, Roman Shiyan (CIUS, U of A) gave a seminar on the topic: “The ‘Succession Issue at the Time of Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s Death and the ‘Ruin’ in Cossack Ukraine”Found in CIUS Newsletter 2013

Tags: 17th century, Bohdan Khmel'nyts'ky, CIUS Seminar, Cossack State, Hetmanate, Roman Shiyan, Ruin, Yurii Khmelnytsky, Zaporozhian Sich

June 1997—The Publication of Volume 1 of Hrushevsky's History of Ukraine-Rus'

Tags: CIUS Publications, History of Ukraine-Rus', Mykhailo Hrushevsky

Fourth Wave of Ukrainian Immigration to Canada

CIUS seminar audio. On April 9, 2013, Taras Lupul (Department of International Relations, Yurii Fedkovych National University) gave a seminar about the fourth wave of Ukrainian immigration to Canada.

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

October 1999—Hrushevsky Book Launch at the Ostrih Academy

Tags: Book Launch, History of Ukraine-Rus', Mykhailo Hrushevsky

Interview with Ilya Semchyshyn

CIUS interview audio (3 Parts).Interview with Ilya Semchyshyn about Ukraine. Born in Bosnia on August 2, 1951. His predecessors were born in Galicia. Mr. Semchyshyn witnessed the Bosnian war.

Tags: Biography, Bosnia, Bosnian War, Canada, Ethnicity, Galicia, Ilya Semchyshyn, Interviews, Primary Sources, Ukraine

Commemorating the Christianization of Kyivan Rus', 1888-2013

This was an active year for public lectures organized by the Program on Religion and Culture. The annual Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture was held on 19 September 2013 as a small symposium on the topic, “Commemorating the Christianization of Kyivan…

Tags: 19th century, Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture, Christianity, Commemoration, Heather Coleman, Kievan Rus', Politics, Religion, St. Volodymyr, Ukraine, Viktor Yelensky

July 1989—Breakthrough in International Management Studies: The Creation of the International Management Institute in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR

Tags: History, IMI Kiev, International Management Institute, Soviet Ukraine

November 1988—Night and Day by Volodomyr Zenonovych Gzhystky

Tags: CIUS Publications, Night and Day, Volodomyr Gzhystky, Volodomyr Zenonovych Gzhystky, Володимир Ґжицький

Ivan Zarudny and the Production of Religious Culture in Russia under Peter I

CIUS seminar audio.On December 5, 2013, Jelena Pogosjan (Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, U of A) gave a seminar on the topic: “Ivan Zarudny and the Production of Religious Culture in Russia under Peter I.”Found in CIUS Newsletter…

Tags: 18th century, Art, Baroque, Church, CIUS Seminar, Culture, Iconostasis, Ivan Zarudny, Jelena Pogosjan, Peter the Great, Religion, Russian Empire, St. Petersburg

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