CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. Professor Isajiw, of the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, presented a seminar on February 9 entitled "Class and Ethnicity in the Ukrainian Group in Canada." It elaborated on a theme discussed earlier at…
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.The first Institute seminar of the 1978-79 academic year at the University of Alberta was held on October 17. David R. Marples, doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Alberta, spoke on…
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…
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.In his seminar, "Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation: The CP(b)U, 1919–33," James Mace, doctoral candidate in history. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, took the position that events in Ukraine after the…
A comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of the life of the first Ukrainian immigrants. The volume consists of eight parts. It begins with a prologue by Roman Onufrijchuk that sets the stage for understanding the difficult process of cultural…
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.In his presentation entitled, "Controversies over the Cultural Development of Pre-Ninth-Century Slavs," Roman Zurba, an M.A. student in archeology, discussed the Middle Dnieper region as the cradle of Kievan Rus ' .…
In 1996 the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Studies of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies initiated its monograph series with the publication of Ukraine between East and West: Essays on Cultural History to the Early Eighteenth…
Members of the UCBPF Executive that initiated the creating of CIUS. Sitting (l-r): Dr. Orest Talpash, Dr. Manoly R. Lupul, Peter Oluk. Standing (l-r): Bill Wasyl Diachuk, Orest Eveneshen, Peter Savaryn, Laurence Decore, and Edward Kay (ca. 1973-75)
On May 26, 2002 Prof. Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj (University of Alberta) gave the third Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Deconstructing Gogol's / Hohol's Two 'Souls'"
On May 18, 2012 Prof. Valentyna Kharkhun (Mykola Hohol State University of Nizhyn) gave the 13th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Depictions of WWII in Ukrainian Socialist Realist Literature (1941-1943)"
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. On September 2, 1977, Mr. Leonid Plyushch, a well-known Soviet Ukrainian dissident and former political prisoner presented an Institute seminar entitled "Detente, the Helsinki Accords and the Soviet Opposition: A…
The Russian occupation of Ukraine under the tsarist and communist regimes exerted a decisive influence on the development of Ukrainian economics. The present collection of essays, written over a ten-year period, explores some of the pertinent issues.…
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.On 4 December Nestor Makuch, recent recipient of an honours B.A. in history at the University of Alberta, presented the sixth Institute seminar, "Dmytro Dontsov and Interwar Ukrainian Nationalism." In 1929 several…
This encyclopedic handbook, prepared by the well-known Kyiv archeologist Halyna Mezentseva, is the first work containing brief biographical and bibliographic information on close to 600 archeologists whose work focuses on ancient Ukraine and…
CIUS Seminar Audio.Lisa Efimov-Schneider, currently a Ph.D. candidate in Russian Literature at the University of Toronto, gave a talk entitled, "Emma Andijewska's Roman pro dobru liudynu : The Displaced Persons Camp as Purgatory." In Andijewska's…
On December 4 1976 in Edmonton, CIUS and the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Europe (Sarcelles, France) signed an agreement to jointly publish what becomes the five-volume Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Sitting (l-r): Dr. George Luckyj, Dr. Volodymyr…