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"
On April 3, 2017 Olha Luchuk (Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of International Relations, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, CIUS, John Kolasky Fellow, 2017) gave the 18th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the…
On May 13, 2016 Mykola Riabchuk (Senior Research Fellow Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, AoSU Fulbright Research Fellow, George Washington University) gave the 17th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Literary Criticism as…
On May 22, 2015 Prof. George Mihaychuk (Georgetown University) gave the 16th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "The Curse of the Province in Early 19th Century Ukrainian Literature"
On May 3, 2014 Dr. Michael M. Naydan (Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies, Pennsylvania State University) gave the 15th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Back to the Village: Folklore and Folk Beliefs in Contemporary…
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)"
On May 14, 2011 Dr. Marko R. Stech (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, York University, Toronto) gave the 12th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Mykola Kulish and the Devil: Exploring the Revolution as a Demonic Phenomenon"
On June 4, 2010 Prof. Natalia Pylypiuk (University of Alberta) gave the 11th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Mystical Narcissism in the Poetry of Vasyl' Stus"
On May 15, 2009 Dr. Tamara Hundorova (Academy of Sciences, Ukraine) gave the 10th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Ukrainian Literary Populism Unveiled: The Question of Popular Literature" Video Tribute to Danylo Husar Struk on the…
On May 16, 2008 Dr. Mark Andryczyk (Columbia University) gave the 9th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "New Images of the Intellectual in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature"
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"
On May 6, 2005 Dr. Maria Rewakowicz (Neporany Fellow, Columbia University) gave the 6th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Eros and Exile: Poetic Visions of the New York Group"
On May 3, 2003, Prof. Vitaly Chernetsky (Columbia University) gave the 4th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Ukrainian Literature in the Age of Globalization: How Contemporary Authors Respond to the Changing World"
On April 26, 2013, Dr. Mykola Soroka(Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies) gave the 14th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Between Homeland and Hostland: Volodymyr Vynnychenko as a Displaced Writer." Dr. Soroka also presented his…
On May 14, 2004 Prof. Taras Koznarsky (University of Toronto) gave the fifth Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Kyiv through Myth and Imagination"
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 11, 2001 Prof. George G. Grabowicz (Dmytro Chyzhevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian Literature, Harvard University) gave the second Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Taras Shevchenko as a National Poet: A comparison with Pushkin…
On June 2, 2000 Prof. Marko Pavlyshyn (Monash University, Melbourne) gave the first Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Re-Reading the Classics in a Post-Soviet World: The Case of Ol'ha Kobylians'ka"
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
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,…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
At the banquet on Saturday evening, Dr. Keith Spicer, journalist, broadcaster, and former Commissioner of Official Languages, was guest speaker. He examined the federal policy of bilingualism, defined its shortcomings, and predicted difficult…
CIUS conference audio from the final panel of the conference on the topic "Multiculturalism and Separatism: The Search for a Ukrainian Consensus." The panelists included Professors Bociurkiw, Myhul, Serbyn, Tarnopolsky and Mr. Petryshyn. A consensus…
CIUS conference audio from Professor Manoly R. Lupul's presentation "Canada's Options in a Time of Political Crisis and Their Implications for Multiculturalism," rejecting both separatism and "Trudeau federalism" as options and putting forth a new…
CIUS conference audio from the question period following Professor Walter S. Tarnopolsky's presentation on "A Multicultural Canada: The Basic Issues." In his wide-ranging remarks, he stressed that a multicultural Canada must provide greater access to…
CIUS conference audio of Professor Walter S. Tarnopolsky's presentation "A Multicultural Canada: The Basic Issues." In his wide-ranging remarks, he stressed that a multicultural Canada must provide greater access to the most rewarding jobs for all…
CIUS conference audio of Bohdan Bociurkiw presenting his paper "Multiculturalism and the Response of the Ukrainian-Canadian Community," in which he praised the roles played by Senator Yuzyk and several members of the Ukrainian Canadian University…
CIUS conference audio recording of Mr. Roman Petryshyn, research associate of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, presenting a paper entitled "The Ukrainian Canadians in Transition," in which he compared the social structure and mobility…
Questions for Roman Serbyn and Ivan Myhul following their presentations on the topic: "Separatism and Ethnic Groups in Quebec," criticizing the absence of a clear government policy towards the non-Anglo-Celtic minorities in Quebec and outlining their…
Roman Serbyn follows Ivan Myhul presenting on the same topic of: "Separatism and Ethnic Groups in Quebec," criticizing the absence of a clear government policy towards the non-Anglo-Celtic minorities in Quebec and outlining their unique and…
Professor Ivan Myhul, Department of Political Science, Bishop's University, speaks on the topic: "Separatism and Ethnic Groups in Quebec," criticizing the absence of a clear government policy towards the non-Anglo-Celtic minorities in Quebec and…
The conference on "Ukrainian Canadians , Multiculturalism, and Separatism: An Assessment" was held at the University of Alberta on September 9-11. Organized and sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, it featured papers by the…
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.On 3 December the final Institute seminar of the autumn semester in Toronto was given by Dr. Wsevolod Isajiw, professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Isajiw spoke on "Multiculturalism and the Future of…
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…
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2."Ukrainian Literature and Art in the 1920s" was the title of M. Shkandrij ' s Institute seminar, held at the University of Alberta on March 13, 1979. The speaker is a lecturer at the University of Calgary.The speaker…
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…
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.On November 14, Roman Petryshyn, research associate at the Institute, spoke on "Housing Segregation and Mobility of Ukrainians in Manchester." The study reported on survey research, consisting of a mail questionnaire…
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.On November 6, 1978, the CIUS seminar heard the unique reminiscences of Stanley Frolick, a well-known leader in Toronto's Ukrainian community. As a young Ukrainian Canadian, Frolick spent nine years, from 11 to 20…
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. The Institute's fourth seminar of the current academic year took place on November 17. Michael Savaryn, first year law student at the University of Alberta, spoke on "Ivan Dziuba—From International- ism or…
(Шерех Юрій. Пороги і запоріжжя. Література. Мистецтво. Ідеології. Упоряд. та прим. Р.Корогодського. — Харків: Фоліо, 1998. – Т. І. – 607 с.; Т. II. – 367 с.; Т. III. – 431 с. (Українська література XX століття))
The twenty-three essays in this volume address various aspects of the codes, archetypes, and symbols that recur in Ukrainian-Canadian material culture, art, music, dance, and more. Chapters include: Endurance, Disappearance and Adaptation: Ukrainian…