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Zustrichi i proshchanni͡a : spohady. Knyha I

This book is the first volume of the memoirs of Hryhorii Kostiuk, a historian, publicist, and literary scholar. Kostiuk describes the momentous events that took place in Ukraine in the first half of the twentieth century. In the course of his…

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

A Ukrainian Animal Farm: Translating George Orwell

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…

Tags: Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, George Orwell, Literature, Olha Luchuk, Translation, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature

Literary Criticism as Sacrilege: Turning the Iconostasis into a National Canon

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…

Tags: 20th century, Criticism, Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Education, Iconostasis, Identity, Ideology, Intelligentsia, Literature, Mykola Riabchuk, Nationalism, Post-1991, Socialism, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, Writers

The Curse of the Province in Early 19th Century Ukrainian Literature

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"

Tags: 19th century, Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, George Mihaychuk, Literature, Russian Empire, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, Writers

Back to the Village: Folklore and Folk Beliefs in Contemporary 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…

Tags: Beliefs, Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Folklore, Literature, Michael M. Naydan, Post-1991, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature

Depictions of WWII in Ukrainian Socialist Realist Literature (1941–1943)

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)"

Tags: 20th century, Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Historical Memory, Ideology, Literature, Realism, Socialism, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, Valentyna Kharkhun, World War II

Mykola Kulish and the Devil: Exploring the Revolution as a Demonic Phenomenon

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"

Tags: Communism, Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Folklore, Literature, Marko Stech, Mykola Kulish, Religion, Revolution, Socialism, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature

Mystical Narcissism in the Poetry of Vasyl' Stus

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"

Tags: Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Literature, Narcissism, Natalia Pylypiuk, Poetry, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, Vasyl' Stus

Ukrainian Literary Populism Unveiled: The Question of Popular Literature

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…

Tags: 19th century, Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Literature, Popular Literature, Populism, Tamara Hundorova, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature

New Images of the Intellectual in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature

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"

Tags: Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Literature, Mark Andryczyk, Post-1991, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature

Kyiv Under the German Occupation, 1941–1943: Dokia Humenna's Memoirs

On May 18, 2007 Prof. Myroslav Shkandrij (University of Manitoba) gave the 8th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Kyiv Under the German Occupation, 1941-1943: Dokia Humenna's Memoirs"

Tags: Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Diaspora, Dokia Humenna, Jews, Kyiv, Literature, Memoirs, Myroslav Shkandrij, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, Ukrainian-Jewish Relations, Ukrainians, World War II

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

Eros and Exile: Poetic Visions of the New York Group

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"

Tags: Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Literature, Maria Rewakowicz, New York Group, Poetry, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature

Ukrainian Literature in the Age of Globalization: How Contemporary Authors Respond to the Changing World

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"

Tags: Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Diaspora, Globalization, Literature, Post-1991, Postmodernism, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, Vitaly Chernetsky

Between Homeland and Hostland: Volodymyr Vynnychenko as a Displaced Writer

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…

Tags: 20th century, Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Displaced Persons, Displacement, Emigration, Identity, Literature, Mykola Soroka, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Writers

Kyiv through Myth and Imagination

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"

Tags: Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Historiography, Kyiv, Literature, Myths, Narrative, Taras Koznarsky, Ukraine

Deconstructing Gogol's / Hohol's Two 'Souls'

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'"

Tags: Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Literature, Mykola Hohol, Nationality, Nikolai Gogol, Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, Russia, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, Writers

Taras Shevchenko as a National Poet: A comparison with Pushkin and Mickiewicz.

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…

Tags: Adam Mickiewicz, Alexander Pushkin, Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, George G. Grabowicz, Literature, Nationalism, Poet, Poetry, Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature

Re-Reading the Classics in a Post-Soviet World: The Case of Olha Kobylianska

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"

Tags: Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Literature, Marko Pavlyshyn, Ol'ha Kobylians'ka, Post-1991, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature

Identifications Conference (Ethnic literature in Canada)—1979

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Photos by Roman Petriw Photos featuring Douglas Barbour, George Ryga

Tags: Canada, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, CIUS, Conference, Douglas Barbour, Ethnic, George Ryga, Identifications, Literature, Photos, Roman Petriw

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 18: Vera Lysenko: Growing up in North Winnipeg.

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: Alexandra Kruchka Glynn, Canada, Conference, Feminism, Literature, Ukrainian Canadians, Vera Lysenko, Winnipeg, Women, Writers

1979: Ukraine since 1945: A Study in Modern History

Lecture Audio Part 1 and 2The thirteenth annual Shevchenko Lecture at the University of Alberta was held on March 7, 1979. Dr. Roman Szporluk, professor of history at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, spoke on "Ukraine since 1945: A Study in…

Tags: 20th century, Brezhnev, Communist Party of Ukraine, Destalinization, Intelligentsia, Literature, Postwar, Roman Szporluk, Russification, Shelest, Shevchenko Annual Lecture, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, World War II, Writers

The Problem of Writing in Kotsiubynsky

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.

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

F. Duchinski: His Impact on Ukrainian Political Thought

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.Dr. Ivan L. Rudnytsky, professor of history, presented the fifth Institute seminar on 20 November. His talk was entitled "F. Duchinski: His Impact on Ukrainian Political Thought." Franciszek Duchiffeki (1817-93) was a…

Tags: 19th century, CIUS Seminar, Ethnicity, Franciszek Duchinski, Ideology, Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytsky, Literature, Nationalism, Poland, Russians, Slavic Studies, Ukraine, Ukrainians, Ukrainophiles, Writers

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 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

Olena Teliha's Great World

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2.Mr. Yuriy Stefanyk-Klynowy delivered the twelfth Institute seminar of the 1978-79 academic year at the University of Alberta. On March 20, 1979, he spoke on "Olena Teliha's Great World."The speaker reminisced about his…

Tags: 20th century, B. Boichuk, B. Rubchak, CIUS Seminar, Criticism, Iu. Sherekh, Literature, Memories, Olena Teliha, Poetry, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature, V. Derzhavyn, Yuriy Stefanyk-Klynowy

Emma Andijewska's Roman pro dobru liudynu : The Displaced Persons Camp as Purgatory

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…

Tags: Camps, CIUS Seminar, Displaced Persons, Displacement, Emma Andijewska, Lisa Efimov-Schneider, Literature, Narrative, Ukraine, Ukrainians

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…

Ukrainian Literature and Art in the 1920s

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…

Tags: 20th century, Art, CIUS Seminar, Constructivism, Cultural Renaissance, Culture, Destructivism, Futurism, Intelligentsia, K. Malevych, Literature, Monumentalism, Myroslav Shkandrij, Pure Art, Soviet Ukraine, Ukrainian Revolution, V. Polishchuk, World War II

Ivan Vyshensky and the Religious Polemics of the Seventeenth Century

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. On March 12, Dr. Taras Zakydalsky, who is currently associated with the Institute's Ukrainian Encyclopedia Project, gave the seminar, "Ivan Vyshensky and the Religious Polemics of the Seventeenth Century." Vyshensky's…

Tags: 17th century, Christianity, CIUS Seminar, Ivan Vyshensky, Literature, Orthodox Church, Religion, Taras Zakydalsky, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature