George G. Grabowicz. Toward a History of Ukrainian Literature
Marko Pavlyshyn
George Gajecky. The Cossack Administration of the Hetmanate
Alexander Baran
George Grabowicz. The Poet as Mythmaker: A Study of Symbolic Meaning in Taras Ševčenko
George S.N. Luckyj
CIUS History
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
CIUS
George Liber. Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923-1934
Myroslav Shkandrij
George Luckyj. Panteleimon Kulish: A Sketch of His Life and Times
Romana Bahrij-Pikulyk
George Luckyj. The Anguish of Mykola Hohol', a.k.a. Nikolai Gogol'
Peter Sawczak
George O. Liber. Alexander Dovzhenko: A Life in Soviet Film
Ray Uzwyshyn
George S. N. Luckyj. Young Ukraine: The Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, 1845-1847
Bohdan Klid
George Y. Shevelov. The Ukrainian Language in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (1900-1941)
Yevhen Slupsky
Gerhard Simon, ed., Die Neue Ukraine: Gesellschaft — Wirtschaft — Politik (1991-2001)
Guido Hausmann
Giovanna Brogi Bercoff and Giulia Lami, eds. Ukraine’ s Reintegration into Europe: A Historical, Historiographical and Politically Urgent Issue
Roman I. Shiyan
Giovanna Brogi Bercoff, ed. Ricerche Slavistiche. Vol. 37. La percezione del Medioevo nell'epoca del Barocco: Polonia, Ucraina, Russia; Atti del Congresso tenutosi a Urbino 3-8 luglio 1989
Peter A. Rolland
Giovanna Siedina, ed. Mazepa e il Suo Tempo: Storia, Cultura, Società / Mazepa and His Time: History, Culture, Society
Paul Bushkovitch
Giovanna Siedina, ed. Mazepa e il Suo Tempo: Storia, Cultura, Società/Mazepa and His Time: History, Culture, and Society
Glenn R. Mack and Joseph Coleman Carter, eds. Crimean Chersonesos: City, Chora, Museum, and Environs
Adrian O. Mandzy
Glenna Roberts and Serge Cipko. One-Way Ticket: The Soviet Return-to-the-Homeland Campaign, 1955-1960
Peter Melnycky
Gloria Kupchenko Frolick. Anna Veryha
Myrna Kostash
Gogol's Inspector General as Dumb Show
Ralph Lindheim
Anna Berehulak
Graham Ross. The Foreign Office and the Kremlin: British Documents on Anglo–Soviet Relations, 1941–1945
David R. Marples
Groping toward Soviet Power in the Countryside: The Non-Party Peasant Conferences of Kharkiv Province in 1920
Mark R. Baker
Group-sourcing Ukrainian Folklore: Involving the Community in Research
Folk
Folklore
Ukrainian Canadians
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: “Group-sourcing Ukrainian Folklore: Involving the Community in Research.” Found in CIUS Newsletter 2011
Natalie Kononenko
Growing Up in Halychyna in the 1930's: A Ukrainian Canadian Perspective
History
Primary Sources
Nationalism
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 (1932-41), living and studying in Halychyna. In sharp contrast to the Alberta mining town where he had been born, Frolick found the Ukrainians of the Carpathians rich in folk culture; this had a profound effect on the young student giving him a sense of belonging and security. Once a decision had been made to stay in Halychyna, Frolick' s uncle, a local priest, ensured that he had private tutoring from one of the many unemployed Ukrainians who were prevented from getting government teaching positions, and from whom Frolick first experienced the intense nationalism of inter-war Halychyna. The nationalism was rooted in three factors: the recent loss of an independent state in the revolutionary period; Polish repression of the population; and the uncompromising struggle of the youthful OUN. As a resident student in a "bursa" of the "gymnasium" in Stanyslaviv, Frolick experienced the rather spartan educational facilities and primitive teaching methods of inter-war Halychyna. The seminar was told of the class distinctions in society, which were expressed socially at the bursa through a formal system of salutation and deference. Classmates could address themselves as "ty"; students two grades above were addressed as "vy" or "vy tovaryshu"; and students of the highest grades were addressed as "vy pane tovaryshu." The seminar concluded with an evaluation of Ukrainian and Canadian educational systems. Education was the privilege of a small Ukrainian elite in inter-war Poland. In comparison to the unpoliticized individualism and egotism of Canadian students, Ukrainian students of the time were imbued with a sense of collectivism and responsibility to serve their people. A copy of the seminar paper is available in the fugitive file of unpublished papers in the Institute's library, at the University of Alberta. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 1 (Winter 1978)
Stanley Frolick
Grzegorz Motyka. Tak Było w Bieszczadach: Walki Polsko-Ukraińskie, 1943-1948
Peter J. Potichnyj
Guido Hausmann and Andreas Kappeler, eds. Ukraine: Gegenwart und Geschichte eines neuen Staates
laroslav Hrytsak
Hadiatska Uniia 1658 roku, ed. Pavlo Sokhan et al.
Andrew B. Pernal
Halyna Burlaka, comp., and Liubomyr Vynar, ed., Lystuvannia Mykhaila Hrushevskoho
Thomas M. Prymak
Halyna Hryn, ed.. Hunger by Design: The Great Ukrainian Famine and Its Soviet Context
Halyna Koscharsky, ed. Ukraine Today - Perspectives for the Future
Jonathan Clarke
Halyna Kosharska. Tvorchist Liny Kostenko z Pohliadu Poetyky Ekspresyvnosti
Mykola Riabchouk and Vera Andrushkiw
Войцех Вжосек
Hans Joachim Killmann, ed. and comp. Evhen P. Hrebinka/Grebenka — Bibliografie
Marta Tarnawsky
Hans Van Zon. The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine
Robert S. Kravchuk
Hans-Joachim Torke and John-Paul Himka, eds. German-Ukrainian Relations in Historical Perspective
Karel C. Berkhoff
Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Special Issue: The Kiev Mohyla Academy; T. Chynczewska-Hennel, Świadomość Narodowa Szlachty Ukraińskiej i Kozaczyzny od Schyłku XVI do Połowy XVII w.
Stephen Velychenko
Hearing with the Eyes, Seeing with the Ears: The Sublunar Life of Bohdan Ihor Antonych
Paul Pines
Hélène Carrere d'Encausse. L'Empire Eclaté: La Ré volte des Nations en URSS / Decline of an Empire: The Soviet Socialist Republics in Revolt
Ivan Jaworsky
Henryk Stroński. Represje Stalinizmu Wobec Ludności Polskiej na Ukrainie w Latach 1929-1939
Jerzy Borzecki
Heorhii Kasianov. Nezhodni: Ukrainska Intelihentsiia v Rusi Oporu 1960-80-kh Rokiv
Anatolii Rusnachenko
Heorhii Kasianov. Ukrainska Intelihentsiia na Rubezhi XIX-XX Stolit: Sotsialnopolitychnyi Portret
Yury Boshyk
Heroes of Their Day: The Reminiscences of Bohdan Panchuk
Stanley W. Frolick
Hiroaki Kuromiya, Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s-1990s
Serhy Yekelchyk
Hiroaki Kuromiya. Conscience on Trial: The Fate of Fourteen Pacifists in Stalin’ s Ukraine, 1952–1953
Historical Driving Tour: Ukrainian Churches in East Central Alberta
Ukrainian Churches in Alberta
Alberta
Canadian Prairies
Canadian Ukrainians
Church
Religion
This guide to twenty-six churches in the historic Ukrainian settlement area of east-central Alberta. Includes street addresses of parishes, several maps, and a glossary. Published in association with the Inventory of Potential Historic Sites, Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism.
Diana Thomas Kordan
Historiography on the Jews and the Ukrainian Revolution
Henry Abramson
Housing Segregation and Mobility of Ukrainians in Manchester
Immigration and Settlement
Class
Culture
Bilingualism
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 and interview schedule, completed in 1975 with a selection of Ukrainian community members in Manchester, England. Results revealed a general housing pattern which was classified as follows: 1947-49, European voluntary workers' hostels; 1948-52, residency with Ukrainian landlords and friends; 1950, first home ownership in row housing; 1962, second home ownership in semi-detached housing; 1970, third home ownership. The improved economic position of respondents was suggested as an explanation for the mobility of most Ukrainians out of the urban immigrant centre and into better quality housing located away from the inner-city. The housing experience of Ukrainians in Manchester was tested against a model of immigrant housing proposed by D. JV Smith (1978). It was found that the Ukrainian experience was adequately explained by Smith's model, which indicated why Ukrainians settled in decaying metropolitan centres, how a pattern of rental to fellow Ukrainians emerged and developed, and why initial settlement took place in a limited area and then dispersed. The discussion which followed the presentation explored the question of whether class or cultural factors provided better explanations for housing behaviour among Ukrainians. The speaker, arguing the former, suggested that for second and subsequent generations of Ukrainians in Canada, the development of cooperative housing projects—Ukrainian-speaking urban villages—could be a useful method to enable small populations to pursue alternative cultural lifestyles. This would apply to groups who wished to practice bilingual living and the development of ethnic minority culture. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 1 (Winter 1978)
Roman Petryshyn
How Sissi Became a Ruthenian Queen: On Some Peculiarities of the Peasant Worldview
Yaroslav Hrytsak
Hryhorii Hrabovych [George G. Grabowicz], Do Istorii Ukrainskoi Literatury: Doslidzhennia, Ese, Polemika
Hryhorii Kostiuk, Okaianni Roky: Vid Lukianivskoi Tiurmy do Vorkutskoi Trahedii (1935-1940)
Book Review
James E. Mace
Hryhorii Kostiuk. U Sviti Idei i Obraziv. Vybrane: Krytychni ta Istoryko-Literaturni Rozdumy
Hryhorii Kostiuk. Volodymyr Vynnychenko ta Ioho Doba
Melanie Pytlowany-Kordiuk
Hryhory Kostiuk—Meetings and Farewells (Photos)
Excerpts from CIUS Press book Зустрічі і прощання: Спогади (книга перша) 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 narrative, Kostiuk records his interactions with some of the most important individuals in Ukrainian literature, science, politics, and community life. During his student years in Kyiv (1925–29) Kostiuk studied with such famous scholars as M. Zerov, P. Fylypovich, B. Yakubsky, S. Maslov, and M. Kalynovych. In his post-graduate years in Kharkiv (1930–33), Kostiuk's instructors included V. S. Boyko, A. Shamrai, and O. Biletsky. In Kharkiv, Kostiuk was involved in the work of the literary organization Prolitfront, where he cooperated with M. Khvyliovy, M. Kulish, P. Tychyna, H. Epik, D. Feldman O. Vyshnia, and other leading literary figures of the 1920s. Among his friends, Kostiuk counted H. Kosynka, Yu. Yanovsky, V. Mysyk, B. Teneta, V. Sosiura, L. Pervomaiisky, I. Bahryany, T. Masenko, O. Korniichuk, and many others. During Stalin's reign of terror, Kostiuk was arrested and sentenced without trial to five years in the concentration camps of Vorkuta. There he met with many veterans of the revolutionary period and survived the mass terror of 1937–8. The volume concludes with the outbreak of the Second World War.
Hugh Ragsdale. The Soviets, the Munich Crisis, and the Coming of World War II
I. S. Koropeckyj, ed. Selected Contributions of Ukrainian Scholars to Economics
Gennady Ozornoy
I. S. Koropeckyj, ed. The Ukrainian Economy: Achievements, Problems, Challenges
Val Samonis
I. S. Koropeckyj, ed. Ukrainian Economic History: Interpretive Essays
Leonard Friesen
I. Sevcenko and F. Sysyn, eds. Eucharisterion: Essays Presented to Omeljan Pritsak on His Sixtieth Birthday
Iak Sklo: On and Around a Simile in Shevchenko's Poetry
George Y. Shevelov
Iaroslav Hrylash—1993
Iaroslav Iu. Tynchenko. Ukrainske Ofitserstvo: Shliakhy Skorboty ta Zabuttia. Chastyna 1: Biohrafichno-Dovidkova
Orest Subtelny
Iaroslav Tynchenko. Persha Ukrainsko-Bilshovytska Viina (Hruden 1917-Berezen 1918)
Icarus and Prometheus: The Coming of Age of Ukrainian Studies
Peter L. Rudnytsky
Identifications: Ethnicity and the Writer in Canada
Ethnicity
This book presents eight selected papers from a conference held in Edmonton in 1979, that examined the relationship between ethnicity and the works of selected writers in Canada.
Jars Balan
CIUS Press, Printed in Canada by Printing Services, University of Alberta
Ideolohichnyi Nastup na Ukrajins'kyi Natsional'no-Vyzvol'nyi Rukh v Zakhidnij Ukrajini u 1944-45 rr.: Istorychnui Kontekst, Perebih, Kharakter
Iryna Pavlenko
Ievhen Deslav: A Forgotten Ukrainian Filmmaker
Jaroslaw Zurowsky
George S. N. Luckyj
Ihor Kamenetsky, ed. Nationalism and Human Rights: Processes of Modernization in the USSR
Review
George Liber
Ihor Ševčenko, Ukraine between East and West: Essays on Cultural History to the Early Eighteenth Century
Philip Longworth
Ilse E. Friesen, Earth, Hell, and Heaven in the Art of William Kurelek
Andrij Makuch
Imagining the Imaginary: Nostalgia and the Ukrainian-Australian Text
Sonia Mycak
Imperial Decline and Collapse as a Problem in the Social Sciences
John S. Reshtar Jr.
Impressions of Election Observers during the Ukraine 2012 Parliamentary Election
Elections
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.
Volodymyr Kravchenko, Bohdan Klid, Halyna Klid, Mykola Soroka, Michael Bociurkiw
In Bed with the Elephant: Ukrainian-Russian Asymmetric’ Relations
Ukrainian–Russian Relations
Politics
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
Mykola Riabchuk
In Defense of an Independent Ukrainian Socialist Movement: Three Letters to Valerian Smirnov
Roman Serbyn
In Defense of the Truth about the Indomitable Prior Augustyn Kordecki
Zbigniew Wojcik
Religion and Culture Program
In Search of a New Home: Ukrainian Emigration Patterns Between the Two World Wars
Serge Cipko
In Search of Early Modem Ukrainian Statehood: Post-Soviet Studies of the Cossack Hetmanate
Zenon E. Kohut
Natalia Pylypiuk
In the shadow of the Rockies : diary of the Castle Mountain internment camps, 1915-1917
Displacement
Concentration Camps
World War I
Diaspora
It is still a little-known fact that during the First World War and in the immediate postwar period (1914–1920), Canadian Internment Operations imprisoned more than 8,000 individuals. The majority of those interned were civilian non-combatants, Ukrainians and other immigrants who had come to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to work in industry or to settle on western homesteads. Twenty-four receiving stations and internment camps were established across Canada. A camp at Banff/Castle Mountain operated between 1915 and 1917. More than 600 internees were put to work on various projects in Rocky Mountain Park (now Banff National Park), which was being developed at that time as Canada’s first national park. The diary of the Banff/Castle Mountain camp provides detailed insight into the practice of Canada’s internment policy during the First World War and reveals a unique episode in the human history of Canada’s national park system. Historical landmarks in Banff National Park such as the Bankhead Mine, the Tunnel Mountain Road and Trans-Canada Highway, the Spray River Bridge, and the Banff Springs golf course were constructed, rebuilt, or extended by “Austro-Hungarian” civilian non-combatants interned at Banff/Castle Mountain.
Bohdan Kordan, Peter Melnycky
Indeks ukraïnsʹkoï katolytskoï periodyky Halychyny : 1871–1942 INDEX to the Greek Catholic Реrіоdісаl Literature of Ukraine, 1871–1942
Galicia
Ukrainian Catholic Identity
The present index is an attempt to contribute to the renewal of religious scholarship in Ukraine. With more than 8,000 entries and cross-references, it presents the collective output of nineteen Ukrainian Grecko Catholic journals and almanachs over a virtually uninterrupted 70-year period leading up to the abolitions occasioned by Soviet rule. For the study of most aspects of religious life in Ukraine in this period, this resource will be an indispensable reference tool. The primary thematic groups presented here as chapters include: theology and philosophy, Bibilical studies, church history, liturgical and ritual matters, pastoral theology, catechetics and evangelization, homilies and homiletics, ecumenical and interconfessional issues and biographical notes. In addition to the thematic presentation of the material in chronological order, the nominal and geographical indices will facilitate the use of this reference work. This publication was made possible through the generous financial support of Renovabis, a foundation of the Catholic Episcopate of Germany, by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and by additional support from the L'viv Theological Academy.
Andrii Krawchuk
Made available with permission of the Author
Intentional and Emergent Structures in Dead Souls (Chichikov: A Case for the Defense)
Kathryn Feuer
Interethnic Conflict in the Awakening Village: Ukrainians and Jews in Late Nineteenth Century Galicia
Jews in Ukraine
XIX c.
CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. The tenth Institute seminar of the 1978-79 academic year at the University of Alberta took place on March 6, 1979. Dr. John-Paul Himka, research associate at the Institute and visiting assistant professor in the Department of History, spoke on "Interethnic Conflict in the Awakening Village: Ukrainians and Jews in Late Nineteenth Century Galicia." The speaker examined the ethno-religious and social antagonism between Ukrainian peasants and Jews in late nineteenth century Galicia. Previously, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a very similar antagonism had erupted in violence from time to time, ending in pogroms against local Jews. In the late nineteenth century, as a result of the penetration of the national movement into the villages, the conflict took on a different aspect. Instead of an elemental, violent struggle, the Ukrainian peasants engaged in an institutional one, establishing reading clubs (ehytalni) as rivals to predominantly Jewish taverns, and loan funds as rivals to local Jewish creditors. The seminar first discussed some problems impeding the objective study of Ukrainian- Jewish relations and then provided background on Ukrainian and Jewish society in Galicia. The main part of the seminar examined interethnic conflict in the village described in reports ( kovespondentsti) submitted to the popular Ukrainian press. Found in CIUS Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)
John-Paul Himka
International Conference “Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian Emigration between the World Wars in Czechoslovakia: Results and Perspectives of Contemporary Research. Holdings of the Slavonic Library and Prague Archives,” Prague, 14-15 August 1995, Proceedings
L'ubica Babotová
Encyclopedia of Ukraine
L-R: Roman Senkus, Dr. Marko R. Stech, and Andrij Makuch
Interview about Holodomor Experience in the Poltava region
Interview
CIUS interview audio. Jars Balan interviews an unidentified individual from the town "Moysensin" in the Poltava region.
Biography
CIUS interview audio parts 1 and 2. Jars Balan interviews Albert Hohol
Albert Hohol
Bohdan Medwidsky is interviewed about his life and how he arrived in Canada.
is interviewed about his life and how he arrived
Interview with Chrysant Dmytruk about his life
Mykola Soroka interviews Chrysant Dmytruk about his life.
Chrysant Dmytruk, Mykola Soroka
CIUS interview audio. Mykola Soroka interviews Demitrius Todosijczuk.
Mykola Soroka, Demitrius Todosijczuk
Interview with Exchange Students from Ukraine: Vira Holiyan and Ihor Kotsiuba
Education
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 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Lviv, Vira Holiyan and Ihor Kotsiuba, studied at the U of A. Both Ukrainian students noted the importance of the well-structured curriculum at the U of A, course options, private rather than public announcement of grades, the greater openness of Canadian professors, and active student participation in class. They emphasized that courses they attended at the U of A tended to be more oriented toward practice than those in Ukraine. The Ukrainian students liked the U of A campus, where all facilities are in one place. In Lviv, by contrast, university buildings are scattered across the city. U of A libraries were also convenient to use and usually had the required books available. Both students stressed that they had little difficulty in working in English upon embarking on their studies here, partly because much of their language use centred on mathematical terminology, which is universal. In some cases exchange students from Ukraine had to devote several weeks to adjusting to the daily use of English upon their arrival in Canada. In everyday life, Ihor and Vira noted the comfort and convenience of Edmonton. They were impressed by Canadian hospitality and attracted by informal student culture, as manifested in casual clothing and eating habits. U of A students Stephan Pacholok (Faculty of Science) and Dominika Lirette (Faculty of Arts) were recipients of the Ivan Franko School of Ukrainian Studies Ukraine Travel Award at CIUS. The two attended the summer course “Ukrainian through Its Living Culture” offered annually in Lviv for the past eleven years by the Ukrainian Culture, Language and Literature Program in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the U of A. They found studying in Lviv an unforgettable experience that allowed them to improve their ancestral language through immersion in an authentic Ukrainian-speaking environment and everyday experience. They attended regular classes taught by Dr. Alla Nedashkivska, walked around the city, attended plays and concerts, and went to cafes and restaurants. The students were charmed by the rich cultural life of Lviv and its historical sites. There were also very emotional moments when participants met their families, and Lviv was an excellent base from which to travel the country. On 30 November 2011, all four students participated in the third seminar in the series “Ukraine and Canada as Witnessed by Students,” which is organized to bring attention to the student exchange program between the U of A and Lviv University and other opportunities to study in Ukraine. The event was co-organized with the Alberta Society for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies and the Ukrainian Students’ Society. The establishment of the new University of Alberta Ukraine Student Exchange Endowment Fund was announced at the seminar. CIUS regards the growth of the new fund as one of its priorities and encourages the community to expand the fund. The short-term goal is to increase its capital to $30,000 to fund one annual scholarship of $1,000. The long-term goal is to reach $100,000, which could provide two annual scholarships of about $1,800 each. Currently, this amount would suffice to cover the cost of travel between Ukraine and Edmonton. Found in CIUS Newsletter 2012
Vira Holiyan, Ihor Kotsiuba
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 fourth year in the fall of 2009. In the 2009-10 academic year, two exchange students from Lviv University, Yuriy Kyrylych and Dmytro Hural, studied at the U of A. No exchange students from the U of A studied at Lviv University this academic year. Yuriy Kyrylych is a fifth-year student at Lviv University’s Faculty of International Relations, where he is completing a master’s degree in international finance. Yuriy attended the U of A in the fall 2009 semester, taking three courses in the Faculty of Business: Decision Analysis, Advanced Corporate Finance, and Investments. The second student, Dmytro Hural, completed his master’s degree in commercial law at the Lviv University Law Faculty in 2009, after which he began working in a Lviv law firm. In the fall 2009 semester Dmytro took courses in International Business Transactions, Public International Law, and Contracts. In the winter 2010 semester he took courses in International Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, and Corporate Securities. Dmytro and Yuriy explained that the comparative experience of taking courses at the U ofA gave them special insights, and that other exchange students from Ukraine could expect similar benefits. The two students agreed that the major prerequisites for students from Lviv University to succeed at the U ofA are good study habits, a sound knowledge of English, and the ability to master specific course terminology in a very short period of time. On 29 November 2009 they gave a joint presentation at the Plast building on “The Legal and Economic Situation in Ukraine: Challenges and Perspectives,” sponsored by the Alberta Society for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies. Yuriy Kyrylych focused on impediments to economic growth in Ukraine, while Dmytro Hural spoke largely about reforms needed to transform the legal system into one that is more predictable and equitable. After four years of the exchange program’s existence, seven students from Lviv and four from Edmonton have studied at the partner institutions. Students from Ukraine have generally commented positively on the professor-student relationship at the U of A and on the opportunity to take courses not available at home or featuring somewhat different content from those offered at Lviv University. U of A students have stressed Lviv’s rich cultural life, the city’s architectural gems, and the improvement in Ukrainian that their stays brought. Challenges to the long-term viability of the exchange are the higher costs and the relatively large amount of time needed to study abroad—at least one semester. Higher costs include air fare and room and board, which are particularly onerous for Ukrainian students. Found in CIUS Newsletter 2010
Yuriy Kyrylych, Dmytro Hural, Bohdan Klid
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.
Frank Sysyn