focus ON UKRAINIAN STUDIES CIUS Newsletter 2020 Second International Conference on Canadian Studies

Canada–Ukraine: Past, Present, Future

12–13 September 2019 Chernivtsi, Ukraine

The Conference is organized by the Ramon Hnatyshyn Canadian Studies Centre at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University in cooperation with the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi University of Alberta, Edmonton, National University the Embassy of Canada in Ukraine, 2 Kotsiubynsky Street and the Embassy of Ukraine in Canada. Chernivtsi 58012 Ukraine

For more information please contact Presentation and donation of books published by the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study Dr. Vitaliy Makar, Director of the Посольство України в Канаді Embassy of Canada in Ukraine Canadian Studies Centre, at: Embassy of Ukraine in Canada Ambassade du Canada en Ukraine of Modern Ukrainian History and Society (Jacyk Program) at the Stefanyk Ciscarpathian Ambassade d’Ukraine en Canada Посольство Канади в Україні [email protected] National Univ., Ivano-Frankivsk, on 5 November 2019. CIUS organized or co-sponsored many events L-r: Oksana Dmyterko, Jacyk Program; Oleh Pavlyshyn, Lviv Franko National Univ.; Halyna over the course of 2019–20; see pages 16–18. Horban, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Universal Scientific Library; Yaroslav Hrytsak, Jacyk (Poster designs by Halyna Klid/CIUS) Program; Liubov Fedyk, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Library; and Volodymyr Velykochyi, Stefanyk National Univ. In this issue (Credit: Jacyk Program) CIUS programs in focus: 1 Digital Archives Project CIUS News: Archival acquisition of new CIUS Digital Archives Project: 2 Rudnytsky materials Holodomor Research and Education Challenges and achievements 3 Consortium 4 Director’s message Formally launched in 2016, the CIUS Digital Archives Project builds on a long history Visit to Ukraine by U of A Dean of Arts of philanthropy and collaboration. Thirty-one years previously, in May 1985 5 Lesley Cormack 1 Mrs. Stephania Bukachevska-Pastushenko of Toronto donated $100,000 to CFUS, Program and project highlights establishing an endowment fund for archival fellowships to be administered by 6 CIUS. The main purpose of the fellowships made possible by the Stephania Buk- In Memoriam: 14 Doris Kule (1921–2020) achevska-Pastushenko Archival Endowment Fund was to collect archival materials Mark von Hagen (1954–2019) and especially to assist existing archival institutions in cataloguing their Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Canadian holdings. 15 New endowment funds Beginning in 1987, at least one Stephania Bukachevska-Pastushenko Archival Fel- Events organized or co-sponsored lowship was awarded annually to graduate students or researchers working with 16 by CIUS (2019–20) archival collections. The endowment was transferred to CIUS, and a two-to-one CIUS awards matching grant from the Government of Alberta brought the Archival Fund to the 19 sum of $300,000 as of winter 1987. Interest allocated from this fund has been regu- 23 Defining generosity and philanthropy larly used to sponsor the identification of archival collections, their transfer to appropriate institutions, the cataloguing of existing collections, and the publication 24 CIUS endowment funds of finding aids. The fund has grown and become responsible for a substantial archi- List of donors, gifts in celebrations, and 30 memorial gifts 1 Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies (CFUS). …continued 

CIUS Newsletter 2020 1 val collection of its own, some of While acknowledging the generous which—in particular, a number of community support that the CIUS Digi- research reports—has now been digi- 2,438 129 3,651 tal Archives Project has received, it tized and made available as part of the items collections tags must be admitted that coverage of the CIUS Digital Archives Project repository. project’s costly and greatly time-con- The overall project is carried out in col- suming operations and maintenance laboration with the U of A2 Library and Arts Resource Centre. remains a challenge. In response to the ongoing need for addi- In the four years since the launch, the CIUS Digital Archives tional external funding, the Digital Archives Project at CIUS has Project’s free-access database (cius-archives.ca) has accumu- been supported by two $5,000 donations from the ASAUS3 and lated 2,438 items, 129 collections, and 3,651 tags. Recently digi- by the Summer Temporary Employment Program (STEP) of the tized collections include selected Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Government of Alberta. Lectures, CIUS Donor Photos, a selection of Interviews, and Furthermore, early in 2020 the CIUS Digital Archives Project Conferences and Round Tables (containing the “Ukrainian Cen- initiative titled “Mapping a Discipline of Ukrainian Studies in tenary Conference,” Canada and Abroad” was awarded a CRAfT4 Digital Research “The 1932–1933 Archive Grant from the Kule Institute for Advanced Studies Ukrainian Famine: (KIAS) at the U of A. The CRAfT grant was dedicated to digitizing Recent Perspec- and processing one hundred hours of CIUS seminars (1980–90). tives,” and the In response to the province’s austerity budget and deep cuts round table “Traf- to the U of A’s operating funds, and due to the complete sus- ficking of Women in pension of the U of A Library digitization budget for the next Ukraine: Govern- year, another important initiative of the CIUS Digital Archives ment and Non-gov- Project had to be put on hold—the scanning of a collection of ernment 944 titles on Ukrainian history and politics, published between Responses”), etc. the 1890s and the 1980s, which had been amassed by Myroslav Recently digitized Yurkevich, a former CIUS editor. This collection offers a broad books include sev- perspective on twentieth-century Ukrainian history and poli- eral earlier titles, tics, and many of the publications were issued in small print such as Ukraine and runs and have since become bibliographic rarities. Moreover, Russia in Their His- because of their pre-Communist or anti-Communist (with some torical Encounter exceptions) political orientation, these publications were tar- Earlier CIUS preservation efforts. (1992), excerpts geted for systematic destruction by the Soviet authorities in Frances Swyripa (r) overseeing a microfilming from Volodymyr Ukraine. The digitization of these materials will certainly remain program launched in January 1979. (Credit: CIUS Archives) Vynnychenko’s among the project’s plans and efforts for the foreseeable Shchodennyky (Dia- future, pending the availability of funds. ries; 5 vols., 2009–20), Soviet Regional Economics: Selected Works cius-archives.ca of Vsevolod Holubnychy (1982), and The Sovietization of Ukraine,

1917–1923 (1980). 3 Alberta Society for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies (ASAUS). 4 Create Research Archives for Tomorrow (CRAfT). 2 University of Alberta (U of A). CIUS facilitates new acquisition of archival materials for Rudnytsky Collection at U of A In January 2020 Peter. L. Rudnytsky, a profes- transfer to the university archives, where they sor of English at the University of Florida, will be added to the Ivan L. Rudnytsky Collec- made a sizeable donation from his private tion. This is the fourth supplement to the col- archive to the University of Alberta Archives. lection, which was originally created in 1984 The contribution contains important materi- from papers deposited by his widow, Alexan- als—including correspondence, personal dra Chernenko-Rudnytsky. The three others documents, and photographs—of his were made in 1987 by CIUS, in 1991 by Alex- grandmother, prominent Ukrainian politi- andra Chernenko, and in 2019 by cian Milena Rudnytska (Rudnycka, 1892– Peter L. Rudnytsky. 1976), and his father, the outstanding CIUS provided support for a documentary Ukrainian historian Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky film (by Iurii Shapoval and Iryna Shatokhina) (1919–1984), who was also one of the about Ivan L. Rudnytsky. Titled Ivan Lysi- founders of CIUS. The materials were pro- ak-Rudnytsky. The Story of an Intellectual, it cessed at the institute in March–May 2020 can be viewed at: by Dr. Ernest Gyidel for their subsequent https://tinyurl.com/y4p3tyh9

2 CIUS Newsletter 2020 Dutch Research Council that examines how European famine Holodomor Research and legacies are taught and commemorated at schools, heritage sites, and museums. Education Consortium Kuryliw was the keynote speaker for the Social Studies Sas- katchewan conference “Genocide: Then and Now” held on HREC held a conference titled “Documenting the Famine of 17–19 October 2019 in Moose Jaw, focusing on how to create 1932–33 in Ukraine: Archival Collections on the Holodomor curricula that promote the empowerment of responsible global Outside the Former Soviet Union” at the U of A on 1–2 Novem- citizens who can recognize and halt human rights abuses. ber 2019. Attendees heard presentations on newly discovered At HREC-sponsored sessions during the Danyliw Research research materials from France, the United States, and Japan, Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine on 9 November 2019 at the on Ukrainian diaspora collections in Europe and North America, University of Ottawa, the well-known journalist Anne Apple- and on materials from German and Jewish immigrants from baum reflected on the writing of Red Famine and Artem Ukraine as well as émigré Russian sources. Kharchenko (Center for Interethnic Relations, Kharkiv) gave a Book launches to promote the teaching resource Holodomor presentation on orphanages during the Holodomor. in Ukraine: The Genocidal Famine HREC was established in 2014 with the support 1932–1933 by HREC Director of of the Temerty Foundation in order to promote Education Valentina Kuryliw were the study and teaching of the Holodomor. More held in Montreal, Ottawa, Winni- information about the work of the consortium peg, Edmonton, and Saskatoon. can be found on its website. To date, one thousand copies of Kuryliw’s book have been distrib- holodomor.ca uted or sold to educators across North America. Canadian Institute of During the reporting period Ukrainian Studies HREC awarded fourteen research grants totalling $39,000, with a 4-30 Pembina Hall, University of Alberta focus on collaborative projects Edmonton AB T6G 2H8 Canada that engage scholars both in and outside of Ukraine. Telephone: (780) 492–2972 HREC Education entered into E-mail: [email protected] an Educational Programming Partnership with the Toronto Dis- Web: trict School Board, expanding cius.ca ulec.ca ciuspress.com encyclopediaofukraine.com opportunities to reach students ewjus.com cius-archives.ca and their teachers with important holodomor.ca ukrainian-studies.ca curriculum resources. HREC sup- ported the participation of two CIUS Newsletter Reprints permitted with acknowledgement. doctoral candidates in the Geno- (Poster design by Halyna Klid/CIUS) ISSN 1485–7979 cide and Human Rights University Publication Mail Agreement No. 40065596 1 Program (Univ. of Toronto): Tatiana Borodina (NaUKMA ), who Editor: Dr. Serge Cipko studies Jewish-Ukrainian relations in the 1930s–40s in the Pol- Language editor: Ksenia Maryniak tava region, and Elise Westin (Univ. of Adelaide), who studies Ukrainian translation: Liudmyla Levchenko Ukrainian language editor: Halyna Klid the Holodomor discourse in the West. HREC became a partner Design and layout: Halyna Klid on “Heritages of Hunger,” a five-year project funded by the Contact information for the CIUS Toronto Office, Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (IEU) 1 National Univ. of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA). Project, CIUS Press, Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC), and 1 Jacyk Centre : CIUS–Toronto Office 81 St Mary Street Toronto ON M5S 1J4 Canada Telephone: (416) 978-6934 Fax: (416) 978-2672 E-mail: [email protected]

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1 Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research (Jacyk Centre).

CIUS Newsletter 2020 3 Ukrainian combat forces. The feedback received by the institute Director’s message was very positive. September proved to be especially memorable, as I spent An eventful year full of surprises twelve days in Ukraine in the company of the U of A’s Dean of Arts, Dr. Lesley Cormack, participating in We are living through extraordinary times, the Second International Conference on and the 2019/20 reporting period was cer- Canadian Studies “Canada–Ukraine: Past, tainly no different for the Canadian Insti- Present, Future” at the Chernivtsi Fedko­ tute of Ukrainian Studies. As the various vych National University; also attending units of the institute all have summary was the outgoing Canadian Ambassador to Director’s message Director’s reports in this newsletter on their activities Ukraine, Roman Waschuk. Included as part over the previous year, my remarks will of our itinerary were working visits to a chiefly focus on some of the more notable host of Ukrainian academic institutions in moments in my final year as CIUS director. Lviv, Chernivtsi, and Kyiv, where Dr. Cor- The year (1 July to 30 June) began nor- mack and I met with scholars and officials mally enough, with the disbursement of at leading universities as well as NASU2 grants and fellowships to dozens of stu- Historical and Archaeographic sections. dents and scholars who had applied for What made a big impression on both funds from our dedicated endowments. Dean Cormack and me was not only the Evaluating the large number of submis- dedication and achievements of scholars in sions is a demanding but rewarding task Jars Balan Ukraine—who often work under extremely because the money pays for research in difficult circumstances—but the sincere many different areas of Ukrainian studies. It is also revealing to gratitude that they expressed for the financial, practical, and see the growth and evolution of the field and a pleasure to be moral support that they have received from CIUS over the dec- able to help support deserving candidates. The choices are ades since Ukraine’s independence. The institute’s contributions often very difficult to make, but that is a reflection of the many to their research and publishing endeavours, often quite qualified and gifted applicants currently working on Ukrainian modest, go a long way to ensuring their realization, and once topics. All of this largesse is made possible by the generous again they would not be possible without the resources that support that CIUS has received over the years from donors, to CIUS is able to share thanks to the generosity of donors. The whom we are deeply grateful. institute’s efforts in this regard are especially important given The customary series of seminars featuring visiting scholars that Ukraine and Ukrainian affairs continue to be subjects of and students started in the fall and winter and continued into great interest, and sometimes controversy, in both the media the spring 2020 session, regularly drawing good turnouts, even and the international academic arena. on Friday evenings. Regrettably, for the second time in two A good example of how CIUS works to engage and challen­ years and in its more than five-decade history, it was necessary ­ge the persistent problem of “alternative facts” and biases to postpone the annual Shevchenko Lecture which CIUS tradi- against Ukraine was a successful international conference that tionally presents in March in partnership with Edmonton’s CUSP3 at CIUS hosted on 12 October 2019. Titled “Russia’s Infor- Ukra­i­nian Canadian Professional and Business Аssociation. Due mation War: The Case of Ukraine in a Global Comparative Con- to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 Shevchenko lecture, to be text,” it was attended by members of the general public as well given by Senator Raynell Andreychuk, was rescheduled to take as representatives of Canada’s military and intelligence services. place online in October. Three weeks later, on 1–2 November, the institute organized A similar situation occurred with the yearly conference of another timely and successful scholarly gathering on the sub- the Canadian Association of Slavists. Normally held in late May ject of “Archival Collections on the Holodomor outside the For­ or early June as part of the Congress of Social Sciences and the mer Soviet Union.” It primarily targeted scholars active in the Humanities, it was moved to August 2020 so as to take place in 1 field, which is constantly being transformed with discoveries conjunction with the tenth triennial ICCEES congress in Mon- being made in sources overlooked or forgotten for decades. treal. That meeting has since been rescheduled to August 2021 The event was another demonstration of how HREC4 at CIUS is because of coronavirus-related travel restrictions, which are doing groundbreaking investigative work on the Great Famine anticipated to be lifted by then. of 1932–33, broadening and deepening discussions on the Although summer is generally a quiet time on campus ide- mass starvation that was a deliberately genocidal creation of ally suited to going to conferences, writing, and doing archival Stalinist policy. research, in August 2019 the institute was commissioned on Then, unexpectedly CIUS was asked to host a visit and public short notice to provide sixteen hours of lectures on Ukrainian lecture at the U of A by Mr. Petro Poroshenko, a former Presi- history, language, and culture to two hundred members of the dent of Ukraine and current leader of the European Solidarity Princess Patricia Light Infantry regiment of the Canadian Armed party in the Ukrainian parliament. His presence on campus and Forces. The orientation talks given by CIUS associates were as a dignitary in the city of Edmonton was greeted with great designed to prepare them for their six-month deployment to Ukraine under Operation Unifier, assisting in the training of 2 National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU). 3 Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program (CUSP). 1 International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES). 4 Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC).

4 CIUS Newsletter 2020 interest and excitement, and in-person sessions so as to limit the exposure his talk, on 25 November 2019, of the public and presenters to possible infec- att­ra­cted a large and apprecia- tion. Reacting quickly, CIUS nevertheless tive audience. managed to videotape the individual lectures https://tinyurl.com/y66uxgyt and re-book flights for participants to get home as quickly as possible in order to avoid A less pleasant surprise, getting trap­ped by border closures. The however, came at virtually the recor­ded sessions were then made available same time when it was learned online, in the process symbolically inaugurat- that a sessional lecturer with ing the institute’s transition to a new way of the university’s Faculty of Edu- doing things, consistent with changing gov- cation—and a member of the Visit of Petro Poroshenko to the University of Alberta ernment and university policies. Communist Party of Canada Former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko As the spread of the coronavirus took hold, (Marxist-Leninist)—was activ­ (2014–19) addresses a capacity, standing-room-only audience in the Maple Leaf Room of the University of conference travel was suspended, visits by ely using social media to pro- Alberta’s Lister Conference Centre (25 November 2019). grant recipients were postponed indefinitely, mote denials and disinforma- To his left, seated, are CIUS Director Jars Balan and and CIUS staff members began to work tion about the Holodomor. In Faculty of Arts Associate Dean (Research) Steve Patten. (Credit: Laura Sou/Univ. of Alberta) almost entirely from home. At the same time, coordination with the office of the institute shifted to holding its talks, panel the U of A’s President and the Deans of Education and Arts, discussions, and symposia online and will continue to do so CIUS issued a formal statement of censure, organized a display until the public health threat has been brought under control. of resource materials from the university’s libraries, and has CIUS enjoyed great success with an especially timely presenta- been implementing an ongoing scholarly response to the base- tion on 1 April by Dr. Ulana Suprun, the former acting Health less and ideologically motivated provocation. The un­for­tunate Minister of Ukraine, and also with talks on 8 May on “Cana- incident underscores the importance of the research and publi- da-Ukraine Cooperation” by Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada, cation work being done by CIUS on the manmade famine. Ihor Shevchenko, and Larisa Galadza, Canada’s ambassador to In an unusual confluence of developments that occurred in Ukraine from October 2019. Among other online events before a short span of time, late November was also when CIUS spon- the end of the reporting period was a book launch for Dr. Yaro- sored the symposium “Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky: Diarist, Historian, slav Hrytsak’s Ivan Franko and his Community, and more are Political Thinker,” marking the centenary of the birth of the scheduled for the future. former U of A professor. The round table of scholars celebrating Fortunately, the search for a new CIUS director was already Dr. Lysiak Rudnytsky’s distinguished career also served as an well in hand when the university went into lockdown mode, as occasion to launch the publication of a volume of his diaries. all of the interviews and public talks with the shortlisted candi- Obviously, the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic had a dates had been completed by the end of February. All three major impact on the activities of CIUS in the new year, and this candidates were well qualified for the job, and after thorough will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future. The vetting the decision was made to offer the director’s position to prob­lem started on the occasion of the annual Bohdan Boci- 5 Dr. Natalia Khanenko-Friesen of the University of Saskatche- urkiw Memorial lecture sponsored by the RPRC at CIUS and its wan—who is also an alumna of the U of A. Although challeng- symposium “Orthodoxy and Autocephaly in Ukraine” on 13 ing times lie ahead for Khanenko-Friesen, not least due to the March, featuring a distinguished group of specialists from significant cuts in government financial support for the U of A, Ukraine, the US, and Canada. As news was then breaking on a I know that she is well equipped to negotiate CIUS’s path for- daily basis about the serious threat posed by the virus, the deci- ward with the continued support of the Ukrainian community. sion was made on the morning of the symposium to cancel Jars Balan 5 Research Program on Religion and Culture (RPRC). CIUS Director, 1 July 2017–30 June 2020 Visit to Ukraine by U of A Dean of Arts and research activity of the university to the Canadian guests, Lesley Cormack and the director of the Institute of Historical Research, 1 On 9 September 2019 the Lviv Ivan Franko National University Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak, presented the new publications of the hosted a delegation from the U of A, including the Dean of the institute, which were sponsored by the Jacyk Program. The Faculty of Arts and Professor of its Department of History and scholars discussed prospects for deepening scholarly collabora- Classics, Lesley Cormack, and CIUS Director Jars Balan. tion and exchange of information, and identified priority direc- The Ca­na­dian historians collaborate with colleagues at LNU tions for joint research. under the framework of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study Based on a report by the Press Service of Lviv Franko of Modern Ukrainian History and Society. National University (translated from Ukrainian by Ksenia The LNU's Vice-rector (Academic) and NASU Associate Maryniak): Member, Prof. Roman Hladyshevsky, described the educational https://www.lnu.edu.ua/vizyt-delehatsii-universytetu-al-berty-kanada/

1 Lviv Ivan Franko National University (LNU).

CIUS Newsletter 2020 5 New monograph on the Stalinist Terror CIUS Press of the 1930s In the World of Stalinist Crimes: Ukraine in the Years of the Purges and Terror (1934–1938) New CIUS Press publications from the Polish Perspective This monograph deals with Soviet Ukraine A new monograph on the shistdesiatnyky during the Stalinist purges and Great Terror of 1934–38 as seen from the perspective of Polish generation diplomats stationed there at the time. What sets The Shore of Expectations: it apart from other studies of the Great Terror is A Cultural Study of the Shistdesiatnyky its extensive use of hitherto unknown archival In this monograph, author Simone Attilio materials, including documents prepared by Belle­zza reconstructs the history of the the interwar Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs shistdesiatnyky—the generation of Soviet and the Polish Army. Author Robert Kuśnierz describes the condi­ tions under which the Polish consulates in Soviet Ukraine functio­ Program and projectProgram highlights Ukrainian intellectuals who spearheaded the revival of Ukrainian national culture in the ned during the Great Terror; the kinds of problems their officials 1960s. His analysis begins with the awakening encountered and sources of information they used for their of artistic and literary expression during the reports; whether they tried to intervene to prevent Soviet so-called Khrushchev thaw and describes the persecution, particularly of Polish citizens and members of the fraught relationship that Ukrainian artists and Polish minority in Soviet Ukraine; and whether the reports they writers had with the Soviet authorities, which culminated in the transmitted to Warsaw influenced Polish policies vis-à-vis Moscow. mass arrests of intellectuals in January 1972. The author consulted The book also provides information about the plight of rural a wide range of sources: official and samvydav (samizdat) publica­ Ukraine after the Great Famine of 1932–33, including Polish tions, archival documents (including those in KGB archives), perso­ intelligence photos of devastated villages. This book is volume 10 nal interviews, and many unpublished materials that were of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research previously ignored in the historiography of the period. The shistde­ Monograph Series. siatnyky movement represents a milestone in the development of Pages Cover ISBN Price Ukraine as a modern nation, but it was also a typically Soviet pheno­menon,­­ linked to broader Soviet culture. Although the shist­ xxviii + paperback 978-1-894865-57-9 $34.95 404 desiatnyky condemned the widespread Russian chauvinism that had persisted from tsarist times into the Soviet era, they retai­ned a hope of seeing democratic and national reforms within the USSR. CIUS-supported publications Pages Cover ISBN Price xxiv + 352 paperback 978-1-894865-50-0 $34.95 The diaries of Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky. Shchodennyky. A new study of Polish-Ukrainian relations in 19th-century Galicia The recently discovered diaries of eminent historian Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky span the time Gente Rutheni, Natione Poloni: period from the mid-1930s to the 1970s. The Ruthe­nians of Polish Nationality in Deciphered, transcribed, and edited by resear­ Habsburg Galicia chers with CIUS’s Petro Jacyk Program for the Polish historians and political leaders have Study of Modern Ukrainian History and often used the term gente Rutheni, natione Society in Lviv, the diaries provide a unique Poloni to characterize figures of Ruthenian/ personal insight by a perceptive and Ukrainian descent who viewed themselves as sophisticated intellectual into some of the key part of a Polish political or national commu­ events in the turbulent history of Ukraine in nity. The duality and hybridity of these the mid-twentieth century. They also feature intimate portrayals of persons’ identity have excluded them from many prominent people whom Lysiak knew and had worked with. the traditional Polish and Ukrainian national The diaries document his experience as a young man in interwar narratives. Author Adam Świątek, an assistant professor in the Lviv under Polish occupation and describe the harsh realities of the Department of History at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, has wartime Nazi regime in Cracow (1939–40), Berlin (1940), and given us the first fully encompassing work that examines the Prague (1940–45), followed by life and Ukrainian cultural and persons, organizations, and ideologies of this group from the end political activities in the post–World War II displaced persons of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Based camps in Germany, emigration to the United States, and his study on a thorough examination of sources and literature, his monog­ and work in New York until 1954. Diary entries dating from the raph provides a nuanced account of how the concept and group 1970s chronicle Lysiak Rudnytsky’s trip to Moscow and Kyiv and were transformed and functioned in Habsburg Galicia. Świątek’s provide his general impressions of the USSR of that time. Published book is essential reading for all those interested in Polish-Ukrainian by Dukh i Litera (Kyiv). relations and those who wish to study varying national identities Pages Cover ISBN Price and historical concepts in the Galician crownland over the long nineteenth century. This book is volume 9 of the Peter Jacyk Centre 670 hardcover 978-966-378-708-4 $49.95 for Ukrainian Historical Research Monograph Series, published in cooperation with Księgarnia Akademicka (Cracow). Pages Cover ISBN Price 633 paperback 978-1-894865-55-5 $39.95

6 CIUS Newsletter 2020 A two-volume edition of Lysiak Rudnytsky’s the campaign and the manner in which the repressions were car­ essays on modern Ukrainian history ried out indicated that it was part of a larger operation conduc­ted by the Polish government in order to intimidate and suppress Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky. Ukrainians who opposed the Polish Sanacja regime occupying wes­ Istorychni ese. 2 vols. tern Ukraine. Published in the series Ukraina–Evropa, 1921– 1939 An eminent historian and with the support of the Jacyk Program in Lviv, this book is volume co-founder of CIUS, Ivan one of a two-volume collection of hitherto unpublished archival Lysiak Rudnytsky (1919– documents that shed light on the events of the Pacifica­tion and 84) was the author of over reveal it as being, in effect, a pogrom against Ukrainians that was two hundred concise, initiated, sanctioned, and executed by the Polish state authorities. highly erudite historical Pages Cover ISBN Price essays. In each one, within the space of a dozen or so 696 hardcover 978-617-7608-13-3 $54.95 (occasio­nally more) pages he manages to precisely A book about Jewish autonomy in the Western describe and clearly elucidate very complex and multifaceted Ukrainian National Republic (ZUNR) historical processes and phenomena. His particular contribution to the study of the history of modern Ukrainian sociopolitical thought Ruben Fan (Reuben/Reuven Fahn). Istoriia continues to be significant. Lysiak Rudnytsky’s sophisticated, ievreis'koï natsional'noï avtonomiï v period classically liberal assessments of Ukrainian history and political Zakhidno-Ukraïns'koï Respubliky. thought greatly influenced his émigré Ukrainian and Polish This book, written by the Jewish Galician colleagues as well as his students in the USA and Canada—and, entrepreneur, historian, and political leader more recently, the study of Ukrainian history in independent Ruben Fan, focuses on the situation of the Ukraine. Published by Dukh i Litera (Kyiv). Jewish minority in eastern Galicia during the rule of the short-lived Western Ukrainian Nati­o­ Vol. Pages Cover ISBN Price nal Republic (ZUNR, 1918–19). Based on docu­ 1 632 hardcover 978-966-378-675-9 Full set: mentary evidence and on his own expe­riences and observations, Fan describes the efforts of 2 624 hardcover 978-966-378-676-6 $69.95 the political and community leaders of the Galician Jewish minority to establish Jewish national autonomy under Ukra­i­nian rule in the Archeological studies of Baturyn in 2018–19 region. In addition to shedding light on a greatly understudied Zenon Kohut, Volodymyr Mezentsev, and topic, this book (including a scholarly intro­du­c­tion by Oleh Pavly­ Yurii Sytyi. Arkheolohichni studiï Baturyna shyn) provides much information about the situation of the Jews in 2018–2019: Herb Ivana Mazepy. Galicia during the turbulent times of the Polish-Ukrai­ni­an war in Galicia of 1918–19. Published with the support of the Jacyk The eighth booklet based on the research of Program in Lviv, as part of its series Ukraina–Evropa, 1921–1939. the Baturyn Archaeological Project (supported by CIUS since 2001) surveys the Pages Cover ISBN Price history of Baturyn, which was the capital of 270 hardcover 978-966-2067-48-4 $39.95 the Cossack Hetman state in 1669–1708 and 1750–64. Special attention is paid to the city’s heroic defence against the Russian army in A book of memoirs by Maria and Oleksa Motyl 1708 during Hetman Ivan Mazepa’s anti-Moscow revolt. A revised Mizh Amerykoiu ta Halychynoiu: Spohady version of the capture of Baturyn Fortress by imperial troops is Mariї ta Oleksy Motyliv. presented, and archaeological evidence of Mazepa’s razed capital As volume 5 in the series Memoirs, Diaries, is provided. In this booklet, fragments of glazed ceramic stove tiles Interviews published by the Jacyk Program in of local manufacture that were excavated in Baturyn are examined Lviv, this book contains two separate memoirs in detail; some of them feature the hitherto unknown design of written by members of the Ukrainian émigré Hetman Mazepa’s coat of arms as a Prince of the Holy Roman community in New York, Oleksa Motyl and Empire, a title he received in 1707. This publication is dedicated to Maria Motyl (née Boichuk). Born in the Lviv the 350th anniversary of the designation, in 1669, of Baturyn as the region in 1913, Motyl completed his law stu­ capital of the Cossack Hetmanate. dies in Lviv during the 1940s and emigrated to Pages Cover ISBN Price the United States in 1949. Boichuk was born in 1914 in the US but spent her formative years (after 1923) in Galicia. 32 paperback 978-966-2067-37-8 $8.95 She returned to the US after the Second World War, in 1947. The most prominent place in both memoirs is occupied by the dramatic Documents on the 1930 Pacification campaign events of the Second World War in Galicia. The book provides in Galicia, Volume 1 personal insights into daily life under the Soviet and Nazi occupa­ Roman Wysocki. Patsyfikatsiia Halychyny tions and offers unique reco­llec­tions about remarkable persona­ 1930 roku: Dokumenty. lities of the time—such as Reverend Omelian Kovch, a Ukrainian The so-called “Pacification” (Polish: Pacyfikacja) priest executed by the Nazis, who was recognized as Righteous was a campaign of repressions conducted by Among the Nations for his efforts to save Jews, and Maria Boichuk’s Polish authorities against the Ukrainian popu­ friend Faina Lacher, who conver­ted from Judaism to Ukrainian lation of Galicia in the summer and autumn of Catholicism and as a nun was a prominent member of the 1930. The ostensible rationale for these repre­ underground Ukrainian Catholic Church across the Curzon Line in s­sions was to counteract the acts of sabotage Soviet Ukraine. being carried out by the Ukrainian Military Pages Cover ISBN Price Organization (UVO). However, the scope of 157 hardcover 978-966-2067-49-1 $34.95 CIUS Newsletter 2020 7 Special issue of Ukraina Moderna Quest for Itself” [sic]; it also features five essays each in two sections, titled “Polemics” and “Philosophical Investigations.” Supported by CIUS’s Jacyk Program in Lviv, the Translations of four essays by foreign philosophers are presented scholarly journal Ukraina Moderna is one of the in the section “Translations,” and the issue also includes four book leading historical journals in Ukraine. Its reviews. special issue (no. 26) for 2019 is dedicated to the current issues in the field of philosophy No. Pages Cover ISSN Price and philosophical research in Ukraine. This 26 400 softcover 2078-659X $14.95 issue contains a discussion forum titled “Philosophy in Ukraine: In the Permanent

East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies

East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies is an online, open-access, ond-largest city in Ukraine peer-reviewed academic journal published by CIUS and edited and the first capital of the by Dr. Svitlana (Lana) Krys of MacEwan University. Ukrainian SSR. Specific Between 1 July 2019 and topics include a descrip- 30 June 2020 two issues of tion of post-Khrushchev EWJUS were published: Kharkiv and its multi-eth- • Vol. 6, no. 2 (Fall 2019) nic community of writers; features (1) a special the- the urban semiosphere of matic section, “Platforma: Kharkiv in the post- New Frontiers in Ukrain- Maidan period; language ian Studies,” which show- ideologies of Rus- cases research in litera- sian-speaking Kharkivites ture and political geog- in the wake of the Rus- sian-Ukrainian war of raphy in a Ukrainian per- EWJUS cover spective; (2) three 2014; the evolution of (Design of journal logo and cover by Halyna Klid/CIUS) regular articles on Kharkiv as a university Svitlana (Lana) Krys, Kule Chair in city; and an assessment of diverse topics: language Ukrainian Studies, MacEwan Univ., attitudes of Ukrainian and EWJUS Editor-in-Chief. urban places in Kharkiv that feature a special “soulfulness.” Canadians on the Prai- Both issues also contain an array of reviews of recent books ries, the involvement of philanthropic foundations of in Ukrainian studies. wealthy businessmen and politicians in the Maidan pro- Readers are invited to peruse the table of contents of tests of 2013–14, and the translation of Roman classics EWJUS’s most recent issue at into Ukrainian; and (3) English translations of two seminal http://ewjus.com/index.php/ewjus/issue/view/17 nineteenth-century Ukrainian texts. and see previous issues at • Vol. 7, no. 1 (Spring 2020) is a special thematic issue titled https://www.ewjus.com/index.php/ewjus/issue/archive Kharkiv: City of Diversity, guest edited by Volodymyr EWJUS is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals Kravchenko and Oleksiy Musiyezdov. It presents four arti- and the MLA Directory of Periodicals; it is hosted by the U of A cles, one reflective essay, and two translations of research Library. previously published in Ukrainian, all dedicated to the sec- ewjus.com

Danylo Husar Struk Program in Ukrainian Literature After its twentieth anniversary cele- including, of course, the annual Danylo Husar Struk Memorial bration during the previous report- Lecture as well as book launches in Toronto and elsewhere. ing period, the Danylo Husar Struk These events, planned for spring 2020, were cancelled after Program spent a quieter year, both health advisories closed the venues and prohibited large public by design and by necessity. Plans gatherings. Only one event took place, a seminar by Oleksandr were being developed to organize Boron, a Taras Shevchenko specialist from the NASU Shev­ and support a conference on Ivan chenko Institute of Literature on 4 March 2020 titled “Shake- Franko and to conduct the usual speare’s Plays in Shevchenko’s Reading and Writing.” The Struk series of events. Unfortunately, the Program looks forward to the resumption of normal activities in outbreak of the coronavirus pan- the future. Oleksandr demic put a halt to these plans— Boron sites.utoronto.ca/elul/Struk-mem/

8 CIUS Newsletter 2020 Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research and Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Modern Ukrainian History and Society Jacyk Centre—completing and initiating projects On 24 October 2019 more than one hundred fifty members of the Toronto community gathered to mark the publication of volume 5 of Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s magnum opus, the History of Ukraine-Rus'. The keynote speaker, Most Rev. Dr. Borys Gud- ziak, metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, spoke on the importance of Hrushevsky’s work for understanding the arc of Ukrainian history and for his own research on the Union of Brest of 1596. With only volume 2 remaining to be published in November 2020, the Jacyk (Banner design by Oleksandr Pankieiev/CIUS) sor at the U of A. The symposium was accompanied by the publi- Centre at CIUS has made available to the international commu- cation launch of Prof. Rudnytsky’s recently discovered diaries nity the full scholarly statement of Ukraine’s greatest historian and the donation of the originals to the University of Alberta in English translation, along with extensive updates on subse- Archives by his son, Prof. Peter L. Rudnytsky. quent research. As a Radio Liberty article points out, this pro- The Jacyk Centre continues its mission to conduct research ject is especially important as Ukraine still grapples with the and publishing on Ukrainian history. In the last year, CIUS Press Soviet myths of its past: published two volumes in the centre’s monograph series. https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/30589318.html Volume 8, Yaroslav Hrytsak’s Ivan Franko and His Community With the completion of the project, all the volumes will be (English transl. Marta Olynyk), was the subject of a CIUS online placed online and extant hard copies will be distributed to book discussion on 8 June 2020; additional major libraries. The centre also supports the https://tinyurl.com/y2z6alc3 Hrushev­sky digital archive at the volume 9, Adam Świątek’s Gente NASU Institute of the History of Rutheni, Natione Poloni: The Rutheni- Ukraine; its manager, Dr. Oksana ans of Polish Nationality in Habsburg Yurkova, conducted research and Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky: Galicia, was published jointly with a lectured in Canada during the past Polish press. academic year. Diarist, Historian, With the completion of the Hru- The year 2019 marked the cen- Political Thinker shevsky Translation Project, the tennial of the birth of three emi- 29 A SYMPOSIUM AND BOOK centre has initiated a number of new nent scholars who played a major November LAUNCH TO BE HELD ON THE projects, including an examination of role in establishing Ukrainian stud- 2019 CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH the political culture of Cossack ies in North America. On 23 oin us for a symposium to discuss the SESSION 1 PARTICIPANTS legacy of Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky and (13:30 PM–15:45 PM) to launch his newly published diaries. Ukraine, a volume of translations of Novem­ber 2019 the Jacyk Centre J Chair: John-Paul Himka Professor in the Department of Histo- Ryan Dunch (Professor Emeri- ry and Classics from 1971 to 1984 and (University of tus, University of essays by Ukrainian historians on the organized a panel presentation a founder of the Canadian Institute of Alberta) Alberta), “Ivan Lysiak Rud- Ukrainian Studies, Rudnytsky (1919–1984) nytsky in the De- eighteenth century, a new history of about Omeljan Pritsak, George was one of the most eminent historians partment of History and intellectuals of the Ukrainian diaspora. at the University of Alberta” nineteenth-century Ukraine, and the Luckyj, and Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky A brilliant analyst of Ukrainian intellectual and political history, he wrote numerous Volodymyr Serhii Plokhy 1 essays and scholarly works in English and Kravchenko (Harvard Universi- publication of an English translation at the ASEEES convention in San Ukrainian that shaped the understand- (University of Al- ty), ing of modern Ukraine in the West and in berta), “Ivan Lysiak “Rethinking Re- Rudnytsky and thinking Ukrainian of Pavlo Khrystiuk’s work on the Francisco. The papers were pub- post-independence Ukraine. His diaries, Ukrainian Diaspora History” brought to light only in 2014, are an in- Historiography after valuable resource about his life and the World War II” Ukrainian revolution. lished in the journal Ab Imperio Ukrainian community in western Ukraine and the diaspora. Ernest Gyidel Commentator: The work and publications of the (no.1, 2020) and were discussed (University of Heather Coleman Alberta), “Confront- (University of Іван Лисяк-Рудницький ing Apologies of the Alberta) Jacyk Centre depend on the endow- during an online CIUS event on 29 Ukrainian Ghetto: Two Unknown Intel- ЩОДЕННИКИ lectual Discussions ments established by the Petro Jacyk June 2020. On 29 November 2019 of Ivan L. Rudnytsky from the 1970s” Educational Foundation, the alloca-

the Jacyk Centre, the U of A’s ЩОДЕННИКИ SESSION 2 PARTICIPANTS tions of other endowments at CIUS, Department of History and Clas- (16:00 PM–17:30 PM) The Diaries of Ivan Yaroslav Hrytsak Frank E. Sysyn and the generous contributions of

Іван Лисяк- Рудницький Lysiak Rudnytsky (Ukrainian Catholic (University of sics, and the Ukrainian-Jewish ÄÓÕ I ËIÒÅÐÀ will be presented by University) Alberta) his son Peter L. Rudnytsky foundations (including the Temerty Encounter sponsored a sympo- (University of Florida) Foundation, the Ukrainian Studies sium on Lysiak Rudnytsky, whose Fund, and the W.K. Lypynsky East career was cut short by his DATE: FRIDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2019 European Research Institute) as well untimely death while still a profes- TIME: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM VENUE: ROOM 2-58, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY cius.ca AND CLASSICS, HENRY MARSHALL as individuals, who are acknowl- TORY BUILDING, UNIV. OF ALBERTA edged with gratitude on the insti- 1 Association of Slavic, East European, tute’s websites and in its publications. and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). (Poster design by Halyna Klid/CIUS) CIUS Newsletter 2020 9 Jacyk Program—source publications and Czech and Ola Hnatiuk, including integrating some of the analyzing modern Ukraine memoir and diary series into the project’s more general docu- mentary publishing plans. In the last year, editing work was car- During the last year, the Jacyk Program in Lviv completed two ried out on the diaries of Myron Korduba, and the project pub- of its major long-term source publication projects by publish- lished volume 3 of the collected works of Olgerd Ippolit Bochk- ing the third volume of the collected works of Reverend ovsky and volume 1 of Roman Wysocki’s selection of docu- Mykhailo Zubrytsky and the diaries and two volumes of essays ments on the Pacification in western Ukraine in 1930. of Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky. To mark the centennial of Rudnytsky’s The journal Ukraina Moderna remains the focal point of the birth, the Jacyk Program organized the international confer- Jacyk Program. Over the course of the year, two issues of the ence “Between History and Politics: Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky and journal, nos. 26 and 27, were published. The first discusses the His Legacy” on 20–21 September 2019. Held in Lviv, the confer- current state of philosophy in Ukraine while the second con- ence was attended by historians from Ukraine, Canada, Poland, tains the proceedings of the conference “Verbi and Numeri” and the US. and focuses on the applications of science to history, literature, Video recording of the keynote lecture by Prof. Serhii Plokhy: and language studies. The Ukraina Moderna website maintains https://tinyurl.com/y26slyyd an archive of all the journal’s issues published to date. The Jacyk Program continued active editing and publication https://uamoderna.com/arkhiv of its series of Ukrainian memoirs, diaries, and interviews. In In addition, essays, reviews, and interviews are published on addition to Rudnytsky’s diaries, it published the memoirs of the website (edited by Dr. Oksana Kis) on a regular basis. As in Maria and Oleksa Motyl and a translation of the memoirs of previous years, the website enjoys a steady growth of readers. Dr. Ruben Fan. It also published the memoirs of Iryna Kozak, an Within the framework of Ukraina Moderna, a project of inter- active member of the OUN and a liaison between Roman Shuk- viewing leading Ukrainian historians and historians of Ukraine hevych and Stepan Bandera. After the war, she lived in Ger- has been in progress. A dozen of the interviews were posted on many where she became an active member of the Ukrainian the website in 2019 and it is planned to publish selected inter- community. The Jacyk Program has taken a more active role in views separately as a book. the Ukraina-Evropa, 1921–1939 project headed by Mirosław https://uamoderna.com/jittepis-istory

Research Program on Religion and Culture

The main event for the RPRC this year was an international sym- fields and perspectives, posium, “Orthodoxy and Autocephaly in Ukraine: Past, Present, including Nicholas and Future,” held Denysenko, Jaroslaw ORTHODOXY AND AUTOEPHAY IN UKINE on 12–13 March Buciora, John-Paul Himka, 2020. Ever since Tetiana Kalenychenko, PA ST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE A SYMPOSIUM January 2019, Anatolii Babynskyi, Andrii when Bart- Krawchuk, Thomas Bremer, PANEL HISTORICAL 1 ANTECEDENTS holomew I, the and Radu Bordeianu, to Jaroslaw Buciora Ecumenical discuss the historical ori- Scott Kenworthy PANEL IMPACT OF THE TOMOS Patriarch of Con- gins and process of the 2 ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE stantinople, granting of autocephaly, Anatolii Babynsky John-Paul Himka signed the the state of the Church on Tetiana Kalenychenko tomos that offi- the ground in Ukraine Heather Coleman, director of CIUS’s Photograph by Presidential Administration of Ukraine, distributed under a CC-BY 2.0 license. PANEL INTERNATIONAL Research Program on Religion and 5 January 2019 the Ecumenical 3 RESPONSES cially recognized since the tomos, and the Culture. OnPatriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, signed the tomos that Radu Bordeianu officially recognized and established the and established theological and political Orthodox Church of Ukraine and granted Thomas Bremer it autocephaly. The consequences of this act are still reverberating not only Andrii Krawchuk the Orthodox impact both in Ukraine and internationally. The RPRC sympo- in Ukraine but also throughout the Orthodox world. This international PANEL CLOSING symposium brings together experts from Church of sium began on the evening of Thursday, 12 March, with the a variety of fields and perspectives in 4 ROUND TABLE order to discuss the historical origins of Ukraine and annual Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture. Unfortunately, due and procedures for granting autocephaly, Frank Sysyn as well as the state of the Church at ground level in Ukraine since the tomos Nicholas Denysenko granted it auto- to the rapidly emerging Covid-19 pandemic crisis, the full day and its theological and political impact both in Ukraine and internationally.

FEATURED TOPICS AND SPEAKERS TOPICS FEATURED cephaly, the of presentations and discussions planned for Friday, 13 March, Orthodox com- was cancelled. Although the speakers had to leave as quickly as Friday, VENUE: munity both in possible while flights and borders were still open, CIUS never- Aurora Room, 2-051 (2nd floor) 13 March Lister Conference Centre, Ukraine and theless managed to record their prepared presentations before University of Alberta 2020 87 Avenue and 116 Street, across the world their departure, and the recordings are available on the insti- 9:00–17:00 Edmonton, Alberta has been in tur- tute’s website. Papers from the RPRC symposium are to be pub- cius.ca moil. CIUS wel- lished in a future issue of Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canа- Emil and Elfriede Jochum Chair in Theology comed experts dienne des slavistes. from a variety of (Poster design by Halyna Klid/CIUS)

10 CIUS Newsletter 2020 Ukrainian Language Education Centre

During July 2019–June 2020, ULEC1 contributed to Ukrainian tion Committee under the UCC3 (sitting language education through the professional development on a panel at the 24th Triennial Con- workshops, participation in collaborative rese­arch and develop- gress), the Ukrainian World Congress, ment projects, orchestration of learning resource development, the Prairie Centre for the Study of and promotion of Ukrainian language education. Ukrainian Heritage (contributing to a After hosting a Mitacs Globalink Intern who catalogued language assessment project following resources in the ULEC Resource Library over the summer, ULEC the Common European Frame of Refer- organized and co-facilitated workshops about the Holodomor ence in Ukrainian), and the Ukrainian Mitacs Globalink intern Nadiya Shapovalova, for pre-service and in-service teachers in collaboration with the Language Education Consortium of cataloguing the ULEC U of A’s Faculty of Education, offered two webinars for Ukrain- Alberta. To support the undergraduate Library. ian language instructors on how to teach beginner Ukrainian at Ukrainian courses in the U of A’s MLCS4, (Credit: Olena Sivachenko/ CIUS) the post-secondary level via a blended-learning model (for Ari- ULEC also participates in celebrations in zona State Univ. and the Univ. of Toronto), conducted Ukrainian Edmonton such as Heritage Days, Ukrainian Day (UCC), New language sessions for members of the Canadian Armed Forces Year’s Malanka Party at the U of A, and Mother Language Day Joint Task Force-Ukraine (“Operation Unifier”) deploying to (Alberta Heritage Language Association), and orchestrates Ukraine, and assisted in the visit of former Ukrainian President activities at the department’s Open House for high school stu- Petro Poroshenko to the U of A. dents. Research projects undertaken by To sustain and promote Ukrainian ULEC staff during the reporting language education ULEC produced period include an investigation of and distributed four bilingual newslet- Ukrainian langua­­ge pragmatics ters to over four hundred subscribers (Ukrainian language speech acts of during the reporting period, highlight- requests and the role of study ing pioneers of Ukrainian language abroad for the development of education in Canada, outstanding pragmatic competence) and the teachers, administrators, parent volun- integration of technology into teers, and children’s authors and Ukrainian language classrooms at researchers in seven provinces. These the post-secondary level (the role of newsletters also describe new develop- podcasting for the development of ments in Ukrainian language policy and pragmatic competence and stu- planning in Ukraine, as well as upcom- dents’ perceptions of the effective- L–r: Ulana Pidzamecky (Ed.D. student, Univ. of ing conferences and publications ness of a blended-learning model). Glasgow), Olenka Bilash (Acting Director, ULEC), and related to language education. ULEC is Alla Nedashkivska (Associate Chair, MLCS) at the 2019 ULEC is also funding a major project National Conference for Ukrainian Educators, Winnipeg. especially proud of the initiatives of to document its 43-year history. Ukrainian language educators to ULEC continues to contribute to learning resource develop- engage in the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action with Can- ment, facilitating the completion of additional NOVA and ada’s First Nations and Inuit peoples. To strengthen twen- Bud'mo resources to be posted online with free access. Its sup- ty-first-century technology in Ukrainian language use, ULEC port for the development of the Open Education Resource continues to add to its website and Facebook pages, and the Podorozhi.UA included accessing a 2019 TLEF2 Seed Grant from oomroom.com website, and has sponsored its second “ULEC the U of A’s Centre for Teaching and Learning. Rocks!” video contest for students in grades 4–12. In addition to tracking enrolment in Ukrainian language pro- grams, ULEC collaborates with the National Ukrainian Educa- ulec.ca | oomroom.com

3 Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC). 1 Ukrainian Language Education Centre (ULEC). 4 Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies (MLCS), Faculty of Arts. 2 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF). Ordering CIUS Press Publications

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CIUS Newsletter 2020 11 Peter and Doris Kule Ukrainian Canadian

CIUS EVENTS СЕМІНАРИ КІУСУ Studies Centre 2020 2020 From the Prairies of Canada to the Steppes of Ukraine: Ongoing and new initiatives dation expenses for A History of the First Canadian 1 more than half a Agricultural Commune The work of the KUCSC at CIUS made steady progress in sev- dozen Canadian pre- eral different areas, yielding new insights and a more complete senters. Balan deliv- understanding of the Ukrainian experience in Canada. Jars Bal- ered a paper on an’s research on the life of the Canadian journalist Rhea Clyman Canadians who uncovered important details about her biography, including helped to cover up valuable information about her time in the Soviet Union. He Ukraine’s Great was generously assisted by scholars and librarians at the Uni- Famine (Holodomor) “First Canadian Agricultural Commune” in Myhai, north of Odesa, was founded Thein 1922 by a group of Ukrainians emigrants that returned from Canada. versity of Texas, Austin; West Chester University, Pennsylvania; This lecture examines the history of the commune through a multitude of sources and Cipko spoke on from Canadian, Ukrainian, and Russian archives. Letters and personal accounts of the Canadian communards shed light on the young enthusiasts who envisioned their future Oxford University (UK); and archivists at the University of in the new Soviet state. However, they soon became disappointed with Soviet reality. Alberta’s press cover- The Myhai commune was widely covered by the Ukrainian Canadian press, as it was an early test case for the credibility of the Ukrainian Left in Canada. Oregon, Eugene. In the meantime, he also worked on accounts age dealing with SPEAKER: of the reporting of six other Canadian journalists who travelled Dr. Matthias Ukrainians in Canada Kaltenbrunner MATTHIAS KALTENBRUNNER earned his Ph.D. from the DATE: FRIDAY, 21 FEBRUARY 2020 in the USSR during the years of the Holodomor. University of during the Second Vienna in 2015. TIME: 7:00 PM He is currently a post-doctoral VENUE: UKRAINIAN CENTRE At the annual conference of the Canadian Association of fellow at the Kule Folklore 11018 97 STREET World War. Centre, University of Alberta. EDMONTON Slavists held in June 2019 on the campus of the University of His research interests include In keeping with migration history, especially within British Columbia, Balan presented a paper on “Ukrainian halls as the Ukrainian-Canadian context. He is currently For further information, please contact the working on a book project titled “The Globally Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS): the KUCSC’s commit- Connected Village: A Ukrainian-Canadian History.” Phone: (780) 492-6844 4-30 PEMBINA HALL, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA • EDMONTON AB T6G 2H8 • CANADA E-mail: [email protected] incubators of the social, cultural, political and spiritual life of ment to community T 780 492 2972 www.cius.ca • www.ukrainian-studies.ca the Ukrainian Canadian community,” drawing in part on his outreach, Kalten- (Poster design by Halyna Klid/CIUS) ongoing study of the Ukrainian performing arts in Canada. brunner delivered a Other papers were delivered on a Ukrainian Canadian panel by lecture on 21 February 2020, titled “From the prairies of Canada Stefan Sokolowski (“What can the grocery business tell us to the steppes of Ukraine: A history of the First Canadian Agri- about Ukrainians in postwar Edmonton”); Dr. Valerii Polkovsky cultural Commune.” The presentation, which discussed the (“Peter Savaryn and the politics of multiculturalism”), and Myhai Commune established north of Odesa in the 1920s by Dr. Matthias Kaltenbrunner of the University of Vienna (“The Ukrainian Canadian communists, took place at the Association globally connected village”), a specialist on Ukrainian immigra- of United Ukrainian Canadians’ Ukrainian Centre in Edmonton. tion to Canada from the Sniatyn region in western Ukraine. Finally, in his capacity as the coordiator of the KUCSC’s Dias- Dr. Serge Cipko spoke on “The Holodomor and the US response: pora Studies Initiative, Cipko travelled to South America in Ukrainian American demonstrations in 1933.” August 2019 to take part in the presentation of the book Holo- In September the KUCSC played a key role in co-sponsor- domor 1932–1933: Genocidio Ucraniano, a translation from ing—along with the host, Chernivtsi University’s Ramon Hnaty- Ukrainian into Spanish of works by historian Yuri Shapoval and shyn Canadian Studies Centre—the Second International Con- others. After the book’s initial launch in Buenos Aires on 7 ference on Canadian Studies, held at that university. As part of August 2019, Cipko, who authored the prologue, accompanied its financing for the two-day event, titled “Canada-Ukraine: Past, the translator and editor, Jeremias Taurydzkyj, to presentations Present, and Future,” the KUCSC covered travel and accommo- in northeastern Argentina and Paraguay and also delivered lec- tures on Ukrainian diaspora-related topics. 1 [Peter and Doris] Kule Ukrainian Canadian Studies Centre (KUCSC). Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine project

The Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (IEU) continues to be CIUS’s on the site. The IEU website features articles written by hun- most popular and most widely accessible product, accessed dreds of specialists from around the world who have contrib- every year by hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. Every uted and continue to contribute to this project. Today there are day some 1,500 individuals from various countries visit the IEU over 8,200 articles and encyclopedic entries posted in the site to learn about Ukraine, its history, geography, cultural herit- online reference, accompanied by thousands of maps, photo- age, and current situation, and about graphs, illustrations, tables, and Ukrainians living in their ancestral audio files; new entries are being land and in the diaspora. What sets edited, updated, and added to the the IEU apart from the majority of IEU daily. other online resources that provide The ongoing dedicated work of information about Ukraine is the the IEU team and future develop- expertise of the authors and the reli- ment of the IEU project are made ability of the information presented possible by the moral and financial

12 CIUS Newsletter 2020 support of loyal friends of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine. In par- ticular, CFUS has been a longstanding major supporter of the IEU (as well as its predecessor, the five-volume Encyclopedia of Ukraine print edition, 1984–93). CFUS’s ongoing sponsorship— together with a very generous recent donation from the Taras Shevchenko Senior Citizens Home in Windsor designated to subsidize IEU work at the CIUS Toronto Office—has given the IEU team an opportunity to expand its staff and activities. After the untimely loss in 2019 of the IEU project’s long-time senior manuscript editor, Andrij Makuch, the IEU engaged historian Dr. Serhiy Bilenky as a consulting editor and Tania Plawuszczak- Stech as a senior editor, as well as several subject editors who are writing new IEU entries in their respective fields of exper- tise. The IEU project continues to be spearheaded by project manager Dr. Marko R. Stech and managing editor Roman Senkus. encyclopediaofukraine.com New IEU team members Tania Plawuszczak-Stech and Serhiy Bilenky. (Credit: CIUS-Toronto) Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program

Among highlights of CUSP research in the past year was an nalism in March 2016. Marcel H. Van Herpen, a security expert international symposium entitled “Russia’s Information Warfare: from the Netherlands specializing in Russia, Eastern Europe, The Case of Ukraine in a Global Comparative Context,” held in and the post-Soviet states, spoke of the role of the church in Edmonton on 15 October 2019. The event was generously sup- Russia’s state security. The conference generated much public- ported by ASAUS. ity both locally and internationally, and was covered by the Kyiv The round-table conversations focused on the information Post, CTV News, and Alberta Kontakt TV. and cyber interference in Ukraine’s internal affairs in global Following the mandate of its Kowalsky Program for the context. Several prominent experts contributed their under- Study of Eastern Ukraine, CUSP also supported a multi-year standing of Russia’s intentions and strategies in Europe, the US, research project in Ukraine titled “CityFace: Representation of and other countries and regions worldwide. The speakers Multi-Ethnic Cities in the Industrial and Post-Industrial Era,” included Jessikka Aro, a Finnish journalist who shared her expe- which focused on exploring and updating symbolic spaces in rience investigating the phenomenon of Russia’s troll factories, selected cities of eastern and southern Ukraine, including which led to her receipt of Lucas Bonnier’s Grand Prize for Jour- Dnipro, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Odesa, and Kharkiv. In studying how these cities (re)present themselves, the project will col- lect and examine visual, cartographic, oral, and written mate- rial such as memories and oral histories, as well as local peri- odicals and legislative documents, and a free-access digital database will be created. Outcomes of studying urban history and culture in eastern Ukraine will be published in a series of East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies issues. The first issue of the series, titled “Kharkiv: The City of Diversity,” has just been published and can be viewed on the journal’s page: https://www.ewjus.com/index.php/ewjus/issue/view/17 The next issues, on the cities of Odesa (“Odesa: The City of Frontiers”), Dnipro, and Zaporizhia, are in the making. CUSP’s Forum for Ukrainian Studies, a platform established with the goal of providing critical commentary on affairs inside Ukraine and on its involvement in the public discourse globally, was thoroughly revived in 2019–20. Nineteen articles were published in 2019, and the email distribution has exceeded six thousand subscribers worldwide.

"Russia’s Information Warfare" conference participants. ukrainian-studies.ca L–r: Jessikka Aro, Olena Goncharova, Oleksandr Pankieiev, and Justin Ling (Toronto-based freelance journalist). (Credit: Brad LaFoy)

CIUS Newsletter 2020 13 Doris Kule (1921–2020) Canada, including one million dollars to establish the Kule The Canadian Institute of In Memoriam Ukrainian Canadian Studies Ukrainian Studies is sad to Centre at CIUS, along with an report that Doris Kule passed initiative devoted to studying away peacefully in Edmonton the worldwide Ukrainian dias- at the age of ninety-nine fol- pora. Together with her hus- lowing several weeks of declin- band Peter, Doris received hon- ing health. She was born on a orary doctorate degrees from In Memoriam farm near Boian, Alberta, to the U of A and from Saint Paul Usten and Maria Radesh, who University (Ottawa). had immigrated to Canada from the Bukovynian village of Shu- May Doris Kule’s memory be eternal — Вічна їй пам’ять! branets, now in Zastavna raion, Chernivtsi oblast. One of ten children (a sibling died in infancy), she was bright and athletic and quickly became fluent Mark von Hagen (1954–2019), a historian of in English. Eager to pursue Ukraine and an organizer of Ukrainian studies an education, she com- pleted nine grades at A personal recollection by Frank Sysyn Boian School and then attended high school in When Dr. Mark von Hagen was serving as associate director of nearby Willingdon, after the Harriman Institute (1989–92), Prof. Alexander Motyl, a spe- which she took teacher cialist in Ukrainian politics, asked him to give a talk on Ukraine, training at the U of A. Doris which is how a seminal article by Mark germinated, subse- then taught at rural quently stimulating the notable discussion on “Does Ukraine schools in Derwent and Have a History?” in the Slavic Review. After the break-up of the Shalka, and after visiting Soviet Union and the rise of an independent Ukraine, both of an older sister while on which took the entire historical profession unawares, I cajoled holiday in Edmonton she him into attending a conference on Polish-Ukrainian relations decided to move to the in Kamianets-Podilskyi. I can still remember our endless ride city. It was there that in Doris Kule from Kyiv to Kamianets in a train compartment, the doors of 1943 she met Peter Kule (1 January 1921–15 March 2020) which kept swinging open and shut. I would like to think that it (Kuleba), a Public Account- was that conference and our discussions on what the role of ant, and they married a year later. As a couple they worked hard Ukrainian studies would be now that Ukraine was independent together, Peter building a successful and innovative accounting which nudged Mark to take up the study of Ukraine. practice and eventually becoming a chartered accountant. In Most important was that Peter Jacyk—the philanthropist the meantime, Doris pursued a career as an elementary school who endowed the Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at teacher in the Beverly district of Edmonton until her retirement CIUS that bears his name and which I had moved to Edmonton in 1974. Blessed with a kind and gentle nature, she was always to head—had also decided to fund the Ukrainian Studies Pro- fondly remembered by her students. As Peter’s accounting firm gram at Columbia. Mr. Jacyk was especially impressed that grew and his business interests prospered, the Kules began Mark, a non-Ukrainian, was treating Ukrainian studies so seri- increasingly to turn their attention to philanthropy, focusing in ously. particular on supporting educational endeavours, many in the Mark’s interest in Ukraine proved crucial for one of the larg- field of Ukrainian studies. In total they have donated more than est international projects that the CIUS was involved in during sixteen million dollars to post-secondary institutions across the early 1990s. At that time Zenon Kohut had taken up a posi- tion at CIUS, and he and I were interested in whether the new situation could spark a rethinking of Ukrainian-Rus- sian relations. The Humboldt Foundation was offer- ing grants for collaborative projects with North American academics, and Andreas Kappeler, our col- league at the University of Cologne, supported the idea of putting in an application. Mark undertook a grant proposal from Columbia to the National Endowment for the Humanities; together with the support of the Chopivsky Family Foundation, this grant underwrote the early attempt to start discus- sions between Russian and Ukrainian specialists. The resulting “Ukrainian-Russian Encounter” project brought together scores of scholars in Russian and Ukrainian studies at four conferences in Cologne Doris Kule’s talents included art, as attested in this landscape painting. and New York in 1994 and 1995. The papers of the (Photo: from the collection of Doris Kule’s family)

14 CIUS Newsletter 2020 fourth workshop were the Holodomor in the 1930s. Regrettably, his conclusion that published in a special issue the newspaper should advocate for revoking its reporter’s of the Harriman Review Pulitzer Prize was not accepted by the Times. Mark was subse- (Peoples, Nations, Identities, quently active in establishing the Ukrainian-German Historical vol. 9, nos. 1–2, spring Commission and served on its advisory board. He also served 1996). A selection of the on the Advisory Council of CIUS and took part in the institute’s other papers was pub- conferences. He was particularly enthused in taking over the lished by CIUS Press in editing of Pavlo Khrystiuk’s “Chronicle of the Ukrainian Revolu- 2003 as Culture, Nation, tion,” a translation done at CIUS many years ago but never pub- and Identity: The Ukraini- lished. With the support of the W.K. Lypynsky East European an-Russian Encounter Research Institute for this project, Mark’s goal was to introduce (1600–1945), with Mark as a Ukrainian perspective to those who had viewed the period a co-editor. only from Moscow’s point of view and to stimulate Ukrainian Mark’s dedication to specialists to reconsider their paradigms. He finished the draft Ukrainian studies did not of his introduction to Khrystiuk’s work. CIUS will have the flag. He agreed to take honour of seeing that Mark von Hagen’s vision comes out in over the presidency of the print. International Association Works Cited Kappeler, Andreas, et al., eds. Culture, Nation, and Identity: The Ukrainian- Mark von Hagen of Ukrainian Studies in Russian Encounter (1600–1945). CIUS Press, 2003. 2002 and organized its Peoples, Nations, Identities: The Russian-Ukrainian Encounter. Special (1954–2019) issue of The Harriman Review, vol. 9, nos. 1–2, spring 1996. memorable conference in Von Hagen, Mark. “Does Ukraine Have a History?” Slavic Donetsk in 2005. He became especially well known in the Review, vol. 54, no. 3, 1995, pp. 658–73. This is an abridged version of Dr. Sysyn’s full obituary of Mark von Hagen that broader Ukrainian community when he was asked by the New appeared in East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, fall 2019, pp. 3–6; York Times to study the role of Walter Duranty in covering up https://ewjus.com/index.php/ewjus/article/view/524. Reprinted with permission.

nopil oblast. After World War II he settled in the United King- New endowments dom, joining the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain. He married Margaret Ann Edgerton in England in 1951 and then CIUS is pleased to announce the establishment of two new emigrated to Canada in 1954, settling in Toronto. After his endowments: arrival in Canada, Yaroslav also became active in local commu- Dr. Bohdan Stefan Zaputovich and nity life, especially in the Ukrainian Catholic Church, youth Dr. Maria Hrycaiko Zaputovich Fund organizations, and veterans’ activities. After obtaining a certifi- cation at technical college, Yaroslav enjoyed a productive Established in 2019 with a bequest from the estate of Maria career in the aircraft industry, rising to the position of inspector Hrycaiko Zaputovich, a native of Winnipeg. She taught Chinese at DeHavilland Aircraft in Toronto. After retirement he devoted and Russian history at the University of Guelph and in Chinese even more time to Ukrainian community life, including serving and Japanese history at the University of Toronto. In 2018 Maria as president of the parish council of St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Hrycaiko Zaputovich donated the library of her late husband, Catholic Church in Thornhill and as secretary of a committee Dr. Bohdan Stefan Zaputovich, to the Karazin National Univer- struck to oversee the compilation of the second volume of a sity in Kharkiv. Based on a donation in the amount of one mil- publication dedicated to his home district in Ukraine, lion dollars, the newly established fund is designated to pro- Berezhans'ka zemlia. Retirement also offered the opportunity to vide support, in the form of scholarships, grants, and fellow- visit newly independent Ukraine, which he did nearly every ships, to students and scholars engaged in research activities in year. the field of Ukrainian studies, with a demonstrated interest in Margaret Ann Hunka (1931–2018), née Edgerton, was born Ukrainian archeology, anthropology, linguistics, or history. in Studley, Warwickshire, England. After immigrating to Canada Yaroslav and Margaret Hunka with her husband, she worked for many years at a life insurance Ukrainian Research Endowment Fund company in Toronto. Margaret and Yaroslav had two sons, and the four contributed as a family to the Ukrainian community in Established in 2019 by Martin and Peter Hunka to honour the Toronto. Margaret took Ukrainian-language classes and joined memory of their parents Yaroslav and Margaret Hunka. The the Ukrainian Catholic Women’s League. After raising her endowment of thirty thousand dollars is designated to boys, Margaret returned to work in the retail field. Her support research that will enhance understanding of the passions were reading and travel, including a trip to life and deeds of two twentieth-century leaders of the Ukraine in 2007. Yaroslav and Margaret fostered a love underground Ukrainian Catholic Church, Metropolitan of family, faith, and Ukrainian heritage in their sons. It Andrei Sheptytsky and Cardinal Josyf Slipyj. is in this spirit that they established this new research Yaroslav Hunka (1925–) was born in interwar west- endowment at CIUS. ern Ukraine, in Urman village, Berezhany district, Ter-

CIUS Newsletter 2020 15 Conferences, symposia, lectures, seminars, and public sessions organized or co-sponsored by CIUS (2019–20) Annual Lectures 54th Annual Shevchenko Lecture (2020) This event was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

7 December 2019 12 March 2020 22nd Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture (2019): Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture (2020): “Explaining Ukrainian “Remembering the Terror-Famine: Memory and meaning in the autocephaly: Politics, history, ecclesiology, and the future” early years of the Cold War” The annual Bociurkiw lecture honours the late Prof. Bohdan On 7 December 2019 Dr. Olga Andriewsky, a professor in the Bociurkiw, a “founding father” of both CIUS and its Research Department of History at Trent University, delivered the twen- Program on Religion and Culture, by inviting a prominent spe- ty-second Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture, titled cialist in Ukrainian religious history “Remembering the Terror-Famine: Memory and meaning in the and politics to speak on a related early years of the Cold War.” topic. This year’s lecture was given Events organized or co-sponsored CIUS (2019–20) organized by Events Andriewsky discussed the decade 1945–55, when the Holo- by Nicholas Denysenko, the Emil domor was “first remem- and Elfriede Jochum Professor and bered” and became part Chair at Valparaiso University (Indi- of the case in the West ana) and a leading expert among for legal recognition and those working in English on the assistance for refugees history of movements for auto- fleeing Communism. As cephaly in the Ukrainian church. the Cold War escalated, His lecture, “Explaining Ukrainian famine survivors were autocephaly: Politics, history, increasingly called on as ecclesiology, and the future,” based witnesses in a fierce on his prize-winning 2018 book, Nicholas Denysenko political debate about The Orthodox Church in Ukraine: A (Photo provided by the speaker) the nature of the Soviet Olga Andriewsky Century of Separation (Northern Illi- Union and US policy (Credit: HREC/CIUS) nois Univ. Press), connected the events leading up to the recent towards the USSR. Look- creation of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in early 2019 with ing at the construction and transmission of social memory of the overall modern history of Orthodoxy in Ukraine. Despite the Terror-Famine among post-war refugees, she also the rapidly developing Covid-19 pandemic crisis, the lecture addressed how the Cold War shaped and was shaped by Holo- was well attended, and a lively discussion followed Prof. domor remembrance. Denysenko’s presentation. Andriewsky is a specialist in late imperial and Soviet history. An article about the event, “Dr. Denysenko on Ukrainian Her article “Towards a Decentered History: The Study of the autocephaly” by Olena Goncharova, was published in the New Holodomor and Ukrainian Historiography” appeared in the Pathway/Ukrainian News online at 2015 HREC/CIUS publication Contextualizing the Holodomor: https://tinyurl.com/y5fhzntt The Impact of Thirty Years of Ukrainian Famine Studies. The The historic decision of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture: of Constantinople to grant autocephaly to the Orthodox Church author of numerous articles on identity and politics in late of Ukraine (OCU) in 2018–19 dominated the news and heightened tensions between the world’s Orthodox Churches. In his presentation, Dr. Denysenko will connect the events that led to the creation of the Imperial Russia, her “Russian-Ukrainian Discourse and the Explaining Ukrainian OCU with the modern history of Orthodoxy in Ukraine. Aspects of politics, history, and ecclesiology will be discussed based on his recent Autocephaly: Politics, History, monograph The Orthodox Church in Ukraine: A Century of Separation Failure of the ‘Little Russian Solution’, 1782–1917” was (Northern Illinois University Press 2018). awarded as Best Academic Article for 2004 by the Ameri- Ecclesiology, and the Future SPEAKER NICHOLAS DENYSENKO can Association of Ukrainian Studies. Dr. Nicholas Denysenko serves as the Emil and Elfriede Jochum Professor and Chair at Valparaiso University (Indiana). He studied The Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture was business at the University of Minnesota (B.Sc., 1994), and his graduate studies were at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary inaugurated in 1998 by the Toronto branch of the Ukrain- (M.Div., 2000) and the Catholic University of America (Ph.D., 2008). Professor Denysenko is the author of several books and articles on ian Canadian Congress. Past speakers include Jars Balan, liturgical theology and Orthodoxy. James Mace, Norman Naimark, Anne Applebaum, and DATE: THURSDAY, 12 MARCH 2020 TIME: 7:00 P.M. Timothy Snyder. This year’s lecture was co-sponsored by VENUE: SOLARIUM, 1 ST. JOHN’S CULTURAL CENTRE CERES at the University of Toronto, CFUS, UCC-Toronto, 10611 110 AVE, EDMONTON * Coffee and sweets will be served. and the Jacyk Program. CIUS EVENTS СЕМІНАРИ КІУСУ WINTER–SPRING ЗИМА–ВЕСНА 2020 2020 For further information, please contact the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS):

The tomos of autocephaly (decree of independence), signed by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, was given to Metropolitan Epifaniy of Phone: (780) 492-6844 the Orthodox Church of Ukraine at the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George in Istanbul during the Theophany celebration on 6 January 2019. Photo Credit: UNIAN. E-mail: [email protected] 1 Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES).

(Poster design by Halyna Klid/CIUS)

16 CIUS Newsletter 2020 Video recording of the lecture: 3 October. CIUS Toronto. Lecture: “How important were the So- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYM6uiLBVB4 viet dissidents? The case of Ukraine.” Presenter: John Jawor- sky, professor emeritus, Univ. of Waterloo. Co-sponsored event. 15th Annual Wolodymyr Dylynsky Memorial Lecture (2020) 9 October. CIUS Toronto. Lecture: “Academic Januses: GPU- This event did not take place due to the Covid-19 pandemic. NKVD secret informants at the Ukrainian Academy of Scienc- es (1920s–30s).” Presenter: Oksana Yurkova, NASU Institute of 21st Annual Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture (2020) the History of Ukraine. Co-sponsored event. This event did not take place due to the Covid-19 pandemic. 10 October. CIUS Toronto. Lecture: “The Mykhailo Hrushevsky Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lectures archive: Digital Archives: Project, achievements, tasks, and coopera- sites.utoronto.ca/elul/Struk-mem/mem-lect-archive.html tion.” Presenter: Oksana Yurkova, NASU Institute of the Histo- ry of Ukraine. Co-sponsored event. 12 October. CIUS Edmonton. Conference: “Russia’s Information Conferences, seminars, lectures, and public sessions Warfare: The Case of Ukraine in a Global Comparative Con- (in English unless otherwise indicated) text.” Co-sponsored with ASAUS. 17 October. CIUS Toronto. Lecture: “The war in the Donbas re- Summer–Winter 2019 gion: Ways to peace-building.” Presenter: Uliana Movchan, 26 July. CIUS Edmonton. Book launch: The Passion of Christ Kharkiv Karazin National Univ. Co-sponsored event. by William Kurelek by Khrystyna Beregovska, Lviv National 24 October. CIUS Toronto. Book launch: Vol. 5 of Mykhailo Hru- Academy of Arts. shevsky’s History of Ukraine-Rus'. Main speaker: Metr. Dr. Bo- 24 August. CIUS Edmonton. Conference: “Language, Culture, rys Gudziak, Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia. and Society in Ukraine and Its Diaspora.” Co-sponsored with Co-sponsored event. ASAUS and the Alberta branch of NTSh2 in Canada. 31 October. CIUS Edmonton. Book launch: Revolutionary 12–13 September. Ukraine, 1917–2017: History’s Flashpoints and Today’s Memory Chernivtsi Fed- Wars by Myroslav Shkandrij, professor emeritus, Univ. of kovych Nation- Manitoba. al Univ. Second 1 November. CIUS Edmonton. Lecture: “Reactions of Ukrainians International in interwar Europe to the Holodomor of 1932–33: New dis- Conference on coveries and sources.” Presenter: Ola Hnatiuk, Univ. of War- Ukrainian Stud- saw and NaUKMA. ies: “Canada– 1–2 November. CIUS Edmonton. Conference: “Documenting the Ukraine: Past, Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine: Archival Collections on the Present, Future” Holodomor outside the Former Soviet Union.” Co-sponsored with CIUS team with Dept. of History and Classics, Univ. of Alberta. participating. Video recordings of the conference: Co-sponsored https://tinyurl.com/y46dxjxu event. 4 November. CIUS Toronto. Lecture: “The Ukrainian Bureau in 20 September. London and its documents related to the Holodomor.” Pre- CIUS Edmon- senter: Roman Wysocki, Maria Curie-Skłodowska Univ. (Po- ton. Lecture: land). Co-sponsored event. «Український 5 November. CIUS-Jacyk Program in Lviv. Presentation and кінематограф donation of books, published by the Jacyk Program, at the і мовне пита­ Stefanyk Ciscarpathian National Univ., Ivano-Frankivsk. Pres- ння: від entations by Yaroslav Hrytsak, Jacyk Program, Oleh Pavly- Довженка до shyn, LNU,3 and Petro Melen, Manuskrypt-Lviv Publishers. сьогодення» 25 November. CIUS Edmonton. Lecture. “Geopolitical challeng- (Ukrainian es for Ukraine and Ukrainians in the world.” Presenter: Petro cinematogra- Poroshenko, former President of Ukraine. phers and the (Poster design by Oleksandr Pankieiev/CIUS) https://tinyurl.com/y66uxgyt language issue: 29 November. CIUS Edmonton. Conference: “Ivan Lysiak Rud- From Dovzhenko until today). Presenter: Vitaly Chernetsky, nytsky: Historian, Political Thinker, Diarist.” Followed by Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, launch of Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky’s published diaries. Univ. of Kansas. Co-sponsored event. 25 September. Univ. of Ottawa. Annual Ivan Franko Memorial Video recordings of the event (in two parts): Lecture: “Trade relations between Ukraine and Russia amidst Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zdK6WBD55Y the war.” Presenter: Iryna Bogdanova, Bern Univ. (Switzer- Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYIdtcvghzo land). 30 November. CIUS Edmonton. Lecture: “Ukraine since the 26 September. CIUS Edmonton. Book launch: Holodomor in election of President Volodymyr Zelensky.” Presenters: Serhii Ukraine: The Genocidal Famine of 1932–1933: Learning Materi- Plokhii, HURI, and Yaroslav Hrytsak, Jacyk Program in Lviv. als for Teachers and Students by Valentina Kuryliw, HREC.

2 Shevchenko Scientific Society (Naukove tovarystvo imeni Shevchenka). 3 Lviv Ivan Franko National Univ. (LNU).

CIUS Newsletter 2020 17 10 December. Kyiv. HREC in Ukraine. Seminarium Series discus- Chamber of Commerce/CUDA. sion: «Фотодокументи епохи Голодомору: особливості Video recording of the event: виявлення, атрибуції, інтерпретації» (Holodomor-era https://tinyurl.com/yyzuuvag photographic documents: Discovery, attribution, interpre- 8 May. CIUS Edmonton. Facebook event: “Canada-Ukraine co- tations). Co-sponsored by CIUS- operation: Promoting Euro-Atlantic HREC. security.” Presenters: Larisa Galadza, Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine, Winter–Summer 2020 and Andriy Shevchenko, Ambassa- 31 January. CIUS Edmonton. Lecture: dor of Ukraine to Canada. “Russian and Ukrainian strategic Video recording of the event: narratives and public opinion https://tinyurl.com/y45qadb3 shifts in the Donbas.” Presenter: 8 June. CIUS Edmonton. Facebook Oleksii Polegkyi, CIUS. book launch: Ivan Franko and His 4 February. CIUS Edmonton. Lecture: Community by Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ja- “Consumption in Soviet Ukraine cyk Program in Lviv. in the 1920s–1930s: Males, fe- Video recordings of the event: males, and children.” Presenter: https://tinyurl.com/y3ldubrv Iryna Skubii, Tompkins Visiting 24 June. CIUS Edmonton. Online Professor at Univ. of Alberta. round-table discussion: “The Builders 21 February. CIUS Edmonton. Lec- of Ukrainian Studies in North Ameri- ture: “From the prairies of Canada ca. The Generation of 1919: Omeljan to the steppes of Ukraine: A his- Pritsak, George Luckyj, and Ivan Lysi- tory of the First Canadian Agricul- ak Rudnytsky.“ tural Commune.” Presenter: Mat- thias Kaltenbrunner, Kule Folklore Video recordings of the event: Centre, Univ. of Alberta. https://tinyurl.com/yyzuuvag 26 February–29 April. Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Education- Please note that scheduled in-person al Centre. Exhibit opening “At the events in March–June 2020 did not Front Line: Ukrainian Art, 2013– take place due to the Covid-19 pan- 19.” Co-sponsored event. demic. 28 February. CIUS Edmonton. Lec- ture: “Introducing the vernacular (Poster design by Halyna Klid/CIUS) CIUS EVENTS СЕМІНАРИ КІУСУ in the Ukrainian Autocephalous 2020 2020 Orthodox Church in 1917–21: A sociolinguistic view.” Pre- senter: Halyna Matsyuk, LNU. 5, 13 March. CIUS Toronto. Illustrated public lectures on the Russian and Ukrainian 2019 excavations at Baturyn. Presenter: Volodymyr Mezent- sev, CIUS Canada-Ukraine Baturyn Archaeological Project. Strategic Narratives and Public Co-sponsored event. 12 March. CIUS Edmonton. Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lec- Opinion Shifts in the Donbas

ture: “Explaining Ukrainian autocephaly: Politics, history, SPEAKER: ecclesiology, and the future.” Presenter: Nicholas Denysenko, do perceptions differ among the OLEKSII POLEGKYI Howinhabitants of the two parts of Valparaiso Univ. (Indiana). the Donbas—the one controlled by Ukraine and the other occupied by the self-declared 13 March. CIUS Edmonton. Symposium: “Orthodoxy and Auto- Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics? What kind of strategic narratives are projected by cephaly in Ukraine: Past, Present, and Future.” Co-sponsored the Russian and Ukrainian authorities? How does media coverage affect the identities event. and attitudes of local populations? This presentation is based on reliable surveys, the Video recording of the event: author’s personal interviews in the Donetsk region (conducted in summer 2018), and https://tinyurl.com/y4d5uvab analysis of media content in the Donbas. 1 April. CIUS Edmonton. Facebook event: “COVID-19: How will

the pandemic impact Ukraine’s fledgling healthcare re- Oleksii Polegkyi is a Bayduza Post- doctoral Fellow forms?” Presenter: Ulana Suprun, Patriot Defense. at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Video recording of the event: and a member of the Political Communication DATE: FRIDAY, 31 JANUARY 2020 Research Unit at https://tinyurl.com/y5epdxd2 the University TIME: 7:00 PM of Antwerp (Belgium). He VENUE: 3-58 PEMBINA HALL was previously a 1 May. CIUS Edmonton. Online symposium: “Ukraine’s Econo- research fellow at UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA the Graduate Institute of Russian Studies, National Chengchi University (Taiwan), and a visiting fellow EDMONTON my: An Equation with Many Variables.” Presenters: Volodymyr at the Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg (iASK, Hungary). Dr. Polegkyi earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wrocław (Poland) Kravchenko, CIUS-CUSP; Adam Barbolet, Embassy of Canada and the University of Antwerp. For further information, please in Ukraine; Vasyl Kvartiuk, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural contact the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS): Phone: (780) 492-6844 Development in Transition Economies; Alexander Rodnyan- 4-30 PEMBINA HALL, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA • EDMONTON AB T6G 2H8 • CANADA T 780 492 2972 www.cius.ca , www.ukrainian-studies.ca E-mail: [email protected] sky, Univ. of Cambridge; Vitaliy Milentyev, Alberta Ukraine (Poster design by Halyna Klid/CIUS)

18 CIUS Newsletter 2020 CIUS awards

Award administration is a major activity undertaken by CIUS as part of its mandate to develop knowledge and support re- search in Ukrainian studies. Annual revenues from many of the institute’s endowment funds sponsor education and research in the areas of Ukrainian history, law, economics, language, literature, women’s studies, and other disciplines in the humani- ties and social sciences. Every year CIUS receives a high volume of applications for the sponsorship of many worthy projects. We thank all participants for submitting their applications and for their patience and co-operation during the adjudication process. CIUS awards For more information about CIUS’s awards and grants, please visit: https://www.ualberta.ca/canadian-institute-of-ukrainian-studies/funding-and-awards

Scholarships, Fellowships, and Neporany Doctoral Fellowship Marnie Howlett, International Relations, Grants Awarded London School of Economics and Po- litical Science. “Re-thinking ‘Ukrainian’ Funded, administered, and/or adjudicated by CIUS. from the cartographic peripheries: Borders, boundaries, and identities.” 2020–21 Undergraduate scholarships Michael Kowalsky and Daria Mucak- Kowalsky Graduate Scholarship Steven Kobrynsky Memorial Scholarship Abigail Dewar Amber Wardrop Maryna Chernyavska, Ph.D. student, Li- in the Ukrainian Language brary and Information Studies / Mod- Abigail Dewar, Univ. of Alberta. ern Languages and Cultural Studies, Victoria Kostyniuk, Univ. of Alberta. Univ. of Alberta. “Ukrainian Canadian community archives.” Amber Wardrop, Univ. of Alberta. Kaitlyn Chomitzky, M.A. student, Modern Leo J. Krysa Family Scholarship Languages and Cultural Studies, Univ. Abigail Dewar, Univ. of Alberta. of Alberta. “Traditional patterns of Ukrainian embroidery and their mod- Isabel Laura Jewell, Univ of Alberta. ern revitalization since the 2014 Euro- Isabel Laura Jewell Sophia Jewell Sophia Jewell, Univ. of Alberta. maidan Revolution of Dignity.” Emma Murray, M.A. student, Germanic Undergraduate scholarships and Slavic Studies, Univ. of Victoria. awarded in Ukraine “Heavenly fighters for civil society: The Dmytro and Stephania Kupiak Fund commemoration of Ukraine’s Revolu- Seven graduates of the Busk Second- tion of Dignity and the artistic quest ary School, now enrolled at LNU, were for democracy.” awarded scholarships. Olga Zaitseva-Herz, Ph.D. student, Music, Petro Malofij Endowment Fund Univ. of Alberta. “Singing between Seven students from the Sniatyn region Nataliya Bezborodova Mariia Shynkarenko conti­nents: Images of homeland and studying at the Chernivtsi Fedkovych Na- pluralism in hybrid Ukrainian Canadian tional Univ. were awarded scholarships. songs.” Graduate scholarships Dr. Jeanette Bayduza Graduate Helen Darcovich Memorial Doctoral Scholarship in Ukrainian Studies Fellowship Larisa Sembaluk Cheladyn, Ph.D. student, Nataliya Bezborodova, Anthropology, Modern Languages and Cultural Stud- Univ of Alberta. “‘Flying Community’: ies, Univ. of Alberta. A transnational inter-denominational Tatiana Romanyshyn Memorial Graduate group responding to conflict.” Anastasiia Vlasenko Maryna Chernyavska Scholarship in Ukrainian Studies Mariia Shynkarenko, Politics, New School Iaroslav Kovalchuk, Ph.D. student, History for Social Research, New York. “Man- and Classics, Univ. of Alberta. ufacturing national identity: Crimean Tatars’ daily experiences of self-orga- LNU Student Exchange Program for nization.” research at the University of Alberta, Anastasiia Vlasenko, Political Science, sponsored by the Bohdan and Natalia Golemba Florida State Univ., Tallahassee. “Leg- Endowment Fund islators in networks: Corruption, clien- telism, and law-making.” Kaitlyn Chomitzky Olga Zaitseva-Herz

CIUS Newsletter 2020 19 Anna Derzhypilska: “Human rights and Nataliya Bezborodova, Anthropology. To CIUS Research Grants the criminal justice system in Ukraine present the “Love letters from the past: and Canada.“ Courtship, companionship, and family Listed in alphabetical order of recipient Natalia Panevska: “SME in Ukraine and in the Ukrainian Canadian community” surname. abroad at a time of economic reces- project at the Tenth Book Arsenal Fes- Ekaterina Badmaeva, Kalmyk Gorodo- sion.“ tival in Kyiv. vikov State Univ. “The Holodomor of Kateryna Shunevych: “Forensic examina- Reza Hasmath, Political Science. To devel- 1932–33 in the Soviet Union: The Kal- tions in criminal procedure in Ukraine op a pilot survey, with local partners myk, Ukrainian, and Kazakh tragedies and abroad.“ in Kyiv and Lviv, on shifting individual through the prism of new archival values in Ukraine and Poland. documents, people’s memories, and Post-doctoral and visiting Maria Mayerchyk, Modern Languages demographic statistics.” Dr. Vasyl Pry- research fellowships and Cultural Studies. To participate in chodko Memorial Endowment Fund. the presentation of and a panel discus- Natalia Demchenko, Humanitarian-Peda- Bayduza Post-doctoral Research sion on the third special issue of the Fellowship for the Study of Modern and gogical Academy of the Kharkiv Oblast journal Feminist Critique: East European Council. «Динаміка етнокультурних Contemporary Ukraine Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies концептів Сходу і Заходу (на Olga Plakhotnik, Ph.D. in Sociology, Open in Kyiv. матеріалі говірок Центральної Univ. (UK). “Building nation, negotiat- Ivan Shmatko, Sociology. To conduct Слобожанщини і Бойківщини)» (Dy- ing identities: Regional LGBT+ activism fieldwork in Ukraine for the project namics of ethnocultural concepts of on the Ukrainian-Russian borderland.” “Mounting pressures: Police officers’ East and West [based on the dialects Funded by Dr. Jeanette Bayduza. decision making in Ukraine.” of Central Slobozhanshchyna and Boi- Olga Zaitseva-Herz, Music. To carry out kivshchyna]). Vasil Kravcenko Endow- Kolasky Visiting Research Fellowship in ment Fund. the Humanities and Social Sciences, Law, research in Ukraine on the topic “Evi- Education, and Library Sciences, dence of the Holodomor in Ukrainian Alina Doboszewska, Jagiellonian Univ., allocated from the John Kolasky Memorial folklore songs and verses in oral tradi- Krakow. “The experience of Ukrainian Endowment Fund tion.” dissidents of the 1960s–1980s: Resis- tance and social support: A biograph- Polina Barvinska, Odesa Mechnikov Nati­ Ihor Roman Bukowsky ical analysis.” Anna and Nikander Bu- o­nal Univ. “Ukrainian-German scientif- Sustainable Development kowsky Endowment Fund. ic and cultural relationships in the first Endowment Fund third of the twentieth century.” Yaroslav Fedoruk, NASU (Kyiv). “Marcin Golinski’s Manuscript no. 189, vol. 4 Yuliia Deviatko, Odesa Mechnikov Na- Anna Olenenko, Khortytsia National Academy of Zaporizhia. “On the way (1657–61).” Anna and Nikander Bukow- tional Univ. “Revival and promotion of sky Endowment Fund. Ukrainian-specific medical terminol- to sustainability: History of the Dnipro ogy: Compiling a dictionary of dental wetlands’ transformation and the for- Viktor Filas, Khortytsia National Acad- terms.” mation of national symbols.” emy of Zaporizhia. “Південна Україна в ідеологічних концептах Olga Gnydiuk, independent scholar. CIUS Exchanges with Ukraine Російської імперії: маніпуляція та “Mapping the routes of displaced chil- Endowment Fund трансформація візуальних образів” dren of presumably Ukrainian origin (Southern Ukraine in the ideological after 1945.” Alex Averbuch, Slavic Languages and concepts of the Russian Empire: The Olga Khomenko, NaUKMA. “Ukrainians Literatures, Univ. of Toronto. “Trading manipulation and transformation of in East Asian exile during the interwar words for things: Practical dimensions visual images). Anna and Nikander period: An identity that survived the of poetry in Ukrainian, Russian, and Bukowsky Endowment Fund. Hebrew.” power triangle of Russia, China, and Tetiana Hoshko, UCU. “Research and Japan.” Mykola Klid Memorial preparation for publication of the ma- Andriy Lyubka, PEN Ukraine. “Literary Endowment Fund terials of Lev Okinshevych’s archive.” odyssey of the Ukrainian pioneers in Dr. Ivan Iwanciw and Dr. Myroslawa 1 Canada: Texts about early Ukrainian Illia Chedoluma, Humanities, UCU. Mysko-Iwanciw Ukrainian Studies immigrants’ experience and their role “Mykhailo Rudnytsky: An intellectual Endowment Fund. in Ukrainian and Canadian literature.” biography.” Valentyna Kharkun, Nizhyn Hohol State Denys Shestopalets, NASU (Kyiv). Univ. “Multi-faceted memory: Exhibit- “Religion, migration, diaspora: The Nestor and Zenovia Salomon ing the Soviet era in Ukrainian muse- Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada Memorial Endowment Fund ums.” Anna and Nikander Bukowsky and the challenges of the twenty-first Nataliia Zakharchuk, Educational Ad- Endowment Fund. century.” ministration, Univ. of Saskatchewan, Iryna Khromova, NASU (Kyiv). Saskatoon. “Transforming university “‘Репресовані’ тексти українських Iwanciw Ukraine Travel Grant governance in the context of the Bolo- gna Process: A case study of Ukrainian істориків 1920-х – 1930-х років” (“Re- A travel grant for Univ. of Alberta affiliates, higher education.” pressed” texts of Ukrainian historians allocated from the Dr. Ivan Iwanciw and of the 1920s–1930s). Petro Malofij Dr. Myroslawa Mysko-Iwanciw Endowment Fund 1 Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), Lviv. Endowment Fund.

20 CIUS Newsletter 2020 Oleksandr Kryvobok, Nizhyn Ho- Ukrainian geographic legacy). Anna Vitalii Makar, Chernivtsi Fedkovych hol State Univ. «Підготовка до and Nikander Bukowsky Endowment National Univ. «Формування, археографічного видання другої Fund. розвиток та перспективи динаміки частини щоденника професора Tetiana Sebta, NASU (Kyiv). “Collections двосторонніх міждержавних М. Бережкова» (Preparation of an of the National Museum of the History відносин України та Канади» (The for- academic edition of the second part of Ukraine and the ‘Sophia of Kyiv’ Na- mation, development, and future dy- of the diary of Prof. M. Berezhkov). tional Sanctuary (1935–50): Formation, namics of bilateral relations between Dr. Ivan Iwanciw and Dr. Myroslawa composition, and displacement.” Anna Ukraine and Canada). Mysko-Iwanciw Ukrainian Studies and Nikander Bukowsky Endowment 2 Endowment Fund. Fund. Tenth ICCEES World Congress Volodymyr Kulikov, UCU. “Uses of the Andrii Sharaskin, Lviv Regional Institute CIUS made grants available to enable the past by enterprises in Ukraine.” of Public Administration under the following scholars in Ukraine to prepare papers Dr. Demitrius and Maria Todosijczuk President of Ukraine. “Informational and present them at the Tenth ICCEES World Memorial Fund. and economic war.” Ivan Makohon Congress, to be held at Concordia Univ. in Mon- Natalia Kuzovova, Kherson State Univ. Endowment Fund. treal on 3–8 August 2021. Ivanna Cherchovych, Lviv Krypiakevych “Legal assessment of the events of the Vitaliy Skalsky, NASU (Kyiv). “The Famine-Genocide of 1932–33 in the Institute of Ukrainian Studies. “Lan- ‘Ukrainian Central Rada’ online ency- guage of violence: Sexual crimes in south of Ukraine.” Alexander and Helen clopedia.” Mykhailo, Volodymyr, and Kulahyn Endowment Fund. Austrian Galicia at the turn of the nine- Olia Halchuk Memorial Endowment teenth and twentieth centuries.” CIUS Olha Luchuk, LNU. “Colloquia Epistolaria: Fund. Exchanges with Ukraine Endowment George Luckyj and Hryhori Kostiuk.” Volodymyr Sklokin, UCU. “The First USECS Fund. Alexander and Helen Kulahyn Endow- Conference on ‘Eighteenth-Century ment Fund. Andrii Fert, NaUKMA. “Unity, peace, Studies: Ukrainian and Global Per- and persecutions in ecclesiastical Volodomyr Mezentsev, Univ. of Toronto. spectives.’” Stephen and Olga Pawliuk commemorations, 2014–19.” CIUS “Archaeological and historical study Endowment Fund. Exchanges with Ukraine Endowment of Baturyn: Reconstructions of the Klavdiia Tatar, Univ. of Ottawa. “Keep Fund. princely heraldic emblem of Ivan Maz- singing and dancing no matter what? epa.” Dr. Bohdan Stefan Zaputovich Marta Havryshko, Lviv Krypiakevych In- The Ukrainian diaspora in Russia in stitute of Ukrainian Studies. “Rapes in and Dr. Maria Hrycaiko Zaputovich the context of the ongoing war.” Petro Fund. the ghettoes and camps: The case of Czornyj Memorial Endowment Fund. Nazi-occupied Ukraine.” John Kolasky Oleksiy Musiyezdov, Kharkiv Karazin Na- Dmytro Vashchuk, NASU (Kyiv). Memorial Endowment Fund. tional Univ. “Ukrainian programmers in «57-а Книга судових справ 3 Europe and America.” Dr. Ivan Iwanciw Serhii Humennyi, KNU. “Illegal migration Литовської Метрики: матеріали та on the border between Poland and and Dr. Myroslawa Mysko-Iwanciw археографічний опис» (The fifty-sev- Ukrainian Studies Endowment Fund. the USSR in the first half of the 1930s.” enth book of court records of the Lith- Dr. Ivan Iwanciw and Dr. Myroslawa Oksana Onyshchuk, Lviv Polytechnic uanian Metrica: Materials and archeo- Mysko-Iwanciw Endowment Fund. National Univ. «Філософсько- graphic descriptions). Dr. Ivan Iwanciw богословські ідеї у спадщині and Dr. Myroslawa Mysko-Iwanciw Olena Huzar, Ternopil National Pedagog- професора Київської духовної Ukrainian Studies Endowment Fund. ical Univ. “Ukrainian as a foreign lan- guage in an immersive cultural setting: академії В. Ф. Певницького» (Philo- Oksana Yurkova, NASU (Kyiv). “The sophical and theological ideas in the Fifteen years of Ternopil-Saskatoon Mykhailo Hrushevsky Digital Archive.” university collaboration.” John Kolasky works of the Kyiv Theological Academy Peter Jacyk Endowment Fund. professor V.F. Pevnytsky). Petro Czornyj Memorial Endowment Fund. Oleksandr Zaitsev, UCU. “Dmytro Memorial Endowment Fund. Lada Kolomiyets, KNU. “Strategies and Dontsov: An intellectual biography.” Oksana Pasitska. Lviv Krypiakevych Insti- types of indirect translation via Rus- Levko and Marika Babij Memorial En- sian in Ukrainian literature and reli- tute of Ukrainian Studies. «Довірена dowment Fund. особа митрополита Андрея gious contexts.” CIUS Exchanges with The Petro Malofij Endowment Fund Шептицького — Тит Войнаровський» Ukraine Endowment Fund. was also used to support the following three (Metr. Andrei Sheptytsky’s Confidant: Ihor I. Lyman, Berdiansk State Peda- Tyt Voinarovsky). Dr. Demitrius and publication projects: gogical Univ. “British consulates in Maria Todosijczuk Memorial Fund. Nataliia Havdyda, Ternopil Puliuj Nation- Ukrainian port cities of the Russian al Technical Univ. «Богдан Лепкий у Johannes Remy, Univ. of Helsinki. “The Empire: Bridging national and global рецепції сучасників» (The reception Ukrainian Revolution, 1917–18.” perspectives.” CIUS Exchanges with of Bohdan Lepky by his contemporar- Dr. Demitrius and Maria Todosijczuk Ukraine Endowment Fund. ies); together with a grant from the 4 Memorial Fund. Olha Martynyuk, KPI. “Mass communi- Remeza Family Endowment Fund. Valerii Rudenko, Chernivtsi Fedkovych cations and backdoor dealings: Elec- Iuliia Horbach, NASU (Kyiv). «З National Univ. «Професор Мирон епістолярної спадщини Леоніда 2 International Council for Central and Кордуба: українська географічна East European Studies (ICCEES). Білецького (1920–1940 рр.)» (The спадщина» (Prof. Myron Korduba: 3 Kyiv Shevchenko National Univ. (KNU). epistolary legacy of Leonid Biletsky 4 Kyiv Sikorsky Polytechnic Institute (KPI). [1920–40]). CIUS Newsletter 2020 21 toral strategies of Russian nationalists during the long eighteenth century: Olha Riabchenko, Kharkiv Skovoroda in early twentieth-century Kyiv.” Historiographic debates of the 1990s National Pedagogical Univ. “‘Ukrfil is Dr. Ivan Iwanciw and Dr. Myroslawa and 2000s.” John Kolasky Memorial fully satisfied with us’: Artists’ services Mysko-Iwanciw Endowment Fund. Endowment Fund. to political campaigns in the country- Elmira Muratova, Vernadsky Taurida Pavlo Yeremieiev, Kharkiv Karazin Nation- side during the Stalinist ‘Revolution National Univ. “Ukraine in the percep- al Univ. “Religious dimension of the from above’ and the Holodomor tions of Crimean Tatars.” CIUS Exchang- image of Ukrainian lands in Russian (1928–1933).” es with Ukraine Endowment Fund. historical narratives of the first half of John Vsetecka, Ph.D. cand., Michigan Maksym Pilipak, Academy of Sciences the nineteenth century.” Dr. Ivan Iwan- State Univ. “In the aftermath of hun- of the Republic of Bashkortostan ciw and Dr. Myroslawa Mysko-Iwanciw ger: Coming to terms with famine in (Ufa, Russia). “Traditional rites of the Endowment Fund. Soviet Ukraine, 1933–1988.” Ukrainian people in the Republic of Dmytro Yesypenko, NASU (Kyiv). “Recep- Collaborative projects: Bashkortostan as an element of ethnic tion of Ukrainian literature in Slovakia.” Hennadii Boriak, Oksana Yurkova, identity: Case study of a wedding cere- CIUS Exchanges with Ukraine Endow- both NASU Institute of the History mony.” John Kolasky Memorial Endow- ment Fund. of Ukraine, and Kateryna Lobuzina, ment Fund. Nadia D. Zasanska, UCU, Lviv. “Digital ide- NASU Vernadsky National Library of Anatolii Pogorielov, Mykolaiv Sukhom- ology: Blogger women as new actors Ukraine. “Scattered and unknown Ho- lynsky National Univ. “Deportation and of the Russian Orthodox Church.” John lodomor-era visual documents: Kyiv slave labour in Buchenwald and Ra- Kolasky Memorial Endowment Fund. region.” vensbrück of civilian prisoners of the Zina Poletz Gutmanis, Halyna Myroniuk, Vodokachka Concentration Camp of HREC Research Grants St. Michael’s and St. George’s Ukrainian the Security Police and SD (1943–45).” Orthodox Church (Minneapolis). CIUS Exchanges with Ukraine Endow- Yulija Hryschenko, NASU Institute of the “Context for Holodomor commemo- ment Fund. History of Ukraine (Kyiv). “Bulgarians in rations and narratives in Minnesota, Svitlana Potapenko, NASU (Kyiv). “Be- the Ukrainian SSR in the time of total 1953–2018.” tween literature, history, and myth: collectivization and Holodomor.” Olha Vasylenko, Kyiv Gliere Municipal Mykhailo Kozachynsky and his pane- Andreea Kaltenbrunner, Univ. of Vienna. Academy of Music, Irene Okner, Bou- gyrics in honour of Elizabeth of Russia “An ignorant neighbour? Reactions to levard Center (Queens, NY), Irene Gi- and the Rozumovsky brothers (1740s).” the Holodomor in Romania.” raudet, Coignières Foyer Club (France), Dr. Ivan Iwanciw and Dr. Myroslawa Tetiana Markovska, Kyiv Gliere Munic- Mysko-Iwanciw Endowment Fund. Artem Kharchenko, KPI. “How to describe the forcible transfer of children in Sovi- ipal Academy of Music, Yurii Riabosh- Olga Riabchenko, Kharkiv Skovoroda et orphanages of the USSR during the kapov, Kyiv Karpenko-Kary National National Pedagogical Univ. “Features Holodomor.” Theatre, Cinema, and Television Univ., of student self-representations in and Oleksandr Vasylenko, Ukraine 1920s–30s Soviet Ukraine in letters to Karolina Koziura, Ph.D. cand. New School International Chamber of Commerce. the authorities.” Dr. Ivan Iwanciw and for Social Research (New York). “Fam- “Digital library of Holodomor podcasts Dr. Myroslawa Mysko-Iwanciw Endow- ine, violence, and identity formation in in the music of Ukrainian composers.” and beyond Ukraine.” ment Fund. Oleh Wolowyna, Univ. of North Carolina Valentyna Savchyn, LNU. “The social Iuliia Kysla, Univ. of Alberta. “Re-visiting (Chapel Hill), and Larysa Yakubo- role(s) of translators in a totalitarian traumas from the Soviet past: Cinema.” va, NASU Institute of the History of system: The case of Mykola Lukash Nataliia Levchuk, Ptoukha Institute for Ukraine. “Estimation of urban and rural (Ukraine).” Dr. Ivan Iwanciw and Demography and Social Studies, NASU Holodomor losses of five nationalities Dr. Myroslawa Mysko-Iwanciw Endow- (Kyiv). “Collective farms, grain procure- in Soviet Ukraine.” ment Fund. ments and 1932–33 Famine losses in Larysa Zasiekina, Lesya Ukrainka Eastern Iryna Shuvalova, Univ. of Cambridge. Ukraine and Russia: A comparative European National Univ. (Lutsk), and “Stasik: Problematizing representa- regional analysis.” Ruth Pat-Horenczyk, Hebrew Univ. tions of femininity in wartime Ukraine Victoria Malko, California State Univ. of Jerusalem. “Moral injury: A com- through popular music.” John Kolasky (Fresno). Round-table discussion parative study of the offspring of Ho- Memorial Endowment Fund. on the book Women and the Ho- lodomor and Holocaust survivors.” Volodymyr Sklokin, UCU. “The Ortho- lodomor-Genocide: Victims, Survivors, dox Church and the Enlightenment Perpetrators at the 52nd ASEEES Con- in Ukraine and the Russian Empire vention in Washington, DC.

22 CIUS Newsletter 2020 Defining generosity and philanthropy

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. either restricted or unrestricted. Contributions can be made These words, often attributed to Sir Winston Churchill, might immediately or pledged for the future. Restricted funds may well define the philosophy of the many friends and supporters specify purpose restrictions, targeting particular programs or of CIUS. activities of the donor’s choice, or time restrictions, which are The exceptional generosity of friends of the Canadian Insti- determined by the donor’s stipulated conditions. Unrestricted tute of Ukrainian Studies throughout the world—especially in funds make it possible for CIUS to shift the focus of its research Canada and the United States—not only funds our work but or activity to the most critical areas or needs at a particular also helps to keep the CIUS team motivated to excel in our field. time. In gratitude for your comprehension of our needs, we thank all CIUS benefactors for their confidence in us. Endowment funds: A lasting legacy Your donations make all the difference. A significant The institute’s current endowment funds, listed on the next number of CIUS philanthropists and benefactors contribute page, support various programs and activities. One of our prior-

every year to their own named endowments or other funds ities is to build up the strategic CIUS Endowment Fund, which and philanthropy Defining generosity that support specific programs at the institute. Others donate supports a broad and diverse range of the institute's projects to support our continuing work, allowing us to use the funds and activities. wherever the need is greatest. The continuous stream of reve- Endowed funds require a minimum initial investment of nues from these funds, combined with the generosity of incom- $25,000. They can be named after an individual benefactor, a ing new donations, helps ensure the viability of Ukrainian stud- family member, or a loved one, creating living tributes to treas- ies in Alberta, Canada, and worldwide. ured people in the founders’ lives. Current and future gifts Annual income from endowment funds is used to meet our increase both the value of the funds and their potential to most pressing needs, such as supporting the research plans of inspire significant activity. CIUS programs, providing money for scholarships, fellowships, Donors may rest assured that the principal sums they contrib- and grants, developing printed and online resources for Ukrain- ute in initial and subsequent gifts always remain intact. Only the ian studies, and facilitating conferences, seminars, and forums proceeds from investment of the principal are used—to support on various topics. scholarly research, fund publications, produce educational Please join us in supporting CIUS’s highly valued scholarship, materials, or develop new programs and resources. helping us to fulfill our research goals and disseminate knowl- There are many strategies for giving to CIUS. Contributions edge. The legacies of philanthropy, forever gratefully remem- may be made in cash, as gifts of life insurance policies or mar- bered, allow CIUS to maintain its leading academic profile and ketable securities, or as bequests. We recommend working with meet the future with assurance. a professional advisor in order to select the strategy most Strategies for giving to CIUS appropriate to your circumstances. Among the benefits to you are: immediate tax savings, enjoying the benefit of seeing your CIUS works closely with our donors and their financial advisors gifts at work, and providing significant tax savings to your to develop gifting strategies that are personally rewarding, estate. inspiring, and tax-effective. Both individuals and organizations To learn more, please contact us at [email protected] or can establish named endowments at CIUS, designating them as telephone (780) 492-6852.

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CIUS Newsletter 2020 23 Ivan and Zenovia Boyko Endowment Fund (2007): CIUS endowment funds $30,006 Listed in alphabetical order—by surname for named endow- Established by Ivan and Zenovia Boyko of Edmonton in January ments, and by first letter for organizational endowments; the 2007 in memory of Mr. Boyko’s mother, Kateryna Boyko (née amounts indicated include total donations received by Shchybylok). The fund supports the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine 30 June 2020. project and promotes computer-based access to information about Ukraine and Ukrainians.

A Stephania Bukachevska-Pastushenko Archival Endowment Fund (1987): $300,613 Alberta Ukrainian Heritage Foundation Endowment Fund Established by Stephania Bukachevska-Pastushenko at the Cana- CIUS endowment funds CIUS endowment (2010): $153,816 dian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies in Toronto with an initial Established in August 2010 by a donation from the Edmonton-based gift of $100,000 and matched two-to-one by the Government of Alberta Ukrainian Heritage Foundation, itself based on a gift from Alberta upon its transfer to CIUS in January 1987. The fund sup- Octavia Hall from the estate of her parents, Sophia and Peter ports archival research, cataloguing of existing collections, and Kyforuk. The endowment is under the direction of the Kule Ukrain- publication of research aids. ian Canadian Studies Centre at CIUS, supporting scholarly research on Ukrainian-Canadian history, the preparation of books on Anna and Nikander Bukowsky Endowment Fund (1988): Ukrainian-Canadian subjects, sponsorship of and participation in $117,737 academic conferences, and the development of databases in Established by the late Anna and Nikander Bukowsky of Saskatoon Ukrainian-Canadian studies. through a series of donations, the fund supports scholarly research and publications in Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Canadian studies B and the activities of the Research Program on Religion and Culture. Levko and Marika Babij Memorial Endowment Fund lhor Roman Bukowsky Sustainable Development (2011): $50,013 Endowment Fund (2017): $53,316 Established in May 2011 by Marko Babij, Roman Babij, and Nadia Established in November 2017 to support research on the prin- (née Babij) Gogus in memory of their parents, Levko and Marika ciples of sustainable development related to Ukraine, at the dis- Babij, with a donation of $50,000. The fund supports programs cretion of the director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian and grants related to the study of twentieth-century Ukrainian Studies. Research areas include economic prosperity, cultural history, especially Ukraine in World War II. awareness and social justice, and environmental integrity and health. Dr. Jeanette Bayduza Endowment Fund (2016): $20,222 Established in December 2016 by Dr. Jeanette Bayduza of Edmon- C ton to support priority initiatives, scholarly activities, research, and publishing at CIUS. The fund supports scholarships, awards CIUS Endowment Fund (1986): $818,837 or bursaries, research grants, and scholarly publications in the Established in September 1986 with bequests from the estates field of Ukrainian studies that are published or co-published by of George Deba of Vancouver and Katherine Miskew of Edmonton, CIUS, and any other activities as deemed appropriate by the as well as many contributions from individuals and organizations director of CIUS. in Canada and the United States. The fund supports a broad range of CIUS projects and activities. In April 1996, a $10,000 bequest Rev. Dmytro and Stephania Baziuk (Rudakewycz) from the estate of Steven Kobrynsky of Canora, Saskatchewan, Memorial Endowment Fund (2007): $7,002 established the Steven Kobrynsky Memorial Scholarship under Established by Myron and Luba Baziuk of Edmonton in August this endowment; it is awarded every two years to an undergrad- 2007 in support of the study of Ukrainian intellectual and cultural uate who excels in the study of the Ukrainian language. life in western Ukraine, with emphasis on the history of Lviv and the Lviv region, women’s studies in western Ukraine, and scholarly CIUS Exchanges with Ukraine Endowment Fund (1989): publications in the aforementioned areas. The fund also supports $36,226 exchange program students from the Ivan Franko National Univ. Established by a number of individual donors from across Canada of Lviv. in November 1989. The fund fosters the development of academic exchanges with Ukraine. Eugene and Olena Borys Endowment Fund (2008): $25,006 Cosbild Club Endowment Fund (1988): $105,610 Established by Oksana Boszko, Roman Borys, Adrian Borys, and Established in June 1988 by individual contributions from a private Marko Borys in January 2008 in support of the Encyclopedia of Toronto investment club. The fund supports scholarly publications Ukraine and other encyclopedia projects in all forms—print, in Ukrainian studies. The initial donation of $33,500 was later electronic, and other media—under the direction of CIUS. augmented by club members and matched two-to-one by the Government of Alberta.

24 CIUS Newsletter 2020 Petro Czornyj Memorial Endowment Fund (1988): Dr. Maria Fischer-Slysh and Dr. Rudolf Fischer Endowment $30,018 Fund (2014): $619,094 Established in June 1988 with a $10,000 bequest from the estate Established in April 2014 with a bequest from Dr. Maria Fischer‑Slysh of Petro Czornyj of Toronto and matched two-to-one by the Gov- of Toronto. The fund supports fellowships and scholarly projects ernment of Alberta. The fund initially supported work on the in Ukrainian studies. Encyclopedia of Ukraine and now provides grants to scholars in the field of Ukrainian studies. G D Bohdan and Natalia Golemba Endowment Fund (2012): $488,269 Helen Darcovich Memorial Endowment Fund (1989): Established in May 2012 with a bequest of $450,000 from the $346,660 estate of Natalia Golemba of Toronto. The fund offers annual Established by Dr. Vlas Darcovich of Edmonton in July 1989 in scholarships to law or humanities students at the Ivan Franko memory of his wife, Helen (Olena, née Michalenko), this fund National Univ. of Lviv who are fluent in Ukrainian and English/ supports Ph.D. students writing dissertations on a Ukrainian or French/German, to study or conduct research at the Univ. of Ukrainian-Canadian topic in pedagogy, history, law, the human- Alberta. ities and social sciences, women’s studies, or library science. Dmytruk Family Endowment Fund for Ukrainian Studies H (2019): $30,036 Mykhailo, Volodymyr, and Olia Halchuk Memorial Established by Dr. Rostyslaw Dmytruk and Janet Dmytruk in March Endowment Fund (2007): $54,523 2019. The fund supports the general purposes of CIUS as deter- Established by Jaroslaw Halchuk of St. Catharines, Ontario, in July mined by greatest need. 2007 in memory of his sons, Mykhailo and Volodymyr, and his Marusia and Michael Dorosh Endowment Fund (1989): wife Olia, to support the scholarly, student, and research activities $100,157 of CIUS. Established by Michael Dorosh of Toronto in November 1989 to Yaroslav and Margaret Hunka Ukrainian Research provide research grants and research fellowships in Ukrainian Endowment Fund (2019): $30,097 studies (language, literature, history, political science, sociology, Established in 2019 to support research related to the Ukrainian or music), and to aid scholarly publications. Catholic Church, with preference given to investigations of the lives and work of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky and Metropol- Wolodymyr and Lydia Dylynsky Memorial itan (Cardinal) losyf Slipyj and the history of the underground Endowment Fund (1991): $65,057 church. Established by Myron Dylynsky of Toronto in December 1991, in memory of his father, to provide research or publication grants I in Ukrainian studies to scholars affiliated with academic, cultural, and educational institutions in Lviv. Until 2007, the endowment Ivan Franko School of Ukrainian Studies Endowment Fund also received matching funds from Xerox Canada. The fund also (2006): $123,167 sponsors the annual Wolodymyr Dylynsky Memorial Lecture. Established by the Ivan Franko School of Ukrainian Studies of Edmonton in October 2006 with a donation of $75,000 to com- F memorate its fiftieth anniversary. The fund provides travel grants to post-secondary students to continue their study of Ukrainian Fedeyko Family Endowment Fund (2000): $173,475 at universities in Ukraine. Established in November 2000 by William and Justine Fedeyko of St. Albert, Alberta. The fund supports the Kule Ukrainian Canadian Dr. Ivan Iwanciw and Dr. Myroslawa Mysko-Iwanciw Studies Centre (formerly Ukrainian Canadian Program) at CIUS by Endowment Fund (1989): $128,999 funding scholarly research, conferences, community outreach Established by Dr. Myroslawa Iwanciw (née Mysko) of Elmwood activities, and the publication of works in this field. Park, Illinois, in August 1989 to promote scholarly exchange with institutions in Ukraine. Until 2001 it funded a scholarly exchange Father Hryhorij Fil and Olga Fil Endowment Fund (2008): between York Univ. (Toronto) and an academic institution in $36,065 Ukraine. Recently, the Iwanciw Ukraine Travel Grant was established Established by Father Hryhorij Fil and the late Olga Fil of Redwa- to promote scholarly exchange between the Univ. of Alberta and ter, Alberta, in November 2008. The fund supports research and Ukraine. publication of historical works and religious sources on topics in Ukrainian history or related topics in Ukrainian studies, such as Dr. Ivan Iwanciw and Dr. Myroslawa Mysko-Iwanciw Ukrainian literary history and the history of the Ukrainian language Ukrainian Studies Endowment Fund (2006): $57,118 in Canada, as well as research and publication of liturgical books, Established by Dr. Myroslawa Iwanciw (née Mysko) of Elmwood religious literature, and studies on church affairs and religion. Park, Illinois, in April 2006 in support of CIUS activities, with pref- erence to Ukrainian students and scholars conducting research in Ukrainian studies. CIUS Newsletter 2020 25 Dr. Wasyl and Parasia Iwanec (Krysa) Endowment Fund Roman and Halia Kolisnyk Endowment Fund (2011): (2010): $25,007 $100,909 Established in July 2010 by Parasia Iwanec of St. Catharines, Ontario, Established in March 2011 by Roman Kolisnyk of Toronto with a in memory of her husband, Dr. Wasyl Iwanec (1905 –79), with a donation of $15,000. The fund supports English and French trans- donation of $25,000. The fund supports research and publications lations and publications (print and electronic) of Ukrainian literary at СIUS and provides scholarships and bursaries for students and works, literary memoirs, diaries, and correspondence of Ukraini- research grants for scholars in Ukrainian studies. an-Canadian and other diaspora authors. J Michael and Daria Kowalsky Endowment Fund (1987): $2,006,729 Peter Jacyk Endowment Fund (1988): $3,015,586 Established by Daria Mucak-Kowalsky and Michael Kowalsky Established by Peter Jacyk (1921–2001) of Mississauga, Ontario, (1908–2000) of Toronto in December 1987 to fund academic in June 1988 with an initial contribution of $1,000,000 and matched research, scholarships, and scholarly publications. The Government two-to-one by the Government of Alberta. The fund supports the of Alberta matched the initial donation of $100,000 two-to-one. Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at CIUS. In 1998–2000, the Kowalskys increased the capital of their endow- ment by $1,650,000 and redirected it toward the newly established Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Modern Ukrainian Kowalsky Program for the Study of Eastern Ukraine. History and Society Endowment Fund (2009): $1,000,334 Established in February 2009 with a donation of $500,000 from Michael Kowalsky and Daria Mucak-Kowalsky the Petro Jacyk Education Foundation and matched by the Gov- Encyclopedia of Ukraine Endowment Fund (2004): ernment of Alberta. The fund supports the Petro Jacyk Program $170,040 for the Study of Modern Ukrainian History and Society, a collab- Established in April 2004 by Daria Mucak-Kowalsky of Toronto. orative project between CIUS, the Ivan Franko National Univ. of The fund supports the preparation, editing, and updating of entries Lviv, and the Ukrainian Catholic Univ. pertaining to Ukrainian history in the Internet Encyclopedia of Juchymenko Family Endowment Fund (1989): $5,003 Ukraine. Established by Ivan Juchymenko of Islington, Ontario, in January Michael Kowalsky and Daria Mucak-Kowalsky Scholarship 1989 to fund scholarly research in Ukrainian history, especially Endowment Fund (2000): $28,955 the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Established in December 2000 by Daria Mucak-Kowalsky of Toronto K with the primary purpose of offering scholarships to graduate students in Ukraine and Canada in selected disciplines, with Mykola Klid Memorial Endowment Fund (1992): $71,649 priority given to students at the Ivan Franko National Univ. of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk National Univ., National Univ. of Kyiv-Mohyla Established in December 1992 by Maria Diakunyk of Kitchener, Academy, and any Canadian university, with preference to the Ontario, and her three children, Dr. Bohdan Klid of Edmonton, Univ. of Alberta. Myroslav Klid of Mississauga, Ontario, and Maria Zadarko of Kitchener, in memory of her husband and their father. The endow- Michael Kowalsky and Daria Mucak-Kowalsky Ukrainian ment provides funding for fellowships to junior and senior schol- Diaspora Endowment Fund (2008): $30,007 ars to promote scholarly exchange with Ukraine. Established by Daria Mucak-Kowalsky of Toronto in January 2008 Teodota and Iwan Klym Memorial Endowment Fund to conduct research and publish materials of the Kule Ukrainian (1995): $35,367 Canadian Studies Centre at CIUS dealing with the most recent (“fourth wave”) Ukrainian emigration to Canada. Established in April 1995 with a bequest from the estate of Teodota Klym of Edmonton, to support CIUS’s scholarly activities, including Krajkiwsky Family Endowment Fund (2019): $100,019 grants, fellowships, publications, and conferences for institutions Established in March 2019 with a bequest from the estate of in Ukraine, primarily Chernivtsi Fedkovych National Univ. Oksana Krajkiwsky Prokop. The endowment fund was constituted John Kolasky Memorial Endowment Fund (1990): in memory of the painter Julian Krajkiwsky (1892–1975), his wife, Olha (1900–1990), teacher, and their daughter Oksana (1929–2016). $753,255 The fund supports activities as determined by CIUS. Originally established in May 1990 as the Ukraine Exchange Fel- lowship Endowment Fund by John Kolasky of Surrey, B.C., as well Vasil Kravcenko Endowment Fund (1991): $10,005 as by Pauline and Peter Kindrachuk of Vernon, B.C., William and Established by the late Dr. Vasil Kravcenko of Hanover (Germany) Justine Fedeyko of St. Albert, Alberta, and many organizations in February 1991 to fund scholarships and research grants for and individuals from across Canada. The fund provides fellowships scholars in Ukrainian studies. for Ukrainian scholars to conduct research and study in Canada. Krysa Family Scholarship Endowment Fund (1981): $37,703 Established by the Leo J. Krysa Family Foundation in December 1981 as the first endowment fund at CIUS. A minimum of one

26 CIUS Newsletter 2020 undergraduate scholarship is offered in Ukrainian and Ukraini- Professor Manoly R. Lupul Endowment for the an-Canadian studies annually. Advancement of Ukrainian Language Education (2018): Volodymyr and Daria Kubijovyč Memorial Endowment $58,049 Fund (1986): $437,757 Established in 2018 to recognize Professor Manoly Lupul for his Established in November 1986 with a bequest from the estate of contributions to multiculturalism and for the founding of CIUS Professor Volodymyr Kubijovyč and matched two-to-one by the and its Ukrainian Language Education Centre (ULEC) at the Univ. Government of Alberta. The fund supports CIUS’s encyclopedia of Alberta. The fund supports the activities of ULEC that advance projects. Ukrainian language education within Canada’s rich multicultural society. Kucharyshyn Family Endowment Fund (2012): $15,254 Established in March 2012 in memory of Ehor Kucharyshyn M (1956–2001) by Marusia (née Kucharyshyn) and Roman Petryshyn of Edmonton, Stephania and John Kucharyshyn, Luba and Larissa Ivan Makohon Endowment Fund (2014): $28,430 Kucharyshyn, and Lydia Kucharyshyn. The purpose of the fund is Established with a donation by Rozalia Makohon (née Wachiw-Ho- to support, from accrued income, the publishing program (print showsky) in memory of her husband, Ivan Makohon. The fund and electronic) of the Ukrainian Language Education Centre at was later augmented by their children, Jaroslaw Makohon and CIUS. Irene Hornich, and by other members and friends of the family, in memory of the late Ivan (1914–90) and Rozalia (1921–2013) Alexander and Helen Kulahyn Endowment Fund (1989): Makohon. The fund awards scholarships and supports publications $75,023 in the area of Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Canadian economic stud- Established by Alexander and Helen Kulahyn of Sardis, B.C., in May ies by students from the Ivan Franko National Univ. of Lviv, Vasyl 1989 to provide research grants and scholarships to junior and Stefanyk Ciscarpathian National Univ., National Univ. of Kyiv-Mo- senior scholars, primarily in the field of Ukrainian legal studies. hyla Academy, or any other university in Ukraine. Peter and Doris Kule Endowment for the Study of the Petro Malofij Endowment Fund (1986): $152,118 Ukrainian Diaspora (2006): $244,011 Established in December 1986 by Petro Malofij of Edmonton. The fund provides scholarships for students from Sniatyn district Established in September 2006 by Drs. Peter and Doris Kule of (Ivano-Frankivsk oblast) studying at Chernivtsi Fedkovych National Edmonton with a donation of $100,000, matched by the Govern- Univ. in the fields of history, political science, law, or economics. ment of Alberta and supported by additional individuals and organizations. The fund supports the work of the Ukrainian Dias- Dr. Nestor and Myrosia Maslo Ukrainian Canadian Studies pora Studies Initiative at the Kule Ukrainian Canadian Studies Endowment Fund (2013): $56,399 Centre. Established in October 2013 by Dr. Nestor and Myrosia Maslo of Peter and Doris Kule Ukrainian Canadian Studies Centre Edmonton. The fund supports the activities of the Kule Ukrainian Endowment Fund (2007): $1,422,177 Canadian Studies Centre (originally the Ukrainian Canadian Pro- gram) at CIUS, including publication of print and digital materials, Established by Drs. Peter and Doris Kule of Edmonton in August organization of and participation in conferences, and research 2007 to support the Ukrainian Canadian Program at CIUS, now activities dealing with the history of Ukrainians in Canada. known as the Kule Ukrainian Canadian Studies Centre, and to facilitate the expansion of the institute’s multifaceted commitment P to documenting and sharing the wealth of the Ukrainian-Canadian experience. The original donation was partially matched by the Stephen and Olga Pawliuk Endowment Fund (1996): Government of Alberta. $50,019 Dmytro and Stephania Kupiak Fund (1998): $50,013 Established in August 1996 by Olga Pawliuk of Toronto, initially Established in December 1998 by Stephania Kupiak of Milton, to support the Hrushevsky Translation Project and subsequently Ontario. The fund provides scholarships to graduates from Busk to support research and publishing in Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Ca- Secondary School who study economics, political science, law, or nadian history. international relations at the Ivan Franko National Univ. of Lviv. Stephen and Olga Pawliuk Ukrainian Studies Endowment L Fund (2006): $50,012 Established in January 2006 by Olga Pawliuk of Toronto in support Walter and Irene Litynsky Endowment Fund (2009): of the scholarly and research activities of CIUS, with priority given $10,054 to online computer-based initiatives. Established in February 2009 with a bequest from the estate of Nestor Peczeniuk Memorial Endowment Fund (1991): Walter and Irene Litynsky of Windsor, Ontario. The fund supports research and publishing in Ukrainian and Ukrainian‑Canadian $87,014 history. Established in December 1991 by Jaroslawa and Sonia Peczeniuk of Sudbury, Ontario, to provide research grants for scholars in Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Canadian studies and to support publi- cations in these areas. CIUS Newsletter 2020 27 Dr. Vasyl Prychodko Memorial Endowment Fund (2013): Shwed Family Endowment Fund in Memory of Ostap and $29,461 Vera Shwed (1996): $35,333 Established in December 2013 by Larissa Prychodko of Pleasant Established originally as the Ostap Teofil Shwed Memorial Endow- Ridge, Michigan, and Andrew Prychodko of Highland Village, ment Fund in April 1996 by Vera Shwed and her four sons, Eugene, Texas, in memory of their husband and father. The fund provides Dennis, Philip, and Mark. The fund was renamed by the sons in grants to scholars in Ukrainian studies or graduate students in honour of the family and in memory of their parents following that field at any post-secondary institution. Preference is given the death of their mother. It supports projects at the Ukrainian to research on the economy and economic history of Ukraine, or Language Education Centre that promote teacher professional on topics in sociology, and particularly to applicants studying development and the improvement of language courses. rural economics, economy or economic history, the modernization of the Ukrainian economy and its effects on society, Ukrainian Stasiuk Family Endowment Fund (1988): $1,497,484 economic thought, or Ukrainian society from the twentieth cen- Established in July 1988 with a $350,000 bequest from the estate tury onward. Special consideration is given to topics related to of Eudokia Stasiuk of Toronto, matched two-to-one by the Gov- the Holodomor of 1932–33. ernment of Alberta, to provide research grants and fellowships. R Julian and Savella Stechishin Endowment Fund (2012): $92,378 Remeza Family Endowment Fund (1998): $100,025 Established in June 2012 by Zenia Stechishin of Toronto as a Established in December 1998 by Sylvester Remeza (1914–2002) transfer of funds from the Stechishin Publishing Fund at St. Andrew’s of Ottawa. The fund supports research and publications pertain- College in Winnipeg, earlier managed by the Consistory of the ing to the work and legacy of Bohdan Lepky and the general areas Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada and originally created in of his intellectual and creative interests. February 1972 at the Saskatoon branch of the Ukrainian Canadian Research Program on Religion and Culture Endowment Congress to commemorate a renowned Ukrainian activist in Canada, Julian Stechishin (1895–1971). The fund supports schol- Fund (1995): $46,085 arly publications (print and electronic) in Ukrainian and Ukraini- Formerly named the Ukrainian Church Studies Program Endow- an-Canadian studies that are published or co-published by CIUS ment Fund, established in November 1995 with a bequest from Press, or supported by CIUS. the estate of Harry Bratkiw of Edmonton and with donations from St. John’s Fraternal Society of Edmonton and St. Andrew’s College Stefaniuk Family Endowment Fund (2016): $105,847 of Winnipeg. The endowment provides fellowships, supports Established in December 2016 by Mr. Cornell Stefaniuk of Edmon- independent research, and facilitates research and publication ton to honour his late father, Steve Stefaniuk (1924–2016), and by scholars in the field of religious studies. especially his mother, Josephine Stefaniuk (née Yurkiw), who was instrumental in the development of Ukrainian-language resources S during her career as a teacher in Edmonton. This fund supports Western Canadian projects, with priority given to Alberta-based Nestor and Zenovia Salomon Memorial Endowment Fund projects that promote the delivery of Ukrainian language and (1988): $26,682 culture in publicly funded education. Established in December 1988 by Wasyl and Halyna (née Khomyn) Salomon of Toronto in memory of their relatives Nestor Salomon Petro and Ivanna Stelmach Endowment Fund (1989): and Zenovia Salomon (née Lopushanska). The fund supports $150,064 Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Canadian studies and the Ukrainian Established by Petro and Ivanna Stelmach of Mississauga, Ontario, Language Education Centre. in November 1989 to provide research grants and scholarships in Ukrainian studies. Since 1993, the fund has supported the Peter Salyga Endowment Fund (2010): $50,934 Institute for Historical Research at the Ivan Franko National Univ. Established in August 2010 by the late Peter Salyga of Winnipeg of Lviv. with a bequest of 20 percent of his estate, amounting to $50,920. The fund supports the publication of the Internet Encyclopedia of Stelmaschuk Extension Education Endowment Fund Ukraine as well as other publications of CIUS. (1996): $30,410 Mykhailo Onufriiovych Samytsia Endowment Fund Established in October 1996 with a $10,000 donation from Pro- fessor Paul Stelmaschuk and Mrs. Anna Stelmaschuk of Kelowna, (2005): $215,052 B.C., and with a $10,000 donation from Nancy Shemeluck-Radom- Established in November 2005 by Mykhailo Onufriiovych Samyt- sky of Edmonton and Mary Orchuk, and with a $1,000 donation sia (1920–2009) in memory of his father, Onufrii Ivanovych Samyt- from Jean Naciuk. The fund supports extension education in sia, his mother, Anastasia Dmytrivna Samytsia (née Stoianovska), Ukraine and distance-learning workers from Canada to help and his wife, Maria Hryhorivna Samytsia (née Sharyk), with dona- educate prospective extension workers in Ukraine. tions from Mykhailo Samytsia and the estate of Maria Samytsia. The fund supports students and the scholarly and research activ- ities of CIUS.

28 CIUS Newsletter 2020 Arsen and Sophia Stepaniuk Endowment Fund (2018): ment of Alberta. The fund supports the activities of the Ukrainian $50,010 Language Education Centre. Established in February 2019 with a donation by Maxym and Anna Ukrainian Senior Citizens Home of Taras H. Shevchenko Trojan in memory of Anna’s parents. The fund supports research, (Windsor) Inc. Endowment Fund (2019): $200,039 educational and scholarly activities, and expenditures in the area Established in 2019 to support the work of the Internet Encyclo- of Ukrainian studies. Preference is given to research in issues pedia of Ukraine (IEU) project; specifically, the IEU work performed pertaining to Ukrainian independence movements in the twen- in Ontario, at the CIUS Toronto Office (where the IEU project is tieth and twenty-first centuries. housed). Dmytro Stepovyk Ukrainian Studies Endowment Fund The University of Alberta–Ukraine Student Exchange (1989): $4,703 Endowment Fund (2011): $17,599 Established by Dmytro Stepovyk of Kyiv in May 1989 to fund Established in August 2011 with contributions from the Ukrainian scholarly research and publications in Ukrainian art history and/ community throughout North America. The fund offers scholar- or other educational and scholarly projects. ships at the undergraduate or graduate level to students from Danylo Husar Struk and Oksana Pisetska Struk the Univ. of Alberta, and from universities in Ukraine, to study Endowment Fund (2009): $119,551 abroad for one or more semesters at a partner university with which the U of A has a valid student exchange agreement. Established in November 2009 by transferring the Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Fund at the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Y Studies (Toronto) in the amount of $100,000. The fund supports the Danylo Husar Struk Program in Ukrainian Literature at CIUS Michael and Mary Yacyshyn Endowment Fund (2013): by providing grants to established scholars for the critical analy- $28,741 sis of Ukrainian literature and to sponsor research, scholarly Established in September 2013 with a bequest from the estate writing, and translation of Ukrainian literature, to organize work- of Mary Yacyshyn of Toronto. The fund supports general activi- shops, public lectures, and readings on Ukrainian literature, and ties of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. to support publications in Ukrainian literature. Celestin and Irena Suchowersky Endowment Fund (1999): Yurkiwsky Family Memorial Endowment Fund (2014): $100,025 $16,803 Established in 2014 to support the publication of research through Established in September 1999 by Dr. Celestin (Mykola) Suchow- the Research Program on Religion and Culture at CIUS, with pref- ersky (1913–2008). The fund offers fellowships at the M.A. or Ph.D. erence given to research on the history of the Ukrainian Orthodox level to residents of Bukovyna to study at the Universities of Church. Alberta, Saskatchewan, Toronto, or other Canadian universities in the disciplines of sociology, psychology, economics, or Ukrain- Z ian studies. Michael Zacharuk Memorial Endowment Fund (1996): T $10,004 Tymofij and Evhenia Taborowskyj Endowment Fund Established in November 1996 by the late Mary Zacharuk of Two (1990): $20,512 Hills, Alberta, in memory of her husband Michael Zacharuk (1908–96). The fund supports scholarships and publications in Established by the late Tymofij and Evhenia Taborowskyj of Toronto Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Canadian studies. in April 1990 to fund the research and publication of works by scholars in Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Canadian studies. Dr. Bohdan Stefan Zaputovich and Dr. Maria Hrycaiko Dr. Demitrius and Maria Todosijczuk Memorial Fund Zaputovich Fund (2019): $1,000,000 (2016): $100,023 Established in 2019 with a bequest from the estate of Maria Hry- caiko Zaputovich to provide scholarships, grants, and fellowships Established in March 2016 with a bequest from the estate of to students and scholars, with a demonstrated interest in Demitrius (Dmytro) Todosijczuk of Edmonton, to aid scholarly Ukrainian archeology, anthropology, linguistics, or history, to activities, research, and publishing in Ukrainian studies at CIUS. engage in research activities in Ukrainian studies. The fund supports scholarships, awards or bursaries, research grants, and scholarly publications in the field of Ukrainian studies Oleh Zujewskyj Endowment Fund (1989): $20,009 that are published or co-published by CIUS. Established by Dr. Oleh Zujewskyj (1920–96) of Edmonton in U December 1989 to support the publication of works in the field of Ukrainian literature by authors living outside of Ukraine. Ukrainian Language Education Centre Fund (1987): $609,974 Established by the Ukrainian Professional and Business Club of Edmonton in April 1987 and matched two-to-one by the Govern-

CIUS Newsletter 2020 29 Acknowledging the generosity of our donors

At CIUS, we recognize the importance of ac- amount or designation, collectively affect CIUS knowledging the generous support of our do- in ways that benefit the whole field of Ukrain- nors, which has enabled the institute to main- ian studies, in Canada and abroad. The donor tain its tradition of academic excellence for list below is sorted alphabetically within each over 40 years. In each annual publication of the category, by last name of personal donors (first CIUS Newsletter, we publish (with their approv- surname where there are two), followed by cor- al) the names of those who have made a gift porate names in alphabetical order. With our to CIUS in that year—to thank our benefactors heartfelt gratitude for your contributions, CIUS and to celebrate the invaluable support they wishes to acknowledge the generous support provide to ensure the continuing success of the of many people and organizations, including institute. Your generous gifts, regardless of the the following:

$1,000,000+ Ms Maria Diakonow Mr George Dytyniak Ms Ann Semotiuk Mr Myron Dylynsky Mrs Olga Ewanchuk Mrs Patricia Senych Estate of Mr Eugene A Fedeyko Ms Audrey E. Farolino Mr George Serhijczuk Maria Hrycaiko Zaputovich Mr Dennis Fedeyko Mr Steve Fedchyshak Mr Eugene Shwed Mr Ivan D. Harrakh Mr Dennis N. Goresky Mr Philip Shwed

List of donors, gifts in celebrations, and memorial gifts gifts in celebrations, List of donors, $500,000–$999,999 Mr Morris Klid Dr Walter Goresky Mr Ivan Soroka Mr Donald Lewycky Mr Tony Harras Dr Frank Sysyn Temerty Foundation Ms Sonia S. Peczeniuk Ms Lada A. Hirnyj Mr Ihor Tomkiw Mr Roman Wynnycky Mr George Horb Ms Lillian A. Vangenderen $50,000–$99,00 Mrs Irene Hordienko Hon Allan H. Wachowich Dr Jeanette Bayduza Bishop Budka Charitable Mr Brad Kawulych Mr Mykhailo Wawryshyn Society Mrs Elsie Kawulych Ms Lubow Wlasenko W K Lypynsky East European CUF-Maidan Project Trauma Ms Chrystyna Kaye Ms Marta Wynnyckyj Research Institute Inc. Estate of Natalia Golemba Ms Katherine Kohut Mr Samuel A. Yakimishyn Mr Lon W. Kowalek Ms Rose Yewchuk $25,000–$49,999 $500–$999 Julian G. Koziak, QC Mr Roman Zakaluzny Dr Michael B. Krochak Ms Diane Zinyk Mr Martin A. Hunka Mr Andrey Cybulsky Mr Roman Kulyk Mr Jaroslaw Zrymiak Dr Yuri A. Deychakiwsky Ms Olga M. Kuplowska Canadian Foundation for Dr Bohdan W. Klid Very Rev. Ihor G. Kutash Chirona Inv. Inc Ukrainian Studies Dr Zenon Kohut Mr Iain T. Macdonald Estate of Nadia Ruth Kryschuk Mr Brad Martyniuk Mr Nestor Makuch Masonic Foundation of $10,000–$24,999 Dr W. Roman Petryshyn Mr Orest T. Martynowych Alberta Ms Daria Trojan Mr Oleh Maryniak Ukrainian Youth Unity Council Mr Ihor R. Bukowsky Mrs Katherine Zalasky Dr Bohdan Medwidsky Dr Taras Fecycz Mrs Olga P. Melnik up to $99 Mr Cornell Stefaniuk Alberta Pomitch Charitable Anton Melnyk, QC Society Ms Rose Michalchuk Mr George Brandak Alberta Ukrainian Heritage Ukrainian Canadian Mr Ron Miskew Mr Andriy Chomyn Foundation Professional & Business Mr Nestor Mudry Ms Romanna K. Gamery Estate of Sophia Petrashko Association of Calgary Ms Lynn Munkley Ms Catherine Goresky Ihnatowycz Family Ukrainian Self-Reliance Ms Maria Nebesio Dr Myer Horowitz, OC Foundation Association–Edmonton Mr Michael E. Necula Ms Marion Huziak Branch Mr Orest Olineck Ms Victoria I. Karpiak $5,000–$9,999 Mr Norm Onofrychuk Ms Myrna Kostash Mrs Victoria Maksimowich Dr Russ J. Dmytruk $100–$499 Mrs Cathy Palmer Ms Myra Pastyr-Lupul Mr Harry Mandryk Mr Michael Adams Mr Bohdan Nebozuk Alberta Foundation for Mr Michael B. Balahutrak Mr Myron Pawlowsky Mrs Jaroslawa Peczeniuk Ms Natalie Obal Ukrainian Education Mr Jars Balan Mrs Joan Prowse Society Mrs Amy Bautista Mr Robert Pidzamecky Mr Robert Porozni Mr Stephen Rapawy Alberta Ukrainian Ms Rose Blackmore Ms Oksana Rozumna Commemorative Society Mrs Elizabeth Bryant Mr Nestor Prisco Mr Walter Protsack Ms Geraldine Russin Mrs Marta Cechosh Mr Andrew Serray $1,000–$4,999 Mrs Alice Chumer Mr Lawrence Pshyk Mrs Donna M. Pyrch Mr Orest Soltykevych Dr Serge Cipko Ms Zenia Stechishin Mr Jacques Arsenault Dr Heather Coleman Ms Marta Replansky Dr Olenka S. Bilash Ms Maria Roslak Ms Halyna Troian Mr Yuri Daschko Ms Jean A. Waclawski Ms Larissa Blavatska Ms Nadia Deychakiwsky Hon Michael J. Savaryn Ms Irene Cybulsky Dr Orest S. Deychakiwsky Ms Alexandra Y. Semeniuk

30 CIUS Newsletter 2020 Mr Yaroslav Hunka Donated by Mr Martin A. Hunka Gifts..a thoughtful alternative in honour to honour a remarkable individual

Memorial..a thoughtful way to honour gifts the memory of someone special

From Dr Walter Goresky time to Margaret Hunka Ms Victoria I. Karpiak Anne Nazarevich Donated by Mr Martin A. Hunka Donated by Dr Serge Cipko time, the Dr Bohdan W. Klid Canadian Dr Zenon Kohut Ms Myrna Kostash Institute Vera (Ke) Plawuszczak Stephania Hurko Mr Lon W. Kowalek Donated by of Donated by Mr Julian Koziak Mrs Irene Hordienko Ukrainian Mr Michael B. Balahutrak Mr Nestor Makuch Ms Katherine Kohut Studies Mr Yuri Daschko Mr Harry Mandryk Ms Natalie Obal receives “in Ms Nadia Deychakiwsky Mr Orest T. Martynowych Mr Robert Pidzamecky memoriam” Dr Orest S. Deychakiwsky Dr Bohdan Medwidsky Dr Marko R Stech donations. Donating Dr Yuri A. Deychakiwsky Ms Cathryn A Palmer Ms Zenia Stechishin Ms Audrey E. Farolino in memory of Ms Myra Pastyr-Lupul Dr Frank Sysyn Ms Romanna K. Gamery Ms Halyna Troian someone could Dr W. Roman Petryshyn Ms Olga M. Kuplowska Mr Robert Porozni be a unique way Ms Lynn Munkley Mrs Donna M. Pyrch Nicholas and Olga to remember a loved one Mr Thomas Munkley Ms Maria Roslak Semeniuk who has passed away, to Ms Oksana Rozumna Donated by commemorate the life of a John Hrynkiw Hon Michael Savaryn Ms Alexandra Y Semeniuk cherished friend, or to honour Donated by Ms Lillian A VanGenderen a distinguished member of Dr Bohdan W. Klid Myroslav Gregory the community. Mr Morris Klid CUF-Maidan Project Trauma Senkus William Kobluk Andrij Makuch Donated by Mr Myron Dylynsky THE FOLLOWING Donated by Ms Rose Yewchuk Donated by DONATIONS WERE Mr Roman Wynnycky Dennis Shwed RECEIVED Gregor Kowalik Donated by Mr Eugene Shwed IN MEMORY OF Donated by Peter William Steve Stefaniuk Mr Jacques Arsenault Markowski Donated by Mr Cornell Stefaniuk Orest Cyncar Donated by Donated by Mrs Elsie Kawulych Doris Kule Ms Patricia A Senych John Zin Donated by Ms M June Melnychuk Donated by Dr Serge Cipko Ms Alexandra Y Semeniuk Barbara Fedeyko Mr Brad Kawulych Donated by Mr Eugene and Ted Martyniuk Mrs Elsie Kawulych Mrs Lilian Fedeyko Donated by Mr Brad Martyniuk Manoly R Lupul Lillian McKenzie William and Justine Donated by Donated by Mrs Elsie Kawulych Fedeyko Mr Jars Balan Donated by Dr Olenka S. Bilash Mr Eugene and Mrs Lilian Edward Nawrot Ms Elizabeth A Bryant Donated by Mrs Elsie Kawulych Fedeyko Ms Catherine Goresky Mrs Amy Bautista Mr Dennis N. Goresky

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Warmest thoughts and best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year!

May peace, health, happiness, and joy surround you in abundance this holiday season and throughout the New Year.

At this time, our thoughts turn in grateful appreciation to you, our donors, friends, and colleagues, who make our work possible with your continued support. May the blessings of Christmas be with you today and always!

From the Director and staff of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies

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