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Table of Contents From the director 1 Dr. Zenon Kohut reappointed 2 In memoriam: Danylo Husar Struk 3 Laurence Decore 5 Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Special Report 6 352 Athabasca Hall, University of Alberta Kowalsky Program 10 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E8 CIUS Press 13 Telephone: (780) 492-2972 Peter Jacyk Centre 15 FAX: (780) 492-4967 Canada Ukraine Legislative Cooperation E-mail: [email protected] Project 22 Cl US Website: http://www.ualberta.ca/~cius/ Ukrainian Language Education Centre 25 Cl US Annual Review Ukrainian Church Studies Program 29 Reprints permitted with acknowledgement Stasiuk Program 32 ISSN 1485-7979 Journal of Ukrainian Studies 34 Editor: Della Goa Encyclopedia of Ukraine 35 Translator: Svitlana Semenko Ukrainian- Canadian Program 36 Editorial supervision: Myroslav Yurkevich Events 37 Design and layout: Peter Matilainen Lectures and seminars 38 Cover design: Lara Minja, Graphic Design and Photographic Services, University of Alberta Staff activities 39 Cl US Edmonton staff photos: Richard Siemensand Donations 42 Tina Chang, Graphic Design and Photographic Awards administered by CIUS 43 Services, University of Alberta Endowments 45 To contact the Cl US Toronto office (Encyclopedia Donors to Endowment Funds 49 Project, Journal of Ukrainian Studies, or Cl US Press), please write c/o: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Toronto 21 Sussex Avenue Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1 A1 Telephone: CK«HH3<fetJl*K« 3sHS9T'£S'lUtraT'1i General office (416) 978-6934 H£ASK4B-6»"r& YASKH KftMTPpHCfi’fc CIUS Press (416) 978-8240 W BA HS%E-* T-XR'JTRItm&RTH £Aasa£«K-fc TJ»tA Encyclopedia (416) 978-6076 HTMMKfO hc ksnh i HIS JUS 978-8669 y KAT’Sf'B'XItTE (416) H TU MR K£A S3! VAlKimtS/UN'i IT’XKA'HMAKMiy FAX: (416)978-2672 YKT0JKfMtimCT& HOAN’ZfT'Jr^HAf E-mail: [email protected] K'Xt’XK-fc A"l> TEA & «TB# -AACiS-kAHTi “In the beginning was the Word...” Our cover features a detail of the headpiece and initial page of the Gospel of John from the Ostromir Gospel. Dating from the mid-eleventh century, it is the oldest extant East Slavic manuscript. Today, the written word remains one of the most important vehicles for the dissemination of culture and tradition. From the director Honouring the past, embracing the future We were all shocked and saddened by the spearheaded the Cana- sudden death of our associate director, editor dian-Ukrainian Legis- of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, and head of the lative Cooperation CIUS Toronto office, Danylo Husar Struk. It is Project and the Cana- still difficult to comprehend that such a close dian-Ukrainian Busi- colleague and friend is no longer with us. ness Initiative. In Danylo was associated with CIUS virtually working with Laurence from its founding, and hardly a major decision on these projects, I was made without his active participation. came to appreciate his Danylo had firm convictions and upheld them great ability to concep- most tenaciously; however, he accepted and tualize, organize, and worked with decisions that did not go his way. fight for a project in Above all, Danylo was a vigorous and interest- which he believed. ing person who loved all aspects of life, from These are qualities for the latest trends in art and literature to fine which I will not only foods and wine. Everyone at CIUS will miss remember Laurence, him. In honour of Danylo, CIUS is establishing but aspire to emulate the Danylo Husar Struk Program in Ukrainian him. Literature. I believe that CIUS can best honour In July 1999, 1 was and remember Danylo by continuing his work reappointed for an Dr. Zenon Kohut and his legacy. additional five-year As this annual review was about to go to term as director of CIUS. At this juncture it is press, we received news of yet another loss, the appropriate for me to review our basic mission death of Laurence Decore. Laurence was, of and enumerate the objectives I would like to course, a giant in Canadian politics, twice achieve in my next term in office. I am con- mayor of Edmonton and leader of the provin- vinced of the soundness of the mission effected cial Liberal Party. He was also a founding fa- in the past five years: to make the Canadian ther of CIUS. As the main architect of Canada’s Institute of Ukrainian Studies a leading re- multiculturalism policy, Laurence helped to search institute dedicated to the discovery, create the legal foundation and political atmos- preservation, and dissemination of knowledge phere for all such programs, including the about Ukraine and Ukrainians. This institute, establishment of bilingual schools and the foremost in Canada and recognized world- Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, for wide, provides a vital service to academia, gov- which he lobbied persistently and effectively. ernment, and business, as well as to the And Laurence was proud of his creation. I can Ukrainian- Canadian community in maintain- recount numerous occasions on which ing its heritage, and even to Ukraine itself. Laurence would ask me to recite for some visit- Pursuing this vision, I have set six goals or ing dignitary the accomplishments of CIUS, priorities for 1999-2004: particularly the publication of its many books 1 . CIUS will be indisputably recognized as a and the Encyclopedia of Ukraine. After retiring leading centre for the study of Ukrainian his- from politics in 1994, Laurence became in- tory, both nationally and internationally. volved with the Institute more directly. He 2. CIUS will become a leading publisher in 1 Ukrainian studies in the Western world. 5. CIUS will become the leading Canadian 3. The Ukrainian Language and Education information centre on Ukraine. Centre will continue to develop and distribute 6. CIUS will develop strategies to ensure ad- an outstanding second-language acquisition equate funding for its programs and activities. program to provide school systems with the These goals define the focus and direction I latest and most effective methodologies for will take in the next five years. They are de- teaching the Ukrainian language. manding goals that bring certain challenges 4. CIUS will help shape the emergence of with them. However, with its outstanding staff post-Soviet Ukrainian studies in Ukraine, as- and solid community support, CIUS will con- sisting in the development of a democratic and tinue to fulfill its mission of academic excel- economically viable society. lence and service. Dr. Zenon Kohut reappointed On 1 July 1999, Dr. Zenon E. Kohut ac- Dr. Kohut also served as director of the cepted a second five-year appointment as di- Stasiuk Program on Contemporary Ukraine at rector of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian CIUS from 1992 to 1994, as adjunct professor Studies at the University of Alberta. Dr. Kohut, in the Department of History and Classics at who has been with the institute since 1992, the University of Alberta, and as visiting pro- served as CIUS acting director from January fessor in the Department of History at Yale 1993 to June 1994 and as director from July University in the fall of 1998. 1994 to June 1999. A university review com- A leading authority on eighteenth-century mittee chaired by Dr. Bill McBlain, associate Ukraine, Dr. Kohut is the author of Russian vice-president (research), recommended his Centralism and Ukrainian Autonomy: Imperial reappointment. Absorption of the Hetmanate, 1760s- 1830s Born in Ukraine, Dr. Kohut grew up in the (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, United States. He obtained a B.A. from La Salle 1988), several volumes of ABSEES , and numer- College in 1966 and an M.A. and Ph.D. from ous articles in scholarly journals. A revised and the University of Pennsylvania in 1969 and updated Ukrainian translation of the 1988 1975 respectively. He was closely associated monograph was published in Kyiv in 1996. Dr. with the development of the Harvard Ukrain- Kohut’s long-standing interest in Russian- ian studies project in the 1970s. Dr. Kohut held Ukrainian relations is reflected in a succession a number of graduate and post-doctoral ap- of publications, lectures, and major confer- pointments both at the Harvard Ukrainian ences, many of which he helped to initiate and Research Institute and at the Russian Research organize. Currently he is focusing his research Center and taught modern Ukrainian history on questions of identity and images of nations at Harvard’s summer school. Subsequently, he in the East Slavic historical narratives. taught Soviet and East European history at the At the time of his reappointment, Dr. Kohut University of Pennsylvania (1975-76) and was granted sabbatical leave until 30 June 2000. Michigan State University (1978-80). From Dr. David Marples, director of the Stasiuk 1980 to 1984, Kohut was the chief compiler Program for the Study of Contemporary Khrystyna Jendyk is the and editor of the American Bibliography Ukraine, will serve as acting director during his Edmonton office of administrator. Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES). absence. Khrystyna Jendyk, who celebrated Prior to coming to the University of Alberta, he twenty years with CIUS in the fall of 1999, was a senior Soviet analyst at the Library of continues to serve as office administrator. She Congress, and then at the U.S. Department of takes responsibility for office finances and Defense. works as a liason with donors. 2 In memoriam Danylo Husar Struk the medical institute he was directing in Lviv, and the terrible event, Danylo once told me, was a major factor in his decision to dedicate his life to Ukrainian culture. He was especially interested in Ukrainian literature and Ukrain- ian art, encouraging the latter by judiciously collecting the works of artists in the Ukrainian diaspora, supporting them morally and finan- cially, and affirming their talent.