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 Dr. Vitaliy Makar, Director of the Presentation and donation of books published by the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study 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