VOLUME 9, SPRING 2018 Happy Easter! З Воскресінням Христовим! We sincerely wish you happiness, good health, love and well-being!!! Happy Easter Holi- days!!! Бажаєм Вам - щастя, міцного здоров’ я, любові, From right: Dr. Orest Cap (Acting Director); Yuliia Ivaniuk (Administrative Assistant to the Acting та достатку !!! Director); Sofiya Tsenova (Student of St.Andrew’s Col- lege ); Ivan Zhovnych (Student Office Assistant). Веселих Великодніх свят!!! DR. ANDRIJ GRECHYLO UKRAINIAN NATIONAL SYMBOLS: ORIGIN, HISTORY AND MYTHS From right: Dr. Orest Cap (Acting Director); Dr. Andriy Grechylo; Yuliia Ivaniuk (Administrative Assistant to the Acting Director); On January 18, 2018 Dr. Andriy Grechylo gave a lec- ture entitled “Ukrainian na- tional symbols: origin, histo- ry and myths.” This interest- ing event was cosponsored by the Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies and St. the lecture is available at the Andrew’s College. CUCS website and Facebook Dr. Andrij Grechylo is page (Web-page: http:// a highly qualified researcher umanito ba.ca/faculties/arts/ in the field of Ukrainian departments/ukrainian _cana- Archeography and Source dian_studies/; Facebook: Studies who currently serves https://www. facebook. com/ as the president of the centre4canadian ukrainian- Ukrainian Heraldry Society studies/). in Ukraine. According to The CUCS thanks Dr. the lecturer the blue and yel- Grechylo for his highly educa- low flag and trident were tional lecture and all the officially adopted as state guests for attending the event. symbols of the Ukrainian People’s Republic by the Central Rada more than one hundred years ago. These symbols were banned during the Soviet era and restored in 1992 as the sym- bols of a new independent Ukraine. Video recording of Spring 2018 Page 2 UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA OPEN HOUSE niversity of Manitoba Open House is a yearly U event at the University of Manitoba, Fort Garry Campus, in which the Centre for Ukrainian Canadi- an Studies participates. Approximately 35-40 prospec- tive students and/or their parents visited the Centre’s display booth on February 23, 2018. Perspective visi- tors were informed about the variety of courses offered in both Ukrainian and English languages. Yuliia Ivaniuk (Administrative Assistant to the Acting Director); Ivan Zhovnych (Student Office Assistant). OLEG ŠENŠIN’S LECTURE ENTITLED: HISTORICAL IMAGERY IN UKRAINIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM On February 20th, 2018 Oleg Šenšin presented about history education as a device of indoctrination designed for distribution of loyalty rituals among the tomorrow's citizens. Forty seven people viewed the lecture online on CUCS’ so- cial media. From right: Dr. Orest Cap (Acting Director); Oleg Šenšin (PhD student of the Faculty of Social Sci- ences, Charles University in Prague). PASKA MAKING WORKSHOP AT ST.ANDREW’S COLLEGE On 29 March, 2018 Mani- toba’s Ukrainian Canadian Stu- dents Society held a Paska Mak- ing Workshop at St. Andrew's College for everybody who wants to learn how to make Pas- ka for Easter. Page 3 Spring 2018 Dr. Serge Cipko STARVING UKRAINE: THE HOLODOMOR AND CANADA’S RESPONSE: A DISCUSSION On February 21, 2018 Dr. Serge Cipko presented on Starving Ukraine: The Holodomor and Canada’s Response. The presentation is available at the CUCS Facebook page (https:// www.facebook.com/centre4 canadian ukrainianstudies/) and on the web-site: http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/ departments/ukrainian_canadian _studies/ Dr. Sean Byrne PEACEBUILDING AND SOCIAL JUSTICE AFTER WAR n February 28, 2018 Dr. Sean Byrne presented his research entitled “Peacebuilding and O Social Justice after War.” Dr. Sean Byrne is a Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manitoba. This successful event was cosponsored by the CUCS and St. Andrew’s College The presentation is available at the CUCS Facebook page (https://www.facebook. com/ centre4canadianukrainianstudies/) and on the web-site: http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/ departments/ukrainian_canadian _studies/. Spring 2018 Page 4 Rt. Rev. Dr. Ihor Kutash THE CHILD IS GROWN: THE CENTURY OF THE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF CANADA On March 29, 2018 Dr. Ihor Kutash presented on “The Child is Grown: the Century of The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada.” The event was sponsored by CUCS and St. Andrew’s College. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada was born in a meeting of delegates in Saskatoon in July 1918. The toddler grew quickly. As a teen it identified itself primarily by what it opposed: autocratic governance, canon- ical and ritual practices foreign to Ukrainian Church life and subordination to religious centres ambivalent or hostile to aspirations for a sovereign Ukrainian nation. Growth continued and the young adult reached out to em- brace the world. No longer afraid of foreign influences, it took part in the ecumenical movement through the Canadian Council of Churches. In 1990 it entered into eucharistic communion with the Patriarchate of Constantino- ple, attaining canonical status within world Orthodoxy. It gives active support to the people of Ukraine in their heroic struggle to maintain and grow their sovereignty and continues to proclaim the Kingdom of God in a world given over to secular humanism and self-serving tribalism. Dr. Robert Klymasz r. Robert Klymasz continues to D work on his ninth compilation of “Winnipeg Papers” this year. His research has led to a selection of texts that span a period of about one hundred years, and each work is presented with a snippet from the original Ukrainian version followed Dr. Klymasz is currently preparing by an English translation. the next issue of his Winnipeg Papers (no. 9) which fill focus on one of Winni- peg’s earliest Ukrainian language newspapers. He is also continuing his long-term research on the arts and cul- ture in the Interlake region north of Winnipeg . At eighty-one years of age, Dr. Klymasz is the oldest member of the Centre’s faculty, and we look for- ward to the continuation of his work on the Ukrainian Canadian experience. Page 5 Spring 2018 THE CHILD IS GROWN: THE CENTENARY OF THE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF CANADA The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (formerly known as the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of Canada) was born at a con- fidential meeting of some 154 immigrants from Ukraine, delegates from the three prairie provinces, held in Saskatoon on July 18 and 19, 1918. At first the toddler emerged as a Brotherhood which grew into Holy Trinity Cathedral, Winnipeg a formal Church at the first Sobor, also held in Saskatoon on De- Source: http://www.iskryart.ca cember 28, 1918. It needed Clergy led by a Bishop. God smiled on the little one and by the second Sobor, held in Winnipeg, Edmonton and Saskatoon November 27 to December 11, 1919, they had a Bishop, Metropolitan Germanos Shehadi, from the Church of Antioch, and 5 Priests who had come from the Ukrainian Catholic and Russian Or- thodox Church. These were joined by three graduates from the seminary set up in Saskatoon by Fr. Lazar German. Metropolitan Germanos ordained Frs. Semen Sawchuk, Dmytro Stratychuk and Petro Sametz in 1920. The child became a teenager, and as is usually the case with such, was distinguished by what it opposed: autocratic episcopal authority, canonical and ritual practices foreign to Ukrainian ecclesiastical life and subordination to religious centres (Rome and Moscow) which were ambivalent and even hostile to the newly-reawakened zeal for a sovereign Ukrainian na- tion. Teenage passion was triumphant. A Ukrainian hierarch, Archbishop Ioan Teodorovych, arrived from Ukraine to the USA and was accepted to lead the Church in Canada as well. Winnipeg became the headquarters; the Liturgy was celebrated in Ukrainian and “Visnyk” (The Herald) began publication. The teen survived and even flourished despite attacks and competition from rival Churches. Temples were built, clergy arrived from the homeland and new ones were trained. A dynamic lay organization, the Ukrainian Self-Reliance League (‘Soyuz ukrayintsiv sa- mostiynykiv” – SUS) was formed. The Church was headed by the world-famous Ukrainian scholar and translator of the Bible, Metropolitan Ilarion (Ivan Ohiyenko). Three institutes (St. John’s in Edmonton, Petro Mohyla in Saskatoon and St. Volodymyr’s in Toronto) and a Col- lege (St. Andrew’s) were built. Spring 2018 Page 6 The teen became an adult. Having firmly established its own identity in Ukrainian Or- thodoxy, the Church reached out to embrace relations with the world. No longer afraid of for- eign influences, it began to participate in the ecumenical movement in Canada through the Ca- nadian Council of Churches. In 1990, after a time of careful discussions and achievement of broad approval, it entered into eucharistic communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople, thus attaining the canonical status within world Orthodoxy sought by Metropolitans Ilarion, Wasyly and others (albeit with some protestations by the Church of Moscow). This is an exciting time for the youthful Church. It is bearing testimony and giving ac- tive support to the people of the motherland, Ukraine, in their heroic struggle to maintain and grow the sovereignty achieved in 1991 with the fall of the USSR. It has also been rejuvenated with the advent of new clergy and laity from that homeland. The young adult, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada, continues to hold out the message of the reality of the Kingdom of God as a saving alternative in a world given over to secular humanism and self-serving trib- alism. Fr. Ihor G. Kutash March 9, 2018 Собор святої Софії - Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev Page 7 Spring 2018 ANNE SMIEGEL SHOLARSHIP «Учіться, читайте, чужому навчайтесь й свого не цурайтесь» Т.Шевченко From right: Ivan Zhovnych, Dr. Orest Cap (Acting Director); Vasyl Kobrij. The Anne Smiegel Sholarship was possible because of the generous donation from the Smiegel family. This year the recipients of the scholarship were Vasyl Kobrij and Ivan Zhov- nych.