CIUS Newsletter

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by  Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies

CIUS Newsletter
2012
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
4-30 Pembina Hall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H8
Professor from Kharkiv University
Selected as New Director of CIUS
Dr. Volodymyr Kravchenko, profes- otechestvennoi istorii [D. 1. Bahalii
oto SSRo Earr. s ae eOi eTe ee
sor of history and chair of the Depart- and His Contribution to the Study of
ment of Ukrainian Studies at the National History], Kharkiv, 1990); a
Vasyl Karazin National University of historiographic study of the Istoriia
Kharkiv, has been chosen as the fourth Rusiv [History of the Rus’ People] (“Po-
director of the Canadian Institute of ema vol noho narodu’: “Istoriia Rusiv”
Ukrainian Studies. He succeeds Dr. Ze- ta ii mistse v ukrains kii istoriohrafit
non Kohut, who served as acting direc- ["A Story of a Free People”: The His-
tor of CIUS in 1993-94 and, beginning tory of the Rus’ People and its Place in
in 1994, as director. Dr. Kravchenko Ukrainian Historiography], Kharkiv,
was appointed after an international 1996); a survey of Ukrainian histori-
search that began in the fall of 2011. ography from the mid-eighteenth to
Interviews with the three finalists were the mid-nineteenth century (Narysy
held in the spring of 2012, and the z ukrains kot istoriohrafit epokhy
selection took place shortly thereafter. natsional'noho Vidrodzhennia (druha
In September 2012 Dr. Kravchenko polovyna XVII-seredyna XIX st. [Es-
arrived in Edmonton to assume his says on Ukrainian Historiography of
position as CIUS director. the Period of National Revival: From
yr Kravchenkon,e w CIUS director —
Dr. Kravchenko is no stranger to the Late Eighteenth to the Mid-Nine-
CIUS. He has been working with the Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professor in teenth Century], Kharkiv, 1996); a
Institute since 2000 as director of the 2011-12. He is thus well known to the study of the border city of Kharkiv
Kowalsky Eastern Ukrainian Institute, academic and broader community in (Khar'kov/Kharkiv: stolytsia Pohranych-
established under the auspices of the Edmonton. In Ukraine, he has devel- chia |Kharkov/Kharkiv: A Border
Chair of Ukrainian Studies at Kharkiv oped a reputation as an accomplished Capital], Vilnius, 2011), and, most
University and funded through the scholar, a strong administrator, and recently, Ukraina, imperiia, Rosiia:
Kowalsky Program for the Study of a successful teacher who has worked vybrani statti z modernoi istorii ta
Eastern Ukraine at CIUS. The Institute toward the revival of Ukrainian studies istoriohrafii [Ukraine, Empire, Russia:
serves as the Kowalsky Program’s base in eastern Ukraine. Selected Articles on Modern History
for developing eastern Ukrainian stud- Dr. Kravchenko obtained his Mas- and Historiography], Kyiv, 2011).
ies and sponsoring an active program ters (Kharkiv, 1980), Candidate's (Kyiv, Dr. Kravchenko has an impressive
of research and publications that en- 1986), and Doctor of Sciences (Kyiv, teaching record. He has long been af-
compasses local history, ethnography, 1997) degrees in history. His fields of filiated with the Vasyl Karazin National
and literature. In 2003 the Kowalsky specialization are Ukrainian histori- University, where he began teach-
Eastern Ukrainian Institute established ography; the history of universities in ing in 1986. He has also held visiting
a Zaporizhia branch that has been very Ukraine; regional and border studies; professorships at several universities
active in compiling and publishing and the history of Kharkiv. He is the in Ukraine and abroad, including the
numerous oral-history sources. author of some 150 scholarly publica- Kyiv-Mohyla Academy National Uni-
Dr. Kravchenko has also visited the tions, including four monographs: a versity (2003); the European University
University of Alberta and CIUS on sev- study of the historian Dmytro Bahalii in St. Petersburg (2005); the Harvard
eral occasions, most recently as Stuart (D. I. Bagalei i ego vklad v izuchenie
continued on page 3
CIUS Newsletter 2012
From the Director
Passing the CIUS Bulava
In Cossack Ukraine, the head man with the response of a scholar com- this issue of the Newsletter).
or hetman was selected by a General pletely unknown to me—Volodymyr In passing the CIUS bulava to
Military Council that included rep- Kravchenko. After additional corre- Volodymyr, I am confident that CIUS
resentatives of all ranks. Once the spondence and a face-to-face meeting has a bright future. I congratulate
council agreed on a candidate, he was in Ukraine, I became convinced that Volodymyr on his many achievements,
given the ceremonial mace or bulava Professor Kravchenko was the key including his appointment as director
that symbolized his authority. to our program's success in eastern of CIUS. For my part, I look forward to
In a way, there was a similar selec- Ukraine continuing to direct the program that
tion and passing of the bulava at CIUS I initiated, the Kowalsky Program for
this year. The selection process for the the Study of Eastern Ukraine, and to
new CIUS director was quite inclusive performing any other duties that may
and exhaustive. The Selection Com- be assigned to me by the new direc-
mittee included not only administra- tor. I will, of course, continue to be a
tors and professors from the Faculty of professor in the Department of History
Arts but also representatives of CIUS, and Classics.
the CIUS Advisory Council, and the Since this is my last column as di-
Ukrainian community. This committee rector of CIUS, I would like to reiterate
narrowed down the list of applicants to that it has been my privilege to serve as
a final three. director for more than eighteen years.
Each candidate was invited to During that time, I have endeavoured
campus for a public academic lecture, to promote the development of Ukrai-
a public vision presentation and, of nian studies in Canada, Ukraine, and
course, a formal interview. During the world. I strove to make CIUS a vi-
their visits, the candidates met with able and vibrant institution. The many
CIUS staff and interested faculty mem- achievements of the last eighteen years
bers. Each candidate was featured in would not have been possible without
Ukrainian News, Edmonton's Ukrai- Zenon Kohut, outgoing CIUS director the work of outstanding colleagues and
nian newspaper. The university com- My decision proved amply justified. staff. I also thank my family, friends,
munity and the public at large were In 2000, Volodymyr was able to estab- donors, and Ukrainian community
also given the opportunity to write lish the Kowalsky Eastern Institute of members who have given me such
evaluations of the candidates that were Ukrainian Studies at the V. N. Kara- outstanding support. I wish Volodymyr
subsequently presented to the Selection zin National University of Kharkiv. Kravchenko every success, and I offer
Committee. In the ensuing decade, the Kowalsky any assistance I can provide in making
After this exhaustive selection Eastern Institute devoted its efforts to the transition as smooth and effec-
process, the bulava was passed to Dr. establishing and expanding a modern tive as possible. The CIUS bulava is in
Volodymyr Kravchenko of the Kharkiv intellectual space in eastern Ukraine, excellent hands.
National University. My relationship developing international academic
with Volodymyr goes back to 1999. At contacts, and encouraging young
that time, Michael and Daria Kowal- people to take up Ukrainian studies.
sky had just made a pledge to increase To that end, the Institute carried out a
their endowment fund to $2,000,000 very ambitious program of scholarly
in order to establish the Kowalsky Pro- research, publications, conferences,
gram for the Study of Eastern Ukraine. and symposia. Much of this success
As they paid out this commitment in was due to Volodymyr Kravchenko’s
installments between 1998 and 2000, leadership and organizational abilities.
I sought a reliable partner in eastern At the same time, he became a scholar
Ukraine. In 1999 I issued a call for pro- of outstanding international repute (a
posals and was particularly impressed fuller biography appears elsewhere in
D CIUS Newsletter 2012
= Lead Article
New CIUS Director various scholarly projects. He is the John Kolasky Memorial Fellowship
Continued from page 1 founding editor and editor-in-chief of (CIUS, 2002 and 2008), the Eugene
the journal Skhid-Zakhid (East-West) and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow-
_ Boaoaummp Kpansento™ and serves on the editorial boards of ship (Harvard University, 2001), “Best
the scholarly journals Harvard Ukrai- Lecturer in the Humanities” from
~-YKPATHA, ee
nian Studies, Journal of Ukrainian the Kharkiv regional administration
~ IMITEPIS, POCIA. Studies, and Ukraina Moderna). He is (2000), the Petro Mohyla Award of the
a member of the Advisory Council of Ministry of Education and Science of
_ Bupani- cratti3 MojepHot icropit \
the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Institute of Ukraine (2004), and the Solomea Pav-
‘Ta lepRiatsaby eee
Ukrainian Archaeography and Source lychko Prize of the American Council
Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Learned Societies (2010).
of Ukraine; founder of the D. I. Bahalii
Research Centre for Ukrainian Studies
at the Karazin University; and found-
ing board member and first president
of the International Association for the
Humanities. Dr. Kravchenko was also Canadian Institute of
chair of the Department of History Ukrainian Studies
and Museum Studies at the Kharkiv
KPMTMKA National Academy of Culture (1999- 4-30 Pembina Hall
University of Alberta
2001); director and editor-in-chief of
Edmonton, AB
a project to publish selected works of T6G 2H8
A recent publication by Volodymyr Kravchen-
Dmytro Bahalii in six volumes (1999- Teleplione.
ko titled “Ukraina, imperiia, Rosiia: Vybrani
[phone]
statti z modernoi istorii ta istoriohrafit” 2009); director of a state research FAX:
[phone]
[Ukraine, Empire, Russia: Selected Articles on program on collective identities in the E-mail: [email protected]
Modern History and Historiography]
Ukrainian-Russian borderland (2005- CIUS Web site: www.cius.ca
Ukrainian Summer Institute (2006); 12); and a founding board member of CIUS Newsletter
Helsinki University (2010), and, most the National Committee of Historians Reprints permitted with
recently, the University of Alberta of Ukraine (2006). | acknowledgement
ISSN 1485-7979
(2011-12).
Dre avencnoyiaere ceived Publication Mail Agreement No. 40065596
Dr. Kravchenko has been both an numerous awards in the course of
initiator and an active participant in his academic career, including the Editors: Bohdan Klid, Mykola Soroka, and
Myroslav Yurkevich
Ukrainian translation: Mykola Soroka
Design and layout: Peter Matilainen
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Journal of Ukrainian Studies, CIUS Press,
or Peter Jacyk Centre), please write c/o:
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Zenon Kohut passing the bulava to Volodymyr Kravchenko
CIUS Newsletter 2012 3
New Publications
The first was to offer a broad picture
of the Holodomor by presenting a
large number and variety of sources
The Holodomor Reader and writings. The second aim was to
A Sourcebook on the introduce readers to the context and
Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine
consequences of the famine and to
illustrate the many different ways in
which it was perceived and treated by
the international community, as well
as by Ukrainian communities outside
Soviet Ukraine. The third aim was to
highlight the national characteristics
and consequences of the famine and its
relation to nationalism and the nation-
ality question in the Soviet Union. The RIPMGHO-Y KPAIHGKK!I
book's focus on this third aspect of the ICT OPUSHI SRASKU
Holodomor, largely ignored in West- 2
ern scholarship, reveals more clearly its Mos ARMENIAN-UKRAINIAN 5
Bohdan Klid Coampnidle d Aanld eedxitaedn dbye r J. Motyl genocidal nature. BIS TORICAL ACTS
The book, 431 pp. in length, is avail-
The Holodomor Reader: A able from CIUS Press for $34.95 (paper) ing the conference. He passed away
soon afterwards, on 25 February 2010.
Sourcebook on the Famine and $74.95 (cloth).
The editors’ introductions, writ-
On the occasion of the eightieth anni-
ten in English and Ukrainian, discuss
versary of the famine of 1932-33 in Armenians in Ukraine
the context and proceedings of the
Ukraine, CIUS Press has published The multilingual volume Armenian-
conference, paying special attention to
The Holodomor Reader, a sourcebook Ukrainian Historical Contacts: Papers the significance of Lviv and of Profes-
for English-language students and of the International Conference held sor Dashkevych in Armenian studies.
scholars. Compiled, edited, and with in Lviv, 29-31 May 2008 (Virmeno- The volume begins with an article (in
an introduction by Bohdan Klid and ukrains ki istorychni zviazky. materialy Ukrainian and Armenian) by Yaroslav
Alexander J. Motyl, The Holodomor mizhnarodnoi naukovoi konferentsii Dashkevych on the ancient Armenian
Reader contains a comprehensive (Lviv, 29-31 travnia 2008), edited by community of Kyiv. Articles by My-
array of materials on the Holodomor, Kevork Bardakjian, Frank Sysyn, and ron Kapral (in English) and Alexan-
many of which have been translated Andrii Yasinovsky and copublished by der Osipian (in Ukrainian) deal with
especially for this publication. The CIUS and the Ukrainian Catholic Uni- the history of the Armenians of Lviv.
materials are grouped in six sections: versity of Lviv (UCU), was published Karina Pyvovarska writes (in Ukrai-
Scholarship; Legal Assessments, in 2011. It is based on materials of a nian) about the activities of the Arme-
Findings, and Resolutions; Eyewitness conference that CIUS cosponsored with nian Revolutionary Federation in early
Accounts and Memoirs; Survivor the UCU and the Armenian Studies Soviet Ukraine. Hasnik Stepanyan dis-
Testimonies, Memoirs, Diaries, and Program at the University of Michigan. cusses Armeno-Kipchak literature (in
Letters; Documents; and Works of This publication continues the CIUS Armenian), and Vardan Grigorian ex-
Literature. Each section is prefaced tradition of studying Ukraine's rela- amines the manuscript tradition of the
with introductory remarks describing tions with its neighbors and with the Armenians of Podilia (in Ukrainian).
the contents. The book also contains a diverse peoples that have inhabited the Konrad Siekierski deals with Armenian
bibliographic note and map showing Ukrainian lands. The book is dedicated religiosity and cult objects (in Polish).
the intensity of the famine by region. to Professor Yaroslav Dashkevych, the Several articles treat the artistic legacy
Materials for the Reader were great Lviv specialist in Armenian stud- of the Armenians of Ukraine. Iryna
selected with three key aims in mind. ies who played a major role in organiz- Haiuk discusses museum holdings of
CIUS Newsletter 2012
CIUS News
Publications Spur Discussions of Ukrainian History
In October 2011 Professor Serhii
Plokhii, Mykhailo Hrushevsky Chair of
Ukrainian History at Harvard Universi-
ty, visited Edmonton to participate in a
launch of new CIUS Press publications
and to speak about the Yalta Agreement
of 1945 in the CIUS seminar series.
On 6 October, in his analysis of
Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s History of
Ukraine-Rus’ (volume 9, book 2, pari
2), Dr. Plokhii compared the rise and
decline of the Cossack state with the
Ukrainian People's Republic. As Hru-
shevsky wrote his history, his thinking
was influenced by the failure of the
Ukrainian state of 1917-20. The main
reason for the seventeenth-century
failure, in his opinion, lay in the Cos-
sack elite’s betrayal of the masses and its
Launching new CIUS Press publications (l—r): Frank Sysyn, Serhii Plokhii, Zenon Kohut
concessions to the Muscovite admin-
istration. Hrushevsky’s interpretation phy from the Synopsis and the Cossack of Peace (2010). While, on the one
was shaped by his adherence to popu- chronicles to the twentieth-century hand, the Yalta Agreement gave rise to
lism, which dominated nineteenth-cen- statist school; the struggle for Cossack Eastern and Western spheres of influ-
tury Ukrainian historiography. As Dr. rights and liberties; the ambiguous ence and legitimized the repatriation of
Plokhii pointed out, the populist tradi- role of the concept of Little Russia; and former Soviet citizens, on the other, it
tion was challenged in the early twen- recent relations between Ukraine and marked the beginning of a long-lasting
tieth century by a new statist school, Russia. global peace, demarcated stable politi-
represented most notably by Viacheslav Dr. Plokhii also referred to the cal borders, and helped pave the way
Lypynsky and elaborated by scholars in populist-statist conflict in assessing the for the United Nations, with its man-
the Ukrainian diaspora. contribution to Ukrainian historical date of guaranteeing collective security.
Professor Plokhii’s analysis of the scholarship made by Dr. Frank Sysyn. Both events were co-sponsored by
populist-statist dichotomy informed Tentorium honorum is the title of a CIUS and the Department of History
his comments on the new book by Dr. special issue of the Journal of Ukrai- and Classics, University of Alberta.
Zenon Kohut, director of CIUS, Making nian Studies published by CIUS and Professor Plokhii was a researcher at
Ukraine: Studies on Political Culture, presented to Professor Sysyn on the CIUS for fifteen years before taking up
Historical Narrative, and Identity. In occasion of his sixtieth birthday. This his post at Harvard. He is the author
his book, Dr. Kohut argues that the is a collection of thirty-three historical of several works on modern Ukrainian
Ukrainian elite should be regarded not essays. It also includes a biographical and Russian history, including Unmak-
as mere exploiters but as leaders who essay about Professor Sysyn, a select ing Imperial Russia and The Origins of
failed because of unfavorable historical bibliography of his works, and thirty- the Slavic Nations.
circumstances. He shows that the for- four book reviews. All three scholars presented their
mation of Ukrainian identity was more On 7 October Professor Plokhii books before the Ukrainian community
complex than is usually believed. He spoke about the influence of the Yalta in Washington, D.C. (20 November
stresses the importance of the legacy of Agreement of 1945 on the postwar 2011), an event co-organized with
Kyivan Rus’ in developing Ruthenian world order and, in particular, its the Shevchenko Scientific Society
identity; the evolution of the concept impact on East European geopolitics. (Washington chapter), the Washington
of Cossack Ukraine as a fatherland; the His presentation was based on his Group, and the library at the Ukrainian
development of Ukrainian historiogra- highly acclaimed book Yalta: The Price Catholic National Shrine.
CIUS Newsletter 2012 3
New Archaeological Finds in Baturyn
In 2011 the Canada-Ukraine “ravine
archaeological expedition continued
excavating the court of Hetman
Ivan Mazepa in Honcharivka, a sub-
urb of Baturyn. It was constructed
before 1700 and burned during the
destruction of Baturyn by Musco-
vite troops in 1708.
The masonry palace housed the
private quarters of Mazepa and his
wife, Hanna. A newly discovered ce-
ramic tile features a relief cross with
four cross-arms on a Renaissance
shield, which has been tentatively
identified as the coat of arms of
Hanna Mazepa, a descendant of the
noble Polovets family. It may have
adorned a stove in her residence in
the palace. Plan of the fortified Mazepa villa in the Baturyn suburb of Honcharivka (before 1700) by Yu.
Archaeologists working at the Sytyi and V. Mezentsev. Computer graphic: S. Dmytriienko, 2011.
site discovered fragments of costly The expedition unearthed remnants tifical Institute of Medieval Studies
seventeenth-century cut-glass wine of a dwelling that may have belonged (PIMS) in Toronto. Dr. Zenon Kohut
goblets that were probably imported to a well-off clerk working at the het- (CIUS), an eminent historian of the
from Habsburg Silesia or Germany. man’s chancellery or archives. The Hetmanate, heads this undertaking.
One was decorated with a delicately remnants of a wooden court church Dr. Volodymyr Kovalenko (Univer-
engraved landscape. These finds of were partially excavated. A fragment of sity of Chernihiv) led the expedition.
Bohemian or Venetian cut glass and a terracotta founder's plaque from the Dr. Volodymyr Mezentsev (CIUS),
painted porcelain tableware attest to church bearing a Cyrillic inscription Professor Martin Dimnik (PIMS),
the wealth and refined taste prevail- and the relief of a flower was found. and Huseyin Oylupinar (University
ing at the hetmanss court, as well as The text acknowledges Mazepa for of Alberta) are also engaged in the
to the vibrancy of Baturyn’s Western funding the construction of the church. excavations and in the publication
commercial and cultural contacts. A founder's plaque of the same kind of the expedition’s findings. The
with a complete similar inscription, 2011 expedition involved seventy-
also featuring Mazepa'’s armorial em- five students and scholars from the
blem surrounded with a relief wreath, universities and museums of Cherni-
was attached to the belfry (1702) of hiv, Nizhyn, Kyiv, Lviv, Melitopol
Chernihiv College. The inscription (Ukraine), and Toronto and Edmon-
makes this a rare archaeological find ton (Canada).
and a valuable new historical source
Volodymyr Mezentsev
for Baturyn studies.
CIUS Toronto
At the fortress, archaeologists un-
covered the debris of a brick house that
presumably belonged to a Cossack of-
ficer. Six musket bullets and a cannon-
ball found there attest to its destruction
Fragment of a 17th-century glass wine
in 1708.
goblet with engraved landscape, discovered
in the hetman’s quarters in 2011. The Baturyn project is co-spon-
Photo: V. Mezentsev. sored by CIUS, the Shevchenko Scien-
tific Society of America, and the Pon-
14 CIUS Newsletter 2012
Recent Activity of the
Kowalsky Eastern Ukrainian Institute
In the course of the last academic
year, the Kowalsky Eastern Ukrainian in fal
oe ee
Institute (KEUI) at the Karazin Na- = {cvoupancnarwroava |-|
tional University of Kharkiv, supported
by the Kowalsky Program for the
Study of Eastern Ukraine at CIUS, has
been involved in a number of activi-
ties. It organized and held the twelfth
all-Ukrainian student scholarly paper
competition for the Kowalsky Award
in Ukrainian Studies. The laureates of
this year’s competition were Mykola
Khorolsky (Poltava)—first prize, Svit-
2
lana Trush (Kharkiv) and Iryna Miro-
shnychenko (Donetsk)—both second
prize, Viktoriia Solodkina (Kharkiv)— Recipients of the Kowalsky Award in Ukrainian Studies
third prize, and Kseniia Zborovska tion] (Vilnius: European Humani- in late 2012-early 2013).
(Kyiv)—recognition prize. ties University, 2012). The Institute The Institute organized and
KEUI completed the next stage of published a new issue of the journal conducted the following scholarly
its research on the Ukrainian-Russian Skhid-Zakhid (East-West) concerning seminars: 1) a seminar on problems
frontier with the publication of a col- problems of urban studies in historical of reconceptualizing the history of
lective monograph by V. Kravchenko, perspective and completed prepara- early modern Eastern Europe (in
O. Musiezdovy, and O. Filippova, Uia- tions for the publication of the next cooperation with the Slavic-German
vlennia pro Prykordonnia ta praktyky issue of the journal, which focuses on expedition at Karazin University); 2) a
ikh vykorystannia [Concepts of the problems of neocolonialism and neo- seminar on the influence of the Byzan-
Frontier and Their Practical Applica- imperialism (scheduled for publication tine tradition in Ukrainian intellectual
history (in cooperation with Karazin
University and the Department of
Philology, Kharkiv State Pedagogical
Institute); and 3) a seminar on the re-
presentation of Kyivan Rus’ history in
present-day Ukrainian historiography.
It also organized a book launch of the
new edition of Paul R. Magocsi’s His-
tory of Ukraine (see the interview with
this author on the Institute's website:
http://keui.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/
news-173/). The Institute continued
to develop its recently established film
collection and its scholarly library, as
well as its website.
Gi ee
At the book launch of Paul Magocsi’s History of Ukraine (l-r): Valerii Padiak, Paul Magocsi,
Ivan Karpenko, Serhii Strashniuk, and Vasyl Tantsiura
CIUS Newsletter 2012 15
Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of
Modern Ukrainian History and Society
ries. It concluded with current issues,
above all, the labour emigration from
Ukraine to Italy during the last twenty
years.
A new issue of Ukraina moderna
(vol.18, 2011) focusing on borderlands
in historical perspective was published
and launched in Kyiv, Lviv, Uzhhorod,
Ivano-Frankivsk, and Ternopil. To
promote the journal, a new website
was created to publish a weekly bul-
letin (editor: Yulia Kysla). A Polish
translation of Ivan-Lysiak Rudnytskyi'’s
essays (Iwan Lysiak-Rudnycki. Miedzy
historig a politykg; Wroctaw, 2012)
appeared in March 2012 as the first
volume of a series titled “Ukrainian
on Political Thought,’ with subsequent
Easel
Ukrainia n history teachers participating in a round-table discussion launches in Warsaw, Cracow, and
During the 2011-12 academic year the MATRA Fund (Embassy of the Wroclaw. The faculty and editorial
the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study Netherlands in Ukraine), with the staff of the program worked actively
of Modern Ukrainian History and participation of Timothy Snyder (Yale to prepare the collected works of the
Society, headed by Professor Yaro- University), Oleg Budnitski (School of historian and ethnographer Father
Mykhailo Zubrytsky for publication
slav Hrytsak (Lviv), organized three Advanced Economics, Moscow), Yuri
round-table discussions held in Kyiv Shapoval (Institute for Political Studies, (the first volume will appear in early
in October 2011, March and July 2012 Kyiv), Vladyslav Hrynevych (Institute 2013). They also completed editorial
for Ukrainian history teachers. The for Political Studies, Kyiv), Grzegorz work on the memoirs of Dr. Adolf Slyz,
events were part of an international Motyka (Institute of National His- which will be the first volume in a new
joint project, “Memories of Wars vs. tory, Warsaw), Karel Berkhoff (Center series of Ukrainian memoirs.
Wars of Memories,’ co-founded by for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Three doctoral students, Vlady-
slava Moskalets, Dominika Rank, and
Netherlands), and others.
The Program also organized a Kateryna Budzan, took part in the joint
conference on Ukrainian-Italian rela- doctoral program of the Kyiv-Mohyla
tions in historical perspective, which Academy National University and the
took place on 19 December 2011 on Ukrainian Catholic University, which
the occasion of the 150th anniversary is supported by the Jacyk Program.
of Italian unification. It was organized
by the Institute for Historical Research
in co-operation with the Centre for
Italian Culture at Lviv National Univer-
sity. Twenty scholars from Kyiv, Lviv,
Ternopil, Lutsk, and Canada (Frank
Sysyn) took part. The conference
discussed Italian- Ukrainian relations,
starting from early modern times with
a special focus on “Italian contacts” of
Round-table discussion for Ukrainian history
teachers in October 2011: Yaroslav Hrytsak the Ukrainian national movement of
(l) and Timothy Snyder (r) the nineteenth and twentieth centu-
16 CIUS Newsletter 2012
Ukrainian Canadian Program at CIUS:
Moving Forward while Looking Back in Time
with the Centre for Ukrainian Canadi-
an Studies at the University of Mani-
toba and the Ukrainian Cultural and
Educational Centre (Oseredok), the
KUCSC organized a successful confer-
ence in Winnipeg on 11-12 November
2011 devoted to the war years. Titled
“Becoming Canadians: Ukrainian
Canadians and the Second World War,”
the well-attended event featured ten
presentations by scholars from across
Canada. Concurrently, the Kule Centre
continues to direct work on a project
examining the impact of the war on the
Alberta Ukrainian community, while
developing resources on other periods
of Ukrainian Canadian history, includ-
ing current community life and the
most recent immigration.
Jody Perrun (Royal Military College) speaking at the conference in Winnipeg Also of note is the steady progress
In 2011-12 the Kule Ukrainian and Museum of Alberta. The Centre is being made by the Ukrainian Diaspora
Canadian Studies Centre (KUCSC) also compiling an in-depth chronology Studies Initiative, headed by Dr. Serge
at CIUS continued to focus chiefly on documenting the impressive theatrical Cipko, whose book, Ukrainians in Argen-
the task of producing a multivolume activity of the interwar community. As tina, 1897-1950: The Making of a Com-
scholarly history of Ukrainians in both the press files and the chronology munity, was published in early 2012.
Canada, while supporting and initiat- are being assembled in a digital format, Finally, the KUCSC continues to
ing research in a variety of areas within they will constitute an extremely valu- play an active role in building Ukrai-
the broad field of Ukrainian Canadian able resource for students and scholars nian Canadian, Canadian, and Ukrai-
studies. Detailed and intensive edit- in years to come. nian studies libraries in Ukraine and
ing of Orest Martynowych’s account of In the meantime, the Kule Centre around the world, while contributing
the Ukrainian Canadian community at CIUS has forged ahead, investigat- to a host of projects and undertakings
during the interwar era is well under ing Ukrainian life in Canada during that address the Ukrainian experience
way, with new materials found in the the Second World War. In partnership in Canada.
course of producing the manuscript.
The completed work will appear in
Keeping Informed about the Work of the KUCSC
two installments so as to preserve as
much as possible of the original and The Kule Ukrainian Canadian Studies Centre at CIUS issues two
extensive research. The objective is to bulletins that provide information relevant to its areas of study.
provide an informed, comprehensive, The first, “Field Notes from Ukrainian Canada,’ is a quarterly
and engaging narrative of the chal- electronic newsletter that features details concerning research,
lenging but vibrant years between the
publication, and conference activities pertaining to the history
First and Second World Wars. As part
and cultural life of Ukrainians in CanadaT.h e second, “Ukrainians
of its ongoing research on the period,
Abroad: News and Views,’ is an irregular digital compilation of
the KUCSC has amassed extensive files
articles about Ukrainians in the world-wide diaspora.T o subscribe
on mainstream Canadian press cover-
to the former contact [email protected], and for the latter
age of Ukrainian issues from 1924 to
1939, copies of which will be deposited contact [email protected].
at the Ukrainian Canadian Archives
CIUS Newsletter 2012 17
Research Program on Religion and Culture
A major undertaking of the pro- University’s Endowment Fund for the pora. One researcher who looked at the
gram in 2011-12 was the preparation Future and from the Social Sciences inventory enthused that the collection is
of an inventory of the archival collec- and Humanities Research Council, the a “Klondike” for scholars of twentieth-
tion of the Very Reverend Tymofiy Research Program on Religion and century Ukrainian Orthodoxy. The
Minenko (1929-2006). Father Minen- Culture hired Dr. Taras Kurylo to inven- collection is open to researchers. A copy
ko, who was born in Poltava, served tory the entire collection. This work was of the inventory may be obtained from
the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as a completed in April 2012. the director of the Research Program on
priest in both the United States and The Minenko collection is huge, Religion and Culture, Professor John-
Canada. He was entrusted with pas- comprising more than two thousand Paul Himka ([email protected]).
toral work in such major centres as files in 119 archival boxes. Its particu- In addition, the program's Sanctuary
New York, Toronto, and Winnipeg. lar strengths are in the history of the Project photographed more than a hun-
He served the Ukrainian Orthodox Ukrainian Orthodox churches during dred Ukrainian churches in Alberta and
Church of Canada (UOCC) in impor- World War II and in the postwar dias- Saskatchewan in the summer of 2011.
tant capacities, including as editor of
its newspaper, Visnyk (1975-85).
Stasiuk Program for the Study of
Contemporary Ukraine
The most important event of the United Kingdom, Canada, the
2011-12 for the Stasiuk Program United States, and Ukraine. Full de-
was the workshop “Independent tails of the conference can be found
Ukraine: Twenty Years On,’ co-orga- at: http://timescape.mml.cam.ac.uk/
nized with the University of Cam- ref35/independent%20ukraine%20
bridge and the University of Western workshop.html.
Ontario. The workshop, hosted by Throughout the year, lively
Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, took articles were posted and debates
place at the University of Cambridge took place on the Stasiuk blog site,
on 7-8 December 2011. It featured Current Politics in Ukraine. Its fea-
a keynote address by Oles Donii, a tured contributor was once again the
student leader in 1989-91 and cur- Ukrainian political analyst Mykola
rently a parliamentary deputy, and Riabchuk. Articles on the popular
panels on economics, culture and site drew many visitors, and articles
society, and politics. The idea for the were republished in a variety of ven-
‘Father Tymofiy Minenko workshop derived from meetings ues, including the Stasiuk Program
Intensely interested in the history of held last spring between the director partner Open Democracy Russia,
Ukrainian Orthodoxy in the twentieth of the Stasiuk Program, Professor the Kyiv Post, and the Ukrainian
century, Father Minenko travelled to David R. Marples, and Professor Weekly. A compilation of Mr. Riab-
European archives and photocopied Marta Dyczok of the University of chuk’s articles for the site, edited by
relevant documentation. He also Western Ontario. The fundamentals David Marples, has been published
obtained voluminous documenta- of organization were the responsi- as a new book: Gleichschaltung: Au-
tion from the consistorial records of bility of Dr. Rory Finnin, director thoritarian Consolidation in Ukraine,
the UOCC. He clipped articles from
of the Ukrainian Studies program 2010-2012 (Kyiv: K.1.S., 2012). Two
the press and collected publications, at the University of Cambridge, as- students assisted with research for
ephemera, and photographs relevant sisted by Tanya Zaharchenko, a doc- articles published on the site by
to Ukrainian Orthodox history in toral student in Ukrainian literature Dr. Marples: Oleksandr Melnyk,
Ukraine and abroad.
at Cambridge. Sponsors included the Ph.D. candidate at the University
In 2009 Father Minenkos son Mark
Peter Jacyk Program for the Study of Toronto, and Eduard Baidaus,
donated his father’s materials to the of Modern Ukrainian History and Ph.D. candidate at the University of
University of Alberta Archives. With
Society. Speakers attended from Alberta.
some additional funding from the
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