Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture

 

Founded in 1999 to honour the memory of (1940–99), a literary scholar and professor of Ukrainian Literature at the University of Toronto. The lecture series promotes interest in Ukrainian literature within English-language scholarship.

Hosted by the Danylo Husar Struk Programme in Ukrainian Literature at the Toronto office of CIUS.


2024 | "Taras and Maxim: Digging the Well", Presented by Maxim Tarnawsky

2023 | "To Be (With) the Other: Sophia Yablonska's Travelogues as Modernist Auto-narrative", Presented by Olena Haleta

2022 | "Ahatanhel Krymskyi's Transgressions: Gender, Language, National Identity", Presented by Alex Averbuch

2021 | "VUFKU and Vyshnia: Exploring Cultural Synergies in the 1920s", Presented by Rory Finnin

2019 | "A Flâneur in Pidmohylny's City", Presented by Oksana Lutsyshyna

2018 | "The Last Debate with Stalin: Ukrainian Writers in Moscow, 1929", Presented by Serhy Yekelchyk

2017 | "A Ukrainian Animal Farm: Translating George Orwell", Presented by Olha Luchuk

2016 | "Literary Criticism as Sacrilege: Turning the Iconostasis into a National Canon", Presented by Mykola Riabchuk

2015 | "The Curse of the Province in Early 19th Century Ukrainian Literature", Presented by George Mihaychuk

May 22, 2015

Prof. George Mihaychuk, Georgetown University



2014 | "Back to the Village: Folklore and Folk Beliefs in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature", Presented by Michael M. Naydan

May 3, 2014

Dr. Michael M. Naydan, Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies, Pennsylvania State University



The event included a presentation of Prof. Naydan's newest anthology of translations: .

2013 | "Between Homeland and Hostland: Volodymyr Vynnychenko as a Displaced Writer", Presented by Mykola Soroka

April 26, 2013

Dr. Mykola Soroka, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies


Lecture and book presentation: .

2012 | "Depictions of WWII in Ukrainian Socialist Realist Literature (1941-1943)", Presented by Valentyna Kharkhun

May 18, 2012

Prof. Valentyna Kharkhun, Mykola Hohol State University of Nizhyn



2011 | "Mykola Kulish and the Devil: Exploring the Revolution as a Demonic Phenomenon", Presented by Marko R. Stech

May 14, 2011

Dr. Marko R. Stech, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, York University, Toronto


2010 | "Mystical Narcissism in the Poetry of Vasyl' Stus", Presented by Natalia Pylypiuk

June 4, 2010

Prof. Natalia Pylypiuk, 91ĸƵ


2009 | "Ukrainian Literary Populism Unveiled: The Question of Popular Literature", Presented by Tamara Hundorova

May 15, 2009

Dr. Tamara Hundorova, Academy of Sciences, Ukraine



 on the 10th Anniversary of his passing
 on Omni TV's Ukrainian program 'Objektyv'

2008 | "New Images of the Intellectual in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature", Presented by Mark Andryczyk

May 16, 2008

Dr. Mark Andryczyk, Columbia University

2007 | "Kyiv Under the German Occupation, 1941-1943: Dokia Humenna's Memoirs", Presented by Myroslav Shkandrij

May 18, 2007

Prof. Myroslav Shkandrij, University of Manitoba

2006 | "The Literary Fallout of Chornobyl", Presented by Maxim Tarnawsky

May 26, 2006

Prof. Maxim Tarnawsky, University of Toronto

2005 | "Eros and Exile: Poetic Visions of the New York Group", Presented by Maria Rewakowicz

May 6, 2005

Dr. Maria Rewakowicz, Neporany Fellow, Columbia University

2004 | "Kyiv through Myth and Imagination", Presented by Taras Koznarsky

May 14, 2004

Prof. Taras Koznarsky, University of Toronto

2003 | "Ukrainian Literature in the Age of Globalization: How Contemporary Authors Respond to the Changing World", Presented by Vitaly Chernetsky

May 3, 2003

Prof. Vitaly Chernetsky, Columbia University

2002 | "Deconstructing Gogol's / Hohol's Two 'Souls'", Presented by Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj

May 26, 2002

Prof. Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, 91ĸƵ

2001 | "Taras Shevchenko as a National Poet: A comparison with Pushkin and Mickiewicz", Presented by George G. Grabowicz

May 11, 2001 

Prof. George G. Grabowicz, Dmytro Chyzhevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian Literature, Harvard University

2000 | "Re-Reading the Classics in a Post-Soviet World: The Case of Ol'ha Kobylians'ka", Presented by Marko Pavlyshyn

June 2, 2000

Prof. Marko Pavlyshyn, Monash University, Melbourne


* These audio and video recordings of the lectures are made with simple recorders placed in front of the speakers. The quality is not ideal and there are portions of some of the earlier lectures that may not be recorded when the media in the recorder needed replacement.