Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture

Founded in 1999 to honour the memory of Danylo Husar Struk (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.

 

Date Speaker Lecture Title Audio & Video*
June 2, 2000 Prof. Marko Pavlyshyn
Monash University, Melbourne
Re-Reading the Classics in a Post-Soviet World:
The Case of Ol'ha Kobylians'ka
Audio 55:08
May 11, 2001 Prof. George G. Grabowicz
Dmytro Chyzhevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian Literature, Harvard University
Taras Shevchenko as a National Poet:
A comparison with Pushkin and Mickiewicz.
Audio 67:56
May 26, 2002 Prof. Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj
University of Alberta
Deconstructing Gogol's / Hohol's Two 'Souls' Audio 40:30
May 3, 2003 Prof. Vitaly Chernetsky
Columbia University
Ukrainian Literature in the Age of Globalization: How Contemporary Authors Respond to the Changing World Audio 66:29
May 14, 2004 Prof. Taras Koznarsky
University of Toronto
Kyiv through Myth and Imagination Audio 55:04
May 6, 2005 Dr. Maria Rewakowicz
Neporany Fellow, Columbia University
Eros and Exile: Poetic Visions of the New York Group Audio 63:01
May 26, 2006 Prof. Maxim Tarnawsky
University of Toronto
The Literary Fallout of Chornobyl

Audio 61:17

May 18, 2007 Prof. Myroslav Shkandrij
University of Manitoba
Kyiv Under the German Occupation, 1941-1943: Dokia Humenna's Memoirs Audio 55:51
May 16, 2008

Dr. Mark Andryczyk
Columbia University

New Images of the Intellectual in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature Audio 51:29
Video excerpt.
May 15, 2009

Dr. Tamara Hundorova
Academy of Sciences, Ukraine

 

Ukrainian Literary Populism Unveiled: The Question of Popular Literature
Video Tribute to Danylo Husar Struk on the 10th Anniversary of his passing
Television report on the Lecture and Reception on Omni TV's Ukrainian program 'Objektyv.'

 

Audio 58.53

Video excerpt.
June 4, 2010

Prof. Natalia Pylypiuk
University of Alberta

 

Mystical Narcissism in the Poetry of Vasyl' Stus Audio 76:19
Video
May 14, 2011 Dr. Marko R. Stech
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
York University, Toronto
Mykola Kulish and the Devil:
Exploring the Revolution as a Demonic Phenomenon
Audio 75:04
Video
May 18, 2012 Prof. Valentyna Kharkhun
Mykola Hohol State University of Nizhyn
Depictions of WWII in Ukrainian Socialist Realist Literature (1941-1943) Audio 66:29
Video Presentation (Powerpoint slides)
April 26, 2013

Dr. Mykola Soroka
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies

 

Between Homeland and Hostland: Volodymyr Vynnychenko as a Displaced Writer.
Lecture and book presentation: Faces of Displacement: The Writings of Volodymyr Vynnychenko.
Audio 61:44
May 3, 2014

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

 

Back to the Village: Folklore and Folk Beliefs in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature.
The event included a presentation of Prof. Naydan's newest anthology of translations: Herstories: An Anthology Of New Ukrainian Women Prose Writers.
Audio 59:44
Video excerpt
May 22, 2015

Prof. George Mihaychuk
Georgetown University

 

The Curse of the Province in Early 19th Century Ukrainian Literature. Audio 54:09
Video excerpt
Pictures
May 13, 2016

Mykola Riabchuk, Senior Research Fellow
Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, AoSU

Fulbright Research Fellow, George Washington Univ.

 

Literary Criticism as Sacrilege: Turning the Iconostasis into a National Canon Audio 43:30
Video
Pictures
April 3, 2017

Olha Luchuk, Associate Professor,
Department of Foreign Languages,
Faculty of International Relations,
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
CIUS John Kolasky Fellow, 2017.

 

A Ukrainian Animal Farm: Translating George Orwell Audio 1:04:17
Video
Pictures
May 3, 2018 Serhy Yekelchyk,
Professor of History and Slavic Studies University of Victoria.
The Last Debate with Stalin: Ukrainian Writers in Moscow, 1929 Audio 59:56
Video
Pictures
May 1, 2019

Oksana Lutsyshyna
Slavic and Eurasian Studies
University of Texas at Austin

 

A Flâneur in Pidmohylny's City Audio 52:17
D.H. Struk Tribute
Pictures
May 6, 2021

Rory Finnin,
University Senior Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies University of Cambridge, UK.

 

VUFKU and Vyshnia: Exploring Cultural Synergies in the 1920s
Thursday, May 6, 2021, 2:00 PM (EST)
Zoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83697427605
Or on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/StrukProgramme
Video (TBA after the event)
June 14, 2022 Oleksandr Averbuch
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta
Ahatanhel Krymskyi's Transgressions: Gender, Language, National Identity  
May 12, 2023

 

Prof. Olena Haleta,
Lviv University &
Ukr. Catholic University
Visiting Prof. Harvard University

To Be (With) the Other: Sophia Yablonska's Travelogues as Modernist Auto-narrative
Video on YouTube
Video on Facebook

 

* 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.