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 |
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| 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 |
New Images of the Intellectual in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature | Audio 51:29 Video excerpt. |
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| May 15, 2009 |
Dr. Tamara Hundorova
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Ukrainian Literary Populism Unveiled: The Question of Popular Literature
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Audio 58.53 Video excerpt. |
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| June 4, 2010 |
Prof. Natalia Pylypiuk
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Mystical Narcissism in the Poetry of Vasyl' Stus | Audio 76:19 Video |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
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| April 26, 2013 |
Dr. Mykola Soroka
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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
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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 |
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| May 22, 2015 |
Prof. George Mihaychuk
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The Curse of the Province in Early 19th Century Ukrainian Literature. | Audio 54:09 Video excerpt Pictures |
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| May 13, 2016 |
Mykola Riabchuk, Senior Research Fellow
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Literary Criticism as Sacrilege: Turning the Iconostasis into a National Canon | Audio 43:30 Video Pictures |
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| April 3, 2017 |
Olha Luchuk, Associate Professor,
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A Ukrainian Animal Farm: Translating George Orwell | Audio 1:04:17 Video Pictures |
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| 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 |
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| May 1, 2019 |
Oksana Lutsyshyna
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A Flâneur in Pidmohylny's City | Audio 52:17 D.H. Struk Tribute Pictures |
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| May 6, 2021 |
Rory Finnin,
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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, |
To Be (With) the Other: Sophia Yablonska's Travelogues as Modernist Auto-narrative |
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* 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.