Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky (1919-1984) was one of the most eminent historians and intellectuals of the Ukrainian diaspora. Born into a prominent family of civic activists and intellectuals of Western Ukraine, Rudnytsky was educated at the University of Lviv and Berlin and at the Charles University in Prague where he received his PhD in 1945.
After further studies at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and Columbia University, he taught at LaSalle College in Philadelphia and the American University in Washington before coming to the University of Alberta. A brilliant analyst of Ukrainian intellectual and political history, he wrote numerous scholarly works and essays that appeared in Ukrainian in the volume Mizh istoriieiu i politykoiu in 1972 and posthumously in Essays in Modern Ukrainian History in 1987. His collected works were published in Ukraine in 1994 as the first volume of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Historical Research's series Ukrainian Historiography in the West. Each of these publications had a great impact on their respective publics. The collected works have recently been reprinted in Ukraine. The volume of Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky's diaries, which were discovered in 2014, will be launched at the second part of the symposium.
Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky was a professor in the Department of History and Classics from 1971 to 1984 and a founder of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) here at the University of Alberta.
The Diaries of Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky will be presented by his son Peter L. Rudnytsky (University of Florida),Yaroslav Hrytsak (Ukrainian Catholic University), and Frank E. Sysyn (University of Alberta).
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This event is co-sponsored by the University of Alberta' s Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and the Department of History and Classics, and by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.