With its growing worldwide reputation, the Huculak Chair has attracted leading scholars in the field from across Canada, the United States, Ukraine, Russia, Romania andSlovakia for research terms, lectureships, and consultations. A founding member of the international All-Ukrainian Association of Ethnologists, the Huculak Chair organizes conferences and engages in publication activity. Faculty and graduate students in the Ukrainian Folklore program are involved in several important projects being conducted in Ukraine and Canada, projects that will make a real impact in the field.

The Huculak Chair has embarked on several publication projects: The Ukrainian Ethnography News is a regular publication about the Ukrainian Folklore Program. The Tsymbaly Maker and his Craft by Mark Jaroslav Bandera and the forthcoming The Word and Wax: A Medical Folk Ritual among Ukrainians in Alberta by Rena Hanchuk are just two volumes of the Canadian Series of Ukrainian Ethnology, co-published by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press. A Ukrainian language series is also planned, to be published in Ukraine.

The Huculak Chair is also committed to a series of mono books to be published in Ukrainian in Ukraine, as well as in English. A new English language series is being geared for a wide audience in North America, introducing the most important Ukrainian traditions and customs. This latter popular series will be well illustrated and accessible to all.

The Huculak Chair is co-publishing, with the Institute of Ethnology in L'viv, a monumental three volume Bibliography of Ukrainian Ethnology and Folklore The bibliography has been meticulously compiled by Myroslav Moroz, and will contain more than 20,000 entries, indexed and annotated, from the earliest publications in the field until recent times. An electronic version of the bibliography is also planned for a later date. This project is very important, as the last systematic bibliography in the field was published back in 1931.

The first agreement with an academic institution in Ukraine was signed in 1989. The Huculak Chair and the Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnography in Kyiv agreed to cooperate in the joint preparation and publication of scholarly works and the exchange of specialized literature and scholars. The Huculak Chair is actively engaged in extensive international contact through correspondence, exchanges, joint projects, and conferences.

Also published: Ukrainian Proverbs, vol 2, collected by Volodymyr S. Plawiuk, compiled, annotated and edited by Bohdan Medwidsky and Alexander Makar, co-published with the Alberta Ukrainian Pioneers Association. The Huculak Chair is also co-publisher (with the Ukrainian Archaeographic Institute) of volume 1 of the beautiful full-color publication of works by Demian De La Fliz. De La Fliz was an ethnographer who left hundreds of paintings, sketches and descriptions of life in Ukraine in the first half of the ninteenth century.