Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture
In memory of Danylo Husar Struk (1940-1999), the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies has established The Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture as part of the Danylo Husar Struk Programme in Ukrainian Literature at the Toronto office of CIUS.
The 20th Annual Struk Memorial Lecture, entitled "A Flâneur in Pidmohylny's City," was delivered by Oksana Lutsyshyna on Wednesday, May 1, 2019.
The 21st Annual Lecture will be delivered online by Rory Finnin on May 6, 2021. Details are here or scroll down in the table below.
| 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) |
* 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.