Wolodymyr Dylynsky Memorial Lecture
Features prominent specialists in the fields of 20th-century Ukrainian history or independent Ukraine. Created in 2006 by Myron Dylynsky of Toronto, who established the Wolodymyr and Lydia Dylynsky Memorial Endowment Fund at CIUS that honours his parents.
Wolodymyr Dylynsky was born on 31 August 1911 in Lviv, the son of the Rev. Edvyn Teofil and Maria Stefaniia (née to Yuzychynska). He graduated from law school but was dismissed from his first job for political reasons. Mr. Dylynsky was a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and was deported to Siberia when he fell into the hands of the Soviets. Upon his return to Lviv in 1941, he married Lidiia Kunynets. In 1944 they fled to Innsbruck, Austria, and then emigrated to Canada in 1950 with their daughters, Marta and Iryna. Their son, Myron, was born in Toronto. Mr. Dylynsky worked in various enterprises and was active in the Ukrainian Bar Association. He died after a lengthy illness on 9 July 1972. The fund provides research or publication grants in Ukrainian studies to scholars affiliated with academic, cultural and educational institutions in Lviv.
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and the Breakup of the Liberal World Order
2025 Dylynsky Memorial Lecture
With Lucan Ahmad Way
27 November 2025 | 6 p.m. EST
2025 | Lucan Ahmad Way | Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and the Breakup of the Liberal World Order
2024 | Andrew Wilson | Russia’s Propaganda State: Creation of War Against Ukraine
2023 | Rory Finnin | Decisive Terrain: The Question of Crimea and Its Cultures in Russia’s War against Ukraine
2022 | Andriy Kohut | Confiscated Voices: The Case of Soviet Postal Censorship Related to the "Zapad" Deportation Operation (1947)
2021 | Serhii Plokhii | The Rockets of October: Ukraine and the Cuban Missile Crisis
2019 | Anatoliy Kruglashov | Ukraine’s political reforms amidst а host of federalization and decentralization demands
2018 | Marci Shore | The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution
2017 | Bohdan Krawchenko | Global (Dis)Order and Ukraine
2016 | Martin Pollack | The Myth of Galicia
2015 | Volodymyr Kulyk | Ukrainian Identity in a Time of War
2014 | Bohdan Nahaylo | The Battle for Ukraine, 2013-2014