Shevchenko Lecture

 

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Serving since 1966 as a forum for important intellectual discussions concerning Ukrainian history, nation building, language, literature, culture, and identity. As the institute’s oldest and most eminent invited lecture, it attests to our commitment to build and disseminate knowledge about Ukraine and Ukrainians in the world.

The annual Shevchenko Lecture is organized by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, and co-sponsored with the Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Association (Edmonton) and the Alberta Foundation for Ukrainian Education Society.

2025 Annual Shevchenko Lecture

Yaroslav Hrytsak

Putin's Attack on Ukraine: Why Timing Matters 

 

2024 Annual Shevchenko Lecture

Ihor Ostash

Ukrainian Cultural Treasures Under Threat From Russian Aggression:
Losses, Protections, and Repatriation

 

2023 Annual Shevchenko Lecture

Alexander Vindman

The Russia-Ukraine War: Roots and geopolitical context

 

2022 Annual Shevchenko Lecture

Frank Sysyn

In Pursuit of the Past and the Future: Reflections on a Career in Ukrainian Studies from the 1960s to the 2020s

 

2021 Annual Shevchenko Lecture 

Dominique Arel

Revisiting Maidan Seven Years Later: Violence, Regime Change, and the Clash of Narratives

 

2015 | Andrey Kurkov | How Many Maidans Does Ukraine Need to Become Different?

49th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Article on page 19 of the 2016 CIUS Newsletter: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1622

More in the Edmonton Journal. 

2014 | Tamara Hundorova | A Different Shevchenko: What is Kobzar Darmohrai Speaking About?
48th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/145
2013 | Kateryna Levchenko | Indifference to the Violation of Women’s Rights in Ukraine as a Social Problem

47th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/176

2012 | James Sherr | Ukraine at the Crossroads

46th Annual Shevchenko Lecture. 

Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/203

Listen to the recording: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2101 

2011 | Oleh Ilnytzkyj | Shevchenko and Gogol' (Hohof): The Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Imperial Culture

45th Annual Shevchenko Lecture. 
Listen to the recording: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2089 

2010 | Oksana Kis | Beauty will Save the World!' Normative Femininity as a Political Image of Yulia Tymoshenko

44th Annual Shevchenko Lecture. 
Read More on page 23 of the CIUS Newsletter 2010:  https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1617

2009 | Natalka Husar and Janice Kulyk Keefer | Blood in the Borshch: An Illustrated Talk on Contemporary Ukraine

43rd Annual Shevchenko Lecture. 
Listen to the recording: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2082 

2008 | Myroslav Shkandrij | Representations of the Jew in Ukrainian Literature

42nd Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Listen to the recording: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2065

2007 | Peter J. Potichnyj | The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA): What Have We Learned 65 Years After Its Founding?

41st Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Read More: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2052

2006 | David Marples | Chornobyl (Chernobyl) in Perspective: The Twentieth Anniversary of a Nuclear Disaster

40th Annual Shevchenko Lecture. 
CIUS Newsletter 2006, page 27: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1613

2005 | Roman Serbyn | Myth and Memory: The ‘Great Fatherland War’ and the Formation of Soviet Ukrainian Identity
39th Annual Shevchenko Lecture. 
Page 9, 2005 CIUS Newsletter: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1612
2004 | Mykola Ryabchuk | From ‘Dysfunctional’ to “Blackmail’ State: Paradoxes of the Post-Soviet Transition

38th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/358 

2003 | Orest Kruhlak | Multiculturalism in Canada: What Was Intended and What Has It Become?

37th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/389 

2002 | Ostap Hawaleshika | On Ukraine's achievements in aerospace science and technology

36th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

Read more on page 16, CIUS Newsletter 2002: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1607 

See photos: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2309 

2001 | Oleksandr Pavliuk | A Challenging Decade: Ukraine and the West, 1991-2001

35th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/425

2000 | Chrystia Freeland and Roma Hadzewycz | Ukrainians in the Western Media: A Maligned Minority?

34th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1605

CIUS Newsletter 2002, Page 38.

1999 | Grzegorz Nowak and Virko Baley | Concert Chat with Two Maestros: On Ukrainian classical music

33rd Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

Read more in the CIUS Newsletter 1999, page 37: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1604 

This year’s Shevchenko lecture, sponsored jointly by CIUS and the Ukrainian Professional and Business Club of Edmonton, was a unique event — a prelude to an Edmonton Symphony concert devoted to Ukrainian composers. Two maestros spoke: Grzegorz Nowak, conductor of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, and Virko Baley, a faculty member of the University of Southern Nevada. Dr. Debra Cairns of the University of Alberta Music Department moderated the discussion about the state of East European music and, in particular, about Ukrainian classical music before and after the
fall of the Iron Curtain. The lecture and the reception that followed were well attended and given good coverage by university and city media.

See photos here: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2337 
https://cius-archives.ca/files/show/3608 

1998 | Roman Onufrijchuk | Television Programming and the Internet: What’s the Future for the Ukrainian Canadian Community?

32nd Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

CIUS Newsletter 1998, Page 27: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1603

1996 | David Marples | Chornobyl: Its Health, Environmental, and Economic Impact on Ukraine

31st Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

CIUS Newsletter 1997, Page 32: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1602 

1995 | Mark Von Hagen | Rethinking Ukrainian History: Russian and East European Studies Face an Independent Ukraine

30th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2409

1994 | Manoly Lupul | Multiculturalism, Ethnic Studies and the Economic Crisis in Alberta

29th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2382 

1993 | Levko Lukianenko | Building an Independent Ukraine: Current Policies and Future Tasks

28th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2436 

1993 | Levko Lukianenko | Building an Independent Ukraine: Current Policies and Future Tasks

28th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2436 

1992 | Roman Laba | The End of the Soviet Union: An Illustrated Lecture

27th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

CIUS Newsletter, 1992, page 22: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1599 

1991 | William Thorsell | Canada Reconsidered: Facing Facts and Reforming to Survive

26th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

CIUS Newsletter, 1991, page 14: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1598 

Photo: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2336 

1989 | Iurii Shcherbak | Lessons of Chernobyl

24th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

CIUS Newsletter, 1989, page 15:  https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1596 

1988 | Bohdan Bociurkiw | Christianity in Contemporary Ukraine and the Politics of the Millennium

23rd Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

CIUS Newsletter, 1988, page 15: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1595 

1987 | Bohdan Rubchak | Shevchenko and the Émigré Writer

22nd Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

CIUS Newsletter, 1987, page 2: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1593 

1986 | Virko Baley | Contemporary Music in Soviet Ukraine

21st Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

CIUS Newsletter, 1986, page 9: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1591 

1985 | Radoslav Zuk | Ukrainian Tradition and the Twentieth Century

20th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

CIUS Newsletter, 1985, page 4: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1590 

1983 | James E. Mace | The Famine of 1933 in Ukraine

18th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

CIUS Newsletter, 1983, page 2:  https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1584 

1982 | Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak | Feminism in Ukrainian History

17th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

CIUS Newsletter, 1982, page 2: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1581 

1981 | Vasyl Markus | Church and State in Kievan Rus ' -Ukraine

16th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

CIUS Newsletter, 1981, page 2: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1578 

1980 | Wsevolod Isajiw | Ukrainians in the Canadian City

15th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

CIUS Newsletter Vol 4 Issue 2 (Winter 1980), page 5: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1575 

1979 | Roman Szporluk | Ukraine since 1945: A Study in Modem History

14th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2022 

1978 | Myrna Kostash | All of Baba’s Children: Between the Lines of Ukrainian-Canadian Historiography

13th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

CIUS Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 4 (Spring 1978), page 1: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1569 

1977 | Robert B. Klymasz | Ukrainian Folklore in Canada: The Big Put-Down

12th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.

CIUS Newsletter Vol 1 Issue 3 (Spring 1977), page 2: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1564

1977 was the first year the Shevchenko lecture became co-sponsored by CIUS. 

1966 | George Y. Shevelov | On Shevchenko tradition in the Ukrainian language

1st Annual Shevchenko Lecture, 29 March 1966.