Shevchenko Lecture
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 Russo-Ukrainian War through a Historian’s Eyes
2026 Annual Shevchenko Lecture
With Serhii Plokhy
Friday 6 March 2026 | 6:30 p.m. MST
In person and online
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
From the Archives
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.
47th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/176
46th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/203
Listen to the recording: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2101
45th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Listen to the recording: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2089
44th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Read More on page 23 of the CIUS Newsletter 2010: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1617
43rd Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Listen to the recording: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2082
42nd Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Listen to the recording: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2065
41st Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Read More: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2052
40th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
CIUS Newsletter 2006, page 27: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1613
Page 9, 2005 CIUS Newsletter: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1612
38th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/358
37th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/389
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
35th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/425
34th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1605
CIUS Newsletter 2002, Page 38.
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
32nd Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
CIUS Newsletter 1998, Page 27: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1603
31st Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
CIUS Newsletter 1997, Page 32: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1602
30th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2409
29th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2382
28th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2436
27th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
CIUS Newsletter, 1992, page 22: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1599
26th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
CIUS Newsletter, 1991, page 14: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1598
25th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Read more: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-12860-0_11
24th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
CIUS Newsletter, 1989, page 15: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1596
23rd Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
CIUS Newsletter, 1988, page 15: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1595
22nd Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
CIUS Newsletter, 1987, page 2: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1593
21st Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
CIUS Newsletter, 1986, page 9: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1591
20th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
CIUS Newsletter, 1985, page 4: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1590
18th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
CIUS Newsletter, 1983, page 2: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1584
17th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
CIUS Newsletter, 1982, page 2: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1581
16th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
CIUS Newsletter, 1981, page 2: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1578
15th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
CIUS Newsletter Vol 4 Issue 2 (Winter 1980), page 5: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1575
14th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
Read more: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/2022
13th Annual Shevchenko Lecture.
CIUS Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 4 (Spring 1978), page 1: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1569
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.
See photos: https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1662