In Many Voices: An Oral History of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
Edited by Natalia Khanenko-Friesen and Jars Balan, with Mariia Burtseva
In 1976, the Ukrainian Canadian community, one of Canada's most established ethnic communities, poured its social capital, intellectual energy, and resources into founding the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, an institution built to generate, preserve and disseminate knowledge about Ukraine and Ukrainians in Canada and around the world.
Fifty years later, In Many Voices tells this story in the words of those who lived it. Scholars and academic partners interviewed across Canada, the United States, Europe, and Ukraine reflect on what brought them to the institute as it grew into an interconnected ecosystem of research and collaboration and an internationally acclaimed centre of Ukrainian studies. From Holodomor studies to Ukrainian-Canadian settlement history, from early modern history to contemporary Ukraine, from language and education programs to Truth and Reconciliation work, the stories they tell move between countries and continents, classrooms and archives, and through decades of patient scholarship to a milestone anniversary taking place in the middle of historic upheavals and global uncertainty.
Assembled in this volume are the narrators' first hand accounts of what it has taken, and continues to take, to sustain a field of study and the production of academic knowledge in a rapidly changing world.