Featured Projects

CIUS at 50

In 2026, the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta will mark the fiftieth anniversary of its founding.

"As we mark the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), we reflect on a legacy shaped by community vision, scholarly excellence, and a sustained commitment to advancing knowledge about Ukraine and the Ukrainian experience in Canada and worldwide. For five decades, CIUS, based at the University of Alberta, has served as a leading centre for research, publication, and academic exchange, fostering rigorous scholarship and meaningful public engagement. Looking ahead, CIUS remains dedicated to supporting new generations of scholars and strengthening global Ukrainian studies, confident that its next fifty years will deepen and further expand the impact of its first."

Famine as Genocide: The Holodomor in Ukraine

The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) has launched a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) titled Famine as Genocide: The Holodomor in Ukraine.

Seminar series “Rethinking Ukraine’s Environment: War, Ecocide, and Beyond”

This international series aims to foster a deeper understanding of historical human–environment relationships, as a vital factor in addressing Ukraine’s current environmental challenges and envisioning secure and sustainable futures. The seminar series will begin in Fall 2025.

PhD Fellowship in Indigenous Crimean Tatar Studies

The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) and the Faculty of Native Studies (FNS), University of Alberta, are pleased to announce a new doctoral fellowship in Indigenous Crimean Tatar Studies.

Historians and the War

Historians and the War: Rethinking the Future is a multi-year international seminar series.

Translating Ukraine

The “Translating Ukraine Summer Institute” responds, in part, to a severe shortage of Ukrainian-to-English translators — a challenge in the context of the ongoing Russo-Ukraine War.

Ukrainian Displaced Persons in Canada post 2022: Making Home in Times of Peace and War

This project focuses on the experiences of Ukrainian displaced persons in Canada and their strategies in maintaining a sense of home and belonging for themselves and their families.

Undoing the Language of Soviet Repression: Indigenous Peoples of Crimea in the KGB Files (1944–91)

This project aims to develop will launch a suite of AI-based interpretive tools and research protocols aimed at tracking, analyzing, and exposing repressive language in KGB files that was used to erase Crimean Tatars as an Indigenous people of Crimea from historical maps and the social memory of Soviet society, both within and outside of Ukraine (1944–91).