Folklore Lunch Series
Winter Term Folklore Lunches
"Malanka in Ukraine: based on Ukraїner’s expeditions"
Presented by Dariia Titarova, , Guest Presenter
January 12, 2024 | 12pm MDT | Kule Folklore Centre
Presentation Via Zoom.
"Art Under Siege: the Legacy of Ukrainian Monumental Art of Alla Horska and Viktor Zaretskiy"
Presented by Anna Morozova, Graduate Student
February 9, 2024 | 12pm MDT | Kule Folklore Centre
(In-person presentation)
"Beyond Kalyna, Blueberries and Hazelnuts"
Presented by Karen Slevinsky, Guest Presenter
March 1, 2024 | 12pm MST | Arts Student Lounge, Old Arts Building & Convocation Hall
(In-person presentation)
Registration Open soon.
"Mockery, Conflict, and Cultural Scripts: How school shooting jokes reveal differences in youth and adult perceptions of school shootings and their perpetrators"
Presented by Brittany Dyck, Graduate Student
March 15, 2024 | 12pm MST | Kule Folklore Centre
(In-person presentation)
Save the Date: Annual Bohdan Medwidsky Memorial Lecture
April 5, 2024 | 3pm MDT
Presented by Mariya Lesiv, Associate Professor of Folklore, Memorial University Newfoundland
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See details of our previous Folklore Lunches, and watch the recordings below.
Coloniality of Indecent: Ukrainian Bawdy Folklore in the Modern Design of Sexuality
A recording of this presentation will be available after the publishing of Dr. Maerchyk's book on the topic.
The Spirits Never Die: Ukrainian Native Faith as Spatial, Historical and Political Construct
Curator's Talk: Dumy moї - My Thoughts: Taras Shevchenko's Story of Empathy and Resistance Amid the Ongoing War in Ukraine
“Writings from the War”: Archiving and Disseminating Testimonials of Ukrainians
Rooster: A Symbol of Resilience in Ukraine
Grief and Mourning Narrative in Ukrainian Social Media
Oral History in Times of War: Reflections on Witnessing the War Summer Institute, Krakow, Poland
Back Home: Crimean Tatars' Stories of Homecoming, Collective Farming and Decollectivization
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Mykhailo Bilas Virtual Museum
Belief and Faith Healing in the Time of Covid-19 - Return of the Legend: Anatoly Kashpirovsky's Treatment of COVID-19
Reda more.
Folk Songs of Ukraine - an online encyclopedia of audio recordings collected by folklorists in Ukrainian villages
Ukrainian Voice - Visual Legacy Project - 4000 Printing Blocks
Local Cultures Project: Our Favourite Stories
Contemporary Legend, Conspiracy Theory, and Covid-19: A Year in Lockdown
Coming From and Coming To: Post-Socialist Diasporas in the Home-Region of Newfoundland
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Steamship Agents During the First Wave of Immigration: Migrants and Historians Tell Different Stories
Hunger as a marker of "normal" life? The last generation of Ukrainian Soviet farmers remembers 1947, and other years of their life
“K” for “Konfiscated” – Letters from the Ex-KGB Archives in Kyiv
The Dream World of Consumer: Department Stores in Early Soviet Ukraine
Screening Folklore: The imprint of film, television, and new media in contemporary vernacular expression
‘… A hodgepodge of Pious and Frivolous Songs’: Ukrainian Folklore in Baroque Manuscripts
The Globally Connected Village: A Ukrainian-Canadian History
"I wish I didn't have to grow potatoes": Provisional Authority, Limits of the State, and Police Work in Ukraine
Folklore Lunch Presentation: Archive of Hungarian Folk Beliefs
Beasts to Bed, Wed, and Dread: Animal Spouses in Slavic Wonder Tales
Thursday, February 28, 2019 Liljana Gulcev
Waxing Away Illness
Presentation by Ashley Halko-Addley
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Flashback to 1914: Early Ukrainian Canadian Comics by Jacob Maydanyk
Presentation by Larisa Sembaliuk Cheladyn
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Contemporary Relics: Folklore Lunch Presentation by Dominika Koziak
"Arts that Saves Lives" by Oleksandr Klymenko - Ukrainian iconographer.