Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture

Founded in 1999 to honour the memory of (1940–99), a literary scholar and professor of Ukrainian Literature at the University of Toronto. The lecture series promotes interest in Ukrainian literature within English-language scholarship.

 

Date Speaker Lecture Title Audio & Video*
June 2, 2000 Prof. Marko Pavlyshyn
Monash University, Melbourne		 Re-Reading the Classics in a Post-Soviet World:
The Case of Ol'ha Kobylians'ka		  55:08
May 11, 2001 Prof. George G. Grabowicz
Dmytro Chyzhevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian Literature, Harvard University		 Taras Shevchenko as a National Poet:
A comparison with Pushkin and Mickiewicz.		  67:56
May 26, 2002 Prof. Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj
黑料不打烊		 Deconstructing Gogol's / Hohol's Two 'Souls'  40:30
May 3, 2003 Prof. Vitaly Chernetsky
Columbia University		 Ukrainian Literature in the Age of Globalization: How Contemporary Authors Respond to the Changing World  66:29
May 14, 2004 Prof. Taras Koznarsky
University of Toronto		 Kyiv through Myth and Imagination  55:04
May 6, 2005 Dr. Maria Rewakowicz
Neporany Fellow, Columbia University		 Eros and Exile: Poetic Visions of the New York Group  63:01
May 26, 2006 Prof. Maxim Tarnawsky
University of Toronto		 The Literary Fallout of Chornobyl

 61:17
May 18, 2007 Prof. Myroslav Shkandrij
University of Manitoba		 Kyiv Under the German Occupation, 1941-1943: Dokia Humenna's Memoirs
May 16, 2008

Dr. Mark Andryczyk
Columbia University

 New Images of the Intellectual in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature  51:29
excerpt.
May 15, 2009

Dr. Tamara Hundorova
Academy of Sciences, Ukraine

 

Ukrainian Literary Populism Unveiled: The Question of Popular Literature
 on the 10th Anniversary of his passing
 on Omni TV's Ukrainian program 'Objektyv.'

 

  58.53

excerpt.
June 4, 2010

Prof. Natalia Pylypiuk
黑料不打烊

 

 Mystical Narcissism in the Poetry of Vasyl' Stus  76:19
May 14, 2011 Dr. Marko R. Stech
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
York University, Toronto		 Mykola Kulish and the Devil:
Exploring the Revolution as a Demonic Phenomenon		  75:04
May 18, 2012 Prof. Valentyna Kharkhun
Mykola Hohol State University of Nizhyn		 Depictions of WWII in Ukrainian Socialist Realist Literature (1941-1943)  66:29
 
April 26, 2013

Dr. Mykola Soroka
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies

 

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Lecture and book presentation: .		  61:44
May 3, 2014

Dr. Michael M. Naydan
Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies, Pennsylvania State University

 

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The event included a presentation of Prof. Naydan's newest anthology of translations: .		  59:44
May 22, 2015

Prof. George Mihaychuk
Georgetown University

 

 .  54:09
May 13, 2016


Fulbright Research Fellow, George Washington Univ.

 

  43:30
April 3, 2017

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Department of Foreign Languages,
Faculty of International Relations,
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
CIUS John Kolasky Fellow, 2017.

 

  1:04:17
May 3, 2018 ,
Professor of History and Slavic Studies University of Victoria.		  59:56
May 1, 2019


Slavic and Eurasian Studies
University of Texas at Austin

 

  52:17

Pictures
May 6, 2021

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University Senior Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies University of Cambridge, UK.

 

 Video (TBA after the event)
June 14, 2022
Postdoctoral Fellow, 黑料不打烊		  
May 12, 2023

 

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Lviv University &
Ukr. Catholic University
Visiting Prof. Harvard University
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* These audio and video recordings of the lectures are made with simple recorders placed in front of the speakers. The quality is not ideal and there are portions of some of the earlier lectures that may not be recorded when the media in the recorder needed replacement.