Folklore Lunch Series
Winter 2025 Folklore Lunches
Dusting off the Old Goods: Reviving Old Folkloristic Pursuits
Presented by Dr. Dorian Jurić - Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington and the President of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association.
January 24, 2025 | 12 pm - 1:30 pm MSTZOOM (Online-only presentation)
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Earth Memories and The Woven Palimpsest. Re-engaging with the ancient in Polissian textiles of Ukraine
Presented by:
Kate Irvin (kirvin@risd.edu) - curator and head of the Department of Costume and Textiles at the RISD Museum.
Andrea Mozarowski - a writer and arts activist.
February 14, 2025 | 12pm MST
ZOOM (Online-only presentation)
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Lady in White, Vampires, and Sighthounds: Epidemics in Ukrainian Vernacular Narratives
Presented by Dmytro Yesypenko - a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies.
March 14, 2025 | 12pm MST |
(In-person presentation)
This Folklore Lunch will be recorded and subsequently uploaded to the YouTube channel of the Kule Folklore Centre.
The Current Reconstructionist Dance Revival in Ukraine
Presented by:
Lesia Kosakovska (Lutsk, Ukraine) - Candidate of Art History, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Choreography, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University.
Andriy Nahachewsky (Brussels, Belgium) - the Huculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography (1990-2018), at the 黑料不打烊
March 28, 2025 | 12pm MST |
ZOOM (Online-only presentation)
This Folklore Lunch will be recorded and subsequently uploaded to the YouTube channel of the Kule Folklore Centre.
Past Folklore Lunches
Nature, Memory, and Nation: the Dnipro Wetlands and Kakhovka Reservoir in the National Narrative
The Life of Borys Lyatoshynsky: What Composer's Name Can Tell Us About Our Cultural Space?
The role of Vyshyvanka in contemporary Ukrainian culture, particularly focusing on developments during the War.
Art Under Siege: the Legacy of Ukrainian Monumental Art of Alla Horska and Viktor Zaretskiy
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
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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.