aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture -- 2007

["Maxim Tarnawsky," <tarn@chass.utoronto.ca>]

The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
at the University of Toronto
is pleased to announce the
Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture

Prof. Myroslav Shkandrij
of  the University of Manitoba

will speak on the topic:

Kyiv Under the German Occupation, 1941-1943: Dokia Humenna's
Memoirs.

The lecture will take place on Friday, May 18, 2007 in University
College, rm 140 on the campus of the University of Toronto.

Admission to the lecture is free. Everyone is welcome.
http://www.utoronto.ca/elul/Struk-mem/lect-2007.html

Prof. Myroslav Shkandrij is a prominent Canadian specialist in
Ukrainian Literature. He is the author of a number of major works, among
them:
Modernists, Marxists, and the Nation: The Ukrainian Literary
Discussion of the 1920s, Edmonton, 1992.
Russia and Ukraine: Literature and the Discourse of Empire from
Napoleonic to Postcolonial Times, Montreal, 2001. 
The Phenomenon of the Ukrainian Avant-Garde 1910-1935: Le Phenomene De
L'Avant-Garde Ukrainienne, 1910-1935, Winnipeg, 2002.

Dokia Humenna (1904, Zhashkiv, Ukraine, - 1996, New York) was a
well-known Ukrainian novelist of the twentieth century. She began to
write in Soviet Ukraine, but fled to the United States at the end of
WWII. Her best known work is the sweeping four-volume chronicle Dity
chumatskoho shliakhu (Children of the Milky Way, 1948-51).

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Prof. Maxim Tarnawsky,   tarn@chass.utoronto.ca  Максим Тарнавський

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

121 St Joseph Street

University of Toronto

Toronto ON M5S 1J4  (M5S 3C2 for couriers)

http://www.utoronto.ca/elul/