PAST LUNCHES OF 2012
February 3, 2012 - Virlana Tkacz
"Yara Arts Group Up Close"
January 13, 2012 - Bill and Michelle Tracy
"Collecting Native American Art: A Personal Journey Through Native America"
PAST LUNCHES OF 2011
December 2, 2011 - Leonard Krawchuk
"Historical Postcards from Ukraine"
November 25, 2011 - Dr. Marcia Ostashewski, Anna Chudyk, Myroslava Uniat
"Perspectives on a Pier 21 Educational Excursion: Intercultural Experiences"
November 18, 2011 - Radomir Bilash
"An Attempt at Presenting Culture. Really? The Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village"
November 5, 2011 - Dr. Natalie Kononenko, Huseyin Oylupinar, Maryna Chernyavska
"The State of the Field: Students and Faculty at Professional Conferences"
October 28, 2011 - Dr. Natalie Kononenko and Dr. Peter Holloway
"Paska Video: Documenting Edmonton Folklore"
October 21, 2011 - Anna Pidgorna (University of Calgary)
"Inspired by Folksong: The Making of an Opera"
October 14, 2011 - Ludmila Nazarova
"Folklore as a Childhood of Humanity"
October 7, 2011 - Myroslava Uniat
"Poetry and Videopoetry: The Joy of Creation"
September 30, 2011 - Dr. Andriy Nahachewsky
"Ukrainian Weddings on Three Continents"
September 23, 2011 - Dr. Natalie Kononenko
"Ukrainian Folklore in Kazakhstan"
September 16, 2011 - Huseyin Oylupinar
"Research Kozak Festivals in Ukraine"
* April 8, 2011 - Dr. Natalie Kononenko
"YOUR Ukrainian Heritage: Songs and Stories on a New Webite"
* March 25, 2011 - Dr. Catherine Wanner
"Reflections on the Intersection of Anthropology and Folklore"
* March 18, 2011 - Dr. Micah True
"La Grosse Maladie" and "L'Arbre de Vie": The Medical Explorations of Jacques Cartier
* March 11, 2011 - Lawrence Kenakin
"Inspirations for Lawrence Kenakin's Ukrainian Art"
* March 4, 2011 - Roxy Toporowych
"Community Roots and Filmmaking"
* February 18, 2011 - Ludmila Nazarova
"Life as Rithm and Ritual"
* February 11, 2011 - Jennifer Boivin
"Ethnographic Film: a Creative and Subjective Process"
* February 4, 2011 - Maryna Chernyavska
"Birth Reborn: Contemporary Ukrainian Home Birth Customs"
* January 28, 2011 - Jiaying You
"Celebrate Chinese New Year in Edmonton"
* January 21, 2011 - Dr. Andriy Nahachewsky
"Immigrant Ethnicity and Symbolic Ethnicity Among Ukrainians in Brazil"
* January 14, 2011 - Elizabeth Sawchuk, MA student, Department of Anthropology
"Babas Revisited: Anthropological Genetic Testing in One Ukrainian-Canadian Family"
PAST LUNCHES OF 2010
* December 3, 2010 - Larysa Sembaliuk Cheladyn
"Assembling 'An Ensamble of Colour'"
* November 26, 2010 - Mariya Lesiv, Maryna Chernyavska, Hanna Chuchvaha, Huseyin Oylupinar
"Students' Impressions of Professional Conferences"
* October 29, 2010 - Cory Thorne
"Folklore, Regionalism, and Migration: Fort McMurray as a Global City"
* October 22, 2010 - Cole Dutchik, Eva Himka, Mihal Mlynarz
"Report on Sanctuary Project"
* September 22, 2010 - Dr. Natalie Kononenko
"Exploring the Folklore of Ukrainian Canada"
* September 17, 2010 - Dr. Tom Priestly
"I Wished That I Had Had Some Folklore Training – Recollections from Linguistic Fieldwork in a Slovene-Speaking Village in Austria"
* March 26, 2010 - Jason Golinowski (M.A. 1999)
a Senior Communications Advisor with Natural Resources Canada
"Earning after Learning - Leveraging Your Folklore Degree in the
Corporate World"
* March 19, 2010 - Dr. Sabina Magliocco
Informal presentation and discussion
* March 12, 2010 - Paul Olijnyk
"Isomorphic Aspects in a Vernacular Hutsulka"
* March 5, 2010 - Harun Kalayci, Harmony Dialogue Group
"A Taste of Harmony of Noah's Pudding"
* February 26, 2010 - Dr. Natalie Kononenko
"Back to the (Post) USSR"
* February 5, 2010 - Dr. Peter Holloway
"Searchable Audio Files: Folklore Interviews"
* January 29, 2010 - Maryna Chernyavska
"Chervona Ruta Festival"
* January 22, 2010 - Jiaying You
"Chinese Folk Dance"
* January 15, 2010 - Dr. Sogu Hong
"Ukrainian Program at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea"
PAST LUNCHES OF 2009
* November 27, 2009 - Genia Boivin, Svitlana Kukharenko, Mariya Lesiv, Huseyin Oylupinar
“Professional Meetings in Folklore and Slavic Studies”
* November 20, 2009 - Genia Boivin and Paul Olijnyk
“People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Observations of the IPEDAK Seminar in Ethnochoreology and Ethnomusicology, Trondheim, Norway, 2009”
* November 06, 2009 - Dr. Maryna Hrymych
“Writers’ Colony: Sub-culture of Ukrainian Soviet Writers”
* October 30, 2009 - Dr. Andriy Nahachewsky
“A Ukrainian Wedding in Brazil”
* October 09, 2009 - Victoria Shevchenko
“Carnival Festivals in Ukrainian and Canadian Calendar Cycles”
*October 02, 2009 - Victor Mishalow, a bandura player and researcher
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* September 25, 2009 - Svitlana Kukharenko
“Do People in Ukraine Still Believe in Curses?”
* September 18, 2009 - Huseyin Oylupinar
“My Observations From Ukraine: Summer 2009”
* September 11, 2009 -
Dr. Natalie Kononenko
“Fieldwork in Ukraine - Completing Existing Projects; Discovering New Opportunities”
Mariya Lesiv
“Studying Folklore in Ukraine and in Canada: My Recent Experience with Ukrainian Universities”
April 03, 2009 - Dr. Frances Swyripa
"Storied Landscapes: Ethno-Religious Identity on the Canadian Prairies"
March 27, 2009 - Joan Margel
Rycroft Babka’s View
March 20, 2009 - Genia Boivin
"Children's Rite of Passage: an examination of the figure of the gift bearer; Santa Claus, Sviate Mikolai and Did Moroz"
March 13, 2009 - Dr. Maryna Hrymych
An Outsider's Perspective on the "Local Culture and Diversity on the Prairies" Project
March 06, 2009 - Film Presentation
"Laughter in My Soul" - Part of the "Legacy To a New Land: A Celebration of Ukrainian Settlement in the West" series
February 27, 2009 - Dr. Peter Rolland
"Blasons Populaires or Something Else?: Questions of Ritual Purity in Kyivan Rus' Culture"
February 13, 2009 - Hanna Chuchvaha
On the Primitivist Discourse and Modernity in the Manuscript Books of the Early-Twentieth Century Russian Avant-Garde: Aleksei Kruchenykh’s “The Game in Hell”
February 06, 2009 - Taras Kompanichenko and Jurij Fedynskyj
Kobzari Musicians
January 30, 2009 - Dr. Andriy Nahachewsky and Mariya Lesiv
How to Prepare a Successful Scholarship Application
PAST LUNCHES OF 2008
* December 5, 2008 - Nadya Foty
"Questioning in Ethnographic Fieldwork"
* November 28, 2008 - Joyce Sirsky Howell
"Children's Ukrainian Dancing Costumes"
* November 14 , 2008 – Dr. Andriy Nahachewsky
"Removing the Bride's Veil"
* November 7 , 2008 – Vincent Rees
"What are you doing with that? Ideas for a future with Folklore"
* October 17th , 2008 – Tatjana Rudy
An introduction to the Kule Folklore Centre Website and a call for submissions
* October 10, 2008 – Dr. Andriy Nahachewsky
Ukrainian Folklore MA and PhD Theses in Canada
SUMMER BREAK
* March 28th hosted Huseyin Oylupinar presenting "Historical Reading of Ukrainian Dumy".
* March 14th John Sokolowski spoke on Tsvytar: Ukrainian Graves and Churchyards in Alberta.
* March 7th was Stefan Sokolowski speaking on the Local Culture Project.
* February 29th, St.Cassian Day, was celebrated with a viewing of the film "Viy". This film was an adaptation of Mykola Hohol's (Nikolia Gogol's) short story. Hohol based the figure of Viy on Cassian.
* February 22nd was reading week therefore we were on break.
* The following week lunch was moved to Tuesday, January 29th when we hosted Burdon, the folk/pop band from Ukraine.
* On February 15th Genia (Jennifer) Boivin spoke on Celebrating Yordan at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village.
* The February 8th lunch was cancelled and, instead, students
were invited to visit Dr. Kononeko's classes where our Tuesday public lecture
speaker discussed her work on Personal Narratives among Ukrainian
Immigrants to Israel.
* Mariya Lesiv spoke January 25th on Neo-Paganism in Ukrainian.
* Dr. Jean DeBernardi spoke January 18th on Religious Syncretism.
* February 16, 2006 - Dr. Natalie Kononenko
"How God Paired Men and Women: Religious Stories in Ukraine"