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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 ��������	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 ��������	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	. Lecture and book presentation: .	61:44
May 3, 2014	Dr. Michael M. Naydan Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies, Pennsylvania State University	. 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	, 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	, University Senior Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies University of Cambridge, UK.		Video
June 14, 2022	Postdoctoral Fellow, ��������.		Pictures
May 12, 2023 3:00 PM	, Lviv University & Ukrainian Catholic University Visiting Prof. Harvard University		Video on  Video on
May 10, 2024 7:00 PM	Professor, University of Toronto		Video:  and . .

 

* 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.