Curriculum vitae

Professor Emerita, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University, Toronto.

• Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures (Russian and Ukrainian), University of Toronto, 1978. Dissertation in comparative literature (English, Russian, Ukrainian): “Taras Bulba and The Black Council: Adherence to and Divergence from Sir Walter Scott’s Historical Novel Pattern,” 454 pages. A study of the Russian historical novel in the nineteenth century, with emphasis on the historical fiction of N. Gogol and P. Kulish and the influence of Sir Walter Scott. Comprehensive examination in Russian and Ukrainian literature, April 1972. Final oral examination, September 1978.
• Examining committee: N. C. Field, Chairman (University of Toronto); C. H. Bedford (Slavics, University of Toronto); K. Feuer, External Examiner (University of Virginia); G. Luckyj, Supervisor (Slavics, University of Toronto); P. F. Morgan (English, University of Toronto); D. Struk (Slavics, University of Toronto); G. Zekulin (Slavics, University of Toronto).
• M.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures (Russian and Ukrainian), University of Toronto, 1969. Thesis subject: P. Kulish, Letters from a Country Homestead.
• B.A. (Honours), French and Russian, University of Toronto, 1968.

• 2019–Professor Emerita, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University.
• 1987–2019Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University.
• 1979–1987Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University.
• 1972–1979Sessional Lecturer, Division of Language Studies (later the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics), York University. Seconded to the Department of Foreign Literature for one third of her load, 1975–1978.
• 1971–1972Lecturer and Course Director in Ukrainian (part-time), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto.
• 1968–1971Teaching Fellow in Ukrainian, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto.
• 1967Ontario Pavilion, Expo 67, Montreal.

• Comparative Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Polish) and English literature
• East Central European film and culture
• European studies
• Austrian Galicia
• Languages, literatures and linguistics
• Genealogy and family history in Galicia
• History of science: the early history of probiotics

• Nineteenth-century Austrian Galicia: multicultural aspects of its literature and culture
• Comparative English and Slavic literature and culture (Polish, Ukrainian, Russian) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
• Subversive cinema: existentialism and Judeo-Christian themes in the films of East Central Europe and the former USSR

• Command: English (native), Ukrainian, Polish and Russian (excellent), French (good).
• Reading knowledge: Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Old Church Slavonic, German, Latin.

• 2018Bahry, Romana M. Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk: Forgotten Chemist of Łańcut and Pioneer of Probiotics / Zapomniany aptekarz miasta Łańcuta i naukowiec-pionier probiotyki. Bilingual English and Polish edition. Polish translation by Leszek Puchała; preface by Roman Plyatsko. Toronto: York University Press, 2018; reprinted 2021. xxiv, 346 pp. ISBN 978-1-77355-016-9.
• 1993Bahry, Romana [Романа Багрій]. Shliakh sera Val’tera Skotta na Ukrainu: «Taras Bul’ba» M. Hoholia i «Chorna rada» P. Kulisha v svitli istorychnoi romanistyky Val’tera Skotta [The Path of Sir Walter Scott to Ukraine]. Translated from English into Ukrainian by Ludmila Sharinova. Kyiv: Vsesvit, 1993. 296 pp. ISBN 5-7372-0016-7.
• 1990Bahry, Romana M., ed. Echoes of Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine. North York, Ont.: Captus University Publications, 1990. xvi, 236 pp. ISBN 0-921801-05-X.

• 2011“Existentialism and the Leap of Faith in the Works of Ukrainian Writers of the Sixties.” In Twentieth Century Ukrainian Literature: Essays in Honor of Dmytro Shtohryn, edited by Jaroslaw Rozumnyi, 194–214. Kyiv: Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Publishing House, 2011.
• 1994“Rock Culture and Rock Music in Ukraine.” In Rocking the State: Rock Music and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia, edited by Sabrina Petra Ramet, 243–296. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994.
• 1992“The Satirical Current in Popular Youth Culture, Rock Music and Film in Ukraine in the 1990s.” In Ukraine in the 1990s, edited by Marko Pavlyshyn and J. E. M. Clarke, 146–164. Melbourne: Monash University, 1992.
• 1991“Skaz Narrative in A. Svydnyts’kyi’s Liuborats’ki (The Liuboratski Family Chronicle).” In Living Record: Essays in Memory of Constantine Bida, edited by Irena R. Makaryk, 35–49. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1991.
• 1990“J. J. Rousseau’s Émile and P. Kulish’s Views on Education.” In In Working Order: Essays Presented to G. S. N. Luckyj, edited by E. N. Burstynsky and R. Lindheim, 57–79. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1990.
• 1990“Soviet Ukrainian Documentary Films and New Directions in Filmmaking.” In Echoes of Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine, edited by Romana M. Bahry, 188–197. North York, Ont.: Captus University Publications, 1990. Ukrainian translation: “Vidvertist ne ruinuie” (Openness Does Not Destroy), Novyny kinoekrana (Kyiv), January 1992.
• 1973Introduction to Panteleimon Kulish, The Black Council, abridged and translated by George S. N. Luckyj and Moira Luckyj, vii–xxii. Ukrainian Classics in Translation, no. 2. Littleton, Colo.: Ukrainian Academic Press, 1973.

• 2011–2014“Subversions in Dovzhenko’s Earth.” Harvard Ukrainian Studies 32–33 (2011–2014): 97–106.
• 2013“Sources for the Forgotten 1912 Discovery of the Probiotic Bacterium Bacillus carpathicus in Huslanka and the Forgotten Discoverer, Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk: Pharmacist of Łańcut.” Organon 45 (2013): 185–207. Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.
• 2012“Archival and Printed Sources for the Biography of the Galician Scientist Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk.” In the proceedings of the international conference Knyzhkova ta rukopysna kultura: istoriia, metodolohiia, dzherelna baza. Lviv: Tsentr nezalezhnykh istorychnykh studii, May 2012.
• 1994“Les’ Kurbas’ Jimmie Higgins: An Expressionist Avant-garde Drama.” Canadian Slavonic Papers 36, nos. 3–4 (September–December 1994): 349–362.
• 1994“Dzhimmi Higgins: ekspresionistychna avangardysts’ka drama.” Slovo i chas (Kyiv), 1994, no. 7 (403): 67–74. In Ukrainian.
• 1991“Rock and Roll Always Lives: The Rise of Rock Culture in Soviet Ukraine.” Compass (Toronto), March/April 1991: 45–49.
• 1990“New Directions and Old Problems in Ukrainian Cinema.” Suchasnist (Munich and New York), 1990, no. 10 (October): 50–57. In Ukrainian.
• 1990“Notebooks of a Snub-Nosed Mephistopheles.” Vsesvit (Kyiv), November 1990: 166–171. In Ukrainian.
• 1988“Existentialist and Absurdist Motifs in the Works of Contemporary Soviet Ukrainian Writers: V. Shevchuk’s Naberezhna 12 (Riverside 12) and M. Osadchy’s Bil’mo (Cataract).” Suchasnist (Munich and New York), December 1988: 18–34. In Ukrainian.
• 1987“Reason and Instinct in V. Vynnychenko’s Notebooks of a Snub-Nosed Mephistopheles.” Suchasnist (Munich and New York), April 1987. In Ukrainian.
• 1984–85“Sir Walter Scott and Pantelejmon Kuliš.” In Studies in Ukrainian Literature, edited by Bohdan Rubchak. The Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. 16, nos. 41–42 (1984–85): 135–173.
• 1984“The Use of Historical Sources in Taras Bulba and The Black Council.” Studia Ucrainica 2 (University of Ottawa Press, 1984): 49–64.
• 1982“The Individual and History in the Historical Novel: P. Kulish’s The Black Council.” Canadian Slavonic Papers 24, no. 2 (June 1982): 152–160.
• 1980“Superheroes, Gentlemen or Pariahs? The Cossacks in Nikolai Gogol’s Taras Bulba and Panteleimon Kulish’s Black Council.” Journal of Ukrainian Studies 5, no. 2 (Fall 1980): 30–47.
• 1972“The Expressionist Experiment in Berezil’: Kurbas and Kulish.” Canadian Slavonic Papers 14, no. 2 (Summer 1972): 324–344.

• 1992Review of Nicholas Galichenko, Glasnost: Soviet Cinema Responds, edited by Robert Allington (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991). Canadian Slavonic Papers 34, no. 3 (September 1992): 329–331.
• 1984Review of George S. N. Luckyj, Panteleimon Kulish: A Sketch of His Life and Times (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983). Journal of Ukrainian Studies 9, no. 2 (Winter 1984): 107–111.
• 1983Review of George G. Grabowicz, The Poet as Mythmaker: A Study of Symbolic Meaning in Taras Shevchenko (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1982). Canadian Slavonic Papers 25, no. 4 (December 1983): 600–601.
• 1979Review of Khrestomatiia z ukrainskoi literatury XX storichchia (Readings in Ukrainian Literature of the Twentieth Century), edited by Eugene W. Fedorenko and Pawlo Malar (New York, 1978). Journal of Ukrainian Graduate Studies 4, no. 2 (Fall 1979): 101–105.
• 1972Review of Les’ Kurbas: spohady suchasnykiv, edited by V. S. Vasyl’ko (Kyiv: Mystetstvo, 1969). Canadian-American Slavic Studies 6, no. 1 (Spring 1972): 342–343.
• 1972Review of Lyubow Kolens’ka, Pawliw triyumf (New York, 1971). Knyho-kliub (Ukrainian Book Club), 1972. In Ukrainian.

• 1981“The Dragon of Kiev.” In Hédi Bouraoui and Saul Field, Tales of Heritage. Toronto: Upstairs Gallery, 1981. Translation from Ukrainian.
• 1973Hryhorii Kosynka, “In the Grainfields.” In Modern Ukrainian Short Stories, edited by George S. N. Luckyj, 155–163. Littleton, Colo.: Ukrainian Academic Press, 1973. Translation from Ukrainian.

• 1992Ukraine in the 1990s (ten documentaries), Artists and Writers (five) and Satire: Legends: Stories (three). Eighteen educational videos, Kiev Glasnost Films, 1992. Producer and editor.

• Hovorimo ukrainskoiu movoiu / Let’s Speak Ukrainian. Intermediate Ukrainian textbook with language drills. Unpublished manuscript, used as the course text for Intermediate Ukrainian at York University.

• 2019Invited author, Biblio Bash, Toronto Public Library Foundation. April 25, 2019.
• 201845-Year Honoree, York University ceremony in honour of long-serving faculty members. February 12, 2018.
• 201850th Anniversary Ceremony of University of Toronto Alumni, Class of 1968. June 1, 2018.
• 201340-Year Honoree, York University ceremony in honour of long-serving faculty members.
• 2005SSHRC travel grant, ICCEES World Congress, Europe: Our Common Home?, Humboldt University, Berlin.
• 1992SSHRC travel grant, international conference Ukraine in the 1990s, Monash University, Melbourne. January 16 to 26, 1992.
• 1991SSHRC travel and small grant for research in Kyiv and Moscow, Perestroika and Cinema in the U.S.S.R. July 22 to September 2, 1991.
• 1991Halle Dissertation Fellowship, New School for Social Research.
• 1990Research Associate and Visiting Scholar, Institute of Literature, Academy of Sciences, Kyiv. July 1 to September 5, 1990. P. Kulish and World Literature.
• 1990SSHRC travel grant, IV World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, England. July 1990.
• 1990SSHRC travel grant, International Conference on Russian and Soviet Cinema, British Film Institute, London. July 1990.
• 1990York University Faculty of Arts Research Grant, P. Kulish and West European Literature, Academy of Sciences, Kyiv. Awarded November 1988.
• 1990Alschul Scholarship, New School for Social Research.
• 1989Canada–USSR Academic Exchange Grant, University of St. Petersburg.
• 1987SSHRC travel and small grants, P. Kulish and West European Literature: The Role of M. Grabowski and the W. Scott Novels, Jagiellonian University, Kraków.
• 1987York University Faculty of Arts Research Grant, for the same project, Jagiellonian University, Kraków.
• 1987Sabbatical research grant, The Prerevolutionary Russian and Ukrainian Drama of V. Vynnychenko, Vynnychenko Archive, Bakhmeteff Archive, Columbia University.
• 1987Scholarship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy for a one-month refresher course for teachers of Italian, Università per Stranieri, Perugia.
• 1986–1989Associate, University of Illinois Summer Research Laboratory, Russian and East European Center.
• 1972Travel grant for study in the U.S.S.R., Poland and Czechoslovakia, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto.
• 1971Saint Michael’s College Gold Medal in French.
• 1970–1972University of Toronto Open Fellowships.
• 1970Ford Fellowship.
• 1969–1971Province of Ontario Scholarships.
• 1969Taras Shevchenko Fellowship for Ukrainian, University of Toronto.
• 1969Princeton University Fellowship.
• 1964McMaster University Entrance Scholarship.
• 1963Kiwanis Music Festival Award for Piano.
• 1959–1963Alumnae Club Award for excellence in English to a graduating senior.

• October 22, 2024“German Immigration in the 18th and 19th Centuries to Western Ukraine (Galicia) and the Discovery of My Grandfather Kindraczuk’s German Ancestry, Part I.” Webinar, Ukrainian Genealogy Group, National Capital Region, Ottawa.
• September 2022“Researching the Biography and Genealogy of My Scientist Grandfather Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk.” Webinar, Ukrainian Genealogy Group, National Capital Region, Ottawa.
• February 3 to 5, 2022“The Spanish Flu and the WWI Ukrainian Military Monument in Łańcut, Poland, in the Context of Polish-Ukrainian Relations Past and Present: The Role of Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk, Łańcut Pharmacy Owner.” Conference Independence. Archive. Prognosis. Ukraine in 1991–2021 and Beyond, Ukrainian Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, with the University of Melbourne.
• June 1, 2019“Pioneering 1912 Research of Probiotics by Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk and His Discovery of Bacillus carpathicus in Hutsul Huslanka in the Context of the History of Medicine of Austrian Galicia and Interwar Poland (Lwów Voivodeship).” Canadian Association of Slavists, University of British Columbia.
• November 13, 2018“Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk: Forgotten Chemist of Łańcut and Pioneer of Probiotics.” Book launch, Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group, St. Vladimir Institute, Toronto.
• June 12, 2018“Galician Town and Lemko Village Museum in Sanok, Poland.” Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group, St. Vladimir Institute, Toronto.
• June 13, 2017“Tracing Galician German Ancestors in Western Ukraine: Lviv (Lemberg) to Dolyna.” Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group, St. Vladimir Institute, Toronto.
• June 14, 2016“Galician Towns and the Search for the Elusive Polish Great-Grandfather.” Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group, St. Vladimir Institute, Toronto.
• June 1, 2016“Judeo-Christian Subversions in Tarkovsky’s Soviet-Era Film Stalker.” Canadian Association of Slavists, University of Calgary.
• June 9, 2015“Researching Galician Towns: Past and Present.” Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group, St. Vladimir Institute, Toronto.
• May 31, 2015“Austrian, Polish and Ukrainian Archival Sources for the Biographies of Galician Chemists and Pharmacists.” Canadian Association of Slavists, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa.
• June 10, 2014“The History of Galicia (Southeastern Poland and Western Ukraine).” Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group, St. Vladimir Institute, Toronto.
• August 2013“Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk: Scientist and Pharmacist of Łańcut, Poland.” Translation workshop (English, Ukrainian, Polish), Public Library of Sanok, Poland (Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna im. Grzegorza z Sanoka w Sanoku).
• July 18, 2013“Sources for the Forgotten 1912 Discovery of the Probiotic Bacterium Bacillus carpathicus in Huslanka and the Forgotten Discoverer, Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk: A Pharmacist of Łańcut.” Warsaw East European Conference, Across the Borders, University of Warsaw.
• June 11, 2013“Biography of a Galician Scientist, Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk: Pharmacist of Łańcut.” Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group, St. Vladimir Institute, Toronto.
• April 10, 2012“Sources for Researching Polish Ancestry in Cracow, Poland.” Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group, St. Vladimir Institute, Toronto.
• August 16 to 18, 2011“The Forgotten Biography of Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk: Discoverer of Bacillus carpathicus.” Seminar and translation workshop, Public Library of Sanok, Poland (Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna im. Grzegorza z Sanoka w Sanoku).
• June 14, 2011“Journey to My Father’s Ancestral Home in Zboriw, Western Ukraine, and the Secret in the Attic.” Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group, St. Vladimir Institute, Toronto.
• April 13, 2010“Researching Ukrainian Genealogy in Vienna.” Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group, St. Vladimir Institute, Toronto.
• November 11, 2008“Researching German Genealogy in Western Ukraine (Galicia).” Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group, St. Vladimir Institute, Toronto.
• October 9, 2007“Austrian Schematisms as a Genealogical Source.” Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group, St. Vladimir Institute, Toronto.
• August 2 to 4, 2007“Religious Symbols in Early Soviet Communist Films: Vertov, Eisenstein and Dovzhenko.” ICCEES Regional European Congress, Humboldt University, Berlin.
• May 2007“Archives in Ukraine and Poland.” Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group, St. Vladimir Institute, Toronto.
• May 27 to 29, 2006“The Portrayal of Religious Symbols in Early Soviet Communist Films.” Canadian Association of Slavists, Learned Societies Conference.
• July 2005“Subversive Themes in Dovzhenko’s Earth.” ICCEES VII World Congress, Humboldt University, Berlin.
• June 1996“Religious Themes in the Films of Paradzhanov and Tarkovsky.” Canadian Association of Slavists, Learned Societies Conference, Brock University.
• June 9, 1994“The Devices of Expectation in the Plot Structure of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.” Canadian Association of Slavists, Learned Societies Conference, University of Calgary.
• June 4, 1993“The Portrayal of Napoleon by Tolstoy and Stendhal.” Canadian Association of Slavists, Learned Societies Conference, Carleton University.
• February 4, 1993“Ukraine in the 1990s: Film Documentaries on Ecology and Youth Culture.” Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto.
• June 1992“The Depiction of Chernobyl in Film.” Canadian Association of Slavists, Learned Societies Conference, University of Prince Edward Island.
• January 24 to 26, 1992“Popular Youth Culture, Rock Music and Film in Ukraine in the 1990s.” International conference Ukraine in the 1990s, Monash University, Melbourne.
• December 8, 1991“Satire in Kiev Art Animation.” Animation in Eastern Europe, National Film Board of Canada, Toronto.
• November 1991“Chernobyl Themes in Russian and Ukrainian Literature, Film and Music.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Miami.
• June 2, 1991“Satire and Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema.” Session Popular Culture in the U.S.S.R., Canadian Association of Slavists, Learned Societies Conference, Queen’s University.
• May 2, 1991“The Portrayal of Ukrainian-Canadians in English Canadian Literature.” Ukrainian-Canadian Women’s Organization, Toronto.
• February 21, 1991“Rock Culture in Ukraine.” Conference Glasnost and the Global Village, McLaughlin College, York University.
• November 30, 1990“Youth Culture and Filmmaking in Canada and Ukraine.” International Youth Film Festival and Conference Molodist, Kyiv.
• November 11, 1990“Popular Culture and Rock Music in Contemporary Ukraine.” Queen’s University.
• November 1990“Tolstoy and Stendhal.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington.
• October 25 to 28, 1990“Glasnost and Satire in Ukrainian Films.” International conference The Spirit of Satire and Soviet Cinema, Loyola University, New Orleans.
• August 26 to September 2, 1990“Ukrainian and English Literary Ties.” First International Congress of Ukrainian Studies, Academy of Sciences, Kyiv.
• July 21 to 26, 1990“Sir Walter Scott and Kulish.” Session Ukrainian and West European Literary Ties, IV World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, England.
• June 9, 1990“Ukrainian Themes in English Canadian Literature.” Centenary Conference of Ukrainian Immigration to Canada, Canadian Society for Ukrainian Labour Research, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto.
• June 4, 1990“Perestroika and Ukrainian Animation.” Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington.
• May 30 and 31, 1990“Glasnost and Filmmaking in Ukraine.” Ukrainian Cultural Centre, Victoria, and Vancouver.
• May 30, 1990“Perestroika and Ukrainian Documentaries.” Session Soviet and East European Cinema, Canadian Association of Slavists, Learned Societies Conference, University of Victoria.
• May 30, 1990“The Current State of the Canada–U.S.S.R. Academic Exchange Program.” Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and Canadian Association of Slavists, Learned Societies Conference, University of Victoria.
• May 18, 1990“Glasnost and Ukrainian Films.” University of Ottawa.
• May 11, 1990“Glasnost and Ukrainian Films.” University of Winnipeg.
• May 2, 1990“Glasnost and Ukrainian Films.” International conference The National Question in the Soviet Union, University of Waterloo.
• March 16, 1990“Kurbas and Kulish.” Kozub Arts Society, St. Vladimir Institute, Toronto.
• February 15, 1990“Soviet Glasnost Films.” Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Russian and East European Program, University of Washington, Seattle.
• February 12, 1990“Rock Music in Ukraine.” Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle.
• February 5, 1990“Perestroika and Ukrainian Films.” Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton.
• November 1989“Expressionism in the Dramas of Mykola Kulish.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Chicago.
• June 1989“Observations on New Directions in Ukrainian Filmmaking.” University of Illinois, Urbana.
• June 1989“The Expressionism of Les Kurbas.” International Les Kurbas Symposium, Stong College, York University.
• June 1989“Mykola Kulish’s Sonata Pathétique: The Expressionist Influence of Les Kurbas.” Canadian Association of Slavists, Learned Societies Conference, Laval University.
• May 1989“Vynnychenko’s Zakon.” Conference on Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences, New York. In Ukrainian.
• April 1989“Les Kurbas and Expressionist Avant-garde Theatre.” Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto.
• November 1988“Surrogate Motherhood and the Portrayal of Women in V. Vynnychenko’s Zakon (1921).” Session V. Vynnychenko: Moralist or Artist?, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Honolulu.
• October 1988“Les Kurbas and the Berezil Theatre.” University of Manitoba.
• August 9, 1988“Les Kurbas and the Creation of a Ukrainian Avant-garde Theatre.” St. Clement’s College, Ukrainian Catholic University, London, England. In Ukrainian.
• June 22, 1988“Biblical Themes in Taras Shevchenko’s Poetry.” Conference From Kievan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine: A Millennium of Growth, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
• June 8, 1988“P. Kulish and English and French Literature.” Canadian Association of Slavists, Learned Societies Conference, University of Windsor.
• April 23, 1988“Expressionism in Jimmie Higgins.” The Avant-garde Ukrainian Theatre, St. Vladimir Institute, Toronto.
• October 1987“The Expressionism of Les Kurbas.” Centennial Conference on Les Kurbas, Ukrainian Institute of America, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. and Shevchenko Scientific Society, New York.
• June 1987“Jimmie Higgins: An Expressionist Drama.” Conference Ukraine in the 1920s, University of Illinois at Urbana.
• May 1987“Skaz Narrative in Svydnytsky’s The Liuboratski Family Chronicle.” Canadian Association of Slavists, Learned Societies Conference, McMaster University.
• June 1986“Existentialist and Absurdist Motifs in Contemporary Ukrainian Writers: V. Shevchuk’s Naberezhna 12 and Osadchy’s Bil’mo.” International conference Contemporary Ukraine, University of Illinois, Urbana.
• June 1986“Reason and the Irrational in V. Vynnychenko’s Notebooks of a Snub-Nosed Mephistopheles.” Session on Ukrainian Modernism, Canadian Association of Slavists, Learned Societies Conference, University of Manitoba.
• June 1982“The Historical and Non-Historical Sources in Gogol’s Taras Bulba.” Session Gogol and Ukrainian Literature, Canadian Association of Slavists, Learned Societies Conference, University of Ottawa.
• March 1981“The Influence of Sir Walter Scott on Gogol, Shevchenko and Kulish.” Shevchenko Scientific Society, Toronto. In Ukrainian.
• March 24, 1980“Cossacks in the Historical Fiction of Nikolai Gogol and Panteleimon Kulish.” University of Toronto.
• January 1971“The Sonata Pathétique: An Expressionist Drama by Mykola Kulish.” McMaster University.

• 2013Translation workshop (English, Ukrainian, Polish) on the Kindraczuk biography, Public Library of Sanok, Poland.
• 2011Seminar and translation workshop, The Forgotten Biography of Dr. W. S. Kindraczuk, Public Library of Sanok, Poland, August 16 to 18.
• 1992Chair and organizer, literary symposium 100 Years of Ukrainian Settlement in Canada, with the writers Janice Kulyk Keefer, Fran Ponomarenko and Gloria Kupchenko Frolick, Stong College, February 6.
• 1991Organizer, international symposium Youth Culture and Perestroika in Ukraine, Proc Memorial Lecture Series, Stong College, January 29 to February 6, with filmmakers and editors from Kyiv. Participants from the U.S.S.R.: Serhii Bukovsky (Kiev News and Documentary Film Studio); Yuri Tereshchenko (Kiev News and Documentary Film Studio); Alexander Rudiachenko, editor of Fonohraf, Moloda Gvardiia (Kyiv); Mikhailo Pavlov (Ukrainian Television Documentary Film Studio; Head of the Young Filmmakers Association of Ukraine, Kyiv).
• 1991Organizing committee, international conference Glasnost and the Global Village, McLaughlin College, York University, February 14 to 24, with a workshop on rock music in Ukraine and performances by the Kyiv bands Perron and Broken Barricades.
• 1990Organizer, international symposium Ukrainian Glasnost Films 1990, Stong College, February 1, with seven filmmakers and editors from Kyiv. The roundtable was published in Suchasnist in January 1992. Participants from the U.S.S.R.: L. Cherevatenko, editor of Novyny kinoekrana (Film News), Kyiv; O. Volodina (Kiev Dovzhenko Studio); O. Koval (Kiev News and Documentary Studio); M. Pavlov (Head of the Young Filmmakers Association of Ukraine, Kyiv); V. Honcharov (Kiev Popular Education Studio, animation); S. Chernilevsky (Kiev Karpenko-Karyi Theatre and Art Institute); A. Stepanenko (Kiev Dovzhenko Studio).
• 1989Organizer, International Les Kurbas Theatre Symposium, Stong College, June, with Nelli Kornienko (Moscow), Les Taniuk (Kyiv), Don Rubin (York) and Virlana Tkacz (New York).
• 1989Co-organizer, international symposium Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine, the inaugural Proc Memorial Lecture Series, York University, January 28 to February 1. Organizing committee: Romana Bahry, Olga Cirak, Jurij Darewych, Orest Subtelny.
• 1983Organizer, symposium The Famine of 1933 in Ukraine, November, with lectures, a poetry reading, an exhibition and a memorial service. Lectures, a poetry reading, an exhibit and a Memorial Requiem Service in the Scott Religious Centre.
• 1981Organizer, symposium Ninetieth Anniversary of Ukrainian Settlement in Canada, November 17. Lectures, film screenings and a reception.

• 1995Chair, Gogol and Annenkov. Canadian Association of Slavists, Learned Societies Conference, Université du Québec à Montréal, June 2, 1995.
• 1992Organizer, Chernobyl Themes in Literature and Film. Canadian Association of Slavists, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, June 1992.
• 1991Organizer, Popular Culture in Soviet Ukraine. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Miami, November 1991.
• 1991Organizer, Popular Culture in the U.S.S.R.. Canadian Association of Slavists, Learned Societies Conference, Queen’s University, June 2, 1991.
• 1990Organizer, French and Slavic Literary Relations. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, November 1990.
• 1990Organizer, Ukrainian and West European Literary Ties. IV World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, England, July 21 to 26, 1990.
• 1989Organizer, Expressionism in the Arts of Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Chicago, November 1989.
• 1989Organizer, The Theatre of Les Kurbas. Canadian Association of Slavists, Learned Societies Conference, Laval University, Quebec, June 1989.
• 1988Organizer, V. Vynnychenko: Moralist or Artist?. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Honolulu, November 1988.
• 1988Organizer, Ukrainian and West European Literary Ties. Canadian Association of Slavists, Learned Societies Conference, University of Windsor, June 8, 1988.
• 1988Chair, Yevtushenko. Canadian Association of Slavists, University of Windsor, June 7, 1988.
• 1984Chair, New Approaches to the Teaching of Slavic Languages. Canadian Association of Slavists conference, University of Guelph, June 1984.
• 1984Chair and organizer, Heritage Language Retention from a Sociological Perspective: Ukrainian, German, Italian and Hebrew. Ukrainian session, Spring Conference of the Ontario Modern Language Teachers’ Association, Toronto, 1984.
• 1983Chair, Ukrainian Language Usage in Canada. Ukrainian session, Spring Conference of the Ontario Modern Language Teachers’ Association, Toronto, March 1983.
• 1982Chair and organizer, New Developments in the Teaching of Ukrainian. Ukrainian session, Fall Conference of the Ontario Modern Language Teachers’ Association, University of Windsor, October 16, 1982.

• 1990Co-ordinator, Ukrainian Film Programme at Stong College, October 9, 16 and 23, with a special screening of animation for Ukrainian language schools on Saturday, October 13.
• 1989Co-ordinator, Glasnost and Ukrainian Documentary Films, York University, October 22 and 23.
• 1989Co-ordinator of the organizing committee, concert by the violinist Oleh Krysa, guest artist from Moscow, sponsored by Stong College, Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, February 10, as part of Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine.
• 1983Chair and organizer, poetry reading by Marco Carynnyk and Marta Horban-Carynnyk: readings from literary works about the 1933 famine in Ukraine, Stong College, November.
• 1983Co-ordinator, photographic exhibition Mama, Bread! on the 1933 famine in Ukraine, Samuel J. Zacks Gallery, Stong College, November.
• 1980Chair and organizer, York University Multicultural Film Festival, for York’s twentieth anniversary, with the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics and Stong College: twelve public screenings in nine languages, October 1 to November 26. More than 2,000 people from the Toronto area attended the evening screenings and some 400 high school students the afternoon ones.

Inaugural Proc Memorial Lecture Series, Stong College, York University. A symposium, art exhibition, film screenings and concert. Organizing committee: Romana Bahry, Olga Cirak, Jurij Darewych, Orest Subtelny. Exhibition: paintings by Feodosii Humeniuk, January 29 to February 10, 1989, Samuel J. Zacks Gallery, Stong College.

Saturday, January 28, 1989. Master’s Dining Room, Stong College

• 6:00 p.m. Dinner. Greetings: Thomas Meininger, Provost, York University. Address: Bohdan Krawchenko, Director, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.
• 9:00 p.m. Film screening: Spring for the Thirsty (Yuri Ilienko, 1965, 35 mm), Nat Taylor Cinema, Ross Building North.

Sunday, January 29, 1989. Samuel J. Zacks Gallery and Junior Common Room, Stong College

• 1:00 p.m. Opening of the Humeniuk art exhibition. Greetings: Allen C. Koretsky, Master of Stong College. Introduction: Daria Darewych, University of London, and Feodosii Humeniuk.
• 1:30 p.m. Politics panel: Dissidents (in Ukrainian). Chair: Roman Yereniuk, St. Andrew’s College, University of Manitoba. Speakers: Vasyl Romaniuk and Petro Ruban. Commentators: Danylo Shumuk and Josef Terelya.
• 3:15 p.m. Reception.
• 4:00 p.m. Film: Millennium, a one-hour documentary on Christianity in Ukraine, directed by Halya Kuchmij (CBC, Man Alive).

Monday, January 30, 1989. Senate Chamber, Ross Building

• 12:30 p.m. Film screening: Spring for the Thirsty (Yuri Ilienko).
• 2:00 p.m. Arts panel: film. Chair: Romana Bahry, York University. Speakers: Seth Feldman, Associate Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University; Virko Baley, University of Nevada; Nick Lary, York University.
• 4:00 p.m. Arts panel: literature. Chair: Richard Pope, York University. Speakers: Bohdan Rubchak, University of Illinois at Chicago; Larissa Onyshkevych, Princeton Research Forum and Suchasnist; Mykola Zhulynsky, Institute of Literature, Academy of Sciences, Kyiv.
• 7:30 p.m. Politics panel. Chair: Peter Potichnyj, McMaster University. Speakers: Marko Bojcun, Keston College, London; David Marples, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta; Stephen Velychenko, University of Toronto.

Tuesday, January 31, 1989. Junior Common Room, Stong College

• 2:00 p.m. Arts panel: visual art. Chair: Joyce Zemans, Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University. Speakers: Gerald Needham, York University; Daria Darewych, University of London; Feodosii Humeniuk, artist, Ukraine.
• 4:00 p.m. Arts panel: music. Chair: Sterling Beckwith, York University. Speaker: Virko Baley, University of Nevada, Music Director and Conductor, Las Vegas Symphony Orchestra.
• 7:30 p.m. Politics panel. Chair: Orest Subtelny, York University. Speaker: Yuri Bogayevsky, First Secretary, Soviet Embassy, Ottawa.
• 9:00 p.m. Concluding remarks: George Grabowicz, Harvard University, Ukraine and the Ukrainian Diaspora in the Era of Glasnost.

Wednesday, February 1, 1989. Nat Taylor Cinema, Ross Building North

• 7:00 p.m. Film screenings (35 mm): Spring for the Thirsty (black and white, 1965) and St. John’s Eve (Kupalo, colour, 1968), by Yuri Ilienko.

Friday, February 10, 1989. Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts

• 8:00 p.m. Concert: Oleh Krysa, violinist (Moscow Conservatory of Music).

• 1986Yakiv Suslensky (writer, Israel), “The Soviet Penitentiary System: Observations of a Former Soviet Dissident and Prisoner.” At Stong College.
• 1985Yars Balan (writer, Edmonton), “Ukrainian Elements in the Poetry of the Canadian Poet Andrew Suknaski.”
• 1985Marko Pavlyshyn (Lecturer, Slavic Department, Monash University, Melbourne), “Variants on an Official Myth: The Pereiaslav Pact in the Soviet Ukrainian Historical Novel Since 1948.” For the Slavic and East European Studies Group.
• 1985Halyna Freeland (lawyer and lecturer, University of Alberta), “Ukrainian Feminism since 1884.” At Stong College.
• 1985J. Marco Bojcun (Ph.D., Political Science, York University), “Famine as a Political Weapon: Ukraine 1933 and Ethiopia 1985.” For the Slavic and East European Studies Group.
• 1983Marco Carynnyk (writer, Toronto), “A Blind Eye to Murder: The Western Reaction to the Soviet Famine of 1933.” At Stong College.
• 1983Bohdan Krawchenko (Director, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta), “The Great Famine of Ukraine in 1933.” At Stong College.
• 1983Nicolae Pavliuc (Professor, Department of Slavic, University of Toronto), “The Ukrainian Language and its Dialects.”
• 1981Paul R. Magocsi (Professor, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto), “The Art and Architecture of the Carpathians.” At Stong College.
• 1981Rev. Dr. Petro Bilaniuk (Professor of Theology, St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto), “The Ukrainian Church as a Bridge Between Eastern and Western Christianity.”
• 1980J. Marco Bojcun (Ph.D., Political Science, York University), “The Civil Rights Movement: Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Czechoslovakia.” Held during York’s Drop-In Days.
• 1980Marco Carynnyk (writer, Toronto), “Paradzhanov and his Films.” At Stong College.
• 1978W. Isajiw (Professor, Sociology, University of Toronto), “The Relationship between Ethnicity and Social Mobility: The Ukrainian Ethnic Group in Canada.”
• 1975John Kolasky (writer, Toronto), “Russification in Ukraine.”
• 1974Peter Krawchuk (writer and editor, Toronto), “Ukrainians During the Depression Years in Canada.”
• 1974Marco Carynnyk (writer, Toronto), “Dovzhenko.”
• 1974Wsevolod Isajiw (Professor, Sociology, University of Toronto), “The City and the Village in Soviet Ukraine.”
• 1974Walter Tarnopolsky, “Valentyn Moroz: Report from the Beria Reservation.”
• 1974Danylo Struk (Professor, Department of Slavic, University of Toronto), “Stefanyk.”

• Ukrainian: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Paradzhanov, Kiev, 1964)
• Spanish: El Super (M. Arce, 1979)
• Russian: Andrei Rublev (A. Tarkovsky, 1964)
• German: Falsche Bewegung (W. Wenders, 1975)
• Polish: Czlowek z marmuru (A. Wajda, 1978)
• Polish: Bariera (R. Skolimowski, 1964)
• Hebrew: Hashoter Azulai (E. Kishon, 1971)
• Hebrew: Dybbuk (I. Eldad, 1970)
• Chinese: Wait Till the Leaves on the Hills are Red
• Japanese: Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953)
• Italian: Dimenticare Venezia (Brusati, 1978)

• 1989Spring for the Thirsty (1965) and Kupalo (1968), by Y. Ilienko, Kiev. Co-sponsored by the Royal Ontario Museum and the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto.
• 1986Zakhar Berkut and Return of the Butterfly.
• 1985Naimychka (The Servant Girl), M. Verkivsky’s opera, Kiev, 1984.
• 1985Return of the Butterfly (O. Fiialko, Kiev, 1982) and Song of the Forest: Mavka (Y. Ilienko, Kiev, 1981). At Stong College.
• 1985Harvest of Despair (Toronto, 1984).
• 1983Ted Baryluk’s Grocery (NFB, Paskievich), Strongest Man in the World (NFB, H. Kuchmij), Kurelek (NFB, 1971), Teach Me to Dance (NFB) and Reflections of the Past. At Stong College.
• 1981Zakhar Berkut (L. Osika, Kiev, 1971). At Stong College.
• 1976Earth and Reflections of the Past (S. Novytski, Toronto, 1974).
• 1975Earth (A. Dovzhenko, VUFKU, 1930) and Man with a Movie Camera (D. Vertov, VUFKU, 1929).
• 1974Song of the Forest and Stone Cross (L. Osika, Kiev, 1968).
• 1973Song of the Forest (Kiev, 1960).

• Russian Culture: Continuity and Conflict. AP/RU 2750 6.0, AP/HIST 2310 6.0, AP/HUMA 2750 6.0 (cross-listed). 2017–18, 2018–19.
• Russian and East Central European Film and Culture. AP/RU 3790 6.0, HIST 3882 6.0, AS/HUMA 3982 6.0 (cross-listed). 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19.
• The Russian Novel in the Nineteenth Century (Russian Literature Before 1880). AS/RU 2700 6.0. 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04.
• Chekhov: Plays and Short Stories. AS/RU 3740 3.0, AS/EN 3453 3.0 (cross-listed with English), AS/RU 4740. 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016.
• Tolstoy. AS/RU 3720 3.0, AS/EN 3451 3.0 (cross-listed with English). 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015.
• Dostoevsky. AS/RU 3730 3.0, AS/EN 3452 3.0 (cross-listed with English). 2010, 2012, 2014.
• Love and Death in Russian Literature (Romanticism). AS/RU 3760 3.0, AS/EN 3455 3.0 (cross-listed with English), AS/RU 4760 3.0. 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2017.
• Petersburg in Russian Literature and Culture. AS/RU 3750 3.0, AS/RU 4750 3.0 (cross-listed with AS/EN 3454 3.0). 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016.
• Chekhov and His Contemporaries. AS/RU 3740 6.0, RU 4740 6.0. 1995–96, 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2001–02, 2002–03.
• Aristocrats and Rebels in Russian Literature and Society. AS/RU 3761 3.0, AS/RU 4761 3.0. 2005, 2006.
• Russian Literature After 1917. AS/RU 3770 6.0, RU 4770 6.0. 1996–97, 1998–99.
• Literature, Society and the Arts: Ukraine. AS/UK 2750 6.0, AS/HUMA 2990C 6.0 (cross-listed since 1983). 1975–76, 1977–78, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95. Team-taught with O. Subtelny (Department of History and Political Science), 1983–84 to 1986–87.
• The Ukrainian Short Story and Novel. AS/UK 3710 6.0. 1985–86, 1988–89.
• Ukrainian Theatre, Drama and Film. AS/UK 3750 3.0. Fall 1982, Winter 1985, Fall 1986.
• Ukrainian-Canadian Literature and Culture. AS/UK 3760 3.0. Fall 1985, Fall 1986.
• The Ukrainian Short Story and Novel in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. AS/UK 2200 6.0. 1978–79, 1981–82.
• Directed Reading: Modern Ukrainian Literature in English Translation. AK/HUM 4700 6.0. 1974–75.
• Intermediate Ukrainian. AS/UK 2000 6.0. 1972–76, 1977–85, 1987–90, 1991–92. Divided into two sections or levels. Course textbook: Let’s Speak Ukrainian (unpublished manuscript) and Ukrainian Language Drills: Intermediate.
• Advanced Ukrainian, Level 2. AS/UK 4800 6.0. 1991–92.
• Advanced Ukrainian. AS/UK 3000 6.0. 1974–75, 1975–76, 1982–83, 1990–91.
• Elementary Ukrainian. AS/UK 1000 6.0. 1972–76, 1977–1993, 1994–95. With unpublished Ukrainian Language Drills: Elementary.

• Coordinator, Russian Section, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics: 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1990–91, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.
• Tenure and Promotion Committee, member: 1979–80, 1996–97, 1999, 2002–03, 2003–04.
• Committee on Nominations, member: 1979–80, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1984–85.
• Executive Committee, member: 1981–82.
• Russian Language Hiring Committee, member: 1989, 1992, 1994.
• Hiring Committee for a History position, Department of History, member: 1981–82.
• Committee on Library, Bookstore Relations and Computer Facilities, member: 1980–81, 1984–85, 1986–87. Chairperson, 1986–87.
• Liaison and Advising Committee, member: 1977–78, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1984–85. Chairperson, 1980–81 and 1981–82.
• Search Committee for Chair of the Department, member: 1981–82.
• Soviet and East European Studies Programme Committee, member: 1989.
• Comparative Literature Course Committee, member: 1996–97.
• Women’s Studies Advisor, Slavic Section: 1984–1994.
• Fellow of Stong College: 1979 to the present.

• Canada Council for the Arts (Killam Research Fellowships).
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (research grants).
• Slavic Research Centre, Hokkaido University (Foreign Visiting Fellowship Program).
• Canadian Slavonic Papers (manuscripts).
• Promotion and tenure files.

• Co-ordinated and negotiated a Visiting Professor Fellowship in Ukrainian language and literature for 1990–1991, between York University’s Faculty of Arts and the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. The visiting professor was Dr. Yuri Mykytenko. The fellowship grant of $16,000 was donated by Mykola Moros, President of Kobza International, a Canada-Ukraine joint venture.
• Co-ordinated, introduced and presented a programme of seven National Film Board films at a Canadian Film Festival in Kyiv, August 7, 1991.
• Co-ordinated, introduced and presented a programme of six York University Film Department student films at the International Youth Film Festival and Conference Molodist, Kyiv, November 1990.
• Liaison for the donation of glasnost documentary films (35 mm) from the Kiev News and Documentary Film Studios, and of animated video films from the Kiev Popular Science (Education) Studio, to the Sound and Moving Image Library of York University’s Scott Library, 1990 and 1991.

• Fund Raising Committee, 1980–81: liaison between the Ukrainian Canadian Committee (Ontario Council) and Dean Harold Kaplan of the Faculty of Arts on the first funding of the Ukrainian history and political science appointment at York. York University Ukrainian Studies Endowment Fund, stage 1.
• Fund Raising Committee: liaison and publicity for the $100,000 drive for the York University Ukrainian Studies Endowment Fund, stage 2, established in May 1984. Wrote the York University Ukrainian Studies Endowment Fund Update, July 1985 (16 pages).
• Fund Raising Committee, 1975–77: liaison between the Ukrainian Canadian Committee (Ontario Council) and York University on the V. Fedyk Ukrainian collection for the Scott Library.
• Fund Raising Committee, 1975–1991: liaison between the Ukrainian Canadian Committee (Ontario Council) and York University on the annual $500 Ukrainian Canadian Committee Scholarship at York.
• November 20, 1981: brought the students of Ukrainian from Humberside Collegiate and their teacher, Mr. Duravetz, to York for a screening of Zakhar Berkut and a campus tour.
• October 15, 1980: brought three classes of students of Ukrainian from Humberside Collegiate and their teacher, Mr. Duravetz, to York for a screening of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors and a campus tour that took in the Language Laboratory.
• From 1973: visits to high schools where Ukrainian was taught, with short slide lectures on Ukrainian culture and meetings with teachers and students.

• 2002–03, 1999, 1998Volunteer reader for Vision TV, Catholic Broadcasting Corporation: daily Mass at St. Michael’s Cathedral.
• December 29, 1999Ukrainian educational and documentary films: Yale University, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
• September 1999Anthology of readings for a Yale University course on Ukrainian literature and culture in English translation.
• March 1997Ukrainian educational and documentary films: Library of Congress, Washington.
• October 1996Ukrainian educational and documentary films: Library of Congress, Washington.
• July 1996Ukrainian educational and documentary films: Library of Congress, Washington.
• March 1996Ukrainian educational and documentary films: Ukrainian Senior Citizens’ Centre, Sudbury, Ontario.
• February 1996Ukrainian educational and documentary films: Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York.
• December 1995Ukrainian educational and documentary films: University of Ottawa.
• December 1995Ukrainian educational and documentary films: Petro Jacyk Centre, University of Toronto.
• November 1995Ukrainian educational and documentary films: Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre.
• February 1993Ukrainian educational and documentary films: Toronto Ukrainian-Canadian School Board.
• February 1993Ukrainian educational and documentary films: Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto.
• February 1993Ukrainian educational and documentary films: Slavic Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
• January 1993Ukrainian educational and documentary films: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.
• November 1992Ukrainian educational and documentary films: Czopa Palijiw School.
• August 1992Ukrainian educational and documentary films: Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Virginia.
• July 1992Ukrainian educational and documentary films: Alberta Educational Council and Access Alberta.
• July 1992Ukrainian educational and documentary films: Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.
• May 1992Ukrainian educational and documentary films: Slovo, Ukrainian Canadian Writers Association, Toronto.
• January 1992Ukrainian educational and documentary films: Monash University, Melbourne.
• August 1991Kiev Glasnost Films: Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute, Contemporary Ukrainian Film Festival, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.
• March 23, 1991Kiev Glasnost Films: University of Alberta and the Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts.
• March 1991Kiev Glasnost Films: CBC Television, The Journal, Latvia, Ukraine, Toronto.
• February 21, 1991Consulting and translation: The Globe and Mail, “Soviet Rockers Find Window of Opportunity” by Kate Taylor, an interview with Kyiv rock musicians attending the Glasnost and the Global Village conference at York.
• February 1991Consulting and translation: National Film Board of Canada, documentary filmmakers from Kyiv and Toronto.
• January 10 to 21, 1991Kiev Glasnost Films: symposium and film series Soviet Society in the Glasnost Era, Smithsonian Institution and the American Committee on U.S.–Soviet Relations, Washington.
• October 3 to 8, 1990Kiev Glasnost Films: Ottawa 90 International Animation Festival, programme Suppressed Films from Eastern Europe.
• October 1990CBC Current Affairs: programme on Chernobyl.
• October 1990Festival du cinéma international, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec.
• July 1990British Film Institute, London: International Conference on Soviet Cinema.
• July 1986Workshop on Ukrainian-Canadian writers in English, for high school students at a summer arts camp in Hawkestone, Ontario.
• April 20, 1985Seminar on contemporary Ukrainian drama and film, for high school students at the Czopa Palijiw Ukrainian language school, Toronto.
• 1981Advisor for a Ukrainian reader prepared by George Duravetz, Humberside Collegiate, Toronto.
• 1980Advised Dr. Helen Semenuk on setting up a programme in Elementary Ukrainian at Mohawk College, Hamilton.
• 1976Advisor on historical background for the musical production about Ukrainian immigration to Canada, directed by Taras Shipowick, at the Odessa Pavilion of Metro Caravan, St. Vladimir Institute, Toronto.
• 1973–77Member of the advisory committee for Ukrainian: Conversational and Grammatical, Levels I and II, by George Duravetz (Toronto: Harmony Printing).

• Television: Hart, youth programme, Ukrainian State Television, Kyiv, July 27, 1991. Aired August 15.
• Television interview and consultation: Fax, MuchMusic (City TV), with Lance Chilton, Kiev Pop Culture, Toronto, March 1, 1991.
• Television: CBC News, with Stu Paterson, on the Glasnost and the Global Village conference at York, February 19, 1991.
• Newspaper: Radianska Ukraina (Soviet Ukraine), Kyiv, December 2, 1990.
• Television: Vechirni novyny (Evening News), Kyiv, December 1, 1990.
• Newspaper: Kultura i zhyttia (Culture and Life), Kyiv, September 3, 1990.
• Newspaper: Komsomolskoe znamia (Komsomol Banner), Kyiv, August 26, 1990.
• Radio: CKJS, Winnipeg, May 1990.
• Radio: CKER, Edmonton, Glasnost and Ukrainian Films, February 5, 1990.
• Television: MTV Channel 47, Toronto, New Ukrainian Films, October 1989.
• Television: MTV Channel 47, Toronto, Ukrainian Magazine, interview in Ukrainian on Taras Shevchenko, March 1989.
• Television: MTV Channel 47, Toronto, Ukrainian Magazine, interview in Ukrainian on Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine, January 21, 1989.

• Canadian Association of Slavists.
• Canadian Society for the Study of Names.
• East European Genealogical Society.
• Gesher Galicia.
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto.
• Ontario Genealogical Society.
• Polish Genealogical Society of America.
• Shtetl Routes: Western Ukraine and Lublin.
• Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group.
• Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada.
• Member of the executive, Canadian Association of Slavists: 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2004, 2005, 2006.