Talks

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1981Organizer, symposium Ninetieth Anniversary of Ukrainian Settlement in Canada, November 17.

• 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.

• 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.

Guest lectures and film screenings she organized at York are listed in full in the curriculum vitae