[aaus-list] 9th Annual Struk Lecture was held Friday, May 16th

[Maxim Tarnawsky]

The ninth annual Danylo Husar Struk Memorial 
Lecture was held in Toronto on May 16, 2008. The 
lecture was delivered by Dr. Marko Andryczyk of 
Columbia University, where he holds the 
Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US 
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ukrainian Studies. The 
topic of the lecture was "New Images of the 
Intellectual in Post-Soviet Ukrainian 
Literature." Dr. Andryczyk spoke about the 
depiction of creative individuals in the prose of 
Ukrainian writers of the 1990s. His analysis 
focused on three characteristic images: a 
swashbuckling bon-vivant, an intermediary with 
western culture, and a physically and spiritually 
sick individual. In the interplay of these 
prototypes within the works of such writers as 
Andrukhovych, Dibrova, Izdryk, Kononenko, 
Moskalets', and Zabuzhko Dr. Andryczyk sees a 
changing landscape in Ukrainian cultural 
development and a dramatically new and different 
role for the creative individual in Ukrainian 
society. An audio recording of this and all 
previous lectures is available at: 
http://www.utoronto.ca/elul/Struk-mem/mem-lect-archive.html.

The CIUS Toronto office sponsors this annual 
lecture series to commemorate Danylo Struk, a 
scholar of vision and energy who was the 
editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine 
project and Associate Director of the Canadian 
Institute of Ukrainian Studies until his unexpected death in 1999.

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Prof. Maxim Tarnawsky,   tarn at chass.utoronto.ca  Ìàêñèì Òàðíàâñüêèé
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/