19th Annual Rudnyckyj Speaker

Dr. Serhy Yekelchyj addresses the audience at the

19th Annual J.B. Rudnyckyj Lecture

The 19th Annual J.B. Rudnyckyj Distinguished Lecture took place on Friday, February 10, 2012, in the U of M Archives & Special Collections. The guest lecturer for the event was, Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk, a Professor of History at Victoria University (British Columbia).

Dr. Yekechyk is a scholar of Stalinist culture and political life, in particular in the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. He has also written about Soviet nationalities policy and about Ukrainian national identity from the late nineteenth century to the present. Amongst his works are: Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation (2007); Europe's last frontier? : Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine between Russia and the European Union (Co-edited, 2008); and Stalin’s Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination (2004). His lecture was titled, Ukrainian Culture Under Stalin. The talk was well attended, and included both members of the university and external communities.

The Russian Artistic Literary Journal, Smena

Smena, issue 12 (2011)

The University has recently purchased a subscription to the Russian artistic-literary journal, Smena, focusing on social, historical. literary, and economic issues of Russia. This monthy independent journal contains interviews, commentaries, articles, - as well as original literary works of poetry and prose.

The most recent issues are displayed on the Slavic Collection’s Current Periodical Shelf, while the older issues are available in the Slavic Collection's main stacks, under the call # Slav Per 057 S638

Coming Soon to the UML...

Central and East European Online Library

The University of Manitoba Libraries has purchased a subscription to the Central and East European Online Library (CEEOL). An interdisciplinary database covering both vernacular and English language academic journal publications of the countries of East-Central Europe, including Russia. Over 650 full-text archived periodical titles are available in pdf format.

CEEOL covers multiple disciplines, including: sociology, philosophy, theology, literature, philology, European studies, history, and politics. Also available within the CEEOL are: research reports and issue papers, as well as cultural magazines covering poetry, reviews and literature.

The Slavic Review

The Slavic Review is an interdisciplinary quarterly journal of Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies. Formerly titled, The American Slavic and East European Review, it is published by the Association of for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), a nonprofit, non-political, scholarly society, that is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about the former Soviet Union and Eastern and Central Europe. The Slavic Review is important core journal that contains articles of original and significant research and interpretation, as well as reviews of scholarly books and films.

The University of Manitoba Libraries subscribes to this important journal, and contains a complete online run of it via JSTOR (including a complete electronic run of its former title which spans the years 1945-1961)

18th Annual Rudnyckyj Lecture

Dr. Jochem Helbeck at the entrance of the

U of M's Archives & Special Collections

The 18th Annual J.B. Rudnyckyj Distinguished Lecture took place on Friday, March 4, 2011, in the U of M Archives & Special Collections. The guest lecturer for the event was, Dr. Jochem Hellbeck, a Professor of History at Rutgers University.

Dr. Hellbeck's talk centered around his partly historical, partly artistic project, in which he was deeply involved over the past year. He (together with Emma Dodge Hanson, a photographer from Saratoga Springs, NY) traveled to Russia and Germany in November 2009, to visit about twenty of the last surviving veterans of the battle of Stalingrad in their homes. Over the course of several weeks of interviews and picture-taking he was able to generate a large number of personal portraits and testimony. This unique project demonstrated the workings of two different memory cultures: the haunting shadows of loss and defeat on the German side, and the culture of national pride and sacrifice in Russia.

The lecture was well attended, and included both members of the university and external communities

Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) was founded in 1973, and is an important venue for graduate and undergraduate students, fellows, and researchers, whose focus of study is the Ukrainian language, literature, history, economics, political studies, and other disciplines.

The Institute contains a library, and along with Harvard's own Ukrainian collection, is one of the largest in North America devoted to Ukrainica. In addition to supporting research and scholarly activities, HURI's publication office, publishes the important journal, Harvard Ukrainian Studies Journal, one which the University of Manitoba Libraries subscribes to (available electronically, as well as older issued shelved on the 3rd floor of the Elizabeth Dafoe Library, call # 947.7 H261 Uk St). HURI annually publishes important titles related to Ukrainian Studies by important scholars in this field.