This file contains materials related to Dr Medwidsky’s involvement with and travel to various conference over the years. These materials include invitations, programs, abstracts, timetables, and workshops on topics related to the study of Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainian culture, and Ukrainian and Slavic folklore.
Migrations is a book documenting the joint conferences in Chernivsti, Ukraine and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1990 and 1991 respectively. The conferences covered the theme of Migrations from Western Ukraine to Western Canada. This file contains documents by Dr Medwidsky and others with regards to obtaining rights from presenters for the purpose of putting their papers into the book. Also contained are documents requesting rights from various archives for the use of photographs from their collections. Also included are various logistical documents and letters related to the development of the book.
This file contains materials related to Dr Medwidsky’s dissertation, “The Language of Stanyk’s Novellas: an Analysis of the Vocabulary” including the dissertation itself and abstract. Vasyl’ Stefanyk was a Ukrainian writer and politician that wrote, in addition to other topics, about Ukrainian emigrants heading to Canada. The file also contains other academic resources such an MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literature, and Dissertation Abstracts International.
The series consists of records related to teaching Ukrainian language, culture and folklore, and includes course outlines, assignment and test designs, reading lists, correspondence with students, fieldwork projects, and other records starting from early course offerings in the end of 1970s, and until early 2000s. The courses covered are: Ukrainian Folk Song, Ukrainian Folk Prose, Ukrainian Calendar Customs, Rites of Passage, Folk Bilief, Material Culture, and Early Ukrainian Canadian Culture. There are also materials related to graduate students, master and PhD, whom Dr. Medwidsky supervised, and to their theses and dissertations.
This series contains materials related to Dr. Medwidsky's political activities and interests. Records document his involvement with the Progressive Conservative Party in Alberta as well as the Alberta Liberal Party. Also included are materials related to his interests and involvement in various multicultural and human rights issues and organizations.
This file contains materials related to Dr Medwidsky’s involvement with political parties. Most of the documents are related to his involvement with the Progressive Conservative Party in Alberta, including active participation in campaigns for Julian Koziak. The types of documents included in this file are letters and correspondence, campaign materials, party newspapers, minutes from meetings, political action plans, and policy proposals.
This file contains official news and newsletters from the Alberta Liberal party, distributed to Liberal Party members. Materials concern the policy directions for the Liberal Party and criticisms of the Conservative Party in Alberta.
This file contains materials related to Dr Medwidsky’s involvement and interest in Canadian Multiculturalism and human rights. Contained within are newsletters and bulletins from Cultures Canada, government reports from the Government of Canada on multiculturalism and human rights, articles concerning the Meech Lake Accord, a number of House of Commons Debates transcripts, Canadian Human Rights Commission newsletters, documents from the Alberta Heritage Fund, and documents from the Alberta Human Right and Civil Liberties Association.
The series consists of records related to various aspects of Ukrainian studies at the University of Alberta, including the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Slavic Department, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, estanblishing of various courses, associations, area studies, etc., and includes correspondence, meeting minutes, course proposals, joint projects and other documents.
This series consists of records pertaining the first Ukrainian Folklore course offerings at the University of Albert, as well as the establishment of the Ukrainian Folklore master and PhD degrees. It also includes documents related to establishing several endowments in support of the Ukrainian Folklore Studies: the Huculak Chair Endowment, the Kule Chair Endowment, the Ukrainian Folklore Archives Endowment, the Ivan Franko Ukrainian Scholarship, and others.
Bohdan Medwidsky was active in the Canadian Association of Slavists as well as maintained professional relationships with many scholars from Ukraine, and Ukrainianists from other parts of the world, for example, with Mykola Mysinka in Slovakia. The series consists of letters, invitations, reports, project documentation and other records related to Ukrainian and Slavic studies beyond the University of Alberta.
This series contains records related to Dr. Medwidsky activities within the Folklore Studies Association of Canada, including his term as a President, as well as in the American Folklore Society. Various information about folklore studies in North America has been compiled by Bohdan Medwidsky and later adapted and used for the Ukrainian Folklore Program at the University of Alberta. His connections with known folklorists such as Robert Bohdan Klymasz and Michael Taft (later of the Library of Congress) are also reflected in this series.