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2022-23 Meetings

Formal UGG-NCR meetings for this season follows our traditional approach of being convened on the fourth Tuesday of each month, with the exception of December where there we will not be any meeting.  Meetings will also be suspended for the summer months of June, July and August. Start time is 7:30 PM (Eastern) unless otherwise noted.

Since the start of January 2020, the UGG-NCR’s formal monthly meetings have been delivered as on-line “Webinars” rather than in-person presentations / discussions.

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  • Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies, Growing a Ukrainian Canadian Identity by Natalie Kononenko

    Prof. Natalie Kononenko is Kule Chair Emirata and she was the first holder of the Kule Chair in Ukrainian Ethnography (2004-2019). She came to the University of Alberta from the University of Virginia where she was professor of Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Folklore.

    Prof. Kononenko kindly agreed to make a presentation on her new book, Ukrainian Ritual on the Canadian Prairies. This book, based on more than ten years of folklore fieldwork and interviews, describes the culture of Ukrainian Canadians living in the prairie provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. In this book, she explores the cultural elements of Ukrainian Canadian ritual practice, with emphasis on family traditions surrounding marriage, birth, death, and religious holidays. In her presentation, Prof. Kononenko described the nature of interviewing and the method of data collection.

    A video recording of Prof. Kononenko’s Webinar presentation can be found here.  We also have recordings of the Introductory and Q&A segments from that evening.  Prof. Kononenko has also provided written answers to questions posed by attendees that evening. This Q&A info can be found here.

    © Prof. Natalie Kononenko 2023. All rights reserved. No images or content from this presentation may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the presenter. Access to this recording is solely for educational and informational purposes.