Kostash delivers 1999 Mohyla Lecture (12/12/99)

Kostash delivers 1999 Mohyla Lecture

SASKATOON - The 1999 Mohyla Lecture was delivered on November 19 by nationally acclaimed author and writer Myrna Kostash of Edmonton. The lecture, titled "All of Baba's Great Grandchildren: Ethnic Identity in the Next Canada," was delivered in the Great Hall of the Shannon Library, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan.

In her presentation, which was based loosely on a forthcoming book to be published by McLelland and Stewart, Ms. Kostash emphasized that despite the inherently ambiguous and fluid nature of ethnicity, ethnic identity continues to play an important role in the personal and public lives of young Canadian adults. The research material for the book and the conclusions drawn were the result of interviewing conducted across Canada among young adults of multicultural backgrounds.

Sponsored by the Prairie Center for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage at St. Thomas More College, the lecture is the fifth in the Mohyla Lecture series. In his introductory remarks, the director of the Prairie Center, Prof. Bohdan Kordan, underscored the importance of the Mohyla Lecture Series as both a vital link between the community and the university, and a forum at which issues critical to the life of the community might be vetted and discussed.

In conjunction with the 1999 Mohyla Lecture, an exhibition of Ukrainian Canadian folk painting was organized by Neil Richards of the Special Collections Department, University of Saskatchewan. The paintings of Dmytro Stryjek, Ann Harbuz, Anne Senkiw and Molly Lenhard will continue to be on display at the Link, at the university's Murray Memorial Library, until January 15, 2000.

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