Concluding observations on the symposium

Abstract

Generosity is the thought that comes to mind after hearing and later reading the five studies first presented at a symposium in Toronto (2 October 2008) and published here in this issue of Nationalities Papers. My colleagues, who span the disciplines of history, literary criticism, and political science, have been generous with the time they spent in composing their essays and then traveling to Toronto to deliver them in person, and they have been particularly generous in conveying a spirit of constructive criticism and self-reflection that represent the best aspects of our common intellectual enterprise. To each of you – George G. Grabowicz, Taras Kuzio (who initiated this symposium), Serhii Plokhy, Alexender J. Motyl, and Dominique Arel – I express my deep appreciation for your generosity of mind and spirit.

Keywords:

• nationalism
• Ukrainian history
• multiculturalism

Notes

The conceptual basis for the Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture as well as the definition of what constitutes Rusyns and Carpathian Rus' is spelled out in Magocsi, “Descriptive or Prescriptive Scholarship.”

Described in The Peter Jacyk Collection of Ukrainian Serials: A Guide to Newspapers and Periodicals, and The Millennium Collection of Old Ukrainian Books at the University of Toronto Library: A Catalogue. Another major library project at this time resulted in the publication of Ucrainica at the University of Toronto Library: A Catalogue of Holdings. For further information, see two works published by the Chair of Ukrainian Studies: The First Five Years and The Chair at Twenty.

The revised proceedings were published in Magocsi, Morality and Reality.

Fifteen of the presentations by leading Canadian immigration scholars were published in Luciuk and Hryniuk.