Lesia Ukrainka: A Lecture by Janice Kulyk Keefer, Part 2
Channel: Back Lane Studios
Date: 2022-07-06

In this second part of a two-part Zoom lecture about the Ukrainian author, Janice Kulyk Keefer explores more of Lesia Ukrainka's life, her debilitating illness and her astonishing accomplishments as an author and translator. She has been commemorated by statues in many cities, including Toronto, and, 150 years after her birth, continues to inspire for her passionate embrace of Ukrainian culture, language and identity. 
In the first part of the two-part presentation, Janice discusses Ukrainka's family background and summarize the complex history of Ukraine, which had a dominant impact on Ukrainka's life and work. 
Janice was a professor of literature at Guelph University, with a focus on modernist authors. Of Ukrainian background, she has written two novels on Ukrainian themes, a family memoir, Honey and Ashes, and numerous other volumes of poetry, criticism and fiction. 
We have raised $700 our Zoom lecture attendees, and have donated the funds to the Friends of the Mennonite Centre in Ukraine (https://www.mennonitecentre.ca). Please consider a small contribution after watching Janice's lectures! 
  


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