The Department of History, the Department of English, the Prairie Centre for the Ukrainian Heritage, and the Ukrainian Museum of Canada are sponsoring a one-day international symposium, Writing about Talking: Orality and Literacy in Contemporary Scholarship. This is an all-day affair, Friday October 15th, at the Bessborough Hotel. Registration is free, but you must register in advance to gain electronic access to the conference papers. For further details see Keith Carlson or click here.

The conference is also tied into a major museum exhibition originating in Kyiv: Oral History of Collectivisation: the case of Ukraine (1930s), which opens at 7:30 pm on October 15th at the Ukrainian Museum of Canada.