2022-03-01 Civically Speaking. UKRAINE. Part One with Dr. Bohdan Kordan, USASK, Int'l Relations, Dept of Political Studies, St. Thomas More College

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Dear Listeners,

It is a great honour to have Dr. Bohdan Kordan with us in this Part 1 of several parts to discuss the situation in Ukraine (and beyond).

This is a MUST LISTEN to episode. Dr. Kordan shares wisdom and insights only one with an academic palette and life experiences such as his can impart. Dr. Korpan is a Canadian, who raised by Ukrainian immigrants in the heart of Toronto, became an academic who has made the study of Canada-Ukraine relations and much beyond - his quest.

In this episode, as with all new guests, I ask Dr. Kordan to share a bit about himself and his background.  Dr. Kordan then provides some key historic context and considerations for what is taking place in Ukraine right now.

Thank you Dr. Kordan for joining the show. 

As mentioned on the show, you can find Dr. Kordan's writings online at Amazon.
Amazon.ca : Bohdan Kordan

For more about Dr. Kordan
Bohdan Kordan - College of Arts and Science - University of Saskatchewan (usask.ca)
Bohdan Kordan is Professor (Emeritus) of International Relations in the Department of Political Studies, St. Thomas More College. Prior to his appointment at STM in 1993 he held research and teaching positions at the University of Alberta (1982-85), University of Toronto (1990-91) and MacEwan University (1988-93). The Founding Director of the Prairie Centre for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage, Professor Kordan’s cu
rrent research interests include nationalism and ethnic conflict, the politics of state/minority relations, and Canadian foreign policy. His monographs include Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-45: A Study in Statecraft (2001); Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War: Internment in Canada during the Great War (2002); A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress (2004); No Free Man: Canada, the Great War and the Enemy Alien Experience (2016); and Strategic Friends: Canada-Ukraine Relations from Independence to the Euromaidan (2018).   

Bohdan Kordan - The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) official website
Awards:
 2019 Shevchenko Medal Award (Academics) ( November 2, 2019, Ottawa)
BIO
Dr. Kordan has numerous books, catalogues, book chapters, articles and curatorial works on Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian scholarly subjects. He has received numerous awards for his scholarship, including the Justice John Sopinka Award for Scholarly Excellence. His book “No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience” received the Saskatchewan Book Award.
Dr. Kordan led the creation of the Prairie Centre for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage at St. Thomas More College and the formation of the Hnatyshyn Canadian Studies Centre at Chernivtsi University, Ukraine.

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