THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31ST 
WELCOME BY DEAN OF REGIS ST. MICHAEL’S FACULTY OF THEOLOGY,
JAROSLAV SKIRA

9:00-10:45am

SHEPTYTSKY AND POLITICS – 1898 TO 1939
LILIANA HENTOSH, Ivan Franko Lviv National University
“Sheptytsky and the Ukrainian National Movement before 1939”
Moderator: PIOTR WROBEL, University of Toronto

Discussants:
MAGDALENA NOWAK, University of Gdansk
OLEH TURIY, Ukrainian Catholic University
ANDRIY ZAYARNYUK, University of Winnipeg

11:00am-12:45pm

SHEPTYTSKY DURING WORLD WAR II- SESSION I
ANDRIY MYKHALEIKO, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
“Sheptytsky and the Third Reich in the Context
of Two Soviet Occupations”
Moderator: TBD
Discussants:
MYROSLAV SHKANDRIJ, University of Manitoba
LUBOMYR LUCIUK, Royal Military College of Canada
JOSÉ CASANOVA, Georgetown University

12:45-2:00pm
BREAK FOR LUNCH – MADDEN HALL 

2:00-2:30pm
VIEWING OF TIMOTHY SNYDER’S KEYNOTE ADDRESS 

2:30-3:45pm
SHEPTYTSKY DURING WORLD WAR II- SESSION II 
JOHN-PAUL HIMKA, University of Alberta
“Sheptytsky and the Jewish Community”
Moderator: MYROSLAVA M. MUDRAK, Ohio State University
Discussants:
YOHANAN PETROVSKY-SHTERN, Northwestern University
HENRY ABRAMSON, Lander College of Arts and Sciences, New York
IGOR SCHUPAK, “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies

4:00-5:15pm

BETWEEN POLITICS AND RELIGION 
ANDRII KRAWCHUK, University of Sudbury
“The Religious Ethics of Co-operation with the Governments of the
Habsburg and Tsarist Empires, Ukrainian Sovereigntist Governments,
the Second Polish Republic, the USSR
and the Third Reich”
Moderator: HEATHER COLEMAN, University of Alberta
Discussants:
DAVID NOVAK, University of Toronto
JOHN R.T. BERKMAN, Regis St. Michael’s Faculty of Theology,
University of Toronto
WILLIAM A. BARBIERI, Catholic University of America

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 ST

9:00-10:45 am
SHEPTYTSKY AND RELIGION MORE SPECIFICALLY
YURY P. AVVAKUMOV, University of Notre Dame
“Sheptytsky’s Theological Thought”
Moderator: MARK MOROZOWICH, Catholic University of America
Discussants:
ANASTACIA WOODEN, Catholic University of America
MYROSLAW TATARYN, St. Jerome’s University
BRIAN BUTCHER, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations CCCB,
and McGill University

11:00am-12:45pm
SHEPTYTSKY AND EASTERN-RITE CATHOLICS ABROAD
ATHANASIUS MCVAY, University of Toronto, Chair of Ukrainian Studies
Research Fellow
“Sheptytsky and Eastern Catholics in North and South America,
Western Europe and the Russian Empire”
Moderator: TBD
Discussants:
ANATOLII BABYNSKYI, Ukrainian Catholic University
ANDREW SUMMERSON, Regis St. Michael’s Faculty of Theology,
University of Toronto

12:45:-2:00pm
BREAK FOR LUNCH – MADDEN HALL

2:00-2:30pm
VIEWING OF TIMOTHY SNYDER’S KEYNOTE ADDRESS

2:30-3:45pm
SHEPTYTSKY AND SOCIETY
VITA SUSAK, Swiss Academic Society for Eastern Studies
“Sheptytsky and the Arts”
Moderator: NATALIA ZAJAC, Niagara University
Discussants:
MARKO R. STECH, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS),
University of Alberta
MYROSLAV SHKANDRIJ, University of Manitoba
NOTE:
“Sheptytsky and Humanitarian and Educational Philanthropy” will be
published in the conference proceedings when the war in Ukraine ends.

4:00-5:15pm
SHEPTYTSKY STUDIES AND CONCLUSION
FRANK SYSYN, CIUS, University of Alberta
“Concluding Comments Regarding What Remains to be Researched and
Analyzed”
Moderator: MARTA DYCZOK, University of Western Ontario
Discussants: PAUL ROBERT MAGOCSI and all lecturers and discussants

7:00 pm
ECUMENICAL PRAYER SERVICE IN THANKSGIVING FOR THE
WITNESS OF METROPOLITAN ANDREY SHEPTYTSKY

ST. NICHOLAS UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, 4 BELLWOODS ST. (AT QUEEN
STREET W), TORONTO
Presider: BISHOP BRYAN BAYDA, CSsR, Eparchy of Toronto
Guest Homilist: DR. ANDREW STIRLING, Retired Senior Pastor, Timothy
Eaton Memorial Church, Toronto
Choir Conductor: ZHANNA ZINCHENKO
Concluding Reflection: FR. ANDRIY CHIROVSKY, Founder and First Director,
Sheptytsky Institute

8:00 pm
REFRESHMENTS

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