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This paper will document the translation of Ukrainian writing into English as it was produced in Australia, within or in connection with the Ukrainian-Australian literary field. To do this it is necessary to account for three groups of texts: anthologies of Ukrainian-Australian writing; individual books by a sole Ukrainian-Australian author; and Ukrainian literature from outside of Australia, namely that of the diaspora and Soviet Ukraine. The time frame begins with the arrival of postwar Ukrainian refugees in 1949 and covers the period up to 1991, the year Ukraine achieved independence. The paper describes the products and processes of translation of Ukrainian writing into English in Australia, together with the institutional and infrastructural realities which faced Ukrainian writers as part of a minority non-English literary culture in Australia. Themes and subjects of the translated works reflected the experiences of Ukrainians as they endured dictatorship, Russification, war and eventual resettlement as refugees. This may be seen to reflect poignantly on the current situation in Ukraine. Hence there is reference to the war now being waged by Russia, as Ukrainians are again fighting for their lives and for the survival of their nation and culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper explores the functions and use of nostalgia in Ukrainian-Canadian writing. It argues that nostalgia underwrites a significant number of Ukrainian-Canadian texts and functions as a highly successful [...]

This paper reports on an innovative partnership between an Australian and Japanese university: an international distance learning relationship between the University of Sydney and Gifu University. Since 2002, the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney and Gifu University's Faculty of Education have participated in a lecture exchange program through which live lectures are transmitted through web-based video-conferencing. Lectures on Australian studies are transmitted from the University of Sydney; lectures on Japanese language, linguistics and culture are transmitted from Gifu University. The paper outlines how the program developed, from the perspective of the four lecturers involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides a critical analysis of Helen Potrebenko's short story entitled `A Different Story'. Descriptive story about a Ukranian immigrant family in Canada; Glorification of the immigrant pioneers; Parodic effect and the play within and against convention presented in the story.