Monday, November 18, 2019 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Book Talk
The Post-Chornobyl Library: Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s
Tamara Hundorova (author), Chair of the Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
CGIS Knafel K262 Bowie-Vernon Room
Co-sponsored with the Shevchenko Scientific Society’s Boston Chapter
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Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: Q&A with Serhii PlokhyForgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen Behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance by Serhii Plokhy (Plokhii), new in October 2019, provides a fresh perspective on the cooperation between the US, Britain, and the Soviet Union to defeat Nazi Germany. In this interview, Plokhii answers a few questions about his research and his book. |
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TCUP: Borderlands and Contact Zones ConferenceEmily Channell-Justice, Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, discusses key points of a conference she recently attended in Ukraine. The "Borderlands and Contact Zones in Ukraine and the Black Sea Region" conference in Vinnytsia was co-hosted by the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and the Vasyl’ Stus Donets’k National University (now based in Vinnytsia). It highlighted research related to St. Gallen’s project on borderlands, as well as additional papers from around the region. |
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Гарвардський Бібліотекар-архівіст Ольга АлексичВсім, що пов’язано з опрацюванням та використанням гарвардської україніки, займається Ольга Алексич, бібліотекар-архівіст фонду ім. Петра Яцика, заснованого ще у 1970-х роках. Її службові обов'язки включають замовлення та закупівлю літератури з України, каталогування українознавчих монографій та періодичних видань для гарвардських бібліотек, організацію та описування архівних колекцій, а також надання консультацій, довідкових та дослідницьких послуг студентам, аспірантам, викладачам, стажистам і стипендіатам УНІГУ та Центру імені Дейвіса. |
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HURI Publishes Volume 36 (1-2) of Harvard Ukrainian StudiesWe're pleased to announce the publication of volume 36, number 1–2 of Harvard Ukrainian Studies. This double issue features a special thematic block on the impact and aftermath of the revolution of 1917 and also includes contributions on the integration of the Noghay Hordes into Crimea, an Ottoman protectorate in the 16th–18th centuries; on the narrative models and topoi of Ukrainian realism; the publication of an early German-language text of Ol’ha Kobylians′ka’s first novel, Tsarivna (1896); and a discussion of Mykhailo Hrushevs′kyi’s views on the Tatars. |
