Upcoming Events

Connect with the award-winning Ukrainian author for an open discussion and play readings exploring memory, displacement, and artistic resilience during wartime.

Learn how Ukrainian photography developed a unique aesthetic to resist Soviet hegemony and inspire contemporary visual resistance in this lecture by Sandra Joy Russell, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor at Wellesley College.

Learn about the history and vital role of Ukrainian literature in translation and how publishers adapt during wartime in this lecture by HURI Visiting Scholar Marta Gosovska.

Learn about the groundbreaking cinematic methods and feminist perspectives behind Maryna Er Gorbach's film 𝑲𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒌𝒆 in this lecture by HURI Jacyk Distinguished Fellow Yuliya V. Ladygina.

Join the Mahindra Humanities Center for this lecture with Maria Sonevytsky on how gendered musical discipline at the postwar Kyiv Palace of Pioneers molded children for the envisioned Communist future.

Learn how Ukrainian leaders draw on historical legacies of Soviet violence to navigate present-day existential threats in this book talk by Kristina Hook, Assistant Professor of Conflict Management, Kennesaw State University.

Learn about the legal and factual evidence documenting Russia’s genocidal acts and intent in Ukraine in this panel discussion hosted by the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School.

Please join Arrowsmith Press at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop for their 2026 Fall Book Launch, with a pre-event reception hosted by HURI.

Learn about the historical relationship and shared political ambitions of Siberia and Green Ukraine in 1918 in this lecture by Susan Smith-Peter, Professor of History, College of Staten Island/City University of New York.

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Learn how Soviet literature became a vehicle for political resistance and national revival following the death of Stalin in this book talk by Erin Hutchinson, Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado Boulder.

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