All attendees of this event are invited to start with a light lunch at 12:30pm. We will begin the talk at 1pm.
BY THE SECOND SPRING ventures deep inside war-torn Ukraine, following the lives of real people in staggering detail as they confront war. Leavitt follows seven individuals and their families through the first 18 months of war—from February 2022 until war’s second spring—revealing complex human stories of survival and resilience, while contextualizing their stories outside of war, working to offer a more expansive understanding of the history, ideas, conundrums, and shifting identities that mark this war. Especially valuable to a non-expert audience, BY THE SECOND SPRING ultimately coalesces into a meditation on the incomprehensible and deeply human task of believing in the future while destruction rages on. Published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, the book is anticipated in early 2025.
Danielle Leavitt received her PhD in History from Harvard University in 2023. Her dissertation was entitled When the New Soviet Man Grew Old: The Meanings of Age and the Aging of Socialism, 1921-1991. In it she explored how ideas about human age, especially old age, shifted over the course of the Soviet Union’s own lifespan. She is currently writing a book following seven Ukrainians through Russia’s war on Ukraine, expected early 2025.
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LOCATION:Pritsak Memorial Library at HURI, 34 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20240403T163000Z DTEND:20240403T180000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR