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Words Under Siege: Translating and Publishing Ukrainian Literature in a Time of War

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A lecture by Marta Gosovska, Visiting Scholar at HURI and Editor-in-Chief of the Foreign Department at Laboratoria Publishing House, Ukraine Chaired by Oleh Kotsyuba , Director of Print and Digital Publications at HURI. Attendees are invited to enjoy an...

Learning to Read - and Love - Ukrainian Literature

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by Anna Isaieva, HUSI 2021 “Ukr.lit.” or Ukrainian literature – this subject name was present in all my school planners for 7 of my ten years in school. Twice a week we had ukrlit and ukrmova (Ukrainian language class). Literature should have been my...

Rory Finnin on Literature in the Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar Encounter

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On Monday, April 4, at 4:15 pm, Dr. Rory Finnin gave the Bohdan and Neonila Krawciw Memorial Lecture at 1730 Cambridge Street, room S-020. Entitled ‘A Bridge Between Us’: Literature in the Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar Encounter, his talk addressed the role of...

Exploring Ukrainian Holocaust Literature with Hanna Protasova

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Today at 5 PM EDT, Ukrainian literary scholar and journalist Hanna Protasova delivered a lecture on representations of the Holocaust in Ukrainian literature. This talk kicked off the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI) evening lecture series, which...

Keeping the Fires Burning: Studying Ukrainian Literature Through Censorship, Independence, and War

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George Grabowicz in conversation with Bohdan Tokarskyi. George G. Grabowicz, Dmytro Čyževs’kyi Research Professor of Ukrainian Literature and Professor Emeritus, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. Bohdan Tokarskyi...

UKRN S-101 Twentieth-Century Ukrainian Literature: Rethinking the Canon

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George G. Grabowicz, PhD, Dmytro Cyzevs'kyj Professor of Ukrainian Literature, Harvard University. CGIS Knafel K108

The City by Valerian Pidmohylnyi

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Book launch and lecture by Maxim Tarnawsky, Professor of Ukrainian Literature at the University of Toronto and translator of The City Moderated by Bohdan Tokarskyi, Assistant Professor of Ukrainian Literature and Culture, Department of Slavic Languages &...

HURI Launches New Publications Series: Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature

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The Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University is pleased to announce the launch of the Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature, a new book series dedicated to publishing outstanding Ukrainian literature in English translation. The series will...

Between Oblivion and Remembrance: How Ukrainian Literature Reflected on the Holocaust in the 1940s–1960s

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A lecture by Hanna Protasova, Ukrainian literary scholar and journalist, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature at Western University, Canada Moderated by Serhiy Bilenky, Research Associate at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of...

Writing the Nation After Stalin: Literature and the Collapse of the Soviet Union

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A book talk and discussion by Erin Hutchinson, Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado Boulder Chaired by Terry Martin , George F. Baker Professor of Russian Studies, Department of History at Harvard University, and the Director of the...

Serhiy Synhaivs'ky's The Road to Asmara and the Question of Anti-Colonial Solidarity in Ukrainian Literature

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Required for HUSI scholarship recipients. Open to the public. Vitaly Chernetsky, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas Register for the webinar Watch on YouTube Abstract Serhiy Synhaivs'ky's novel The Road to Asmara...

Under the Virgin's Veil: Monastic Spirituality, Gender, and Power in Stefan Iavors'kyi's Sermon to the Nuns of the Ascension Convent in Kyiv

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A lecture by Maria Grazia Bartolini, Associate Professor of Medieval Slavic Culture and Slavic Linguistics at the University of Milan and Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at Harvard Moderated by Michael S. Flier...