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Alex Averbuch: Readings from "The Jewish King" and "Of Rage and Longing"

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Alex Averbuch: Readings from "The Jewish King" and "Of Rage and Longing" A Poetry Reading by Alex Averbuch, current Postdoctoral Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and 2024 HURI Research Fellow at the Ukrianian Research Institute...

Translating the Language of Death

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Translating the Language of Death Poetry Reading by Iya Kiva, poet, translator, and journalist living in Kyiv, Ukraine Moderated by Oleh Kotsyuba, Manager of Publications at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University Event Description This...

Slavic Students Pizza Party

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Undergraduate Slavic concentrators, secondary field, language citation, summer abroad and graduate students are invited to a Slavic Department student pizza party for on Thursday, October 19, 2023 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. in the Klasson Room (373), Barker...

Book Talk: Ukraine, War, Love. A Donetsk Diary

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Book Talk with Olena Stiazhkina, writer, journalist, and historian at the Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ────────────────── This event is organized by Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) as part of the weekly...

East Meets East and...Moves West: Lecture and Poem Illustration Workshop with Basia Tran

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Iryna Kovalchuk , preceptor of Polish language at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, together with Hoa Le , senior preceptor in Vietnamese at the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received the Elson Family Arts...

Jenya Mironava, Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Wins "ONE CRIMSON" Award

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Jenya Mironava, Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures (Russian language program, Belarusian language), as been recognized as the recipient of a "ONE CRIMSON" award. Jenya was nominated by Anna Karpenko, a Harvard College senior of Belarusian...

Avant-Garde Post–: Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union

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Marijeta Bozovic, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University Moderator: Aleksandra Kremer, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Contemporary poetry around the...

Bakhmut-Kyiv-Prague: Industrialization, Literary Modernism and Ukrainian Nation-Building Over the Interwar Borders

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Galina Babak, Postdoctoral Fellow, Czech Academy of Sciences / Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) Bakhmut, a town that symbolizes two distinct phases of industrialization – capitalist and Soviet --serves as the starting point for two important narratives...

Creativity in Captivity: Literariness, Photography, and Propaganda in the Correspondence of Ukrainian Ostarbeiters

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Alex Averbuch, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University The talk will examine correspondence of Ukrainian forced laborers in Nazi Germany to relatives back in occupied Soviet Ukraine as literature, historical...

Regional Cooking Demonstration

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Harvard undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff, you are invited to join us for a regional cooking demonstration on Thursday, November 16 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Lowell House Kitchen! Attendees must bring valid Harvard ID to enter...

“A Metaphor that Folds”: The Poetics of Empathy in 21st Century Ukraine

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Amelia Glaser, Professor, Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies, University of California San Diego “In a metaphor that folds like a Swiss Army knife,” wrote Halyna Kruk in a 2020 poem, “the corkscrew broke, the file got dull.” Since the 2014 outbreak of war in...

Vasyl Stus and the Poetics of Authenticity: Between Modernism and the Gulag

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Bohdan Tokarskyi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Universität Potsdam In this talk, Dr. Bohdan Tokarskyi will focus on the poetics of self-making in the works of Vasyl Stus (1938-1985), a Soviet dissident and Gulag prisoner who is widely considered to be Ukraine’s...