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"Shared City: Encountering Boston through Wildlife" by Kirsten Tarves

Kirsten TarvesWhen I’m in a new place, the first thing I like to do is get a sense of the geographical area: what it looks like and what lives on (or in) it. I carry around a ludicrously heavy camera – which I do not really know how to use – in case a particularly photogenic animal stumbles across my path, or, as is more often the case, I stumble across its.... Read more about "Shared City: Encountering Boston through Wildlife" by Kirsten Tarves

"Ukrainian for Reading Knowledge: A Space for Artistic Expression" by Jonathan Gonzalez

Art. Humanity has tried to define art for centuries, but we still have not come up with a concrete definition. For me, art is expression. The class ‘Ukrainian for Reading Knowledge’ served as a space for creative expression and helped me strengthen my definition of the value of the humanities.

STEM has taken over the 21st Century, and in my opinion, to the detriment of the humanities. As an inquisitive person I always ask myself, why do I study the humanities? The answer is simple. Because I am a human, therefore the study of humanity is worth studying. STEM has contributed so...

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"Oleh Lysheha and His Creative Circle: A Response to Oleh Kotsyuba's Talk" by Anatole Sykley

Oleh LyshegaOleh Lysheha is not particularly well known among the general readership, despite his stature within intellectual, literary, and academic circles. Lysheha’s poetry should perhaps be better known than it is, speaking personally based on the impact it had on me when I first discovered it (serendipitously) only...

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"Connections Between 19th Century American and Contemporary Ukrainian Literature" by Sarah McEleney

Reading the Poetry of Oleh Lysheha and HUSI Day Trip to Walden Pond

During the month of July, HUSI students organized a weekend day trip to Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, where Henry David Thoreau lived and worked. This coincided with a prior evening poetry talk given by Dr. Oleh Kotsyuba on the work of Oleh Lysheha, a modern Ukrainian poet who was deeply influenced by Thoreau’s writing, as well as works by...

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