Literature

2024 Mar 06

Writing, Illness, and Sanatorium Culture: Toward a New Biography of Larysa Kosach (Lesia Ukrainka)

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

Pritsak Memorial Library at HURI, 34 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138


Lecture by

Tamara Hundorova, Visiting Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University; Principal Research Fellow at the Shevchenko Institute of Literature at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Moderated by Oleh Kotsyuba, Director of Print and Digital Publications at...

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2023 Sep 27

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

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Pritsak Memorial Library at HURI, 34 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138


Poetry Reading by Alex Averbuch, current Postdoctoral Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and 2024 HURI Research Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

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2023 Apr 26

The “Asiatic Renaissance” and Ukrainian Occidentalism of 1946-1948: Mykola Khvylovy vs. Arnold Toynbee

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

K-354, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

Tamara Hundorova, Principal Research Scholar at the Shevchenko Institute of Literature (Kyiv), National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine... Read more about The “Asiatic Renaissance” and Ukrainian Occidentalism of 1946-1948: Mykola Khvylovy vs. Arnold Toynbee

2023 Mar 22

Intellectual History of the 20th Century: Yuri Mezhenko's Diary as a Personal Project and Historical Projection

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Room K-354, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

Olena Haleta, Professor, Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, and Department of Cultural Studies, Ukrainian Catholic University (Ukraine); Visiting Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Moderated by George G. Grabowicz, Dmytro Čyževs’kyi Research Professor of Ukrainian Literature, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

In Person and Online...

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2022 May 20

A Humanitarian Aid Kit of War Songs

11:00am to 12:30pm

Location: 

Byerly Hall, Room 115 (Library), Radcliffe Yard; 8 Garden Street | Zoom

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Slavic Department, the Davis Center Seminar in Literature and Culture, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and PEN America, with additional support from the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute, Arrowsmith Press, and the MIT Center for International Studies.

A reading and discussion with Ukrainian poets Iya Kiva and Halyna Kruk, moderated by Amelia Glaser. Poems will be read in the original and in English translation.

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2021 Jul 09

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

1:15pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

Zoom (registration required) and YouTube (public)

Required for HUSI scholarship recipients. Open to the public.
Vitaly Chernetsky, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas... Read more about Serhiy Synhaivs'ky's The Road to Asmara and the Question of Anti-Colonial Solidarity in Ukrainian Literature

2021 May 05

Bazhan’s ‘Blind Bards’ Reconsidered: The Poem’s Ontology and Form and the Question of Deception

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

Zoom (registration required) and YouTube (public)

George Grabowicz, Dmytro Čyževs’kyj Research Professor of Ukrainian Literature, Harvard University
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