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Alex Langstaff on Ostap Vyshnia
The Harvard Summer School 7 week Ukrainian for Reading Knowledge course is designed to provide students with an essential knowledge of Ukrainian for reading and research purposes and is primarily but not exclusively for graduate students in all...

100 Portraits, 100 Stories: An Interview with Jana Rajcova
by Sophia Tailor Sophia Tailor (HUSI 2022) conducted this interview as part of her work for Dr. Channell-Justice's course "Ukraine in the World: Exploring Contemporary Ukraine." Jana Rajcova is a documentary photographer and writer based in Bratislava...

Academic Writing about Ukraine in Times of War
by Sam Veremchuk What is the proper academic voice when Ukraine is attacked? Is it necessary to maintain an “unbiased” voice in academic discussion when there is a clear oppressor? I had been thinking about these ideas before the February full-on invasion...

A Linguistic and Temporal Melting Pot
by Aliide Naylor It was difficult to establish how to start this post for the HUSI blog, as my interests rapidly evolved in tandem with the course as it developed. On the surface, Ukrainian for Reading Knowledge is an intensive language program – but it...

Collocations and the Precarious Art of Translation
by Annika Hugosson, HUSI 2021 During our unit on technology, Professor Dibrova asked the class what we anticipated, both good and bad, as we witness incredible advances in technology and automation. We talked about surgical advances with robotics and the...

The Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk
by Alisher Juzgenbayev, HUSI 2021 When I first read the description of Professor Dibrova’s Ukrainian for Reading Knowledge class, I knew how I would like to spend this summer. As a J.D./Ph.D. student interested in the relationship between law and politics...