Holocaust and lost cultural and urban spaces in modern Ukraine. A panel discussion
Date and time:
Tuesday 18 December, 2018
19:30 - 21:00
Location:
Jewish Community Centre London (JW3)
341-351 Finchley Road
London
NW3 6ET
Ukraine is home to thousands of cities and villages - borderland communities - contested by empires, occupying a central place in their colonisation projects. Subjected to multiple occupations throughout WW2, many of them have experienced a near-complete change in their populations. One such city is Lviv; once predominantly Polish and Jewish, it is now overwhelmingly Ukrainian and an important centre of Ukrainian identity.
Cities like Lviv are now coming to grapple with their complex and tragic history: trying to fill the gaping void of lost cultural landscapes, and coming to terms with the trauma of the lost communities.
This event is held in partnership with Jewish Community Centre JW3 and funded by Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. Moderated by Marina Pesenti, Director of Ukrainian Institute London.
This event will be held in English.
£10 standard
Speaker
Iryna Starovoyt
Dr Iryna Starovoyt is an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies Department at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in Lviv (Ukraine) and co-editor of "Ukraina moderna" - uamoderna.com. She has been a guest lecturer at the Higher East European School in Przemysl, Poland (2008-10) and Greifswald University, Germany (2010), and a research associate at Groningen University, the Netherlands (2012-2013) and Uppsala University (2017). Member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine since 1997, and the Association of Ukrainian Writers since 1999, she authored three volumes of poetry and a number of essays. Her research and publications have focused on the disputed memories and cultural counter-narratives of the 20th century Ukraine told across the shifting borders in Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and English also covering parts of the Jewish story.
Speaker
Marla Raucher Osborn
Marla Raucher Osborn is a former California attorney, now Chief Executive Officer of Rohatyn Jewish Heritage, a registered Ukrainian non-profit NGO based in Lviv. Marla has served on the Board of Gesher Galicia and is today an advisor to the Board on matters of Jewish heritage in historic Galicia. She also serves on the Board of Remembrance & Reconciliation, a U.S. non-profit that cares for the Przemyśl new Jewish cemetery. From 2015-2016 Marla worked at the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland (FODZ), a Polish NGO that cares for Jewish cemeteries and synagogues in Poland. Marla has written for many genealogy and heritage publications and has lectured at schools, meetings, and conferences in the US, Israel, and Europe.
