‘A Loss’: book launch with Olesya Khromeychuk
Date and time:
Thursday 16 December, 2021
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
The Calder Bookshop
51 The Cut |
London | SE1 8LF
This book is the story of one death among many in the war in eastern Ukraine. Its author is a historian of war whose brother was killed at the frontline in 2017 while serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Olesya Khromeychuk takes the point of view of a civilian and a woman, perspectives that tend to be neglected in war narratives, and focuses on the stories that play out far away from the warzone.
Through a combination of personal memoir and essay, Khromeychuk attempts to help her readers understand the private experience of this still ongoing but almost forgotten war in the heart of Europe and the private experience of war as such. This book will resonate with anyone battling with grief and the shock of the sudden loss of a loved one.
Speaker
Olesya Khromeychuk
Dr Olesya Khromeychuk is a historian and writer. She received her PhD in History from University College London. She has taught the history of East-Central Europe at the University of Cambridge, University College London, the University of East Anglia, and King’s College London. She is author of ‘Undetermined’ Ukrainians. Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS ‘Galicia’ Division (2013). She is currently the Director of the Ukrainian Institute London. www.olesyakhromeychuk.com
Moderator
Molly Flynn
Dr Molly Flynn is a Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of Witness onstage: Documentary theatre in twenty-first-century Russia (2020). Molly’s current research analyses the artistic and social significance of new playwriting and political theatre practice in Ukraine since 2014. In addition to her work as a researcher and a teacher, Molly is also a theatre-maker and a co-founder of the US-based experimental theatre collective the New York Neo-Futurists.
