Female authors of L’viv in the drama of the 20th century. Lecture by Iryna Starovoyt
Date and time:
Monday 17 December, 2018
18:00 - 19:30
Location:
SB31 Denys Holland Lecture Theatre, UCL Faculty of Laws, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, WC1H 0EG
Bentham House
London
WC1H 0EG
The lecture will discuss three distinguished female authors connected to the city of L’viv. Norwegian writer Dagny Juel became a decadent cultural hero: L’viv would play an important part in her stormy biography. Debora Vogel, an Austrian Jewish writer, wrote decidedly modern text in poetry and prose and became the co-founder of the avant-garde ‘Artes’ group. She was killed in L’viv during the liquidation of the ghetto in August 1942. Evgenia Ginzburg came to L’viv after 18 years of Gulag and exile. There she wrote Journey into the Whirlwind. The talk will discuss these women’s legacy.
The event will be moderated by Dr Uilleam Blacker.
This event is organised in collaboration with the Central Europe Seminar Series, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
This event will be held in English.
FREE
Speaker
Iryna Starovoyt
Dr Iryna Starovoyt is an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies Department at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv 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.
