Literatura: Ukrainian literature in dialogue
Date and time:
Thursday 17 June, 2021
18:30 - 20:00
Location:
Ukrainian literature in dialogue: Sholem Aleichem and Ivan Franko.
Solomon Rabinovich (1859-1916), better known as the classic Yiddish-language writer Sholem Aleichem, and Ivan Franko (1856-1916), a giant of Ukrainian literature, were close contemporaries who came from, and wrote about, the multicultural borderlands between the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires – present-day Ukraine. Yet despite writing about the same places around the same time, these writers are rarely read together. This session will compare their work in order to throw light on the intersections of nation, empire, and modernity around the turn of the 20th century in Ukraine.
You can either sign up to this seminar as a one-off via eventbrite, or enrol in the full Literatura course - full info here.
If you are a friend or benefactor of the Institute, you are entitled to a discount for the course. Please email us on info@ukrainianinstitute.org.uk to claim your discount and pay directly.
Included in the cost of the seminar:
- course handbook and materials, including English translations of texts studied as part of the seminar.
- access to video recording of the presentation by Dr Blacker.
Lecturer
Dr Uilleam Blacker
Uilleam Blacker is Associate Professor in Comparative Russian and East European Culture at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. His research focuses on Ukrainian, Polish and Russian culture and cultural memory. As well as literary and cultural representations, he has also researched memory politics and broader commemorative practices in the region. His two other current areas of research interest are the legacies of multicultural literary heritage on the territories of contemporary Ukraine, and cultural representations of the war in Donbas. Dr Blacker is the author of Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe: The Ghosts of Others (2019). He is co-author of Remembering Katyn (2012) and co-editor of Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe (2013). He has written for the Times Literary Supplement, LA Review of Books, Open Democracy Russia, and Words Without Borders. He has published fiction in The Edinburgh Review and Stand, and has translated the work of several contemporary Ukrainian authors.
