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Ukrainian Literature in the Shadow of Empire

The Eastern European Club invites Professor George Grabowicz (Harvard University) to Dartmouth College.

2/9/2023
5 pm – 6 pm
Paganucci Lounge
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Clubs & Organizations, Lectures & Seminars

"Ukrainian Literature in the Shadow of Empire"

February 9, 2023

5:00 PM

Paganucci Lounge

 

George G. Grabowicz, Dmytro Chyzhevs'kyj Professor of Ukrainian Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University is author of books, essays, and editor of literary and scholarly magazines in Ukraine and the US. His lecture will address major issues in 19th and 20th century Ukrainian-Russian literary relations, the various official Russian attempts to ban Ukrainian literature, Stalinist repressions and socialist realism. Grabowicz will examine the work of Nikolai Gogol and Taras Shevchenko, Pavlo Tychyna and Mykola Khvylovyi. The talk will also offer highlights from the literature of independent, post-Soviet Ukraine.

 

This event is sponsored by Futurevia, the Eastern European Club, and the Leslie Center for the Humanities.
 

For more information, contact:
Erin Bennett
6036460896

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.