Ukrainian Scholars in American Slavic Studies:
The Case of George Y. Shevelov and Dmytro Chyzhevs'kyj
Tuesday, 07 February 2012, 12:00pm
Room 1219, International Affairs Building
Please join the Harriman Institute for a talk by Dr. Oxana Blashkiv.
Dr. Blashkiv is Lecturer at Ivan Franko Drohobych State Pedagogical University, Department of Romance and Germanic Philology, Chair of Germanic Philology and Translation Studies. She recieved her kandydat nauk in Comparative Literature Studies, at Volodymyr Hnatyuk Ternopil Pedagogical University and a Ph.D. in Slavic Literary Criticism at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (Poland) where the title of her dissertation was: “Czech and Slovak Culture in Dmytro Čyževs’kyj’s Life and Intellectual Heritage.”
Presently, Dr. Blashkiv is Visiting Researcher, Fulbright Faculty Development Program (Pace University, New York), where she is working on her project entitled History, Biography, Identity: the Case of Dmytro Čyževs’kyj and George Y. Shevelov.
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Ukraine as a Novel with Strong Plot and Weak Characters
Thursday, 23 February 2012, 12:00pm
Room 1219, International Affairs Building
Please join the Harriman Institute for a talk by Andrey Kurkov.
Andrey Kurkov, born in St. Petersburg in 1961, now lives in Kyiv.
Having graduated from the Kyiv Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for some time as a journalist, did his military service as a prison warder at Odesa, then became a film cameraman, writer of screenplays, and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels. The first of which he had to borrow money from friends to self-publish and sell on the sidewalks of Kyiv. He has gone on to become one of the most popular and critically acclaimed writers in Ukrainian history, and his books have been translated into 25 languages.
This event is free and open to the public For more information please contact Mark Andryczyk at (212) 854-4697 or ma2634@columbia.edu.
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