Thursday, November 10th, 2016 Decomposition, Poetry in a Time of War

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Thursday, November 10, 20162:00PM - 4:00PMSeminar Room 208N, 1 Devonshire Place

Description

Lyuba Yakimchuk, a Ukrainian poet, screenwriter and journalist, was born in Eastern Ukraine, in Pervomaisk, Luhansk oblast. She is the author of several full-length poetry collections, including Like FASHION and Apricots of Donbas.

Lyuba will be reading works from her most recent collection and discussing her poems as a reflection of the ongoing trauma resulting from the war in Eastern Ukraine. (In Ukrainian with simultaneous English translation.)


Speakers

Lyuba Yakimchuk
Speaker
Ukrainian poet

Maxim Tarnawsky
Chair
Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto


Main Sponsor

Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine

Co-Sponsors

Danylo Husar Struk Program in Ukrainian Literature of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies

Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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