Chornobyl Songs: "Nature" after Nuclear Disaster
Friday, March 15, 2013 —
10:00AM - 12:00PM
Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place
Maria Sonevytsky is an ethnomusicologist and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. Her primary research interests include discourses of indigeneity and “wildness” in post-Soviet Ukrainian popular music, cultural policy, music and nationalism, and folklore and nuclear experience after Chornobyl. She also works on critical organology, and wrote her M.A. Thesis on the piano accordion and its “cultural baggage” among performers in New York City. In February 2012, she received her PhD in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University. Her dissertation, “‘Wild Music’: Ideologies of Exoticism in Two Ukrainian Borderlands,” was based on fieldwork that she did in Crimea and Western Ukraine (among Hutsuls) in 2008-9 and was awarded distinction.
In the fall of 2012, she was a Mihaychuk Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. In the spring semester of 2013, she will be a Jacyk Visiting Instructor and Research Fellow at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.
For more information please visit www.mariasonevytsky.com
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