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We invite you to Ukraine: Breathing the Air of War, a talk by Serhij Zhadan, part of our Fall 2022 Conversatorium on Ukraine series, which launches the Transregional Dialogues fellowship program at NSSR.Â
The week-long intensive Conversatorium focuses on the past, present, and future of Ukraine and its regional context. The five guest talks scheduled for Sept. 12-16, will provide insights into the complexities of its history, politics, and culture, helping to illuminate the current situation and to see the future beyond the horizon of the war.
Serhiy Zhadan is a Ukrainian poet and writer, translator, and performer. Born in Starobilsk in 1974, he moved to Kharkiv in the early 1990s to study literature. In 2000, Zhadan defended his PhD dissertation on Mykhaylo Semenko and Ukrainian futurism. With five novels, two theatre plays, several collections of prose, and twelve books of poetry, he is probably the most acclaimed Ukrainian writer, whose works have been translated into at least seventeen languages. Zhadan has himself translated poetry from English and German. His music bands – Zhadan i sobaky (Zhadan and the Dogs) and Liniia Mannerheima (The Mannerheim Line) – have released six studio albums. Serhiy Zhadan is the recipient of the BBC Ukrainian Book of the Decade (2014), the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature (2014), the Angelus Central European Literature Award (2015), among many others, and, most recently, the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought (2022). He lives and works in Kharkiv.
Registered attendees will receive the zoom link via email.
For the full program of the Conversatorium on Ukraine please visit our website here.
Presented by The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies at The New School for Social Research (NSSR).
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Monday, September 12th at 10am:Â Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukrainian historian and public intellectual; professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukraine)
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Wednesday, September 14th at 10am: Volodymyr Yermolenko, Ukrainian philosopher, analyst and journalist
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Thursday, September 15th at 10am: Marci Shore, associate professor of history at Yale University and a regular visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna
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Friday, September 16th at 9am:Â Serhij Zhadan, Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, and translator
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Friday, September 16th at 11am:Â Oksana Kis, feminist historian and anthropologist, a Visiting Professor at the Anthropology Department, NSSR, and head of the Department of Social Anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (in Lviv)
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The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies - TCDS’s transregional and cross-departmental research and study programs, conducted both at home and abroad, bring together civic-minded students, junior and senior scholars, and civil society actors from various regional contexts. Our activities — region-based institutes, workshops, conferences, talks, and fellowships — are designed to further strengthen social and human capital, i.e., individuals and organizations concerned with the promise and sustainability of democracy. Our flagship projects have been the annual Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institutes (held in Poland since 1991 and also in South Africa from 1999 to 2015), aimed at a rigorous quest for a more textured understanding of the precariousness of democracy as it arises almost everywhere.
Transregional Dialogues: Rethinking the Past – Re-imagining the Future is a new future-oriented fellowship program for doctoral students from Ukraine whose work, disrupted by war, needs support. The aim of the Program, which will take place in the Fall of 2022, is to create conditions that would allow participating fellows to continue working on their projects, which will be of particular importance as soon as the war ends.
Transregional Dialogues is designed as a set of semester-long collaborative online activities between Ukrainian scholars – whether in Ukraine or temporally displaced by the war – and their international peers from the New School for Social Research who are working on similar sets of issues. The program aims to create a vibrant collaborative environment arranged through working groups, work-in-progress seminars, guest lectures, faculty advising, and participation in wider New School activities such as the Memory Studies Group, the Democracy Seminar, and others.
Fellows will represent the social sciences and humanities broadly understood, and commit themselves to a semester-long program of exploration and cross-examination of one of these four broad themes: The Condition of Postcoloniality; the Politics of Belonging; Democracy and its Variants; and Citizenship: the Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion.
Although this is a four-month program, it is designed to create a durable community of young scholars from different parts of the world with connections and interactions that will last well beyond December 2022.
Committed to amplifying diverse voices, The New School offers more than a thousand public programs and events each year, providing fresh perspectives and unique learning opportunities. These lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and performances feature prominent and emerging artists, activists, and thought leaders.
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