The Polish-Jewish writer Julian Stryjkowski (1905-1996) is mostly and justly famous for his “Galician Tetralogy,” a sequence of four novels depicting the life in Jewish shtetl right before and at the very beginning of the World War I. The description … Read more
Ellen Elias-Bursac translates fiction and non-fiction from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian. Her translation of David Albahari's novel Götz and Meyer received the 2006 ALTA National Translation Award. Her book Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Working … Read more
Stuart Goldberg is an associate professor of Russian at Georgia Tech. In this lecture, which lays out key ideas of his book manuscript An Indwelling Voice: Sincerities and Authenticities in Russian Poetry, 1783-2001, he develops a theoretical framework for understanding … Read more
The sudden interest in the legacy of Abu Nasr al-Farabi (ab. 870-950) in Soviet academic circles during the 1970 and 1980s resulted in numerous publications dedicated to his treatises in Central Asian Soviet Republics. Born in southern Kazakhstan and known … Read more
Dana Dragunoiu is Associate Professor of English at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her first book, Vladimir Nabokov and the Poetics of Liberalism, was published in 2011 by Northwestern University Press. Her second book, titled Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Moral … Read more
The UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies is pleased to invite you to a virtual book club on Ukrainian literature, co-presented by the Regulator Bookshop. The goal of the book club is to highlight translated works by contemporary … Read more
The UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies is pleased to invite you to a virtual book club on Ukrainian literature, co-presented by the Regulator Bookshop. The goal of the book club is to highlight translated works by contemporary … Read more
The UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies is pleased to invite you to a virtual book club on Ukrainian literature, co-presented by the Regulator Bookshop. The goal of the book club is to highlight translated works by contemporary … Read more
Eliza Rose is an Associate Professor of Central European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She researches the visual cultures and literature of Poland and East Central Europe with a focus on science fiction. Her current … Read more
RESCHEDULED TO THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 The work of Natascha Wodin, born in Germany in 1945 as the daughter of Soviet forced laborers, is clearly autobiographical. Memories of specific moments from childhood and youth, as well as the trauma of exclusion … Read more
