As the war in Ukraine enters its third year, a seminar course, RUSS 41103 Voices of Ukraine, will examine literary responses to the violence and destruction committed by the Russian government.

Ukraine, as a former Soviet state and a colony within the Russian empire, was a multiethnic, religiously and linguistically diverse country. This course explores 200 years of the literary traditions of writers who have lived in what is now Ukraine and wrote in the Ukrainian, Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew languages.

By employing post-colonial theory and cultural hybridity, this seminar examines such historical events as the Chernobyl disaster, the dissident movements, WWII, Holodomor, the civil war, WWI, revolutions and pogroms. The seminar begins with contemporary writers such as Stanislav Aseyev, Olena Stiazhkina, Yuri Andrukhovich, Svetlana Alekseevich, as well as Grossman, Der Nister, Mikhail Bulgakov, Isaac Babel, Nikolay Gogol, Lesya Ukrainka and Taras Shevchenko.

The seminar meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 -3:15 p.m. in Old Main 0208.

This course counts towards the minor in Russian and Jewish studies.

Learn more about the Russian studies progam.

And learn more about the Jewish studies program.

Questions? Contact Nadja Berkovich at nadezdab@uark.edu.