Traumatic Rhymes: Contemporary Ukrainian Refugee Experience and the Cultural Legacies of the 1940s Displacement
Vitaly Chernetsky (Kansas)
- Beginning:
- Thursday, 09 July 2026 14:15
On 9 July 2026 we will welcome Vitaly Chernetsky to our Regensburg Research Colloquium. He will give a lecture on "Traumatic Rhymes: Contemporary Ukrainian Refugee Experience and the Cultural Legacies of the 1940s Displacement". The lecture will be held in English.
Abstract:
This lecture links theoretical reflections on narrative temporality and trauma temporality (including those by Reinhart Koselleck and Michael Rothberg) with a literary-historical overview highlighting the pioneering articulation of the displacement theme in the work of the Ukrainian early Modernist writer Vasyl Stefanyk at the end of the nineteenth century and continuing with a closer discussion of the displacement-focused writings of several key authors reflecting on the experiences of the 1940s DP camps (such as Ulas Samchuk and Emma Andiievs’ka, with Andiievska’s A Novel about A Good Person as the key text that subverts both spatial and temporal coherence, as well as the border between the real and the illusory) and on the current refugee experience (such as Sophia Andrukhovych and Oksana Shchur in essays/nonfiction, Ievheniia Kuznetsova in prose fiction, and Iryna Shuvalova and Iia Kiva in poetry).
Vitaly Chernetsky:
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Cooperation:
Denkraum Ukraine, Lehrstuhl für Slavische Literatur und Kultur, Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World
Venue:
GS OSESUR, Landshuter Straße 4, 93047 Regensburg, Room 017 (ground floor)