{"id":1189,"date":"2023-09-12T10:09:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T10:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2023-12-06T12:39:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T12:39:53","slug":"inaugural-cerees-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/2023\/09\/12\/inaugural-cerees-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural CEREES Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Monday 30 October, 18:00-20:00<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Uilleam Blacker<\/strong> \u2018The Many Voices of Ukraine: A multicultural literary space in the context of empire and war’<\/h2>\n

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Venue<\/strong>: Montagu Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre (GC601), Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road London E1 4NS<\/p>\n

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Book here: <\/strong>Eventbrite<\/a><\/p>\n

About the Lecture:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

CEREES is delighted to invite you to our inaugural lecture on \u2018The Many Voices of Ukraine.\u2019<\/p>\n

Today, as in the past, Ukrainian culture is one of the main targets of Russian imperialist aggression, with museums and monuments destroyed or damaged, artworks stolen or lost forever, and people tortured and executed for wearing blue and yellow ribbons. This organised and coordinated destruction of the Ukrainian culture is not unforeseen, but, argues Blacker, continues a centuries-old tradition of oppression and a systematic obliteration of the Ukrainian language and culture throughout the Soviet Union and the Russian empire. In the face of ongoing aggression, Blacker’s latest research puts a spotlight on the rich, multicultural and multi-layered literary and cultural heritage of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Connected to one of CEREES\u2019s major research themes for 2023-24, the lecture will encourage participants to consider: \u2018Where does Ukraine sit in our \u2018mental map\u2019 of Europe and European culture?\u2019 \u2018Likewise, where does Belarus and Eastern Europe sit?\u2019 \u2018And how has the composition of that \u2018mental map\u2019 been affected by Russian imperialism?\u2019<\/p>\n

About the Speaker:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Uilleam Blacker<\/strong> is Associate Professor of Ukrainian and East European Studies at UCL SSEES. He is the author of\u00a0Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe: Ghosts of Others<\/em>\u00a0(2019) and co-author of\u00a0Remembering Katyn<\/em>\u00a0(2012). His current research, which is funded by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, explores Ukraine as a multi-lingual literary landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is also a translator of Ukrainian literature and has published translations in, among others,\u00a0The White Review<\/em>, Modern Poetry in Translation<\/em>, Words Without Borders<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0London Review of Books<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Event outline<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n

Welcome, by Andy Willimott (QMUL) \u2013 18:00<\/p>\n

Lecture \u2013 18:05<\/p>\n

Discussion, chaired by Natalya Chernyshova (QMUL) \u2013 18:50<\/p>\n

Drinks reception, meet the speaker \u2013 19:10<\/p>\n

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Shape the Conversation<\/span><\/h2>\n

To join our mailing list, participate in our programme of events, or find out how we can support your research, please contact hss-cerees@qmul.ac.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Pitch a new CEREES Group<\/span><\/a> \u00a0\/ \u00a0Pitch a new CEREES Screening<\/a> \u00a0\/ \u00a0<\/span>Pitch a new CEREES Collaboration<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday 30 October, 18:00-20:00<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Uilleam Blacker<\/strong> \u2018The Many Voices of Ukraine: A multicultural literary space in the context of empire and war’<\/h2>\n

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Venue<\/strong>: Montagu Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre (GC601), Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road London E1 4NS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/cerees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}