Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, for a screening of The House on Seven Winds: Vasyl Makhno’s Portrait. Filmed over the course of a season, this film portraying the life and thoughts of Ukrainian poet, essayist, and prose writer, Vasyl Makhno, exposes the fragility of time and its manifestation through the art of the written…
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Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Giovanna Brogi (Associazione Italiana di Studi Ucraini). Taras Shevchenko never was in Italy, but many echoes of Italian literature and art are to be found in his works. The most strinking echoes come from Dante’s Divine Comedy. In other cases we may speak rather of intertextual analogies and participation in…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by Reiner Stach from his recent nonfiction book Is that Kafka? 99 Finds, followed by a conversation between the author and the acclaimed translator of the book, Kurt Beals. In the course of compiling his highly acclaimed three-volume biography of Kafka, while foraying to libraries and archives from Prague to Israel, Reiner Stach…