Panel discussion on the Transformation of Gender Roles in Ukrainian War Literature
25 October 2023
5 pm
at DAIS (Markt 9, Leipzig)
with
Prof. Olena Brovko, full professor, born, studied and worked before 2014 in Luhansk (Donbass region); since 2014 in the status of temporarily and internally displaced person Prof. Brovko has been running the department of Ukrainian literature in Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University; Olena Brovko is also known as an essayist.
Prof. Snizhana Zhygun (Kyiv); studied and worked in Kyiv; she is a Professor at the department of Ukrainian literature in Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University and researcher of Shevchenko Institute of Literature of The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Natalka Snyadanko; was born in Lviv, Ukraine, where she currently resides and has lived for most of her life. Sniadanko studied Ukrainian language and literature at the University of Lviv and Slavonic and Renaissance Studies at Freiburg University. She co-created an all-female literary group called ММЮННА ТУГА together with Marianna Kiyanovska, Mariana Savka and others. She won the Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski Literary Prize in 2011.
Moderated by Dr. Sophia Manns-Süßbrich
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The panel discussion “Transformation of Gender Roles in Ukrainian War Literature” will place at DAIS (Markt 9, Leipzig) on October 25th at 5pm. Moderated by Dr. Sophia Manns-Süßbrich, the panel includes participants Prof. Olena Brovko, Prof. Snizhana Zhygun, Ukrainian writer Natalka Snyadanko, and translator Maryia Kirova.
The discussion will focus on the dramatic transformations of gender roles in Ukrainian society during times of war, as depicted in national literature throughout the 20th century.
Gefördert durch den Freistaat Sachsen.
Made possible through the generous support of the US Embassy in Berlin
Supported by our friends America House Kyiv