Understanding Ukrainian Academia During the War and Addressing Global Responses
October 1 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Free
A talk presented by a visiting scholar to MacEwan University from Ukraine, Dr. Olha Poliukhovych.
Olha Poliukhovych, PhD, literary critic & scholar, is Vice President for Research and Academic Affairs and an associate professor at the Volodymyr Morenets Department of Literature of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Dr Poliukhovych is a co-founder and a board member of the Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. In 2017–2018 she was a Fulbright Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University. In 2020 she became a co-founder of NGO New Ukrainian Academic Community (Kyiv). Since the full-scale Russia-Ukraine war, she has been featured on LitHub podcasts and has published essays in Agni, Consequence forum, and Prospect Magazine. Currently, she is working on her book of Yurii Kosach’s intellectual biography.
WHEN: October 1, Tuesday
WHERE: MacEwan University, Room 9-103; 10910 104 Ave NW.
