Session 1
Wednesday (May 4):
8.30-10.00 AM ET
CHAIR
Mark Andryczyk
(Columbia U, US)
PAPERS
Olha Poliukhovych
(U of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine)
The Haunting Memory of War in Askold Melnyczuk’s Short Stories
(The Man Who Would Not Bow, 2021)
Olha Khometa
(U of Toronto, Canada)
Contemporary Ukrainian Émigré Literature:
The Poetics of Absurd in Volodymyr Dibrova’s Plays
Mariia Shuvalova
(U of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine)
Remembering and Forgetting:
Memory in Short Stories of Volodymyr Dibrova and Edgar Keret
DISCUSSANT
Vitaly Chernetsky
(U of Kansas, US)