Come and hear the excellent Dr Leah Batstone discuss Ukrainian musical modernism next Tuesday @uclssees.bsky.social. Free registration here www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Peripheral Solidarities: Ukrainian Musical Modernism Beyond Ukraine

A Rethinking Eastern Europe and Eurasia seminar with Dr Leah Batstone

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🎼 What impact did Ukrainian composers have on American modernism? Join us for a conversation with Dr Leah Batstone to hear more about Ukrainian musical modernism. 🗓️ 26 May at 6pm BST 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @uilleamblacker.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social

New episode of The Ukraine Shelf is out now! A great discussion with @lukeharding1968.bsky.social and Myroslav Laiuk on what it means to report on war. Don't miss it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3eT...

This was such a great discussion! Writing beyond war with Myroslav Laiuk, Yulia Musakovska and Luke Harding, video now available: youtu.be/ztCVLF9lj2U?...

Writing (beyond) War: Ukraine in the World

YouTube video by Ukrainian Institute London

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Happy #NationalPoetryMonth! Celebrate by reading “vesper” by Iryna Shuvalova (tr. from Ukrainian by @uilleamblacker.bsky.social ). This poem reflects on the way our bodies store hurt, and what it takes to heal. Read it here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Tomorrow, still time to get tickets!

Uilleam Blacker@uilleamblacker.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Don't miss this chance to hear 3 brilliant writers discuss how they write about Ukraine in wartime! Join Yuliya Musakovska, Myroslav Laiuk & Luke Harding next Tuesday at UCL, details: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit.... @uclssees.bsky.social @ukrinstitute.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social

Don't miss this chance to hear 3 brilliant writers discuss how they write about Ukraine in wartime! Join Yuliya Musakovska, Myroslav Laiuk & Luke Harding next Tuesday at UCL, details: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit.... @uclssees.bsky.social @ukrinstitute.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social

BIG news! We're delighted to announce the award-winning German-Georgian writer Nino Haratischwili as our 2026 Writer in Residence. Hosted by UCL European Institute with EUNIC London, Goethe Institute London & European Literature Network. www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...

Nino Haratischwili announced as 2026 Writer in Residence

The UCL European Institute is delighted to announce the award-winning German-Georgian writer as the UCL 2026 European Literary Map of London Writer in Residence.

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Come and hear two of Ukraine's best writers - Myroslav Laiuk and Yulia Musakovska - discuss writing about Ukraine with the brililant Luke Harding at UCL on 14 April. In partnership with @ukrinstitute.bsky.social. @uclssees.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Writing (beyond) War: Ukraine in the World

A SSEES Rethinking Eastern Europe and Eurasia event with Myroslav Laiuk, Yuliya Musakovska and Luke Harding, co-organised by the Ukrainian Institute London.

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📚💙 🖊️📚💙 Cassandra: A Dramatic Poem by Lesia Ukrainka with Marko Pavlyshyn (Introduction) and Nina Murray (Translator) 2024 by Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Uilleam Blacker@uilleamblacker.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I translated a letter from Lesia Ukrainka to Olha Kobylianska for my students, and since it's Lesia's birthday, here it is - with a short essay on why she matters right now. open.substack.com/pub/uilleamb...

Join us for Sasha Senderovich's talk about Soviet literary narratives about the Holocaust Thursday, 26 February, 6 pm - in person, at University College London! www.tickettailor.com/events/uclin... Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, UCL Institute for Jewish Studies

Select tickets – In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Translating Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union – UCL

In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Translating Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union – UCL, Thu 26 Feb 2026 - An in-person event at UCL The short fiction collected in In the Shadow of the Holocaust, trans...

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I translated a letter from Lesia Ukrainka to Olha Kobylianska for my students, and since it's Lesia's birthday, here it is - with a short essay on why she matters right now. open.substack.com/pub/uilleamb...

Speaking Truth in a Time of War: A translation of a letter by Lesia Ukrainka on her birthday.

Last year, the Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature series published a brilliant new translation of Lesia Ukrainka’s play Cassandra by Nina Murray (which began life as part of a special translation...

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Read my new diary piece for @prospectmagazine.co.uk, and explore Ukrainian culture not only on the anniversary of ru's genocidal invasion. Explore it as a way of finding new answers to the questions that trouble us all today. Full text: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...

Fortunate to hear writer Volodymyr Rafeyenko speak on “Language, Identity, and the Experience of Occupation” at Yale, moderated by @uilleamblacker.bsky.social . Rafeyenko’s new work: books.huri.harvard.edu/books/signal... Blacker’s latest piece: www.londonukrainianreview.org/posts/defens...

Defensive Wall: Why Ukraine’s Culture Is Everyone’s Fight

To understand how to reinforce Ukraine’s security, we must examine the strategies being used to undermine it. Uilleam Blacker argues that culture is a crucial element of Russia’s aggression, and that ...

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When war shatters daily life, poetry rises as testimony. Ukrainian poets speak in words that refuse silence, tracing the lines between loss and resilience, grief and human dignity. Presented in partnership with @razomforukraine.org and the Ukrainian Cultural Festival. RSVP to the event today!

Poet as Witness - Poets House

10/30: When war shatters daily life, poetry rises as testimony. Readings from Anna Malihon, Iryna Vikyrchak, Lesyk Panasiuk and their translators.

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Join us on 10/30, 7 PM ET for a hybrid reading from Anna Malihon, Irina Vikyrchak, Lesyk Panasiuk, and their translators Olena Jennings, Nina Murray, and @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social. Moderated by @uilleamblacker.bsky.social.

Thrilled to be delivering (alongside @bohdananeborak.bsky.social) one of two keynotes at this conference on Ukrainian culture/society at University of Bergen. Details👇; youtube link for keynotes in the next message. Thanks @ingunnlu.bsky.social for organising! uni.oslomet.no/ukrainett/uk...

UKRAINETT+ Conference - The War and Beyond: Perspectives on Ukrainian culture and society (14 - 15 October) - UKRAINETT

The University of Bergen hosts the second Ukrainett+ conference 14 – 15 October 2025.  UKRAINETT+ aims to enhance Ukrainian-Norwegian research collaboration and advance Ukrainian studies in Norway, Uk...

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‘Defensive Wall: Why Ukraine’s Culture Is Everyone’s Fight’ by Uilleam Blacker @uilleamblacker.bsky.social londonukrainianreview.org/posts/defens... 6/10

This interview with @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social is quite brilliant. »Olesya Khromeychuk spoke to Peter Pomerantsev about the subtleties of waging information warfare, the challenges of cultivating a world of truth and justice today, and creating the kind of space where democracy can be practised.«

‘Defeat the Enemy and Liberate the Space’: Peter Pomerantsev on Propaganda and Civic Culture

How can Ukraine’s culture of resistance serve the country’s security? Olesya Khromeychuk spoke to Peter Pomerantsev about the subtleties of waging information warfare, the challenges of cultivating a ...

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Uilleam Blacker@uilleamblacker.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Don't miss the new London Ukrainian Review on Culture as Security! Articles on disinformation, western pro-russia bias, music & poetry at war, Crimea-Palestine, writers at the front, & my piece on why supporting Ukrainian culture can help beat russia. www.londonukrainianreview.org/posts/cultur...

Don't miss the new London Ukrainian Review on Culture as Security! Articles on disinformation, western pro-russia bias, music & poetry at war, Crimea-Palestine, writers at the front, & my piece on why supporting Ukrainian culture can help beat russia. www.londonukrainianreview.org/posts/cultur...

Culture as Security

This issue of the London Ukrainian Review takes a look at culture as a matter of national security. Highlighting the voices of cultural figures who defend Ukraine with arms, it also examines culture a...

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Thrilled that my colleague Marta Jenkala has won the Hvylia/Dalga award for promoting Ukrainian language abroad from the state Ukrainian Institute. Marta taught Ukrainian at @uclssees.bsky.social and @camukrainistyka.bsky.social, and led @ukrinstitute.bsky.social. ui.org.ua/en/news-en/h...

Winners of the Hvylya / Dalğa Prize for the promotion of the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar languages honored in Ukraine

Winners of the Hvylya / Dalğa Prize for the promotion of the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar languages honored in Ukraine For the first time, the Ukrainian Institute recognized activists who have made sig...

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🎙️ Tune in to the latest episode of The Ukraine Shelf podcast where @oliahercules.bsky.social and Felicity Spector speak with @uilleamblacker.bsky.social and @okhromeychuk.bsky.social on all things food! ☁️ soundcloud.com/european-ins... 🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6HZ... #Europe #TheUkraineShelf

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UCL European Institute@uclei.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🎙️ Tune in to the latest episode of The Ukraine Shelf podcast where @oliahercules.bsky.social and Felicity Spector speak with @uilleamblacker.bsky.social and @okhromeychuk.bsky.social on all things food! ☁️ soundcloud.com/european-ins... 🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6HZ... #Europe #TheUkraineShelf

It was a joy to talk translation with Ali Kinsella, Mark Andryczyk & Oleh Kotsyuba at the launch of Taras Prokhasko's Earth Gods @huribooks.bsky.social last week! We talked botany, brain scans, geopolitics & mountain dialects👇. Happy International Translator Day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN7Y...

Kinsella, Andryczyk, Blacker — Earth Gods: Writings from before the War by Taras Prokhasko

YouTube video by Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI)

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I spoke to the @telegraphnews.bsky.social Ukraine: The Latest podcast about Babyn Yar and Holocaust memory in Ukraine. Thank you @adeliepjz.bsky.social and the much-missed David Knowles for the invitation and for your excellent reporting from Kyiv in this episode. podcasts.apple.com/gr/podcast/g...

Gas shortages ‘finally’ hit Moscow as Kyiv intensifies strikes on refineries & David Knowles on the largest Nazi massacre in Ukraine

Podcast Episode · Ukraine: The Latest · 26/09/2025 · 55m

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I echo what my fellow russianist and colleague @sarahjyoung.bsky.social says, and fully support what @uilleamblacker.bsky.social calls for in his essay.

Dr Sarah J Young@sarahjyoung.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Brilliant, thought-provoking essay by my colleague @uilleamblacker.bsky.social - as a russianist who fully accepts that I have contributed this problem, I’d welcome the sort of institutional change Uilleam argues for here, and am trying to work towards that. www.eurozine.com/russia-is-no...

Brilliant, thought-provoking essay by my colleague @uilleamblacker.bsky.social - as a russianist who fully accepts that I have contributed this problem, I’d welcome the sort of institutional change Uilleam argues for here, and am trying to work towards that. www.eurozine.com/russia-is-no...

Russia is not the sea

Imperial Russia saw the nation as the sea into which all the other Slavic cultures flowed. The idea persists today not only in Russia's attitude towards its neighbourhood, but also in the way eastern ...

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@uilleamblacker.bsky.social: "Institutions that are built around the idea of ‘Russia and Eastern Europe’, or even Slavic Studies, are something akin to the fossil fuel industries. If we want to find a sustainable and ethical way forward, they are no longer tenable" www.eurozine.com/russia-is-no...

Russia is not the sea

Imperial Russia saw the nation as the sea into which all the other Slavic cultures flowed. The idea persists today not only in Russia's attitude towards its neighbourhood, but also in way the region i...

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I wrote for Eurozine on the lingering imperial geographies that define our understandings of Ukraine and eastern Europe.

Eurozine@eurozine.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Imperial Russia saw the nation as the sea into which all the other Slavic cultures flowed. The idea persists today in way the region is studied in the West. Ukraine scholar @uilleamblacker.bsky.social pleas for institutional reform: www.eurozine.com/russia-is-no...

A podcast not to be missed by anyone who wants to understand #Ukraine. I've just devoured all 5 episodes. Thank you @okhromeychuk.bsky.social & @uilleamblacker.bsky.social for this crucial contribution. I particularly liked the fascinating episode on Crimea! www.olesyakhromeychuk.com/projects/the...

Olesya Khromeychuk - The Ukraine Shelf

Ukraine is at the centre of world events today, and understanding the country’s politics, history and culture has never been more important. The Ukraine Shelf is a podcast where Uilleam Blacker and I...

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