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Presented By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

CREES Noon Lecture. The Language Politics of Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema: From Unreflective Confusion to Strategic Multilingualism

Vitaly Chernetsky, associate professor of Slavic languages and literature, University of Kansas

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This talk traces the evolution of post-Soviet Ukrainian cinema, from the excitement and experimentation of the early post-independence years to the serious economic and institutional challenges during the late 1990s and early 2000s, to the creative revival of the latest 5 years, in the post-Euromaidan era. The language choices made by the filmmakers serve as a window into the struggles with questions of identity, implied audience, and aesthetic and political choices. Films examined range from those by leading filmmakers of the older generation, such as Kira Muratova and Iurii Illienko, to prominent younger innovators, such as Myroslav Slaboshpyts´kyi and Kateryna Hornostai.

Vitaly Chernetsky is an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and director of the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas. A native of Ukraine, he received his PhD in comparative literature from the University of Pennsylvania (1996). He is the author of "Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization" (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007; Ukrainian-language edition, Krytyka, 2013) and of numerous articles on Russian and Ukrainian literature and film. A volume of his selected writings in Ukrainian translation is forthcoming from Krytyka. He co-edited an anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in English translation, "Crossing Centuries" (2000); a bilingual anthology of contemporary Ukrainian poetry, "Letters from Ukraine" (2016); and an annotated Ukrainian translation of Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism (2007). He also guest-edited an issue of Kinokultura on Ukrainian cinema (2009). His translations into English include Yuri Andrukhovych’s novels "The Moscoviad" (2008) and "Twelve Circles" (2015) and a volume of his selected poems, "Songs for a Dead Rooster" (2018, with Ostap Kin). He is a past president of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies and the current vice president and learned secretary of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to crees@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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