This talk traces Greek communities across Ukraine and the former USSR—their settlements, cultural life, deportations and repression under the Russian Empire and the USSR, post-Soviet repatriation, and the persistence of identity across migrations—framed within broader debates on diaspora and cultural resilience.

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan is proud to launch a new lecture series spotlighting the rich multicultural and multilingual traditions of the regions we study and teach.

The series challenges the field’s longstanding Slavic-centric focus by highlighting historically understudied communities that, by default—as seen in the very term “Slavic studies” as a common synonym for Eastern European regional studies—have too often been overlooked or excluded. Distinguished scholars will present on these cultures’ histories, languages, and artistic contributions.

This event is online only, please register here: https://myumi.ch/n198G