CREES Noon Lecture. Nonalignment and Decolonial Imagination: Yugoslav Literary Encounters with the Global South
Nataša Kovačević, Professor of English, Eastern Michigan University
Yugoslavia’s pivot away from the Eastern Bloc and toward decolonizing countries in the Global South, which resulted in the founding of the...
Can ‘Slavic’ Speak for Minorities? — Who Gets to Belong in Eastern Europe? - Talk 5
Crimean Tatars, Colonial Aphasia, and Ukraine’s Decolonial Horizon / Greta Uehling
This talk analyzes Russia’s imperial domination of Ukraine through the longue durée of Crimean Tatar dispossession, arguing that Crimean...
Furious Harvests
Ukrainian Poetry and Remembrance / Reading by Alex Averbuch, in conversation with Benjamin Paloff
A poetry reading by Alex Averbuch from his new collection "Furious Harvests" (Harvard UP, trans. from Ukrainian by Oksana...
CREES Noon Lecture. The Last Soviet Artist
Victoria Lomasko, artist and writer
The Last Soviet Artist (n+1, 2025), finished by Victoria Lomasko three weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is a collection of...
Bio
Slavic Languages and Literatures faculty specialize in Eastern European Literatures and Cultures, including focus on cinema, architecture, and the visual arts. The cultures we cover include Russian, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, and Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian; we also have strong interest in Judaic, Central Asian, Baltic, and Balkan cultures (including Greek and Albanian).
