8-2-2024: Vitaly Chernetsky | Farewell to Empire Revisited Ukraine's Cultural Decolonization in...

Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky (Slavic Dept, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA;
URIS Fellow. University of Basel, Switzerland) talking on A Farewell to Empire Revisited: Ukraine's Cultural Decolonization in Regional Contexts."
A native of Odesa, Ukraine, he began his university education at Moscow State University, and continued it at Duke University, arriving in the US as an exchange student in the fall of 1989. He received his MA (1993) and PhD (1996) in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a current President of the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies (ASEEES); a past President of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS); and the current First Vice President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S., the autonomous U.S. branch of the oldest Ukrainian learned society, founded in 1873.
Chernetsky’s profile as an educator and researcher combines comprehensive and wide-ranging work on Ukrainian, Russian, and other Slavic literatures and cultures with a variety of cross-disciplinary engagements. He is the author of Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization(McGill-Queen’s UP, 2007; Ukrainian-language edition 2013; co-winner, AAUS book prize; winner, best Ukrainian book in the humanities, Ukraine’s Book of the Year awards) and of numerous articles on modern and contemporary Russian and Ukrainian culture. His other publications include an annotated Ukrainian translation of Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism (winner, best foreign book in the humanities, Ukraine’s Book of the Year awards), and translations of the novels The Moscoviad (2008) and Twelve Circles (2015) by one of Ukraine’s leading contemporary authors, Yuri Andrukhovych; both were awarded the AAUS translation prize. Chernetsky is the editor of the Ukrainian Studies book series at Academic Studies Press.
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