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Slavic Scene the slavic scene volume 30, spring 2019 Photo by Maksym Harbar lsa.umich.edu/slavic table of contents Letter From The Chair 3 Highlights 4–5 Faculty Focus 6–7 Graduate Focus 8 Undergraduate Focus 9 In the Classroom 10 Staying Connected 11 2 Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures letter from the chair Dear friends, Winter term kept our by Eugene Bondarenko, Cultures of Memory in Central department busy. Thanks to but was also open to the and Eastern Europe after the dedicated work of our general public. In April, we 1989, and, jointly with the team of faculty, lecturers, had a fortunate occasion to Moscow School of Social and graduate students and staff, celebrate the publication of Economic Sciences and the our enrollment figures were a new book by our Professor European University at St. slightly higher than the Emerita Assya Humesky. Petersburg, we are planning previous year, defeating the a new graduate program in overall negative trend in the Responding to the growing Russian culture for summer study of foreign languages. interest of our students and 2020. We remain one of the very faculty in film, we invited Igor few departments nationally to Gulin, the book review editor We congratulate Professor offer continuously five Slavic of the Moscow Kommersant Benjamin Paloff on his 2018 languages. And this year we Weekend newspaper, to share Prize for Best Book in Literary Mikhail Krutikov had 17 students graduating his research on the Soviet Scholarship Lost in the Shadow with degrees in Russian, cinema of the so-called of the Word: Space, Time, Polish, Czech and Bosnian/ “stagnation” period at our and Freedom in Interwar Croatian/Serbian. departmental colloquium in Eastern Europe awarded by February. the American Association of Our Ukrainian program keeps Teachers of Slavic and East growing, and this Winter Over the past few years, European Languages. My own term we held a series of we have been making a book, Der Nister’s Soviet Years: events focusing on Ukraine’s concerted effort to promote Yiddish Writer as Witness to past and present. In March, our graduate program and the People, has just come out Professor Vitaly Chernetsky to expand diversity among in May. As I prepare for my from the University of Kansas our graduate students. research leave from gave a talk on the language This year the number of September 2019 through politics in contemporary applications to our Ph. D. May 2020, I look forward to Ukrainian cinema as part of program grew exponentially, returning to my position as the CREES lecture series, and and we are now preparing chair next summer. discussed the fascinating to welcome a new cohort of new novel Felix Austria by five graduate students, two the young Ukrainian author of whom are coming from Sophia Andrukhovych at our Nazarbayev University in departmental colloquium. Astana, Kazakhstan. We keep March 31 was the day of working on developing our the presidential elections in ties with peer institutions Ukraine, and we invited two abroad, such as the University of our alumni to share their of Regensburg in Germany experience of working in and the Russian Academy Ukraine and to reflect on the for National Economy and situation in that country in Public Administration. the aftermath of that event. Professor Marek Nekula The panel was integrated into from Regensburg will the mini-course, Cultures of teach a graduate seminar Ukraine, which was taught titled Performing Memory: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures 3 highlights Which Revolution?: Ukraine Five Years Later By Mikhail Krutikov, Chair People of Ukraine have and Jessica Zychowicz, who University of Alberta. She points of his campaign? elected an unusual but have worked in Ukraine was recently a U.S. Fulbright What was the situation of apparently very popular man and studied the country, Scholar based at Kyiv-Mohyla women, ethnic minorities, as their new president. to share their expertise University. Her monograph, LGBT people in Ukrainian Volodymir Zelensky is a with our students and the Superfluous Women: society? Are there deep popular television personality general public. Mark Dillen Feminism, Art, and Revolution political and cultural divisions best known for his series (BA (cum laude) in Russian in 21st Century Ukraine is among different regions of Servant of the People where and East European Studies) forthcoming at University of the country? Understandably, he plays an ordinary had a distinguished career Toronto Press. some questions from students school teacher who gets in the U.S. Foreign Service, addressed parallels between unexpectedly elected as managing media and cultural The panel took place on April American and Ukrainian Ukraine’s president. Few relations for U.S. embassies 4, four days after the first political cultures, but some people would have guessed in Rome, Berlin, Moscow, round of the elections, when were quite unexpected, that exactly the same would Sofia, and Belgrade, as well it had become clear that demonstrating the broad happen with the actor as as for the USAID Mission in Zelensky was a likely winner. international diversity of U-M with his character, and yet it Kabul and for a White House The panel was integrated students — such as, would has happened. In the second initiative, Power Africa. Most into the mini-course Ukraine be willing to take round of the elections, recently, he was a Fulbright Cultures of Ukraine taught part in the grandiose Chinese Zelensky defeated the Scholar in Ukraine, teaching by Eugene Bondarenko and Belt and Road initiative, and incumbent Petro Poroshenko a course on U.S. news media made open to the general could China help resolve the taking over 70% of the vote. to graduate students at the public. The conversation conflict in Donbas? It was We certainly had not been Ukrainian Catholic University touched upon many different a very memorable event able to predict this result, yet in Lviv. Jessica Zychowicz (Ph. matters in contemporary which brought, for two hours, we could rightly anticipate D. in Slavic Languages and life and politics in Ukraine. Ukraine live to Ann Arbor. that the elections would Literatures) is a Postdoctoral How important are the generate a great deal of Fellow in the Contemporary issues of religion, language, suspense and excitement. Ukraine Studies Program and defense against the So, we decided to invite two at the Canadian Institute Russian aggression, which of our alumni, Mark Dillen of Ukrainian Studies at Poroshenko made the key Mark Dillen and Jessica Zychowicz answer questions during their panel discussion with Mikhail Krutikov 4 Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Reflections on my Love of Languages and Literatures: A Ukrainian Literary Evening with Professor Assya Humesky By Ruth Shamraj, MA, Russian and East European Studies Assya Humesky, photos by Matt Grossman On April 17, 2019, the began teaching Ukrainian being an “enemy of the deportees to Austria that Department of Slavic language and literature people.” He was sentenced to Assya was on, bringing her Languages and Literatures courses in 1969. be executed and the family sister too. held a Ukrainian Literary never heard from him again. Evening featuring Professor Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Assya worked for a time as Emerita Dr. Assya Humesky. Assya grew up speaking Assya and her mother (Tatiana a housemaid, but was later Assya was on the faculty from both Ukrainian and Russian, Kardinalowska) and sister sent to work in a labor camp 1953 to 1998. Although today “which was typical for the (Mirtala) were exiled from near Graz, Austria, where Professor Humesky is best Ukrainian intelligentsia.” In Ukraine for 10 years and they made airplane parts for known for teaching Ukrainian the United States in graduate moved to the Russian town of Treiber. There she learned language and literature, early school, Assya studied Kalinin. There, Assya studied to converse in French with in her career she laid a solid linguistics with Roman German in school, learning university students who were foundation for Russian studies Jakobson and Ukrainian how to spell and write, but deported from Lyon, France, within the Department, language and literature not to speak it. to do forced labor. teaching many of the Russian with Dmytro Chyzhevsky language and literature (A History of Ukrainian Her family secretly returned Convinced that the advancing courses. Literature, 1975), and Church to Ukraine 5 years later, Soviets would send them to Slavonic with Horace Lunt. settling in Vinnytsia, where Siberia for working for the Professor Humesky is Her Ph.D. dissertation was a Assya attended high school. enemy, Assya, Tatiana, and a renowned scholar of comparison of the neologisms Hitler invaded and occupied Mirtala escaped from Trieber, Ukrainian language and of the Russian poets Vladimir Ukraine in 1941 when ending up in a Displaced literature. She authored Majakovsky and Igor Assya was 16 years old. Persons (DP) camp in Aversa, Modern Ukrainian (1980), Severyanin. She earned her She interpreted Ukrainian Italy. Assya began learning a widely used book on Ph.D. from Harvard in 1955. into German in the Eier und English from an English- Ukrainian grammar, and Geflügel Kontor (Office of Russian dictionary given to published numerous articles Assya shared poignant Eggs and Poultry), which her by an Italian POW who on Ukrainian literature (see moments from her life to requisitioned farm products had been stationed in her her Selected Works [Vybrani show how languages, words, from Ukrainian peasants. The hometown, Kharkiv. He had filolohichni pratsi, 2017]). She and pronunciation have Nazis deported thousands salvaged the dictionary from also coauthored two Russian influenced her. Her father of young Ukrainians, mostly a pile of books the Nazis had language textbooks: Modern Serhiy Pylypenko, a writer, girls, to work in factories and thrown into the street to burn Russian I (1964) and II (1965).
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