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The Language of War: Rage, Love, Memory

by Program in Translation and Intercultural Communications

Lecture Global/Intercultural Humanities

Mon, Oct 30, 2023

4:30 PM – 6 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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East Pyne Hall, Room 010

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Oleksandr Mykhed will present his personal story and experience as a writer and a scholar and address how Ukrainians talk about the Russian invasion. How has the semiotic system of everyday life changed? What has happened to the meaning of words? How are these changes reflected in art?

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East Pyne Hall, Room 010

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Oleksandr Mykhed

Writer, Translator

Oleksandr Mykhed is a writer based in Kyiv, Ukraine. He is the author of nine books.  His highly acclaimed nonfiction book, I Will Mix Your Blood With Coal (Nash Format, 2020), an exploration of the Donbas and Ukrainian East, has been published in German (Ibidem, 2021) and is forthcoming in English and Polish.  His essays were published in the Financial Times, the Guardian, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.  Oleksandr has participated in literary residencies in Finland, Latvia, Iceland, France, and the United States. He has been selected as the first 'Ukrainian writer in virtual residence’ at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, for the academic year 2022/23.  He is a member of PEN Ukraine.

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society, Program in Translation and Intercultural Communications (OWNER), Slavic Languages & Literatures

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