NEW YORK – The Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, will hold the conference “Five Years of War in the Donbas: Cultural Responses and Reverberations” on Friday and Saturday, November 1-2.
The conference will gather an international array of scholars to discuss the diverse ways that Ukrainian culture has been stirred by the recent war between Ukraine and Russia in the Donbas. It will take place in the university’s International Affairs Building, Room 1512 (420 W. 118th St.)
The conference will explore the different, novel ways that Ukrainian literature, film, music and visual art have attempted to perceive, interpret and express war in the country. Among the questions that will be treated at the conference are: How has this culture changed as the war has endured? How have language, memory and displacement been treated by this culture? How has this culture been disseminated in Ukraine and beyond its borders? How does this culture reflect the identity of today’s Ukraine?