Marci Shore teaches European Cultural and Intellectual History at Yale University; she specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology. Her most recent book is The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe (2014); she is currently preparing a book on the Maidan and is working on a book project entitled Phenomenological Encounters: Scenes from Central Europe.

Marci Shore was an IWM Visiting Fellow in 2015, 2013/14, and 2009/10.

Jurko Prochasko is an essayist, translator and psychoanalyst. Born in Ivano-Frankivsk, he is now based in Lviv and works at the Literary Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Science and the Institute for Psychoanalysis at Ivan Franko University. His books include Galizien-Bukowina-Express. Eine Geschichte der Eisenbahn am Rande Europas (with Alfred Panzl, Taras Prochasko and Magdalena Blaszczuk, 2007). He has translated works by, among others, Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil and Joseph Roth; for his translation work he was awarded the Friedrich Gundolf Prize for the Imparting of German Culture Abroad in 2008. He was an IWM Visiting Fellow in 2014/15.

Oksana Forostyna is a journalist and the Executive Editor of the Ukrainian journal Krytyka (Kyiv). She holds a degree in International Journalism from Lviv National University. Formerly an investigative journalist, covering national politics in the local Lviv daily Lvivska Gazeta, she has also been the local reporter for Voice of America (2004-2007).

Details

Date:

October 6

Time:

17:00 - 18:30

Venue

House of Clothes
8 Lvivska Sq.
Kyiv, 04053