Guest Lecture feat. Dr. Mykola Riabchuk

311 Kaplan Hall, UCLA

 UCLA Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures presents…

Guest Lecture feat. Dr. Mykola Riabchuk

Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political and Nationalities’ Studies
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Monday, October 9th, 2017
3:30pm – 5pm
311 Kaplan Hall

Mykola Riabchuk is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political and Nationalities’ Studies, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is also the president of Ukrainian PEN-center and a co-founder and member of the editorial board of the Krytyka monthly. Born in 1953 in the city of Lutsk, he spent his adolescent years in Lviv, where he graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in 1977, and eventually from the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow in 1988. He penned a few books and many articles on civil society, state/nation building, nationalism, national identity, and postcommunist transition in Eastern Europe, particularly in Ukraine. He holds a number of national awards and international fellowships, and heads the jury of the Angelus literary award endowed by the city Wroclaw for the best book by a Central East European writer published in Poland.

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