This is an event organized by Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas: CREES
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/slavic/events/talk-women-war-peace
Aleksandra Hnatiuk
Thu, November 7, 2019 |
BURDINE HALL, 2505 UNIVERSITY AVE, AUSTIN, TX 78712
2:00 PM
Talk: Women/War/Peace
This lecture will paint a different image of World War II in Eastern Europe, refocusing the war narrative away from the dominance of pathos and male heroism. A close look at the city of Lviv through rare, fragmentary sources, shows a war whose burden fell on women no less than on men. Its trauma continues to afflict new generations and lives on in the region through violence committed in the name of retribution.
Aleksandra Hnatiuk is a professor at the University of Warsaw and at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. She also served in the Polish diplomatic corps (2006-2010). She is the recipient of numerous awards, including Polonia Restituta (Republic of Poland highest state award), the Antonovych Foundation Award for fostering Polish-Ukrainian cultural cooperation, and the Pruszynski Polish PEN-Club Award. Her book Courage and Fear (originally published in Polish in 2015) received awards in Ukraine and in Poland.
