“And Again I Hear This Town’s Dancing, Intractable Tongue”: Arkady Dragomoshchenko’s Ukraine In brief Date - 20 November 2023 Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square Research strand - Cultural encounters/dialogues Speaker - Dr Evgeny Pavlov (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) About the event Arkady Dragomoshchenko (1946-2012) was one of the most prominent Russian-Ukrainian postmodernist writers, poets, photographers and translators. He was born in Germany, raised in Ukraine and lived in St Petersburg from 1968 until his death. He was awarded several literary prizes in Russia and abroad. He has been described by academics such as Professor Stephanie Sandler (Harvard University) as working closely and collaboratively with American poets on translating his work, particularly Lyn Hejinian. She goes on to say that his "deep affinities with L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry were grounded in personal connections with the poets. His work resembles theirs in important ways: he rejects ideas of a unified, singular authorial voice; resists rhyme and meter as supreme poetic markers (and explores prose poetry); probes sensory experience and the workings of consciousness. That last is crucial: Dragomoshchenko tests philosophies of mind and phenomenology, alongside literary, cultural, and linguistic theories”. About the speaker Dr Evgeny Pavlov is Associate Professor of Russian and Head of Department of Global, Cultural and Language Studies at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is the author of 'Shok pamiati: avtobiograficheskaia poetika Val’tera Ben’amina i Osipa Mandel’shtama' [The Shock of Memory: Autobiographical Poetics of Walter Benjamin and Osip Mandelstam] (Moscow: NLO, 2005), as well as editor of a number of volumes, and author of numerous articles on Russian and comparative literature and culture. He is Vice-President of the Australia and New Zealand Slavists’ Association and co-editor of the New Zealand Slavonic Journal. He is the translator of Arkady Dragomoshchenko’s 'Chinese Sun' and editor of a special issue of Slavic and East European Journal on Dragomoshchenko’s work. He is currently completing a monograph on the poet. How to attend This event is free to attend and open to all. No registration is necessary. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Dr Alexandra Smith. Contact Alexandra Are you interested in studying European Languages and Cultures? Our interdisciplinary environment brings together specialists in nine European languages, and the many cultures worldwide in which they're spoken, with experts in film, literature, theatre, translation and intermediality. Working with colleagues elsewhere in LLC, and across the wider University, we are able to support research which crosses boundaries between disciplines and/or languages. Find out more about studying with us Nov 20 2023 12.00 - 13.00 “And Again I Hear This Town’s Dancing, Intractable Tongue”: Arkady Dragomoshchenko’s Ukraine An in-person lecture by Dr Evgeny Pavlov (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) on the work of prominent Russian-Ukrainian writer, Arkady Dragomoshchenko, and his relationship to Ukraine. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue
“And Again I Hear This Town’s Dancing, Intractable Tongue”: Arkady Dragomoshchenko’s Ukraine In brief Date - 20 November 2023 Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square Research strand - Cultural encounters/dialogues Speaker - Dr Evgeny Pavlov (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) About the event Arkady Dragomoshchenko (1946-2012) was one of the most prominent Russian-Ukrainian postmodernist writers, poets, photographers and translators. He was born in Germany, raised in Ukraine and lived in St Petersburg from 1968 until his death. He was awarded several literary prizes in Russia and abroad. He has been described by academics such as Professor Stephanie Sandler (Harvard University) as working closely and collaboratively with American poets on translating his work, particularly Lyn Hejinian. She goes on to say that his "deep affinities with L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry were grounded in personal connections with the poets. His work resembles theirs in important ways: he rejects ideas of a unified, singular authorial voice; resists rhyme and meter as supreme poetic markers (and explores prose poetry); probes sensory experience and the workings of consciousness. That last is crucial: Dragomoshchenko tests philosophies of mind and phenomenology, alongside literary, cultural, and linguistic theories”. About the speaker Dr Evgeny Pavlov is Associate Professor of Russian and Head of Department of Global, Cultural and Language Studies at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is the author of 'Shok pamiati: avtobiograficheskaia poetika Val’tera Ben’amina i Osipa Mandel’shtama' [The Shock of Memory: Autobiographical Poetics of Walter Benjamin and Osip Mandelstam] (Moscow: NLO, 2005), as well as editor of a number of volumes, and author of numerous articles on Russian and comparative literature and culture. He is Vice-President of the Australia and New Zealand Slavists’ Association and co-editor of the New Zealand Slavonic Journal. He is the translator of Arkady Dragomoshchenko’s 'Chinese Sun' and editor of a special issue of Slavic and East European Journal on Dragomoshchenko’s work. He is currently completing a monograph on the poet. How to attend This event is free to attend and open to all. No registration is necessary. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Dr Alexandra Smith. Contact Alexandra Are you interested in studying European Languages and Cultures? Our interdisciplinary environment brings together specialists in nine European languages, and the many cultures worldwide in which they're spoken, with experts in film, literature, theatre, translation and intermediality. Working with colleagues elsewhere in LLC, and across the wider University, we are able to support research which crosses boundaries between disciplines and/or languages. Find out more about studying with us Nov 20 2023 12.00 - 13.00 “And Again I Hear This Town’s Dancing, Intractable Tongue”: Arkady Dragomoshchenko’s Ukraine An in-person lecture by Dr Evgeny Pavlov (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) on the work of prominent Russian-Ukrainian writer, Arkady Dragomoshchenko, and his relationship to Ukraine. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue
Nov 20 2023 12.00 - 13.00 “And Again I Hear This Town’s Dancing, Intractable Tongue”: Arkady Dragomoshchenko’s Ukraine An in-person lecture by Dr Evgeny Pavlov (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) on the work of prominent Russian-Ukrainian writer, Arkady Dragomoshchenko, and his relationship to Ukraine.
