The Un/Executed Renaissance: Ukrainian Soviet Modernism and Its Legacies

Zunächst gibt Bohdan Tokarsky eine kurze Einführung in seinen kürzlich veröffentlichten Essay, im Anschluss diskutieren die Panelisten über den Begriff der Moderne im Kontext der ukrainischen Literatur der 1920er Jahre und nehmen auch auf die Aktualisierungen in der postsowjetischen Ukraine Bezug.

Datum: 30.11.2021

Uhrzeit: 16:00 - 17:30 Uhr

Veranstaltungstitel: The Un/Executed Renaissance: Ukrainian Soviet Modernism and Its Legacies

Veranstaltungstyp: Sonstige

Veranstalterkategorie: Förderprojekte

Veranstalter: Forum Transregionale Studien

Ort: online

As a starting point, this virtual event will feature the presentation of Bohdan Tokarsky’s study “The Un/Executed Renaissance: Ukrainian Soviet Modernism and Its Legacies”, which has been recently published in the Essay series of the Forum Transregionale Studien.

The participants of the roundtable will then go on to discuss together the salient questions that this work raises, including the place of Ukrainian (Soviet) modernism in the study of global modernisms and Soviet studies, the fascinating relationship between tradition and innovation, past and future in this modernism, as well as the legacy of the Ukra inian Soviet culture of the 1920s in post-Soviet Ukraine, among others. Bohdan Tokarsky’s “The Un/Executed Renaissance” is Essay No. 8 in the open access Essay series “Essays of the Forum Transregionale Studien”.