BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Roundtable DESCRIPTION:This symposium will explore the acts of writing\, translation\, and cultural production and preservation in the context of Ukraine. How do poets who are also translators move between these two practices? How does translation relate to political transition\, and to the movement between hi storical epochs? How do war\, colonization\, and decolonization transform c ulture\, and our ways of reading and listening? \n\n1-1:10: Introduction \n \n1:10-2:45: Roundtable with Sabrina Jaszi\, Oksana Maksymchuk\, and Ainsle y Morse\, moderated by Sophie Pinkham\, followed by Q&A\n\n2:45-3:15: Coffe e break\n\n3:15-4: Readings by Sasha Dugdale and Oksana Maksymchuk\, with c onversation and Q&A\n\n4:00-5:15: Short talk on Ukraine’s music by Maria So nevytsky\, followed by a performance by Zozulka\, with Q&A \n\n5:15-6: Rece ption\n\nSasha Dugdale is a poet and translator. Her sixth book of poetry\, The Strongbox\, was published by Carcanet in 2024 and won the Anglo-Hellen ic League Runciman Award. Deformations (2020) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot and Derek Walcott Prizes. Her long poem ‘Joy’ was awarded a Forward Prize in 2016. Dugdale's translations have won PEN Awards and been shortli sted for the International Booker\, the James Tait Black Prize and Warwick Prize for Women’s Writing amongst others. Her translation of Maria Stepanov a’s In Memory of Memory won the MLA Lois Roth Award. Her translations of ne w writing for theatre have been widely produced\, including stagings by the Royal Court Theatre in London\, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Publ ic Theater in New York. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and former editor of the international magazine Modern Poetry in Translatio n.\n\n \n\nSabrina Jaszi is a writer and literary translator working from U zbek\, Ukrainian\, and Russian. Her translation with Roman Ivashkiv of Andr iy Sodomora’s The Tears and Smiles of Things (Academic Studies Press\, 2024 ) was a finalist for the California Translation Prize and won the American Association for Ukrainian Studies’ Best Translation award. Other translatio ns include the fiction of Reed Grachev\, O'tkir Hoshimov\, Salomat Vafo\, S emyon Lipkin\, and Suhbat Aflatuni. She is the co-founder of Turkoslavia\, a collective and journal devoted to Turkic and Slavic literature in transla tion\, and a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley\, where she is writing a disserta tion about Central Asian literature.\n\n \n\nOksana Maksymchuk is a bilingu al Ukrainian-American poet\, scholar\, and literary translator. Her debut E nglish-language poetry collection Still City is the 2024 Pitt Poetry Series selection\, published by University of Pittsburgh Press (US) and Carcanet Press (UK). It was long-listed for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 20 25 Pen/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She is also the author of two award-winni ng poetry collections\, Xenia (Pyramida\, 2005) and Lovy (Smoloskyp\, 2008) in the Ukrainian. She co-edited an anthology Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine (Academic Studies Press\, 2017) and co-translated several poetry c ollections\, most recently\, Alex Averbuch’s Furious Harvests (Harvard Univ ersity Press\, 2025). She is a recipient of the National Endowments for the Arts Translation Fellowship (2019)\, the Scaglione Prize for Literary Tran slation from the Modern Language Association (2024)\, and other honors. Oks ana holds a PhD in philosophy from Northwestern University.\n\n \n\nAinsley Morse teaches in the Literature department at UC-San Diego and translates from Russian\, Ukrainian and the languages of former Yugoslavia. Her resear ch focuses on the literature and culture of post-WWII socialism\, particula rly unofficial or "underground" poetry\, as well as the avant-garde\, child ren's literature and contemporary poetry. Recent translation publications i nclude the Odesan poet Maria Galina’s Communiqués (with Anna Halberstadt\, Cicada Press 2024) and the novels of early Leningrad modernist Konstantin V aginov (with Geoff Cebula\, NYRB Classics\, 2025)\; work by the Croatian co nceptualist poet Vlado Martek is forthcoming (Pre-poetry\, World Poetry Boo ks 2026). She was poetry translations editor for Ukrainian Soviet Modernis m: Texts and Contexts (ed. Babak\, Ilchuk\, Ustinov\; ASP\, 2025) and is co -editing (with Ostap Kin) a Twentieth-Century Ukrainian Poetry Reader (Worl d Poetry Books\, 2027). \n\n \n\nWilla Roberts is a vocalist\, multi-instru mentalist\, arranger/composer and teacher specializing in music from Easter n Europe\, the Black Sea region\, Turkey\, and beyond. She is known for her evocative\, rich\, and versatile voice\, as well as her precision\, authen ticity\, musicality\, and passionate engagement with community through musi c. Willa is featured with her vocal trio\, Black Sea Hotel\, on the Grammy Award-winning Yo-Yo Ma/Silk Road Ensemble’s album\, Sing Me Home. Other rec ent projects include the soundtrack for the film Don’t Worry Darling\, the soundtrack for Meow Wolf Denver’s installation\, collaboration/performance with Kronos Quartet and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus\, and solo performances i n the Southwest premiere of Christopher Tin’s The Drop that Contained the S ea. Willa is musical director for both Sevda Choir and SACRa Theater Compan y.\n\n \n\nEva Salina is a passionate interpreter and instructor of Eastern European and global polyphonic vocal traditions. In 2016 she released “Lem a Lema: Eva Salina Sings Šaban Bajramović\,” recorded in New York and Serbi a\, on Vogiton Records and in 2018 followed it with “Sudbina: A Portrait of Vida Pavlović.” A two-time OneBeat alumna and a 2015 New York Foundation f or the Arts Fellow\, Eva is devoted to innovation within tradition\, partic ipation as preservation and evolution\, and collaborations which foster mut ual understanding between cultures. She has taught courses and coached ense mbles at New York University\, Williams College\, Yale University\, Rutgers University\, and Bard College. Since 2016\, Eva has toured in a duo with P eter Stan\, a Serbian/Romanian Romani accordionist\, performing predominate ly Balkan Roma songs\, and collaborates with singers and musicians across m any other genres. Eva is musical director of Driftwood Community Chorus\, K ingston Folk Choir\, and Rhinecliff Folk Choir in the mid-Hudson Valley of New York State\, and before that founded and led The Jalopy Chorus in Brook lyn\, NY\, for 10 years. In addition to her community music work\, Eva teac hes at various workshops and coaches professional and amateur singers and v ocal ensembles in East European folk traditions.\n\nMaria Sonevytsky is Ass ociate Professor of Anthropology and Music at Bard College. She is author o f the award-winning book Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine (2019 )\, and Vopli Vidopliassova’s Tantsi (2023)\, part of Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 s eries. Professor Sonevytsky has published articles on folklore and nuclear experience after Chornobyl\, epistemic imperialism after Russia’s full-scal e invasion of Ukraine\, and Crimean Tatar Indigenous politics and expressiv e culture\, among other subjects. She is currently at work on her third bo ok\, tentatively titled Singing for Lenin in Soviet Ukraine: Children\, Mus ic\, and the Communist Future. In addition to her scholarly writing\, Prof. Sonevytsky is a singer and accordionist. \n\n \n\nZozulka—meaning “cuckoo bird” in Ukrainian— is a trio devoted to the a cappella repertoires of Cent ral and Eastern Ukraine. Eva Salina\, Willa Roberts\, and Maria Sonevytsky first sang together in 2011 as part of The Chernobyl Songs Project. They we re coached by Professor Yevhen Yefremov from Kyiv\, Ukraine – the ethnomusi cologist and founder of Drevo\, the folk group that kickstarted the revival of anti-Soviet folk practices in Ukraine in 1979. As part of the Chornobyl Songs Project\, the trio learned to sing a haunting lyrical song with Prof essor Yefremov: Kalyna-malyna nad iarom stoiala. When the Chornobyl Songs P roject concluded\, Willa\, Eva and Maria decided to explore more of this mu sic\, and to bring their own interpretations to the songs they learned. The y named this new trio after the cuckoo bird that appears in many of these s ongs as the bearer of news\, both good and bad. Zozulka has performed at ve nues ranging from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the University of Toron to to intimate house shows and New York City bars. \n\nCo-sponsored by the Society for the Humanities and the Institute for European Studies (IES). DTEND:20251018T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260305T133928Z DTSTART:20251018T170000Z GEO:42.448277;-76.481995 LOCATION:A. D. White House\, Guerlac Room SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Ukraine In Translation UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50656663287466 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/ukraine-in-translation END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR