Special Seminar on Ukrainian Culture　 “Ukrainian Culture and Art Since the Maidan”

Amelia M. Glaser translates primarily from Yiddish, Ukrainian, and Russian. She is Professor of Literature at UC San Diego, where she holds the Chair in Judaic Studies. She is the author of Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands (Northwestern U.P., 2012) and Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine (Harvard UP, 2020). She is the editor of Stories of Khmelnytsky: Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising (Stanford U.P., 2015) and, with Steven Lee, Comintern Aesthetics (U. Toronto Press, 2020). She is currently writing a book about contemporary Ukrainian poetry.

Yuliya Ilchuk is Assistant Professor of　Slavic Literature and Culture at Stanford　University. She is the author of an award-winning book Nikolai Gogol’s Hybrid　Performance (published at University of　Toronto Press, 2021) and a translator of　contemporary Ukrainian poetry. Ilchuk’s most recent book project, The Vanished: Memory, Temporality, Identity in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine, revisits collective memory and trauma, post-memory, remembrance, memorials, and reconciliation in Ukraine.

Mitsuharu Akao is Assistant Professor of National Museum of Ethnography, Japan. He is the co-author of Jews and Autonomy: The Rise and Fall of Diaspora Community in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia (Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, 2017). He has published articles about Hasidic Pilgrimage to Uman. Among his research interests are contemporary Jewish societies in the former Soviet Union and cross-cultural relationships between Jews and Ukrainians.