Volodymyr Rafeyenko, one of the leading and widely translated Ukrainian authors, will speak about language, literature, his native Donetsk, the experience of occupation, and Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine. The author of Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love, The Length of Days, and Signals of Being (Harvard UP, 2025), Rafeyenko brings Ukrainian literature to international audiences.

Free and open to the public.

Book signing to follow the event.

A Ukraine Working Group Event

Supported by the Lelsie Center for the Humanities and the Department of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies.