Dartmouth Events

Signals of Being: A Conversation with Ukrainian Writer Volodymyr Rafeyenko

Volodymyr Rafeyenko will speak about language, literature, his native Donetsk, the experience of occupation, and Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine.

10/22/2025
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Haldeman Hall 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall)
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Clubs & Organizations, Lectures & Seminars, School of Arts and Sciences

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.

For more information, contact:
Lyra McMullen

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.