Conference Programme

9.15—12.00* Understanding the Nature of War

Moderators: Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin (University of Edinburgh), Lilia Miroshnychenko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)

  • 9.15—9.45 Welcoming the participants of the conference
    Alex Thomson (Head of the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh)
    Hryhoriy Semenyuk (Head of the Institute of Philology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
  • 9.45—10.30 Tetiana Mykhed (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
    Kassandra: Anticipating the War
  • 10.30—10.50 Maria Borzova, Nataliia Zuieva (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
    Key Visual Images of the Russian-Ukrainian War (video presentation)
  • 10.50—11.35 Alex Thomson (University of Edinburgh)
    War in the Phenomenological Tradition
  • 11.35—12.00 Coffee break

 

12.00—15.00 Senses and Sensations of War

Moderator: Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin

  • 12.00—12.30 Olha Bandrovska (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv)
    Russia in British Modernist Literature Through the Lens of Civilization Studies
  • 12.30—13.00 Corinne Cooper-Deniau (Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV))
    Their Language and Our Own: Political and Poetic Issues in the English Poems of Charles d’Orléans
  • 13.00—13.30 Lilia Miroshnychenko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
    The Full-scale Invasion-2022 and the City Soundscape
  • 13.30—14.00 Olena Romanenko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
    Writing in the Time of Catastrophe: the Experience of Understanding the Russia-Ukraine War in the Ukrainian Literature
  • 14.00—14.30 Ellen Redling (University of Birmingham)
    Staging War: The Difficulties of (Re-)Presenting War in Theatre/Performance and the Potential to Connect to Traumatic Events
  • 14.30—15.00 Coffee break

 

15.00—18.00 Responses to War

Moderator: Lilia Miroshnychenko

  • 15.00—15.30 Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin (University of Edinburgh)
    Hélène Berr’s Journal – A Literary Remapping of Occupied Paris in the Face of Deportation
  • 15.30—16.00 Olexandr Gon (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
    A Broken and Bluesy Hallelujah: the Narrative of Pink Floyd’s Hey Hey Rise Up
  • 16.00—16.30 Rowland Cotterill (independent scholar)
    Shakespeare’s Representation of War in Troilus and Cressida
  • 16.30—17.00 Serhiy Skrylnyk (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
    Simultaneous Interpreting Training Perspectives in War Time: Case Study
  • 17.00—17.30 Jenny Watson (University of Edinburgh)
    Rediscovering German Violence in Ukraine: The “Holocaust by Bullets” in Recent German-Language Literature
  • 17.30—18.00 Stanislav Hrechka (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
    Narratives in Multimodal Texts of Ukrainian Musical Culture during the Russia’s War in Ukraine

 

*All time slots indicated are in UK time. Please note that the conference will be held in English.