Cultural Politics Seminar: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (In Person)

"Russia’s War in Ukraine and the Mariupol Greeks: Transnational Tensions, Cultural Politics, History"

Speaker:

Tetiana Liubchenko, Associate Professor of Greek Linguistics, Kyiv National Linguistic University.

Contact:

Charles Gaillard
cgaillard@fas.harvard.edu

Chair:

Panagiotis Roilos, Faculty Associate. George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies, Department of the Classics; Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.

Abstract:

One of the most underreported human catastrophes of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is the ongoing cultural and existential erasure of the country’s Mariupol Greek population, which, prior to the war, constituted the third-largest ethnic group in the Donetsk region. Russia’s war and occupation put at risk that ethnic group’s survival and cultural preservation.