“The Ukrainian Night”: book talk and discussion
Date and time:
Tuesday 18 September, 2018
18:30 - 20:00
Location:
TW1.G.01
Ground Floor of Tower 1, London School of Economics
London
In this lyrical and intimate book, Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Revolution. Grounded in the true stories of activists and soldiers, parents and children, Shore’s book blends a narrative of suspenseful choices with a historian’s reflections on what revolution is and what it means. She gently sets her portraits of individual revolutionaries against the past as they understand it - and the future as they hope to make it.
What is the legacy of the Maidan Revolution, 5 years on? Has it transformed Ukraine? What is the significance of smaller revolutions taking place in Ukraine in recent years?
This talk is followed by a discussion and a Q&A.
This event is organised by Ukrainian Institute London and the Institute of Global Affairs at LSE.
This event will be held in English.
FREE
Speaker
Marci Shore
Marci Shore teaches European cultural and intellectual history at Yale University, USA. Before joining Yale’s history department, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University‘s Harriman Institute; an assistant professor of history and Jewish studies at Indiana University; and Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Yale. She is the author of The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe (Crown, 2013), Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 (Yale University Press, 2006). Her articles in many academic journals and popular media.
Speaker
Marina Pesenti
A native of Kyiv, Marina Pesenti spent 10 years with the BBC World Service in London, producing and presenting programmes. She was a winner of BBC WS Documentary Bursary Award and produced documentaries for the English and Ukrainian desks. Marina is Director of the Ukrainian Institute London which promotes the country’s language and culture and encourages public debate around Ukraine-related issues. Marina gives interviews to the UK media. Her writing featured in OpenDemocracy, The World Today, The Odessa Review, Novoye Vremya.
Moderator
Peter Pomerantsev
Peter Pomerantsev is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics, an author and TV producer. He specialises in propaganda and media development and has testified on the challenges of information war to the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the UK Parliament Defence Select Committee. He writes for publications including the Financial Times, Politico, Atlantic and many others. His book on Russian propaganda, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, won the 2016 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.
Peter Pomerantsev's review of the book notes that "Shore’s intimate account of Ukraine’s 2014 revolution probes the metaphysical meaning of revolution. In so doing, it illuminates the crisis of the West more broadly."
