DATE: Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 7:30pm

VENUE: Jewish Community Centre London (JW3), 341-351 Finchley Road, London NW3 6ET

Admission: This is a ticketed event. £15. To buy a ticket, follow this link 

This event is organised by Ukrainian Institute London in partnership with Jewish Community Centre JW3 and funded by Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.

Ukraine is home to thousands of cities and villages – borderland communities – contested by empires and  occupying a central place in their colonisation projects. Subjected to multiple occupations throughout the WW2, many of them have experienced a near complete change of their populations. One of such cities is Lviv, a capital of Galicia,  in Western Ukraine, once predominantly Polish and Jewish, it is now overwhelmingly a Ukrainian city and an important centre for nurturing Ukrainian identity.

Cities like Lviv are now coming to grapple with its complex, fascinating and tragic history: they are trying to fill out the gaping void of lost cultural landscapes, to come to terms with trauma of the communities which once lived in Ukrainian cities and were lost, to question the origin of violence and to raise the febrile issues of responsibility and remembrance.

Speakers: 

Dr Iryna Starovoyt, Associate Professor at Ukrainian Catholic University, literary critic and poet, Lviv, Ukraine

Marla Raucher Osborn, CEO at Roharyn Jewish Heritage, Ukraine

Mark Freiman, Director of Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, Toronto, Canada

Moderated by Marina Pesenti, Director of Ukrainian Institute London.

For speakers’ biographies please click here.