WHEN: Thursday 7 June, 18:30 – 20:00

WHERE:  Main Quad Temporary Pop Up 101, University College London, Gower St, WC1E 6BT (enter by UCL main entrance on Gower Street). Here is a map: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/main-quad-pop-up

Admission: Free with registration. Register here

In 2014, Russia launched military operations against Ukraine, annexing Crimea and sparking an armed conflict in the Donbas. These events were shocking and completely unexpected for Ukrainians. Ukrainian writers began to react almost immediately, however. First came poetry shared via social media by poets from eastern Ukraine, then fiction and non-fiction by soldiers and volunteers at the front, and later prose and drama by leading writers.

This session will feature readings and discussion of texts that try to make sense of Europe’s forgotten war. Participants include director of the Molodyi Teatr London theatre group Olesya Khromeychuk, poet Iryna Shuvalova, poet and translator Sasha Dugdale, whose translation of a play about the war was staged at the Royal Court Theatre, and UCL lecturer Uilleam Blacker.