Svetlana Alexievich: Voices from the Eastern European Anthropocene
Friday, March 25, 1 p.m. EST
Registration link: https://swarthmore.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrc-Csqj4rHtdmvdQwvOME1qA8V0q7bkVH
Join us for a discussion with 2015 Nobel Laureate in Literature Svetlana Alexievich, renowned Belarusian writer, essayist, and investigative journalist.
Alexievich transcends the boundaries of journalism and fiction in her “documentary novels.” Her texts create compelling collages out of the voices of witnesses to historical disasters, including nuclear disaster (Voices from Chernobyl); women and children in World War II (The Unwomanly Face of War and Last Witnesses); the civilians and soldiers affected by the Soviet-Afghan war (Zinky Boys); and those caught in the turmoil of the Soviet Union’s collapse (Secondhand Time). Naming her a laureate in literature, the Nobel Committee commended her “polyphonic writings” as a “monument to suffering and courage in our time.”
In this conversation, Alexievich will be joined by José Vergara, where they will discuss Chornobyl and its environmental effects as well as recent events in Ukraine and Belarus and Eastern Europe’s history and future.
Conducted in Russian with English interpretation.
Free and open to the public.
Please write to jvergara@brynmawr.edu with any questions.