What Is the Role of Humor During the War?

Olha Khometa is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages at the University of Toronto, where she is working on her dissertation, entitled “The Politics of Style: Late Modernism in the Ukrainian, Jewish Russophone and Russian Literatures in the 1930s.” Olha earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees with a major in Ukrainian Language and Literature, at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine. She completed the summer school program at the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute in 2014. She is a co-organizer of the series of literary readings entitled Contemporary Ukrainian Diaspora & Emigre Literature in cooperation with the Canadian Ukrainian Art Foundation in Toronto.

Anna Rakityanskaya is the Librarian of Russian and Belarusian collections at Harvard Library. Her special professional interests include creating, describing and curating collections of ephemeral and non-traditional materials in both physical and born-digital formats. She is also actively involved in collaborative digital collecting projects.

Olena Pavlova is a Professor of Ethics, Aesthetics and Cultural Studies at the Taras Schevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Maria Rohozha is a Professor of Ethics, Aesthetics and Cultural Studies at the Taras Schevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Chair: Ksenya Kiebuzinski is the co-director of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine, head of the Petro Jacyk Central & East European Resource Centre, and Slavic Resources Coordinator for the University of Toronto Libraries. Her research interests include nineteenth-century French stage representations of Ukraine, its historical figures, and events, as well as bibliography, the history of the book, and Austrian Galicia.

Co-Sponsored by Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine and the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

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