Fwd: seees_announcements: Oct 21 talk: Tetiana Liubchenko, Greeks in Ukraine and the Former USSR

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Nataliya Karageorgos

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Dear colleagues,

I wanted to share with you an information about the event on the Greeks of Ukraine that will take place online at the University of Michigan adn a link to register.

You are warmly invited to Talk 2 in the University of Michigan Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures series “Can ‘Slavic’ Speak for Minorities? — Who Gets to Belong in Eastern Europe?”

Speaker: Tetiana Liubchenko
Centuries of Displacement, Centuries of Resistance: Greeks in Ukraine and the Former USSR

Tuesday, October 21, 12:00 PM (ET)
Online: Please register here

Abstract:
This talk traces Greek communities across Ukraine and the former USSR—their settlements, cultural life, deportations and repression under the Russian Empire and the USSR, post-Soviet repatriation, and the persistence of identity across migrations—framed within broader debates on diaspora and cultural resilience.

Alex Averbuch
Assistant Professor of Ukrainian Literature and Culture
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Faculty Affiliate, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and CREES
LSA Collegiate Fellow
University of Michigan

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