oksana maksymchuk
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"Names on the Maps: Poetry Reading and Conversation with Oksana Lutsyshyna and Marko Pavlyshyn," The University of Melbourne, May 8, 2025.
RECENT Readings, Roundtable Discussions & Workshops
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"Still City: In Conversation with Lauris Veips," Washington University, St. Louis, March 3, 2025.
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"Still City: Book Launch and Reading with Lauris Veips," Left Bank Books, St. Louis, March 2, 2025.
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"Still City: In Conversation with Alex Averbuch," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 27, 2025. ​​​
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"Still City: In Conversation with Leeya Mehta," The Alan Cheuse International Writer's Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, February 24, 2025.
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"Still City: In Conversation with Pauline Rowe," Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, November 26, 2024.
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"Still City: In Conversation with Moya Cannon," Books Upstairs, Dublin, November 20, 2024. ​​
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"Still City: In Conversation with Hugh Roberts," Bookbag, Exeter, November 3, 2024.
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"Poetry and War: In Conversation with Sasha Dugdale," University of Oxford, October 31, 2024.
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"Poetry Showcase," Pipeline, Brighton, October 29, 2024.
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"Still City: In Conversation with Boriana Aleksandrova," University of York, October 21, 2024.
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"Words for War: In Conversation with Sibelan Forrester," Swarthmore College, September 23, 2024.
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"Still City: In Conversation with Charlotte Shevchenko Knight," Manchester Literature Festival, Manchester Poetry Library, October 17, 2024. ​​​​​
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"Models of Creativity: Community, Collaboration, Mentorship, AI" International Meeting of Translators of Ukrainian Literature, Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin, August 27, 2024.
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"Words for War: Agency, Authority & Community," Central European University, Budapest, July, 2024.
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"Poetry and Memory: Reading and Conversation with Marianna Kiyanovska," Haus für Poesie, Berlin, July 16, 2024.
Still City Book Launch, hosted over Zoom by Sasha Dudale and Carcanet Press, June 12, 2024.
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"Ukrainian Narratives of War and Occupation," Cultures of Incarceration Centre, University of Hull, May 8, 2024.
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"Poetry and Resistance: Reading and Discussion," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 9, 2023.
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"Writing War: Reading and Discussion," University of Chicago, Chicago, October 4, 2023.
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Poetry Reading with Yara Arts Group and Olena Jennings, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, August 26, 2023.
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Bristol Translates, School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol, July 6, 2023.
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Poetry Reading, Litteratur på Blå, Oslo, May 2, 2023.
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"In the Hour of War: Reading and Discussion," The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures with the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, April 6, 2023.
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Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference and Book fair, Seattle, Washington, March 10, 2023.
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"Voices of Ukraine: Translation and Belonging" with Yuliya Komska. Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, November 10, 2022.
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"The War in Ukraine" with Lydia Khalil and Max Rosochinsky. Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Bali, October 30, 2022.
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"The Human Experience of Conflict" with Giuseppe Catozzella, Michael Vatikiotis, and Max Rosochinsky. Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Bali, Indonesia, October 28, 2022.
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"Beacon of Hope: Refugee Stories" with Natalie D-Napoleon, Hassan Al Nawwab, and Max Rosochinsky. Writing Western Australia/UWR Festival, Perth, Australia, October 23, 2022.
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"Contemporary Poetry from Ukraine," Nottingham Trent University, England, April 2022.
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“Translation and Creativity,” Baruch College, New York, USA, April 2022.
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Atlanta Online International Festival, with Ilya Kaminsky, Boris and Lyudmyla Khersonsky, Diane Seuss, Jenny Xie, Lyuba Yakimchuk, and Javier Zamora, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA, January 2022.
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Book Discussion: "The Voices of Babyn Yar by Marianna Kiyanovska," Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies Annual Convention (ASEEES), 53rd Convention, New Orleans, USA, November 2021.
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“Intimacy and Distance in the Pandemic,” Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, March 2021.
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“Contemporary Ukrainian Poets,” ASEEES, 52nd Annual Convention, November 2020.
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“War, Literature, and Ethics – a Debate,” with Jasmina Lukic, Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Max Rosochinsky, and Andrea Tompa, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, November 2019.
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“Translating the Holocaust Experience in the 21st Century,” with Marianna Kiyanovska, Maria Galina, and Ganna Gnedkova, Book Forum Lviv, Ukraine, September 2019.
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“The Unsafe Territory: Dislocation and Loss in Poetry About War,” University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, March 2019.
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“Words for War: Introduction to Contemporary Ukrainian War Poetry,” Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA, March 2019.
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“Five Iterations of Osip Mandelstam’s “Black Soil,” Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, March 2019.
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