Фотозвіт: зустріч із американськими письменниками

1 грудня 2015 року у КНЛУ відбулася зустріч із сучасними американськими письменниками та представником посольства США в Україні. Дякуємо організаторам заходу за співпрацю, чудовим авторам за цікавий діалог і студентам за небайдужість до літературного процесу і продумані та доречні запитання.
Додаємо невеличкий фотозвіт.

Увага: зустріч з американськими письменниками

Шановні студенти! Шановні викладачі!

Запрошуємо вас на зустріч з групою письменників США. Під час зустрічі ви зможете дізнатися про сучасний стан американської літератури та задати членам групи питання, які вас цікавлять. 

Зустріч відбудеться 1 грудня (вівторок) о 13.30. Аудиторію буде оголошено додатково. Зустріч пройде англійською мовою. Інформація про членів групи додається. 

Jeffrey Brown is author of the recent poetry collection, “The News” (2015), which draws on his work over a quarter of a century as a correspondent and producer for the PBS NewsHour, the nightly news program for public television in the United States. He currently serves as Senior Correspondent and Chief Arts Correspondent for the program and as host of Art Beat, the NewsHour’s arts and culture blog. As a co-anchor and moderator he has interviewed numerous leading American and international newsmakers, moderated studio discussions on a vast array of topics, and reported from across the United States and around the globe. As arts correspondent he has profiled many of the world’s leading writers, musicians and other artists. “The News” is his first book.

Elliot Ackerman is the author of the novel Green on Blue (Scribner, 2015) and the forthcoming novel Dark at the Crossing (Knopf, 2017). A former White House Fellow, his writing frequently appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The New York Times Magazine, among others. He served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and is the recipient of the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. He currently lives in Istanbul and writes on the Syrian Civil War. Visit his website at
www.elliotackerman.com.

Lea Carpenter's novel, Eleven Days (Knopf, June 2013), tells the story of America’s special operations forces through the story of an officer who goes missing off a mission the same night as the bin Laden raid, 2nd May 2011, and the story of his mother, who waits for news. The book’s title is a reference to the end of The Iliad, and to Achilles’s decision to stand down his army for eleven days. The novel was a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, and long-listed for the Bailey’s. The New York Times’s Michiko Kakutani said the novel attested to the “debut of an extraordinarily gifted writer." Carpenter worked in literary publishing for ten years—as a Founding editor at Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope; a founding editor of Penguin’s Lives series of short biographies, and later as Deputy Publisher of The Paris Review. She is working on her second novel, set in the Intelligence Community. She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and has an MBA from Harvard. Her 2003 Harvard University Commencement Speech, “Auden and the Little Things,” addressed the importance of poetry in wartime.

Joan Naviyuk Kane is the author of The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife and Hyperboreal. She has received a Whiting Writer’s Award, the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, the USA Projects Creative Vision Award, an American Book Award, the Alaska Literary Award, and fellowships from the Rasmuson Foundation, Alaska State Council on the Arts, Alaska Arts and Cultures Foundation, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and the School for Advanced Research. Kane graduated from Harvard College, where she was a Harvard National Scholar, and Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she was the recipient of a graduate Writing Fellowship. Inupiaq with family from King Island and Mary’s Igloo, she raises her children in Anchorage, Alaska, and is a faculty mentor with the low-residency MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Visit her website at http://thecormoranthunterswife.com.

Christopher Merrill has published six books of poetry, including Watch Fire, for which he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; many edited volumes and books of translations; and five works of nonfiction, among them, Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars and Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain. His latest, The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War (2011) chronicles his travels in Asia and the Middle East in the wake of the war on terror. His writings have been translated into twenty-five languages; his honors include a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French government. A member of the National Council on the Humanities and the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, he directs the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Visit his website at www.christophermerrillbooks.com. IWP Reading and Lecture Tour Program Coordinator:

Kelly Bedeian received a degree in Linguistics from the University of Iowa, after which she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine from 1996-1998. Kelly went on to work on a variety of professional development and exchange programs as a Program Manager at CONNECT/US-RUSSIA, a non-profit organization based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 2001 Kelly returned to life overseas, working with the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) first as a Program Manager for the Community Connections program then later in a dual role as the Country Manager for the IREX/Armenia office and the Regional Manager for the Internet Access and Training Program in the Caucasus Region. Kelly joined the IWP staff in 2004 where she currently works as Program Coordinator for overseas programs.

Call for Papers: International Conference in Literary Studies 'Poetics of Home/House'

Dear colleagues!

On occasion of its 20th anniversary, Professor V. Fesenko Chair of Theory and History of World Literature, Kyiv National Linguistic University announces call for papers to be presented at the International Conference in Literary Studies 'Poetics of Home/House' to be held at the Kyiv National Linguistic University on 17-18 March 2016.

The concept of ‘home’ has always been basic for human communities as a transhistorical constant. In Satya Mohanti’s words, “all human beings require warmth, rest, nourishment and shelter”. These needs can best be satisfied by ‘home’, and the fact that this truth is always culturally specific and variably instantiated is no argument against is universal validity. It is no wonder, therefore, that ‘home’ has figured prominently in literature throughout its history as a fundamental element of human life representing stability, shelter, protection, and family bliss, or, on the contrary, repression, stifling atmosphere, conservatism, and philistinism. In late 20th – early 21st cc. marked by global migration and deterritorialization processes, as well as the emergence of extensive diasporic communities, the concept of ‘home’ became subject to dramatic metamorphoses. We are interested in the ways ‘home’/’house’ has been (re)conceptualized over centuries (and over the past decades) in various cultures and literatures.

Therefore, we invite papers exploring a multiplicity of approaches to the concept of ‘home’ in national literatures at different stages of their development. Proposals for interdisciplinary and/or multidisciplinary papers are especially welcome. Possible subjects for discussion may include, but are by no means limited to the following:

• Phenomenon of home in cultural-historical paradigm

• Imagological dimensions of ‘home’

• Poetics of home: intermedial aspect (the architecture of text, ‘home’ in film and on television, in photography and painting, etc.)

• Rhetorics of home

• Semiotics of home

• Phenomenology of home

• Values ​​of home. ‘The feeling of home’ as a worldview landmark

• Ideology of home

• Sociological dimensions of home

• Anthropology of home

• Home vs. Universe: anthropo-cosmological dimension

• Home as the center of life and safety

• The space of home in the light of the theory of everyday life

• Chronotope of home

• Home and homelessness

• Destruction, decline and loss of home. Expulsion from home and return home

• ‘Home’ and diaspora, search for home, protection of home

• Existential dimension of home

• Substitutes of home

• Metamorphosis of home

• Modification of the concept ‘home’ for deterritorialised communities and displaced persons

• Gender coordinates of home

• Home and violence

• Images of individual inner spaces

• Increasing role of imagination in constructing the concept of ‘home’ under conditions of electronic mediation of reality and mass migration on a global scale

• Poetics of secrets in literature: home as a private and collective space

• Home as family space / space of lonely existence in the twentieth century literature

The conference will result in selected papers’ publication in the journal Contemporary Literary Studies (Issue 13, 2016).

Applications containing abstracts (200 words) should be sent to svitlit1@gmail.com by February 1, 2016. Application form can be found here.

Looking forward to fruitful cooperation,

Organizing Committee.

International Conference "Transcultural Codes of Literary Discourse"

Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine,  Kyiv National Linguistic University, Professor Valentine Fesenko Department of Theory and History of World Literature are pleased to invite you to participate in the International Conference Transcultural Codes of Literary Discourse that will take place on March 19-20, 2015 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
     

The prefix “trans” in “transculturalism” stands for various forms of interaction inside and outside the texture of a literary text. Transculturalism is a semantic and semiotic mirror reflecting the complexity and ambiguity of  any phenomenon related to “human condition”: from realization of one’s own body to constructing the image of national identity. To be in the “trans” zone means to balance on the verge, to combine, to reject, to reconstruct, to realize, to decode the articulate, the inarticulate, the real, the imaginary, the uncanny, the own, the strange, but it also means to establish the forms of mutual understanding, help, to construct emotional, intellectual, and narrative bridges “in between”. Transculturalism is as much the tool of reflection on contemporary world as the mode of being within it.

V.I. Fesenko Department of Theory and History of Literature

About us  

V.I. Fesenko Department of Theory and History of Literature was established at the Kyiv National Linguistic University (then Kyiv State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages) under the Decree of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine in June, 1996 at the instigation of O.K. Romanovsky, Doctor of Philology, ex-rector of the Institute and a well-known expert in literary theory.

The introduction of the comprehensive “History of World Literature” course and such courses as “Introduction to Literary Studies”, “Literary Theory” and “Methodology of Teaching Literature” contributed to bestowal of university status (and later the status of national university) to the Institute, since the courses in question made it possible to launch a comprehensive program in Philology.

From the time of its establishment till 1999 the Department was headed by Sergiy Mykhaylovych Prygodiy (1953-2013), Doctor of Philology, Professor, scholar in the fields of American literature, literary theory, and comparative literature renowned both in Ukraine and abroad.