Liberation Literature Lecture 2022

The Liberation Literature Lecture was delivered on Thursday 17th November 2022 by Dr Rory Finnin, University Associate Professor of Ukrainian Studies, on the subject of ‘Voila: Defiant Freedom and Liberation at the Centre of Ukraine’s National Identity’.
In this presentation, Rory Finnin explores the concept of volia, or defiant freedom, in Ukraine's modern history and culture. With particular attention to poetry, and with a view to the Euromaidan Revolution and Russia's ongoing war of neo-imperial aggression, he explains how a politics of universal democratic freedom evolved over centuries to pose powerful alternatives to aristocracy to Ukraine's west and autocracy to its east.
About the speaker: Dr Rory Finnin is University Associate Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge. He launched Cambridge Ukrainian Studies in 2008. He is former Head of the Department of Slavonic Studies (2014-18) and former Chair of the Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies (CamCREES) (2011-18).
About the series: The Liberation Literature Lecture is an annual event hosted by Cambridge University Libraries, themed around the political, cultural and artistic life of countries under, or emerging from, occupation. The lecture’s topic is inspired by the Chadwyck-Healey Liberation Collection, which includes some 3000 books and pamphlets published in France between August 1944 to the end of 1946. This collection shows how the occupied French used the published word to express their experience during the Nazi occupation, and you can find out more about it here: www.lib.cam.ac....
The Liberation Literature Lecture is generously supported by Charles Chadwyck-Healey.

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