Under the czars in the nineteenth century, censors deliberately impeded efforts at fostering Ukrainian national identity. Under Communism in the twentieth, translation became a vehicle of total Russification. In post-Soviet Ukraine, translation remains a mighty weapon of the information wars.

Kolomiyets, Harris Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, is a widely published scholar on the long history of translation as censorship in Ukraine. A poet-translator and member of the National Writers Union of Ukraine, she is a scholar of comparative literature and Slavic studies and is Professor of Translation Studies at Shevchenko National University in Kyiv.

Wednesday, January 18, at 5 pm in Rocky 3. This event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the Political Economy Project.