As a starting point, this virtual event will feature the presentation of Bohdan Tokarsky’s study “The Un/Executed Renaissance: Ukrainian Soviet Modernism and Its Legacies”. The participants of the roundtable will then go on to discuss together the salient questions that this work raises, including the place of Ukrainian (Soviet) modernism in the study of global modernisms and Soviet studies.
Date: 30.11.2021
Time: 4pm - 5:30pm
Event Title: The Un/Executed Renaissance: Ukrainian Soviet Modernism and Its Legacies
Event Type: Other
Category: Funded projects
Organisor: Forum Transregional Studies
Location: online
As a starting point, this virtual event will feature the presentation of Bohdan Tokarsky’s study “The Un/Executed Renaissance: Ukrainian Soviet Modernism and Its Legacies”, which has been recently published in the Essay series of the Forum Transregionale Studien.
The participants of the roundtable will then go on to discuss together the salient questions that this work raises, including the place of Ukrainian (Soviet) modernism in the study of global modernisms and Soviet studies, the fascinating relationship between tradition and innovation, past and future in this modernism, as well as the legacy of the Ukra inian Soviet culture of the 1920s in post-Soviet Ukraine, among others. Bohdan Tokarsky’s “The Un/Executed Renaissance” is Essay No. 8 in the open access Essay series “Essays of the Forum Transregionale Studien”.
