The Chornobyl disaster and UKRAINIAN ChilDren’s Literature
wednesDAY, June 7, 2023 12:00 PM
ZOOM

Presented by UCSB’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

Dr. Maryna Vardanian, visiting scholar from Heidelberg University, will be giving a talk about Ukrainian children’s literature and how it has been affected by the Chornobyl disaster and nuclear war threats. Vardanian will analyze the Ukrainian children’s literature on Chornobyl issues, highlighting the literature as nature-oriented within memory studies. Vardanian will discuss the following questions: How do nature-oriented writings interact with memory studies? What is the presence of the nonhuman environment in the human environment?