Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on November 18, 2024 in order to attend this event.
Please join the Harriman Institute for an evening with Maria Stepanova (Harriman Writer-in-Residence, Spring 2022), in conversation with Harriman Director Valentina Izmirlieva.
Maria Stepanova has long played a central role in post-Soviet culture as leading poet of her generation, essayist and editor-in-chief of Colta.ru, the enormously influential online publication. The prestigious Andrei Bely Prize and Joseph Brodsky Fellowship are among her many awards. Her novel In Memory of Memory solidified her reputation with the Big Book Prize and the NOS Literary Prize, not to mention the dozens of translations and reviews that have appeared in the international press. The English translation by Sasha Dugdale (New Directions, 2021) was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. You can read an excerpt from the work in the Summer 2021 issue of Harriman Magazine.
Valentina Izmirlieva is Professor in Columbia’s Slavic Department and Director of the Harriman Institute. She is a scholar of Balkan and East Slavic religious and political cultures, with a focus on multi-ethnic and multi-religious empires and their successor states. The topics of her publications range from the medieval societies of the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, including Kyivan Rus’, to the post-Soviet cultural space. The recipient of many awards and distinctions, Professor Izmirlieva delivered the inaugural Memorial Shevelov Lecture of Ukrainian Studies in 2018. She founded and leads Black Sea Networks, a global initiative to investigate the Black Sea as a hub of cultural, political, and historical interest.
