On Wednesday, September 18 at 3pm, Anastassiya Andrianova (NDSU) will present a Slavic Colloquium talk titled “Blue-Yellow Makes Green: Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities in Ukraine”
The environmental narrative about Ukraine has for decades been dominated by the single event of the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster. However, interdisciplinary research in environmental humanities offers a more nuanced history of how nature and the environment have been conceived of, depicted, and treated in Ukraine under the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, as well as post-independence—that is to say, from 1991 to the present. This talk draws on examples from Ukrainian modernist literature and contemporary life-writing, not only to bring awareness to the immediate environmental consequences of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, but also to contemplate long term strategies for addressing the global climate crisis in the age of the Anthropocene.