oksana maksymchuk
Upcoming Events
"Poetry and Memory: Reading and Conversation," Haus für Poesie, Berlin, July 16, 2024.
"Ukrainian Narratives of War and Incarceration," Cultures of Incarceration Centre, University of Hull, May 8, 2024.
RECENT Readings, Roundtable Discussions & Workshops
"Poetry and Resistance: Reading and Discussion," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 9, 2023.
"Writing War: Reading and Discussion," University of Chicago, Chicago, October 4, 2023.
Poetry Reading with Yara Arts Group and Olena Jennings, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, August 26, 2023.
Bristol Translates, School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol, July 6, 2023.
Poetry Reading, Litteratur på Blå, Oslo, May 2, 2023.
"In the Hour of War: Reading and Discussion," The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures with the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, April 6, 2023.
Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference and Book fair, Seattle, Washington, March 10, 2023.
"Voices of Ukraine: Translation and Belonging" with Yuliya Komska. Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, November 10, 2022.
"The War in Ukraine" with Lydia Khalil and Max Rosochinsky. Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Bali, October 30, 2022.
"The Human Experience of Conflict" with Giuseppe Catozzella, Michael Vatikiotis, and Max Rosochinsky. Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Bali, Indonesia, October 28, 2022.
"Beacon of Hope: Refugee Stories" with Natalie D-Napoleon, Hassan Al Nawwab, and Max Rosochinsky. Writing Western Australia/UWR Festival, Perth, Australia, October 23, 2022.
"Contemporary Poetry from Ukraine," Nottingham Trent University, England, April 2022.
“Translation and Creativity,” Baruch College, New York, USA, April 2022.
Atlanta Online International Festival, with Ilya Kaminsky, Boris and Lyudmyla Khersonsky, Diane Seuss, Jenny Xie, Lyuba Yakimchuk, and Javier Zamora, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA, January 2022.
Book Discussion: "The Voices of Babyn Yar by Marianna Kiyanovska," Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies Annual Convention (ASEEES), 53rd Convention, New Orleans, USA, November 2021.
“Intimacy and Distance in the Pandemic,” Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, March 2021.
“Contemporary Ukrainian Poets,” ASEEES, 52nd Annual Convention, November 2020.
“War, Literature, and Ethics – a Debate,” with Jasmina Lukic, Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Max Rosochinsky, and Andrea Tompa, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, November 2019.
“Translating the Holocaust Experience in the 21st Century,” with Marianna Kiyanovska, Maria Galina, and Ganna Gnedkova, Book Forum Lviv, Ukraine, September 2019.
“The Unsafe Territory: Dislocation and Loss in Poetry About War,” University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, March 2019.
“Words for War: Introduction to Contemporary Ukrainian War Poetry,” Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA, March 2019.
“Five Iterations of Osip Mandelstam’s “Black Soil,” Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, March 2019.