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    18
    Apr
    2024

    Contested Borderland: The Donbas(s) in the imagination of the contemporary Russian and Ukrainian literatures

    18:00Blandijn, Leslokaal 6.60
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    Oleksandr Zabirko (Regensburg University)

    Abstract

    Since the outbreak of the war in Donbas in 2014, this border region has garnered global attention both in news coverage and on the battlefield. This spotlight has brought a wide array of issues concerning the Donbas's place on the cultural maps of Ukraine and Russia, which are ranging from the region’s entangled history to the complex relations between regional and national identity within its borders. The image of the Donbas as a contested, unsettled region has gained even more significance with the escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian war in February 2022.

    In my presentation, I will delve into the construction of the Donbas's image in culture, literature, and cinema since the early 20th century, tracing its evolution and the narratives it has generated over time. However, my primary objective is to examine the Donbas within the context of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war. In this conflict, the region serves as both a Russian casus belli and a central element of contemporary Russian imperial imagery, where the Donbas plays a prominent role as the heartland of "Novorossiya" or "New Russia" – a territorial concept that lays claim to southeastern Ukraine as part of the Russian state. Ultimately, I will investigate the strategies employed by contemporary Ukrainian authors to counter Russian imperial claims and reimagine the Donbas as both a Ukrainian and European region.

    Biografie

    Oleksandr Zabirko completed his studies in Literature and Linguistics at the University of Luhansk (Ukraine) and the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany). He earned his PhD in Slavic Literatures and Cultures from the University of Münster and is currently affiliated with the Slavic Department at the University of Regensburg. His primary research interests encompass literary models of spatial and political order, contemporary literatures from Russia and Ukraine, and fantastic literature as a whole. Notable among his recent publications are "Literary Forms of Geopolitics: The Modeling of Spatial and Political Order in Contemporary Russian and Ukrainian Literature" (in German, 2021) and "Figurations of the East" (in German, co-edited, 2022).

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    02
    Mei
    2024

    Balada | A Balad

    19:30Campus Ufo, Technicum, Blok 2, Auditorium F
    Slavische films

    Bosnië & Herzegovina 2022, Aida Begić 

    Balada is een moderne interpretatie van het "perfecte vrouwbeeld" dat in veel Zuidslavische folklore ballades naar voren komt. In die ballades schikten vrouwen zich vaak aan hun tragische lot, in deze film, echter, gaat Begić op zoek naar moderne vrouwelijke liefde, vrijheid en identiteit.

    Het hoofdpersonage van de film, Merjem-Meri, is een dertigjarige huisvrouw en moeder van de achtjarige Mila. Ze verhuist na een huwelijk van tien jaar weer naar haar ouderlijke huis. Meri ontdekt er snel dat ze er verstrikt raakt in een web van provinciale regels, verwachtingen en een complexe relatie met haar ambitieuze moeder en haar verwende jongere broer. In een poging om zichzelf opnieuw te leren kennen, waagt ze zich aan een auditie voor een film die in haar buurt zal opgenomen worden.

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    16
    Mei
    2024

    The system of pronominal clitics in the Slovenian dialect of Resia

    18:00Blandijn, Leslokaal 6.60
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    Florian Wandl (University of Zürich)

    Abstract

    Research on the system of pronominal clitics so far has mostly focused on the major Slavic languages. Studies addressing issues regarding these clitics in minor Slavic languages or dialects are rare. In this talk, I will discuss the system of pronominal clitics in the Slovenian dialect spoken in in the Resia valley in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northern Italy. This dialect has been in intense language contact with Romance (mostly Friulian and standard Italian) for several centuries which has left an imprint also on pronominal clitics. After having introduced the inventory of pronominal clitics in Resian, the place of these clitics in the clause is established. The emerging system of Resian pronominal clitics is then discussed against the background of Slavic and Romance clitic systems.

    Biografie

    Florian Wandl is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Zürich. He has a background in historical linguistics and philology, and is also interested in linguistic typology. His main research focus boils down to the question of how the Slavic languages came to be the way they are.

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