8 March – talk on Ukrain­ian lit­er­a­ture and gen­der facil­i­tat­ed by Han­na Yanovs­ka with the skype-call of Ukrain­ian writer Oksana Zabuzhko – 23 peo­ple attend­ed.

Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukraine’s lead­ing con­tem­po­rary author, was born in 1960. She grad­u­at­ed from the depart­ment of phi­los­o­phy of Kyiv Shevchenko Uni­ver­si­ty in 1982, and obtained her PhD in phi­los­o­phy of arts in 1987. She has worked as a Research Asso­ciate for the Insti­tute of Phi­los­o­phy of the Ukrain­ian Acad­e­my of Sci­ences, lec­tured in the US on Ukrain­ian cul­ture (at Penn State Uni­ver­si­ty, 1992, Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty, and Uni­ver­si­ty of Pitts­burgh, 1994), and worked as a colum­nist for some of the Ukraine’s major jour­nals. After the pub­li­ca­tion of her nov­el Field Work in Ukrain­ian Sex (1996), lat­er named “the most influ­en­tial Ukrain­ian book for the 15 years of inde­pen­dence”, she has been liv­ing as a free-lance author. She is Vice-Pres­i­dent of the Ukrain­ian PEN. Ms.Zabuzhko lives in Kyiv.