What Is the Role of Humor During the War?

 

Olha Khometa is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages at the University of Toronto, where she is working on her dissertation, entitled “The Politics of Style: Late Modernism in the Ukrainian, Jewish Russophone and Russian Literatures in the 1930s.” Olha earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees with a major in Ukrainian Language and Literature, at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine. She completed the summer school program at the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute in 2014. She is a co-organizer of the series of literary readings entitled Contemporary Ukrainian Diaspora & Emigre Literature in cooperation with the Canadian Ukrainian Art Foundation in Toronto.

 

Anna Rakityanskaya is the Librarian of Russian and Belarusian collections at Harvard Library. Her special professional interests include creating, describing and curating collections of ephemeral and non-traditional materials in both physical and born-digital formats. She is also actively involved in collaborative digital collecting projects. My latest article Belarusian Politics and Society Web Archive: Preserving the Belarusian Grassroots Protest will appear in the latest issue of the Journal of Belarusian Studies.

 

Olena Pavlova is a Professor of Ethics, Aesthetics and Cultural Studies at the Taras Schevchenko National University of Kyiv.

 

Maria Rohozha is a Professor of Ethics, Aesthetics and Cultural Studies at the Taras Schevchenko National University of Kyiv.

 

Ksenya Kiebuzinski (Chair) is the co-director of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine, head of the Petro Jacyk Central & East European Resource Centre, and Slavic Resources Coordinator for the University of Toronto Libraries. Her research interests include nineteenth-century French stage representations of Ukraine, its historical figures, and events, as well as bibliography, the history of the book, and Austrian Galicia. Recent publications include a forthcoming volume, The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941: A Sourcebook (Amsterdam UP, 2016), co-edited with Alexander Motyl, and Maximum Imaginativeness: An Exhibition on Modern Czech Book Design, 1900–1950: Exhibition and Catalogue (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 2015), plus articles on Sacher-Masoch’s Galician tales in French translation, for a volume she coedited of the journal 20th-century Ukraine: Culture, Ideology, Politics (2015); another on Léo Delibes’ Galician opera ‘Kassya,’ Austrian History Yearbook (2015); and one on a Carpathian band of brigands for a festschrift in honor of Paul Robert Magocsi (2015)