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The Ukraine Shelf

In this podcast, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk and Dr Uilleam Blacker speak to leading authors, intellectuals, scholars and journalists about Ukraine and its place in the world.

Ukraine is at the centre of world events today, and understanding the country’s politics, history and culture has never been more important. The Ukraine Shelf talks to leading authors, intellectuals, scholars and journalists about what we should be reading to understand Ukraine and its place in the world. The Ukraine Shelf is co-sponsored by the UCL European Institute, the Ukrainian Institute London, and the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, with the support of the British Academy.

The podcast is presented by Dr Olesya Khromeychuk and Dr Uilleam Blacker.  

Dr Olesya Khromeychuk

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Dr Olesya Khromeychuk is a historian and writer. She is the author of The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister(2022). Khromeychuk has written for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Prospect and The New Statesman, and has delivered a TED talk on ‘What the World Can Learn From Ukraine's Fight for Democracy’. She has taught the history of East-Central Europe at several British universities and is currently the Director of the Ukrainian Institute London.

Dr Uilleam Blacker

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Dr Uilleam Blacker is Associate Professor of Ukrainian and East European Culture at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European studies and a translator of Ukrainian literature. He is the author of Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe (2019). He has written on Ukraine for The Guardian, The Atlantic, Financial Times, Times Literary Supplement and others, and his translations have appeared in The Guardian, The White Review, Words without Borders and others. 

Episodes:  

Episode 1: Crimea


 

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