A Magic Mirror. An Evening of Poetry with Julia Nemirovskaya

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• Julia Nemirovskaya, University of Oregon
• Friday 21 February 2025, 19:00-21:00
• Main Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane, Cambridge CB2 1TJ.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Ksenia Afonina.

Join us for an inspiring evening with Julia Nemirovskaya, the renowned Moscow-born poet and editor of two bilingual anthologies of protest poetry centered on Russia’s war in Ukraine: Disbelief (Smokestack Books, 2022) and Dislocation (Slavica, 2024).

Julia teaches and directs student theater at the University of Oregon (UO). She will be visiting us to read poetry, talk about her work, her life and poetry, the New Wave poets, and the wartime poetry, and answer questions from the audience.

When: Friday 21 February 2025 19:00-21:00 (doors at 18:30)

Where: Main Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane, Cambridge CB2 1TJ

Language: English with some poetry read in original Russian

Format: in person and online via Zoom

Tickets in person: £8 standard / £5 CamRuSS members & concessions; Zoom: £5 standard, free for CamRuSS members & students. Access to video recording: free for CamRuSS members, £5 for others, incl. students.

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This event will be followed by drinks reception.

Julia Nemirovskaya is a poet, prose writer, and literary scholar. She graduated from Moscow State University, where she defended her Ph.D. dissertation in 1991. Before emigrating to the United States that same year, she was a member of the renowned Kirill Kovaldzhi “New Wave Poets” seminar and the Moscow Poetry Club. She has published four collections of poetry and short stories, a novel, and a book on Russian cultural history, Inside the Russian Soul: A Historical Survey of Russian Cultural Patterns (McGraw-Hill, 1997, 2001). Her work has appeared in Asymptote, GLAS , Literary Review, Znamya, LRS -Lettres Russes, Bonniers Litterära Magasin, and other publications. Her writings have been translated into several European languages. Additionally, her 26 plays have been staged in theatres across Russia, the United States, Germany, and France.

This talk is part of the The Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society (CamRuSS) series.

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