A two-day meeting with critic Stasinevich was organized in Odesa

The Culture of Memory Platform Past/Future/Art and the Odesa National Art Museum gathered Odesa residents for a meeting with critic Yevhen Stasinevych.

At the meeting on August 3, they discussed the intersection of literature and politics in a multicultural city, as well as the intellectual landscape of Odesa and its Ukrainian milieu in a historical retrospective of the 1920s in Odesa.

"The brilliant 1920s were not only in Kharkiv and Kyiv: Odesa also had its own crazy decade. This had no less lasting, though often invisible, consequences for Ukrainian culture. "The Red Renaissance and the Black Sea Doctrine, writers and historians, film poetry and psychoanalysis. What were the key ideas that shaped the landscape of the Ukrainian Renaissance of that time, and also of later eras, having their intellectual roots in Odesa?" noted Yevhen Stasinevych.

And at the meeting on August 2, they discussed the 19th century, the "age of European nations," and where exactly in Odesa one should look for Ukrainian traces, stories, and figures. They discussed who and how developed the Ukrainian cause in the multicultural city of the empire, whether it was successful and what consequences it had, what these communities and centers were like, and what role writers and literature in general played in these processes.

Yevhen Stasinevych is a critic, literary scholar, popular lecturer, and curator of art projects (Ukraine WOW, Lesia Ukrainka: 150 Names, Earth: Incredible Ukraine, Skovoroda's World, Proper Names, Star Rising), TV and radio host, one of the authors of the Smell of the Word podcast, author of the book The Price of a Question, and compiler of the Unread Texts series. Senior researcher at the Kharkiv Literary Museum.

Кирило Бойко