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I wrote for LB.ua about Ukraine at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Does sympathy translate into readership when Ukrainian writers are still expected, above all, to bear witness to war?
https://lb.ua/culture/2026/10/18/773676_ukrayina_maybutnomu_chasi.html by @averbuchalex

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https://tyzhden.ua/ukraina-iaka-ne-davala-iuriiu-tarnavskomu-zasnuty/ by @averbuchalex

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4 days ago

Meet Alex Averbuch @averbuchalex this Saturday at the Frankfurt Book Fair!

"The Last Supper of My Body: A Conversation with Alex Averbuch" is an open discussion moderated by Roksolana Sviato @ro_fiesta, exploring Averbuch’s poetics of the body as an archive of memory, genealogy, and testimony through the use of family archives, letters, and personal recollections from eastern Ukraine.

🗓 Saturday, October 10, 5:00 PM–5:50 PM CEST

📍Ukrainian National Stand, Hall 3.1, Stand C13, Frankfurter Buchmesse

Language: German (with simultaneous interpretation from Ukrainian) by @averbuchalex

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10 days ago

📖 Sending you off to the weekend with great reading material by our very own Alex Averbuch:

Dr. Averbuch's new essay in Livyi Bereh (LB.ua) examines a list of landmark books from Ukraine’s independence era—and the voices it leaves out.

Copy/paste the link here: ✒ https://myumi.ch/kVJQj taken in University of Michigan by @averbuchalex

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This Saturday at the Frankfurt Book Fair, I’ll be presenting Das letzte Abendmahl meines Körpers, translated into German by Angela Huber, in conversation with Roksolana Sviato. Come and say hello! by @averbuchalex

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13 days ago

💡 SLL faculty publication spotlight: Professor Alex Averbuch’s new article in Canadian Slavonic Papers examines the cultural infrastructure of Russia’s occupation of eastern Ukraine.

Conceived while teaching the Slavic Department course “Culture Under Occupation” last year, the article explores how flags, monuments, music, cinema, education, and literature are mobilized to make Russian rule appear ordinary, morally necessary, and inevitable in areas of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions occupied since 2014.

📌Full article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00085006.2026.2712803#abstract by @averbuchalex

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18 days ago

How to believe when the answer to your prayer is silence?

Step into the quiet space of Alex Averbuch’s @averbuchalex "where are You" from his collection 𝘍𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴 (translated by Oksana Maksymchuk @ok_maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky)—a moving poem on faith and searching for light in the shadows.

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where are You
the root of the answer is silent
it does not yet have any being
to discern
the star of Jacob
which illuminates
with an unborn speech
your boundless touch
in the rift of
gestures thoughts
a shadow passes and a cloud floats
and dust like a fleeting dream
and seeps
with prayers—a worn out heart
like a celestial seed, like the dust of the earth
like a well of water
like an embarrassed force
like slashes of fire
in the dark of your presence

#HURIBooks #UkrainianLiterature #Poetry @huriharvard by @averbuchalex

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19 days ago

My article on the cultural infrastructure of Russia’s occupation of eastern Ukraine is out today in Canadian Slavonic Papers. It’s available open access on the publisher’s website. by @averbuchalex

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21 days ago

Watch Alex Averbuch @averbuchalex read "we are one on one" from his poetry collection 𝘍𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴 (translated with an introduction by Oksana Maksymchuk @ok_maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky)—a poignant manifesto of wartime days and an honest, furious dialogue with God. Incorporating biblical symbols, the text transforms the "salt of the earth" into a weapon of retribution, and the act of looking back into a deliberate choice never to forget one's losses.

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we are one on one
you, unbearable god of mine
because of you
the righteous will perish alongside the godless
we are the people come to you in the night
open your doors
my god, and let us go
this city is too close to flee to
how mournful this flight
with drums and congenital disorders
for our name is—woe
our mouths filled with brick dust
shout of the heaviest hours
I must swallow this hunger
for there is no grave we wouldn’t bring along
for there is no pillar of salt that we wouldn’t look back at
we are the salt of this earth
hurled into your eyes

#HURIBooks #UkrainianLiterature #Poetry @huriharvard by @averbuchalex

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✨Going to the 30th Annual Toronto Ukrainian Festival in Bloor West Village, @bwvtuf? Don't miss poet Alex Averbuch, @averbuchalex, reading from 𝘍𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴—translated by Oksana Maksymchuk, @ok_maksymchuk, and Max Rosochinsky, who also wrote the introduction—as part of this year's Speakers Corner programming.

🗓When: Saturday, September 19, 7 PM EDT
📍Where: Speakers Corner stage, Beresford Ave at Bloor St West, Toronto

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠
HURI Books titles will be on sale on-site, including copies of 𝘍𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴. Stop by after the reading to have your copy signed by the author.

Learn more about 𝘍𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴 and order your copy via the link in our bio.

#TorontoUkrainianFestival #AlexAverbuch #FuriousHarvests #HURIBooks #UkrainianPoetry #UkrainianLiterature @huriharvard by @averbuchalex

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a month ago

📚 Sending you into the weekend with a thought-provoking read!
In a new essay for Лівий берег, our faculty member Alex Averbuch asks: Who gets to label Ukrainian writers “diasporic”—and from what imagined center? 🌍
Amid war and displacement, Averbuch challenges the familiar divide between “home” and “abroad,” making the case for teaching Ukrainian literature beyond these inherited categories.
Add it to your weekend reading list! ☕📖

📌Copy&paste the link: https://lb.ua/culture/2026/09/01/762662_hto_vignav_ukrayinsku_literaturu.html taken in Modern Languages Building by @averbuchalex

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More reasons to celebrate the new academic year in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures:

Alex Averbuch’s project was selected for the University of Michigan’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) for 2026–2027.

Dr. Averbuch will work with a team of undergraduate researchers on the project “Mapping Culture under Occupation: Building a Digital Research Corpus of Russian-Occupied Ukraine.” by @averbuchalex

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