Program

9:00 h
Opening remarks
Marcus Hoffmann (Academic Manager of the Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Studies, Greifswald)
Prof. Dr. Roman Dubasevych (Head of the Institute of the Slavic Studies/Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Greifswald)
Dr. Natalia Skorokhod (Senior Fellow, Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Studies, Greifswald)

9.30-11.30 h Session I Genres in Times of Rupture
Chair: Prof. Dr. Roman Dubasevych (University of Greifswald)

9.30 h
The Chorus in Transit: Testimonial Form and Displacement in Linor Goralik's Exodus-22
Dr. Alexei Surin (independent researcher, Israel)

10.00 h
Contemporary Synthetic Poetry and Its Performativity: Case Study of Dinara Rasuleva’s (remote)
Kristina Pestova (University of Greifswald)

10.30 h
Writing War after 2022: The Case of Z-Drama
Dr. Elena Kurant (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)

11.00 h
Staging the Transgressive Self: Authenticity and Fictionality in Migratory Autofiction (remote)
Prof. Dr. Yana Meerson (University of Ottawa, Canada)

11.30-12.00 h
Coffee break

12.00-14.00 h Session II Art and Selfhood in Times of Rupture
Chair: Dr. Katarzyna Syska (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland),

12.00 h
Mikhail Prishvin’s Mirskaya chasha (1922): Remarks on the Relationship between Aesthetics, the Natural World, and War
Dr. Ute Marggraff (University of Greifswald)

12.30 h
1930: Michael Chekhov Rehearsing Comedy at Habima — The Case of Twelfth Night
Dr. Olga Levitan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

13.00 h
The Traumatic Dilemma of Ukraine Hamlet
Prof. Dr. Roman Dubasevych (University of Greifswald)

13.30 h
The Ethics of Writing from Exile: The Case of Mikhail Durnenkov
Dr. Natalia Skorokhod (Alfried Krupp Institute, Greifswald)

14.00-15.00 h
Lunch Break

15.00-17.00 h Session III Part 1 Creative Practice in Times of Rupture: Practice-Based Research Roundtable with Invited Speakers
Chair: Dr. Natalia Skorokhod (Alfried Krupp Institute, Greifswald)

15.00 h
Author’s presentation of the play Infrared, written with the support of the ACCR (Odyssée 2025) and La Chartreuse – National Center for Dramatic Writing
Esther Bol (playwright, Russia/Israel/France)

15.20 h
Discussion of the play Infrared

15.50 h
Challenges of Autofiction and Documentary Theatre for Authors in Exile. Author’s presentation of the play My European Love
Iryna Serebriakova (playwright, Ukraine/Poland)

16.20 h
Discussion of the play My European Love

17.00-17.20 h
Coffee break

17.20-18.00 h Session III Part 2. Creative Practice in Time of Rupture

17.20-17.45 h
From Documentary Play to Performance: Creating ULTIMATE RUSSIAN PROTEST GUIDE: DELUXE GOLDEN EDITION (EXTENDED VERSION) at English Theater, Berlin (with a video excerpt from the performance)
Electra Liberte (playwright, Russia/Germany)
Masha Sapizhak (director, Russia/Germany)

17.45-18.00 h
Final remarks

19:30 Dinner