Tamara Hundorova (Kyiv/Munich)
Post-Chornobyl Memory in the Transnational Cultural Context
17.12.2026 17:15 – 18:45
Historicum Room K201, Schellingstr. 12, Munich
! This session is exceptionally taking place on Thursday !
Colloquium “Europe's History of the Present: Universalism and Particularism” in Cooperation with the Colloquium of the Chair of East and Southeast European History at LMU
The KFG colloquium continues with its next session on Thursday, December 17, 2026, with a lecture by Senior Fellow Tamara Hundorova on "Post-Chornobyl Memory in the Transnational Cultural Context".
Tamara Hundorova is a Doctor of Science, Professor, and Principal Research Fellow at the Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, as well as an Associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and a Dean of Ukrainian Free University. She is the author of numerous books, including Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma (2025) and The Post-Chornobyl Library. The Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s (2019). Dr. Hundorova is a Fulbright Scholar and a fellow of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative of the Humboldt Foundation and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. She has lectured at Princeton University, Harvard University, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy University and the University of Toronto. Her fields of study include modernism, postmodernism, gender, postcolonial studies, and the history of Ukrainian literature.
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