Wroclaw, Poland
Wroclaw, Poland

About the lecture

Drawing on the family archive of poet, writer and historian Boris Khersonsky, Dr. Kristina Vorontsova examines the traces of Eastern European Jewish life preserved in personal documents, photographs and family histories. Through this lens, the lecture explores themes of memory, loss and belonging, illuminating how Polish cities continue to serve as sites of remembrance for the vanished world of Eastern European Jewry.
Dr. Kristina Vorontsova

Dr. Kristina Vorontsova

Guest speaker

Kristina Vorontsova, a D. Litt. in the field of literary studies, author of 2 books and over 40 articles on the history of Russian, British, and Canadian literature, comparative literature, as well as translation studies. The topic of her doctoral dissertation was "Models of Space in the Poetry of Elena Shvarts (2013)", and the topic of her habilitation was "Supertexts of Russian Culture (2022)". Her research interests encompass Russophone poetry of the 19th to 21st centuries, issues of space in literary texts, the representation of Poland and Poles in Soviet and Anglophone cultures, figures of the Leningrad Second Culture, as well as the potential applications of postcolonial and queer perspectives in the analysis of Soviet literature.

Accessibility
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Date and time
Sep 29, 2026
7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Format and location
In person
Hamelin Hall, Room 509
Language
English
Audience
Students, Faculty and staff
Organized by
The Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program, and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures