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- May 8, 202424 min
Episode 7: To See Beauty Again: Anna Stavychenko on the Importance of Promoting Ukrainian Culture
Since Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, Ukrainian musicologist and former director of Kyiv Symphony Orchestra Anna Stavychenko has made it her mission to promote Ukrainian classical music to the world. She’s currently working on a novel about her experiences since Russia’s full-scale invasion, which she started during a Harriman Institute residency for displaced Ukrainian artists at Columbia Global Centers Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Listen to her story. Check out the Winter 2024 issue of Harriman Magazine to read an excerpt from Anna’s novel in progress and other essays and articles about Ukraine. Click here to view a concert from Stavychenko's 1991 Project, hosted in collaboration with Columbia Global Centers | Reid Hall, which includes Maksym Berezovsky's Sonata for violin and harpsichord featured in the episode . Performed by Antonina Krysa and Olga Vardanyan. And click here to view the 1991 Project's concert featuring Zoltan Almashi's, Suite No. 1 for Cello Solo, performed by Olga Driga , and Victoria Poleva's Gulf stream for Two Cellos performed by Driga and Nataliia Ivanovska . Watch the he National Philharmonic of Ukraine’s performance for the Paris Philharmonic in Kyiv.
- Jul 31, 202316 min
Episode 6: Fantasies from Azovstal - Zoya Laktionova Remembers Mariupol
Zoya Laktionova recalls her Mariupol childhood, her relationship with Ukrainian language and culture, and her journey to become a documentary filmmaker.
- May 24, 202315 min
Episode 5: Immoral People
Ukrainian writer and journalist Nikita Grigorov was a university student studying Russian literature at Donetsk National University when Russia launched its war in Donbas in 2014. He supported an independent Ukraine and watched in disbelief as friends turned against him, sometimes violently. Then he fled to Kyiv with his father. Listen to his story.
- Apr 24, 202318 min
Episode 4: Covering 2014 Donbas: A Spanish-Language Perspective
Spanish journalist Argemino Barro was one of the only foreign correspondents in Donbas when Russia ramped up its destabilization efforts there in 2014. He talks about what it was like to cover the story for a Spanish-language audience.
- Feb 9, 202323 min
Episode 3: No Ordinary Fourteen-Year-Old
Tanya Kotelnykova was fourteen years old when Russian-backed separatists occupied Horlivka, her hometown in Eastern Ukraine. She was torn away from her family and has been displaced since. Listen to her story.
- Jan 5, 202324 min
Episode 2: Donetsk Was My Second Home
Christopher Atwood lived in Donetsk in the early 2010s and found himself working in Russia during its initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Listen to his story.
- Nov 21, 202224 min
Episode 1: How History Smells
Katia Shraga Davydenko was born in Kyiv in the 1960s. She immigrated to New York in 1992. Since 2014, she has dedicated all her free time to protesting Russia's aggression and volunteering to help Ukrainians.
- Nov 9, 20221 min
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