A Kind of Refugee Book Tour 2024

A Kind of Refugee: The Story of an American Who Refused to Leave Ukraine is published by ibidem Press in the Ukrainian Voices series (collected by Andreas Umland).

You can order it in North America and Australia through Columbia University Press: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/a-kind-of-refugee/9783838218984

and in Europe (and more distant lands) from publisher ibidem Press*: https://www.ibidem.eu/en/Series/Society-Politics/Ukrainian-Voices/A-Kind-of-Refugee-Paperback.html

*order E-books from ibidem too!

This page will be updated. Please check back for additional events!

Upcoming Book Talks in Ukraine!

October 5 — Lviv at America House during Bookforum, in conversation with Sasha Dovzhyk

October 12 — Kyiv at the Museum of the Ukrainian Diaspora, in conversation with Oksana Remeniaka

Podcast Appearances

New Books Network, hosted by John Vsetecka

The Ukrainian Weekly, Krynytsya (The Well), hosted by Mike Buryk

Present Time (WBTV 99.3 FM) hosted by Katherine Bielawa Stamper

Past Book Talks

April 7 — Boston at Christ the King Ukrainian Catholic Church, Jamaica Plain, in conversation with Askold Melnyczuk and Tania Vitvitsky

April 11 — Ridgefield, CT at the Ridgefield Library, in conversation with Olena Lennon

April 18 — Madison, CT at RJ Julia, in conversation with Marci Shore. Listen:

April 22 — South Windsor, CT at South Windsor Library, in conversation with Anne Howard

April 23 — University of Connecticut, Storrs at the Dodd Center for Human Rights, co-sponsored by the Ukrainian Student Association

April 25 — Middletown, CT at RJ Julia Wesleyan, in conversation with Katja Kolcio

May 5 — Whippany, NJ at the Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey, in conversation with Hanna Leliv

May 14 — Rhinecliff, NY at Morton Library (with Oblong Books), in conversation with Maria Sonevytsky. Listen:

May 17 — Queens, NY at The Astoria Bookshop, in conversation with Anya Yurchyshyn

May 22 — Brooklyn, NY at the Ditmas Lit reading series

May 28 — Richmond, VT at the Richmond Free Library, in conversation with Adrian Ivakhiv. Listen:

May 30 — Randolph, VT at Bethany Church, in conversation with Lada Kolomiyets (Dartmouth College / Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine) and Sophie Shields (Dartmouth College). Listen:

May 29 — Zoom, у рамках конференції «Культура і мистецтво в умовах російсько-української війни: художні стратегії, дискурсивні практики, вектори осмислення» (Conference program in English), модератор: Павло Шопін. Послухати: