
John Vsetecka
@johnvsetecka
Asst. Prof of History @NSUFlorida. Famine and Transitional Justice in 🇺🇦. Founder of @H__Ukraine. Advisory Board @forPEACE_news. Podcasts @NewBooksNetwork
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A rare warning from U.S. Embassy Kyiv, which says it “has received information concerning a potentially significant air attack that may occur at any time over the next several days.” Oddly, it does not name Russia, but that has been in line with a change in policy under Trump. In













This was a really special edition of The Ukraine Shelf - our first in Ukraine! We spoke to two amazing writers, Yuliya Julia Musakovska and Maria Tumarking, about writing trauma and war. Special thanks to Dr Sasha Dovzhyk of INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange for making this possible. Link in comment 👇



«Що таке постколоніалізм, я зрозумів через українську літературу» Для мене найбільшими супергероями літератури завжди були перекладачі Запрошую читати розмову з перекладачем Йогансена й Прохаська (натякаю на складність мови!), професором Uilleam Blacker 🇺🇦 theukrainians.org/uilleam-blacke…



You can now make a leap of trust and pre-order my book via Ibidem. These are mostly silly stories on the fringes of the city, and I hope they are saying more about Kharkiv than my ever-modest self 😅. Big thanks to maksym eristavi. and Victoria Donovan - my first readers & inspirations.

I interviewed Oleh Kotsyuba of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute for The New Voice of Ukraine. We opened on the cuts to their translations project through the National Endowment for the Humanities before going deeper into Ukrainian studies and literature youtube.com/watch?v=DMjDP1…

Scholars of Eastern Europe know what this is—provokatsiya. Listening to Marci Shore, I was reminded that we understand provocation a little differently. Not merely as disruption or controversy, but in the older, darker sense of provokatsiya: a calculated, manipulative game. One