Rory Finnin is a leading researcher and communicator in Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar literature and is a professor at the University of Cambridge. He has written the book Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (2022) about the genocide of the Crimean Tatars, Crimea's indigenous people, in 1944 and how literature – Crimean Tatar, Ukrainian and Turkish – helps to build solidarity and understanding of this trauma. Now Finnin is in the spotlight again with a groundbreaking monograph about Ukraine's national poet, Taras Shevchenko (1814–61), Freedom's Liberator: Taras Shevchenko and the Making of Modern Ukraine (2026). In collaboration with the Department of Foreign Languages (UiB) and the project UA-FLEX, Litteraturhusets Ukraina-serie invites you to a conversation with Rory Finnin. The conversation will be led by Ingunn Lunde, professor at the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Bergen.
The conversation will be in English.
NOK 150/120/60
Photo: University of Cambridge / Paul Meurer
Last modified: 06/21/2026
Source: Visit Bergen
