HURI Books

🌍 Translating Ukraine Summer Institute 2026

📍 Wroclaw, Poland | 🗓 6–17 July 2026

Emerging and mid‑career translators are invited to join the intensive twelve-day training in Ukrainian‑English literary and academic translation.

✅ 20 participants will be selected through a competitive two‑stage application.

📌 Stage 1 deadline: 1 February 2026.

Three modules: literary prose, poetry, and nonfiction/academic texts. Countless opportunities to grow!

👉 Apply now and be part of this global network.

📣 On April 2, historians Filip Slaveski and Yurii Shapoval will discuss their book: 📘Stalin’s Liquidation Game: The Unlikely Case of Oleksandr Shums'kyi, His Survival in Soviet Prison, and His Subsequent Arcane Assassination. Oleh Kotsyuba, the Director of Print and Digital Publications at HURI, will host the conversation. The book is available from HURI Books: https://books.huri.harvard.edu/books/stalins-liquidation-game

📍 ONLINE | Thursday, April 2 at 2:00-3:30 pm EDT

💡 Millions of innocent people were arrested in Stalin’s Soviet Union during the 1930s. Under violent interrogation, many were forced to confess to crimes they did not commit. Oleksandr Shums´kyi was one of the very few who refused to confess. Despite being mercilessly punished and even paralyzed, Shums´kyi survived for years. This book unravels the Shums’kyi riddle to explain why. In doing so, it opens a new window into understanding the history of Soviet repression and the Russian pathologies toward Ukrainian independence, which help us understand Russia’s current war against Ukraine.

🔗 LEARN MORE and register to attend: https://www.huri.harvard.edu/event/stalins-liquidation-game-book-talk-filip-slaveski-yurii-shapoval