A guest lecture for students of the Kyiv National University of Technology and Design

1.11.2023

Professor of the Department of Oriental Languages N. Yugan gave a guest lecture for students of the Kyiv National University of Technology and Design.

On October 31, 2023, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Oriental Languages NATALIA YUGAN gave a guest lecture for future philologists (specialists in Ukrainian and foreign literature of the 2nd and 3rd years) at the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation of the Kyiv National University of Technology and Design.

 The open lecture was attended by students and teachers of the Institute of Law and Modern Technologies of KNUTD, as well as professors and associate professors of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and the Faculty of Ukrainian Philology and Journalism of Taras Shevchenko LNU. The meeting was moderated by candidate of philological sciences, associate professor of the department of foreign languages and translation of the Kyiv National University of Technology and Design S. Dvoryanchikova.

The online lecture was devoted to the topic: “POST MODERNIST DISCOURSE OF CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN AND FOREIGN DRAMATURGY”. It had a clear structure. The lecturer analyzed the genre searches of modern Ukrainian playwrights in plays about hybrid war, revealed the peculiarities of the psychology of terrorism and school shooting through the prism of the vision of German-speaking authors, and also talked about the postmodern synthesis of Shakespeare’s tragic plots in the plays of Koki Mitani (Japan) and Ann-Maria McDonald (Canada).

Ukrainian playwrights, addressing in their work the tragic events of the hybrid war of 2014-2019, appeal to the most diverse genre forms, resorting to transformations of existing genres (dramatic pictures, monodrama), to modifications of traditional and archaic genres (nativity scene, mystery), to possibilities documentary theater, to the total epitization and lyricization of the dramatic text, to intertextual and intermedial (music, cinematography) dialogues. This testifies both to the fruitfulness of the genre searches of representatives of domestic drama in their aesthetic responses to the geopolitical challenges of the time, and to the inseparability of Ukrainian drama from the general European and world topical theatrical context (which could be seen by comparing the national experience with the work of Canadian and Japanese playwrights).

When studying the current problem of terrorism and school shooting, professor NATALIYA YUGAN applied an interdisciplinary approach (literature – psychology). She came to the conclusion that German and Austrian playwrights try not only to deeply analyze the psychology of mass murders, but also to give their audience the opportunity to “live” this situation. In this way, they realize the psychotherapeutic potential of drama.

The open lecture aroused the interest of students, they asked many additional questions and expressed the hope that meetings in a similar format with the professor of the Department of Oriental Languages of Taras Shevchenko LNU, NATALIYA YUGAN, will continue in the second semester of 2023-2024 and in the future.

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