Reference Room | Odes[s]a
We're going to keep everything we've been reading, watching, listening to etc. for each episode here. This is kind of like a mix of a bibliography and liner notes. If you want extra info on the themes covered in each episode this is a great place to start. If you're reading something that you think should be included email us, we're happy to add it.
Trailer & Prologues
Dancing in Odessa - Ilya Kaminsky
BBC Radio 3 The Essay “To Odesa” - Ilya Kaminsky
“Searching for a Lost Odessa in a Deaf Childhood” - Ilya Kaminsky
Odessa: A History - Patricia Herlihy
The Gates of Europe - Serhii Plokhy
Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine - Sophie Pinkham
Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation - Serhy Yekelchyk
From Odessa with Love: Political and Literary Essays from Post-Soviet Ukraine - Vladislav Davidzon
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams - Charles King
Odessa’s two big differences (and a few small ones) - Tanya Richardson
Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics - Stephen J. Collier
Center [центр] & Origins [Витоки]
Past / Future / Art - Oksana Dovgopolova
Constructing Hope Ukraine - The Architecture Center, New York
Insurgent citizenship: disjunctions of democracy and modernity in Brazil - James Holston
Mark Twain in Odessa - The Odessa Review
A 150 million job: the head of a statue made from a bottle collapsed on a building in Odessa - Focus
Odessa (City on the Black Sea) - The Bee Gees
The Black Sea: A History - Charles King
The Historic Center of Odesa - UNESCO
Odesa. The Long 20th Century in Art - The International Cultural Center
Wild Music Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine - Maria Sonevytsky
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism - Benedict Anderson
The Troubled History of the Cathedral of Odesa: Foundation, Demolition and Revival - Ugo Poletti
Ukrainian Graffiti Artists In Odesa Thumb Their Noses At War - AFP