Russian/Eurasian Studies Program Presents

Dictatorship as Muse: Protest Art, Partisan Tricksters, and Belarusian Dream Archives

Tatsiana Zamirovskaya is a writer and journalist from Belarus, currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Before moving to New York to pursue her MFA at Bard College (Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts), she worked for Belarusian independent media, writing about Belarusian protest art, music, and literature. In the U.S., she worked for Voice of America until its shutdown in 2025 by the current administration.

Zamirovskaya is the author of three short story collections in the genre of metaphysical sci-fi with a touch of the surreal, and of the breakthrough novel The Deadnet, which was published in Moscow in 2021 and was shortlisted for several Russophone literary awards. Her book of memoir essays on emigration, war, music, and displacement, Eurydice, Check If You Turned Off the Gas, was published in 2024 by Miane Niama, a Belarusian independent publisher in exile in Warsaw, Poland, and received critical acclaim. A feature sci-fi film, Exactly What It Seems, for which Tatsiana co-authored the script, based on her short story of the same name, is set to be filmed by Belarusian/American director Darya Zhuk in Poland in 2026–2027.

Tatsiana is currently working on the final editing of her first book in English, a collection of translated short stories, Can I Speak With a Real Person?, under contract for publication in 2028. She is a recipient of MacDowell, VCCA, and Djerassi artist residency fellowships.

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Time: 11:50 am – 1:10 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

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