Organized by the Department of East Slavic Languages and Literatures at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Prof. Ilya Kukulin (University of Massachusetts Amherst / University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) delivered a guest lecture entitled “Documentary Writing and the Politics of Truth: From Soviet ‘Literature of Fact’ to Contemporary Documentary Poetry.” The lecture was held on Thursday, 14 May, at 15:30 in classroom A-118.

Ilya Kukulin is a literary critic, cultural historian, and sociologist of culture. Currently, he is a visiting faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He authored a book Machines of the Noisy Times: How the Soviet Montage Became an Aesthetic Method of the Unofficial Culture (2015) and co-authored a monograph A Guerilla Logos: The Project of Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov (2022, with Mark Lipovetsky). His research interests include the sociology of contemporary culture, contemporary Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Russian poetry, Jewish cultural history, the history of Soviet literatures, and the history of unofficial poetry in the USSR.

On May 12, 2026, Prof. Danijela Lugarić Vukas presented the project—its main objectives and the timeline of activities—at the Council Hall of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.