Contacts

In the morning I went to SUB (= Students' Union Building), where I posted some cards, had a look at the books in the bookstore and at 'devotional UoA objects' (mugs, hip flasks, pullovers, sweatshirts, track suits, calendars, notebooks, pencils, ... you name it). Although it was still early, the place was crowded - students everywhere either having breakfast or busily rushing to their courses.

After lunch, I met two charming ladies from the Ukrainian Department in MLCS, Dr Alla Nedashkivska and Prof Natalia Pylypiul. Alla teaches Ukrainian and is also a linguist, with very much the same interests as I have. She has written a task-based Ukrainian course book, which will be published soon. Prof Pylypiul's interests are mysticism and the representations of wisdom in medieval and early-modern literature and iconography. Prof Pylypiul took her PhD at Harvard University; Alla, now Associate Professor at UoA, was visiting lecturer at Toronto University in the late nineties. We arranged to meet for coffee on Friday in HUB.