CfP: International conference “War, Academy, and Emotions: From Interviews to Memory-Making” (21-22 February 2025)

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the International conference “War, Academy, and Emotions: From Interviews to Memory-Making”, which will take place on 21–22 February 2025, in a hybrid format.

This conference is part of the “War, Academy, and Emotions” series, initiated by the Chernihiv Research Center for the Anthropology of War in February 2023.

Co-organizers and partners of the event:

• Department of Culture and Tourism of the Chernihiv City Council
• NGO “Northern Cultural Capital”
• Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Ukrainian Oral History Association
• Documenting Ukraine Project
• Institute for Human Sciences
• NGO “Center for Applied Anthropology”

Conference themes:

Theoretical and Methodological Block:

• Oral history and memory formation
• Methodology of fieldwork in the wartime: from recording to interpretation
• Autoethnography as a method of accumulating oral historical evidence
• The role of the researcher/documenter in interviewing and producing scientific knowledge
• From interviewing to archiving

Practical Block:

• Forming a corpus of oral historical sources about the Russian-Ukrainian war: the experience of repeated interviewing
• Anthropological studies in the wartime
• Code of ethics for oral history researchers working with different groups (civilians, military, children, people with disabilities, doctors, scholars, refugees, prisoners of war, etc.)
• Humanitarian aspects of the Russian-Ukrainian war: military everyday life and survival strategies

How to participate?

To participate in the conference, please fill out the online registration form at the link.

The deadline for submitting applications is 10 February 2025.

We look forward to seeing you at the conference!