Academic Life

Family History in Photos, Memories, and Documents: Join the Contest

As part of the “Public Archiving in Ukraine” project, the “History of My Big Family” contest has been announced to collect and preserve family stories about the Russian-Ukrainian war. The application deadline is March 31, 2025.

Announcement for the Third Annual Symposium "The Most Documented War: Enacting Archives"

We are delighted to invite you to the third annual symposium, “The Most Documented War: Enacting Archives”, a platform to discuss pressing issues surrounding the documentation and archiving of experiences from the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Listening, Hearing, Understanding: An Oral History of Ukraine in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

A collection of articles of the UOHA members “Listening, Hearing, Understanding: An Oral History of Ukraine in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries” (Kyiv, 2021) has been published.

Жінки Центральної та Східної Європи у Другій світовій війні

The collection of academic works features research by Ukrainian and international scholars analyzing various aspects of women’s experiences during World War II in Central and Eastern Europe.

Documentary Film "About Kharkiv and About Myself" in Düsseldorf: When History Speaks Through People's Voices

On February 20, 2025, the Düsseldorf Central Library hosted a screening of the unique documentary “About Kharkiv and About Myself” – the first large-scale oral history project dedicated to the German occupation of Kharkiv in 1941-43.

Oral History Testimonies Added to the State Audiovisual Archive for the First Time

On January 16, 2025, Albert Venger, a member of the working group of the Ukrainian Oral History Association, officially transferred video recordings of oral testimonies to the Central State Audiovisual and Electronic Archive

Online seminar with Józef Markiewicz on Holocaust Remembrance Day

We invite you to join a seminar dedicated to the analysis of oral histories that reveal the fates of Jewish survivors in postwar Poland, including their survival strategies, identity, social status etc.

Online seminar “Understanding traumatic experiences: challenges of documenting the testimonies of Gulag victims”

On November 27, 2024, Yurii Pukivskyi will speak at a seminar, presenting the book The Power of Resistance: Ukrainians in Soviet Camps. The discussion will cover various aspects of documenting traumatic experiences