The conference dedicated to an interdisciplinary discussion of the challenges of collecting, preserving, interpreting, and academically using oral history sources will take place in Chernihiv on February 20-21, 2026.
To mark the 20th anniversary of the Ukrainian Oral History Association, we are launching a jubilee webinar series that aims to reflect on the evolution of Ukrainian oral history from the first collected testimonies to today’s interdisciplinary research.
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.
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.
The first webinar in the series “Histories of the Past – Challenges of the Present: 20 Years of UOHA” will be held on November 27, 2025, with a talk by Gelinada Grinchenko, Co-Chair of the Ukrainian Oral History Association
On May 5, 2025, Serhii Zvilinskyi will speak at an online seminar, where he will share his experiences of preserving cultural heritage in the frontline communities of the Zaporizhia region during wartime.