Academic Life

CfA: International Conference UOHA-2026 “Testimony Across History”

The anniversary conference UOHA-2026, marking the 20th anniversary of the Ukrainian Oral History Association, will be held in Uzhhorod on 10-11 August 2026. We warmly invite all interested participants to submit their applications by 25 April.

CfA: WWSI 2026 "Beyond Testimony – Silences, Gaps, and Unspoken Memories"

The Summer Institute will take place in Uzhhorod on 11–14 August 2026 and will focus on the limits of testimony and on the methodological, ethical, and interpretive challenges of engaging with silence, self-censorship, and the unspoken in war narratives.

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.

Developing Community Archiving in Ukraine: A Series of Webinars within an International Project

In April–May 2025, a series of webinars took place as part of the international project “Community Archiving in Ukraine”, implemented...

Special guest of the WWSI 2025 – Andriy Lyubka

The organizers of the Witnessing the War on Ukraine Summer Institute “Testimonies as Cultural Heritage for Future Memory Landscapes” are...

Join the Webinar "About Kharkiv and About Myself": How Oral Histories Became a Film"

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

Online Seminar "Local History, Rescue Research, and Oral History in Frontline Communities"

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.