We invite you to explore the results of the project “365 Days of Oral History of War,” initiated and carried out by Natalia Khanenko-Friesen at the University of Alberta in 2022-2023.
During the roundtable “War Testimonies: From Oral History to National Documentary Heritage,” the Head of the State Archival Service of Ukraine, Anatolii Khromov, and the Co-chair of the Ukrainian Oral History Association, Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, signed a Memorandum of Cooperation.
Co-chair of the Ukrainian Oral History Association, Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, who was an invited scholar at the University of Regensburg, shared her reflections on documenting testimonies of the Russian-Ukrainian war and the state of oral history in general.
In November 2023, the annual conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies took place, with members of the Ukrainian Oral History Association participating.
Co-chair of the Ukrainian Oral History Association, Dr. Gelinada Grinchenko, in an interview with the ArmyInform news agency, discussed what oral history is as an academic field and how it differs from the collection of testimonies of the Russian-Ukrainian war in the form of interviews.