The program for the Summer Institute dedicated to studying testimonies of the war in Ukraine, which will take place from August 27-30, 2024, in Wrocław, Poland, is now available. Over the course of four days, invited speakers will lead a series of presentations, workshops, and mentoring sessions for participants.
We invite you to participate online in the panel discussions, roundtables, and sessions of the UOHA-2024 International Conference, “Oral History in Wartime: Scientific Knowledge and the Researcher’s Responsibility,” which will take place from June 13-15 in Uzhhorod.
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.