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.
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.
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.
In 2026, the Ukrainian Oral History Association will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its founding. To mark this milestone, a series of events and initiatives is planned for 2025-2026 to reflect on the achievements of the past two decades and outline new directions for the future.
Applications are now open for WWSI 2025. It will bring together theorists and practitioners of oral history in Ukraine and elsewhere to advance the dialogue on the relationship between oral historical research, formation of (in)tangible national heritage and evolving memory landscapes in Ukraine, Europe and elsewhere.
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.
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.
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the international conference “War, Academy, and Emotions: From Interviews to Memory-Making,” which will be held on February 21–22, 2025 in a hybrid format.