July 28, 2022 18:00-20:00 CET (10:00-12:00 am Mountain Time/ 12:00-02:00 pm EST), 19.00 – 21.00 (Kyiv)
Online Seminar „Testimonies about the war in Ukraine: How to conduct interview-based research”
moderated by Gelinada Grinchenko
The sixth online seminar of the series “Historians and the War: Rethinking the Future” will take place on July 28, Thursday, at 18:00 CET. The aim of the series is to discuss if and to what extent the war in Ukraine is changing our perception of the past and which new questions for historians it raises.
Responding to the ever-expanding social trauma on a massive scale, researchers in oral history, ethnographers, and cultural anthropologists have actively begun to collect witness testimonies.
This seminar will allow experts to exchange ideas on the following questions:
- What are the ethical consequences of a “rapid response” to the war?
- How should field research be conducted during a constantly increasing trauma?
- How to conduct interview-based research during war without inflicting damage on those with whom we are working?
The invited speakers are:
- Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, University of Alberta
- Iuliia Skubytska, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
- Hasan Hasanovic, Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Center
The seminar will be chaired by Gelinada Grinchenko, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National/University/Bergische Universität Wuppertal
In the second part of the event, there will be a Q&A section with questions from the audience. The seminar is held in Ukrainian and English with simultaneous translation.
To participate, please register here.
A recording of the seminar will be published on the Youtube channel of the German-Ukrainian Historians’ Commission.
