On February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine. The horrible attack abruptly changed the lives of millions of people. Many were displaced by the brutal war. Others decided to stay and provide humanitarian aid or to defend their country. Colleagues from the Center for Urban History in Lviv ([ Ссылка ] / [ Ссылка ]) also chose not to leave. They are now documenting the war. Usually historians analyze the past, in Ukraine they are now preserving the present. In this podcast episode Natalia Otrishchenko, Taras Nazaruk, and Oleksandr Makhanets talk about their project »Testimonies from the War«, the concept of »emergency archiving« and how they explore new ways of oral history and visual history.

The ZZF Potsdam has been cooperating with colleagues from Lviv for a couple of years now, especially in the context of an international research project on the legacies of communism. This podcast episode is dedicated to their work in times of war.

As a result of Russia's full-scale invasion, many Ukrainian scholars have to worry not only about the well-being of their loved ones, but also about the fate of decades of work. They are trying to protect cultural heritage, archival documents, and research data. At the Center for Urban History in Lviv, some historians and sociologists had an inspiring idea of what further contributions they could make: They started to collect data about mass human displacement, resistance, and volunteering. In this podcast episode, they present their efforts to document the war. Some scholars are interviewing refugees, others are preserving visual testimonies. They conduct projects with students to reflect on their experiences in the form of multimedia war diaries. Digital history experts are archiving selected channels of the social media platform Telegram for future research. Based on this kind of data, a first research poster on Russian war narratives and their targeted propagation was published by Karyna Lazaruk: [ Ссылка ]

Learn more about this episode (in English and German):
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More about the center's efforts to document the war:
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More about the project »Testimonies from War«:
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How to support the Lviv Center for Urban History:
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