In March 2022, loosely affiliated researchers from Ukraine, Poland, Luxembourg and the UK discussed the possibility of ethically well-grounded and methodologically reasonable emergency collecting and archiving of oral testimonies of Ukrainian refugees, IDs, and volunteers. These discussions resulted in documenting the wartime and refugee fate of Ukrainians. In January 2024, the team moved from spontaneous data collection to well-structured empirical research, establishing the U-CORE project. U-CORE researches the heuristic gesture of collecting, preserving, analysing and disclosing testimonies of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
On 27 May 2024, at 4.45 pm (EEST), the international EUROPAST project invites you to a lecture that addresses the complex multi-level process of interaction within the research project U-CORE. The lecture will thematise the ethical and methodological dimensions of the interactions between people who are in the situation of an open historical moment and the interviewers – which include scholars from different institutional environments, memory researchers, archivists, and specialists in digital humanities. It will also discuss what to make of the great variety of oral testimonies and reflect upon the participatory process of source creation.
Machteld Venken is a Professor of Contemporary Transnational History at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and Head of its Research Area on the Contemporary History of Luxembourg.
The lecture will be held in English. Participation will be available both on-site and online.
On-site venue: Auditorium 102, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University (10 Vokiečių str., Vilnius, Lithuania)
Online platform: MS Teams (the link will be provided after registration).
Please register here: https://forms.office.com/e/H9qtGLM3RW
This lecture is part of a project that has received funding from the European Union under the WIDERA programme (EUROPAST project, Grant Agreement No. 101079466).
