Events / Program: Documenting Ukraine

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers	Register
	Exhibition Opening: Bearing Witness to War	Fri, 02.06.2023	Exhibition	Mariia ShynkarenkoMariia Shynkarenko, Katharina Hasewend		Exhibition Opening: Bearing Witness to War Fri, 02.06.2023 Speakers: Mariia ShynkarenkoMariia Shynkarenko, Katharina Hasewend Series: Exhibition Documenting Ukraine program at the IWM, in cooperation with Bildrecht, presents the exhibition Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War, which will take place at the Bildraum Studio from 3 June till 1 July 2023. Read more
Exhibition Opening: Bearing Witness to War Fri, 02.06.2023 Speakers: Mariia ShynkarenkoMariia Shynkarenko, Katharina Hasewend Series: Exhibition Documenting Ukraine program at the IWM, in cooperation with Bildrecht, presents the exhibition Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War, which will take place at the Bildraum Studio from 3 June till 1 July 2023. Read more
	The Most Documented War. Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives	Thu, 01.06.2023 - Sat, 03.06.2023	Conferences and Workshops		Apply for participation	The Most Documented War. Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives Thu, 01.06.2023 - Sat, 03.06.2023 Speakers: Series: Conferences and Workshops We are inviting individual and collective projects, regardless of discipline or methodology, to participate in The Most Documented War. Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives that will take place on 1—3 June 2023 at the Center for Urban History in Lviv, Ukraine. Registration is open until April 18, 2023. Read more
The Most Documented War. Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives Thu, 01.06.2023 - Sat, 03.06.2023 Speakers: Series: Conferences and Workshops We are inviting individual and collective projects, regardless of discipline or methodology, to participate in The Most Documented War. Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives that will take place on 1—3 June 2023 at the Center for Urban History in Lviv, Ukraine. Registration is open until April 18, 2023. Read more
	Exhibition Soft Opening: Bearing Witness to War	Fri, 26.05.2023	Exhibition	Katherine YoungerKseniya Kharchenko		Exhibition Soft Opening: Bearing Witness to War Fri, 26.05.2023 Speakers: Katherine YoungerKseniya Kharchenko Series: Exhibition Documenting Ukraine program at the IWM, in cooperation with Bildrecht, presents the exhibition Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War, which will take place at the Bildraum Studio from 3 June till 1 July 2023. Read more
Exhibition Soft Opening: Bearing Witness to War Fri, 26.05.2023 Speakers: Katherine YoungerKseniya Kharchenko Series: Exhibition Documenting Ukraine program at the IWM, in cooperation with Bildrecht, presents the exhibition Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War, which will take place at the Bildraum Studio from 3 June till 1 July 2023. Read more
	Ukraine Testifies	Wed, 03.05.2023	Visual and Performing Arts	Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk		Ukraine Testifies Wed, 03.05.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk Series: Visual and Performing Arts The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) and its program Documenting Ukraine is happy to announce the launch of an event series together with this human world – International Human Rights Film Festival. The first event, organized in cooperation with The Reckoning Project, featured a special screening of Ukrainian short films documenting war crimes during the Russo-Ukrainian War. Read more
Ukraine Testifies Wed, 03.05.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk Series: Visual and Performing Arts The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) and its program Documenting Ukraine is happy to announce the launch of an event series together with this human world – International Human Rights Film Festival. The first event, organized in cooperation with The Reckoning Project, featured a special screening of Ukrainian short films documenting war crimes during the Russo-Ukrainian War. Read more
	IWM at the Leipzig Book Fair: Ukrainian Writers at War	Sat, 29.04.2023	Panels and Discussions	Artem Chapeye Katherine Younger		IWM at the Leipzig Book Fair: Ukrainian Writers at War Sat, 29.04.2023 Speakers: Artem Chapeye Katherine Younger Series: Panels and Discussions How to put down on paper the experiences and emotions of defending one’s country. This conversation with Artem Chapeye explored the perspectives and insights gained from a new life in uniform. Read more
IWM at the Leipzig Book Fair: Ukrainian Writers at War Sat, 29.04.2023 Speakers: Artem Chapeye Katherine Younger Series: Panels and Discussions How to put down on paper the experiences and emotions of defending one’s country. This conversation with Artem Chapeye explored the perspectives and insights gained from a new life in uniform. Read more
	Documenting Refugees from Eastern Europe	Thu, 30.03.2023	Conferences and Workshops	Kamil Ruszała Philipp TherKatarzyna Nowak, Christoph Augustynowicz		Documenting Refugees from Eastern Europe Thu, 30.03.2023 Speakers: Kamil Ruszała Philipp TherKatarzyna Nowak, Christoph Augustynowicz Series: Conferences and Workshops The conference was opened by an introductory lecture by Philipp Ther, discussing the exile of yesterday and today, with particular emphasis on the contemporary situation. The lecture was followed by three thematic panels: 1) discussing migration during both world wars in Europe; 2) presenting the Ukrainian experience of refugeedom, both in the past and present; 3) presenting projects documenting contemporary wars and refugeedom. Read more
Documenting Refugees from Eastern Europe Thu, 30.03.2023 Speakers: Kamil Ruszała Philipp TherKatarzyna Nowak, Christoph Augustynowicz Series: Conferences and Workshops The conference was opened by an introductory lecture by Philipp Ther, discussing the exile of yesterday and today, with particular emphasis on the contemporary situation. The lecture was followed by three thematic panels: 1) discussing migration during both world wars in Europe; 2) presenting the Ukrainian experience of refugeedom, both in the past and present; 3) presenting projects documenting contemporary wars and refugeedom. Read more
	Ukrainian Identity in the Time of War	Thu, 23.03.2023	Lecture	Ayşe Çağlar Mariia ShynkarenkoVolodymyr Kulyk, Mariia Shynkarenko		Ukrainian Identity in the Time of War Thu, 23.03.2023 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Mariia ShynkarenkoVolodymyr Kulyk, Mariia Shynkarenko Series: Lecture Based on original data from a nationwide survey and a series of focus group discussions in different parts of the country, Kulyk demonstrated that not only has Ukrainian identity become more salient compared to other attachments, but it has also come to mean a stronger embrace of beliefs that have traditionally been associated with Ukrainian ethnic belonging. Read more
Ukrainian Identity in the Time of War Thu, 23.03.2023 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Mariia ShynkarenkoVolodymyr Kulyk, Mariia Shynkarenko Series: Lecture Based on original data from a nationwide survey and a series of focus group discussions in different parts of the country, Kulyk demonstrated that not only has Ukrainian identity become more salient compared to other attachments, but it has also come to mean a stronger embrace of beliefs that have traditionally been associated with Ukrainian ethnic belonging. Read more
	Bearing Witness to War	Wed, 08.02.2023	Exhibition	Katherine Younger Timothy SnyderVolodymyr Yermolenko		Bearing Witness to War Wed, 08.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Timothy SnyderVolodymyr Yermolenko Series: Exhibition With 200 projects now funded by the Documenting Ukraine program, this event was designed to highlight the work of the Documenting Ukraine grantees and present early results from the program. It was an opportunity for grantees and round table participants to network with the wider IWM community. The evening brought together a variety of interested publics, including those who influence opinion and craft policy, to foster a greater understanding of both the program and the work of those it supports, who are bearing witness to war. The evening also included the opening of a preview exhibition of art and photography from Documenting Ukraine projects. From eight artists working in different media, the exhibition is a preview of a larger exhibition to take place later in 2023. Read more
Bearing Witness to War Wed, 08.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Timothy SnyderVolodymyr Yermolenko Series: Exhibition With 200 projects now funded by the Documenting Ukraine program, this event was designed to highlight the work of the Documenting Ukraine grantees and present early results from the program. It was an opportunity for grantees and round table participants to network with the wider IWM community. The evening brought together a variety of interested publics, including those who influence opinion and craft policy, to foster a greater understanding of both the program and the work of those it supports, who are bearing witness to war. The evening also included the opening of a preview exhibition of art and photography from Documenting Ukraine projects. From eight artists working in different media, the exhibition is a preview of a larger exhibition to take place later in 2023. Read more
	Who Tells Ukraine’s Story and How Should it be Told?	Wed, 08.02.2023	Panels and Discussions	Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk Misha Glenny Anna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Oksana Sarkisova, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Tetyana Ogarkova, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Cathrin Kahlweit		Who Tells Ukraine’s Story and How Should it be Told? Wed, 08.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk Misha Glenny Anna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Oksana Sarkisova, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Tetyana Ogarkova, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Cathrin Kahlweit Series: Panels and Discussions This round table was part of the two-day event Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War. With easily available technologies that give access to audiences of millions, coupled with changes in attitudes to trusted news sources, there has been a disruption of traditional models of war reporting and who is able to tell the stories of war. Despite persistent gatekeeping, how reporting on war works and who it empowers and leaves out has been transformed. This round table considered the changing media landscape as it pertains to the Russo-Ukrainian War. In the first session, the focus was on new approaches to storytelling and the technologies that make them possible; the second session concentrated on questions of authorship, agency, and representation. Read more
Who Tells Ukraine’s Story and How Should it be Told? Wed, 08.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk Misha Glenny Anna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Oksana Sarkisova, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Tetyana Ogarkova, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Cathrin Kahlweit Series: Panels and Discussions This round table was part of the two-day event Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War. With easily available technologies that give access to audiences of millions, coupled with changes in attitudes to trusted news sources, there has been a disruption of traditional models of war reporting and who is able to tell the stories of war. Despite persistent gatekeeping, how reporting on war works and who it empowers and leaves out has been transformed. This round table considered the changing media landscape as it pertains to the Russo-Ukrainian War. In the first session, the focus was on new approaches to storytelling and the technologies that make them possible; the second session concentrated on questions of authorship, agency, and representation. Read more
	Protecting Ukraine’s Heritage: What Heritage and Whose?	Tue, 07.02.2023	Panels and Discussions	Katherine YoungerAnna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Natalka Diachenko, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Serhiy Klymko		Protecting Ukraine’s Heritage: What Heritage and Whose? Tue, 07.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine YoungerAnna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Natalka Diachenko, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Serhiy Klymko Series: Panels and Discussions This first round table reflected one of the Russian Federation’s war aims being precisely the destruction of Ukrainian heritage and culture, making the understanding and preservation of this heritage a particularly urgent task. Material objects as well as intangible cultural heritage are under threat. Who decides what needs to be preserved? What is in danger of being overlooked? What resources are needed? How should we think about layers of the past being erased through selective preservation? What are the dangers at issue in approaching the past – essentializing, instrumentalizing, sanitizing? Read more
Protecting Ukraine’s Heritage: What Heritage and Whose? Tue, 07.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine YoungerAnna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Natalka Diachenko, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Serhiy Klymko Series: Panels and Discussions This first round table reflected one of the Russian Federation’s war aims being precisely the destruction of Ukrainian heritage and culture, making the understanding and preservation of this heritage a particularly urgent task. Material objects as well as intangible cultural heritage are under threat. Who decides what needs to be preserved? What is in danger of being overlooked? What resources are needed? How should we think about layers of the past being erased through selective preservation? What are the dangers at issue in approaching the past – essentializing, instrumentalizing, sanitizing? Read more