Events / Program: Documenting Ukraine

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	Who Tells Ukraine’s Story and How Should it be Told?	Wed, 08.02.2023	Panels and Discussions	Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk Misha GlennyAnna 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 GlennyAnna 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 GlennyAnna 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
	We Will Not Fade Away - My ne zgasnemo	Mon, 04.12.2023	Visual and Performing Arts	Alisa Kovalenko, Kseniya Kharchenko	Buy a ticket here	We Will Not Fade Away - My ne zgasnemo Mon, 04.12.2023 Speakers: Alisa Kovalenko, Kseniya Kharchenko Series: Visual and Performing Arts At first glance, the movie may appear to be a teenage road movie, but it is, in reality, a tender and simultaneously poignant portrait of lost youth. This story captures the voices of teenagers from Ukrainian front-line territories. Their childhood unfolded amidst the Russian-Ukrainian War, which the world has overlooked since 2014 — a movie by Alisa Kovalenko, who will be in discussion with Kseniya Kharchenko after the screeing. Read more
We Will Not Fade Away - My ne zgasnemo Mon, 04.12.2023 Speakers: Alisa Kovalenko, Kseniya Kharchenko Series: Visual and Performing Arts At first glance, the movie may appear to be a teenage road movie, but it is, in reality, a tender and simultaneously poignant portrait of lost youth. This story captures the voices of teenagers from Ukrainian front-line territories. Their childhood unfolded amidst the Russian-Ukrainian War, which the world has overlooked since 2014 — a movie by Alisa Kovalenko, who will be in discussion with Kseniya Kharchenko after the screeing. Read more
	Ukrainian Storybox: Voices of War	Wed, 06.12.2023	Visual and Performing Arts	Gunnar Dedio, Kseniya Kharchenko	Buy a ticket here	Ukrainian Storybox: Voices of War Wed, 06.12.2023 Speakers: Gunnar Dedio, Kseniya Kharchenko Series: Visual and Performing Arts A travelling video lightbox reveals the heart of the war in Ukraine. With the Storybox, we hear the unfiltered voices of Ukrainians, especially women, who waver between the war front and everyday struggles between flight and home. Read more
Ukrainian Storybox: Voices of War Wed, 06.12.2023 Speakers: Gunnar Dedio, Kseniya Kharchenko Series: Visual and Performing Arts A travelling video lightbox reveals the heart of the war in Ukraine. With the Storybox, we hear the unfiltered voices of Ukrainians, especially women, who waver between the war front and everyday struggles between flight and home. 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
	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
	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
	Reporting on the War in Ukraine	Wed, 20.04.2022	Panels and Discussions	Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk		Reporting on the War in Ukraine Wed, 20.04.2022 Speakers: Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk Series: Panels and Discussions Journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk talked about how Ukrainian society is responding to the Russian invasion and the role narrative journalism can play in shaping broader understanding of the war. 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
	Passion for Ukraine	Sun, 19.11.2023	Visual and Performing Arts	Lena Belkina, Oleksandra Saienko, Leah Batstone, Helmut Jasbar	You can find more information on participation here	Passion for Ukraine Sun, 19.11.2023 Speakers: Lena Belkina, Oleksandra Saienko, Leah Batstone, Helmut Jasbar Series: Visual and Performing Arts Matinee with a concert by Lena Belkina and a panel discussion with musicologist Leah Batstone. The matinee was organized in cooperation with the Ehrbar Saal in Vienna. 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