The Forum of Oral History of Ukraine will be broadcast online in Ukrainian and English

On Tuesday, October 10, Kyiv will host the long-awaited Forum of Oral History of Ukraine — the first offline meeting of Ukrainian and international documentation initiatives. The event, which is an initiative of the Museum of Civilian Voices of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation, will also be broadcast online in Ukrainian and English.

The Forum will be held in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation and the Oral History Association, with the support of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University (Lublin).

We would like to remind you that the program will consist of three panel discussions and several keynote speeches.
If you plan to watch the Forum online, follow one of the links:

English - https://www.youtube.com/live/_GmLupH2t34?si=qfltaYKUqAlXym7w
Ukrainian  - https://www.youtube.com/live/ZUoU1BRWoyc?si=1qDa7SEAxKuK1NrV

Broadcast schedule:

12:00 p.m. — 12:10 p.m.: Welcome message from the organizers

12:20 p.m. — 12:40 p.m.: Keynote speech according to the results of a research of Gradus Research
"The structure of the field of oral history initiatives in Ukraine"
Natalia Yemchenko, SCM, Rinat Akhmetov Foundation, and Yevheniia Blyzniuk, Gradus Research.

12:40 p.m. — 2:05 p.m.: Panel discussion "When experiences become knowledge"
Nataliia Kryvda (moderator), Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Agata Tatarenko, Visegrád Group of the Institute of Central Europe in Lublin (online)
Anton Drobovych, Institute of National Memory
Olha Opalenko, Truth Hounds
Gelinada Grinchenko, Ukrainian Oral History Association (online)
Olena Dobrzhanska, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

2:20 p.m. — 2:45 p.m.: Keynote speech. "War Documentation Strategies: Authority, Power, Content, and Testimony". Anton Liagusha, Kyiv School of Economics

2:45 p.m. — 4:10 p.m.: Panel discussion "Oral history: tasks, roles, problems"
Yuliia Manukian (moderator), Urban Republic 
Natalia Yemchenko, SCM, Rinat Akhmetov Foundation
Janine di Giovanni, The Reckoning Project (online)
Katya Taylor, "Port of Culture"
Andriy Dubchak, Donbas Frontliner
Iryna Lopatina, The Reckoning Project

5:00 p.m. — 5:10 p.m.: Keynote speech. Stephen M. Sloan, Oral History Association (online)

5:10 p.m. — 6:30 p.m.: Panel discussion "Documentation of war experiences and the future"
Anastasiia Platonova (moderator), cultural critic, editor, cultural analyst
Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywinski, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Oleksandra Matviichuk, Center for Civil Liberties (online)
Solomiya Borshosh, Ukrainian Institute
Nataliya Mykolska, Dattalion

6:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. Keynote speech. Inna Gogina, USC Shoah Foundation (online)

The event is an initiative of the Museum of Civilian Voices of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation, which collects and documents firsthand testimonies of civilians about the war and has already collected more than 85,000 testimonies.

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