Events
Upcoming events
Presentation and discussion: “Launch of the Luxembourgish U-CORE Interview Collection”
May 13, 2026 / hybrid
The event is dedicated to a new digital archive of testimonies from Ukrainian refugees and displaced persons. Hosted by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), it will introduce tools and workflows developed within the U CORE project for collecting, preserving, and accessing sensitive oral histories. A discussion will address ethical, methodological, and archival challenges of documenting war experiences through digital testimony collections.
Symposium for documentation and archiving initiatives: “The Most Documented War: Polyphony of Stories”
June 4 – 6, 2026 / Lviv, Ukraine
he event organized by the LivArch partner explores how multiple voices, experiences, and narratives shape the documentation of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Bringing together scholars, archivists, and cultural practitioners, the aim is to examine storytelling as a methodological and ethical approach to preserving diverse perspectives of war. The participants will focus on collaborative documentation practices, archival responsibility, and the role of narrative plurality in understanding contemporary history.
Past events
Conference and Data Sprint 2026: “Witnessing and Justice in Data-Based Research”
March 31–April 1, 2026 / hybrid
The second data sprint builds on collaborations initiated during the 2025 sprint, offering space to present research outcomes, ongoing work, and future plans developed through bottom-up cooperation. The event focused on the possibilities and limits of digital, data-driven investigations of war. Discussions explored how digital archives and data-based witnessing contribute to accountability, transitional justice, and contemporary practices of war witnessing.
The 2nd IEG LivArch Workshop on ethical and emotional challenges in war archiving
February 20, 2026 / online
На заході було розглянуто етичні, емоційні та спільні виклики документування війни Росії проти України за допомогою цифрових архівів. The workshop focused on sensitivities, trauma, and sociability in living archives, addressing questions like the duty of care toward contributors, users, and archival staff who work with traumatic material. Participants discussed disinformation, mental health, collective memory, and ethical documentation practices, highlighting how digital archiving can support resilience, responsible knowledge production, and future post-war justice and reconstruction.
Feb 2-4, 2026. Workshop Warsaw
“Multiple Temporalities in Research on War-, Violence-, and Crisis-Affected Societies (U-CORE).”
U-CORE and C²DH organise an international workshop. Drawing from U-CORE’s expertise on research on the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, this workshop aims to bring together scholars to reflect on various temporalities and challenges in the study of war- and crisis-affected societies.
CfP here (Deadline Sept 1, 2025)
Presentation: “Wartime Data Sensitivity and Pseudonymisation: Digital Challenges and Solutions”/ by LivArch Fellows Anna Kryvenko and Aliesia Soloviova
December 3, 2025/ hybrid
During the C²DH (Luxembourg) event, the ethical, technical, and methodological challenges in processing and disclosing sensitive wartime oral history data were addressed. Anna Kryvenko and Aliesia Soloviova presented their approaches ranging from metadata-driven access to mixed-method approach which combines close quality reading with corpus linguistic techniques.
Presentation: “Documenting the Impact of Russia’s War on Ukraine’s Energy System”/ by LivArch Fellow Alona Bilokon
December 2, 2025 / online
Dr Alona Bilokon is a Ukrainian historian and an expert in technology transfer and sustainable development. She serves on the supervisory board of the GCIP Regional Accelerator Center for Innovation, Technology, and Start-ups in the Mykolaiv region. Her research analyses how the Russian war has reshaped Ukraine’s energy system, focusing on the destruction of infrastructure as well as emerging local energy initiatives and forms of community resilience.
November 18, 2025. Seminar
“Is There a Place for Oral History in State Archives? Experience, Current Status, Prospects/ by LivArch Fellowship holder Albert Venger”
The Lviv Centre for Urban History invites to join the event on how transferring oral history materials into state archives can formalise their status as cultural heritage. The event will discuss the existing experience of Ukrainian state archives and how researchers can transfer collected materials for permanent storage to state archives.
Read more here: https://www.lvivcenter.org/en/urban-seminar/oral-history-and-state-archives-2/
September 23–25, 2025
Conference and Data Sprint: “War Sensing through the Telegram Archive of the War”
The Lviv Centre for Urban History held a three-day hybrid conference and data sprint for scholars, practitioners, digital archivists to examine how Telegram is used during the war in Ukraine for coordination, information sharing, expression and sense-making.
More about the event you can read here: https://www.lvivcenter.org/en/conferences/war-sensing-through-the-telegram-archive-2/
May 22, 2025 – May 24, 2025, Lviv
The Most Documented War: Enacting Archives
April 30, 2025. 14:00–16:00 (CEST), hybrid
“Researching the Collecting, Preserving, Analysing and Disclosing of Ukrainian Testimonies of the War (U-CORE).”
Presentation & Discussion: LivArch Fellow Dr. Inna Ganschow
Her main research question is: How to build a methodological and ethical toolbox, as well as a digital environment for processing, analysing, preserving, and accessing in two stages conducted born-digital testimonies of the war by means of a digital hermeneutics of practice consisting of (digital) source criticism, tool criticism and visualisation criticism?
Registration required: Please email livarch@herder-institut.de
Mar 19, 2025 – Mar 21, 2025. Washington
Real-Time History: Engaging with Living Archives and Temporal Multiplicities
June 6, 2024 – June 8, 2024
The Most Documented War: Ethics and Practice of International Collaborations
Symposium for documentation and archiving initiatives
Jan 30, 2025, online event
The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) invites scholars to the Workshop. This event aims to create a thorough scholarly dialogue focusing on the extensive archival collection pertaining to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the worldwide impact of such digital archiving phenomena.
The workshop will feature discussions with scholars in the emerging field of rapid response digital archives and leaders currently engaged in documenting the war in Ukrain.