GRANTEE
This oral history project began in May 2022 (a month after the deoccupation of the Chernihiv region) by a team of volunteer academics from various Ukrainian institutions and was supported by the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Chernihiv City Council as well as the NGO Center for Applied Anthropology. In 2023 the team behind the project created the Chernihiv Research Center for the Anthropology of War. The scope of the project includes not only specifics of applying oral history methodology for conducting research in wartime, but also research on day-to-day life and survival strategies of Ukrainians during occupation, siege, active fighting, evacuation, volunteering, on the front line, etc. The project aims, on the one hand, to systematize methodological and theoretical features of oral history research “in the field,” which were uncovered in action from May 2022 to August 2024, and on the other hand to continue recording testimonies of witnesses both in Chernihiv and other regions of Ukraine, including deoccupied territories.