We at George Mason University are proud to collaborate with the Department of History and American Studies at the University of Mary Washington to present:
Sofia Dyak, Taras Nazaruk, and Natalia Otrishchenko from the Center
for Urban History in Lviv, Ukraine will talk about the work of their Center documenting the war through oral history and preserving social media archives during a time of war. How can scholars of the present help preserve a moment in history for
historians of the future?
Dr.
Sofia Dyak is a director of the Center for Urban History (Ukraine), an institution focusing on research, digital and public history, and educational programs. She received her PhD at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy
of Sciences (Warsaw). Her research interests include post-war history of border cities, heritage and urban planning in socialist cities and their legacies. Another area of her work is public history, including curating exhibitions and spatial commemorative
projects in urban context. Dr. Dyak was a fellow at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, the Historical Dialogue and Accountability Program at Columbia University and the Harvard Ukrainian
Research Institute. Currently she is also a senior research fellow the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam. Dr. Dyak is a member of board of directors of Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter (Ottawa) and of academic board of the Centre for Historical Research
in Berlin of the Polish Academy of Science.
Dr.
Natalia Otrishchenko is a research fellow at the Center for Urban History in Lviv and an associated researcher at the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam. She holds a PhD in Sociology (2015) from the Institute of Sociology, the National Academy
of Sciences of Ukraine. Since March 2022, Natalia has led the Ukrainian team within the "24/02/22, 5am" international documentation initiative. The Fall, she will be a Fulbright visiting scholar at Columbia University. Natalia is interested in the methods
of sociological research, oral history, urban sociology, spatial and social transformations after state socialism.
Taras
Nazaruk is a head of digital history projects at the Center for Urban History in Lviv. His background is in journalism (BA, University of Lviv, Ukraine), media studies and communication design (MA, University of Wroclaw, Poland). Since 2016 he has
been working as a coordinator of the Lviv
Interactive, the digital encyclopedia on the modern history of Lviv. His areas of interest include digital history, digital storytelling, social media archiving, Soviet cybernetic legacy, Internet histories, and media studies. During the full-scale
Russian invasion of Ukraine, he's been working on a Telegram archive of the war.
You can support the important work of the Center
for Urban History here.
This session will be moderated and was co-organized by Dr.
Steven Harris, who is Professor in the Department
of History and American Studies at the University of Mary Washington and author of Communism
on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin. He is also the co-organizer of the Second
World Urbanity project and is currently at work on a new book project, "Flying Aeroflot: A History of the Soviet Union in the Jet Age."
Introductions are made by series organizer Steven Barnes,
Director of the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies and Associate Professor in the Department
of History and Art History at George Mason University.
This lecture is part of George Mason University's Fall 2022 Lecture Series, "Russia's War on Ukraine in Historical Perspective." For other events and information on the series, visit
the main series page.
Steven A. Barnes
Director, Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies
President, Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
Associate Professor of Russian and Soviet History
George Mason University
https://rest.gmu.edu/people/sbarnes3
