Launch of the Luxembourgish U-CORE Interview Collection

The U-CORE project (Researching the Collecting, Preserving, Analysing and Disclosing of Ukrainian Testimonies of the War) is launching its interview collection with Ukrainian refugees and displaced persons.

During the first part of the event, nearly 100 recorded hours comprising 81 transcribed interviews with 52 narrators from Luxembourg will be presented. The access application will be introduced by its developer, Dr Aliesia Soloviova (LivArch Fellow, European University Institute, Florence). The session will be moderated by the project leader, Prof. Machteld Venken.

The second part of the event will feature a round table moderated by Dr Inna Ganschow. The discussion will address key questions concerning the hermeneutic approach in oral history research, the protection of interviewees’ identities in the digital era, and the sustainable archiving of recorded testimonies.

Invited speakers:

• Anna Cole (University of Portsmouth; projects in collaboration with the British Library)
• Simon Donig (Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg; LivArch)
• Andreas Fickers (Centre for Contemporary and Digital History)
• Steven Naron (Yale Library, Director of the Fortunoff Video Archive)

Programme:

15.30: Collection and Access Application Presentation

16.00: Round Table

17.00: Discussion and Reception

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