Dear colleagues and friends,
We are pleased to invite you to join the public program on 23 September, which is part of a hybrid three-day (23-25.09.2025) conference and data sprint “War Sensing through the Telegram Archive of the War”.
The ongoing Russian full-scale war against Ukraine is documented not only by institutions but also by civilians who record and share their experiences via digital platforms. Among these, Telegram continues to play a crucial role as a space for coordination, expression, information exchange, and collective sense-making (Nazaruk, 2022). As part of an ongoing collaboration between the “War Sensing” project (European University Viadrina and the CRC “Media of Cooperation”) and the Telegram Archive of the War (Center for Urban History in Lviv), the three-day conference and data sprint “War Sensing through the Telegram Archive of the War ” aims to re-actualise the role of digital archives in the rapidly changing digital and political environment.
With this email we warmly invite you to join the public online talks on 23 September, which will feature talks by scholars and practitioners from Ukraine and provide space for reflection on how archives, digital platforms, and acts of witnessing shape our understanding of the war and its infrastructures of occupation.
- Keynote lecture 23.09, 10:00–10:45 Słubice [11:00–11:45 Lviv]:
Telegram Archive of the War – Context and Curatorial Ethics by Taras Nazaruk (Center for Urban History, Lviv), moderated by Johanna Hiebl (European University Viadrina).
- Evening public talks 23.09, 17:00–19:00 Słubice [18:00–20:00 Lviv]:
Labour of Witnessing with Asia Bazdyrieva (University of Applied Arts Vienna) and Svitlana Matviyenko (Simon Fraser University)
Detention and Filtration Practices with Daria Hetmanova (Simon Fraser University), moderated by Miglė Bareikytė (European University Viadrina).
We invite scholars, activists, journalists, civic tech communities, and individuals interested in digital war studies to join the talks. If you would like to know more about the conference and data sprint, find the full program here. To participate, please send a brief email by 15.09.2025 to warsensing@europa-uni.de. We will follow up with more details and the Zoom link.
With best regards,
On behalf of the CRC Media of Cooperation “War Sensing” (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) with Prof. Dr. Miglė Bareikytė and Johanna Hiebl and the Telegram Archive of the War from the Center for Urban History in Lviv with Taras Nazaruk
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