Source: Ukrainian Photographies
Text by Anastasiya Kholyavka on the distinctive visual aesthetic of physical culture in the collection of Stepan Haiduchok at the Urban Media Archive.
Source: IWM Blog
IWM Blog post on the annual The Most Documented War symposium co-organized by the Center for Urban History, IWM, Research Centre Ukraine / Max Weber Foundation, and INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange, which in 2026 focused on Polyphony of Stories.
Source: The American Scholar
An article by Adam Hochschild about how the Center for Urban History documents the horrors of the past while living in the shadow of war.
Source: Histórias Digitais
A text by Natalia Otrishchenko about oral history archives in contemporary Ukraine for the Portuguese media Histórias Digitais.
Source: Radical History Review
In this essay Bohdan Shumylovych reflects on the creation of an archive of war-related ego-documents gathered in Ukraine during the first months of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. Centered on the project Two Months of War, it documents how diaries, dreams, visual art, and testimonies served as both a psychosocial coping mechanism and a means of recording cultural trauma.
Source: de Volkskrant
An essay by Arnout le Clercq on the dreams – or rather nightmares – of Ukrainians as a form of resistance, based on the Center's documentation project "Diaries and Dreams of the War."
Source: Satori
The piece reflects on the idea of "lost cities" in Ukraine — urban places that still exist, but have been irrevocably transformed by war, occupation or population decline. It begins by highlighting the Soviet-era photographer Marko Zaliznak, whose photos were digitized by the Urban Media Archive.
Source: CEU Reviewas of Books
Kornelia Kończal interviews Bohdan Shumylovych and Magdalena Zolkos, the editors of Psychosocial and Cultural Perspectives on the War in Ukraine: Imprints and Dreamscapes, published by Routledge in 2024.
Source: Museum Guide on Ukraine. Ukraine Institute London
Vladyslava Moskalets' essay on Ukrainian Jews, which is included among other texts that contextualize the complex issues of working with material and cultural heritage.
Source: Open Space(s) (Review of Democracy)
In a new episode of the Open Space(s) (Review of Democracy) podcast, Bohdan Shumylovych, a historian and researcher at the Center for Urban History, talks about the politics of urban spaces, knowledge production, the relevance of the city, and the Center's future projects.
Source: Le Monde
A text by Rémy Ourdan about the annual international symposium "The Most Documented War" held on May 22-24 in Lviv
Source: DataLabBLOG
Text by sociologist and researcher of the Center Natalia Otrishchenko about the "Voices of Resistance and Hope" project