Albert Venger

Albert Venger

Oles Honchar Dnipro National University


  • Research topic:
    Testimonies of War: From Collection to Archiving in the State Archives of Ukraine
    Period:
    November 2025
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PhD in History, Head of the Department of World History at Oles Honchar Dnipro National University. Author of three individual and four collective monographs, compiler of one collection of documents. His research focuses on the history of ethnic communities in Ukraine, the history of the Second World War, intellectual history, and oral history.

He participated in a number of international research projects, some of which focused on the fate of the mentally ill and people with disabilities during the Nazi occupation. He became a guest editor of the scientific journal "Ukraina Moderna. The Useless People: War Crimes, Judgement, (Non)Memory." In 2020, he led a team of historians that won the Second International History Hackathon, and an educational platfrom was created based on the team's work. In 2022, he participated in the project "The Many Faces of Ukraine: Mapping Ukraine's Ethnic Diversity" project supported by the University of St. Gallen. He is the leader of the project "European Multiculturalism as an Experience and a Path to Ukraine's European Integration" (2023-2026), funded by the European Union under the ERASMUS+ Jean Monnet program.

He is currently working on a monographic study on the history of Ukrainian media studies in the twentieth century.

During his LivArch Fellowship at the Center for Urban History, he will work on the project: "Testimonies of War: From Collection to Archiving in the State Archives of Ukraine." During the modern war in Ukraine, thousands of testimonies were collected, most of which are in private collections or collections of individual institutions. In order to preserve oral testimonies and provide access to them for researchers, the best option is to transfer them to archival institutions for storage. Thus, the goal of the project is to develop an algorithm and guidelines for the transfer of oral history materials to state archives.