Fellowship program in Paris

1.11.2023

In October and November 2023, two researchers from the Center for Urban History, Ivanna Cherchovych and Natalia Otrishchenko, will be on a one-month fellowship in Paris. This fellowship program is a part of the research alliance "War and Society. Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries", in cooperation with EHESS and the French Embassy in Kyiv.

IVANNA CHERCHOVYCH is a researcher and head of Educational projects of the Center for Urban History in Lviv and, a member of the Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Women’s History. She received her PhD in history (kandydat nauk) in 2014 from the Ivan Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She was a visiting scholar at the Herder Institute for the History of East and Central Europe in Marburg (2017), the German Historical Institute in Warsaw (2019), the Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at Toronto University (Petro Yatsyk Program, 2022) and Sapienza University of Rome (2022).

Ivanna leads the educational platform

REESOURCES. Rethinking Eastern Europe, and works on her research project "The city and female workers: between productive and reproductive life in the late 19th century Habsburg Galicia". This study focuses on working women in the city and their personal lives, constructed on the basis of the only available to us sources of their direct speech, namely criminal cases, as well as testimonies about this category of the urban population found in the daily press, and in the private correspondence of the house owners in which they [female workers, t/n] worked (when it comes to domestic servants, for example).

Ivanna Cherchovych will present her work at the CERCEC's "journée de rentrée" on November 6, 2024, 4:30 pm-6:30 pm, room 3.08, Centre des Colloques (Campus Condorcet).

NATALIA OTRISHCHENKO is a sociologist and researcher at the Lviv Center for Urban History. She holds a PhD in sociological methodology from the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2015). She has participated in several international research projects: "Memory of Vanished Populations" (University of Lund, 2012-14), "Region, Nation, and Beyond" (University of St. Gallen, 2012-15), "Historical Cultures in Transition" (Collegium Civitas, 2017-19). In 2019-22, Natalia was a Research Associate at the Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam; in 2022-23, she was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology, Columbia University. Since March 2022, she has been coordinating the Ukrainian team in the documentation initiative "24/02/22, 5 am: Testimonies from the War", which aims to record the experiences of volunteers and displaced Ukrainians after the large-scale Russian invasion.

Natalia's research focuses on qualitative methods, oral history, memory studies, urban sociology and the sociology of expertise. She will present her work in 4 lectures:

Immersion in History: Ukrainians Assessing Recent Past before and After 2022 – UE594, Central seminar of CERCEC, November 6, 2023, 16h30-18h30, salle 3.08, Centre des Colloques (Campus Condorcet)
Too Close, Too Far: On the Role of Distance in War Documentation – Françoise Daucé & cie, Autoritarisme, guerre et mobilisations dans l’espace postsoviétique (sociological seminar of CERCEC), November 10, 10:30-12:30, salle 515, Cercec -EHESS, Campus Condorcet
After the Interview: Ethical Challenges in Preserving Stories from the War – Richard Rechtmann, Echos subjectifs des violences extrêmes (Subjective echoes of extreme violence), November 20, 14h30-16h30
Experiencing Time during the Full-Scale Russian Aggression in Ukraine (Based on Narratives of Internally Displaced People) – Emmanuel Saint-Fuscien & Julien Blanc, Ce que la guerre transforme (What the war transforms), November 21, 2023, 10h30-12h30

Also this year, Natalia Kudriavtseva (Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University) and Olena Stiazhkina (Department of Ukrainian History of the Second Half of the 20th Century at the Institute of Ukrainian History, Academy of Sciences) were awarded the CERCEC-French Embassy in Kyiv scholarship. Natalia presented her work on October 17 at CERCEC, in a talk entitled "Linguistic conversion in Ukraine after 2014". Olena Stiazhkina will present her research "Woman Partisan", "Bad Woman", "Traitor to the Motherland": Occupied Soviet Women in the Self-Vision of the 1940s" at the central seminar on December 18, 4:30-6:30, room 3.08, Centre des Colloques (Campus Condorcet).

War and Society in Central and Eastern Europe" (20th-21st centuries)

The Research Alliance aims to structure encounters between historians and sociologists from different scientific traditions around the experience of war in Eastern Europe. Its three scientific partners are the CERCEC (EHESS) in Paris, the Institute of International Studies at Charles University in Prague, and the Center for Urban History in Lviv. The aim is to conduct collective research into war as a process of movement – of bodies, bonds, institutions, goods, ideas, legacies and possible futures. Founded on the interdisciplinary tradition of area studies, the laboratory also seeks to overcome the spatial compartmentalization effects induced by the division of Europe into “cultural areas”, by bringing together researchers from the east and west of the continent.

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Cover image: EHESS building in Paris / by Maryana Mazurak