Displacement, Emplacement, and Reintegration: IDP Experiences, 2014-2021

A lecture by Emily Channell-Justice, Director, Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.
Moderated by Serhiy Bilenky, Research Associate, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.

IN-PERSON and ONLINE via Zoom Webinar (live). Registration is required to attend online. https://www.huri.harvard.edu/event/emily-channell-justice-displacement-emplacement-and-reintegration-idp-experiences-2014-2021?occ_id=0

About the Lecture
This presentation explores the question of how anthropologists must navigate the context of war to continue to do research. Dr. Emily Channell-Justice will describe the process of developing her current research on internal displacement in Ukraine since 2014, which was then disrupted by the full-scale invasion. She will discuss data sources that make up this project and pose questions about ethical research during ongoing hostilities. The lecture will also explore the possibilities of collaborative work that may strengthen the research process and improve its conclusions.

The discussion of data will focus on the main data set of Dr. Channell-Justice’s research project, 80 interviews with internally displaced Ukrainians from Donetsk and Luhansk regions and Crimea, which were collected by a Ukrainian anthropologist between 2014 and 2016 and given to Dr. Channell-Justice to use for research in 2019. Dr. Channell-Justice will describe what these interviews reveal about the experience of displacement, but also what they reveal about the nature of doing research when circumstances do not allow for normal ethnographic data collection through long-term participant observation. She will draw from recent writings and presentations by Ukrainian scholars who advocate for ethical and empathetic creation of archives and documentation to preserve people’s experiences of war to ask how this perspective can be applied to previously collected data and how it can guide researchers moving forward with research in and about Ukraine.

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