Together with the curator of the project From Place to Place: Stories from Scattered Archives, we will step inside the mobile archive — a specially adapted van that travels between cities and small towns, gathering stories about Jewish communities of Central and Eastern Europe. Liana will speak about how the project began, how it engages with the memory of the vanished world of shtetls and with the traces they have left in contemporary towns and cities, as well as about the archive’s Ukrainian route through Lviv, Busk, Zhovkva, Zbarazh, Pidvolochysk, and Volochysk.
The exhibition is part of the Center for Urban History project From Place to Place: Stories from Scattered Archives.
Read more about the project and its public programme on the Center for Urban History website.
Date: September 6, 2026, at 14:00
Venue: Jam Factory Art Center, 124 Bohdana Khmelnytskoho St., Lviv
Admission is free, no prior registration is needed.
Liana Blikharska, Center for Urban History
Historian working with the Urban Media Archive at the Center, contributing to the Visual War Documentation collection. Currently completing her PhD at the Ukrainian Catholic University, she is writing an intellectual biography of the historian Ivan Krypiakevych. In 2024, she held a fellowship at IWM focused on developing a methodology for an “Emergency Response Archive,” aimed at documenting the Russian war against Ukraine. Her research interests span intellectual history, oral history, digital humanities, the role of volunteering during wartime, digital archiving, interwar education in Galicia, and the contested heritage of World War II.