Faculty members of the department participated in the literary-bibliographic study "In the Dimension of Book and Memory"
On August 19, 2026, faculty members of the department — Professor Oleksandr Cheremisin and Associate Professor Halyna Mykhailenko, participated in the literary-bibliographic study «In the dimension of book and memory», organized by the KZ "Kherson Regional Universal Scientific Library named after Oles Honchar".
Faculty members shared their own experience of documenting the occupation of Kherson based on an oral history approach and presented the methodological principles that defined the work on recording the personal testimonies of Kherson residents.
In our report, we focused on the experience of creating the books «Chronicle of Civil Resistance in Kherson in 2022» and «Kherson 2022: With Ukraine in the Heart», considering them as the result of purposeful work to preserve the human dimension of the occupation. The basis of the documentation was semi-structured interviews, focused on the respondent's personal experience. Therefore, each testimony preserved the individual logic, linguistic style, and peculiarities of human memory.
Particular attention during the meeting was paid to the psychological dimension of the occupation experience. Oral testimonies showed that the occupation changed the perception of time, space, security, human relationships, and the future. That is why our documentation is aimed at highlighting the question: «what the occupation did to a person and how a person tried to preserve themselves in the conditions of full-scale war».