Svitlana Telukha, PhD

Scholarship holder

About

Svitlana Telukha was born in 1983 in Akhtyrka in the Sumy region of Ukraine. She studied history, archival sciences and social sciences at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University where she received her PhD in 2011. Since 2011, Svitlana Telukha has been a lecturer at the National Technical University »Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute«. She is a researcher and practitioner of oral history and has worked on many oral history projects relating to the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the Second World War and the war in Ukraine.

Svitlana Telukha has been an associated researcher in the department »Culture and Imagination« at the GWZO since May 2023 and is supported by the Philipp Schwartz-Initiative of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung.

Work focus

•   Educational technology
•   Multimedia in education
•   Oral history
•   Trauma studies
•   Social history

Memberships

Member of the Center for Interethnic Relations Research in Eastern Europe
Member of the CS Kharkiv Young, an organization devoted to preservation of memory and the development of public space in the city of Kharkiv

Teaching

Svitlana Telukha teaches at the National Technical University »Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute«. Викладачі кафедри | Кафедра українознавства, культурології та історії науки

Holocaust Memory in Ukraine after February 24, 2022

Knowledge and Truth

(Kultur und Imagination)

Svitlana Telukha

The project is devoted to the memorialization of the Holocaust in Ukraine. Based on approaches of oral history and digital history, it aims to document sites of memory and to trace the changes that Russia’s war against Ukraine has inflicted on the culture of remembrance oft he Second World War.