Two days ago, fellow researcher Saskia went along with the community counsellors of the Centre for Children in Vulnerable Situations (CCVS) to one of their weekly visits of a community living a 45-minutes drive away from Lira in Barlonyo, where rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacked on September 21st, 2004. On that day, between 200 and 500 (differing numbers according to sources) residents of Barlonyo were massacred or went missing. Today, there is also a memoria

​Oskars Gruziņš, member of the European Union’s Marie Curie Initial Training Network, “Children born of war – past, present and future project,” from the University of Latvia, participated on project LIVINGMEMORIES fact-finding mission to Perm, Russia. Oskars accompanied members of the multi-disciplinary project, focuses on difficult memories and diverse identities related with conflicts in Russia, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Germany and Turkey, on a mission to Perm, Russia. Th

Early Stage Researchers Jakub Gałęziowski (University Augsburg) and Lisa Haberkern (University of Silesia), members of the European Union’s Marie Curie Initial Training Network “Children born of war – past, present and future project,” are attending the this year’s edition of the conference in Cracow, Poland form the 1st to 3rd September. Prior to the conference they participate in a workshop taught by Prof David Silverman. The Professor Emeritus of the Sociology Department a

Oskars Gruziņš member of the European Union’s Marie Curie Initial Training Network, “Children born of war – past, present and future project,” from the University of Latvia, has returned from his secondment at the Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology of the University of Leipzig. The Marie Curie project entails that the early stage researchers stay at host organizations to learn from their experience on the topic of Children Born of War. As Oskars is working

Oskars Gruziņš member of the European Union’s Marie Curie Initial Training Network, “Children born of war – past, present and future project,” from the University of Latvia participated at the project’s Advanced Training Course (ATC) 5 and the projects midterm review in Warsaw, Poland. From September the 26th to the 30th 2016, Oskars Gruziņš participated at the project’s third training course. The week consisted of an EU lead review of the projects, in which Oskars presented

ESRs Lisa Haberkern, Boniface Ojok, Oskars Gruziņš, Amra Delic, Michal Korhel, Christian Pipal, Saskia Mitreuter, Kanako Kuramitsu, Nastassia Sersté, Eva Käuper and Lukas Schretter participated in the first CHIBOW Interview Analysis Workshop, which took place at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw on 26 September 2016. The workshop was organised by ESR Jakub Gałęziowski, who currently is on a secondment at the Institute. Led by prof. Kaja Kaźmierska and dr. Katarzyna Wa

Early Stage Researcher Lisa Haberkern, member of the European Union’s Marie Curie Initial Training Network “Children born of war – past, present and future project,” attended the conference „Działalność muzeów jako wsparcie edukacji regionalnej”/”Participation of Museums in Regional Education”. The conference took place at the Hall of the Silesian Sejm on the 5th October and showcased a number of regional museums and other stakeholders in regional education in Upper Silesia.

CHIBOW Early Stage Researcher Jakub Galeziowski participated in mid-term conference of ESA RN03 „Biographical Perspectives on European Societies”. The conference took place in Riga, Latvia, 22-23 September 2016 and was hosted by University of Latvia (Faculty of Social Sciences). Jakub presented on the CHIBOW ITN and his individual research project in a paper titled „Silenced biographies of Children Born of War in Poland". In his presentation, Jakub showed that Polish Children

CHIBOW Early Stage Researcher Jakub Galeziowski participated in the annual meeting of Polish Oral History Association in Warsaw, 01-02 October 2016. Jakub, a member of POHA since 2009, and its first president, took an active role in discussions with other historians, psychologists and representatives of oral history archives. Jakub shared his experience of dealing with ethical issues in CHIBOW project and pointed out that some recommendations from network’s ethical advisers c

In early September 2016, ESR Lukas had the opportunity to present his research project on British children fathered by British soldiers in post-war Austria at the Ural Federal University in Ekaterinburg, Russia. On September 5, 2016, Lukas participated in the international conference "Historical Memory in Europe and Russia", organized by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on Consequences of War, Cluster Geschichte, in cooperation with the Ural Federal University. In