We took part in the international workshop related to multiple temporalities in research on was, violence and crisis with two presentations:
“I hope that everything is good with you?” Methodologies of Uncertainty: Ethics, Reciprocity, and Research Amid Ongoing War, by Kamila Fiałkowska, exploring the methodological and ethical aspects of conducting longitudinal research in contexts marked by protracted uncertainty, ongoing violence, and forced displacement. Drawing on fieldwork among internally displaced Ukrainian Roma communities in Ukraine and Poland, she reflected on the complexities of building and maintaining research relationships that extend beyond traditional roles of researcher and participant sharing a recent communication with a long-term collaborator in the field, who reached out with concern following the 2025 incursion of Russian drones into Polish airspace. This served as a point of departure for considering the relational dynamics, mutual care, and ethical reciprocity that characterize research in unstable settings.
Ignacy Jóźwiak presented Seasons of war and temporalities of peace: How (and why) to do ethnography among the perpetuating armed conflict and permanent state of exception, reflecting on how the 2022 Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine has both disrupted and strengthened some of the pre-existing transnational links, supply chains, transnational academic relations and research practices. His presentation, embedded in his 20 years’ ethnographic experience in Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia) region in Ukraine’s West reflected on many ethnographic re-visits of certain locations and topics, encounters with ethnic minorities, cultural diversity and identity dilemmas; state borders and transnational social spaces; migration and transnationality; environment and natural resources based economies; full-scale war and its impact on the region: displacement, relocation, situation of the vulnerable groups among the local population and the newcomers alike. Considering different phases and different intensities of war in Ukraine, Ignacy looks beyond the “war-peace” binaries as well as the categories of “before”, “after” and “during” commonly applied to the war affected societies.
The event was organised by Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN), Warsaw with Partners: Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), Center for Urban History (CUH), Lviv
Organizing Committee: Natalia Otrishchenko, Anna Wylegała, and Machteld Venken.
Conference administrator: Róża Kochanowska