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Report on the Activities of the Club (2013–2016) under the Supervision of Hanna Hnatchenko

Report on the Activities of the Club (2016–2017) under the Supervision of Sylvester Selegeiev

Report on the Activities of the Club (2017–2019) under the Supervision of Dmytro Rakov

Report on the Activities of the Club (2019–2020) under the Supervision of Iryna Trofimenko

Posters of the Club Meetings (2017–2019)

Posters of the Club Meetings (2019–2021)

Posters of the Club Meetings (2022–2023)

Posters of the Club Meetings (2023–2024)

Club supervisor – Yulia Kiselyova – Candidate of History, Associate Professor.

Club head (student representative) – Lidiia Kuzmenko – fourth-year student.

The Historiography, Source Studies, and Auxiliary Historical Disciplines Student Club is an informal creative community bringing together the Department’s undergraduate and graduate students interested in developing their professional skills.

The Club`s activities are aimed at fostering in-depth study of diverse scholarly problems and creating a communicative space that contributes to the intellectual, cultural, and professional growth of beginning historians.

The basic format of the Club’s meetings is the presentation and discussion of papers, traditional for academia. Our students’ research interests include a wide range of subjects, from theoretical problems of historiography, source studies, and methodology of history to detail-focused and applied topics, particularly in the history of the Kharkiv region, the city, and Kharkiv University. Special meetings are devoted to the discussion of research based on new methodological approaches in such areas as cultural, intellectual, and visual history, history of emotions, biography, oral history, history of memory, history of archives and museums, and others.

A presentation by fourth-year student Margarita Firsova entitled “From Coat of Arms to Logo: The Evolution of Kharkiv’s Urban Symbolism” (12 November 2022).

A presentation by third-year student Lidiia Kuzmenko entitled “Psychoanalysis in the Frame: A Workshop on Interpreting Visual Images in Cinema” (7 November 2025)

Another distinctive feature of our meetings is the combination of student research activity with expert perspectives on methods of working with historical sources. Experts include both department faculty members and invited scholars.

Workshop “Content Analysis: How to Entrust Your Source to a Computer,” delivered by K. A. Yeremieieva, lecturer at the Department of History and Linguistics of the Ukrainian State University of Railway Transport (18 May 2021)

An important aim of the Club`s work is also the exchange of experience. For this reason, specialists from various disciplines are regularly invited to meetings, including experts in archival studies, genealogy, forensic science, philology, philosophy, and restoration. An important theme of such meetings is also the representation of academic knowledge in the public sphere.

Meeting with researcher of Ukrainian labour migration and documentary film director Olena Fediuk, dedicated to the screening and discussion of the film Italian Diary of Olha (20 June 2023)

Meeting with Professor John Dunn of Valdosta State University: “Propaganda Philately in the Twenty-First Century: How Stamps Help Ukraine During the Russo-Ukrainian War” (22 November 2023)

One of the Club`s important objectives is to establish informal communication among students of different years, postgraduate researchers, and faculty members. To achieve this goal, various formats are used, including competitions and flash mobs on social media, as well as thematic informal gatherings. Particularly memorable were meetings devoted to collecting, “academic tourism,” and the “reading practices” of department lecturers. Recently, informal communication has also expanded into social media, especially through the Society’s Instagram group, which currently has 173 followers.

Creative meeting with department lecturers: “Academic Tourism as a Lifestyle” (13 December 2017)

Аn Instagram project “On the Occasion of an Anniversary,” dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the department and aimed at helping Club members become better acquainted with department lecturers (30 October – 31 December 2024)

The history of the Club is rich in diverse practices and initiatives. Traditionally, local history and educational trips to places of interest in the Sloboda region were especially popular. Such journeys combined acquaintance with the natural environment and the historical and cultural heritage of the region. In 2019–2022, a new format of work actively developed: guided excursions in the city and region. This format enabled participants to acquire important excursion-planning skills, understand the specifics of designing routes, and try themselves in the roles of organizers and guides.

The Club also had a tradition of inviting students to the homes of lecturers. Usually, this opportunity was offered to the most active members of the Club, who at the end of the academic year could, in an informal home atmosphere, hear fascinating stories from the lives of their teachers, learn about the organization of their research work, their interests, and their everyday practices.

From the history of the Club