On May 21-23, 2024, V.Y.Ivashcheko and Y.A.Kiselyova spoke at the interdisciplinary conference “Borderlands Storytelling: Narratives and Performances of Epistemic Relatedness”, which was held at the initiative of the International Border Studies Center (IBSC) at the University of Gdańsk and aimed at rethinking the interplay of academic, artistic, and literary ways of researching and understanding the borderland. As part of the conference, the associate professors of the department presented their talk “ Temporality of migrants’ narratives: Evidence from the oral history project ‘Moving West’: Ukrainian Academics in Conditions of Forced Migration (2014–2024)”.