At the Center for Urban History, he is holding an artistic residency supported by the Universities UK International. During his stay, he plans to work with the digitized collection of the Mariupol Museum of Local Lore and the film camera of Heorhii Kotelnikov.
]]>She participated in international student exchanges and studied at the Pomeranian Academy (Słupsk, Poland) and the University of Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal). She participated in summer programs: "Witnessing the War in Ukraine: Oral History and Interview-Based Research" at the Department of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland), "Migration from Ukraine in Media Coverage — People, Frames, Narratives" at Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland), "Educational Management and Creating New Study Offer" at Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland). Furthermore, she is a member of the Ukrainian Oral History Association (UOHA).
At the Center for Urban History, she is on a research residency with the support of the Universities UK International. During her stay, she plans to get acquainted with digital projects, including the Urban Media Archive and Interactive Lviv, as well as visit local libraries.
]]>She participated in international research, archival, and educational projects (2017–2022). She worked as a journalist and publicist (2020–2023). She participated in summer schools and research internships at the House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, Tel Aviv University, the University of Wroclaw, the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute. Her research interests include the rights of national minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Caucasus; Jewish history of the interwar period; ethnopolitical conflicts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; and the development of the public sphere in politics and culture.
In 2023, she was granted a scholarship at the Center for Urban History with the support of the Foundation for Jewish Studies in Wrocław to research the history of the Jewish ghetto in Lviv.
]]>Olena studied history at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In 2021, she defended her dissertation "Reference and Encyclopedic Projects on the Local History of Ukraine in Ukrainian Historical Science in the Second Half of the 1950s - Early 1980s: Organizational Forms, Ideological Functions, and Practical Implementation" at the Institute of History of Ukraine at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences. She is the author of 40 scientific and popular science publications and is responsible for preparing 60 publications in the reserve. She is the compiler, author of the foreword, scientific comments, and research on the architectural historian, first president of the Academy of Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR – Serhii Bezsonov for the scientific monograph called "Academician Serhii Bezsonov. Architecture of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in its Historical Development" (2015).
]]>During his research residence in Lviv supported by the Institute for Human Science, he plans to study the specifics of constructing images of Ukrainian cities in the church historiography of the nineteenth-century Russian Empire. He is particularly interested in how discussions about the imagined boundaries of "Russianness" in the secular historiography of that period influenced the church historiography, whether church historians of the Russian Empire perceived Ukrainian cities as something different in comparison with the cities of other regions of the empire, how did they symbolically separate urban space from rural space? What was the reason for the choice of metaphors used to describe Ukrainian cities in the works of church historians of the Russian Empire? To what extent were the religious concepts of earlier epochs and biblical images actualized in the descriptions of Ukrainian cities by nineteenth-century church historians; how did the theological, historiosophical, and socio-political views of the authors, changes in methodological approaches to the study of history, general cultural trends, and processes of nation-building in the "long nineteenth century" influence the perception of Ukrainian cities?
]]>Roman studied history at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. He defended his Ph.D. thesis on the history of the everyday life of workers in Kharkiv in the 1920s and 1930s. He has participated in summer schools, workshops, and seminars on urban studies, memory politics, and the study and teaching of Holocaust history. In 2019-2021, he was a participant (head and coordinator of the research team) in the International Research Project "Self-Representation Practices of Multinational Cities in the Industrial and Post-Industrial Era," supported by the Kowalski Program and the Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta. The project resulted in a collective monograph in which Roman published part of his research and edited a chapter.
During his research residence supported by the Körber-Stiftung Foundation, he focused on the everyday practices of socialist cities' residents, architectural projects, the evolution of socialist cities' images during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and changes in the toponymic and symbolic landscape after decommunization.
]]>She is currently researching the iconotext of children's illustrated books as an indicator of cultural meanings in wartime literature. At the Center for Urban History, during her research residence supported by the Körber-Stiftung Foundation, she plans to focus on the specifics of the Ukrainian experience of responding to images and narratives of the city, strategies of their (re)interpretation, and retransmission in children's illustrated books about the war published in 2022-2023. The project's thematic focus demonstrates its interdisciplinary nature: on the one hand, urban literary studies imply an approach to theoretical and methodological developments in related fields, such as urban history, cultural geography, etc.; on the other hand, this research brings literary studies and visual studies together.
]]>At the Center for Urban History, during her fellowhip supported by the Institute for Human Science, she was conducting research on "Life after the War (the Situation of Repatriates in the Postwar Years in Dnipro)." Mariia's project offers a new perspective on understanding the social process of repatriation in the context of memory politics. The emphasis on a large industrial city allows us to consider the role of the peculiarities of repatriates' lives at the local and national levels in the context of broader social changes of the postwar era. However, this research topic is characterized by considerable practical significance, since the geography of research is not limited to Dnipro.
Research interests: migration processes, forced labor, women's history, local history, biography.
Since 2016, she has been a member of the All-Ukrainian Union of Local Historians.
Recent publications include:
Shevchenko M. Unread letters: the situation of Ostarbeiters in Germany (based on the materials of the State Archives of Dnipropetrovsk oblast). Grani 2023. No. 2 (Index Copernicus).
Shevchenko M. Ukrainian women in forced labor in the Third Reich: an attempt of analysis. Scientific notes of V.I. Vernadsky Taurida National University. Series: Historical Sciences. 2023. Vol. 35(74) No. 2 (Index Copernicus).
]]>Oleksandr studied history at Kherson State University. He received his doctoral degree at Zaporizhzhia National University. His thesis is devoted to the history of local self-government in the South of Ukraine in 1785-1917. Within the framework of the research project, the analysis of the following essential components is to be provided to fully uncover the essence of the research goal: a military operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to conduct defense actions; the daily life practices of Kherson residents who found themselves under occupation without the usual logistics chains of supplies in an environment of the militarization of urban spaces; the organization and course of civilian resistance in Kherson to the occupation troops; peculiarities of communication between civilians and armed military of the invading troops; transformation of the urban residential space through the security, adaptive and altruistic aspects; study of public opinion on the perception of the occupation of Kherson in other cities of Ukraine.
In Lviv, during the fellowship supported by the Körber-Stiftung Foundation, he worked on reconstructing the course of Kherson's city occupation based on oral sources and reflections on his personal stay in Kherson during the occupation.
The feloowhip resulted in the following publications: