2018 – Lvivcenter

Prof. Rachel Stevens

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 04:30:09 +0000

Prof. Rachel Stevens (New Mexico State University in Las Cruces) is a Professor of Sculpture at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She received her MFA from Syracuse University in 1993 and her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1985. Jointly with the Lviv National Academy of Arts and the Center for Urban History, Rachel was implementing her project. The project was also interesting for the Center since it includes a research focus of public history, such as engaging art formats .

In western Ukraine few obvious features of Galicia’s Jewish culture remain, as the Holocaust effectively erased Jews from the region's human geography. However, remnants of Jewish culture can still be seen in the Ukrainian landscape. Rachel Stevens’ Fulbright will focus on creating artwork based on these sites

Stevens engaged in a qualitative geographic exploration of former eastern Galicia in order to locate and emotionally respond to the region’s rich, but visually cryptic, Jewish history. She divided her time between fieldwork in Lviv and towns and countryside of western Ukraine. In Lviv, she collaborated with the Center of Urban History of East Central Europe and the Lviv National Academy of Arts. Through her research, she began a body of artwork that served as a secondary witness to the Holocaust. Through her interactions with the landscape, architecture, and community members, she was visually transcribe the vernacular fragments of Galicia's rich Jewish history into new artworks. These shards may survive as ruined synagogues, cemeteries, monuments, land use patterns, forest patches, artworks, archival records, memories, and mental maps. The latter was of particular significance, as cognitive cartography - how regions persist within people's imaginations long after they disappear from atlases – was a focus of the project.

Rachel Stevens is committed to fostering collaboration with the communities where she conducts her research and furthering multicultural understanding. She hopes to establish a long-term relationship with communities in western Ukraine, similar to what occurred with the Nepalese icon makers during and after her Fulbright there in 2006.

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Peter Straton Bejger

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 09:11:35 +0000

Peter is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo and the University of Toronto. Peter was an editor for the publishers HarperCollins and Henry Holt in New York, and has been editing academic texts for the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies as well as writing and editing for the international nonprofit Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and other clients.

His creative project will based on visual investigations over several months of the built environment created in the late 19th and early 20th century by the Ukrainian architect and community leader Levynskyi and his colleagues; interviews with specialists and scholars; archival work; as well as translating relevant material. The resources of the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, the Lviv Polytechnic National University, and other relevant institutions will utilized to facilitate this consideration of Levynskyi’s legacy. Peter has long-standing ties to Lviv, having previously researched and written the arts documentary "A Kingdom Reborn: Treasures from Ukrainian Galicia".

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Martim Ramos

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 08:46:46 +0000

Martim is currently lives between Lisbon and London where he is Photography MA Candidate at the Royal College of Art [June 2018]. He studied photography at Ar.Co, and graduated in History of Art from the New University of Lisbon (FCSH-UNL). He was a member of [kameraphoto] between 2007 and 2014. Frequent collaborations with the press include published work in Le Monde, Japan Times, Serafina [Folha de São Paulo], Time Magazine, Libération, Público, Expresso, Time Out and Jornal I. He was the resident photographer and photo editor in Obscena - performing arts magazine.

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Olha Korniienko

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:04:22 +0000

Olha Korniyenko, a post-graduate student from V.Karazin Kharkiv National University, Department of Ukrainian Studies, Faculty of Philosophy. Currently, Olha works on her thesis "Fashion in the Ukrainian SSR: Public Policy and Everyday Life (1956-1985)." She explores public policy in the field of fashion and its representations in everyday life, with account for ideological aspects of shaping attitudes towards fashion in Ukrainian SSR in 1956-1985.

In addition, Olha is member of an international association "History and Computer"; she studied historical informatics in M.Lomonosov Moscow State University, and is member of the team of the Museum of the History of Fashion of Ukraine in Kyiv. Her research focus is on the history of fashion, visual history, oral history, social history, history of everyday life, historical informatics (quantitative methods in historical research).

As part of her cooperation with the "Lviv Interactive" project in Lviv, Olha will primarily research Lviv House of Fashion Designs, the largest clothing factories ("Vesna", "Mayak") and a shoe factory ("Progres"). Moreover, she plans to conduct interviews with the Soviet period fashion designers, workers of light industry, representatives of the subcultures of the period (style hunters, hipsters) and common citizens who used to live in the 1950-1980s and followed the trends.

]]> Elżbieta Olzacka https://www.lvivcenter.org/en/residences/elzbieta-olzacka/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:00:56 +0000 https://www.lvivcenter.org/?post_type=scholarship&p=1221

Anna Barbieri

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:57:53 +0000

Anna studied architecture at the Glasgow School of Art and at the Vienna University of Technology. Currently, she studies in the Master in Critical Studies programme at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She has been working in different architectural studios in and around Vienna as well as contributing to exhibitions and publications. In 2017, she participated in the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe’s summer school Sykhiv: Spaces, Memories and Practices.

Architectures and the generation of identities are recurring themes of Anna’s research practice, probably best represented in her strong interest in urban contexts and housing in Post-Soviet states and societies. In her current work she especially focuses on the relation of architecture, built substance and urban agglomeration to media and gender aspects; and further on processes and sites of construction, deconstruction and destruction.

The project "Santa Barbara Forever" aims to explore and portray Sykhiv’s Zubra-Centre. The centre was nicknamed Santa Barbara because of its architectural resemblance to Spanish Colonial buildings in California presented to a wider audience via the popular 1990s soap opera Santa Barbara. The history of the Zubra Centre and its renaming will serve as a starting point to study questions of collective memory, memory of the 1990s, identity and the interweaving of architecture and media.

Anna’s research involves aspects of traditional architectural methods like drawing and model making, video, photography and text based work. In Lviv, she will be focusing on the Urban Media Archive as well as on field research in Sykhiv.

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Martin Rohde

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:55:35 +0000

Martin currently works as a research assistant at the department of Austrian History, University of Innsbruck, where he is researching on the topic "Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Construction of Space and People, 1892–1918".

His current research, "Ukrainian Public Science in Habsburg Lviv, 1892–1914", considers changes in approaches to forms and ideas of public science, as well as trends in the development of Ukrainian intelligentsia.

He studied History, German and Slavic Studies at the universities of Salzburg and Göttingen. He conducted several research trips to Lviv, Chernivci, Ternopil and Kyiv, supported by the German-Ukrainian Historians Commission. He also took part in the cooperation project "The Presence of the Past in Urban Space" between the universities Innsbruck and Chernivci. His latest papers are dealing with the Ukrainian university question in the context of the Habsburg Empire and Ukrainian citizen science in early 20^th century Galicia.

For his research stay at the Center, he works on Ukrainian public science in the context of the Habsburg Empire. To analyze the relation between Ukrainian matters and spaces structured through the state properly, it is necessary to take material from all sides - and in all their languages - into consideration. After working on the same matter in Vienna state archives, he searches for complementary material in the fonds of the respective societies and the Galician government.

]]> Piotr Olechowski https://www.lvivcenter.org/en/residences/piotr-olechowski/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:54:11 +0000 https://www.lvivcenter.org/?post_type=scholarship&p=1215

Dr. Aleksander Łupienko

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:50:16 +0000

Aleksander is an urban historian of the "long" 19^th century of the Central and East-Central Europe who works at the Historical Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

Aleksander was trained as an architect and historian, and completed his Ph. D. under the supervision of Prof. Maciej Janowski in 2014. His first main interest was the area of Warsaw. He published a book on the private spaces of Warsaw apartment houses in the final decades of the 19^th century (until 1914), which earned him the renowned Klio historical award in 2016. He is also the author of a book on the public space of Warsaw in the first half of the 19^th century (its English translation will be published next year), as well as articles in the Polish and foreign periodicals Mesto a Dejiny, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Journal of Urban Ethnology, Acta Poloniae Historica and others.

To bring to life the scholarship of 19^th-century cities and to draw together historians and art historians who have an interest in the topic, he organises conferences in Warsaw related to key issues such as the interconnection between urban social and intellectual history and the history of art (in 2016, the results were published in the book Architektura w mieście, architektura dla miasta), urban public space (in 2017, the volume will be published early next year), and historical discourse in 19^th-century modern cities in Central Europe.

His main field of interest is the notion of space related to historical cities and the interrelation between the human and the built environment. He is also interested in urban intellectual movements, as well as the discourse and debates produced in cities, by architects, sociologists, hygienists and urban engineers. His current research project concerns Lviv before 1914 and the functioning of its architecture and space: their perception, along with their difficult-to-grasp impact on urban social processes.

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