2016 – Lvivcenter

Harald R. Stühlinger

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:45:03 +0000

Harald R. Stühlinger is a trained architect and art historian, who has studied in Vienna and Venice. He is an assistant professor at the ETH Zurich and at the University of Zurich and works as a free-lance curator for architecture and cultural history exhibitions. His major interests lay in urban design history (19th century) and architectural history (12th-19th century) as well as in the history of photography (19-20th century).

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Victoria Donovan

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:41:07 +0000

Dr Victoria Donovan is a Lecturer in Russian at the University of St Andrews and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker for 2016-2017.Her research focuses on Russian history and culture, with an emphasis on local identities, heritage politics, and the cultural memory of the Soviet past in twenty-first century Russia.

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Paul Vickers

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:38:04 +0000

Paul Vickers is a postdoctoral researcher at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. He also lectures in the departments of East European History and of Slavonic Studies at Giessen, teaching courses on Ukrainian history, Polish theatre and drama, and on memory studies as a method for historians. Before moving to Giessen, Paul was a lecturer at the Precarpathian National University in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. He completed his PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2014 on the subject of mass autobiography in communist Poland, look at relations between memory, censorship and power relating to migration to the territories acquired by Poland from Germany in 1945. He also completed his Master’s degree in Glasgow, having studied Polish and German at University College London before that. As well as working as a researcher, Paul has experience as a translator from Polish into English, collaborating with institutions including the Grotowski Centre, the Institute of Literary Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP).

During his stay in Lviv, Paul was working on his proposed second book or Habilitation paper. In this project he explores the history since 1772 of two cities, equidistant from Lviv, that were founded as ideal or planned cities, Zamość, now in Poland, and Ivano-Frankivsk (formerly Stanisławów/Stanislau) in Ukraine. The project consided how the various powers ruling the cities related to the cities’ founding utopian ideals and subsequent heritage in planning future developments. The project consided whether these provincial centres’ relations to notions of past and future, tradition and modernity, memory and oblivion – and the contemporary manifestations of functionally-similar concepts – differed from those in larger cities nearby and in imperial or national centres. The project explored how different actors and interactions between them, from individuals and entrepreneurs, through local and civil organisations, to national, imperial and transnational institutions, produced notions of pastness and futurity that affected how the cities changed. One aim of the project is to establish whether concepts functionally-similar to current notions of heritage and memory were at play in sites where utopian aspirations lay at the foundations of the cities. The project also asks how newer utopian visions and ideals could become dystopian in practice.

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Irina Zora Leimbacher

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:35:28 +0000

Alexandra Wachter

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:33:04 +0000

Defended her PhD The Last Heroes of Leningrad. Coping strategies of Siege survivors in Soviet and post-Soviet society in 2014 in London. Took part in several research projects, including those related to Soviet Modernist architecture and governance of Austrian waterways in the first half of the XX cent.

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Piotr Jakub Fereński

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:29:02 +0000

PhD, philosopher, culture studies scholar and art critic. Author and editor of works on historical and modern cultural phenomena/processes. Currently, he explores correlation between aesthetics, ethics and class nature in terms of political and economic discussions about urban space. He also deals with issues of understanding freedom from the perspective of cultural diversity.

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Kamil Ruszała

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:25:17 +0000

Kamil Ruszała is Ph.D. Candidate at Institute of History at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Department of Polish Modern History. He graduated in History in 2014; he was studying at Jagiellonian University in Kraków and University of Vienna. In this academic year (2016/2017) he held a scholarship Ministry of High Education and Science in Poland for Doctoral Candidates. He concentrates on XIX-century history, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, especially the society of the late Empire and the First World War. In this ground, he works on civil-military relations in East Front (especially formed Galicia province), war refugees, experience of war, social reaction to collapse the Empire in 1918 etc.

He is the author of a book "Wielka Wojna w małym mieście. Gorlice w latach 1914-1918" ("The Great War in a small town. Gorlice in the year 1914-1918"), published in 2015. His last book is "Doświadczenia żołnierskie Wielkiej Wojny" (as a co-editor of the volume together with Michał Baczkowski) published in 2016.

During his researching stay in Centre for Urban History in Lviv, Kamil Ruszała was expanding his dissertation project to include the evacuation of the inhabitants of East Galicia in 1914, especially Lviv, the social situation in the city and region at the beginning of the First World War and further situation of Galician refugees in Austria, Moravia, Czech, Krain etc. (cities, towns, villages and refugee camps). He used sources gathered in Central Historical State Archive in Lviv, State Archive of Lviv Province and sources of Lviv's Libraries (Centre for Urban History, Stefanyk Library and Iwan Franko university Library).

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Michal Mlynarz

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:22:51 +0000

Michał Młynarz is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Toronto. He holds an M.A. in History and a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Anthropology from the University of Alberta. He specializes in the social, cultural, and urban history of Poland and East-Central Europe, with an emphasis on the immediate post-World War II decades and the post-Soviet period. His major research interests focus on the collective memory of the region, in particular the politics and the cultural history of monuments, museums, and cultural heritage. He also studies the public memorialization and remembrance of the Second World War, post-War expulsions and forced migrations, and the mass deportation of civilian populations to Siberia and Central Asia by the Soviet regime.

His doctoral dissertation research is a comparative analysis of demographic, political, and cultural change to the urban spaces of Jelenia Góra, Poland, and Drohobych, Ukraine, and the ‘nationalization’ of the city in the post-1945 period. Both cities saw the establishment of ethnically homogenous populations, the imposition of ‘official’ Soviet-bloc historical narratives, and extensive processes of the destruction, replacement, and modification of urban space. The analytical lens of the dissertation will examine major developments in regards to the changing of street names, the construction, destruction, and re-interpretation of monuments and memorials, and the ‘nationalization’ of museums, libraries, related cultural institutions, and cultural heritage. For its source material, it draws upon archival documents from several national and regional archives in Poland, Germany and Ukraine, in addition to oral histories, memoirs, museum collections, and applied field work in urban space.

Młynarz has also worked as an independent researcher in the Edmonton, Alberta area, contributing to several projects on the history of Slavic immigration to Canada. This included the research and co-curating of "Slavic St. Albert", a 2012 research project and original exhibition at the Musée Heritage Museum devoted to Polish, Ukrainian and Russian immigration history in St. Albert, Alberta. He has also researched Ukrainian-Canadian vernacular architecture in rural Alberta, and worked as part of a research team that documented hundreds of historic Ukrainian and Russian rural parishes for the ‘Sanctuary’ Project.

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Ewa Bukowska-Marczak

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:18:29 +0000

Ewa Bukowska-Marczak is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History and Historiography at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lubin. Engaged in researching the history of Lviv with a special emphasis on the cultural life of the city during the twenty interwar years.

Ewa Bukowska-Marczak's research topic is identical to her doctoral thesis on the relations among students in interwar Lviv. In 1918-1939 representatives of different nationalities and religions studied in Lviv's higher educational establishments. Among them were Poles, Ukrainians, Jews, Germans, and Romanians. However, certain nationalities did not always have good relations with others. College students had strong political beliefs during that time; often they were members of political fractions and groups which functioned within the educational establishments or beyond them. Among additional factors that had an impact on how interpersonal conflicts arose, it is worth considering the development the strong nationalist ideology that was developing in Ukraine during the late 1930s. The situation in the city in the aftermath of the Polish-Ukrainian conflict also negatively affected relations. For other reasons why conflicts arose on the basis of nationality it is also worth examining the complicated economic situation of students at that time and the personal positions of some members of the intelligentsia.

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