Center for Urban History of East Central Europe

Center for Urban History of East Central Europe

Front view of Bohomoltsia 6
Founder(s) Harald Binder
Established 2004
Location Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
Address Vul. Akad. Bohomoltsia 6, Lviv 79005, Ukraine
Website www.lvivcenter.org/en/

The Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Ukrainian: Центр міської історії центрально-східної Європи) is an independent research center, that was founded by the Austrian historian Harald Binder in 2004 as a private non-profit organization.[1] It is one of the principal academic establishments looking at the urban history of East Central Europe, the region between the German-speaking countries and Russia.[2] The academic principal of the center is Sofia Dyak.

Location

Lunette window above the main entrance.

The Center for Urban History is located on Akademika Bohomoltsia Street off of Ivana Franka Street. The Center is not far from Soborna Square and the Danylo Halytsky Monument and about a ten-minute walk from Rynok Square.[3] The building was developed by the renowned Ukrainian architect Ivan Levynskyi and is considered to be one of Lviv's best preserved clusters of Art Nouveau architecture.[4] Secessionist latticework consisting of leaves and flowers dominates in its facade over its Neo-Renaissance layout which follows Classical order principles.[5]

The Center

The Center promotes the development of extensive research in the field of East Central Europe’s history and cooperates with related scientific institutions in Ukraine and abroad. It offers young Ukrainian researchers opportunities to do advanced, internationally recognized work in their own country, seeking to reduce the “brain-drain” emigration of qualified scholars.[6] Through organization of numerous exhibitions and academic conferences it focuses especially on the cultural heritage of the city of Lviv, and promotes scholarly and cultural exchange.[7] One of the largest projects is “Lviv Interactive” – a platform that is based on a modern map of the city that allows users to explore the city in all its various historical aspects. Some other projects are about the history of different areas of the city (like Sykhiv, Kastelivka, etc.).[8] In order to maintain and develop its various activities in the academic and cultural sphere, the Center has been cooperating with various other institutions, such as the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) in Edmonton,[9] or the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna.[10] It periodically hosts various international and local historical and art exhibitions, often about controversial subjects. Major exhibits are usually connected with the Center’s own academic activities and include innovative content that combines texts, image, films and objects.[3] The Center publishes scientific articles from the urban history of East Central Europe in the series “ece-urban”, which is available online. It also conducts competitions in its January scholarship program, providing scholarships for researchers. The database project «Урбаністичні образи» (“Urban Images”) aims at collecting and processing the urban image of East and Central Europe through engravings, photos and postcards and openly accessible.[11]

Conferences

The Center has hosted a number of conferences:

Projects

References

  1. "Центр городской истории Центрально-Восточной Европы".
  2. Palmer, Alan (1970)The Lands between: A History of East-Central Europe Since the Congress of Vienna, New York: Macmillan
  3. 1 2 "Lviv Alive - Gallery - Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Центр міської історії Центрально-Східної Європи)". Lviv Alive.
  4. Ulam, Alex. "Lviv’s, and a Family’s, Stories in Architecture". New York Times. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  5. "Design features in Bohomoltsia Street".
  6. "Centre for Urban History - Galicja".
  7. "Центр городской истории Центрально-Восточной Европы — Львов — Отдых в Карпатах и не только — КАРПАТЫ.INFO / Западная Украина / Львовская область / Львов и окрестности / Львов / Музеи, галереи, выставки / Центр городской истории Центрально-Восточной Европы:".
  8. "интерактивный львов".
  9. "Center for Urban History of East Central Europe - Partners".
  10. "Partners & Donors". IWM.
  11. "Урбаністичні образи".
  12. Cohen, Gary (2010). Suppan, Arnold; Graf, Maximilian, eds. From the Austrian Empire to Communist East Central Europe. Münster: LIT Verlag.
  13. "The Futurological Congress".
  14. ""The Great Longing for Railways" – How the Periphery Became Connected with the Centres of Industrialisation".
  15. "The international conference The Ukrainian and Jewish Artistic and Architectural Milieus of Lwów/Lemberg/Lviv: From Ausgleich to the Holocaust, November 2012".
  16. "Ukrainian Jewish Encounter - Summer school".
  17. "Lviv as a space".
  18. "Austrian conference in the Ukraine".
  19. "L’viv: Work to begin on "Space of Synagogues" memorial site". Jewish Heritage Europe. Jewish Heritage Europe. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
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