Conferences
News
In autumn 2008 the Center will open its new conference room in the right wing of the institute building. It can hold up to sixty people and will be equipped with modern audiovisual and translating devices. Until then the old conference room will be used for the Center's seminars, workshops and film evenings.
2008
In October 2008, the Center will hold an international conference dedicated to "Urban Jewish Heritage and History in East Central Europe." The physical and cultural legacies of the Jewish civilization destroyed by the Holocaust have long been neglected in Eastern and Central Europe. With the end of the Soviet Union and the fundamental liberalization of politics and society, which accompanied it, however, the region's Jewish heritage, too, has entered processes of rediscovery and reconstruction. With respect to urban space, the regeneration or revitalization of historic Jewish quarters has become one main focus of attention, where several complex and challenging fields of theory and practice overlap: The relationship between the past, memory, and history; questions of reality, authenticity, and virtuality; urban-planning and economic aspects of regeneration. The Center seeks to bring together an interdisciplinary as well as international group of scholars and practitioners to discuss these issues in Lviv, which used to be a main center of Jewish urban life in East Central Europe but which is also still marked by oblivion and neglect of this past.
Call For Papers
Future
For the period after 2008, we are planning to hold at least one major international conference each year, including, in the summer of 2009, "Sex in the Cities: Prostitution, White Slaving, and Sexual Minorities in the Habsburg Fin-de-Siecle" on late-Habsburg Sexuality. Another conference, planned for 2010, will address a fundamental question of Urban History – the relationship between the urban and the rural – under the prospective title "The City and the Village in East Central Europe, c. 1800 – 2000." More information will be available in due time.
For any enquiries concerning rent of the conference room please write to institute@lvivcenter.org.
Past
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