Cities, Wars, and Recoveries
This focus incorporates the history of the cities and towns in the eastern parts of Europe, both on and behind the front lines, during periods of belligerence and post-war recovery.
DetailsDocumenting Experiences of War
We have involved our capacity and expertise to document the experiences of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine as historical and/or legal evidence, but also as a way to withstand the invasion.
DetailsPlanned Urbanity
This focus on planned cities, towns, and districts in socialist societies explores the visions of planners, experts, and decision-makers, who were all involved in the construction and experience of planned urbanity.
DetailsPublic History and the City
This focus brings together research on the forms, formats and multiple agendas in engaging with the past from urban perspectives and in urban settings.
DetailsThe Social City
This research focus extends the established approaches to the history of modern Lviv, centered on the history of the formation of national communities, by addressing other categories of social divisions: gender, age, class, and group.
DetailsPrevious Research
’Searching for Home’ in Postwar Lviv: The Experience of Pidzamche, 1944-1960
The goal of this project was to illuminate one of the most important pages in the history of contemporary Lviv: the transformation of the city from Polish border town Lwόw and German-occupied Lemberg into Soviet Ukrainian Lviv.
DetailsIndustrialization and Urban Landscape of the Industrial South of the Russian Empire
This project examines how industrialization changed the image of the cities in the Industrial South of the Russian Empire and how these changes affected the visual representation of the urban landscape.
DetailsRegion, Nation and Beyond. An Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Reconceptualization of Ukraine
The overarching objective of the project is to challenge the dominance of the nation-state paradigm in analyses of Ukraine by illustrating the interrelationship between national and regional dynamics of change.
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