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.
DetailsHistoricizing Urban Media and Communicative City
Among the main questions of the research focus are: How can an urban landscape be historicized as a media landscape? How do we see a city's past if we look at it as a mediatized communication practice, as an infrastructure of interaction? What is included, and what is left out, in our narrative of a city's past?
DetailsProfessionals, Expertise, and Planned 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.
DetailsUrban Cultural Infrastructures
This research focus aims to expand our understanding of the ways infrastructures shape creative culture in the modern city.
DetailsUrban Heritages
This research focus incorporates several individual projects, as well as initiatives in cooperation that analyze heritage both as a set of concepts, discourses, and practices, as well as institutional and discursive frames.
DetailsVisual Regimes, Materialities, and Technologies
This research focus is related to visual practices and historical or social ways of seeing. Within it, we focus on the study of historical changes in technology, imagination, and politics, and how they influence the transformation of visual practices and sensibilities.
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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