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The conference will be held online. A link to the webcast will be made available soon on the event page.
Organisers:
The Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław (The Department of Urban and Rual Studies)
Programme:
May 27th (Thursday)
- 10:15 – 11:00 “What’s the view from your window?” Informal voluntary kick-off meeting.
- 11:00 – 11:10 – OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
- 11:15 – 12:45 PANEL 1: DOES CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPEAN CITY EXIST? IN SEARCH OF THE CONCEPT (chair: Dr Łukasz Moll)
- 11:15 – 11:35 Prof. Martin Müller (The University of Lausanne, Switzerland) – Thinking cities beyond North and South
- 11:35 – 11:55 Dr Ana Pajvančić – Cizelj (The University of Novi Sad, Serbia) – Thinking about CEE cities through elsewhere: Using Robinson’s comparative tactics for a more global urban CEE studies
- 11:55 – 12:15 Dr Borys Cymbrowski (The Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland) – The Central European City: Max Weber's Remarks on Urban Development in the East of the Continent
- 12:15 – 12:45 discussion
- 12:45 – 13:30 LUNCH BREAK
- 13:30 – 15:00 PANEL 2: CONTEMPORARY URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS IN CEE CITIES (chair: prof. Mateusz Błaszczyk)
- 13:30 – 13:50 Prof. Katarzyna Kajdanek (University of Wrocław, Poland) – Against all odds. Reurbanization and residential mobility from suburbs to large cities in Poland
- 13:50 – 14:10 Dr Benjamin Cope (European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania) – Second Cities and Social Reproduction (in the Light of the Impact of Covid-19 on Ukrainian Migrant Women in Poland)
- 14:10 – 14:30 Prof. Krzysztof Bierwiaczonek, Dr Grzegorz Gawron, Prof. Robert Pyka, Prof. Małgorzata Suchacka (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland) – Model of the “innovation place” in the research of metropolitan innovations
- 14:30 – 14:50 Vusal Khalilov (University of Wrocław, Poland) – Precarity on Peripheries: A Study of Experiences of Ukrainian Migrant Workers in Wroclaw
- 14:50 – 15:20 discussion
- 15:20 SUMMARY OF THE FIRST DAY
May 28th (Friday)
- 11:00 –12:30 PANEL 3: POST-SOCIALIST URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS (chair: Dr Dawid Krysiński)
- 11:00 – 11:20 Dr Tauri Tuvikene (Tallinn University, Estonia) – Post-socialism beyond post-socialist cities and city-ness
- 11:20 – 11:40 Prof. Maciej Kowalewski (University of Szczecin, Poland) – Urban Informality in CEE Cities
- 11:40 – 12:00 Dr Natalia Otrishchenko (Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv, Ukraine) – City Turns West: Mobility and Collaborations of Lviv Architects during 1990s
- 12:00 – 12:30 discussion
- 12:30 – 13:15 LUNCH BREAK
- 13:15 – 14:45 PANEL 4: POST- AND ANTI- COMMUNIST URBANIZATION (chair: Katarzyna Kajdanek)
- 13:15 – 13:35 Dr Siarhei Liubimau (European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania) – Post-Soviet 'nuclear' towns after the nuclear power: a critique of post-industrialism as critique of urban/non-urban divide
- 13:35 – 13:55 Prof. Liviu Chelcea (University of Bucharest, Romania) – The urbanization of anti-communism
- 13:55 – 14:15 Dr Łukasz Moll (University of Wrocław, Poland) – Down with the commune! Anti-communist enclosures in Polish cities
- 14:15 – 14:45 discussion
- 14:45 – SUMMARY OF THE CONFERENCE
- 15:00 – 15:45 CLOSED DISCUSSION: Networking meeting for Researchers interested in CEE CITIES (chair: Prof. Mateusz Błaszczyk)
- 19:00 – VOLUNTARY INTEGRATION MEETING