Seminar: (MA-IntPol-GPO-nMII) Challenging the Narrative in Cities with Contested Pasts in European Borderlands: Case Studies from Eastern Germany, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine - Details
Seminar: (MA-IntPol-GPO-nMII) Challenging the Narrative in Cities with Contested Pasts in European Borderlands: Case Studies from Eastern Germany, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine - Details
Seminar: (MA-IntPol-GPO-nMII) Challenging the Narrative in Cities with Contested Pasts in European Borderlands: Case Studies from Eastern Germany, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine
How cities transform and re-narrate their pasts? How are stories about cities shaped and shared? Who are the actors that engage in these processes? These questions are pertinent to many cities all around the world and especially relevant to the places that were radically remade and contested in the 20th century. After the Second World War places like Berlin/East Berlin, Breslau/Wrocław, Stettin/Szczecin, Königsberg/Kalinigrad, Dalniy/Dairen/Dalian, just to name some, became symbols of overlapping claims over territories and people, competitive visions of the future, (post)war trauma and recoveries. Cities became places of dislocated memories when stories of former inhabitants were taken to new places; with sites and functions not longer required for new systems and residents; with meanings deemed unncecessary and tainted in the new contexts; with new inscriptions painted over the old ones, new buildings built in place of destroyed ones. While some of the meanings and elements could be put away and closed, many were to be reused and recycled making spaces and possibilities for new life and new residents. What to discard and erase, how to select and evaluate, in what way to reinterpret and include was a challenging task.
In this seminar we will have a look at several cases in Eastern Europe. Among our cases will be contemporary Berlin, Chernivtsi, Kalinigrad, Lviv, Wrocław. During the course of the seminar we will discuss and employ such concepts as “borderland,” “cityscape,” “memoryscape,” “place-making,” “transformation,” “infrastructural scaffold,” and “legacies” to explore how cities experienced multiple changes: into Socialism, within Socialism itself and out of Socialism. More generally, we will ask how to include these highly dynamic and radical urban experiences of transformations in postwar Eastern European borderlands into the history of Europe.
The seminar will be divided into three parts. First part will be a lecture outlining methodologies and questions of the seminar. The second part will have two meetings. In one meeting we will focus on global moments of post-war after 1945 and post-Socialism after 1989/91 and in another we will look at how they framed local situation and the ways our selected cities were re-narrated into new systems. During the first week participants of the seminar will choose one city as a case and one of the methods outlined in the first part to work on individually or in pairs for two-weeks. The third and concluding part will be a two-day workshop with all participants presenting their selected city-cases and discussions.
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