European Cities and Regions in Transition after the Second World War

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1 European Cities and Regions in Transition after the Second World War A UBC Okanagan Urban Studies Symposium March 16 th Location: University Centre Ballroom (UNC 200) 8:00 8:45: Breakfast 8:45 9:00: Words of welcome 9:00 10:45: Panel: Studying the Border Broadening the geographical and chronological frame 10:45 11:00: Coffee Break 11:00 12:45: Panel: Border Shifts and Governance 12:45 2:00: Lunch 2:00 3:45: Panel: Space and Place in Reconfigured Borderlands 3:45 4:00: Coffee Break 4:15 4:30 Demonstration: Geolive online participatory mapping tool 4:30 5:30 Break 5:30: Shuttle leaves for Rotary Centre for the Arts from university Location: Rotary Centre (421 Cawston Avenue) 6:30 8:15 Keynote: Pieter Lagrou, Université Libre de Bruxelles Urban islands in peasant seas: Imposing national identity on cities in Europe, Location: RauDZ bistro (1560 Water Street) 8:30: Dinner at RauDZ 10:30: Shuttle back to hotel from RauDZ. 1

2 March 17 th : Location: University Centre Ballroom (UNC 200) 8:00 9:00: Breakfast 9:00 10:45: Panel: Framing and Articulating Identity 10:45 11:00: Coffee Break 11:00 12:45: Panel: Borderlands as Lieux de Mémoire 12:45 1:45: Lunch 1:45 2: 45: Round table: Future Directions for Research 3:00 6:15: Wine Tour (Shuttle departs from university, returns to Four Points Hotel) Location: Four Points Hotel 6:30 Dinner at Gulf Stream Restaurant 2

3 Panel Descriptions Studying the Border Broadening the geographical and chronological frame (March 16, 9:00 10:45) Chair: Brendan Karch, Louisiana State University Discussant: Sofia Dyak, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe Brigitte Le Normand, University of British Columbia Okanagan. Rijeka as a Space of Flows: Insights from Urban Studies Tarik Cyril Amar, Columbia University. Interacting Imaginaries of Violence and Transformation in an East Central European Borderland City: Lviv, c to c Alex Lesanu, independent scholar. The Contribution of the German Equipment to the Soviet Postwar Reconstruction: Removing a German Sugar Factory to the Soviet Moldavia ( ) Border Shifts and Governance (March 16, 11:00 12:45) Chair: Anna Kurpiel, Dragonfly Foundation Discussant: Pieter Lagrou, Université Libre de Bruxelles Miha Kosmač, Independent Scholar. The National struggle for Julian March Borderland Marco Abram, Research Fellow, Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Rijeka / Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso. Integrating Rijeka into the "Socialist Homeland" Contested Nation Building in a Yugoslav Borderland Peter Polak Springer, University of Qatar. Re Nationalizing Upper Silesia s Industrial Cities, Space and Place in Reconfigured Borderlands (March 16, 2:00 3:45) Chair: Alex Lesanu, Independent Scholar Discussant: Randall Hansen, University of Toronto Andrew Demshuk, American University (Washington, DC.) Polish Disneyland for German Cities? The Backwardness of Modernism and Search for a Usable Past in Leipzig and Frankfurt/Main, Sofia Dyak, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe. Returns to a New Place : Expecting and Familiarizing with Home in Postwar Soviet Lviv Jure Ramšak, Science and Research Centre Koper. It was supposed to shine across the border : Making a new socialist town on the Yugoslav Italian border ( ) 3

4 Demonstration: Geolive online participatory mapping tool (March 16, 4:15 4:30) Brigitte Le Normand, University of British Columbia Okanagan Vanni D Alessio, University of Naples / University of Rijeka Jon Corbett, University of British Columbia Okanagan Framing and Articulating Identity (March 17, 9:00 10:45) Chair: Brigitte Le Normand, University of British Columbia Okanagan Discussant: Peter Polak Springer, University of Qatar Vanni D Alessio, University of Naples / University of Rijeka. State and Identity Policies and Practices in Transition: Schooling and Ethnic Surfing in Post WWII Rijeka Brendan Karch, Louisiana State University. Glimpses of History in Recovered Upper Silesia. Jan Musekamp, Europa Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). Metamorphoses: From German Stettin to Polish Szczecin. Borderlands as Lieux de Mémoire (March 17, 11:00 12:45) Chair: Andrew Demshuk, American University (Washington, DC.) DIscussant: Martin Blum, University of British Columbia Okanagan Štefan Čok, Quarantasette zeroquattro Association / Slovene National and Study Library in Trieste (NŠK). The Difficult Recovery: the Slovenian Community in Trieste in the First Years after WWII. Jamie Freeman, University of East Anglia. Constructing Identity Appropriation of Place in Kaliningrad. Anna Kurpiel, Dragonfly Foundation. Lower Silesia as a Region of Post War Transition: Palimpsestic heritage, confused identity, invented regionalism. 4

5 Roundtable: Prospects for Building Research Partnerships (March 17, 1:45 2:45) Moderators: Brigitte Le Normand, University of British Columbia Okanagan Vanni D Alessio, University of Naples / University of Rijeka Guest panelist: Pierre Rondeau, Research Support Specialist (SSHRC), University of British Columbia Okanagan Please come prepared with some ideas to discuss the following: What do you think are promising future directions for research? In what ways can we engage non academic actors in our work (i.e.: communities, NGOs, governments)? What are some funding possibilities that might be fruitful to explore? What are some tools and approaches that would promote collaborative research? In what ways can established scholars work with emerging scholars to support their research agendas? 5