Cities and Urban Experiences in East Central Europe
(particularly post-1945)
The Role of the Cities strand in the CEELBAS agenda
This strand of the CEELBAS agenda concentrates on the configuration and representation of urban space and the ways in which this space is perceived and experienced in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly post 1945. At the heart of the Cities strand lie questions connected to the transformation of the socialist to the post-socialist city, the dynamic of homogeneity and heterogeneity in the city, of the urban rural divide, of the changing relation of city centre to periphery, and of the development of the private versus the public sphere (and its interstices).*
Furthering the Agenda: Research
Dr. Meike Wulf was a CEELBAS Postdoctoral Research Fellow based at UCL SSEES from January 2007 to December 2008. She was responsible for research, seminars and other academic activities within the Cities strand of the CEELBAS programme. Meike’s background is in the humanities and social science with SSEES and LSE degrees, and a PhD in contemporary East European History (see: Curriculum Vitae & Publications).
Her post-doctoral research centred on a comparative study of a post-socialist and a post-Soviet societies - that is Slovenia and Estonia - with regard to the iconography of memories of resistance in the cityscape (see: Postdoctoral Research Project Outline). The project was designed to complement the wider CEELBAS agenda through its inherent language-based interdisciplinarity seeking insights from the field of memory studies, biographic research, history, urban studies, and visual anthropology.
Furthering the Agenda: Events
The theme of CEELBAS Cities seminar series for 2008 was "Everyday life under socialism: conformity, material culture and cultural practices"
Please see Cities and Urban Experience: Events for details of past and future CEELBAS Cities events.
Networking and Useful Links
EastBordNet
Estonian Academy of Arts
http://www.urbanistika.ee/news/
Tallinn University Summer School "Species of Spaces"
MAJA Estonian Architectural Review
The Bartlett, Faculty of Built Environment
Urban Film Society
The Urban Laboratory, UCL
University of Edinburgh
Urban Studies Group (TEAS)
www.conflictincities.org
http://www.urban-future.net/
www.raumlabor-berlin.de
Urbact
H-Urban
Social Sciences in Eastern Europe
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art
http://juh.sagepub.com/
www.eurozine.com
http://www.difu.de/
www.derive.at
www.pukar.org
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* The development of the Cities and Urban Experience strand of CEELBAS research activity drew on the contribution of a research cluster at SSEES, UCL including Ger Duijzings, Gwen Jones, Tim Beasley-Murray and Egbert Klautke.
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CEELBAS is a partnership of UCL, University of Oxford and University of Birmingham with a network of partners at the Universities of Bath, Cambridge, Kent, Manchester, Sheffield, Warwick and SOAS |
