Urban Narratives: Rebuilding and Rebranding European Cities from the 20th Century until Present Day

Conference Programme

UNC2023-Program.pdf

Venue: Vortragssaal/Conference Room, Gisonenweg 5-7, Marburg (if not indicated otherwise)

Wednesday, October 18
18:30CEST	Book presentation and discussion Chair: Elisa-Maria Hiemer (UMM Marburg) Capturing Szczecin's Past on Instagram Monika Szymanik (Szczecin)

Thursday, October 19
9:15–9:45CEST	Registration
9:45CEST	Introduction and Welcome Elisa-Maria Hiemer (UMM Team) and Christian Lotz (Head of the map collection, Herder Institute)
10:00–11:30CEST	Panel I: Oppressed and Contested City Spaces Chair: Kajetan Stobiecki (Marburg) Minsk' Purity: A Negative Rebranding Case of the Capital of Last European Dictatorship Pavel Voinitski (Kotor) Kharkiv as a Citadel on The Frontier: Reimagining the City during the Full-scale Invasion of the Russian Federation Anastasiia Bozhenko (Kharkiv) and Olesya Chagovets (Kharkiv) Fueling or Challenging Political Discourse: Urban Literary Narratives from Ukraine between Political Complicity and Aesthetic Subversion Anna Seidel (Wien/Berlin)
	Coffee Break
11:45–12:45CEST	Panel II: National, Confessional, and Ethnic Boundaries Chair: Piotr Kisiel (Erkner) From Maria-Theresiopel to Subotica – The Gradual Reinvention of a Habsburg Hungarian to a Yugoslav Metropolis Szilveszter Csernus-Lukács (Szeged) Loyal to Whom and Freedom for What? Sopron's Struggle for Self-determination Through a Century of Multiple Regime Changes Tamás Székely (Kőszeg)
	Lunch Break
13:15CEST	Researching Urban History at The Herder Institute Guided Tour of Collections and Resources Christian Lotz (Head of the map collection, Herder Institute)
14:15–16:15CEST	Panel III: Voicing the Margins Chair: Tabitha Redepenning (Marburg) The Old European Prisons as an Element of The Urban Environment. The History of one Prison Larisa Kangaspuro (Helsinki) Kraków's unobvious Romani legacies. Recognizing the role of Romani musicians in consolidating post-war Kraków Anna G. Piotrowska (Kraków) Different images of Cluj after the regime change György Orsós (Pécs) Queering The Public Space Sveta Gorlatova (Berlin)
	Coffee Break
16:30CEST	Panel IV: Architectonic Visions of Cities Chair: Carol Ludwig (Mannheim/Cologne) Brand New Old Town of Elbląg. A Multi-dimensional Intervention in a Registered Historic Area Katarzyna Wiśniewska (Elbląg) High Paddington: A Town of 8,000 People – Rebuilding London to the Glory of God Anna Cannon (San Francisco)
19:00CEST	Dinner (Restaurant Lahnterasse, Lingelgasse 5)

Friday, October 20
9:45–11:15CEST	Panel V: City Self-Branding Chair: Laura Demeter (Bamberg) The So-called “Russian Stores” in Berlin's Linguistic Landscape: Self-branding and Decolonizing Perspective on an Urban Phenomenon Aleksej Tikhonov (Zürich) Rebuilding a “Green” City in the Rubble: Conceptions of Urban Nature in the Reconstruction of East-and West Berlin Berry Jackisch (Toledo) Milano, tra leggendae realtà: Linguistic Landscape, Persuasion, and the Image of the City Katarzyna Ciszewska (Łódź)
	Coffee Break
11:30–13:30CEST	Session 3: Narrating and Interpreting Space Chair: Carmen Enss (Bamberg) Urban Space: an Evolutionary View of the Romanian Novel Alina Ioana Bako (Sibiu) The Image of Czech and Slovak cities in Memories of Belarusian Writers Natallia Prystupa (Minsk) Creating the Image of (Post-)Soviet Yerevan: Literature in Action Sona Mnatsakanyan (Berlin) Reinventing the Polish City of Wałbrzych through Film Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova (Lawrence)
	Lunch Break
14:15CEST	Final Discussion and Concluding Remarks