City, Community and the Transformation of Space in Post-Eastern

Bloc societies,

Department of Government Studies, Lazarski University, Warsaw,

Poland, 24 June 2017
23 June 2017, Friday

Arrival of participants

24 June 2017, Saturday

9.00-9.30: Registration of participants

9.30-10.30: Conference opening and Keynote address

Greetings from Lazarski University authorities

Keynote address

‘Landscapes of Capitalism - Architectural Shifts in Central Eastern Europe after 1989.’

Dr. Owen Hatherley

10.30-10.45: Coffee break

10.45-12.15: Panel 1: Cities and Communities in Post-Eastern Bloc Societies

‘Three steps for the Válcovny housing development.’

Dr. Eva Špačková (Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic)

‘Politics of (In)visibilities in Muslim Minority Cities in Post-Socialist Bulgaria.’

Cengiz Haksöz (Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, USA)

‘Tramways and trolleybuses in European peripheries after 1990: Management of hope against fall
of the futures.’
Andrei Vozyanov (University of Regensburg, Germany)

12.15-12.30: Coffee break

12.30-14.00: Panel 2: Communities of Memory in Post-Eastern Bloc Societies

‘Another tale of Polish Solidarity. The Museum of the Contemporary Arts in Skopje as a lieu de
mémoire.’
Naum Trajanovski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)

‘The Memorial Park October in Kragujevac in the post-Communist era – Narrating the ’’New’’
History.’
Kristina Jorgić (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)

‘The ‘Bronze Soldier’ of Tallinn. Soviet Monumentation in the Baltics.’

Aliide Naylor (I. B. Tauris, United Kingdom)

14.00-14.45: Lunch
14:45-16.15: Panel 3: NGO organisational activity in Post-Eastern Bloc Cities

‘Slovakia’s tolerance proponents: Challenging a hegemonic discourse on migration.’

Eva-Maria Walther (University of Regensburg, Germany)

‘After the Komsomol: Youth Comedy Competitions in Post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine.’
Amy Garey (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

‘Spontaneous large scale practice, urban pastoralism and an environmental tool for the recreation
and maintenance of ecological corridors.’
Roxana Maria Triboi (The Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Romania).

16:15-16:30: Coffee Break

16:30-17:00: Concluding the conference

19:00: Potential Warsaw city centre drinks, venue tbh