Location: Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (6, Akad. Bohomoltsia str.)
Start Date: 2010-03-11
End Date: 2010-03-12

Over the course of recent years, researchers have beсome more and more interested in the image, myth and place of Lviv in literature, memoirs, historic narratives and collective memory. Lviv is a highly important city both for Ukrainians and for Poles, while Jews, Russians and Armenians also wrote and talked about it.
We suggest looking at texts about Lviv which offer a different angle, focusing on the mutual images of different groups of the city’s inhabitants as well as their claims to such images – their own and somebody else’s.
Contributions on the following topics are welcome:
Declared/real multiculturality in art visions as well as works from culture studies, literature studies, language studies, history and so on
Influence on the literature of political and historic debates of the national identity of Lviv
Different interpretations of historic events
The change of the image of Lviv within one national discourse
Lviv as a city and territory (friendly or alien)
Which nationalities, and to which extent, are of interest to authors; the role of these nationalities in literature
Ways of creating and using the myth of Lviv – especially the myth of the “Leopolis multiplex” – in literature, as well as in printed media and scientific works
The image of the stranger, neighbor, friend, or companion from another ethnic group
The conference will consist of two parts: a presentation of research results and two round table discussions. Languages: Ukrainian and Polish.

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