The Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe (Lviv, Ukraine) is pleased to announce a competition for grants towards the research that fits the topic "Modern East-Central European City in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Commonalities of Urbanity, Regional Variations and Vectors of Change". Thematically project participants' research will have to touch upon at least some of the following:
1) peculiarities of the 19th and 20th century urbanization process in East-Central Europe (demography, infrastructure, class formation);
2) formation and contestation of urban space, its structure and usage;
3) urban policies – techniques of governmentality, public space, citizenship, municipal community, and civic action;
4) representations of the city and in the city, meanings, symbols, imagination and
fantasies displayed, performed and rethought.
Research Support: The research support is given in three categories:
• Graduate Scholarships (former socialist countries)
• Post-Graduate Scholarships (former socialist countries)
• Short-term research and travel grants (former socialist countries)
• Live-in stipends (scholars from all over the world)
More information available at Center's Webpage (in English, German, Polish and Ukrainian): http://www.lvivcent er.org/en/ research
Deadline: 01.01.2007.
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