Urban Traumas and Healings: Re-constructing cities in Ukraine.

Conference organized by LAMC (Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des mondes contamporaines of ULB - Université libre de Bruxelles), in collaboration with TRAME - Center for the Semiotic Study of Memory Studi (University of Bologna), and Center of Urban Studies (Центр урбаністичних студій) of Kyiv.

  • Date:

    10 FEBRUARY
    -
    11 FEBRUARY 2023
     from 13:00 to 19:00
  • Event location: Bruxelles, Institut de Sociologie ULB, 44 Avenue Jeanne - In presence and online event

Program of the conference

Day 1 — 10.02.2023

13h — Registration

 

Session 1

14:00 — Welcome address Sasha Newell & David Berliner
Conference Aims by Goran Janev, Svitlana Shlipchencko and Francesco Mazzucchelli

14:30 — Opening discussion of the current state of affairs in Ukraine by Ukrainian scholars

 

Session 2

15:30 — Inga Kozlova, Ukrainian Catholic University/Lviv — City in (after) the War. New Challenges and Perspectives

16:00 — Aleksandar Stanicic, TU Delft, Elisa Dainese, Georgia Tech — Post-Destruction Design: Critical Themes and Challenges

16:30 – 17:00 – Discussion

17:00 – 17:30 – Coffee break

 

Session 3

17:30 — Olimpia Niglio, University of Pavia — The Destruction Of Human Dignity Even

Before The Built Heritage An Issue Of Cultural Diplomacy.

18:00 — Oksana Dovgopolova, Illia Mechnikov National University/Odessa — Art; After Bucha: In Search for a New Language of Commemoration

18:30 – 19:00 – Discussion

19:00 — Dinner with speakers, chairs, and guests

 

Day 2 — 11.02.2023 

Session 4
9:00 — Alla Petrenko, Taras Shevchenko National University/Kyiv — When the War Knocks at the Door: The Image of HOME in the Times of War

9:30 Eric Gordy, UCL — Reconstructing cities and communities after urbicide in Ukraine 10:00 – 10:30 – Discussion

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

 

Session 5

11:00 — Martin Coward, University of Manchester — Punishment and de-urbanisation:

Russian urbicdal strategy in Ukraine

11:30 – Maria Rosaria Vitale, University of Catania — Material legacies of war in European cities

12:00 – 12:30 – Discussion

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

 

Session 6

13:30 — Gruia Badescu, University of Konstanz, Post-War Reconstructions and Traumatic

Legacy of War

14:00 – Maria Gryshchenko, Center for Urban Studies/Kyiv – The Current Discourse on Rebuilding Cities

14:30 – 15:00 Discussion

15:00 – 15:15 – Coffee Break

 

Session 7

15:15 – Christoph Brumann, Max Planck Institute for Anthropology/Halle — Urban destruction and reconstitution in the UNESCO World Heritage arena

15:45 – Goran Janev, ULB and Francesco Mazzucchelli, University of Bologna — The images/imageries of war cities

16:15 – 16:45 Svitlana Shlipchenko, Center for Urban Studies/Kyiv — The war and the memory of the city and the war

16:45 – 17:30 – Discussion

17:30 – 17:45 – Coffee Break

17:45h 18 :15h — Concluding discussion and networking session 19:00h 20:00h — Dinner with speakers, chairs, and guests