CREEES Seminar
"Encountering and Appropriating Cityscapes:
Soviet Ukrainian Lviv and Polish Communist Wrocław after 1944/45"
Sofia Dyak
Director, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv)

Monday, April 23, 2012
4:15 pm
Encina Hall West, room 208

Open to the public
Online RSVP
https://creeesevents.wufoo.com/forms/april-23-2012-sofia-dyak//

Sofia Dyak is the director of the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv (Ukraine). Her research interests include the post-war history of border cities, with a special focus on the history of heritage and urban planning, as well as cityscape and city branding. She is currently working on her book, "(Re)imagined Cityscapes: Lviv and Wroclaw after 1944/45," based on her dissertation. In 2009, Sofia Dyak was a fellow at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam and the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. In 2010, she coordinated the international design competition to mark sites of Jewish history in Lviv (now in the realization stage). She defended her PhD thesis in 2010 at the Institute of Sociology and Philosophy at the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw), holds an MA from Central European University in Budapest, and a BA from Lviv University. .


Co-sponsored by the Department of History, The Europe Center, and the Program on Urban Studies