Ethnology and the City

Dynamic developments in Culture Studies, anthropology, urban studies and urban science focused on urban communities, environments and cultures have significantly transformed the role of ethnology in investigating cities. What is ethnology of the city today? What are methods and tools it employs? What challenges are faced by researchers of the city? Which are recent subjects for discussion to understand cities in the past and today?

The issues shall be discussed by Polish and Ukrainian researchers participating in the section on "Ethnology and the City" as illustrated by Lviv and Wroclaw experiences.

The section takes place as part of the International conference "Polish and Ukrainian Ethnology Today. Traditions and Prospects."

The following are topics for consideration and discussion:

• Tina Polek (post-graduate student, at Maksym Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folklore, and Ethnology at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). "From Village to the City: On the Way to the Ethnology of the City in Ukraine".
• Viktoriya Malitska (Master, at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of Wroclaw university, National Ossolinski Institute in Wroclaw). Some Research Results on Modern Lviv Identity.
• Katarzyna Majboroda (PhD, at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of Wroclaw University). Living, Testifying, Remembering. Autobiographical Experience of the City (Lviv/Wroclaw) as a Strategy to Generate Collective Memory.
• Renata Tanchuk (Professor at the Institute of Culture Studies of Wroclaw University). On Collecting the City and For the City.
• Zoriana Rybchynska (Associate Professor, at the Department of the Philosophy of Arts of Ivan Franko National University in Lviv). Hidden Heritage: Sentimental in memorial and Everyday Practices (as illustrated by Lviv Pidzamche area).
• Robert Losiak (PhD, at the Department of the Institute of Music Studies of Wroclaw University). Methodological Aspects in Research of Soundscape of the City as Illustrated by Research Experience in Wroclaw and Lviv.
• Ostap Manuliak (Associate Professor, at the Department of Composition of Mykola Lysenko National Music Academy in Lviv). Soundscape of the City in the Context of Musical Composition.

Working languages: Ukrainian and Polish (simultaneous interpreting to be provided)

Conference "Polish and Ukrainian Ethnology Today. Traditions and Prospects" is dedicated to the 120^th anniversary of establishing Polish Ethnological Society and the 120^th anniversary of ethnographic collection of Shevchenko Scholarly Society. It is an opportunity to meet and exchange opinions among the wide circle of Polish and Ukrainian ethnologists and anthropologists, folklore specialists, and museum curators who represent different academic centers, societies and museums.

Organizers:
Polish Ethnological Society. Head Office.
Museum of Ethnography and Artisan Craftwork of the Institute of Ethnology of National academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Co-organizers:
Ossolineum National Library in Wrotslaw;
Museum of Ethnography. Division of the nAtional Museum in Wrotslaw;
Shevchenko Scholarly Society: Section of Ethnography and Folklore Studies;
Ivan Franko National University in Lviv;
Center for Urban History.

Venue:
Museum of Ethnography and Artisan Craftwork of the Institute of Ethnology of National academy of Sciences of Ukraine;
Ivan Franko National University in Lviv;
Center for Urban History.

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