Thursday, November 14, 2019

CfA: Residence Grant 2020-2021 at the Center for Urban History (Lviv, Ukraine)

Deadline: January 15, 2020

The Center for Urban History invites researchers of various fields in the humanities from different countries to apply for the 2020-2021 Residence Grant.

We especially encourage historians, culture studies scholars, and anthropologists. We welcome applications for research that offer broad interpretations of urban history as a discipline at the intersection of various approaches of humanities and social sciences. The chronological and geographical frames of the proposed research are limited to the 19th and 20th-century history of East and Central Europe. Preference will be given to topics related to the Center’s research focuses like urbanization in multi-ethnic cities, individual experience of city residents during 20th-century radical changes and wars, planned cities, urban heritage, commemorative practices and city space, infrastructure and cultural practices in the cities, digital and public history.

 The program includes:

  • five one-month residence grants for young researchers, working on their PhD thesis or preparing them for publishing,
  • five two-week residence grants for advanced researchers,
  • three residencies on digital urban history in cooperation with the Lviv Interactive project, an online encyclopedia representing the history of Lviv through places and spaces
  • оne residency in digital urban history, jointly with the Urban Media Archive


 The Center offers

  • accommodation in the guest rooms of the Centre
  • a place for research at the office
  • shares access to its library resources, urban media arсhive, research works, scholarly contacts
  • provides an opportunity to present and discuss the preliminary results of the grantee’s project at the Center’s Urban seminar or public lectures.


 Applications have to include:

  • Project Description (1000-2000 words)
  • Curriculum vitae
  • List of publications
  • Letter of recommendation for non-holders of PhD or relevant degree.


 Application deadline: January 15, 2020


Please submit your application to the email grants@lvivcenter.org

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