Sofia Dyak

Studied at the doctoral program at the Institute of Sociology and Philosophy of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw), currently works on completing PhD project "(Re)imagined Cityscapes: Lviv and after 1944/45." Visiting Fellow at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam in 2008, Junior Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna in 2008. At the Center she coordinates projects related to Jewish heritage in Lviv, leads research project "Lviv Arcades," and coorganizes round-tables "Kolo Lvova" and film evenings "KinoMisto." Research interests: comparative urban history; cityscapes and identity in the cities of East Central Europe; heritage and contemporary urban development; commemoration and the history of the 20th century in the cities of East Central Europe. In 2009 was a coordinator of project “Sniatyn- Archeology of Memory: Discovering and Reviving the Historical Heritage of Galician Town” supported by Stefan Batory Foundation and EVZ-Stiftung.

 

Publikationen

“The Creation of the Image of Lviv as a Regional Center of Western Ukraine: The Soviet Project and Its Urban Realization, East-West: History and Culturology Collection. Issue 9-10: Patria, Kharkiv: 2008, pp. 75-86; "The Paradox of Remembered Harm? Empathy, Publicity and the Mobilization of the Memory of Forced Migration and Forced Labor Across Germany, Poland, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine", in Beyond Camps and Forced Labor. Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution. Proceedings of the international conference, London, 11-13 January 2006, ed. by Johannes-Dieter Steinert and Inge Weber-Newth, pp. 562-571, London, 2007