On Urban Pride: Famous Lvivians for City Branding and Critical Reflection on the Past

Program "Rights, Justice, and Memories of the City"

Public Discussion
On Urban Pride: Famous Lvivians for City Branding and Critical Reflection on the Past
Participants: Prof. Philippe Sands (University College London), Dr. Iryna Starovoit (Ukrainian Catholic University), Andriy Moskalenko (Vice-Mayor of Lviv), Prof. Norman Davies (University College London / Oxford University). Moderated by Dr. Sofia Dyak (Center for Urban History)
November 10, 2017

Celebrating famous citizens, recognizing their achievements and claiming their fame for a country, region, city or village, is a wide-spread phenomenon. We often see how cities represent their famous sons, and gradually more daughters, as their ambassadors: they are symbols of glorious historical tradition or success and recognition. Always a matter of selection and choices, such celebrations reveal more about contemporary contexts and sensitivities. We brought together a historian, a lawyer, a cultural studies researcher, and a representative of the city, to reflect on how, on the one hand, to relate and balance branding and commercial usage and, on the other hand, critical reflections about the past. How to promote stories of success but also courage to look into painful and still silenced topics of own’s city’s past? Can this help in shaping more mature, deep, and sensitive relation to and usage of the past for the present.

More at http://www.lvivcenter.org/en/chronicle/news/2590-17-11-10-on-urban-pride/

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