Aleksander Łupienko: Local Intellectual Elites in Lviv (Galicia) and their City

Institute of World History at CU FA cordially invites you to a lecture that is to be held in the main building of CU FA in the room 302A (nám. Jana Palacha 1/2, Praha 1) on 17 April 2024 at 5:30 pm.

Aleksander Łupienko is Associate Professor at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Cultural historian of urban space in Central / Central-Eastern Europe in the long nineteenth century. He obtained his PhD. at the T. Manteuffel Institute of History, where he made habilitation in 2023. His research interests include urban history, cultural history of space, urban planning and architecture. He published, among others, Kamienice czynszowe Warszawy 1864–1914 [Apartment houses of Warsaw 1864–1914], 2015; Order in the Streets. The Political History of Warsaw’s Public Space in the First Half of the 19th Century, 2020; W stronę systemu. Infrastruktura techniczna dziewiętnastowiecznego miasta na przykładzie Galicji [Towards the system. Technical infrastructure of a 19th-century city on the example of Galicia], 2021, and edited, among others, Forging Architectural Tradition: National Narratives, Monument Preservation and Architectural Work in the Nineteenth-Century, 2022 (with D. Damjanović) and Urban Communities and Memories (forthcoming at Routledge), as well as numerous papers in journals in Poland, Germany, Great Britain, USA, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. He organises conferences on different aspects of urban history.