The fifth urbanHIST consortium-wide meeting was organised in Slovakia on 1 – 4 April 2019 by the Department of History, Faculty of Arts of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice. Such meeting was organised by UPJŠ urbanHIST team for the second time, following the NWWW IV In October 2018.
The programme of the meeting started with the 6 dissertation examinations of Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) studying within the doctoral programme Slovak History at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, UPJŠ in Košice. They presented their research progress, defended the introductory chapters of their theses and underwent the thematic examination in front of the international examination committee. We congratulate all doctoral students to successfully passing the examination. After the examination, all 15 ESRs of the urbanHIST programme met and discussed the current issues of their study and work on the project during the official ESR Meeting.
Specialised workshops offered within the ESR-oriented part of the programme were focused on Academic Writing (Gareth Dyke, Ph.D., Charlesworth Group) and ERC Grants (PhDr. Slávka Otčenášová, MA., PhD., Department of History, FF UPJŠ; ERCEA). The Keynote Lecture was presented by Prof. Steinar Aas (Nord Universitet, Bodø) on the topic of Urbanisation and Urban Life in Scandinavia – the Role of Nature, Climate and Environment. Within the traditional parts of the programme, the doctoral candidates discussed their research progress with their supervisors during Supervision Meetings, and the management of the project discussed the further steps of the project implementation.
Several optional and networking activities completed the week – optional field trip, guided tour of Košice aimed at the 1st half of the 20th century (guide – Milan Kolcun), as well as common lunches and dinners offered the team several possibilities to meet and discuss also on an unofficial basis.
The following consortium meeting will be organised by BTH team in Stockholm, in October 2019.
For more detailed information on urbanHIST past and on-going, all-consortium and local events, please visit www.urbanhist.eu.
Mgr. Katarína Hajduková
Project Coordinator, FF UPJŠ
Photo: Mgr. Lukáš Katriňák
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 721933. |
