Markian Prokopovych
Associate Research Fellow
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215 Qualifications:
Central European University, Budapest, Ph.D. in Comparative History, 2004
Central European University, Budapest, Masters in Nationalism Studies, 1998
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Rotterdam, diploma in Inner City Development in Transitional Economies, 1997
Academia Istropolitana, Bratislava, diploma in Architectural and Urban Heritage Conservation, 1996
Central European University, Prague, Masters-level diploma in Art History, 1995
L'viv Academy of Arts, L'viv, 5-year diploma in art and art history, 1995
Academic/Professional experience, and Achievements:
Markian Prokopovych, currently at the Institute for East European History, University of Vienna, is a long-term affiliate of Pasts Inc. His teaching and research focuses on cultural history of East Central Europe, and more broadly on urban history and modern European cultural history. He is involved in a number of volunteer activities at CEU, including student supervision and the editing of the journal East Central Europe
Research Interests
• cultural history of East Central Europe, 19th century
• urban history
• modern European history
• nationalism studies
• history of architecture, public celebrations and music
Recent Courses Taught
• Habsburg Cities and Urban Space in East Central Europe Around 1900 (CEU, Winter 2011)
• Fin-de-siècle Cities in Habsburg, Russian and Ottoman Empires. A Comparative Viewpoint (CEU, Winter 2010)
• Cities: Urban life and society in Europe from the Middle Ages to Modern Times (with Katalin Szende, CEU, Fall 2009)
• Mapping European Culture: Transfers and networks of culture in modern European history (with Philipp Ther, European University Institute, Florence, Spring 2009)
• Cities, Culture, Creativity: European Cities as Centers of Culture (with Ilona Sármány-Parsons, CEU, Fall 2008)
• Introduction to Nationalism,“ at CEU for the University of Georgia summer school (intensive lecture course, 2006)
• Cultural history of Modern Ukraine (in German, at the European University of Viadrina, Frankfurt an der Oder, 2004-2005)
Fellowships and Awards
• Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship, European University Institute, Florence, 2009
• Volkswagen Foundation stipend, the individual research project in Budapest within “Oper im Wandel der Gesellschaft. Die Musikkultur europäischer Metropolen im ‘langen’ 19. Jahrhundert,” 2005-2008
• DAAD Scholarship, Technical University of Berlin, research fellow, 2002-2003
• Open Society Institute-Chevening Scholarship, Oxford University, research fellow, 1999-2000
• MATRA Fellowship of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1997
Editorial
• Urban History, Cambridge University Press
• East Central Europe, Brill
Membership in Professional Organizations:
• István Hajnal Circle
Selected Publications
Books
• Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public Space and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772-1914 (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2009); review here
• Reading Opera: Budapest Opera House in the Public Realm, 1884-1918 (Oldenbourg and Böhlau, 2011, forthcoming)
• Atlas of Music Theatre: Cultural Transfers and Networks in the 19th and 20th century (with Philipp Ther, work in progress)
Articles
• "From Gypsy Music to Wagner without a Transition? The Musical Taste of the Budapest Urban Public in the Late Nineteenth Century," in Sven Oliver Müller, Philipp Ther, Jutta Toelle and Gesa zur Nieden, eds. Oper im Wandel der Gesellschaft: Kulturtransfers und Netzwerke des Musiktheaters im modernen Europa (Vienna, Cologne and Weimar: Oldenbourg and Böhlau, 2010), 71-90.
• "Spectacles of 1809: Napoleonic, Russian and Austrian Troops in Lemberg," in Cecilia Nubola and Andreas Würgler, eds. Ballare col nemico? Reazioni all’espasione francese in Europa tra entusiasmo e resistenza (1792-1815) / Mit dem Feind tanzen? Reaktionen auf die französische Expansion in Europa zwischen Begeisterung und Protest (1792-1815) (Bologna: Il Mulino / Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2010).
•“'Instead, I saw a little man.' The reception of Verdi in the late nineteenth-century Hungary,” in Peter Stachel and Philipp Ther, eds., Wie europäisch ist die Oper? Das Musiktheater als Zugang zu einer kulturellen Topographie Europas (Vienna, Cologne and Weimar: Oldenbourg and Böhlau, 2009)
• “Lemberg (Lwów, Ľviv), 1772-1918: If Not the Little Vienna of the East, or a National Bastion, What Else?” East Central Europe, 36 (2009).
• “Die Produktion von Excelsior in Budapest 1887: Modernität, Erotik und die Bestätigung der politischen Ordnung,“ in Jutta Toelle and Sven Oliver Müller, eds., Bühnen der Politik. Die Oper in europäischen Gesellschaften im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Vienna and Munich: Oldenburg, 2008).
• “The Lemberg Garden: Political Representation in Public Parks during Habsburg Rule,” East Central Europe/l'Europe du Centre-Est. Eine wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, 33 (2006) 1-2.
• “Staging Empires and Nations: Politics in the Public Space of Habsburg Lemberg,” in Rudolf Jaworski and Peter Stachel, eds., Die Besetzung des öffentlichen Raumes. Politische Plätze, Denkmäler und Straßennamen im europäischen Vergleich (Berlin: Frank& Timme, 2007).
• “New Monumentality and Capital Cities. A Discursive Analysis of Berlin, Vienna, Budapest and Prague Around 1900,” in Peter Stachel, Cornelia Szabo-Knotik, eds. Urbane Kulturen in Zentraleuropa um 1900 (Wien: Passagen, 2004).
• “The Trap of Western ‘Periphery’ Reading: Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, and Prague Monuments Around 1900,” Urbanistyka, Special Edition for the Fifth International Conference of Urban History (Berlin, 2000), 2000.
Online Publications
• "Kopiec Unii Lubelskiej: Imperial Politics and National Celebration in fin-de-siècle Lemberg," ece-urban - the online publication series of the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• With Maciej Janowski, Constantin Iordachi and Balasz Trencsenyi, Editorial Introduction, East Central Europe/l'Europe du Centre-Est. Eine wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, 33 (2006) 1-2
• Review of Wojciech Balus, Krakau zwischen Traditionen und Wegen in die Moderne: Zur Geschichte der Architektur und der öffentlichen Grünanlagen im 19.Jahrhundert, Forschungen zur Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Mitteleuropa 18, Stuttgart: Steiner, 2003; for HABSBURG, 2006
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