From June 24 to July 5, 2019, the Second Summer School «Borderlands Studies in East Central Europe and the Black Sea Region», organized by the Center for Interethnic Relations Research in Eastern Europe (Kharkiv, Ukraine), the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv, Ukraine), was held in Kharkiv.
To participate in the School, the competition committee selected 16 representatives from Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, the United States, Finland and the Czech Republic, among whom there was the academic of the Department of Tourism of Lviv Polytechnic National University Mariana Senkiv.
For two weeks professors from the USA and Poland conducted lectures in the framework of three main courses. In particular, there was the course by Professor Stephen Siegel from the University of Northern Colorado (USA), dedicated to the political geography of imperial and national boundaries, the course by Professor Mayhill Fowler from Stetson University (USA), focused on the study of the borderlands’ cultures, and the course by Professor Tomasz Zarycki from Warsaw University, who on the example of Poland analyzed the historical and international perspectives of real and phantom boundaries in Eastern Europe.
Within the School there were held a number of guest lectures, excursions and public events. The participants of the School had the opportunity to demonstrate the results of their studies in Borderlands Studies. In particular, Mariana Senkiv presented a project «Promotion of rural tourism resources by educational institutions on Ukraine-Poland border». The presentation was in English.
