Dr Iuliia Eremenko participated in symposium “Knowledge production in Public Transport. Normativities. Actors. Outcomes”

Dr Iuliia Eremenko, Assistant Professor at the Department of Methodology of Political Science, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, recently participated in the interdisciplinary symposium “Knowledge production in Public Transport. Normativities. Actors. Outcomes” organised by the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography research group “CoMoDe – Contentious Mobilities: Rethinking Mobility Transitions through a Decolonial Lens”. The symposium was held at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia, from March 18 to March 21, 2023.

Dr Eremenko’s presentation was part of the symposium’s panel “Longue durée perspectives on urban transport” and focused on “Local expertise and the transformation of medieval towns: the case of Toruń’s tram system”. The presentation was based on the first collected data on the World Heritage site in Toruń, Poland. As part of her work, she created maps showing how the city’s public transport system has changed and how this has affected the historic city centre.This study was conducted as part of the grant “Local experts in Polish and German World Heritage Cities: understanding their role in polycentric governance of heritage sites” (project 2021/43/P/HS5/02926 co-funded by the National Science Centre and the European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 945339), where Dr Eremenko is a principal investigator.