Jana is a post doctoral researcher in Comparative Literature at the Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. She works on a database of multilingual urban centres of 19th-century literature in the German speaking area within a project on Modelling Invisible and Hidden Multilingualism in German Literature (1790-1890). She has published on multilingualism in 19th century Paris and the linguistic historical cityscape of Wroclaw, Poland.
COST provides networking opportunities for researchers and innovators in order to strengthen Europe’s capacity to address scientific, technological and societal challenges. There are three strategic priorities: promoting and spreading excellence, fostering interdisciplinary research for breakthrough science and empowering and retaining young researchers and innovators.
Writing Urban Places proposes an innovative investigation and implementation of a process for developing human understanding of communities, their society, and their situatedness, by narrative methods. It particularly focuses on the potential of narrative methods for urban development in European medium-sized cities.