Call for Papers Central European History Convention, July 17th—19th 2025, University of Vienna

Call for Papers Central European History Convention, July 17th—19th 2025, University of Vienna / in person (not hybrid)

Further information: https://tinyurl.com/cehc-cfp

Deadline for proposals: January 31st 2025

Notification: February 24th 2025

Lin Lewis, Nana Osei-Opare (eds.): Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World: Envisioning Modernity in the Era of Decolonization

Su Lin Lewis, Nana Osei-Opare (eds.): Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World: Envisioning Modernity in the Era of Decolonization. London: Bloomsbury 2024. ISBN 9781350413436. open access

Description

In the wake of colonial and racial exploitation, political leaders, technocrats, activists, and workers across the Third World turned to socialism to offer a new vision of post-colonial development. Against a backdrop of decolonization, white supremacy, and the Cold War, they fostered anti-colonial solidarity and created cooperative frameworks for self-reliance.

In following these actors, the contributions to this volume show that “development” was not merely exported from North to South: people across the Global South collaborated with each other while engaging with a diversity of socialist ideas, from European Fabianism and Marxism to tailored African, Asian, and Latin American models. They led debates on race and inequality from the 1920s and 1930s and spearheaded local, regional, and internationalist efforts to re-envision modernity by the 1950s and 1960s.

By examining the limitations and legacies of socialist development initiatives in and across the Third World, Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World offers new perspectives on the intertwined histories of socialism, development, and international cooperation, with lessons for both past and present.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI and Rice University, USA. URL: https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350420175

Table of Contents

Introduction: Development Dreams from the Socialist South, Su Lin Lewis (Bristol University, UK) and Nana Osei-Opare (Rice University, USA).

1. Development and Difference: Alternative Genealogies of Uneven Development, 1920–1940, Kelvin Ng (Yale University, USA)

2. Debating Race and Revolutionary Socialism from the Latin American South, Jo Crow (University of Bristol, UK)

3. Pan-Africa, African Socialism, and the 'Federal Moment' of Decolonization, Marc Matera (University of California Santa Cruz,, USA)

4. Socialism, Internationalism, and Regime Survival: The Guomindang, China, and Taiwan in the 1940s and 1950s, Tehyun Ma (University of Sheffield, UK)

5. Three Logics of Indian Socialism: Historicizing Development under Capital, Matthew Shutzer (Duke University, USA)

6. Socialism and the Question of Third World Development in the Ideas of the Indonesian Socialist Party (PSI), Pradipto Niwandhono (Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia)

7. Cuban Internationalismo, Berthold Unfried and Claudia Martinez (both University of Vienna, Austria)

8. Politics of Development at Afro-Asian Women's Conferences, Su Lin Lewis (University of Bristol, UK) and Wildan Sena Utama (University of Gadjah Madah, Indonesia)

9. Ahmad Ali Kohzad's visit to China 1958: A Critical Reading, William Figueroa (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)

10. Forging the Vanguard of Developmental Socialism: Nationalization, Respectability and Ideological Struggles at Kivukoni College, Tanzania, Eric Burton (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

11. Fish, Discontent, and Socialist Modernities and Dreams in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, Nana Osei-Opare (Rice University, USA)

12, Indians as Experts on Democracy and Development: South-South Cooperation in the Nehru Years, Taylor Sherman (University of New South Wales, Australia)

13. Confronting Capitalism in Twentieth-Century Latin America, Kevin Young (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)

Afterword: Rethinking Socialist Developmentalisms in the “Third World”, David C. Engerman (Yale University, USA)

Oleksandr Avramchuk: Budując Republikę Ducha. Historia Programu Fulbrighta w Polsce w latach 1945–2020 [Building a Republic of the Spirit. A history of the Fulbright Program in Poland from 1945 to 2020].

Oleksandr Avramchuk: Budując Republikę Ducha. Historia Programu Fulbrighta w Polsce w latach 1945–2020 [Building a Republic of the Spirit. A history of the Fulbright Program in Poland from 1945 to 2020]. Warszawa: PWN 2024. ISBN: 9788301238629. URL: https://ksiegarnia.pwn.pl/Budujac-Republike-Ducha.,1070317688,p.html

Budując Republikę Ducha.

Publikacja historyczna przedstawiająca kulisy rozpoczęcia działalności Programu Fulbrighta, jednego z najbardziej prestiżowych programów stypendialnych na świecie. Autor prowadzi czytelników przez zawirowania historii i powojennej polityki, pokazując jak z czasem, w kolejnych dekadach zmieniał się sam program, nastawienie władz do niego, a także jak wpływał on na losy absolwentów.

Call for papers: Navigating Epistemic, Cultural, and Legal Translations: Processes, Hierarchies, Spaces

 Call for papers: Navigating Epistemic, Cultural, and Legal Translations: Processes, Hierarchies, Spaces - Regensburg 04/2025

Organiser: Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World (University of Regensburg & Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies)

Place: Regensburg (Germany)

Time: 23 - 25 April 2025

Deadline for Paper Proposals: 31 October 2024

All cultural, social, political and legal exchanges involve processes of transfer and translation. They include not only linguistic and cultural transfer, but also the transposition and therefore resemantization of meanings, symbols, institutions, norms, practices, and discourses across time, spaces and legal systems.

For instance, avantgarde movements, such as surrealism, as a transregional phenomenon comprising Europe and the Americas, translated cultural meaning back and forward within and between regional or linguistic contexts and artistic forms. Other processes of transfer and translations include networked social and political movements such as Latin American or East European feminisms. Legal orders – both domestic and international – are also shaped by processes of transfer and translation. Recent approaches in comparative law seek to take into account movements of norms and their contextualization. And even the language and vocabulary of international law, which is associated with the idea of universality, seems to be approached, adapted and applied differently by state and non-state actors in different locations. All these processes of cultural, social, and legal transfer and translation can be analyzed in terms of traveling ideas, practices, and aesthetics whose meanings, functions, and reception change in their new surroundings, particularly when polycentric, post-colonial, or post-imperial settings are at play.

Individual and collective actors – who navigate, renegotiate, and challenge interpretations and meanings – play important roles as intermediaries. Alongside social and cultural structures, they make transregional transfer processes interactive, interconnected, and productive. However, these processes also go hand in hand with substantial scopes for at times unexpected adaptations, contestatory re-appropriations, or creative re-translations. They evolve in contexts of local, regional and global power imbalances, cultural differences, and historical legacies of colonial or imperial inequalities, which engender frictions (Tsing), effects of mimicry (Bhabha), but also spark potential for cultural and social innovation. Hence, moving beyond the idea of translation processes conceived as uncontested one-way streets in neutral spaces, our aim is to shed light on the multifaceted implications of translation, transfer, and circulation of culturally situated knowledge and (legal) norms from different disciplinary, theoretical, and empirical perspectives.

Combining area studies-focused research in the social sciences, cultural studies, media studies, and literary studies, the conference seeks to attract a wide range of papers that analyse processes of transfer and translation in polycentric contexts. It focuses on the transatlantic entanglements of the Americas with Western and Southern Europe, and of the Americas with Eastern Europe - broadly defined to include East and East-Central Europe, Southeast Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia - from the 18th century to the present. Our aim is to promote a multidisciplinary dialogue on the analysis, theoretical frameworks and broader narrativisation of transfer and translation processes.

Further information can be found in the Call for Papers, downloadable here: https://forhistiur.net/media/nachrichten/CfP_LSC_Conference_2025.pdf

online talk: Jan Surman: Cow. An Entangled History

Monday, October 14 at 15:00 CET / 9 am EDT (in person in Prague, online/zoom everywhere else).

We cordially invite you to the lecture:

Jan Jakub Surman (MÚA AV ČR): COW. AN ENTANGLED HISTORY

In the late 19th century, cattle farming in Central Europe became professionalized. This included not only new husbandry practices but also the breeding of more efficient animals. Using Polish Red Cattle in Galicia as a case study, I will discuss how this process can be described through the lens of entangled history - with a broad meaning of entanglement, ranging from intercultural to intersectional to interspecies.

Zoom link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87087465366

Meeting ID: 870 8746 5366

In person participation

Admission free, no registration required. Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS, v. v. i., Gabčíkova 2362/10, Praha 8

CFP Fever: Histories of (a) Disease, c. 1750-1840

CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference: “Fever: Histories of (a) Disease, c. 1750-1840”

Organizers: Stefanie Gänger, Yijie Huang, Teresa Göltl, Jenny Sure, Lea-Marie Trigilia

Date: 10-11 July 2025

We are excited to announce the conference “Fever: Histories of (a) Disease, c. 1750-1840”, which will take place on 10-11 July 2025 at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Hosted by the ERC CoG Project FEVER based at Heidelberg University, this conference seeks to bring together historians interested in fever(s), widely considered the period’s most common and fatal ailment, in societies within and tied to the Atlantic world.

While ‘fever’ in some sense speaks to a universal aspect of human sickness, its meanings, experiences, and implications varied significantly across different historical contexts. Our interest broadly includes eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century medical discourses on fever in professional and lay spheres before the advent of thermometry, and dynamic sensory experiences, emotional registers, and environmental concerns that fever constantly brought about. Our inquiry also raises important questions about the racialisation of fever in imperial contexts, the translation of febrile disease categories between different medical cultures, the dual role of fever as an epidemic and a quotidian ailment, and so forth. We seek to understand the history of fever across a wide geographical range, from typhus outbreaks in British workhouses to tertian fevers plaguing viceregal Lima and febrile threats haunting South, Southeast and East Asia.

We invite paper proposals engaging with the conference’s thematic focus on fever in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Areas of interest include the history of medicine, science and technology, as well as cultural, material, environmental, social, transregional and comparative histories. Please submit an abstract (200-250 words) and a brief academic biography by 15 December 2024 to fever.project@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de<mailto:fever.project@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de>. We are happy to cover our participants’ travel expenses (economy airfare or second-class train tickets) and provide one night's accommodation near the conference venue. We look forward to welcoming you and engaging in inspiring discussions in Heidelberg.

Dr Yijie Huang (She/her)

Postdoctoral researcher

History Department, University of Heidelberg

Grabengasse 3-5, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany

Affiliated scholar

Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

Free School Lane, CB2 3RH Cambridge, United Kingdom

Five positions in an ERC Advanced Grant Project "Scholars, Animals, Images, Geographies and the Arts: De-exoticizing Eastern Europe in the Early Modern Period" (SAIGA)

 Five positions in an ERC Advanced Grant Project "Scholars, Animals, Images, Geographies and the Arts: De-exoticizing Eastern Europe in the Early Modern Period" (SAIGA), University of Warsaw, Poland

Project's PI: Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (https://ihs.uw.edu.pl/en/jurkowlaniec/ )

Deadline: 31 October 2024

Start Date: 1 January 2025

Duration: 57 months

Positions:

1. Assistant Professor, full time, gross monthly salary (including all bonuses): approximately PLN 16,200 (PLN 210,600 yearly) – Specialization: visual or material sources in early modern natural history

2. Assistant Professor, full time, gross monthly salary (including all bonuses): approximately PLN 16,200 (PLN 210,600 yearly) – Specialization: historical geography, 15th–19th centuries

3. Research Assistant, full time, gross monthly salary (including all bonuses): PLN 10,500 (PLN 136,500 yearly) – Specialization: art history or book history, 15th–19th centuries

4. Research Assistant, full time, gross monthly salary (including all bonuses): PLN 10,500 (PLN 136,500 yearly) – Specialization: environmental history, 15th–19th centuries

5. Research Assistant, 50% working time, gross monthly salary (including all bonuses): PLN 5,250 (PLN 68,250 yearly) – Specialization: Classical Philology or Comparative Literature

Project's Abstract:

Building on Claude Lévi-Strauss’s oft-cited claim that “animals are good to think with,” SAIGA sets out to forge a zoological trail in the understanding of Eastern Europe between the sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries. Focusing on animal representations, the project will shed new light on the role of images in the production and transfer of knowledge.

The project will highlight the region’s underrated contributions to the development of natural history by examining the overlooked Eastern European nodes in networks of scholars. By investigating various patterns of transmission of knowledge from East to West, this study will consider the vital role of Eastern informants, both trusted experts and unreliable amateurs. With animals as the primary object of investigation, the project will direct attention to the arduous processes of discovering Eastern European fauna. While some species had already been recorded by ancient authors (though seldom if ever seen), other species were only documented in the early modern period, turning Eastern Europe into a rewarding research opportunity for naturalists. Tracing the replication of images of Eastern European fauna, the project seeks to understand how early modern naturalists accounted for the discrepancies among ancient, medieval, and contemporaneous sources, and how their strategies of verification varied between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Mapping this knowledge transfer onto the articulation of early modern geographies—which also attempted to make sense of the regions situated between Europe and Asia—the project promises to move the study of Eastern Europe beyond the paradigm of “demi-Orientalism,” which all too often imposes a modern othering lens onto the earlier past of the region. Finally, the project will foreground the role of the arts, above all various printmaking techniques, in projecting the image of the region as an environmental and cultural landscape defined and distinguished by its animals.

Job Description:

The SAIGA project is seeking team members who will conduct independent research within the specific thematic clusters of Scholars, Animals, Images, Geographies, and the Arts, while also collaborating closely with the broader project team. Each member will be responsible for developing an individual subproject into a monograph (or a PhD dissertation for research assistants), aligned with the overarching objectives of SAIGA, which explores the role of animals, images, and knowledge transfer in Eastern Europe from the 16th to 18th centuries. In addition to their own research, team members will work collaboratively to contribute to shared goals, including the development of the URUS database (https://urus.uw.edu.pl/), conference organization, and collective publications.

Additional information about specific positions can be requested at g.jurkowlaniec@uw.edu.pl

Required Documents for Recruitment:

- Application addressed to the Rector of the University of Warsaw

- Personal questionnaire (https://bsp.adm.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/01/KWESTIONARIUSZ_OSOBOWY_KANDYDAT_11_2019_EN.docx)

- Information on personal data processing (https://bsp.adm.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/01/Klauzula-informacyjna-przy-rekrutacji-do-pracy_11_2019_EN.docx)

- Statement on primary place of employment (https://bsp.adm.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/01/oswiadczenie_podstawowe_miejsce_pracy_caly_etat-2019_EN.doc)

- (For Assistant Professor positions) Copy of the PhD diploma or other document confirming the awarding of the PhD degree

- Copies of other diplomas or certificates confirming higher education, postgraduate studies, or other courses relevant to the planned research

- Academic CV, including a list of publications

- Motivation letter in English, including a preliminary research concept (max. 5 pages) outlining your planned contribution to the SAIGA project

- Names and contact information of two referees whom the committee may contact for recommendations

- Statement confirming knowledge and acceptance of the rules for academic recruitment (https://wnks.uw.edu.pl/wydzial/struktura-wazne-dokumenty/inne-dokumenty/; English version: https://monitor.uw.edu.pl/Lists/Uchway/Attachments/5034/EN.M.2019.282.Zarz.106.pdf)

Recruitment Procedure:

The deadline for submissions is 31 October 2024, 23:59. Documents should be sent electronically to g.jurkowlaniec@uw.edu.pl as signed scans or digitally signed PDF files.

The committee will review the submitted materials, assessing both formal compliance with the announcement and substantive quality. All candidates will be notified of the results via email between 4 and 10 November 2024. Selected candidates will be invited for an online interview, scheduled between 12 and 19 November 2024. The anticipated decision date for the competition is 19 November 2024.

Note: This competition is the first stage in the process of hiring an academic teacher as outlined in the University of Warsaw Statute. A positive outcome of the competition is the basis for proceeding with the further employment process.

For additional information, please contact: g.jurkowlaniec@uw.edu.pl