Call for Papers – ICOHTEC 2026
The 53rd ICOHTEC Annual Meeting will take place 8–11 October 2026 at Democritus University of Thrace in Alexandroupolis, Greece.
Theme: Engaging the History of Technology: Bridging Disciplines and Perspectives for Global Challenges.
📣 Abstract submissions: https://www.icohtec.org/w-annual-meeting/
• Opens: 15 December 2025
• Deadline: 31 January 2026
(Individual papers, panels, roundtables, and early-career opportunities)
Dear Colleagues, Musée L, UCLouvain's university museum, is pleased to announce the opening of the call for contributions for the inaugural issue of its new scientific journal, UniMusea – Research and Practices on University Collections, devoted to the study, interpretation and critical analysis of university collections.
This first issue will address the theme “Decolonising university collections? Challenges, issues and perspectives.” It is associated with the study days to be held on 8 and 9 October 2026 in Louvain-la-Neuve. Interested contributors are invited to submit an abstract of their proposed contribution (1,500 characters, including spaces) no later than 25 January 2026.
The full timeline, thematic axes, state of the art, and all practical information are available on the Musée L website:
https://museel.be/en/news/call-contributions-decolonising-university-collections-challenges-issues-and-perspectives
We would be grateful if you could circulate this call within your networks.
With our best regards,
The UniMusea Editorial Team
Musée L, Musée universitaire de l’UCLouvain
unimusea-museel@uclouvain.be
Monika Biesaga: Biblioteki żydowskie w II Rzeczypospolitej. Z dziejów nowoczesnej kultury żydowskiej na ziemiach polskich [Jewish libraries in the Second Polish Republic. From the history of modern Jewish culture in Poland]. Warszawa: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny 2025. ISBN: 9788367872331
Nowoczesne biblioteki i czytelnie żydowskie były instytucjami otwartymi, starającymi się odpowiedzieć na aktualne potrzeby członków społeczności żydowskiej. Ich księgozbiory dostarczały nie tylko literatury niezbędnej do kształcenia zawodowego, zrozumienia niejudaistycznego otoczenia, lecz także miały za zadanie podtrzymywać związki z historią, kulturą i religią żydowską. Horyzonty myślowe poszerzała również oferta kulturalno-oświatowa w postaci wykładów, spotkań autorskich, sądów literackich czy przedstawień teatralnych i muzycznych.
Monika Biesaga
Publikacja ta stanowi pierwszy tom serii Bałaban, prezentującej wyróżnione w Konkursie im. Majera Bałabana prace badaczy młodego pokolenia, poświęcone dziejom i kulturze Żydów w Polsce i Izraelu. Autorka kompleksowo przedstawia funkcjonowanie żydowskich bibliotek publicznych, ich organizację, podstawy prawne, finansowanie, profil księgozbiorów, a także rolę bibliotekarza. Uzupełnieniem tego obrazu jest historia wkładu Żydów polskich w tworzenie Żydowskiej Biblioteki Narodowej i Uniwersyteckiej w Jerozolimie. To niezwykle cenna pozycja dla wszystkich zainteresowanych historią kultury żydowskiej na ziemiach polskich w okresie międzywojennym.
„Nowatorskie, kompletne, oparte na bardzo bogatej bazie źródłowej, a przy tym zajmująco napisane studium”.
prof. Konrad Zieliński
Monika Biesaga – doktor nauk humanistycznych w dziedzinie historii (Uniwersytet Jagielloński, 2021), absolwentka studiów magisterskich na kierunkach: informacja naukowa i bibliotekoznawstwo (UJ, 2012) oraz historia, specjalność judaistyka (UJ, 2013). Jej zainteresowania badawcze koncentrują się na dziejach bibliotek żydowskich oraz powojennych losach żydowskich księgozbiorów. Otrzymała m.in. stypendia naukowe i badawcze przyznane przez: Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych Izraela, Centrum Historii Miejskiej Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej we Lwowie (2015), program GEOP Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN w Warszawie (2015/2016), Żydowski Instytut Naukowy JIWO w Nowym Jorku (Stypendium im. Diny Abramowicz dla młodych naukowców, 2017/2018). W latach 2016–2021 pracowała w Brytyjskiej Bibliotece w Londynie.
Publikacja sfinansowana przez rodzinę Drew i dofinansowana przez Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego.
Philipp Kohl: Ferne Enden. Tiefenzeit in Literatur und Wissenschaft vom Russischen Imperium bis zur Sowjetunion. Konstanz University Press 2025. ISBN 978-3-8353-9192-5
Ferne Enden vermisst das Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Literatur in Russland von etwa 1870 bis 1930. Das Buch rekonstruiert die unermesslichen Zeiträume der Geologie ebenso wie die Imaginationen eines menschenleeren Planeten in ferner Zukunft.
Man schätzt die russische Literatur für die Schilderungen eines gewaltigen geographischen Raums. Weniger bekannt ist hingegen ihre Beschäftigung mit der ungeheuren Länge der Zeit. Literatur wie Wissenschaft im Russischen Imperium und in der Sowjetunion verorteten die sogenannte Tiefenzeit nicht nur in den Diskursen von Geologie und Paläontologie, sondern auch in der Anthropologie und Thermodynamik, in denen der Mensch seine fernen Anfänge und Enden erkennt.
Philipp Kohls Buch zeigt, auf welche Weise Literatur und Wissenschaft sich der Fiktion bedienen, um abstrakte naturgeschichtliche Zeiträume zu veranschaulichen. Es geht den radikal politischen Imaginationen des Menschheitsalters unter dem Eindruck Darwins nach und zeigt anhand einer Neulektüre klassischer Werke von Gončarov, Dostoevskij und Čechov, wie sich das 19. Jahrhundert das Erkalten der Erde in ferner Zukunft ausmalt. Phantastik, Abenteuerliteratur und Populärwissenschaft führen tief ins Innere der Erde und ihrer Vergangenheit. Anhand der sowjetischen Gattung des Produktionsromans um 1930 demonstriert Ferne Enden schließlich, wie die Literatur des sozialistischen Aufbaus die Erdgeschichte umschreibt – und ihr »Geooptimismus« (Gor’kij) jenes vom Menschen geprägte Zeitalter vorbereitet, das heute Anthropozän genannt wird.
Robert Balogh: An Environmental History of Knowledge and Politics. Forestry in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Hungary. CEU Press 2025. ISBN: 9789633868430
In February 2024 the designated body of the geological sciences rejected the proposition that humans have entered the Anthropocene epoch. Historians are yet to tell history as the interaction with materials and living beings. The history of forestry is a particularly promising subject to study. Environmental concerns and the large-scale commodification of forests, often with state participation, have been walking hand-in-hand since at least the mid-eighteenth century. Moreover, the history of the development of forestry’s standardised methodology is a global history. This book describes the efforts and experiences of trained foresters driven by competing priorities, as well as their impact on the society, landscape and politics of Hungary between about 1860 and 1975.
Please, consider contributing to the Special Issue of Lychnos - Annual of the Swedish History of Science Society.
Special Issue "Ideas in Movement: Transnational and Women’s History Perspectives" (Special attention will be paid to the underrepresented and understudied regional contexts, like Nordic, Baltic Sea region, South-Eastern, Central European or East European regions.)
Guest editors: Helena Bergman and Yuliya Yurchuk
Languages of publication are English and Swedish.
The purpose of the thematical issue is to shed light on women’s role in transnational circulation of ideas and knowledge production. While history of ideas often focuses on canonical thinkers, including “great” women, many women’s contributions to the field of intellectual history remain in the shadow. This thematic issue seeks to fill in this gap and expand the scope of discussion on women’s role in the history of ideas beyond the great and well-known names. The issue aims to consider how gender influences the production, transmission, and reception of ideas. More concretely, the issue’s aim is to work forward to a better understanding of women’s role in the production and circulation of ideas, their contribution to science and knowledge across all kinds of borders: national, cultural, societal, ideological, etc. By focusing on women’s history in this way the Issue aims to highlight the role of women in bringing a societal change as well as cast light on the women’s role in intellectual exchange and development of sciences and ideas.
In a broader context, the issue aims to contribute with new knowledge to the discussion on how women thinkers influenced the intellectual landscape transnationally and how their ideas were received and adapted to different contexts and by different communities in different contexts. Special attention will be paid to the underrepresented and understudied regional contexts, like Nordic, Baltic Sea region, South-Eastern, Central European or East European regions.
For this theme of the 2026 edition of Lychnos, we welcome contributions that empirically and theoretically study women’s history of ideas from different thematic, chronological, and analytical perspectives. We are particularly interested in papers that explore the following issues:
The transnational exchanges of ideas and intellectual networks across national or imperial boundaries, with attention to how gendered experiences and identities shaped intellectual field
Gendered dynamics within intellectual movements or traditions—how women have contributed to and shaped history of ideas
The influence of feminist perspective on the history of ideas and intellectual movements, and how this perspective can contribute to better understanding of production of ideas and knowledge.
Theoretical and methodological approaches to transnational women’s history of ideas
Historical examples of gendered intellectual communities, including the work of women’s groups and networks that crossed borders and challenged prevailing norms.
We approach these questions from a multidisciplinary vantage point and encourage the authors to think creatively and build bridges between different disciplines and history of ideas.
Timeframe:
December 30, 2025: submission of abstracts to guest editors.
January 20, 2026: confirmation of acceptance will be communicated by guest editors.
March–April 2026: Zoom meeting with authors to discuss individual contributions and the common framework (half-day, exact date to be communicated later).
May 1, 2026: Final manuscript submitted for peer review. Manuscripts must follow the guidelines for writers at Lychnos.
June 15: Manuscript after peer review sent to authors.
August 20: Final manuscript sent to guest editors.
September 20, 2026: Manuscript ready for printing.
https://tidskriftenlychnos.se/announcement/view/262
The 10th Annual Tartu Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies has opened the call for papers for its 2026 conference. More information can be found below and on the conference website: https://tartuconference.ut.ee/. The deadline for submitting proposals is 25 January 2026.
10th Annual Tartu Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies
Global Flows and Frictions in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
10-12 June 2026, Tartu, Estonia
The Centre for East European and Eurasian Studies (CEURUS) at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies invites proposals for full panels, roundtables, and individual papers for its 2026 annual conference. The Tartu Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies provides an academic forum that brings together scholars from area studies, comparative politics, international relations, economics, history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and related disciplines to discuss topics and questions affecting all aspects of life in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. The organisers expect that, as in previous years, more than 200 scholars will attend the event.
The 10th edition of the Tartu Conference invites participants to reflect on the effects of (de-)globalization across Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
We welcome contributions that critically examine how people, ideas, capital, information, technology, and goods have moved across borders, fostering various forms of integration and interdependence in the past and present. Papers exploring the potential benefits of global entanglements – such as cultural transfers, transnational solidarities, or regional and international security cooperation in defence, intelligence sharing, conflict prevention, and peacebuilding – are encouraged, as are studies addressing the challenges of increasing globalization and its possible harmful effects, like cyber vulnerabilities, geopolitical dependencies, and the spread of disinformation. We are equally interested in investigations into the local and everyday impacts of globalization, such as economic inequalities and regional disparities, brain drain and demographic decline, and climate change and environmental degradation, shedding light on who benefits and who is marginalized or excluded.
We also welcome submissions that engage with contestations of globalization or the impact of anti-globalization political discourse and policies in the region. This may include processes of fragmentation, disentanglement, and the (potential) shift to multipolarity in the international order; the rise of anti-globalist sentiment, challenges to liberal internationalism, liberal democracy, and populist movements; and processes of re-regionalization and the reassertion of national identities.
In line with these themes, this year’s keynote lecture will be delivered by Dace Dzenovska, Associate Professor in the Anthropology of Migration at the University of Oxford and Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded Emptiness project. Her research examines “emptying places” in Latvia, Ukraine, Armenia, and Russia, shedding light on how the movement of people, flows of capital, and changes in political authority are reshaping the world we live in.
The Tartu Conference invites submissions for panels, roundtables, and individual papers addressing the conference theme, as well as other topics relevant to the past and present developments across Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Comparative research focusing on the area and beyond, as well as interdisciplinary perspectives, are welcome. The Programme Committee will consider all proposals; however, full panel proposals are encouraged.
Individual paper proposals consist of an abstract of no more than 250 words. Panel and roundtable proposals should list all speakers (3 or 4 per panel/roundtable), along with their paper abstracts and, if available, information about the chair and the discussant (alternatively, these can be assigned later by the Programme Committee). In the formation of panels, we are committed to promoting diversity in gender, career stage, and institutional/country affiliations to foster a broad range of perspectives and enhance scholarly dialogue.
The deadline to submit proposals is 25 January 2026. Please visit the Submit Proposal page to upload an individual paper, panel, or roundtable proposal. All submissions will undergo review by the Programme Committee. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by email by 25 February. Accepted participants will be expected to register by 24 April and pay a registration fee of 120 euros. Students are eligible for a reduced fee of 80 euros. The registration fee includes coffee breaks, the opening reception, and the conference dinner. Please see the Rules of Participation and Important Dates for other deadlines and requirements.
For scholars whose primary affiliation is with an institution in Ukraine, participation fees will be waived. Please note that all participants are expected to attend in person, and we are unable to accommodate requests for online participation or proposals for hybrid sessions.
All participants should plan to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements. The organisers will issue visa invitations upon request. Practical information regarding travel and accommodation is available on the conference website: https://tartuconference.ut.ee
We look forward to seeing you in Tartu! If you have any questions, please contact the organisers at: tartuconference@ut.ee
Programme Committee
Catherine Gibson, University of Tartu
Aigerim Nurseitova, University of Tartu
Alicja Curanović, University of Warsaw
Riikka Taavetti, University of Turku
Shpend Kursani, University of Tartu
Taras Fedirko, University of Glasgow and the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna
