Tomasz Pudłocki: Szekspir i Polska. Życie Władysława Tarnawskiego (1885 - 1951) [Shakespeare and Poland. Life of Władysława Tarnawskiego (1885-1951)

Tomasz Pudłocki: Szekspir i Polska. Życie Władysława Tarnawskiego (1885 - 1951) [Shakespeare and Poland. Life of Władysława Tarnawskiego (1885-1951)], Rzeszów–Warszawa: IPN 2023. ISBN: 978-83-822-9782-9

Władysław Tarnawski (1885-1951), profesor filologii angielskiej Uniwersytetów Jana Kazimierza we Lwowie i Jagiellońskiego oraz przywódca lwowskiej endecji pod koniec życia przyznawał, że w swojej działalności naukowej czegokolwiek by nie zgłębiał, zawsze odnosiło się to do Szekspira: "[.] mogę powiedzieć, że Szekspir czasem wplątywał się w moje życia i w tok wypadków, które na nie oddziaływały". Angielski poeta był zatem dla uczonego pewnym stałym punktem odniesienia, z którym nie rozstawał się nawet w stalinowskim więzieniu, w ostatnich miesiącach życia. Po latach został zapamiętany głównie jako tłumacz całej twórczości Szekspira i jedyny polski uczony, który podjął się tego zadania. Wynikało to ze specyficznego paradoksu - najpierw był niewygodny jako jeden z tych, którzy przeciwstawili się ugruntowywaniu systemu komunistycznego, a potem dla piewców II Rzeczpospolitej, jako krytyk systemu sanacyjnego i narodowiec-antysemita. Zatem Tarnawski nie tylko dwukrotnie zapłacił bardzo wysoką cenę za swoje zaangażowanie polityczne, ale i nie pasował do wizji swego narodu kreowanej przez Polaków z pierwszej połowy XX w., którą promowano po 1989 r. Dokonywano na nim swego rodzaju operacji pamięci, a więc wycinano lub przynajmniej gładko obchodzono te elementy jego biografii, które nie pasowały do wzniosłej wizji męczennika nauki - ofiary stalinowskiej walki przeciwko polskim intelektualistom. Tymczasem jego biografia jest dużo bardziej skomplikowana, a przez to interesująca. Z książki wyłania się dziennikarz, teatrolog, popularyzator kultury europejskiej, baczny obserwator życia politycznego i polityki zagranicznej okresu międzywojennego, który łączył pracę na uniwersytecie z szeroką działalnością w życiu publicznym i społecznym, dla którego polski Lwów był swoistego rodzaju "centrum świata".

Call for Papers: The Counter-University. Histories, Movements, and Ambitions

 Call for Papers: The Counter-University. Histories, Movements, and Ambitions

The declaration of “counter-universities” has been part of activists’ repertoires for many decades. The practice became known primarily through the student movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Since the mid-1960s, numerous “free” universities have emerged in the USA in the context of protests for “free speech” and against the Vietnam War. At the latest, the transnational protest events of 1967/1968 made the declaration of “free”, “critical”, “political” or “autonomous” universities common practice in many Western European countries. Since then, the creation of counter-universities has served as an influential tool of developing critique of science and higher education, as well as imagining potentially more satisfactory approaches to higher learning and knowledge formation.

This conference invites scholars interested in the history and present of the counter-university to share their ideas on this significant yet under-researched transnational phenomenon. Despite the wide spread and centrality of the counter-university, research so far has hesitated to approach the phenomenon and its diverse manifestations as spatially as well as temporally connected. Therefore, this conference is dedicated to open a discussion about counter-universities’ pasts and presents and to assess their role in world-wide struggles for social and educational reforms.

In particular, we are looking for case studies as well as broader comparative and analytical papers that situate the phenomenon in the history of protest, counterculture and higher education. Among others, we welcome papers from history, history of education, history of science, art history, cultural studies, sociology, and social movements studies.

We particularly welcome contributions addressing the following topics:

“Political”/”Critical”/”Free”/”Anti”-universities of the 1960s and 70s, and their offshoots

Women’s universities; feminist university projects; gay and queer counter-universities

Counter-universities and learning spaces in art (historical and contemporary)

“Democratic”/”citizens’”/”people’s” universities; counter-universities and trade unions

Ecological and green counter-universities’ past and present

Mobile/Travelling Universities

Populist and right-wing counter-universities

Counter-universities and social struggles of the present

PLEASE NOT: state reform projects in higher education, if there is no direct connection to movement’s / artists’ activities

Analytical angles may be, but are not limited to:

Creating the counter-university: constitution, protest forms, ambitions and aesthetics

Critique of universities, higher learning and science (as it is/was); concepts of improving learning and research; utopias of scientific communities and knowledge formation

Counter-universities’ everyday; content and forms of learning and teaching; didactics, exams and certificates; impact on/interaction with individual disciplines and curriculum development in the regular university

Media usage; media formats; modes of communication

Relations to social movements; relation to reform projects inside academia

Interactions/conflicts with regular universities and politics; relation to state level politics /state reform projects

Impact/consequences, both to individual biographies and science/education at large

The conference will take place at the University of Copenhagen, February 12–14, 2025, and is organized by Susanne Schregel and Detlef Siegfried (both Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen).

If you are interested in participating, please submit your abstract (of no more than 500 words, for a presentation of about 30 minutes) to susanneschregel@hum.ku.dk by May 16, 2024.

Decisions on the acceptance or rejection of proposals will be announced by the end of May 2024.

We intend to publish the outcomes.

The organizers will apply for funding to assist with travel and accommodation costs.

In case of any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the organizers via email.

Deadline for abstracts: 16 May 2024

Decisions by: 31 May 2024

Conference Date: 12–14 February 2025

Conference Venue: University of Copenhagen

Contact: susanneschregel@hum.ku.dk

Contact Information

Susanne Schregel

Contact Email

susanneschregel@hum.ku.dk

Vernacular Medicine in Tashkent/ Space Botany in Art. Online colloquium by Chorus group

Online event by CHORUS: Colloquium for the History of Russian and Soviet Science , Thursday, May 16, at 8 am (Los Angeles) / 11 аm (New York) / 17:00 (CET) / 18:00 (Kyiv) / 19:00 (UTC+03:00)

Maria Pirogovskaya (independent researcher, Berlin), Vernacular bone-setting and Tashkent Institute for Traumatology and Orthopaedic Treatment in the post-war era: Knowledge colonised, appropriated or ‘braided’?

Ilona Jurkonytė (Vilnius University), Configurations of Space Botany in Art

(for link to the meeting please write to jan.surman@gmail.com)

Details:

Maria Pirogovskaya (independent researcher, Berlin), Vernacular bone-setting and Tashkent Institute for Traumatology and Orthopaedic Treatment in the post-war era: Knowledge colonised, appropriated or ‘braided’?

In 1953, an Uzbek military doctor submitted a medical dissertation on the topic of Central Asian vernacular bone-setting. While framed as a quackery and a threat for the Soviet public health, bone-setting practiced by urban healers was nevertheless considered worthy of painstaking inspection both by the aspiring postgraduate surgeon and his supervisors in Tashkent Clinic for Traumatology and Orthopaedic Treatment. In the next decades, vernacular methods, skills, and particularly medicinal matter were carefully explored and tested, which changed the surgeon’s career as well as epistemic and social trajectories of the phenomena under his study. The talk focuses on extractive-cum-cooperative relationships between state-sponsored medical research and vernacular healing and discusses the heuristic potential of frameworks of colonisation, appropriation, and braiding in regard of ethnic knowledge in the long shadow of Soviet medicine.

Maria Pirogovskaya is medical anthropologist and historian of medicine. Her research interests include subjectivity, therapeutic landscapes, knowledge systems, and the senses in late Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. She is the author of Miasmata, Symptoms, and Evidence: Smells in Russian Culture, 1850–1900s (in Russian) (European Univ. Press, 2018), which discusses the social and cultural entanglements of olfactory vigilance, public health, and modernism in the Russian Empire. Her current research projects focus on the legacies of imperial medicine after the Russian Revolution and the history of the interaction of the ethnomedical knowledge of Eastern Siberia and Central Asia with Soviet state medicine.

https://mpiwg-berlin-mpg.academia.edu/MariaPirogovskaya

Ilona Jurkonytė (Vilnius University), Configurations of Space Botany in Art

The first complete plant growth cycle in zero gravity was achieved in the early 1980s by the Soviet scientific institutions that were stretched across the USSR. That period was the peak of Cold War tensions and international campaigning for nuclear disarmament. Collaboration between Soviet and Western scientists took place, yet all international communications went through Moscow and thus the visibility of contributions by non-Russian USSR scientists on a global scale was erased. This condition exemplified the dynamics in both science and cultural productions of the entire USSR. In this talk, I invite us to think together, how can we research the history of space botany today? What are the limitations of the Cold War epistemic framing? What methodological approaches could be useful when investigating the history of space botany from a perspective of a fragment of the space research infrastructure? What could film and media studies, as well as artistic research, bring to this area of exploration?

A link to compilation of excerpts from audiovisual installation Arabidopsis Thaliana, Museum of Modern Art Bogota 2021, co-authored by Ilona Jurkonytė and Santiago Reyes Villaveces https://vimeo.com/542859164

Ilona Jurkonytė is a film and media researcher and a Vilnius University Foundation Scholar. Previously Ilona was a Vanier Scholar at Concordia University (2015-2019), where she defended her PhD in Film and Moving Image program. Her background that merges philosophy (BA), art history and criticism (MA), media and communication studies (MA), and film and moving image studies (PhD). Her research interests span transnational film studies, environmental media studies, artistic research and film curation. Ilona’s work critically examines tensions between notions of the national and transnational in moving image production and circulation, as well as their geo- and hydro- political implications. She engages with environmental media approach to rethink coloniality in the Global Easts and beyond. Ilona is currently preparing a manuscript, based on her doctoral research, entitled “From Temperature of the War to Descending Clouds: US Bomb Archive and the Marshall Islands.” The project reconceptualizes the relationship between nuclear media archives, militarization, and the environment.

https://www.tspmi.vu.lt/en/zmogus/ilona-jurkonyte/

Per Högselius, Achim Klüppelberg: The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism

Per Högselius, Achim Klüppelberg: The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism. Budapest, New York: CEU University Press 2024. ISBN: 978-963-386-647-4

Open access: https://ceupress.com/sites/ceupress.ceu.edu/files/the_soviet_nuclear_archipelago.pdf

The war in Ukraine, with the exposure of nuclear power stations and the danger of atomic warfare, has made the legacy of the Soviet nuclear sector of critical importance.

The two authors map the Soviet nuclear industry in a shifting historical context, making sense of a complex socio-technical and environmental history. Taking an innovative approach, this book explores the history of atomic power in the former Soviet Union using the spatial dimensions of the nuclear industry as a point of departure. The key concept is that of the archipelago – a network of nuclear facilities spread throughout the Soviet territory, but mutually reliant on each other and densely connected.

The story traces the emergence of nuclear science and technology for military and civilian purposes through to the post-Soviet Russian nuclear corporations as providers of resources and technology. The book explains how nuclear developments in the Soviet Union interacted with processes of environmental and landscape change. The spatial lens offers an analytically fruitful and pedagogically stimulating way to comprehend the nuclear histories of the Soviet Union and its successor states.

East Central Europe, Volume 51 (2024): Issue 1 (Mar 2024): Special Issue: Biopolitics, socialism and the democratization of healthcare. Case studies from state-socialist Hungary,

 East Central Europe, Volume 51 (2024): Issue 1 (Mar 2024): Special Issue: Biopolitics, socialism and the democratization of healthcare. Case studies from state-socialist Hungary, edited by Viola Lászlófi

Articles:

Svégel, Fanni. "Feminist Mobilization for Reproductive Rights in State Socialist Hungary: The Abortion Petition Campaign of 1973", East Central Europe 51, 1 (2024): 1-25, doi: https://doi.org/10.30965/18763308-51010006

Lászlófi, Viola. "(Un)disciplined Patients, (Un)controlled Medical Authority?: Governmentality and the Changing Norms of Healthcare in State Socialist Hungary", East Central Europe 51, 1 (2024): 26-52, doi: https://doi.org/10.30965/18763308-51010004

Horváth, Zsolt K. "The Psychopathology of Allusion in the Kádár Era: “Marginality” and the Figure of “Hiding” in the Thought of Ferenc Mérei", East Central Europe 51, 1 (2024): 53-81, doi: https://doi.org/10.30965/18763308-51010001

Individual Submissions

Isański, Jakub. "Liberation, Resettlement, and Looting in Postwar Memoirs from Poland", East Central Europe 51, 1 (2024): 83-107, doi: https://doi.org/10.30965/18763308-51010003

Hoxha, Artan R. "Why Did Albanians Protect Jews during the Holocaust?: Albanian Historiography and New Insights from Oral Histories", East Central Europe 51, 1 (2024): 108-128, doi: https://doi.org/10.30965/18763308-51010002

CfP: Knowledge in Transition: Institutional Development and Reorganization of Eastern European Studies in the Early 20th Century.

 CfP: Knowledge in Transition: Institutional Development and Reorganization of Eastern European Studies in the Early 20th Century. 15.11.2024 - 15.11.2024, deadline: 17.05.2024. 

The Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg and the editors of the Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas will organize a conference on the institutional development and restructuring of Eastern European studies in the early 20th century on 15 November 2024 to mark the journal's 100th anniversary.

The call to engage with Eastern Europe beyond the study of Russia is not new. Immediately before the First World War, the circle of those professionally concerned with the Russian Empire was thrown into disarray. "By and large, our public opinion knows nothing of the nature of the great transformation process of the Russian present. Our judgment of our neighbor must become more secure," Otto Hoetzsch postulated in early 1913 in a memorandum aimed at founding a society for the study of Russia, in which scientific, political and economic interests would merge. Only a few years later, after the end of the war and the collapse of the Russian Empire, Hoetzsch reacted to the reorganization of the state and also focused on the Baltic states and Poland in the newly founded journal Osteuropa in 1925. In the same year, the Jahrbücher für Kultur und Geschichte der Slaven were published for the first time in Breslau under the direction of Erdmann Hanisch – as a continuation of the Jahresberichte für Kultur und Geschichte der Slaven, which had been launched in 1924. Here, historiography and Slavic studies were combined, so that literature from Czechoslovakia and the Ukrainian Soviet Republic was also discussed.

The journals Osteuropa and Jahrbücher für Kultur und Geschichte der Slaven are examples of an intensive phase of institutionalization of the study of Eastern Europe in the run-up to and aftermath of the First World War, which took place at universities, but also in the form of societies and associations – in many European countries as well as in North America. As an exile, Tomáš G. Masaryk inaugurated the multidisciplinary School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at King's College London in 1915 and a year later, together with its founder Robert W. Seton-Watson, initiated the weekly newspaper The New Europe to support the Czech and other national movements of the Habsburg monarchy. In 1922, The Slavonic and East European Review emerged from the SSEES with academic aspirations. In Warsaw, the Instytut Wschodni (Institute for Eastern Affairs), founded in 1926 as a scientific institute for the study of Russia and the Soviet Union, was politically closely linked to the Promethean movement, which sought an alliance with the national independence movements that had been subjugated by the Soviet Union since 1918. It cultivated contacts in the Caucasus and Central Asia through the journal Wschód-Orient and promoted Polish-Ukrainian understanding within the Polish Republic through the popular scientific Biuletyn Polsko-Ukraiński (Polish-Ukrainian Bulletin). Polish historians formulated their own ideas on the scientific and politically oriented study of Eastern Europe at the International Congress of Historical Sciences in Warsaw in 1933.

Some of the individual initiatives and protagonists of this 'founding period' have been well researched, but their European and transatlantic interconnections and their various academic and non-academic motivations have hardly been studied. The planned conference will therefore focus on the socio-political contexts and interrelationships of the various projects, their financial foundations, the biographies and networks of their protagonists, the constitution of bodies of knowledge as well as the role of travel, emigration and exile.

Please send your proposal for a presentation (approx. 300 words) and a short CV to Katharina Kucher (jahrbuecher@ios-regensburg.de) by May 17, 2024. A decision on the acceptance of the presentation will be made by June 17, 2024.

The conference will take place on November 15, 2024 in Regensburg at the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies. Travel expenses and accommodation will be covered for speakers. Conference languages are German and English.

Contact Information

PD Dr. Katharina Kucher

Redaktion der Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas / Editorial Office Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas

Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung / Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies

Landshuter Straße 4

93047 Regensburg, Germany

Contact Email

jahrbuecher@ios-regensburg.de

Hybrid event (Ukrainian): Плагіат і запозичення в українській науці: від ХVII століття до сучасності

Hybrid event (Ukrainian): Плагіат і запозичення в українській науці: від ХVII століття до сучасності // Plagiarism and borrowings in Ukrainian science: from 17th century up to our days. April 27, 14:00 (Kyiv time), Музей Михайла Грушевського, вул. Паньківська, 9 & zoom

URL: https://www.facebook.com/events/7622236741174215/?ref=newsfeed

Запрошуємо на конференцію «Плагіат і запозичення в українській науці: від ХVII століття до сучасності»!

Свої доповіді представлять:

📜 Роман Кисельов. «Чужі тексти у творах давнього українського письменства та ранньоновочасні критерії плагіату».

Чи існувало поняття плагіату в часи, коли не було авторського права? Коли представлення чужого тексту як власного могло (не) вважатися переступом? Доповідач окреслить ранні принципи використання чужого і спробує на їх підставі оцінити деякі давні українські тексти.

📜 Оксана Юркова. «'Темна пляма на світлому фоні': До питання про плагіат у докторській дисертації директора Інституту історії АН УРСР Олександра Касименка та реакцію на нього».

У 1955 р. у докторській дисертації директора Інституту історії АН УРСР Олександра Касименка, яка того ж року була опублікована як монографія, було виявлено плагіат. Доповідачка коротко висвітить історію цього плагіатного скандалу, зверне увагу на реакцію наукової спільноти, партійних органів, ВАК СРСР, а також розкаже, чим все завершилось. Спойлер: Касименко очолював академічний інститут до 1964 року.

📜 Геннадій Єфіменко. «Компілятивний плагіат як вершина айсбергу академічної недоброчесності та інших руйнівних явищ в сфері науки в Україні на прикладі 'казусу Стасюк'».

У грудні 2021 року в докторській дисертації очільниці Музею Голодомору Олесі Стасюк було виявлено плагіат, що не завадило ні її захисту, ні, попри розширене звернення науковців, затвердженню дисертації Атестаційною колегією МОН. Доповідач окреслить історію «казусу Стасюк» та на цьому прикладі проаналізує проблему наукової репутації, видозміну плагіату та причини його перетворення на прийнятне для широкого загалу явище в Україні.

📜 Микола Федяй. «Російський секонд-хенд: Плагіат в українських історико-філософських текстах».

Практика крадіжки чужого тексту без зазначення авторства існувала в історико-філософських дослідженнях ще за радянських часів, проте набула бурхливого поширення саме в період незалежності. Не маючи власних ідей і дослідницьких напрацювань, автори взялися перекладати російські тексти українською, видаючи їх за власні. Доповідач проаналізує процес роботи плагіаторів та зосередиться на таких питаннях: характер запозичень, оригінальні вкраплення, а також рецепція російських наративів українськими авторами.

📍 Регламент: дві доповіді по 25 хв → перерва → дві доповіді по 25 хв → обговорення й дискусія.

● Коли: 27 квітня (субота) 14:00.

● Де: Музей Михайла Грушевського, вул. Паньківська, 9 (вхід через арку з вул. Паньківської).

● Вхід вільний.

● Хто не матиме можливості прийти на зустріч, зможе доєднатися онлайн за Zoom лінком: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88435263571?pwd=gE39JeZQHRnGbhfJP6UbaYmU2yqZdt.1

Про доповідачів:

◢ Роман Кисельов, кандидат філологічних наук, старший науковий співробітник Інституту літератури ім. Т.Г. Шевченка НАН України. До сфери наукових інтересів належить проблема авторства і культура користування джерелами в українській літературі ранньмодерного часу, її мовно-стилістичні риси, а також курси риторики Києво-Могилянської академії XVІI–XVIІI ст. https://ilnan.academia.edu/RomanKyselov

◢ Оксана Юркова, кандидатка історичних наук, провідна наукова співробітниця Інституту історії України НАН України. Сфера наукових інтересів: українська історіографія ХХ ст., іконографія, енциклопедистика, грушевськознавство, електронні інформаційні ресурси, антропологія академічного життя. http://resource.history.org.ua/person/0000512

◢ Геннадій Єфіменко, кандидат історичних наук, старший науковий співробітник Інституту історії України НАН України. Автор публікацій з історії радянської України 1917-1939 років. Предмет наукових зацікавлень – національно-культурна політика в Україні, відносини між УСРР та Кремлем, вчительство, Голодомор. http://resource.history.org.ua/person/0000143

◢ Микола Федяй, науковий співробітник Centre for the History of Renaissance Knowledge Інституту філософії і соціології Польської академії наук; аспірант Інституту філософії ім. Г.С. Сковороди НАН України. Дослідник української ранньомодерної філософії та освіти Києво-Могилянської академії XVII–XVIII століть. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=83x9q3kAAAAJ&hl=en