Driburger Kreis - conference for early career historians of science in Prague

 Driburger Kreis

This year’s Driburger Kreis will be hosted in Prague, Czech Republic, from Monday, September 7 to Wednesday, September 9, 2026. We will host a networking event on Monday in the late afternoon and organise some get-togethers in the evenings. You will find the details of the programme below, as well as information on accommodation and financial support.

Participation is free (but only open to guests between a Bachelor’s degree and  pre-habilitation). Please register for participation by filling in the form at this page (https://www.driburgerkreis.de/tagung-2026-prag/) by August 25. This also applies to presenters.

Programm

Montag, 7. September 2026

17:00–18:30 Uhr Netzwerktreffen

Dienstag, 8. September 2026

09:00–09:30 Uhr Einführung

09:30–10:00 Uhr Das leere Fenster: Unsichtbarmachungen und Pestimaginationen in der visuellen Kultur des 16. Jahrhunderts (Jenny Merker)

10:00–10:20 Uhr Kaffeepause

10:20–10:50 Uhr Movement Made Visible. Max Wolf, Carl Pulfrich and the Photographic Observation of Minor Planets (Lena Kasten)

10:50–11:20 Uhr Making Outer Space “cheap”? OTRAG, Satellite Infrastructures and private Enterprise (Florian Fockelmann)

11:20–11:50 Uhr Unsichtbare Physikerinnen und Astronominnen? Übersichtswerke der Physik- und Astronomiegeschichtsschreibung in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts (Colleen Seidel)

11:50–12:20 Uhr Teepause

12:20–12:50 Uhr Parallele Personae: der Wissenschaftler und seine Ehefrau (Pauline Gerards)

12:50–13:20 Uhr Unseen within the Invisible: Women at Physicists’ Kruzhok, Saint Petersburg, 1907–1912 (Anastasia Auman)

13:20–14:40 Uhr Mittagspause

14:40–15:10 Uhr Representation of Spiritism and Metapsychology in Czech Scientific Discourse Around 1920 (Nikola Plíšková)

15:10–15:40 Uhr Strahlenforschung zwischen wissenschaftlicher Medizin und okkulten Wissensräumen in der BRD 1950–1980 (Marcel Philipp Smolinski)

15:40–16:00 Uhr Teepause

16:00–16:30 Uhr Das ‚verhaltensauffällige‘ Kind – (un)sichtbare, interdisziplinäre Praxis zwischen deutscher Pädiatrie und Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie in Kinderkrankenhäusern der 1920er-Jahre (Natalie Rath)

16:30–17:00 Uhr „Für eine freudige Mutterschaft!“ Die Visualisierung von Wehenschmerz als Versuch biopolitischer Kontrolle in der stalinistischen Sowjetunion (Lisa Füchte)

17:00–17:30 Uhr No Vision, no Pain? – A Cultural Study on Endometriosis (Sophie Wagner)

Mittwoch, 9. September 2026

09:00–09:30 Uhr Epistemische Unsichtbarkeit der Depression und klassifikatorische Vereinheitlichungsversuche. Eine kleine Kulturgeschichte der Depressionsdiagnosen in der DDR (Jonas Mileta)

09:30–10:00 Uhr Zur historiographischen Erfassung unsichtbarer Glücksspieler:innen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Sophia Gröschel)

10:00–10:30 Uhr Making Visible the Political Dimension of Knowledge Production: A Case Study of Neuroscientific Knowledge Production in the 1990s Decade of the Brain (Wessel de Cock)

10:30–10:50 Uhr Kaffeepause

10:50–11:20 Uhr Die Sichtbarmachung unsichtbarer Wirbel: Peter G. Taits Beitrag zur Knotenklassifikation im 19. Jahrhundert (Stefan Walberer)

11:20–11:50 Uhr A Culture of Knowledge Consumed on Paper: Natural Philosophy in the Journal des Luxus und der Moden (Jitse Taveirne)

11:50–12:20 Uhr Invisible, stinky, salty. On the History of Knowledge of Fish Consumption (Paula Pessoa Hanitzsch)

12:20–13:50 Uhr Mittagspause

13:50–14:20 Uhr Bringing Hidden Sources to Light: Aloys Sprenger, Translations and Science in Colonial India (Paul Schillinger)

14:20–14:50 Uhr Scientific Practice and Institutional Prestige. Anthropological Studies of Germano Correia in Portuguese India (Szymon Głąb)

14:50–15:20 Uhr Unsichtbare Natur. Tiere und biopolitische Diskurse in völkischen und nationalsozialistischen Raumkonstruktionen zwischen 1918–1938 (Maximilian Preuß)

15:20–15:40 Uhr Teepause

15:40–16:10 Uhr Verdinglichte Entwicklungen (Leonard Damhorst)

16:10–16:40 Uhr The New Man at Work: Socialist Psy-disciplines and Labour in Cuba and Czechoslovakia (Alicia Cabaleiro García)

16:40–17:40 Uhr Abschlussdiskussion und Organisatorisches

Kontakt

info@driburgerkreis.de

Andrii Portnov: Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian "Harvard Miracle"

Andrii Portnov: Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian "Harvard Miracle". Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute 2026. ISBN 9780674304222

Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian “Harvard Miracle” is the first English-language intellectual biography of Omeljan Pritsak, the co-founder of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the first professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard. Andrii Portnov places Pritsak’s life and legacy in the context of Ukrainian and world historiography and illuminates the development of his scholarly interests, which emerged in interwar Poland and developed through the Sovietization of Western Ukraine and the perturbations of World War II. His scholarship ranged from German Oriental Studies in the 1940s and 1950s to North American Slavic studies to the international studies of the origins of Rus´. Pritsak’s trajectory unfolds as he faces the challenges of establishing the field of Ukrainian studies in North America while engaging with influential scholars such as Dmytro Čyževskyj, Roman Jakobson, Ivan Krypiakevych, Oleksandr Ohloblyn, and Natalia Polonska-Vasylenko.

Based on unique materials Portnov uncovered in several German archives, this concise study serves as an invitation to reassess the intellectual history of Ukrainian history. Containing unique, previously unpublished photographs from Pritsak’s personal collection at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, this book sheds light on the life and work of the enigmatic figure of Omeljan Pritsak―one of the most prominent, controversial, and multifaceted historians of Ukraine, Central Europe, and the Turko-Osmanic and Mongol worlds.

Susanne Frank Galina Babak (eds.) Tschižewskij, Чижевський, Чижевский, Chyzhevs’kyi, Čyževskyj. The Multiple Receptions of a Ukrainian Scholar in European Contexts.

 Susanne Frank Galina Babak (eds.) Tschižewskij, Чижевський, Чижевский, Chyzhevs’kyi, Čyževskyj. The Multiple Receptions of a Ukrainian Scholar in European Contexts. Siedlce: Instytut Kultury Regionalnej i Badań Literackich im. Franciszka Karpińskiego 2026. ISBN 9788368206425

More: https://ikribl.com/2026/05/14/z-nowosci-wydawniczych-ikribl-8/

Table of contents: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SeXQiYLa7szoB0sCg_BzNIkLf1cPQjJB/view?usp=sharing ; https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bv_RUqBPNTJm6Wrd8q5EvUmmEghSc7C9/view?usp=sharing

*Second International Conference on Early Women Psychoanalysts*

 *Second International Conference on Early Women Psychoanalysts*

The International Association for Spielrein Studies is pleased to announce

the Second

International Conference on Early Women Psychoanalysts, dedicated to women

who engaged with psychoanalysis before the end of World War II. The

conference will be held online on April 10–11, 2027.

Participation is free for students and only $15 for all other attendees.

Selected contributions from the conference will be considered for inclusion

in a second edited volume associated with the Early Women Psychoanalysts

project, edited by Klara Naszkowska. For further details and the Call for

Papers please visit:

https://www.spielreinassociation.org/conference-early-women-psychoanalysts

History of the The Vienna School of Art History

 📓 The second part of the proceedings from the conference dedicated to the Vienna School of Art History is out!

The latest volume of The Edgar Wind Journal (Volume 10), edited by Tomáš Murár from the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences together with Fabio Tononi, brings a fresh perspective on the thought of the fundamental Viennese art historian Alois Riegl, to whom last year's Prague conference "The Vienna School of Art History IV: für Riegl / gegen Riegl" was dedicated.

🔗 The proceedings are available online: https://www.edgarwindjournal.eu/current-issue/

Call for Papers: 14th Biennial European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference

  Call for Papers: 14th Biennial European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference

"Environmental History Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries"

 Salzburg, Austria | 7-10 September 2027

 The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2026, 23:59 CET.

More: https://eseh.org/cfp-14th-biennial-european-society-for-environmental-history-eseh-conference/

Nodl, Martin: Prague, Jan Hus and Prague University

Nodl, Martin: Prague, Jan Hus and Prague University. Prague: Karolinum 2026. ISBN: 978-80-246-5636-6

The Bohemian Reformation — the reformation before the Reformation — offered a radical solution to the spiritual and institutional crisis of the late medieval church at the end of the fourteenth century. The beginnings of this reform are distinctly connected with Prague University, which drew many educated people to Prague from across Europe. Through Jan Hus — a former Prague University student who became its rector in 1409/1410 — the Bohemian Reformation gave rise to a new, radical ecclesiology. Not only did Hus challenge the hierarchical system of the church, but under his influence, the Bohemian Reformation acquired a specific national shape, and elements of Czech messianism emerged with the university.

The book Prague, Jan Hus and Prague University analyzes these processes within Prague University, as well as its limits and restrictive consequences for the Bohemian Reformation and Czech medieval society. Emphasis is placed on showing how Prague and the university became a world that successfully struggled for its own existence in late medieval Christian Europe.