Ujwary: Stanisław Krauze (1902–1977). Farmaceuta, bromatolog, społecznik [Stanisław Krauze (1902–1977): Pharmacist, Bromatologist, Social Activist].

Maria Ujwary: Stanisław Krauze (1902–1977). Farmaceuta, bromatolog, społecznik [Stanisław Krauze (1902–1977): Pharmacist, Bromatologist, Social Activist]. Ignatarium 2023. ISBN: 978-83-7614-684-3

Extended summary in English: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z45sVRT11Ga_Qdx_WwjuLFqM1k1sQAPh/view?usp=sharing

Fragmenty: https://wydawnictwo.ignatianum.edu.pl/sites/wydawnictwo/files/publikacje_pdf/ujwary_krauze_fragment.pdf

Książka Marii Ujwary stanowi wielostronne i wielowątkowe opracowanie biografii wybitnego polskiego bromatologa i farmaceuty Stanisława Krauzego, określanego mianem twórcy polskiej szkoły bromatologicznej, i jednego z najbardziej rozpoznawalnych na świecie polskich badaczy tematyki żywieniowej. Autorka podjęła się zadania przedstawienia postaci, której wpływ na społeczeństwo polskie sprawiał, że Krauze wykraczał swoją działalnością poza granice środowiska naukowego, a jego naukowe dokonania stały się punktem wyjścia dla dwudziestowiecznych badań nad higieną żywienia i żywności, stanowiąc zarazem istotny element kształtowania systemu opieki zdrowotnej. O randze tej postaci świadczy fakt, że współpracował z Radą Europy, współtworząc fundamentalny dokument, jakim stał się Kodeks Żywnościowy.

Z kart monografii Marii Ujwary wyłania się postać zaangażowanego społecznie naukowca, który działalność badawczą łączył z zaangażowaniem społecznym, stanowiąc przykład połączenia nauki z edukacją społeczną.

Prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Czekalski

 

Publikacja Marii Ujwary pt. Stanisław Krauze (1902–1977). Farmaceuta, bromatolog, społecznik poświęcona jest postaci Stanisława Krauzego, twórcy polskiej szkoły bromatologii, badaczowi zdrowej żywności, organizatorowi państwowej kontroli żywności i popularyzatorowi higieny żywienia. Autorka łączy w swym ujęciu wątki biograficzne, dotyczące aktywności badawczej i pracy organizacyjnej Krauzego, jak i bardziej ogólne uwagi dotyczące zdrowego żywienia jako zastosowania wskazań nauki, idei i wartości kulturowej. […]

Pracę uzupełnia bogaty, starannie wyszukany i dobrany, oryginalny materiał ikonograficzny, w którym najcenniejsze są zdjęcia archiwalne, odnalezione w kolekcjach prywatnych i rodzinnych. Ich walor wykracza poza czysto ilustracyjny, uzupełniający czy ozdobny charakter.

Dr hab. Jarosław Dumanowski, prof. UMK

Call for papers: Epistemologies of the Hinterland: The Making of Rural Knowledge in the 20th Century and beyond

Call for papers: Epistemologies of the Hinterland: The Making of Rural Knowledge in the 20th Century and beyond

The publication project aims to analyze epistemic complexes that defined rurality along several hierarchical divides: civilization/nature; science/belief, the individual/community; urban/rural; system/habit; measurement/experience; rationality/emotion etc. We want to bring together case studies from different contexts of rurality that offer a new perspective on rural knowledge. We are looking forward to proposals that discuss the “how” of knowledge production in all its contradictions and inherent power relations. 

15 November 2026: abstract submission deadline

June 2027: in-person author workshop in Vienna

For more details see below.

 

Call for papers

Epistemologies of the Hinterland: The Making of Rural Knowledge in the 20th Century and beyond

Today’s rural environments mirror long historical processes. Especially since the industrial revolution, they can be conceived as the outcome of social, administrative-technological, political, and scientific interventions in a taken-for-granted nature. In our publication project we aim to reconsider these interventions as epistemic complexes that defined rurality along several hierarchical divides that also carved out European modernity: civilization/nature; science/belief, the individual/community; urban/rural;

system/habit; measurement/experience; rationality/emotion etc.

Focusing on examples from the area of rurality, we want to search for encounters between bodies of knowledge that have historically been perceived as incommensurable and look at the practices, subjects and objects of knowledge production. We envision analyses of incommensurability narratives to open perspectives on developments since the early 20th century, but also on the most recent global climate debates and their often very local pinpoints as well as on recent political attempts to re-naturalize complex histories as national cultures.

We want to bring together case studies from different contexts of rurality that offer a new perspective on rural knowledge. At the centre of our attention is on the “how” of knowledge production in all its contradictions, perceived incommensurabilities and inherent power relations. We are focusing mainly on the 20th century, with some sojourns into the 21st century, and on Europe situated within its imperial, colonial, and global context, and the neo-national backlash of re-naturalizing complex histories as national cultures. The significance of science is a central, but not the only aspect.

We are seeking to publish the contributions as a special issue of an international peer-reviewed journal such as Knowledge or Science in Context. 

Topics can include but are

not limited to:

- researching rurality from different disciplinary perspectives

- relations between the researchers and the researched

- historicity of wilderness, nature, and rural spaces

- knowledge production and gender

- hygiene and eugenics in colonial contexts

- knowledge production about precarious agricultural regions (mountains, tundra)

- agricultural modernization

- education in rural areas

- environment, growth and the EU

- global aspects of climate debates and their local contexts

- media and knowledge dissemination

To ensure a concise and coherent publication, we will organize two meetings (online and in person) to work on questions and concepts, drafts and pre-circulated papers. The author workshop will take place in Vienna in June 2027.

Preliminary timetable:

15 November 2026: abstract submission deadline

December 2026: online meeting over concept of special issue

June 2027: in-person author workshop in Vienna 

Please send your abstract of 500 words max. to dietlind.huechtker(at)univie.ac.at. 

The deadline for abstracts is the 15th November 2026.

Image:  Unkown author, One of the new pavilions of the University of Agriculture, pl. Grundwaldskim in Wrocław, 1967, © Wikimedia Commons.

OA Publication: Aleksandra Derra, Anna M. Kola, Wojciech Piasek (eds.): Women, University and History in Central Europe. The Herstory of Nicolaus Copernicus University

Aleksandra Derra,  Anna M. Kola,  Wojciech Piasek (eds.): Women, University and History in Central Europe. The Herstory of Nicolaus Copernicus University. V&R unipress,  2026. ISBN: 978-3-8471-2001-8

OPEN ACCESS: https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/literatur-sprach-und-kulturwissenschaften/gender-studies/60518/women-university-and-history-in-central-europe?c=1879

Women, University and History in Central Europe

This book offers a compelling exploration of how women’s stories shape – and are often erased from – the life of a university. Using the Nicolaus Copernicus University as a vivid case study, it uncovers the hidden labour, gendered barriers, and structural inequalities that define academic institutions worldwide. By restoring women to the centre of the narrative, the volume invites readers to rethink how universities remember, value, and organise themselves. It is both a revelation of the past and a call to imagine more inclusive futures across higher education.

online roundtable “George Y. Shevelov (1908–2002): Intellectual Life and Scholarly Legacy.”

 [Ukrainian Book Club in Tokyo × SRC]

SRC is pleased to announce the joint roundtable “George Y. Shevelov (1908–2002): Intellectual Life and Scholarly Legacy.”

Date & Time : October 26 (Mon), 2026.

CET: 9:30 a.m.~11:30 a.m.

EET: 10:30 a.m.~12:30 p.m.

JPT: 5:30 p.m.~7:30 p.m.

AEDT: 7:30 p.m.~9:30 p.m.

Venue : ONLINE

Opening Remarks

Daria Panchuk (Ukrainian Book Club in Tokyo) and Dr. Yoko Aoshima (SRC)

Speaker 1

George Yuri Shevelov: An Attempt At an Intellectual Portrait

Dr. Oksana Zabuzhko (Writer)

Speaker 2

George Y. Shevelov's Contribution to the Ukrainian Philology

Dr. Kateryna Karunyk (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University)

Speaker 3

The Shevelov Collection at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center and the Ukrainian Studies Holdings at Hokkaido University

Dr. Ihor Datsenko (SRC)

Speaker 4

Teacher to Colleague but Always Friend: George Shevelov from 1960-2001

Dr. Paul Wexler (Independent scholar)

Registration for Online Participation : https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/vMgDESLwSQCGf8NQL_SKzQ

Organizers : Ukrainian Book Club in Tokyo

Research Unit for Ukraine and Neighboring Areas (URU) at SRC

Co-Organizers : Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University

Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at SRC, Hokkaido University

CFP: Science in the Field: People, Practices and Environments in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union

 CFP: Science in the Field: People, Practices and Environments in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union (Fribourg, 14–15 June 2027)

Submission deadline: 1 December 2026

We invite proposals for an international conference on the history of scientific fieldwork in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. The conference will examine how knowledge was produced through encounters with particular environments and populations and how observations, specimens, measurements, and other materials gathered in the field were transformed into scientific and administrative knowledge.

We are particularly interested in expeditions and scientific stations; the practices and material conditions of fieldwork; interactions between scientists, local inhabitants, guides, translators, technicians, and other participants; and the movement of knowledge and materials between the field and universities, laboratories, museums, observatories, and administrative institutions. We also welcome contributions examining the relationship between scientific research and projects of resource exploitation, agriculture, public health, territorial administration, and environmental transformation.

Geographically, the conference seeks to bring together research on Central Asia, the Caucasus, Siberia, Ukraine, and other regions of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, while examining relations between scientific centres and the different environments in which field research took place. Contributions may address the earth and environmental sciences, geography, botany and zoology, archaeology and ethnography, medicine and epidemiology, and related fields.

We particularly welcome research based on primary sources and contributions that examine continuities and transformations across 1917, as well as the international and transnational dimensions of field science.

The conference languages are English and Russian. Presentations should be approximately 20 minutes.

Proposals should include:

a paper title;

an abstract of up to 300 words;

a brief indication of the principal primary sources;

a short biographical note (maximum 100 words).

Please send proposals by 1 December 2026 to Katja Doose (katja.doose@univ-lyon2.fr) and Oybek Makhmudov (oybek81@yandex.ru).

The organizers will provide accommodation in Fribourg for three nights (13–16 June 2027). Limited travel funding is available, with priority given to doctoral and early-career researchers and participants without access to institutional travel funding. Invitation letters for visa applications can be provided.

The conference is organized as the final conference of the SNSF-funded project “Myths of Equality: The Gendered History of Science in Central Asia, 1870–1970s” (SEQUAL).

Organizing Committee:

Christine Bichsel (University of Fribourg)

Katja Doose (Université Lumière Lyon 2)

Nargiza Kenzhaeva (State Pedagogical University of Chirchik)

Oybek Makhmudov (State Pedagogical University of Chirchik)

Contact Information

Katja Doose

Université Lumière Lyon 2

katja.doose@univ-lyon2.fr 

Oybek Makhmudov 

State Pedagogical University Chirchik 

oybek81@yandex.ru

Daniela Angetter-Pfeiffer: Bekämpft und verboten – Frauen in der Medizin. Amalthea Signum 2026

 Daniela Angetter-Pfeiffer: Bekämpft und verboten – Frauen in der Medizin. Amalthea Signum 2026. ISBN 978-3-99050-308-9

»Cerebrale Unfähigkeit« – mit diesem Vorwurf wurden Frauen jahrhundertelang aus den Hörsälen der Medizin ferngehalten. Dabei waren Hebammen längst die wichtigsten Ärztinnen der Frauen – und Marketenderinnen sowie Krankenschwestern leisteten weit mehr als bloße Pflege. Schon Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts waren Ärztinnen für das Gesundheitswesen unentbehrlich und doch kaum wertgeschätzt.Dieses Buch erzählt von Frauen, die heilten, obwohl man ihnen misstraute, die lernten, obwohl man ihnen den Zugang verwehrte, und die forschten, obwohl ihre Arbeit oft unterschätzt wurde. Von der Pionierin der Krankenversorgung Florence Nightingale, Österreichs erster Gesundheitsministerin Ingrid Leodolter oder der Medizinnobelpreisträgerin Gerty Cori, die nur im Schatten ihres Ehemannes forschen konnte. Es erzählt von Mut, Widerstand und außergewöhnlichem Engagement, aber auch von Ausgrenzung, Verfolgung und verlorenen Karrieren aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart.

Russia’s war on Ukrainian science (The EI Podcast)

 

(October 1, 2026): Earlier this week, a Russian drone strike hit the National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv, bringing terror to the historic centre of Ukraine’s capital and damaging a symbol of national independence. Paul Josephson speaks to Jack Dickens about why Vladimir Putin is targeting Ukraine’s leading research institutes.

URL: https://engelsbergideas.com/podcast/russias-war-on-ukrainian-science/