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/

Gáspár Salamon: Stilarchitektur? Transfer kunsthistorischen Wissens in der ungarischen Architekturlehre (1864–1914).

 Gáspár Salamon: Stilarchitektur? Transfer kunsthistorischen Wissens in der ungarischen Architekturlehre (1864–1914). Böhlau 2026. ISBN 978-3-412-53436-3

Über dieses Buch

Die Josephs-Technische Hochschule in Budapest behauptete sich im ausgehenden 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert als Bollwerk einer an historischen Stilen orientierten Baupraxis. Unter der Ägide der Stilarchitektur bereitete der ungarische Architekturunterricht einen fruchtbaren Rezeptionsboden für Wissensbestände der deutschsprachigen Kunstgeschichtsschreibung des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ausgehend von zu architekturgeschichtlichen Vorlesungen entstandenen Manuskripten spürt Gáspár Salamon dem Nachleben kunsthistorischer Wissensstrukturen nach. Er fragt auch danach, wie an Baustilen haftende Konzepte und Wertvorstellungen durch diesen Wissenstransfer auf die Stilauffassung und gestalterische Haltung der Lehrenden und Lernenden einwirkten, die das damalige Baugeschehen in Ungarn maßgeblich prägten.

Arkadiusz S. Więch: Della Croce. Życie i działalność Stanisława Krzyżanowskiego (1865-1917) [Della croce: Life and work of Stanisław Krzyżanowski (1865-1917)].

Arkadiusz S. Więch: Della Croce. Życie i działalność Stanisława Krzyżanowskiego (1865-1917) [Della croce: Life and work of Stanisław Krzyżanowski (1865-1917)]. Historia Iagellonica 2026. ISBN: 978-83-67497-83-1

Książka pióra Arkadiusza Stanisława Więcha wypełnia dotkliwą lukę w polskiej historiografii (...). Stanisław Krzyżanowski, wybitny historyk mediewista, paleograf i znawca nauk pomocniczych historii, archiwista, muzealnik, zasłużony akademik, dydaktyk oraz miłośnik Krakowa, współzałożyciel i prezes Towarzystwa Miłośników Historii i Zabytków Krakowa, był postacią nietuzinkową i niezwykle dynamiczną. Wiódł życie na tyle intensywne, że współcześnie wymaga to od jego biografa nie lada wysiłku oraz wysokich kompetencji badawczych i warsztatowych. Studia nad jego życiem i działalnością wymagały wnikliwej analizy wielkiej, zróżnicowanej i rozproszonej bazy źródłowej (...). Arkadiusz Stanisław Więch w udany sposób zrekonstruował życiową drogę bohatera swojej książki i teraz zabiera w tę podróż czytelników.  

 

(z recenzji profesora Łukasza T. Sroki)