Thursday 30 January 2020

Economic Knowledge in Socialism, 1945-89 AN ISSUE OF: HISTORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMYJOURNAL ISSUE, VOLUME 51/6




Special Issue Editor(s): Till Düppe, Ivan Boldyrev
This cross-disciplinary special issue focuses on economic knowledge in socialist countries during the second half of the twentieth century. Through a series of historical case studies, the issue embraces a wide variety of perspectives on the ways economy and society were conceptualized behind the Iron Curtain. Contributors explore the entanglement of ideology and economic discourse, the political dimensions of cybernetic technocracy, and the various faces of Cold War rationality of socialism.

Contributors: Oleg Ananyin, Johanna Bockman, Ivan Boldyrev, Till Düppe, Richard Ericson, Yakov Feygin, Olessia Kirtchik, Martha Lampland, Adam Leeds, Denis Melnik, Chris Miller, György Peteri, Egle Rindzeviciute, Vítezslav Sommer, Joachim Zweynert

Call for Papers: Museum Networks and Museum History, MGHG Conference 16/17 July 2020, Deadline 06.03.2020


Museums and Galleries History Group conference 2020
Museum Networks and Museum History Kew Gardens, 16-17 July Call for papers Networks have become an increasingly important part of the analytical toolkit used by historians of museums and collections. As scholars have moved away from narrative institutional histories, they have embraced the study of social and material networks as approaches which expand understandings of museums. In Chris Gosden and Frances Larson’s words, museums can then be seen as ‘innumerable sets of connections between people and objects …[which] extend over time and through space’. Such approaches have themselves been fuelled by the growth of similar ideas such as Actor Network Theory and object biographies. These new approaches have been especially useful in recovering forms of agency beyond those of powerful institutional actors, especially curators, and have highlighted the contributions of, for example, object creators and mediators, informants and collecting assistants, as well as, sometimes, of objects themselves. They have drawn attention to the formation of new social identities and forms of expertise; have shown the extent of material flows around the world in relation to museums; revealed the role of affect and the relational in museum history; and encouraged closer attention to the different physical properties of things. There have, though, been some differences of emphasis on whether networks in museum history are a useful metaphor, a set of statistical analyses, or a theoretical model. This conference seeks to take critical stock of the role of networks in understanding the history of museums and collections. It welcomes proposals which use networks of various sorts as tools of analysis, or which engage with the methodological/theoretical issues raised by networks and/or the rejection of network approaches. It is keen to see proposals which interrogate approaches from other disciplines. Contributions may respond to (but are not limited to): * Networks of museum donors and makers * Networks and empire; networks and power * Professional networks and modern identities * Global and transnational networks * Networks and the role of indigenous knowledge * Affect and the role of materiality * Actor Network Theory and museum/collection history * Networks of museums, collections, people, objects * Museum practice and museum networks * The limits of networks as analytical tools Plenary contributors tbc Submissions may be for individual papers, panels of 3 papers, or posters. Paper proposals should be for papers of 20 minutes’ length. Proposals should be 250 words max and include a title as well as the name, contact details and affiliation (if applicable) of the speaker. Panel proposals should consist of a panel title, proposals for 3 papers, along with a rationale for the panel theme, and contact details and affiliations (if applicable) of all participants. Please indicate whether you will provide a chair for your session or not (it does not matter which). Poster proposals are also welcomed. Please follow proposal guidelines for papers while indicating clearly that a poster is proposed. All the above proposals should be sent to contact@mghg.info by 6 March 2020. Please note all speakers and poster presenters will be expected to pay the conference registration fee, but we aim to keep the fee as low as possible.

Call for Papers: Historisches Forum „Erde – Natur – Wissen“, Leipzig 8.-10.07.2020. Deadline 30.04.2020


Vom 8. bis 10. Juli findet in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde in Leipzig die erste Tagung des Historischen Forums „Erde – Natur – Wissen“ statt. Unter dem Stichwort „Wissensgeschichte“ wird seit einigen Jahren in den historischen Kulturwissenschaften ein ebenso innovatives wie integratives Konzept diskutiert. Der Ansatz ist breit aufgestellt, diversifiziert sich in unterschiedliche inhaltliche Stränge und formt thematisch bunte Cluster neu. Die Wissensgeschichte geht über herkömmliche Themen und Ansätze der traditionellen Ideen-, Methoden- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte hinaus und führt zu einer größeren Interdisziplinarität. Zugleich birgt der Zugang auch Chancen für neue Forschungsfragen zur Geschichte der Erdwissenschaften und ihren Forschungsrichtungen (u.a. Geologie, Physische Geographie, Geophysik, Mineralogie), aber auch darüber hinausgehend zu einer Geschichte erdbezogenen Wissens jenseits ausgetretener Pfade. Wir betonen daher den hybriden Charakter von Wissen am Schnittpunkt unterschiedlicher Felder, von denen die Geschichte der Erdwissenschaften nur eines von vielen ist. Uns interessieren unterschiedliche Kategorien des Wissens, u.a. praktisches, nonverbales, symbolisches, aber auch gesichertes wissenschaftliches und ungesichertes Wissen sowie deren Beziehungen. Dabei geht es um Praktiken der Herstellung, Zirkulation und des Gebrauchs erd- und naturbezogenen Wissens, ihren sozialen und kulturellen Implikationen von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Zeitgeschichte. Umso mehr ist es vonnöten, verschiedene Initiativen und zukunftsversprechende konzeptuelle Ausrichtungen vor dem Hintergrund dieser Entwicklung zu diskutieren. Das Forum richtet sich an ForscherInnen und NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen, die ein Interesse an transnationalen und -disziplinären Ansätzen in der Wissenschafts- und Wissensgeschichte bezogen auf die Felder „Erde – Natur – Wissen“ teilen. Die Initiative intendiert einen Austausch zwischen KollegInnen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz sowie eine Intensivierung von Beziehungen zwischen allenfalls bereits bestehenden nationalen Gruppen zur Geschichte der Geographie und Geowissenschaften in einem neuen, jenseits disziplinärer Grenzen bestehenden Rahmen. Willkommen sind Vorschläge für Vorträge oder kürzere Werkstattberichte auf Deutsch oder Englisch.
Bitte senden Sie dazu Ihren Titelvorschlag nebst einem Abstract von ca. 250 Wörtern bis zum 30. April 2020 an: erdenaturwissen@gmx.de
Zudem finden während der Tagung eine Roundtable-Diskussion zum Thema „Geschichte(n) der Erdwissenschaften oder erdbezogenen Wissens? Quo vadis?“ und als Rahmenprogramm eine Führung durch die Geographische Zentralbibliothek und das Archiv für Geographie in Leipzig sowie am Freitag, den 10. Juli, eine Tagesexkursion zur Sammlung Perthes in Gotha statt. Zugleich sind wir als Initiatoren für Vorschläge jeder Art offen und werden das Programm dafür flexibel halten.
Berlin und Wien 2020,
Norman Henniges - Marianne Klemun - Johannes Mattes

Call for Papers: XXXIX Scientific Instrument Symposium, 14-19 September 2020, London, UK. Deadline 29.02.2020

Symposium theme: Spaces for Instruments

The ‘spatial turn’ in history of science and historical geography has seen fruitful exploration of the situatedness of knowledge production and practice. Instrument historians have paid close attention to how instruments have been made, used and understood in a variety of spaces.
This year’s theme reflects some current interests of our host institutions. The Science Museum’s new Science City 1550-1800 gallery explores how scientific instrument making and experimental practice shaped, and were shaped by, the growing city of London. The forthcoming Royal Museums Greenwich Royal Observatory 350 project will explore the legacy of one of the most iconic sites in instrument history. Museums are also in their own right significant spaces for the preservation, study and public interpretation of scientific instruments.
The theme also builds on excellent discussions at recent SIC Symposia which have explored instruments at the crossroads, infrastructure, global/local and east/west narratives.
We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers that address this theme.
Topics to explore could include, but are not limited to:
  • Case studies of particular spaces of practice, including laboratories, observatories, workshops and factories, teaching spaces, instruments in the field
  • Instruments crossing between spaces during their lives (from manufacture, to different uses, to obsolescence)
  • The uses and roles of instruments in contested spaces and encounters, including perspectives on colonialism and conflict
  • Instruments in public and popular spaces, including how such spaces feature instruments today
  • Instruments in religious and secular spaces
  • The role of instruments in crossing intellectual spaces
As always, we will also welcome proposals for sessions, papers or posters on any topic dealing with the material culture of science.
Abstracts should be submitted by 29 February 2019. Please send your abstracts using the SIC abstract template.
Abstracts should be sent to research@sciencemuseum.ac.uk with the subject heading Scientific Instrument Symposium – Submission.

Call for Papers: The Humanities in Authoritarian Times, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, 02.07.2020 - 03.07.2020, Deadline 28.02.2020


What challenges do the humanities face under the global rise of authoritarianism? How do the humanities respond to the pressures posed by the new power formations of the contemporary totalitarian and authoritarian regimes? This conference seeks to interrogate how the humanities resist, align with, and are co-opted by the political and market forces fostered by ethno-nationalism, neoliberalism, and the insidious rise of authoritarianism. As the lines between authoritarian and non-authoritarian regimes have become increasingly tenuous, so to have the lines of intellectual complicity. Moreover, as totalitarian movements established themselves in the 20th century, the humanities often provided significant ideological support to the totalizing narratives of such regimes. History, literature, philosophy, among others, helped to established historical narratives, national identities and theories of legitimation throughout the 20th century. These movements—National Socialism above all—have provided the standard formulae for understanding the mechanisms of authoritarian regimes. Do lessons drawn from the 20th century broaden our understanding of the current crises in the humanities? Or do they in fact narrow the field of vision? What role do the humanities play when democracies die?
By addressing the historical and regional specificities facing the humanities globally, this workshop seeks to address questions such as:
- How do neoliberal economic pressures align with authoritarian regimes? - What form must humanities research and pedagogy take in order to withstand the logic of market justification and the standards of quantification under contemporary higher-education revenue models? - In what ways are the humanities co-opted by anti-democratic forces, as seen in the evocation of Hannah Arendt by the Erasmus-Stiftung affiliated with the party Alternative für Deutschland? When are the humanities simply targeted for elimination, as exemplified by the banning of Gender Studies in Hungary and the systematic defunding of universities under Bolsonaro in Brazil? - How do humanities scholars respond to the kind of violence recently witnessed on Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University? - How do scholars and students resist when they are forcefully conscripted into nation-building projects, as seen on campuses in India and Hong Kong? And how do they collaborate, as in the case of India’s RSS and ABVP? - How can student activism be mobilized as a source of resistance or in the service of fascist radicalization, as occurred during the phase of “Aryanization” of German universities in the Nazi era? - When do the market pressures of pre-professional training systematically render the humanities superfluous, as witnessed in the US and UK? How does the increasing precarity of scholarly careers undermine scholars’ ability to resist political pressures? - What sort of formal and informal mechanisms for ideological oversight exist to police scholars in the humanities, such as online watchlists maintained by voluntary vigilantes or student information officers in China or Turning Point’s “Professor Watchlist” in the US?
The intention of this workshop is to bring together a group of scholars to discuss how the humanities can respond to authoritarian regimes and to explore historical instances of complicity and resistance. A central goal of the workshop is to rethink the nature of complicity in order to understand the evolving scripts of resistance. It also seeks to examine what role the humanities can play in rebuilding democracies in the wake of authoritarian regimes or genocidal atrocities. The workshop will seek to explore how academics can balance the demands of professionalized disciplines in competitive quantified environments of productivity with current political challenges. How and what are we to think in the age of austerity? Is it possible that the university is no longer a site in which the humanities can flourish? If so, what kinds of new institutions must we begin to imagine? The workshop seeks to ignite a conversation among scholars at different stages of their careers facing specific global challenges.
Proposals will be accepted from scholars at any stage in their career, including advanced PhD students, postdoctoral scholars, junior and senior faculty. Please submit a 500-word abstract to humanitiesinauthoritariantimes@gmail.com by Feb. 28th, 2020.
This two-day workshop is hosted by the German Literature Archive in Marbach, Germany and is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Participants will receive accommodation and meals during the duration of the workshop. Limited travel funding is available for scholars without access to sufficient travel funds. For questions about the conference please contact Adam Knowles (Drexel University) at ajk358@drexel.edu.

Monday 27 January 2020

Konf: Polish-German History. A New Historiographical Field and its Contribution to the History of Europe, Paris 12-13.02.2020


Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris (12 February 2020) Centre scientifique de l’Académie polonaise des sciences (13 February 2020) German-Polish history is an innovative and stimulating field in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. We propose to reflect the historiographical and memorial challenges that governed the formation of this field as well as the concepts and methods on which it has since been built. They are now the basis for the dynamics of the field, due in particular to its ability to associate different scales of analysis from the local to the global level. Special attention will be paid to the contribution of Polish-German history and other »bi-national« historiographies like Franco-German history to the project of writing European history especially when it comes to the specific approaches forged or adopted by historians in these fields (transfer, shared history, histoire croisée, connected history, entangled history, Zwischenraum). Partners: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) – Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau (DHI Warschau) – Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris (DHIP) – École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris: Centre d’études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen, Centre Georg Simmel, Centre de recherches historiques – Polska Akademia Nauk, Stacja Naukowa w Paryżu – Université de Lille: Institut de recherches historiques du Septentrion – Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. Scientific Committee: Jawad Daheur (CNRS, Paris), Jürgen Finger (DHIP), Maciej Górny (DHI Warschau), Catherine Gousseff (CNRS, Paris), Morgane Labbé (EHESS, Paris), Thomas Serrier (Université de Lille). Information and reservation: 1st conference day and 1st round table: event@dhi-paris.fr 2nd conference day and 2nd round table: secretariat@paris.pan.pl
Wednesday, 12 February 2020 –  Institut historique allemand, 8 rue du Parc-Royal,75003 Paris
13h30 – Meet and Greet 14h00 – Director’s Welcome: Thomas Maissen (DHIP)
  • Introduction: Jawad Daheur (CNRS), Jürgen Finger (DHIP), Morgane Labbé (EHESS)
14h30 – Varying Scale and Scope: Regional and Local Histories Moderator: Catherine Gousseff (CNRS, Paris)
  • James Bjork (King’s College London) – Locating and Scaling Religious Histories
  • Béatrice von Hirschhausen (CNRS/Géographie–cités) – »Geonarratives«: How to Address Space/Time Dissociation in the Central European Experience
  • Katja Wezel (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) – Multiethnic Urban Spaces in the Era of Nationalism. The Baltic Region and the Example of Riga
  • Alexandra Hnatiuk (Uniwersytet Warszawski) – On the Asymmetry of National Narratives: The Case of 20th-Century Polish-Ukrainian Relations
17h00 –  Coffee break 17h30 – Round table: How a Research Field Is Institutionalized:  Memory, Politics and German-Polish Historiography Moderator: to be announced
  • Emmanuelle Hébert (Université catholique de Louvain)
  • Pavel Kolář (Universität Konstanz)
  • Peter Oliver Loew (Deutsches Polen-Institut, Darmstadt)
  • Michael Müller (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
Buffet dinner (for participants)
Thursday, 13 February 2020 – Centre scientifique de l’Académie polonaise des Sciences 74 rue Lauriston, 75116 Paris
9h00 – Director’s Welcome: Maciej Forycki (PAN – Stacja Naukowa w Paryżu) From Memorialization to the History of Memory: Poland and Germany Moderator: Thomas Serrier (université de Lille)
  • Iwona Dadej (Freie Universität Berlin) – Strategien des frauenpolitischen Erinnerns – die Jahre 1928/29 und 2018 in Polen oder: Frauengeschichte als Kulturkampf in der Zweiten und Dritten Republik Polens
  • Kornelia Kończal (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) – Erinnerungsgeschichte als Beziehungsgeschichte:  ein deutsch-polnischer Sonderweg?
  • Małgorzata Praczyk & Maciej Michalski (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Poznań) – Environmental Memory, Things and the Problem of the Commemoration of German Cultural and Natural Heritage in the Myśla River Region near Kustrin after 1945
  • Stephan Stach (Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN, Warszawa) – Im Schatten zweier Mauern. Das Jüdische Historische Institut in Warschau und die deutsch-deutsche Holocausterinnerung im Kalten Krieg
11h00 – Coffee break 11h30 – From Imperial to Colonial History of Eastern Europe: Perspectives and Challenges Moderator: Jawad Daheur (CNRS, Paris)
  • Claudia Kraft (Universität Wien) – Knowledge – Power – Relations: German-Polish History in (Post-)Colonial Perspective or in a Perspective of the History of Relations
  • Justyna Turkowska (University of Edinburgh) – Von Akteuren, Objekten und (post)kolonialen Vorstellungswelten: deutsch-polnische Verflechtungsgeschichte über ihre Grenzen hinaus
  • Martin Schulze Wessel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) – Universalistische und partikularistische Legitimationen von Politik in Deutschland und Polen
13h00 – Lunch buffet (for participants) 14h30 – Transnational History and the Circulation of  Scientists and Experts Moderator: Morgane Labbé (EHESS, Paris)
  • Maciej Górny (DHI Warschau/PAN) – The Language of Profession: German and Science in East Central Europe
  • Martin Kohlrausch (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) – Lives and Letters: Reconstructing the Project of Modernism through the Correspondence of Architects. Poland and East Central Europe in the First Half of the 20th Century
  • Alexei Lokhmatov (Universität zu Köln) – Polish Social Sciences in the European Academic Landscape: The Public Debates on the Genealogy of Sociological Approaches in Post-War Poland (1945–1956)
  • Katrin Steffen (Nordost-Institut, Lüneburg) – Knowledge on the Move: How the History of Science Contributes to Polish-German (and Global) History
  • Jan Surman (National Research University: Higher School of Economics, Moscow) – Who is Afraid of Entangled German-Polish History of Scientific Knowledge?
16h30 – Coffee break 17h- Roundtable – Narratives of Europe’s Past: Experiences from  Franco-German and German-Polish Historiography Moderator: Jürgen Finger (DHIP)
  • Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
  • Włodzimierz Borodziej (Uniwersytet Warszawski)
  • Mareike König (DHIP)
  • Michael Werner (EHESS, Paris)
Cocktail

Call for Papers: Unwilling Nomads: The Transnational Consequences of Forced Migration in Europe, 1910 – 1955, Oxford Brookes University, 21.05.2020 - 22.05.2020, Deadline 31.01.2020


The aim of this conference is to bring together early career scholars from different disciplines to explore the transnational consequences of forced migration within and from Europe during its most violent and destructive era. As modern conflict definitively moved away from the battlefield to engage entire societies, war-induced migration resulted in the formation of different diasporas, which still impact our world today. Throughout the continent this period saw deliberate and sustained efforts to exclude the ‘other’, leading to transnational migration patterns and population transfers. These involuntary movements shaped both the countries of departure and the countries of arrival, presenting the respective societies with different opportunities and threats. Some refugees saw their stay as temporary, and made little effort to integrate in the host society. Others saw their migration as more permanent, and set up political organisations and founded their own media, or organised fundraising campaigns on behalf of the imagined homeland. These efforts did not only serve to cement migrant communities, but were also used, with varying success, to appeal to governments and public opinion in the host countries. Culminating in the profile of the migrant groups we still discern today, the experiences of refugees and expellees – as well as their later attempts to navigate the realities of being uprooted – will be the focus of this conference.
‘Unwilling Nomads: The Transnational Consequences of Forced Migration in Europe, 1910 – 1955’ is a two-day conference organised at Oxford Brookes University, open to all PhD students and early career researchers from different subject areas across the humanities and social sciences. Papers with a trans-disciplinary approach are especially welcome as the primary aim of this conference is to provide a forum for an exchange of various historical and current perspectives on the transnational consequences of forced migration.
Conference themes include (but are not limited to): - The realities of flight and expulsion as a result of war and conflict - Forced migration as collective punishment - Diasporas and long-distance nationalism - Actors and their motivations - Intellectual exile and the cross-fertilisation of national cultures - Memory and denial of forced migration
We have begun discussions with Palgrave MacMillan, and we intend to publish an edited volume (subject to peer-review). If you are interested in presenting a paper, we therefore welcome a 450-word abstract of your research, and a one-page C.V., which can be sent to Dr. Michał Palacz and Dr. Bastiaan Willems at unwillingnomads@gmail.com
The deadline for submission is 31 January 2020. If your paper is accepted, we expect a large draft (3,500 words or more) of your paper by 16 May 2020. The deadline of the full paper for publication (7,000 – 8,000 words) is 1 November 2020.

"The Past and Present of Political Epistemologies of Eastern Europe, thematic section by Friedrich Cain, Bernhard Kleeberg, Jan Surman in Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne



At the very end of 2019, "Historyka: Studia Metodologiczne" published its 49th issue, which includes a section "The Past and Present of Political Epistemologies of Eastern Europe", edited by Friedrich Cain, Bernhard Kleeberg and Jan Surman, with articles by Marta Bucholz & Maciej Komornik, Galina Babak, Vedran Duančić, Aleksei Lokhmatov, Daria Petushkova and Anna Echterhölter. And some other texts pertaining to history of science. Enjoy!

All articles in OPEN ACCESS. Language - as the language of respective title.

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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 (18...