Prae- and Postdoc positions at the at the Faculty centre for transdisciplinary historical-cultural studies, University of Vienna

University Assistant (post doc) at the Faculty centre for transdisciplinary historical-cultural studies, University of Vienna: (pdf, DE&ENG) http://tiny.cc/xu4lsz & (univis portal) http://tiny.cc/1v4lsz

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Maria Todorova, The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins: Imagining Utopia, 1870s - 1920s. London: Bloomsbury Academic 2020. ISBN:9781350150331

ABOUT THE LOST WORLD OF SOCIALISTS AT EUROPE’S MARGINS

Maria Todorova's book is devoted to the 'golden age' of the socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time of the Second International. It critically examines the promise for an alternative socialist utopia from 1870 to the 1920s. Todorova brings in the experience of the periphery in a comparative context in the belief that the margins can often elucidate better the character of a phenomenon, and de-provincialize it from essentialist notions. In doing so, The Lost World of Socialists at Europe's Margins moves beyond the traditional historiographical emphasis on ideology by looking at different intersections or entanglements of spaces, generations, genders, ideas and feelings, and different flows of historical time. The study provides a social and cultural history of early socialism in Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Bulgaria, arguably the country with the earliest and strongest socialist movement in Southeast Europe, and one that had a unique relationship to both German and Russian social democracy. Based on a rich prosopographical database of around 3500 biographies of people born in the 19th century, the book addresses the interplay of several generations of leftists, looking at the specifics of how ideas were generated, received, transferred and transformed. Finally, the work investigates the intersection between subjectivity and memory as reflected in a unique cache of archival materials containing over 4000 documentary sources including diaries, oral interviews, and unpublished memoirs. A microhistorical approach to this material allows the reconstruction of 'structures of feeling' that inspired an exceptional group of individuals.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface Part I – Centers and Peripheries 1. Accommodating Bulgarian Social Democracy within the Socialist International 2. Provincial Cosmopolitans and Metropolitan Nationalists Part II - Generations 3. The Prosopography of the Bulgarian Left 4. Tales of Formation 5. Socialist Women or Socialist Wives Part III – Structures of Feeling 6. Dignity and Will: The Odyssey of Angelina Boneva 7. Love and Internationalism: The Diary of Todor Tsekov 8. Romanticism and Modernity: Koika Tineva and Nikola Sakarov Coda Bibliography Index

REVIEWS

“This brilliant study by Maria Todorova makes crucial contributions both to the history of European socialism and the history of southeastern Europe, while also offering a pioneering investigation of the history of the sentiments and emotions in relation to political thought.” –  Larry Wolff, Julius Silver Professor of History, New York University, USA“The Bulgarian socialist movement was one of the main intellectual transmitter belts for political, social and economic ideas between Russia, Western Europe and Germany--the stronghold of international socialism before World War I--on the one hand and post-Ottoman Bulgaria on the other. Maria Todorova brilliantly reconstructs a "lost world": The pan-European network of socialist theoreticians and activists like Blagoev and Kautsky, Kirkov and Trotsky, and many others. A must read for every Europeanist!” –  Stefan Troebst, Professor of East European Cultural History, Leipzig University, Germany“A triumphant vindication of the historian's view from the periphery. Using Bulgaria as the fulcrum for her analysis, Todorova challenges taken-for-granted approaches to early European socialism, while at the same time re-animating the ideas, experiences and emotions of men and women who shared the potent dream of 'a utopia of the future'.” –  Wendy Bracewell, Professor of Southeast European History, University College London, UK

History of science and technology, 2020/1 (Kiev) (open access, English)

PREFACE

• PREFACE ,7-9, PDF
  

HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY

• An evolutionary study of production of electricity in Ghana (1900–1960s), Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Kwasi Amakye-Boateng, Dennis Awuah, Richard Oware, Stephen Quansah, 10-33, PDF
  
Cooperation with AEG in 1925–1928 as the first form of scientific-technical borrowings in the electric machine-building industry of the Ukrainian SSR, Ihor Annienkov, 34-49, PDF

The impact of decisions of Mining Industrialists Congresses on the Industrial Revolution increasing in Ukraine in the late XIX century, Maryna Gutnyk, Serhii Radohuz, 50-61 PDF

The role of V. Lihin's scientific publications in international journals, Olha Oliinyk, 62-71, PDF

Prerequisites of formation and development of mainline electric locomotives engineering at the Luhansk diesel locomotives engineering plant (1957–2014), Mykola Ruban, 72-87, PDF

Engineer of the communication lines Mykola Pavlovych Petrov (1836–1920): factors for his scientific views’ formation, Volodymyr Yanin, 88-99 PDF

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

• Academician Pavlova Mariia Vasylivna (1854–1938): life and scientific work, Hanna Deforzh, 100-109 PDF
  
• Russian women at the beginning of human genetics, Roman Fando, 110-126, PDF
  
• Contribution of Yu. A. Kulakovskyi to the development of antique archeology in the Nestor Chronicler Historical Society, Oksana Hrytsiuta, 127-137 PDF
  
• Army Forces and epidemic diseases: A travel through the XIXth century International Sanitary Conferences, Enrique Wulff, 138-150, PDF

Call for Papers: Logistical Power. Infrastructures and State Formation Beyond the Nation State. Munich, 27.11.2020-28.11.2020, Deadline 10.08.2020

In the formation of modern cities and states, logistical infrastructures have become a primary concern of governance. As they organize and monitor the movement of data, energy, goods and many more, they by analogy also redistribute resources and power, regulate services for urban populations, reconfigure administrations and create new knowledge as well as technologies. Moreover, logistical infrastructures produce their own spatialities by exploiting labor, bypassing national regulations and generating new geographies: from container terminals and fulfillment centers, to logistics cities, offshore islands and special economic zones. These practices and processes of reterritorialization have accordingly spurred heated debates on regulation, taxation, public goods and privacy. But do logistical infrastructures affect statehood and vice versa? And if so, how exactly? Which processes of state formations do they support and which do they prevent? And in which ways are different (non-)state actors involved in the implementation, use and maintenance of logistical infrastructures?

Using the lens of logistical power (Gregson et al. 2017), this workshop aims to focus on the co-production of large-scale logistical infrastructures and state formation which go beyond national frameworks. In order to shed light on the dis/continuities between contemporary and historical modes of channeling, monitoring and controlling flows, we invite papers on contemporary as well as historical case studies of visioning, planning, realizing and regulating logistical infrastructures.

We seek contributions that will address – but are not limited to – the following questions:

- How do/did states gain and exercise power through logistical infrastructures? - Which actors are/were involved in the development, implementation and control of logistical infrastructures in nation states and beyond? - How are/were multiple visions and imaginaries of statehood entangled with such projects? - Which rationalities, models and devices are/were applied? - Which collectives are/were affected by such logistical infrastructures and which forms of claim-making, contestation and engagement can we observe?

Submission: Drawing on relational, process, practice and materiality oriented approaches, we invite both conceptual and empirical contributions from various fields, including STS, history, geography, sociology and anthropology. Please send paper proposals of no more than 300 words along with a one-page CV to felix.mauch@tum.de and silvan.pollozek@tum.de by August 10, 2020. The organizers will cover basic expenses for travel and accommodation.

Please note: Given the continued uncertainty caused by the current COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop may take place in a virtual format.

Url: https://www.mcts.tum.de/en/

Kühne, Thomas Strobel, Robert Traba, Marcin Wiatr (Hg.) (2020), Kulturlandschaften in Deutschland und Polen. Akteure und Modi ihrer Konstruktion und Narration. Göttingen: V&R Press 2020. ISBN: 978-3-7370-0750-4

What do we mean when we talk about cultural landscapes? This volume examines different perceptions, interpretations and assessments of cultural landscapes, based on German, Polish and bilateral studies. The aim is not only to present different readings of landscape and its social science research in a German-Polish comparison, but also to explore and offer alternative interpretations and empirical approaches as an option for one's own research in the sense of an interdisciplinary orientation. The volume thus serves as a guide that constructs revealing narratives that help find new, deeper interpretive contexts of meaning in the exploration, discovery and decoding of cultural landscapes.

This publication is available in open access and can be downloaded here.

Was verstehen wir unter Kulturlandschaften? Der vorliegende Band befasst sich mit unterschiedlichen Verständnissen, Deutungen und Bewertungen von Kulturlandschaft, die sich auf deutsche, polnische und bilaterale Untersuchungen stützen. Ziel ist dabei nicht allein, Verständnisse von Landschaft und deren sozialwissenschaftlicher Beforschung im deutsch-polnischen Vergleich darzulegen, sondern im Sinne einer interdisziplinären Ausrichtung auch alternative Verständnisse und empirische Herangehensweisen als Option für die eigene Forschung zu erkunden und anzubieten. Der Band ist damit ein Wegweiser, der aufschlussreiche Narrationen konstruiert, die bei der Erkundung, Entdeckung und Entschlüsselung von Kulturlandschaften zu neuen, tieferen Sinnzusammenhängen verhelfen.

Die Publikation ist im Open Access verfügbar und kann hier kostenlos heruntergeladen werden.

URL: https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/literatur-sprach-und-kulturwissenschaften/interdisziplinaere-geisteswissenschaft/15798/kulturlandschaften-in-deutschland-und-polen?c=1747

Paweł Dybel: Nieświadome na scenie. Witkacy i psychoanaliza [The Unconscious on Stage: Witkacy and the Psychoanalysis] . Kraków: Universitas 2020. ISBN: 978-83-242-3621-3; ISBN e-book: 978-83-242-6457-5

Paweł Dybel w mistrzowski sposób wydobywa w książce różne aspekty splotu biografii i twórczości Witkacego, zrywając ze sposobem, w jaki ujmowano go w dotychczasowej tradycji interpretacyjnej. Wskazuje na kluczowe znaczenie, jakie dla uformowania się osobowości artystycznej pisarza miała jego terapia u Karola de Beauraina, który wprowadził go w tajniki psychoanalizy Freuda. Stąd wzięło się zainteresowanie Witkacego marzeniami sennymi oraz kreowanie przez niego bohaterów o powikłanej konstrukcji psychicznej, określonej przez różnego rodzaju „węzłowiska” (kompleksy). Jednym z takich „węzłowisk” jest motyw sobowtóra, sygnalizujący rozszczepienie tożsamości pisarza. Pojawia się on już w listach do Heleny Czerwijowskiej, na słynnej petersburskiej fotografii, później powraca w dramatach i powieściach. Mimo że o kluczowym wpływie zakopiańskiej terapii u de Beauraina na swoją twórczość Witkacy pisał w Niemytych duszach, w bogatej literaturze jej poświęconej ignorowano zazwyczaj to wyznanie. Nawiązując do tych autobiograficznych wypowiedzi autora Nienasycenia i śledząc psychoanalityczne wątki w jego pisarskim dorobku, Paweł Dybel proponuje w książce nowe spojrzenie naosobowość pisarza i jego pisarski dorobek.

prof. Ilona Błocian, Uniwersytet Wrocławski

URL: https://universitas.com.pl/produkt/4004/Nieswiadome-na-scenie-Witkacy-i-psychoanaliza

2020/2 of the journal Вопросы истории естествознания и техники//Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki [all articles in Russian with English abstracts, in OPEN ACCESS

URL: https://vietmag.org/issue.2020.2.2/

Issue publications 2

Author(s)

Pages

From the History of Science

The Contribution of V. I. Vernadsky and A. P. Vinogradov to Heavy Water Studies and to the Emergence of Isotope Studies in the USSR

Loriana Vinogradova

230-243

Social History of Science

“The Case of Professor V. M. Danchakova,” Or the Difficult Years of a Russian American in the Country of the Soviets

Roman Fando

244-279

At the Moscow’s Mathematical Front: From the History of Reorganization of the Moscow Mathematical Society in 1930

Galina Smirnova

280-310

From the History of Technology

B. S. Jacobi’s Works in the Field of Electric Telegraphy: Results and Comparative Analysis of Their Novelty

Nina Borisova

311-333

Lessons from History

The Role of the All-Russian Society for the Preservation of Historical and Cultural Monuments in the Identification, Examination, and Conservation of Industrial Heritage Monuments in 1960–1990

Elizaveta Lakhtionova

334-345

Sources for the History of Science and Technology

On an Unknown Review of D. D. Ivanenko’s Article by S. I. Vavilov

A. Vaganov

346-357

Institutions and Museums

The Activities of the Polytechnic Museum’s Chemical Laboratory in the 1920s – 1930s

Alla Nudel

358-372

Brief Communications

Methods and Means of Stereoscopic Photography On-Board Manned Spacecrafts: A Historical Overviewe

Dmitrii Shcherbinin

373-384

Calendar of Jubilee Dates

Calendar of Jubilee Dates

Marina Shleeva

385-387

Essay Review

The History of Genetics in St. Petersburg in the Mirror of Jubilee Publications

Eduard Kolchinskii

388-409

Book Reviews

Bogatova, T. V. Vladimir Sergeyevich Gulevich. 1867–1933 (Moscow, 2017), ISBN 978-5-02-040009-2

Tatiana Kursanova

410-417

Valkova, O. A. Storming the Citadel of Science: Women Scientists in the Russian Empire (Moscow, 2018), ISBN 978-5-4448-0953-2

Galina Liubina

418-422

Avshister, O. D. A Man ahead of Time: The Recollections about Professor L. E. Olifson (Orenburg, 2018)

Nikolay Shevlyuk

423-427

Books in Brief

Books in Brief

Marina Shleeva

428-431

Academic Life

The International Scientific Conference “History of Science and Technology: Sources, Monuments, Legacy”

Ekaterina Minina / Nadezda Osipova

432-439

JMR Moscow 2019. World Rabies Day

Tatiana Ulyankina

440-444

Events in Brief

Events in Brief

Editorial Office of the Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki journal

445-447

Dissertations

Dissertations

Marina Shleeva

448-449

2021 DHST DISSERTATION PRIZE COMPETITION CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Division of History of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST), invites submissions for the sixth DHST Dissertation Prize to be presented in July 2021. Initiated at the 22nd International Congress of History of Science in 2005 held in Beijing, IUHPST/DHST now awards the prize every two years. Up to three awards for recent Ph.D. historians of science and technology will recognize outstanding doctoral dissertations completed and filed between 1 September 2018 and 1 September 2020. The Prize does not specify distinct categories, but submissions must be on the history of science, technology, or medicine. The Award Committee endeavors to maintain the broadest coverage of subjects, geographical areas, chronology and civilizations (African, North American, South American, Asian, Islamic, Western and Ancient Civilizations, and others not included in this list). Prizes consist of a certificate, waiver of registration fees, assistance with travel and accommodation expenditures to the IUHPST/DHST Congress in Prague in July 2021. The winner of a prize whose dissertation engages substantially Islamic science and culture (over competitions five (2016-2018) and six (2018-2020), is also awarded the İhsanoğlu Prize funded by the Istanbul Foundation for Research and Education (ISAR). The Turkish Society of History of Science has graciously funded the İhsanoğlu Prize for the Congress following Prague 2021. AWARD COMMITTEE: The Award Committee includes DHST Council members and distinguished subject specialists. COMPETITION CALENDAR: Applications open 10 July 2020 and close 1 October 2020 (22:00, GMT). Announcement of prize winners for the sixth competition in early 2021. Award ceremony for winners of competitions 5 and 6: July 2021 in Prague. APPLICATION PARAMETERS: Submission in any language is welcome. All dissertations must be accompanied by a detailed summary in English of no more than 20 double-spaced pages. A list of previous winners and their projects may be found on the DHST web page at: http://dhstweb.org/awards/dhst-dissertation-prize<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdhstweb.org%2Fawards%2Fdhst-dissertation-prize&data=02%7C01%7C%7C89874007fce948a2706808d82e90db75%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C1%7C637310546975757624&sdata=A7scnyg%2BvY01CvGP80eS01j%2BfbRibhtS12XI2tdPAtg%3D&reserved=0> APPLICATION PROCEDURE: There are three elements. All three must be submitted in PDF format. Candidates should email one copy of the dissertation and the English language summary to (Mike.Osborne(at)oregonstate.edu). Applicants should request that their dissertation supervisor write a separate confidential letter (to the same email address) of three pages or less assessing the dissertation and its historiographical significance. The email header for all three elements should specify in the subject line DHST Dissertation Prize-2021- followed by the last name of the candidate as in this format: DHST Dissertation Prize-2021-Last Name. Michael A. Osborne, President, IUHPST/DHST Michael A. Osborne, Professor of History of Science Emeritus Oregon State University; President, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

Global Food History Prize for an Emerging Food Historian

The editors of Global Food History are pleased to announce the journal’s inaugural Prize for an Emerging Food Historian. Award winners will receive $100, the opportunity to have their contribution peer-reviewed and—pending successful reviews and revisions—published in the journal with an acknowledgment of the prize win. Articles should be 8,000 to 10,000 words (including notes), and should be based on primary source research. Articles should deal with at least one of the following historical concepts: time (change or continuity), causation and causality, context (historical and historiographical), or complexity. A full description of the journal’s aims and scope is available here.

This prize will be awarded to an early career scholar or an established historian who has not yet published in the field of food history. Early career applicants must be no longer than three years past receipt of a PhD by the stated submission deadline, but need not have received a PhD to apply. Revised seminar papers, MA and Mphil theses, and standalone dissertation chapters are all welcome. In the case of career breaks extending the time since earning a PhD beyond the three year limit, applicants may submit a 250-word statement making a case for inclusion. To apply for the prize, applicants should remove all identifying information from the body and notes of their draft article, and submit it as a Word or PDF document to Dr Rachel Herrmann (HerrmannR@cardiff.ac.uk) by 1 December 2020. Applicants should also include a brief cover letter stating their name, email address, affiliation, and date of PhD (if applicable).

URL: https://rachelbherrmann.com/global-food-history-prize-for-an-emerging-food-historian/

Centaurus, Volume 62, Issue 1 SPECIAL ISSUE:EDITORSHIP AND THE EDITING OF SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS, 1750–1950, ED. BY ISSUE EDITED BY: ANNA GIELAS, AILEEN FYFE

Centaurus, Volume 62, Issue 1

SPECIAL ISSUE:EDITORSHIP AND THE EDITING OF SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS, 1750–1950, ED. BY ISSUE EDITED BY: ANNA GIELAS, AILEEN FYFE

URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000498/2020/62/1

CONTENTS:         1. Editorial: 'What about editors? <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12313>', by Koen Vermeir *Special issue: /Editorship and the editing of scientific journals, 1750–1950 /* GUEST EDITORS: Anna Gielas and Aileen Fyfe /Editors of scientific journals are key gatekeepers for building careers and communicating knowledge, but we know far less about them than about scientific authors and readers. Using a variety of methodological approaches, this issue of Centaurus investigates the motivations for editorship, and the practices, strategies, and resources needed to carry it out successfully. It asks us to reflect on how editors, editing, and editorship have differed across countries, and over two centuries./ 2. Aileen Fyfe and Anna Gielas, 'Introduction: Editorship and the editing of scientific journals, 1750–1950 <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12290>' [Open access] 3. Noah Moxham, '“Accoucheur of literature”: Joseph Banks and the Philosophical Transactions, 1778–1820 <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12278>'[Open access] 4. Anna Gielas, 'Turning tradition into an instrument of research: The editorship of William Nicholson (1753–1815) <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12283>' [Open access] 5. Alexander Stoeger, 'Putting astronomy on the map: The launch of the first geographical‐astronomical journal <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12282>' [Open access] 6. Bill Jenkins, 'Commercial scientific journals and their editors in Edinburgh, 1819–1832 <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12276>' 7. Joris Vandendriessche, 'Turning journals into encyclopaedias: Medical editorship and reprinting in the Low Countries (1815–1860) <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12270>' 8. Jenny Beckman, 'Editors, librarians, and publication exchange: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the long 19th century https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12267>' [Open access] 9. Melinda Baldwin, 'The business of being an editor: Norman Lockyer, Macmillan and Company, and the editorship of Nature,1869–1919 <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12274>' 10. Aileen Fyfe, 'Editors, referees, and committees: Distributing editorial work at the Royal Society journals in the late 19th and 20th centuries <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12266>' *Articles* 11. Christián C. Carman, 'Vestiges of the emergence of overspecification and indifference to visual accuracy in the mathematical diagrams of medieval manuscripts <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12268>' 12. Ilana Wartenberg, 'A non‐linear transmission of Euclid's Elements in a medieval Hebrew calendrical treatise <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12277>' 13. Ofer Elior, 'What did medieval readers take to be “Al‐Ḥajjāj's version” of Euclid's Elements? The evidence of MS Paris, BnF, héb. 1011 <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12280>' **ESHS contributions**         14. Koen Vermeir, 'Centaurus at 70: Editors' perspectives <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12314>' *Book reviews* 15. /Image, imagination, and cognition: Medieval and Early Modern theory and practice/, edited by Christoph Lüthy, Claudia Swan, Paul J. J. M. Bakker, and Claus Zittel (2018: Brill) <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12242>, review by Sachiko Kusukawa 16. /Teaching and learning the sciences in Islamicate societies (800–1700)/, edited by Sonja Brentjes (2019: Brepols Publishers) <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12249>, review by Eric Chaney 17. /Logodaedalus: Word histories of ingenuity in early modern europe/, by Alexander Marr, Raphaële Garrod, José Ramón Marcaida, and Richard J. Oosterhoff (2019: University of Pittsburgh Press) <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12251>, review by Sorana Corneanu 18. /Making mathematical culture: University and print in the circle of Lefèvre d’Étaples/, by Richard J.Oosterhoff (2018: Oxford University Press) <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12252>, review by Angela Axworthy 19. /Un enfant à l'asile. Vie de Paul Taesch (1874–1914)/, by Anatole Le Bras (2018: CNRS Editions) <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12255>, review by Kim M. Hajek 20. /The scientific journal: Authorship and the politics of knowledge in the nineteenth century/, by Csiszar Alex (2018: Chicago University Press) <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12258>, review by Joris Vandendriessche * * *Book notice* 21. /Cunoaştere şi occidentalizare: O istorie a ştiinţei româneşti de la jumătatea secolului XIX până la începutul secolului XX/, by George Andrei Iavorenciuc (2018: Editura Mega) <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1600-0498.12254>, notice by Ovidiu Babeş

Call for papers: Remaking the University in Our Image. A conference by The Activist History Review. Saturday, September 12, 2020, 8:30am-12:00pm ET.

Academic work has never been more precarious. Between the neoliberal austerity measures that undercut higher education funding over the last decade and the COVID crisis that amplified the inequalities produced by this system, we face the very real prospect of the end of scholarly labor.

The abolition of the existing higher ed model is something to aspire to: the racist, ableist, and exploitative university labor system deserves to be destroyed. In its place, and in the meantime, we must pursue egalitarian forms of knowledge production with an eye toward public access to scholarship. That starts with transparent institutions and freely accessible work.

We must build a better, livable, and equitable normal. We must create the scholarly community that we all deserve; one that is supportive, antiracist, and acknowledges that the future we build together is shaped by historical processes we study.

To help facilitate egalitarian systems of knowledge production, The Activist History Review will host a digital symposium, “Remaking the University in Our Image,” for early career, independent, and contingent scholars. Paper and workshop proposals should address the work of building a scholarly community that is active and engaged in the world in which we all live, work, and struggle. We solicit proposals that use theory and historical example to lay out potential journeys toward or models for abolitionist, cautionary, and utopian visions of the future of higher education informed by the past.

Papers and chapters from scholars engaged in broadly defined activist historical work are also welcome. We encourage the submission of work from undergraduates, staff, faculty, and all members of the community.

Proposals should be no more than 250 words for papers, panels, or workshops, and should be emailed to activisthistory@gmail.com by August 10, 2020 at 11:59 PM. Please also include a short bio of no more than 100 words.

Conference date: Saturday, September 12, 2020, 8:30am-12:00pm ET.

Contact Email: horne.activisthistory@gmail.com

URL: https://activisthistory.com/2020/07/06/conference-remaking-the-university-in-our-image/

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