hps.cesee global book talk
Thursday 17 September
16:00-18:00 BST / 17:00-19:00 CET / 18:00-20:00 MSK / 11:00-13:00 pm EDT
The virtual platform History of Science in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe is proud to present the next event in its ‘global book talk’ series: Habsburg Universities 1848-1918: Biography of a Space, with Jan Surman (Moscow-Frankfurt) and Katalin Stráner (Southampton) as discussants and Markian Prokopovych (Durham) as moderator. It is part of a series of open zoom events aiming to foster the discussion of new books and approaches within the history of science (broadly understood) in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
Between 1848 and 1918, Habsburg universities transformed from places that trained bureaucrats into strongholds of science and scholarship. At the same time, they became nation-building institutions and institutions nationalists fought for. Jan Surman’s book [*] engages with the question of this transformation. Looking at universities in Cisleithania, the book, as its title suggests, is a social history of multilingual spaces. By looking at universities in Cisleithania, it explores how changes in the languages of education influenced scholars’ mobility and mobility patterns in the Habsburg Empire. At the same time, the book studies how universities changed between the mid-19th century and the end of the empire, facing increasing nationalism, anti-Semitism, and Catholic antimodernism.
The meeting is open to the public. To receive the link, please fill the contact data here: https://forms.gle/9TqX4MXqwBYRd6Td9 or write to mailto:hps.cesee@gmail.com. The link will be distributed 24 hours before the start of the meeting.
[*] Surman, Jan Jakub. Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918. A social history of a multilingual space. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press 2020. Open Access: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24991
The event is hosted by the platform hps.cesee: History of Science in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe and the History Department at Durham University.
Jan Surman is a historian of science and scholarship, focusing on Central and Eastern Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His research focuses on scientific transfer, academic mobility, scientific internationalism, and the history of the history of science. Surman most recently worked at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow.
Katalin Stráner is a historian of modern Europe, specialising in the history of science, migration, urban history and culture, and the study of translation and reception in the history of ideas. Her work has focused on modern Eastern and Central Europe in a transnational perspective. She is currently Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Southampton.
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