Monday 28 December 2020

С.М. Соловьев и его эпоха : К 200-летию со дня рождения историка. [S.M. Solovev and his times: For the 200th anniversary of the historians' birth], отв. ред. Ю.А. Петров, Ин-т рос. истории Рос. акад. наук. – Москва : Ин-т рос. истории РАН , 2020 . – 407, [1] с. ISBN 978-5-8055-0388-8.


OPEN ACCESS: http://www.iriran.ru/sites/default/files/soloviev_2020.pdf

Издательская аннотация:

Сборник статей посвящен 200-летнему юбилею великого российского историка Сергея Михайловича Соловьева. В нем на обширном документальном материале раскрывается многогранная деятельность С.М. Соловьева на ниве отечественной исторической науки и образования, прослеживается рецепция его научного наследия в историографии с конца XIX в. и до сегодняшних дней, рассматриваются актуальные проблемы истории и исторической науки России в период жизни и деятельности С.М. Соловьева. Авторы статей сборника представили результаты своих исследований на Всероссийской конференции с международным участием «С.М. Соловьев и его эпоха: К 200-летию со дня рождения историка», которая состоялась в Москве 20—21 октября 2020 г.


Владимир Зинченко. Память и воспоминания. [Vladimir Zinchenko: Memory and Memories], редактор-составитель Н.Д. Гордеева, научный редактор А.Н. Назаров. Центр Гуманитарных инициатив, 2021. ISBN: 978-5-98712-218-1

URL: https://academbook.ru/detail.aspx?id=41047

Издательская аннотация:

Настоящим томом продолжается издание тематического собрания сочинений маэстро отечественной психологии Владимира Петровича Зинченко (1931-2014). Книга включает два раздела: первый — содержит статьи, посвященные анализу избранных трудов, выдающихся русских ученых, таких, как Л.С. Выготский, А.А. Ухтомский, Н.А. Бернштейн, Г.Г. Шпет, А.А. Бахтин и избранных трудов учителей, оказавших существенное влияние на формирование и развитие научных взглядов Владимира Петровича; следующая часть — представляет статьи посвященные этого раздела содержит вступительные статьи к книгам известных российских и зарубежных психологов. Второй раздел состоит из воспоминаний Владимире Петровиче его коллег, друзей и учеников.


Куприянов В. А.,Малинов А. В. Академик В. И. Ламанский. Материалы к биографии и научной деятельности [Academician V.Y. Lamansky. Materials about his Biography and Scholarly Work]. СПб.: Дмитрий Буланин 2020. ISBN 978-5-86007-945-8

 


URL: https://dbulanin.ru/?n=main&s=1&t=0&b=w0081049

В монографии предлагается исследование биографии и философского творчества видного российского слависта профессора Санкт-Петербургского университета и академика Императорской Академии наук Владимира Ивановича Ламанского (1833—1914). Опираясь на ранее неизвестные архивные источники, авторы проводят реконструкцию научной карьеры Ламанского в Санкт-Петербургском университете, начиная с его студенческих лет, показывают историю его взаимоотношений с современниками (А. С. Хомяковым, И. С. Аксаковым, Ю. Ф. Самариным, Н. И. Кареевым, А. С. Лаппо-Данилевским). Подробно рассматривается деятельность Ламанского в Академии наук. Важной частью монографии является изучение философии Ламанского в контексте философских дискуссий его времени: сравнительное рассмотрение концепции Ламанского с концепциями Н. Я. Даниевского, И. С. Аксакова, детально анализируется полемика Ламанского и Н. Г. Чернышевского. Авторы показывают, что важное место в славянофильской концепции Ламанского занимала его цивилизационная теория, тесно связанная с панславизмом, впервые приводится детальный анализ панславизма Ламанского. Указывается, что философия истории и цивилизационная концепция Ламанского могут быть признаны предтечей евразийства. Монография содержит исследование историко-научной концепции Ламанского, анализ его учения о языке как геополитической силе и политической философии. В приложении публикуются новые архивные документы, письма и редкие материалы, позволяющие более полно и всесторонне представить биографию, научную деятельность Ламанского и его взгляды.

Валентин Смирнов: Арктические экспедиции Андрея Вилькицкого [Arctic Expeditions by Andrei Vilkitsky]. М.: Паулсен, 2021. ISBN: 978-5-98797-274-8

АННОТАЦИЯ К КНИГЕ "АРКТИЧЕСКИЕ ЭКСПЕДИЦИИ АНДРЕЯ ВИЛЬКИЦКОГО"

В монографии впервые подробно освещается история организации и деятельности научно-исследовательских экспедиций в Северном Ледовитом океане на рубеже XIX-XX вв.

Главным организатором Гидрографической экспедиции для исследования морского пути в Сибирь был Андрей Ипполитович Вилькицкий (1858-1913), генерал, начальник главного гидрографического управления Морского министерства. Деятельность экспедиций А.И. Вилькицкого стала началом масштабного систематического исследования и освоения Арктики и прежде всего трассы Северного морского пути. Была собрана замечательная плеяда исследователей, опытных мореходов и полярников. Ни одна страна в мире, кроме России, не имела необходимых кадров, технологий и знаний для подобного предприятия.

В основу книги положены материалы Российского государственного архива Военно-Морского Флота (РГАВМФ) и Российского государственного исторического архива (РГИА), публикации XIX-XX вв. В монографии значительное внимание уделено архивным документам, наиболее точно передающим не только суть событий и дух минувшей эпохи, но и позволяющим ввести таким образом в научный оборот тексты, помогающие читателю максимально полно судить о всех трудностях подготовки и осуществления экспедиций в Арктику.


URL: http://store.paulsen.ru/catalog/97/1212/

The State of Affairs/Stan Rzeczy 2(17). Thematic Issue: The New Culture of Truth, open access

 Fresh from the press: The State of Affairs/Stan Rzeczy 2(17). Thematic Issue: The New Culture of Truth, edited by Friedrich Cain, Dietling Hüchtker, Bernhard Kleeberg, Jan Surman. OPEN ACEESS (https://www.stanrzeczy.edu.pl/index.php/srz/issue/view/17/57).


CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION

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Friedrich Cain, Dietlind Hüchtker, Bernhard Kleeberg, Jan Surman – A New Culture of Truth? On the Transformation of Political Epistemologies since the 1960s in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe

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PRAXEOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF TRUTH

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Bernhard Kleeberg – Post Post-Truth: Epistemologies of Disintegration and the Praxeology of Truth

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POLITICAL CULTURES OF TRUTH

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Anna Shor-Chudnovskaya – The Incomprehension of Terror as a Harbinger of “Post-Truth”?

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Andreas Langenohl – Voting in the Horizon of Contradictory Truths: A Praxeological View on General Elections in State-Socialist Contexts

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Thari Jungen – Of Monsters and Men: The Aesthetics of the Alt-Right

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MEDIAL PRACTICES OF TRUTH

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Anna Grutza – Cold War (Post-)Truth Regimes: Radio Free Europe between “States of Affairs” and the Epistemology of Hope and Fear

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Paweł Bagiński – “We Might Give People a Sense of the Magnitude of the Problem”: On the Truth Discourse about Violence against Women in the First Phase of Polish #MeToo (#JaTeż) Action (October 2017) on Facebook

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BOOK REVIEWS

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Antoni Głowacki – “Look at a Human Being, and Learn to See Him”: On Albert Piette’s “Existantial” Anthropology: Albert Piette, Theoretical Anthropolog y or How to Observe a Human Being

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Marcin Kawko – Poland in Economic Pursuit of the West: Anna Sosnowska, Explaining Economic Backwardness: Post-1945 Polish Historians on Eastern Europe

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Marta Olcoń-Kubicka – Mortgage Loans and Their Social Effects: Mikołaj Lewicki, Społeczne życie hipoteki

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Filip Łapiński – Will We Start Trusting the News on the Internet? A Report on the Discussion about the Credibility of Digital Media

Call for papers: Dissidents as figures of truth (since the 1970s)

Date: 15.-16. July 2021

Format: Online conference 

International conference organised by the research initiative (East) European Epistemologies: Studies in the Reflexive Pluralisation of the World in the 20th Century (Friedrich Cain, Dietlind Hüchtker, Bernhard Kleeberg, Karin Reichenbach and Jan Surman)

In cooperation with

- Faculty Centre for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna

- Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, GWZO, Leipzig

- Research Group “Praxeologies of Truth”/University of Erfurt

- Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences


What do Andrei Sakharov, Noam Chomsky, a 19th century sect of German Catholics, and today’s mask opponents have in common? They all have at times been called, and identified themselves as, dissidents – “those who do not agree.” But while all of them were convinced that they presented “the truth,” opposing mainstream religious, social, political or intellectual climate, they did not meet with the same reactions – for instance, Corona dissidents and Soviet dissidents seem to stand on the opposed poles of the political and social spectrum.

Today, we almost intuitively associate dissidents with Soviet intellectual nonconformists, and those from other countries of the Eastern Bloc, with towering figures like Václav Havel, Jacek Kuroń or Andriej Sacharow. At our conference, we want to look more closely at how the figure of the “dissident” became constructed and solidified across the Iron Curtain and after the fall of the Soviet Union. We will focus on practices, techniques, and media settings which (co)produce the dissident as a (mostly male) “truth figure” (Kleeberg 2019), which includes practices of staging oneself, and ways of embodying the (epistemic) values and virtues associated with this figure. As truth figures are historically heterogeneous, so is “the dissident,” varying from person to person, group to group, from country to country, and changing over time which itself is a matter of our inquiry. Yet, as a truth figure, it became an important point of reference, used as self-designation by a variety of people from different poles of the political spectrum, not only across Soviet and Post-Soviet space. Central Europe, for instance, in the 1990s witnessed a mushrooming of dissidents, who had not been identifiable as such before. Obviously, a specific relation to truth is crucial for the figure of the dissident not only as it is understood today: from ancient parrhesiastes to today's dissidents, speaking the truth to power, being “true to oneself,” “living the truth,” has been essential.

As the imaginary of truth and a depiction of concrete instructions about how to authenticate truth, truth figures form an intersection between local and transnational dissidence-discourses. In Soviet times, the dissident was created locally: in oppositional media like samizdat and through practices like creating rumors, and as enemies of the state through state media. At the same time, Radio Free Europe, Nobel Prizes, tamizdat or interviews in important journals like Le Monde or The New Yorker largely contributed to the emergence of dissident as a truth figure both locally and abroad (cf. Szulecki 2019). Some – like Russian feminist dissidents – were publicly recognized as such only abroad (Vasyakina/Kozlov/Talaver 2020).

In our conference we want to approach the question of the life and afterlife of the “dissident” as a figure of truth with particular attention to post-Soviet space. We are particularly interested in contributions addressing following topics:

How, with which practices, strategies and arguments, by whom, and in which medial settings were/are dissidents staged as figures of truth and how were/are they delegitimized?

How was/is the figure of the legitimate, “truthful” dissident presented and represented, how is it affected by class, gender, religion or ethnic/national origin?

How does the alleged authenticity of the dissident as a truth figure affect disputes about truth, how does this kind of subjectified truth relate to other forms of truth?

What role did the international recognition as well as transnational networks play in the stabilization (or destabilization) of the figure of the dissident? How did this recognition translate across borders?

How did controversies about dissidents and attempts to delegitimize them affect their role as truth figures – be these controversies instigated by Soviet propaganda, independently of it, or coming from inside of the dissidence movement(s)?

How did the figure of the dissident change after the breakup of the Soviet Union up until today? Which groups assumed the truth associated with dissidents for themselves by designating themselves as dissidents (historical or “new dissidents”), and what does this tell us about more general transformations of truth regimes?

What discussions about “legitimacy” and “illegitimacy” of dissidence and dissidents were taking place over the last decades? What processes of inclusion and exclusion were at play here?

Please send us short proposals (up to 300 words) by 28 January 2021 along with a CV or a link to your online CV. Please direct proposals and questions to jan.surman@gmail.com.

Quoted literature:

Vasyakina, Oksana / Kozlov, Dmitri / Talaver, Sasha (eds.) Feministskij samizdat: 40 let spustya [Feminist Samizdat: 40 years later]. Moscow: Common place 2020.

Bernhard Kleeberg, Post Post-Truth. Epistemologies of Disintegration and the Praxeology of Truth, in: Stan Rzeczy / State of Affairs 2(17)/2019, forthcoming.

Kacper Szulecki, Dissidents in Communist Central Europe: Human Rights and the Emergence of New Transnational Actors, Basingstoke: Palgrave 2019.

Monday 21 December 2020

Im Fluss. Umweltpolitik in Russland. Osteuropa 7-9/2020

 

URL (Deutsch): https://www.zeitschrift-osteuropa.de/hefte/2020/7-9/

URL (English): https://www.zeitschrift-osteuropa.de/hefte/2020/7-9/english


Contents and abstracts in English

INHALT

Editorial

Der schnelle und der langsame Klimawandel

Klaus Gestwa

Ein weites Feld

Forschungen zur Umweltgeschichte der Sowjetunion

DAS KLIMA UND DER WALD


Angelina Davydova

Keine Bananen aus Sibirien!VOLLTEXT

Klimawandel und Klimapolitik in Russland

Albrecht Bemmann, Vladimir Petrov

Wald und Forstwirtschaft in Russland

Entwicklung, Stand und Perspektiven

Markus Radday

Tiger, Kiefernnüsse und Holzeinschlag

Die temperierten Wälder im Fernen Osten Russlands

Ulrich Schmid

Der Abgeordnete des russischen Waldes

Leonid Leonovs Engagement für den Umweltschutz

DIE KOHLE UND DER STAHL


Stephen Fortescue, Ellie Martus

Black Jack

Russlands Kohleindustrie und der Klimawandel

Anton Lementuev

Schwarze Lunge, schwarzer Schnee

Kohleförderung im Kuzbass

Stephen Fortescue

Russlands Schmutzhütten

Die Umweltbilanz des Metallurgiesektors

Lukas Latz

StopGOK in Čeljabinsk

Das Kupfer, der Protest und die Repression

DREI KRÄFTE: WASSER, ATOM, ÖL


Evgenij Simonov

Auslaufmodell

Wasserkraft in Russland

Lara Rindt

Un-heile Welt

Mensch und Natur in der russischen Gegenwartsliteratur

Nadežda Kutepova

Die Wiederaufbereitung von Majak

Vom Sieg der Atomindustrie über das Recht

Vladimir Slivjak

Verlustgeschäft Atomreaktorexport

Russlands symbolische Geopolitik

Olesja Vikulova, Violetta Rjabko, Lukas Latz

Katastrophe mit Ansage

Der Ölunfall von Noril’sk

Vladimir Čuprov, Veda Košovskaja

Traurige Tundra

Ölunfälle in Russland ‒ Ursachen und Lösungen

STADTABFÄLLE UND AGRARGIFTE


Gerit Schulze

Sorgen entsorgen

Abfallwirtschaft in Russland

Robert Argenbright

Der Müll und die Macht

Abfallwirtschaft und Herrschaft unter Putin

Timm Schönfelder

Bodenerosion und Pestizidbelastung

Das Erbe des Reisanbaus im Gebiet Krasnodar

Jan Borm, Joanna Kodzik (eds.): German Representations of the Far North (17th-19th Centuries): Writing the Arctic. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2020. ISBN13: 978-1-5275-6022-2

 

URL: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-6022-2

Table of Context and Sample: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pdfs/978-1-5275-6022-2-sample.pdf

German travellers, explorers, missionaries and scholars produced significant new knowledge about the Arctic in Europe and elsewhere from the 17th until the 19th century. However, until now, no English-language study or collective volume has been dedicated to their representations of the Arctic.

Possibly due to linguistic barriers, this corpus has not been sufficiently taken into account in transnational and circumpolar approaches to the fast-growing field of Arctic Studies. This volume serves to heighten awareness about the importance of these writings in view of the history of the Far North.

The chapters gathered here offer critical readings of manuscripts and publications, including travelogues, natural histories of the Arctic, newspaper articles and scholarly texts based on first-hand observations, as well as works of fiction. The sources are considered in their historical context, as political, religious, social, economic and cultural aspects are discussed in relation to discourses about the Arctic in general.

The volume opens with a spirited preface by Professor Jean Malaurie, France’s most distinguished Arctic specialist and author of The Last Kings of Thule (1955).


Jan Borm is Full Professor in British Literature at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines/Université Paris-Saclay, France, where he also co-directs the interdisciplinary Master 2 programme “Arctic Studies”. He has published widely on travel literature and Arctic travel writing in English, French and German, as well as a portrait of the French anthropo-geographer Jean Malaurie (2005). He is the co-editor of 10 collective volumes, including Le froid. Adaptation, production, effects, représentations (2018). In 2019, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Lapland, Finland.

Joanna Kodzik is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines/Université Paris-Saclay, France. She has participated in several research projects on questions of identity, performance and ceremony, and cultural mobility in North-Eastern early modern Europe and the Arctic. Her current research focuses on Moravian missions in the European Arctic and the reception of knowledge about the Arctic among scholars in Central and Eastern Europe. She has published two monographs and co-edited two volumes.

Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum Vol. 8, No. 2 (Autumn 2020) (Open access)

 

URL: http://www.bahps.org/acta-baltica/abhps-8-2


Print cover

Imprint

Contents

Foreword


Articles

Don Ihde. A Prelude to Material Hermeneutics (2021).

Robert Rosenberger. A Preliminary Inventory of the Transformations of Scientific Imaging.

Wolfgang Drechsler. Seamlessness as Disenfranchisement: The Digital State of Pigs and How to Resist.

Margit Sutrop. Challenges of Aligning Artificial Intelligence with Human Values.

Tanel Kerikmäe, Peeter Müürsepp, Henri Mart Pihl, Ondrej Hamuľák, Hovsep Kocharyan. Legal Person- or Agenthood of Artificial Intelligence Technologies.

Natalia Nikiforova. The Future of Electricity and Electricity as the Future: The Sociotechnical Imagination of Russian Electrical Engineers in the 19th Century.

Iryna Hrushytska. Vitaly Grigorevsky’s Contribution to the Development of International Cooperation in Photometric Studies of Artificial Earth Satellites.

Małgorzata Durbas. Knowledge and Technology Transfer in the Age of Enlightenment: The Scientific Correspondence between Franciszek Bieliński (1683–1766) and Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700–1782).


Short Communications

Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen. Overcoming Substantivism-Determinism with Pragmatist Philosophy of Technology.

Juhani Pietarinen. Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (1931–1941): Ponderings on Technology, National Socialism and Judaism.

Thursday 17 December 2020

ORGANON, VOLUME 52, 2020 is online! OPEN ACCESS (English and French)

URL: https://www.ejournals.eu/Organon/zakladka/613

- "Stupid Animals in Ancient Natural Histories"

Lucyna Kostuch

- "New Raw Materials from the New World: Transfer of Knowledge to Polish Pharmacies"

Iwona Arabas

- "Cuvier et Lamarck: deux naturalistes en miroir"

Cédric Grimoult

-  "Collections d’ethnographie et musées d’archéologie : entre désaveux  muséologiques et jalons de l’histoire des sciences de l’Homme"

Adèle Chevalier

- "Tischner’s Take on Evil on the Example of The Chekist by Aleksandr Rogozhkin"

Artur Jochlik

Хорхордина Т.И:.Историко-архивный институт в истории отечественной высшей школы – М.: РГГУ, 2020. – 449с. 600р.


Вступая в пространство Историко-архивного института, мы в несколько шагов преодолеваем расстояние, отделяющее нас от событий предшествующих столетий. Кажется, что символы Времени, Памяти и многоликой Истории навечно поселились здесь, чтобы осенять своим присутствием каждого, кто войдет из уличной суеты.

Эта книга о людях, чьими трудами сформированы лучшие традиции российской историко-архивоведческой науки, культурный диалог поколений и неповторимый облик Историко-архивного института. Их имена, о которых мы храним благодарную память, навсегда вписаны в историю жизни и деятельности Историко-архивного института.


CALL FOR PAPERS Summer School ‘Methodology in the History of Philosophy’ 05 – 09 July 2021, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG), The Netherlands.

 

History of philosophy has become increasingly mindful of the need for critical reflection on its methodologies. Instead of merely pursuing the oftentimes narrow way of reading and understanding a philosophical work by means of analytical or rational reconstruction, researchers have become increasingly sensitive to the historical context and situatedness of a philosophical text.

 Furthermore, the field has become aware of the harmful exclusion of underrepresented or marginalised groups (such as women philosophers, or non-western traditions of philosophy). There is a growing desire to move beyond the traditional boundaries of the philosophical canon studying also the so called ‘minor’ figures of our past. In short, the field has seen the need for a more inclusivist approach of studying past authors. In addition, novel computational approaches are opening up new exciting means of analysing large-scale corpora of text. 

The Department of History of Philosophy at the University of Groningen invites papers of master’s and PhD students as well as junior and senior researchers. The aim of the summer school is to collaboratively reflect on methodological changes in the history of philosophy as well as to foster interactions between philosophers at different stages in their career. The summer school will offer participants new insights into the different approaches to the study of the history of philosophy. Participants will be encouraged to reflect upon their own practices of interpretation, and upon more nuanced research strategies. 

The summer school will be held entirely online. However, we strive to make the experience of this summer school as close as possible to one taking place in person. Confirmed keynote speakers: Christia Mercer (Columbia University), Delphine Antoine-Mahut (ENS Lyon), Kobus Marais (UFS South Africa) and Charles Pence (UC Louvain). 

We invite papers in subjects including, but not limited to, the following topics: 

• The canon of philosophy 

• Recovering and advancing underrepresented groups, topics, and positions 

• History of philosophy and other forms of knowledge (science, religion, etc.) 

• The interplay of history of philosophy and contemporary philosophy 

• Digital approaches to historical research (e.g., network analysis) 

Abstracts of 300 words should be sent by 14/03/2021 to summerschoolphilosophy@rug.nl. 

Questions or inquiries of any kind should also be directed to summerschoolphilosophy@rug.nl. 

N.B.: While we encourage paper submissions, attending the summer school without presenting is, of course, possible. 

Summer school fee: 25 EUROS for master students. 50 EUROS for PhDs and postdocs.

 We would like to point out that by submitting a paper or attending the summer school, you commit yourself to the following code of conduct: We seek a harassment-free conference climate for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression; age; sexual orientation; disability; physical appearance; body size; race; ethnicity; religion (or lack thereof). We do not tolerate any discrimination, or harassment of conference participants in any form.

Monday 14 December 2020

HIRA presentation of Justyna Aniceta Turkowska’s book Der kranke Rand des Reiches. Sozialhygiene und nationale Räume in der Provinz Posen um 1900 (Marburg, 2020). 15.12.2020

 Herder Institute Research Academy (HIRA) is pleased to announce the  presentation of Justyna Aniceta Turkowska’s book Der kranke Rand des Reiches. Sozialhygiene und nationale Räume in der Provinz Posen um 1900 (Marburg, 2020). With commentary by Prof. Dr Fritz Dross (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg); Moderation: Tatsiana Astrouskaya (Herder Institute).


Digital Hira Book Launch, 15.12.2020, 6 - 7 pm CET


Justyna Aniceta Turkowska, PhD is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, the University of Edinburgh. She has studied history, sociology and political science at the University of Warsaw, Humboldt University in Berlin and Leibniz University in Hanover. She wrote and defended her dissertation at the Institute of History at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen. Her doctoral thesis was awarded the Scientific Prize of the Polish Ambassador (2017) and the Fritz Theodor Epstein Prize of the German Association for East European Studies (2018).


Digital HIRA Book Launch is an event series launched by the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Institute of the Leibniz Association. We have developed the series to support a vivid academic exchange and discussion at a time when personal contacts remain restricted. The Digital HIRA Book Launch brings together alumni, current HIRA fellows, and interested colleagues offering the newest results of our research to the broader public.


For more information on the

book, consult the web-site of the Herder Institute: https://www.herder-institut.de/no_cache/aktuelles/detailansicht/calendar/event/termin/2020/08/13.html?tx_cal_controller%5Buid%5D=23079&cHash=020e8742e904a2b8cbcb4d2000a8bf08


The presentation will take place via Cisco Webex Meetings.

For participation, please register at: https://forms.gle/Ne6NbtfsaLuf2Qsz5

The access link will be circulated one day before the event.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Building National Character: science, politics, and citizenship in 19th and 20th century Europe Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) University College London. 21 May 2021. Deadline 29 January 2021.


This is a call for participation to contribute to a one-day workshop exploring the relationship between science and politics in the construction of national identities and citizenship in 19th and 20th century Europe. 

Participation will include a combination of (a) pre-circulation of papers, (b) video presentations, (c) engagement in live panel discussions, and (d) discussion of other papers in the workshop. Papers prepared for this workshop may be included in an anthology on the subject the organisers plan to propose to UCL Press. 

We encourage proposals from scholars at all stages of their careers. We especially encourage proposals on topics including: practical and political use of science in the construction of national identity; nationalism and internationalism in science; political significance of science communication; interaction between scientific and political ideas in museum exhibitions; and popular science and the use science in the household.

 We envision most proposals will suggest contributions in the form of a 20-25-minute presentation and an essay approximately 8,000-10,000 words. 

We are happy to consider alternatives, such as shortscale introductory work (especially from early doctoral students) or mid-scale review work. The symposium will take place online on 21 May 2021. 

We will consider an in-person event in London if circumstances allow. 

Interested persons are asked to submit a title and abstract (approximately 200 words) to Dr Maria Kiladi (m.kiladi@ucl.ac.uk) by 29 January 2021.

Workshop organisers Dr Cristiano Turbil (@CristianoTurbil) Dr Maria Kiladi (@FroozyGirl) Professor Joe Cain (@profjoecain) This workshop is organised as part of the History of Science research cluster at UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS). www.ucl.ac.uk/sts

Ryszard Gansiniec: Notatki lwowskie 1944-1946 [Notes from L'viv 1944-1946]. Redakcja naukowa Radość Gansiniec Krzysztof Królczyk. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 2020. ISBN/ISSN: 978-83-235-4693-1

 

[polski ponizej]

Lviv Notes 1944–1946


The notes were taken in Lviv by Ryszard Gansiniec, a classics professor at Jan Kazimierz University and at the Soviet Ivan Franko Lviv State University from July 1944 to June 1946, when the scholar left the city for good. It is a unique source material concerning everyday life in the city at the end of the Polish period in Lviv and the fate of Polish intelligentsia after the end of the Second World War. It is the second, enlarged and supplemented edition of the book, first published in 1995.


Keywords: Ryszard Gansiniec, Zofia Gansiniec, Jan Kazimierz University, Lviv after the Second World War, classics, ancient history, Lviv intelligentsia

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URL: https://www.wuw.pl/product-pol-13396-Notatki-lwowskie-1944-1946.html

Spis tresci/Table of Contents: https://www.wuw.pl/data/links/2ec4635823027ae850a4b0bfe0e047f0/13396_7532.pdf

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Prezentowany tom zawiera notatki sporządzane we Lwowie przez Ryszarda Gansińca, profesora filologii klasycznej na Uniwersytecie Jana Kazimierza oraz na radzieckim już Uniwersytecie Lwowskim im. Iwana Franki od lipca 1944 do czerwca 1946 r., kiedy to uczony na zawsze opuścił Lwów. Zapiski te wraz z dołączonymi do publikacji aneksami stanowią unikalny materiał źródłowy dotyczący rozmaitych aspektów życia codziennego we Lwowie u schyłku polskiego okresu w dziejach tego miasta, w tym zwłaszcza losów polskiej inteligencji w Lwim Grodzie bezpośrednio po zakończeniu II wojny światowej. Jest to drugie, znacznie poszerzone i uzupełnione wydanie książki, która po raz pierwszy ukazała się w 1995 r. i bardzo szybko stała się wydawniczym bestsellerem.


European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, Volume 27, Issue 5 (2020): Academic Freedom in Historical Perspective

URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cerh20/27/5

ERH/REH Editorial Committee: Introduction to the dossier ‘Academic Freedom in Historical Perspective’, pp. 579-581

Ivo De Gennaro: Despotic time and truthless science, pp. 582-597

Pascal Engel: L’idée d’une universite et la liberté académique, pp. 598-610

Olivier Beaud: Reflections on the concept of academic freedom, pp.  611-627

Original articles:

Matthieu Gillabert & Pauline Milani: Communicating neutrality: public diplomacy by neutral states at the beginning of the Cold War, pp. 628-650

Catherine L’Ecuyer: La perspective montessorienne face au mouvement de l’éducation nouvelle dans la francophonie européenne du début du XXe siècle, pp. 651-682

East Central Europe Volume 47 (2020): Issue 2-3 (Nov 2020): Thematic Issue: Staged Otherness. Ethnographic Shows in Central and Eastern Europe, 1850–1939 edited by Dagnosław Demski, Dominika Czarnecka and Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska

 

URL: https://brill.com/view/journals/eceu/47/2-3/eceu.47.issue-2-3.xml

Table of Contents

Contextualizing Ethnographic Shows in Central and Eastern Europe; Authors: Dominika Czarnecka and Dagnosław Demski, pp. 163–172

Relocating the “Human Zoo”: Exotic Displays, Metropolitan Identity, and Ethnographic Knowledge in Late Nineteenth-Century Budapest; Author: László Kontler, pp.173–201

Spaces of Modernity: Ethnic Shows in Poznań, 1879–1914; Author: Dagnosław Demski, pp. 202–232

“The Samoans Are Here!”: Samoan Ethnic Shows, 1895–1911; Author: Hilke Thode-Arora, pp. 233–260

Others among Others: Latvians’ View of Members of Ethnographic Shows; Author: Ilze Boldāne-Zeļenkova, pp. 261–284

Black Female Bodies and the “White” View: The Dahomey Amazon Shows in Poland at the End of the Nineteenth Century; Author: Dominika Czarnecka, pp. 285–312

Buffalo Bill and Patriotism: Criticism of the Wild West Show in the Polish-Language Press in Austrian Galicia in 1906; Author: Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska, pp. 313–333

The Modernity of Interwar Turkey through the Eyes of Yugoslav Travelers (1923–1939); Author: Anđelko Vlašić, pp. 335–359

Debate on Europe since 1989 by Philipp Ther, pp. 361–394

On Diana Mishkova; pp. 395–409

Contents; pp. 411–413

Thursday 10 December 2020

hps.cesee book discussions "Inventing the Social in Romania, 1848-1914" (14.12) and "Cybernetics in Humanities and Arts in the USSR" (18.12)

 The virtual platform HPS.CESEE is proud to present two forthcoming December global book discussions (both 16:00-18:00 CET / 18:00-20:00 MSK/ 10:00-12:00 EST)

On 14.12: Silvia Marton (University of Bucharest) and Karl Hall (Central European University) will comment on Călin Cotoi’s recent book, Inventing the Social in Romania, 1848–1914: Networks and Laboratories of Knowledge (Leiden: Brill, 2020), in a discussion moderated by Adela Hîncu: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hpscesee-book-talk-at-nec-inventing-the-social-in-romania-1...

On 18.12: Olessia Kirtchik (HSE Moscow) and Alexei Shulgin (Moscow) will join with Ianina Prudenko (Rodchenko Institute, Moscow), to discuss her recently published book Cybernetics in Humanities and Arts in the USSR. Big Data Analysis and Computer Art (Moscow: Garage 2019), in a discussion moderated by Slava Gerovitch (MIT): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hpsceseechorus-book-talk-cybernetics-in-humanities-and-arts...

Both events are free and open to the public. To receive the link please register.

Call for Papers: Transitions in pedagogical and educational-historical perspective from Middle Ages to Postmodernism. Prague, 30.09.2021 - 01.10.2021, Deadline 15.02.2021


TRANSITIONS IN PEDAGOGICAL AND EDUCATIONAL-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE FROM MIDDLE AGES TO POSTMODERNISM

The international conference builds on the long-standing tradition of scientific conferences under the auspices of Arbeitskreis Vormoderne Erziehungsgeschichte, which is characterized by broad interdisciplinary cooperation between numerous European university and non-university research institutions.


TRANSITIONS IN PEDAGOGICAL AND EDUCATIONAL-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE FROM MIDDLE AGES TO POSTMODERNISM

The international conference builds on the long-standing tradition of scientific conferences under the auspices of Arbeitskreis Vormoderne Erziehungsgeschichte, which is characterized by broad interdisciplinary cooperation between numerous European university and non-university research institutions. It aims at a profound reflection on pedagogically relevant transitions in historical, cultural, social, religious and political contexts. The life of each individual as well as of whole groups of the European population in early modern and modern times includes many such transitions. A number of them are typical of childhood and adolescence, the life phases on which the conference will primarily focus. They do not only relate to the physical and mental maturation of a person and thus to the individual phases of their development, but also to education and upbringing in general, including religious upbringing and preparation for a future career. The focus is on formal curricular as well as extra-curricular and non-formal fields of teaching. These transitions are very closely related to numerous accompanying rites (rites of passage, see: "Les rites de passage" by Arnold van Gennep or liminal processes, see: Victor Turner etc.) or refer to a certain period in the biography of a person or a “calendar” of a cultural system.

The shape of the transitions and of the rites of passage is very intensely shaped by the values, identity and mentality (broadly defined by the culture) of the community in which they take place. It is not only the changes associated with them that are central, but often also the safeguarding of tradition and continuity. Therefore, the transfer of values, thoughts and other structures as well as of behavioural patterns is also linked to them. As anthropological, socio-psychological and sociological analyses have shown, the “new” enters the context of the existing structure, be it in the mental area, the socio-emotional map of individual personalities or in the cultural or social framework of the wider milieu. The transfer therefore means a transition from the existing order to a new scheme, to a newly emerging order or to its rejuvenation. The “new constellation” depends to a large extent not only on the “original map” (that is, on the meanings that come into play in the original structure), but also on the processes of the transfer itself, on the transfer of the given specifics of the actors and the conditions of the transfer, or rather on the environment, the framework and the structure which reflect the new impulses.

The transition is interesting for us as an open process to which belong both the original and the new, as a process that is framed not only by time, but also by the visible and invisible goals, the conscious and unconscious “intentions” of the actors as well by the social and cultural conditions, cultural maps and constellations in which what is received is "entered". The international conference focuses on the interpretation of various forms of rites of passage as well as transitions in general, primarily those associated with the life phases of childhood and adolescence. The symposium will examine “practices” and rules in social and cultural contexts, in education and upbringing, as well as in the theory of pedagogy.

Although the outlined topic has already been explored in part by researchers from the fields of anthropology, ethnology, history and the history of education, there has been no systematic trans-disciplinary research on this topic so far. Most of the work has focused only on a single type or on a few types of transitions, on a specific, mostly narrowly defined region or period of time (mostly the Middle Ages, early modern times, modern times). In particular, there is a lack of comparative analyses, orientation towards a broader geographical area, transfer of concepts and analysis of long-term development trends (“longue durée”). At the same time, there have also been clear barriers between individual humanities disciplines using different approaches and methods, whereby overcoming them may bring about a number of new stimuli. The previously mentioned distinctive elements of continuity, their forms and their meaning represent an issue that has not been investigated in detail so far. The conference theme was deliberately chosen to be very broad. Contributions are welcome from not only historians and researchers in the field of educational science, but also - as is the tradition in Arbeitskreis Vormoderne Erziehungsgeschichte - from scholars from other disciplines relevant to the theme. In particular, the focus should be on the following topics:

- Terminology related to the subject of transfer, transitions and rites of passage

- Theoretical concepts of transfer and transitions from the Middle Ages to the present day

- Types of transfers, transitions and rites of passage

- Transitions and rites of passage in various denominational, national and social environments

- Gender-specific transitions and rites of passage

- Transitions connected with a certain content and a certain type of education and upbringing (at home, private, in monasteries, schools, etc.) or connected with preparation for a future career (e.g. transitions in connection with work in an ecclesiastical order such as the novitiate and the like)

- Transitions and rites of passage in literature, in the visual arts as well as in material culture in relation to the past (forms of representation, perception at the time, etc.)

- Development trends of the examined topic in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern age

Please send draft presentations including an abstract (up to 1 page) by 15 February 2021 to: cdv@hiu.cas.cz. The Conference Organisers' Committee reserves the right to select presentations. If successfully assessed by reviewers, studies based on the oral presentations will be published in an anthology.

Term and place of the conference: 30.09. – 01.10.2021; Národní pedagogické muzeum a knihovna J. A. Komenského, Praha, Valdštejnská 20, Praha 1 (The National Pedagogical Museum and the Library of J. A. Comenius Prague)

Length of presentations: 25 minutes

14th International scientific and practical conference, "History of Science and Technology. Museum Studies", Moscow (online), December 15−16th 2020.

2020 conference topic:

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY: CHALLENGING DEVELOPMENT IN THE PAST AND PRESENT

Programme and registration (Russian): http://conference2020.polytech.one/

Kamila Jasińska, W ogniu i w gruzach. Uniwersytet Wrocławski w latach 1945–1946. Inne spojrzenie [In fire and shreds. University of Wroclaw 1945-1946. A different look], Wrocław : Wydawnictwo Via Nova 2020. ISBN 9788364025570



Ukazująca się w roku jubileuszu 75-lecia polskiej administracji we Wrocławiu oraz 75-lecia wrocławskiego środowiska akademickiego książka w popularnonaukowy sposób przybliża powojenne początki funkcjonowania Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego i ukazuje wysiłek podejmowany w tym zakresie przez Grupę Naukowo-Kulturalną pod przewodnictwem prof. Stanisława Kulczyńskiego.

Choć z pozoru publikacja dotyczy historii wyłącznie uczelni, to w rzeczywistości zawiera wiele informacji o powojennym Wrocławiu i jego pionierskich czasach.

Tytułowe „inne spojrzenie” to przede wszystkim próba przyjrzenia się pionierskiemu okresowi przez pryzmat rozmaitych, z pozoru błahych historii, będących cennym uzupełnieniem faktograficznych relacji z tamtego okresu i dodających kolorytu pierwszemu pionierskiemu okresowi działalności Delegatury Ministerstwa Oświaty we Wrocławiu, później zaś także Uniwersytetu i Politechniki we Wrocławiu. Losy uczelni przedstawione zostały na tle wydarzeń rozgrywających się we Wrocławiu w latach 1945–1946, ale także nieco wcześniej. Aby lepiej zrozumieć to, co wydarzyło się w mieście i na uczelni po 6 maja 1945 roku, trzeba bowiem przynajmniej w skrócie poznać to, co działo się tu w okresie międzywojennym.

Cennym uzupełnieniem publikacji są materiały ikonograficzne pozyskane z różnych źródeł. Niektóre fotografie po raz pierwszy ujrzą światło dzienne.

Książka powstała w ramach Wrocławskiego Programu Wydawniczego prowadzonego przez Strefę Kultury Wrocław.

Monday 7 December 2020

Book presentation: Per Pippin ASPAAS, László KONTLER – Maximilian Hell (1720-1792) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe. 10.12.2020, 19:00 CET.

 

The event is co-organized by the Institute for Austrian History at the University of Vienna and the Collegium Hungaricum of Vienna and will take place in English.

Greeting: Iván Bertényi (Collegium Hungaricum) 

Commentators and discussion partners: Franz Leander Fillafer (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Thomas Wallnig (IÖG, University of Vienna)

Moderation: Borbala Zsuzsanna Török (IÖG)

URL: https://geschichtsforschung.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_geschichtsforschung/Einladungen/244._IOEG_INSTITUTSSEMINAR_Collegium_Hungaricum.pdf

The Viennese Jesuit court astronomer Maximilian Hell was a key figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. He was already famous by the time of his celebrated 1769 expedition for the observation of the transit of Venus in northern Scandinavia. However, the 1773 suppression of his order forced Hell to develop ingenious strategies of accommodation to changing international and domestic circumstances. Through a study of his career in local, regional, imperial, and global contexts, this book sheds new light on the complex relationship between the Enlightenment, Catholicism, administrative and academic reform in the Habsburg monarchy, and the practices and ends of cultivating science in the Republic of Letters around the end of the first era of the Society of Jesus.

Per Pippin Aspaas is Senior Academic Librarian at UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. Trained in Latin Philology as well as holding a PhD in History of Science, his research interests cover several branches of science and intellectual culture in Early Modern Europe. In English, he has published articles such as “The Auroral Zone versus the Zone of Learning: A Brief History of Early Modern Theories on the Aurora Borealis” (2013), “The use of Latin and the European Republic of Letters: Change and Continuity in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries” (2014), “Did Astronomy Constitute a Denominationally Neutral Space within the Republic of Letters? An Outline for the Use of Visualization Tools in the Study of Astronomical Correspondence” (with Katalin Pataki, 2019). Aspaas is co-editor of 1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies and chairman of the Norwegian Society for EighteenthCentury Studies. 

László Kontler is professor of history and Head of the Doctoral Program at the Department of History, Central European University, Budapest/Vienna. His research and publications range across the history of political and historical thought, translation and reception in the history of ideas, and the production and exchange of knowledge in the early modern period, mainly the Enlightenment. His English-language books include A History of Hungary (1999/2000) and Translations, Histories, Enlightenments: Willliam Robertson in Germany, 1760-1795 (2014). He co-edited (with Antonella Romano, Silvia Sebastiani and Zsuzsanna Borbála Török) Negotiating Knowledge in Early Modern Empires. A Decentered View (2014) and (with Mark Somos) Trust and Happiness in the History of European Political Thought (2018). He is one of the editors of the European Review of History / Revue d´histoire européenne. 

Franz Leander Fillafer is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). His work focuses on intellectual history and the history of science in their global and regional settings, with a special emphasis on the Habsburg Monarchy from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Fillafer's recent publications include Aufklärung habsburgisch: Staatsbildung, Wissenskultur und Geschichtspolitik in Zentraleuropa, 1750-1850 (2020); The Worlds of Positivism. A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930 (ed. with Johannes Feichtinger and Jan Surman, 2018), and Josephinismus zwischen den Regimen: Eduard Winter, Fritz Valjavec und die zentraleuropäischen Historiographien im 20. Jahrhundert (co-edited with Thomas Wallnig, 2016). 

Thomas Wallnig is Privatdozent at the University of Vienna where he leads a number of research projects on early modern scholarship, intellectual history and applied digital humanities. He was co-chair of the COST Action Project "Reassembling the Republic of Letters" and is chair of the Austrian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. During the winter semester 2020/1 he is a visiting professor at the University of Padova/IT. Recent publications: Critical Monks. The German Benedictines, 1680-1740 (2019); Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age. Standards, Systems, Scholarship (co-ed. with Howard Hotson, 2019); Digital Eighteenth Century (34. Jahrbuch der OGE18, co-ed. with Marion Romberg and Joëlle Weis, 2019).


Call for papers: Workshop: History of Historical Science Studies in the Long 20th Century. Wuppertal, 2-3 September 2021. Deadline 31.1.2020


Fabian Link, Volker Remmert, Marij van Strien, Interdisciplinary Center for Science and Technology Studies (IZWT), Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 2-3 September 2021. The historical science studies gained their modern form during the long 20th century. The aim of this workshop is to explore the history of this scientific discipline. We use the term "modern historical science studies" to indicate a difference to the traditional history of science of the 19th century. We want to concentrate on four historical periods: 1. The 1920s and 1930s, when scientists and scholars such as Ludwik Fleck, Robert K. Merton, Boris Hessen, George Sarton, Gaston Bachelard, Alexandre Koyré, Edgar Zilsel or Henryk Grossmann started to investigate the epistemological, technical, social, political, and economic conditions for the production of scientific knowledge. On the one hand, this development was connected with the "crisis of reality" in the sciences and humanities addressed by Fleck, which emerged in the context of the development of quantum mechanics and of the theory of relativity. On the other hand, the experiences of total destruction in the course of World War I provoked a fundamental critical reinvestigation of the conditions for the emergence of scientific knowledge. 2. The second period started in Germany in 1933 and in Austria in 1938. Numerous Jewish, liberal, and leftist scholars in historical science studies lost their jobs, emigrated to other countries, or were incarcerated in concentration camps by the Nazis. The result of this development was a profound shift of the centers of historical science studies from Europe to, first and foremost, the United States. In the early Cold War, historical science studies remained important for the US and its Western allies because politicians considered scientific knowledge to be crucial for the race for world dominance with the Soviet Union. For Western science policy, it was central to gain historical knowledge about the conditions under which scientific research could be optimized. 3. The period from the early 1960s to the late 1970s started with the publication of Thomas S. Kuhn’s "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" in 1962. In this crucial book, Kuhn denied a teleological development of science and scientific knowledge and introduced his concept of scientific paradigms, which succeed each other. Imre Lakatos’ theory of "research programs," developed in the 1970s, led in a similar direction as Kuhn’s approach. The same counts for the "strong programme" of the Edinburgh school around David Bloor, Barry Barnes and others, which became prominent in the 1980s, with the exception that Bloor and his fellows attributed a more central role to the social conditions of scientific research than Kuhn and Lakatos. All these approaches were distinctive in their focus on theory, which was thought to inform paradigms and research programs. Philosopher of science Paul K. Feyerabend was an exception in this context because he criticized this concentration on theory and preferred a perspective that focused instead on the multiplicity of methods. 4. The most recent period in the development of historical science studies began in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This period started with the publication of Bruno Latour’s and Steve Woolgar’s "Laboratory Life" in 1979, which proved to be crucial for the development of study programs such as Science, Technology and Society (STS). These younger scholars applied ethnomethodology and approaches such as praxeology, feminist epistemology, and postcolonial perspectives, on the one hand to distance themselves from the focus on theory and on the other hand to criticize the Eurocentric-Western concept of reason. In this period, communication and media studies gained relevance, which was important for the development of history of knowledge. We do not prefer any specific historiographical approaches to investigate this topic, but instead want to suggest the following perspectives that might be fruitful: -Biographical explorations. -Discourses (Michel Foucault), research programs (Imre Lakatos), epistemic figurations (Norbert Elias), collectives and styles of thought (Ludwik Fleck), paradigms (Thomas S. Kuhn), concerning for example STS, the "strong programme," or the "practical turn." -Institutions, such as universities and non-university research institutes, chairs and faculties. The workshop will take place at the IZWT at Bergische Universität Wuppertal. For further information please contact the organizers of the workshop. Contributions from junior researchers are particularly welcome. Please send a title and an abstract (max. 1 page) for the proposed 30 minute-contribution as well as a short curriculum vitae to Fabian Link: flink@uni-wuppertal.de. The deadline is 31 January 2021. Accommodations and travel costs will be financed by the IZWT.

Thursday 3 December 2020

Call for Articles: Central and Eastern European Academia in Transition in the 1990s: Between Westernisation and Traditionalism

(Call for Articles for a thematic section in Studia Historiae Scientiarum 2021, guest edited by Daria Petushkova and Jan Surman)



With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the political transformation that followed, Central and Eastern European scholars found themselves facing a rapid transition on many levels. Some disciplines, approaches and theories were abandoned, and new ones, appropriated from the “West” took their place. Previous forms of academic communication changed - independent journals and publishing houses mushroomed, replacing the so far supervised and centralised system. At the same time, not only scholarly virtues, but also forms of academic sociability changed, and a new scholarly persona emerged. 

This process happened with different intensities in different countries, but everywhere under the impression of the beginning of a new epoch, in which the norms of the “Western” academia prevailed. Thus we propose to call this process a “selective Westernisation”. “Selective” should point to the fact that this process varied markedly across the post-Soviet space: what was appropriated in one country, did not necessarily have to be appropriated in another. And, of course, there was no “Western academia” either. Appropriation was mostly connected to specific countries (esp. France, (Western) Germany or the US), but also resulted in creating an image of an ideal, coherent “Western” academia.

Additionally, the 1990s led to a concurrent “revival” of pre-Socialist traditions (for instance of the Interwar Poland, or of the late Russian Empire). At the same time, academic systems were not completely overwritten, and maintained many traits formed during the socialist regimes. Thus, “selective Westernisation” met with “selective traditionalism,” which led to tensions and conflicts of varying intensity.

In this thematic section of SHS we want to look more closely at the process of academic transition in the 1990s in Central and Eastern Europe. We are, however, less interested in accounts about changes in different institutions, or statistical accounts. Instead, we want to inquire about the impact of transition on the scholarly cultures, their forms of sociability and communication, values and virtues. What interests us is the process of selective appropriation of new norms and pertinence of the old ones, as well as conflicts between proponents of both: a process which can also be called academic hybridisation. Thus we invite contributions on following topics:

  • What new forms of academic sociability and communication emerged in the 1990s? To which extent were they driven from below, i.e. from scholars themselves, and to which promoted by the foundations and new actors in different countries (for instance Soros Foundation, DHIs, etc.)? 

  • How did the criteria for “good scholarship” change during the early years of post-Soviet academia? To which extent did political, social and cultural changes affect values and virtues of science and scholarship? Did the incentives for those changes come from inside of academia (scholars, administration), or were they of external origin (public, government, etc.)?

  • Which new “models” of academia (e.g. Humboldt model) were debated or introduced, and which arguments were used in the discussion? To which extent was the distinction between teaching and research reevaluated?

  • How did the process of scholarly publishing change? Did new formats and genres emerge, or can we speak about more continuity than change?

  • What narratives of break/continuity/revival have appeared following 1989/1991? Which arguments were used in these discussions (e.g. efficiency, international cooperation/competition, (national) tradition etc.)

Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words and a short biographical sketch to jan.surman@gmail.com and petushkovadaria@gmail.com.


The editors will ask the authors of selected papers to submit their final articles no later than June 1, 2021. Articles will be published after a peer-review process.

Studia Historiae Scientiarum is a peer-reviewed, diamond open access journal (free of fees for authors and readers) devoted to the history of science, and indexed or listed, among others, in DOAJ, ERIH+, and Scopus. For more information visit: http://www.ejournals.eu/sj/index.php/SHS/.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts: January 20, 2021.




Советская гуманитаристика: мечты и прагматика в 1920-1950-е гг. сборник статей [Soviet humanities: dreams and pragmatics in the 1920s-1950s.] / Отв. ред. Е.А. Долгова – М.: РГГУ, 2020. – 258с. 330 р.



Содержание & Предисловие: shorturl.at/iruDR

Советская наука и, в особенности, советская гуманитаристика  – крайне сложная для исторического анализа категория. Работая с ее понятиями, исследователь традиционно акцентирует внимание не только на содержании – гносеологических проблемах и тенденциях функционирования знания, традиционных и новых направлениях научных исследований, эмпирическом наполнении и методологии, но и закономерно ставит вопрос об определении степени зависимости науки от политического фактора в период ее формирования и функционирования. На первый план при этом выходят такие актуальные вопросы, как свобода творчества, степень автономии исследователя от идеологического запроса, трагические страницы взаимодействия ученых и власти и т. д.


Biuletyn Polskiej Misji Historycznej = Bulletin der Polnischen Historischen Mission No 15 (2020) (OPEN ACCESS)

 

URL: https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/BPMH/issue/view/1955/showToc

KRONIKA POLSKIEJ MISJI HISTORYCZNEJ
9-19
STYPENDYŚCI POLSKIEJ MISJI HISTORYCZNEJ
21-27
STUDIA I MATERIAŁY
Udo Arnold
31-47
Renata Kamińska
49-62
Wolfgang Wüst
63-96
Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska
97-138
Włodzimierz Zientara
139-158
David Stellmacher
159-174
Joanna Kodzik
175-201
Andrzej Kopiczko
203-230
Witold Molik
231-245
Wolfgang E. J. Weber
247-272
RECENZJE I OMÓWIENIA
Radosław Krajniak
275-293
Wolfgang Wüst
295-298
Lina Schröder
299-301
Wolfgang Wüst
303-307
Christian Mühling
309-312
Włodzimierz Zientara
313-316
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