hps.cesee&CHORUS global book talk "The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia" Friday, February 5, 18:00-20:00 Central European Time (CET) / 20:00-22:00 MSK/ 12:00-14:00 EST

 

The virtual platform HPS.CESEE and CHORUS: Colloquium for the History Of Russian Science are proud to present the global book talk "The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia". Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (St. Petersburg) and Alexei Yurchak (Berkeley, CA) will join with Anya Bernstein (Cambridge, MA), to discuss her recently published book "The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia" (Princeton 2019) [1], in a discussion moderated by Slava Gerovitch (MIT). 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 and scholarship (broadly understood) in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

"The Future of Immortality profiles a diverse cast of characters, from the owners of a small cryonics outfit to scientists inaugurating the field of biogerontology, from grassroots neurotech enthusiasts to believers in the Cosmist ideas of the Russian Orthodox thinker Nikolai Fedorov. Bernstein puts their debates and polemics in the context of a long history of immortalist thought in Russia, with global implications that reach to Silicon Valley and beyond. If aging is a curable disease, do we have a moral obligation to end the suffering it causes? Could immortality be the foundation of a truly liberated utopian society extending beyond the confines of the earth—something that Russians, historically, have pondered more than most? If life without end requires radical genetic modification or separating consciousness from our biological selves, how does that affect what it means to be human?."

Friday, February 5, 18:00-20:00 Central European Time (CET) / 20:00-22:00 MSK/ 12:00-14:00 EST

The meeting is free and open to the public. To receive the link, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/hpsceseechorus-book-talk-the-future-of-immortality-in-contemporary-russia-tickets-138339419929 or write to hps.cesee@gmail.com.

[1] Anya Bernstein, The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia, Princeton, NJ, 2019.

Participants:

Anya Bernstein is Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University and the author of Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism. Her most recent book The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia received William A. Douglass Book Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Europe.

Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the Department of History, Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg and the editor of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. His publications include The Social Life of the State in Subarctic Siberia (2003) and Two Lenins: A Brief Anthropology of Time (Press 2017)

Slava Gerovitch is historian of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the author of From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics (2002) and Soviet Space Mythologies (2015).

Alexei Yurchak is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. He is currently working on a book on the political, cultural and biochemical history of the preserved bodies of Lenin and other communist leaders.

ИСТОРИКО-БИОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ / STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY, ТОМ 12, №4, 2020

 

OPEN ACCESS, Russian with English abstracts

URL: http://shb.nw.ru/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/%D0%95%D0%9F_IBI_2020_04.pdf

Гельтман Д.В.К 150-летию со дня рождения Владимира Леонтьевича Комарова 7-11 Full text ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ

Гельтман Д.В. В Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov: a short biography 12-37 Full text

Илизаров С.С.История науки в жизни и деятельности академика В.Л. Комарова 38-67 Full text

Бубырева В.А., Гельтман Д.В.В.Л. Комаров и Санкт-Петербургский университет 68-94 Full text

Снытко В.А. О значении трудов Владимира Леонтьевича Комарова для научного творчества Виктора Борисовича Сочавы 95-101 Full text

КРАТКИЕ СООБЩЕНИЯ

Вишнякова М.А.Первый и единственный съезд по прикладной ботанике в России 102-116 Full text

Гаврилов-Зимин И.А.Закон гомологических рядов Н.И. Вавилова в эволюции равнокрылых хоботных насекомых (Homoptera) 117-128 Full text

РЕЦЕНЗИИ И АННОТАЦИИ

Собисевич А.В., Самокиш А.В.Академик Комаров и его время (к 150-летию со дня рождения В.Л. Комарова) 129-135 Full text

Горбунов А.В. Литературный памятник художественной анималистики. Размышления над книгой В.М Смирина «Портреты зверей Северной Евразии. Хищные» 136-151 Full text

ХРОНИКА НАУЧНОЙ ЖИЗНИ

Maria M. Klavdieva.A n outstanding botanist and president of the USSR Academy of Sciences V.L. Komarov in the reports of the international conference on the history of science and technology (October 2019) 152-162 Full text

Колотилова Н.Н. «Враг старости и фагоцитов друг…». К 175-летию со дня рождения И.И. Мечникова 163-171 Full text Sergey I. Fokin. The 90th anniversary of Professor Miklós Müller: a long life devoted to protistology, history of science, and art 172-180 Full text

Olšáková Doubravka, Janáč Jiří (2021) The Cult of Unity: The Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature. Prague: Academia. ISBN 978-80-200-3089-4

 

The Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature, which was launched in the USSR in autumn of 1948, had a fundamental impact on the approach to postwar reconstruction and the reshaping of nature and the environment in Czechoslovakia. This publication outlines the main features of this ambitious plan, whose implementation in Czechoslovakia was entrusted to Rudolf Slánský and Josef Smrkovský. It examines the plan’s implementation and its institutional foundation and explores natural resource management in the context of Communist Czechoslovakia’s radical rejection of Malthusian theories. An investigation of the continuity and discontinuity between the interwar and postwar periods demonstrates the possibilities and limits of the Sovietization policies enacted by the new elites. It also reveals basic elements of continuity in the sciences and technology in an era that was seemingly hostile to continuity.

URL: https://www.academia.cz/the-cult-of-unity--olsakova-doubravka--academia--2021

Fragments: https://www.academia.cz/uploads/media/preview/0001/08/5601120c6275a870da5f9d22d355e8e9ad5dd2bb.pdf

Call for Papers: Umkämpfte Erinnerung. Gelehrte in konkurrierenden Gedächtniskulturen zwischen Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit. Düsseldorf, 16.06.2021 - 17.06.2021, Deadline 15.03.2021

 

Der Workshop möchte theoretisch-methodische Ansätze zur Erinnerungskultur, ebenso wie empirische Fallstudien auch im Kontext der allgemeinen Frage von „public understanding of science“ diskutieren, nicht zuletzt vor dem Hintergrund eines partiellen Autoritätsverlustes von Wissenschaftlern und wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis im populären Diskurs.

UMKÄMPFTE ERINNERUNG. GELEHRTE IN KONKURRIERENDEN GEDÄCHTNISKULTUREN ZWISCHEN WISSENSCHAFT UND ÖFFENTLICHKEIT

Als der Historiker Jürgen Zimmerer im der Zuge der Corona Krise im Mai 2020 anmahnte, die Benennung des medial omnipräsenten Robert-Koch-Instituts zu überdenken, war ihm die öffentliche Wahrnehmung gewiss. Der Namensgeber gehört zu den wenigen Forschern, die zum festen Inventar der deutschen Erinnerungskultur auch jenseits der engen wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft der Medizin zählen.

Die Neubewertung historischer Persönlichkeiten geht sehr oft mit der Umbenennung von Straßen und Preisen einher und ist als Ergebnis von erinnerungskulturellen Debatten zu verstehen, die häufig auf regionaler Ebene ausgetragen werden. Sie sind ganz maßgeblich geprägt von den gesellschaftspolitischen Verwerfungen der Kolonialzeit sowie der beiden Weltkriege. Innerhalb der Wissenschaft entzünden sich entsprechende Auseinandersetzungen vor allem an Wissenschaftspreisen oder Eponymen.

Bevor jedoch eine Umbenennung in den Blick rückt, stellt sich zunächst die Frage, welche Auswahlkriterien überhaupt für die Benennung einer Institution nach einer oder einem Gelehrten von der Vergangenheit bis in die Gegenwart zum Tragen kamen bzw. kommen.

Während Universitäten vor allem nach ihren Gründern und nur selten nach Forschern (u.a. Justus-von-Liebig Universität Gießen, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg) oder Künstlern (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, bis 2018 Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität Greifswald) benannt wurden, gibt es zahlreiche Forschungseinrichtungen, aber auch Institutionen außerhalb der Wissenschaft, die den Namen gelehrter Persönlichkeiten tragen. Insbesondere bei öffentlichen Einrichtungen, wie etwa bei Schulen, lässt sich der Frage nachgehen, welchen Mechanismen der Erinnerungstransfer von der Wissenschaft in die Gesellschaft unterliegt. Hier interessieren einerseits die Benennungsvorgänge von der Idee bis zur Umsetzung und deren Akteure und Akteurinnen - z.B. Auswahlkriterien wie die Vorbildfunktion der potenziellen Namenspatron/in im Hinblick auf ihr Leben und Wirken - andererseits aber auch die Bedeutung der namensgebenden Person für das Selbstverständnis einer Einrichtung. Dabei wurde bisher kaum vergleichend untersucht, wie beispielsweise an Schulen Erinnerungskultur gelebt wird und inwieweit die Erinnerung an die Namenspatron/in sich in der inhaltlichen, pädagogischen oder ideellen Ausrichtung einer Institution widerspiegelt. Auffällig bei Schulbenennungen ist die Dominanz männlicher Gelehrter, wobei Wissenschaftlerinnen im öffentlichen Raum noch unsichtbarer zu sein scheinen als in der Wissenschaft selbst. Neben Genderaspekten zählen zu den multifaktoriellen Begründungsansätzen für Benennungsentscheidungen öffentlicher Institutionen auch zeithistorische Aspekte eine wesentliche Rolle, die das Entstehen regelrechter „Benennungskonjunkturen“ erklären können. Insgesamt bestimmen meist gut organisierte, teils miteinander konkurrierende nationale und internationale Erinnerungsnetzwerke die entsprechenden Diskurse. Hier ist das thematisch vielschichtige Gedenken an den polnischen Kinderarzt und Pädagogen Janusz Korczak ein interessantes Beispiel, dessen Namen allein in Deutschland über 80 meist pädagogisch ausgerichtete Institutionen tragen.

Beiträge aus allen Wissenschaftsbereichen und Forschungsstadien sind sehr willkommen. Ene Publikation der Tagungsergebnisse wird angestrebt.

Eine Übernahme von Hotel- und Reisekosten ist nach aktuellem Stand leider nicht möglich. Wir werden uns im Laufe der weiteren Projektplanung aber um entsprechende Fördermittel bemühen.

Abtracts (max. 1 Seite) bitte bis zum 15.3.2021 an: thorsten.halling@hhu.de

Themenkomplexe (in Auswahl):

1. Auswahlkriterien von Gelehrten als Namenspatron/innen, z.B. von Institutionen und Preisen

2. Bedeutung der namensgebenden Person für das Selbstverständnis von Institutionen

3. Debatten, Argumentationscluster und Konjunkturen von (Um-)Benennungen

4. Erinnerungsgemeinschaften und konkurrierende Erinnerung

KONTAKT

Thorsten Halling, M.A.

Dr. Anne Oommen-Halbach

Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Moorenstr. 5

40225 Düsseldorf

E-Mail: thorsten.halling@hhu.de

 

CFP: BSHS PG Virtual Conference 2021 Call for Papers

British Society for History of Science Post Graduate Virtual Conference 12-16 April 2021

School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds

The call for papers for the 2021 British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference is now open.

Given the ongoing situation in the UK and abroad related to Covid-19, we have chosen to hold a virtual conference which will take place from Monday 12 April to Friday 16 April 2021.

We welcome papers from graduate students working in the history of science, technology and medicine, related to any period of history and to any geographical area. We are committed to providing a truly international forum for scholarly discussion and exchange and encourage graduate students, from any nationality, to apply.

Papers should be 10 - 12 minutes long (up to 12 minutes). Papers will be delivered in the format of a pre-recorded video but will be followed by a live discussion with panel speakers and audience members. Joint submissions for three-person panels are also welcome.

We invite you to submit a title and abstract of up to 250 words with your name, affiliation and contact details. For joint submissions, we require that an additional 100-word panel abstract be submitted. The deadline for applications is Monday 8 February 2021. We will notify applicants by mid-February with regard to the status of their application.

Applications should be sent to the organising committee at bshspg2020@gmail.com  *

For the latest news about the event follow us on Twitter @PgBshs

* This is not a typo. We are using the email address from last year's (cancelled) conference.

Call for Papers: Future of Science Communication Conference. 24-25 June 2021

The Future of Science Communication Conference brings together European actors from research and practice of science communication. The conference will take place on 24-25 June 2021 in Berlin. It is co-organised by Wissenschaft im Dialog, the organization for science communication in Germany, and ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

An increasing scientification of societal discourses, not only against the background of the corona pandemic, indicates that the communication of scientific knowledge will be even more important in the future. While the exchange of experience within practitioner communities is working better and better at the national and, increasingly, at the European level, the academic discipline of ‘science of science communication’ is only slowly emerging in the European research landscape. Hence, there is a lack of systematic, interdisciplinary overviews of research questions and areas. In addition, the transfer between research and practice in this field is still at a relatively low level. This lack of systematic transfer and networking leads to a lack of practical orientation in research as well as a lack of evidence orientation in the practice of science communication.

This is where the Future of Science Communication conference sets in: Its primary goal is to provide an impetus for stronger networking and further transfer activities in Science Communication. Only effective and evidence-based science communication can help to tackle the challenges in the relationship between science-public-media-politics in the coming years on the European level. We need science communication research that is well connected at the European level, systematically conducts excellent research, and promotes its transfer into practice.

CONFERENCE TOPIC

The multidisciplinary conference will bring together outstanding researchers and practitioners, reflecting the state of the art in the field of science communication and discussing the further development of the field. Which topics in science communication are considered to be well researched? What are the recommended courses for action in science communication practice and science policy? And how can the exchange and transfer between research and practice be better and more sustainably designed? Participants will address these overarching questions in high level panel sessions as well as in in-depth workshops, while discussing the latest findings on questions of trust in science, dealing with fake news, crisis communication, citizen science, and more. Furthermore, our speakers will use case studies on specific controversial scientific topics such as artificial intelligence, genome editing, climate change, or vaccinations to illustrate and discuss learnings from research and practice of science communication.

TARGET GROUPS

European researchers (senior/junior) from the 'science of science communication' (coming from different disciplines such as educational research, media and communication research, sociology, social psychology, etc.)

Practitioners of science communication, especially representatives fromSciComm initiatives and organisationsUniversity communication departmentsMuseums / Science CentersFoundations, NGOsCompanies

Science communication funding organisations from Europe

Science policy makers

Representatives from science management

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Wissenschaft im Dialog, the organisation for science communication in Germany, and ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, are organising the Future of Science Communication Conference on 24-25 June 2021 in Berlin. The two-day conference aims to bring together actors from research and practice of science communication in order to provide a platform for stronger networking and exchange of activities in the field. The application deadline for the Open Call for Proposals is 28 February 2021.

WHO CAN APPLY?

We explicitly encourage the submission of contributions by researchers as well as practitioners whose research and work is focused on science communication and the relationship between science, researchers and the public. Junior researchers should not be discouraged from sharing their insights. We are looking forward to receiving contributions from individuals with diverse backgrounds.

We kindly invite you to submit proposals for lightning talks, workshops, or a poster session and help shape the conference through your expertise and experience.

At the conference, leading European researchers, as well as junior researchers from various disciplines (educational research, media and communication research, sociology, psychology, etc.) who investigate the relationship between science and the public, will meet practitioners from science communication, politics, media, and civil society.

TOPICS

We are looking for contributions from the following fields of research and practice:

Trust in science

The Covid-19 pandemic as a challenge for science communication

Science communication in a digitized media world; Fake News/Disinformation

Science and politics

Crisis communication with case studies (e.g. on climate change, Covid-19 pandemic)

Target groups of science communication

Citizen Science & Open Science

FORMATS

Lightning Talk:

5 to 10-minute presentation of a research topic or science communication project

Followed by a 5-minute Q&A session with the audience.

Workshop:

90-minute interactive workshop formats

We are open for all kinds of interactive formats and encourage creativity and diversity.

Group work to foster intensive discussion of topics and development of new approaches with practical relevance

Participation of 10-30 participants.

Poster Session:

Participants can present their current research project or findings in a poster session.

During the poster session, each poster will be presented in a 3-minutes flashlight presentation, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

HOW TO APPLY?

After filling in all information, save the PDF using “Save as” and rename the document as “Surname_Application”. Please send the completed form to info@future-of-scicomm.eu by 28 February 2021 the latest.

Application form (https://www.wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Projekte/Future_of_Science_Communication_Conference/Dokumente/21_FSCC_Call_for_Proposals_Final.pdf)

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The contributions for the conference programme can only be submitted using this application form. The programme advisory council evaluates all submitted contributions in a peer review process. You will be informed about your selection within six weeks. Participation is free of charge and includes catering during the conference programme. Travel and accommodation expenses can unfortunately not be reimbursed.

Here you can find the privacy policy of Wissenschaft im Dialog.

Call for Papers: Science and its Enemies: Exploring Conflicts and Alliances in the History of Science. ESHS Athens 2021, Second Early Career Scholars Conference. 20-22 September 2021

We invite submissions for individual papers addressing the main topic of the conference: Science and its Enemies: Exploring Conflicts and Alliances in the History of Science.

The terminology of “enemy” connotes “opponent”, “antagonist”, “adversary”, “rival”, or “competitor”, and thereby opens perspectives in various directions. This topic thus comprises a wide range of potential ‘enemies’ of science, including material, natural, supernatural, or ideological ones, and perhaps even science itself.

The general questions presented above can be specified in a number of directions including the following:

The relationship between scientific discoveries and the development of material culture

The adversarial practice of scientific communication

The influence of supernatural beliefs of religion, spiritism, magnetism, superstition, etc. on scientific reasoning

The contribution of popular knowledge and popular culture to the development of science

The relationship between lay culture and scientific ‘experts’

The shaping of scientific agendas by political narratives of nation, colonialism and empire

The role of gender and sexuality in shaping scientific explorations

Science as an adversary of queer knowledge

Antagonism between the pursuit of science and queer identities

The influence of social and institutional organizations of science on the scientific development

The contribution of ‘pseudo-sciences’ (e.g. eugenics, scientific racism, phrenology, psychoanalysis, etc.) to the transformation and reconfiguration of scientific agendas

The impact of natural disturbances such as earthquakes, floods, pollution, and pandemics on the development of scientific research and experimentation

Competitive behavior within scientific communities

Cases of personal rivalries in science

Economic factors in application for or realization of research projects

The gatekeeping role of peer review

Division of labour and the problem of trust in empirical research

etc.

Note that the main topic is meant as a guideline and does not serve as an exclusionary factor for the selection of papers. Any topic on the History of Science is welcome. Submissions by individuals from underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to submit an abstract.

Submit an abstract

PhD candidates and Early Career Scholars (up to eight years after they obtained their PhD) in History of Science or related fields are invited to submit a proposal.

Individual proposals must include:

an abstract up to 300 words, for a 20-minute presentation, and

name and affiliation of the candidate.

Please submit all proposals via email: eshs.athens.2021@gmail.com

And remember, deadline for submissions will be on March 14th, 2021.

URL: https://eshsathens2021.wordpress.com/

Call for applications: International Summer School – Communicating Science [Wissenschaft im Dialog in partnership with Alexander von Humboldt Foundation]

Young researchers from all over Europe are invited to take part in the International Summer School 2021. Within five days they get useful insights in the world of science communication. A diverse curriculum not only allows the participants to broaden and deepen their theoretical knowledge but also to make use of it in workshop sessions.

About the event

BarCamp, Science Slam, PechaKucha, Meet the Scientist – the possibilities of science communication are manifold. In addition to classic science journalism, the growing number of different formats is increasingly raising awareness of research and is making it tangible and very entertaining at the same time. Science finds its way into our everyday life in the form of podcasts or TED Talks and via social media. But what makes a good format? What kinds of communication do different media cultures require? What is the relationship between science journalism and research? The International Summer School on the topic of Communicating Science in summer 2021 will get to the bottom of these and many other questions.

TARGET GROUPS

Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the context of the German EU Council presidency, the interdisciplinary event is aimed at doctoral candidates and postdocs for up to 6 years after completing their doctorate* who are currently and will still be doing research at European universities and/or research institutions during summer 2021 – regardless of their origin or nationality.

(*excluding parental leave, sick leave etc.)

OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS

First of all, the participants will get an overview of the general conditions and communication cultures and deal with forms and methods of science communication. In interactive sessions, the acquired knowledge is deepened practically, and communication strategies are developed and critically examined from an intercultural and ethical point of view.

In the course of the Summer School, the young researchers will get to know the different formats that are available to them to present their research in a clear and entertaining way. After all, every method of science communication depends on individual preferences, strengths and interests.

In addition, the importance of strategic communication with various stakeholders is a focus of attention. Exciting keynotes from experts as well as practitioners from the science communication field will provide new insights. Subsequent discussion rounds offer ample space for questions and networking. Public evening events invite participants to experience various formats live.

On the basis of the knowledge and skills gathered, the participants will then formulate joint momentum that will serve to strengthen science communication throughout Europe and continuously increase awareness of it.

Call for applications: https://www.wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/en/our-projects/international-summer-school/call-for-applications/

Call for Contributions: Антропологии/ Anthropologies Special Issue on the History of European Anthropologies

 The Russian open access journal Антропологии/Anthropologies (http://journals.iea.ras.ru/anthropologies/index), published by the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (Russian Academy of Sciences) (http://iea-ras.ru/), is currently seeking contributions for a special issue on the histories of anthropology in Europe.

The aim of the issue is to provide the journal’s (mainly) Russian speaking readership with an idea of the current state of the field of history of anthropology in Europe or as practiced by European scholars. Editors are interested in research articles that exemplify current practices of writing the history of anthropology. Contributions that reflect on purposes and trends in this field are also welcome. Submissions do not need to be fully original research articles. Rather, they might present versions of already published research or works that are expected to be published in languages other than Russian.

Articles should be approximately 9,000 words. Submissions can be written in English, German, Italian, Spanish, and French, and will be accepted until 15 March 2021.

Original English texts will be published in both English and Russian versions of the journal.

More information about the journal and the submission process can be found here: https://easaonline.org/downloads/networks/hoan/HOAN_Newsletter_18g-202103_Russia_CfP.pdf.

Invitation: Virtual Screening of JDC Archives Rare Archival Film Footage from Eastern Europe, Wednesday, January 27, 2021, 2pm-3:30pm (EST)

 

The Archives of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is delighted to invite you to the screening of rare archival film footage from Eastern Europe, which are part of the JDC Archives Historic Film, Video and Audio Collection.

The  screening will include materials that document JDC’s efforts in aiding  vulnerable populations in Eastern Europe through rescue, relief, and  communal rebuilding throughout the 20th century:

1. Fighting for Health (excerpts), 1938. Poland. (11:54)

The  film illustrates JDC-supported TOZ programs in pre-WWII Poland. The  film includes scenes of a visiting childcare services worker in the home  of an impoverished Jewish family, street scenes in Warsaw, a TOZ  childcare center and other health programs. Yiddish narration with  English subtitles.

2. Report on the Living (excerpts), 1946-1947. U.S.A. (13:32)

A  film report, introduced by JDC Chairman Edward Warburg, about the harsh  conditions facing Europe’s 1.5 million surviving Jews and the  much-needed services provided by JDC and its partners. The film includes  refugees fleeing Poland after the Kielce Pogrom, life in the displaced  persons camps of Germany, Austria and Italy, and footage from Poland,  Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.

3. Convoy from Sarajevo, 1993, U.S.A.  (8:52)

This  documentary video footage features the story of a life-saving JDC  rescue convoy during the siege of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina),  when 350 Jews, Christians, and Moslems were evacuated to safe haven on  November 14–15, 1992.

4. For the Sake of the Future, 1996, U.S.A.  (6:54)

This  video looks at Jewish renewal in the post-Communist era in Hungary  through the establishment of the Ronald Lauder/JDC Summer Camp at  Szarvas, which serves Jewish children from Central and Eastern Europe,  who may have no other exposure to Jewish culture. Scenes show campers  spending time with other Jews and learning about their heritage.

5. JDC in Poland, 2000, U.S.A.  (10:44)

A  look at JDC’s work in Poland two decades after its return to Poland.  Programs serving children, teens, Holocaust survivors, and the elderly,  and a new generation of potential community leaders are portrayed and  the future of the community.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Linda Levi, Director of JDC’s Global Archives

Purchase tickets for $10.00 by RSVPing here: https://payments.jdc.org/give/319109/#!/donation/checkout

CFP: SOCIALIST POLITICAL THOUGHT IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE, 1889–1968: CONCEPTS, DEBATES, QUESTIONS

 

Doctoral Workshop (Spring 2021 – Budapest or Online – TBA)

The aim of this workshop is to develop histories of socialism as political thought in East Central Europe from the founding of the Second International in 1889 to the Soviet-led invasion of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1968. To accomplish this goal, we particularly invite studies that reflect on the intellectual genealogies of socialist political thought in East Central Europe with a focus on the historicization of key concepts, debates, and questions. Put another way, we would like to solicit studies which address the conceptual components of socialist political thought in a given context and show how these elements were employed in certain polemics (and to which ends).

Broadly speaking, we are interested in contributions which attempt to recapture the rich, complex, and multilayered character of socialist political thought as it existed from the late nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth century. In that way, we are happy to consider studies that, for example, give reinterpretations and recontextualizations of socialist thinkers known to greater or lesser extents, or address the intellectual contours of socialism as lived experience, in comparative, transnational, or global perspectives. Indeed, we are interested in exploring different modes of socialist thought, e.g., in its Christian, Marxist, feminist, populist, agrarian, or democratic varieties.

Some themes we hope to address are: socialist approaches to questions of collective identity (nation, class, religion, gender, …); the roles of concepts such as ‘the state,’ ‘labor,’ ‘revolution,’ and so on, in socialist political thought; as well as continuities, ruptures, and transformations among the varieties of socialist political thinking from the late nineteenth century, through the interwar period, and into the postwar period.

Initial paper proposals should be between 350–500 words in length. In addition, we ask that applicant include a short biographic summary with the applicant’s current institutional affiliation(s). We ask that final paper presentations strive to be between 20–25 minutes in length in order to allow for 15–20 minutes for Q&A sessions for each paper. The deadline for proposals is February 1, 2021.

Please send the documents to the following addresses:

Cody James Inglis (inglis_cody-james@phd.ceu.edu)

Una Blagojević (blagojevic_una@phd.ceu.edu) and

Stefan Gužvica (guzvica.stefan@gmail.com)

[Image: Lili Ország: Wailing Wall, 1960s. Courtesy Kieselbach Archive]

Seminar series on history of historiography at IHN PAN (Polish)

SEMINARIUM Z DZIEJÓW NAUK HUMANISTYCZNYCH I SPOŁECZNYCH

Zapraszamy do udziału w otwartych seminariach organizowanych przez Pracownię Historii Idei Humanistycznych i Społecznych IHN PAN.

Z powodu pandemii COVID-19 spotkania do odwołania będą odbywać się on-line, za pośrednictwem komunikatora Zoom. Zainteresowanych udziałem w seminarium prosimy o kontakt z dr. Tomaszem Siewierskim (tsiewierski@gmail.com).

HARMONOGRAM SEMINARIÓW:

21 STYCZNIA 2021R. (CZWARTEK), GODZ. 17.00

Dyskusja wokół książki prof. dr hab. Rafała Stobieckiego, Historiografia PRL. Zamiast podręcznika, Łódź 2020, z udziałem Autora.

17 LUTEGO 2021R. (ŚRODA), GODZ. 17.00

Dyskusja wokół książki dr. hab. Piotra Majewskiego, prof. UKSW, Muzealna twarz Klio, Warszawa 2020, z udziałem Autora.

18 MARCA 2021R. (CZWARTEK), GODZ. 17.00

Dyskusja wokół książki prof. dr hab. Andrzeja Friszke, Państwo, czy rewolucja. Polscy komuniści a odbudowywanie państwa polskiego 1892-1920, Warszawa 2020, z udziałem Autora.

22 KWIETNIA 2021R. (CZWARTEK), GODZ. 17.00

Dyskusja wokół książki prof. dr hab. Marcina Kuli, Wizytówka historyka, Warszawa 2021, z udziałem Autora oraz prof. dr. hab. Dariusza Stoli.

20 MAJA 2021R. (CZWARTEK), GODZ. 17.00

Dyskusja wokół książki dr hab. Krzysztofa Kosińskiego, prof. IH PAN, „Ekonomia krwi”. Konspiracja narodowa w walczącej Warszawie 1939-1944-1990, Warszawa 2020, z udziałem Autora.

23 CZERWCA 2021R. (ŚRODA), GODZ. 17.00

Spotkanie poświęcone pamięci prof. dr. hab. Jerzego W. Borejszy. Dyskusja wokół artykułu prof. dr hab. Mariusza Wołosa, „Niespełniony pisarz, który został historykiem”. Jerzy Wojciech Borejsza (22 VIII 1935 – 28 VII 2019), „Dzieje Najnowsze” 2020, z. 4, z udziałem Autora.

Ю. В. Иванова, П. В. Соколов, И. М. Савельева: Клио в зазеркалье: Исторический аргумент в гуманитарной и социальной теории [Clio Through the Looking Glass. A Historical Argument in the Theory of Human and Social Sciences]. М.: Новое литературное обозрение 2021. ISBN 978-5-4448-1294-5

 

Аннотация: «Новая наука» Джамбаттисты Вико, «Протестантская этика и дух капитализма» Макса Вебера, книга о Рабле Михаила Бахтина — эти работы давно причислены к гуманитарной классике, и все же вокруг них не утихают споры. С момента появления на свет этих трудов их авторов обвиняют в непростительном философском вторжении в поле предметных наук, в преступлении перед «истиной факта». Авторы этой коллективной монографии рассматривают, как создатели гуманитарных и социальных теорий — от раннего Нового времени до наших дней — заимствуют аргументы и фактический материал, традиционно относящиеся исключительно к компетенции историков. Книга охватывает три проблемных поля: роль истории в неортодоксальных трудах, таких как вышеперечисленные работы Вебера или Бахтина; исторические методы в дисциплинах, совмещающих историю и теорию (историческая социология, историческая поэтика); обращение к историческому нарративу в работах социологов, правоведов, экономистов и других исследователей, редко заходящих на территорию соседей-историков. С одной стороны, авторы рассматривают, как исторический материал трансформируется в теорию, а элементы интеллектуальной культуры прошлого воскресают в актуальной гуманитарной философии и теории; с другой стороны, они исследуют способы присвоения исторического аргумента в подчеркнуто аисторических дисциплинах. Совмещение разных оптик призвано открыть область продуктивного взаимодействия между теорией и историей, в которой первая не отрывается от породившего ее социально-исторического бытия, а вторая не сводится к голому факту или теоретически бесплодному объекту исследования.

Вторая межвузовская школа молодых ученых: «Один день из жизни ученого: повседневность, коммуникации, смыслы». Deadline: 15 февраля 2021 г.

Приглашаем принять участие во второй межвузовской школе молодых ученых: «Один день из жизни ученого: повседневность, коммуникации, смыслы», которая состоится в апреле 2021 г. в Российском государственном гуманитарном университете.

Приглашаем принять участие во второй межвузовской школе молодых ученых: «Один день из жизни ученого: повседневность, коммуникации, смыслы», которая состоится в апреле 2021 г. в Российском государственном гуманитарном университете.

Цель школы: создание открытой дискуссионной площадки, объединяющей представителей гуманитарных и социальных наук для обсуждения вопросов, связанных с профессиональной повседневностью ученых.

История науки часто соприкасается с историей идей, рассказывая миру о научных открытиях и изобретениях прошлого. Однако именно история повседневности помогает нам ближе познакомиться с человеком, подарившим миру то или иное открытие. Повседневность формирует, структурирует, упорядочивает контуры профессиональной биографии, обозначая особый социальный портрет научного сообщества. Одновременно – именно она дифференцирует, маркирует различие групп в его составе - возрастных, гендерных, статусных, etc. Наконец, именно в рамках повседневности рельефно раскрывается причастность ученого особой корпоративной этике, ценностям и смыслам профессии.

МЫ ПРЕДЛАГАЕМ СЛЕДУЮЩИЕ ТЕМЫ ДЛЯ ОБСУЖДЕНИЯ:

«Дело житейское»: как изучать повседневность ученого? Как встроить микросюжет в общий контекст?

Легко ли быть женщиной в науке: образ в массовом сознании vs реальное положение?

Диалог в учебной аудитории - ученик и педагог: что думали друг о друге преподаватели и студенты?

Бренд советской науки: какой ее хотели видеть и какой представляли для зарубежной публики?

Наука для всех: как конструировался образ науки, как менялось отношение к ученому и научному знанию в XX в.?

Наша главная идея — сделать школу как можно более полезной и интересной, поэтому мы отдаем предпочтение формату активного взаимодействия экспертов и участников в рамках открытых лекций, гостиных, воркшопов и секционных заседаний.

Участники: студенты бакалавриата и магистратуры, аспиранты, молодые ученые

Формат участия: очный (онлайн)

Рабочий язык школы: русский, английский

ТРЕБОВАНИЯ:

Deadline: заявку необходимо прислать до 15 февраля 2021 г. на электронную почту sciencehistory@rggu.ru (в теме письма указать «ФИО_школа»).

Заявка включает в себя два файла:

краткое CV, дающее представление о Вашем образовании, научных достижениях и/или опыте работы, и мотивационное письмо с обоснованием Вашего желания принять участие в работе школы;

research proposal – план научного исследования/проекта по Вашей теме, объемом не более 1,5 страниц (файл word).

Все интересующие Вас вопросы можно задать кураторам школы – Романовой Марии и Слисковой Валерии по указанной электронной почте.

Philosophy Workshop: The Lvov-Warsaw School Reseaerch Center. 1st Edition Online, February 11-14, 2021. Deadline 20.01.2021

 

The Workshop refers to the tradition of the Lvov seminar of Kazimierz Twardowski, the founder of the Lvov-Warsaw School of philosophy. It is intended first of all for young philosophy learners: undergraduate and graduate students, as well as high school pupils.

Kazimierz Twardowski dedicated all his life to practicing and teaching philosophy. For his students, he provided great conditions of work: a reading-room in which everyone had its own place to study and very well-equipped library. Moreover, he supported his students by competent advice, training them in independent work and autonomous dealing with philosophical problems. The most important postulates that had to be fulfilled by works prepared under Twardowski’s supervision were the postulate of maximal clarity of language and the postulate of adequate justification of views. It is not surprising that Twardowski raised so many great philosophers, which belong to the formation called by us today: “The Lvov-Warsaw School”. Among Twardowski’s students, there are such outstanding thinkers like Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Stefan Baley, Leopold Blaustein, Marian Borowski, Tadeusz Czeżowski, Izydora Dąmbska, Maria Kokoszyńska, Tadeusz Kotarbiński, Stanisław Leśniewski, Jan Łukasiewicz, Helena Słoniewska and Władysław Witwicki.

The aim of the Workshop is to promote the scientific ethos of the Lvov-Warsaw School as well as to support the model of teaching philosophy based on relation mentor-student, which was characteristic for the Twardowski’s school. The Workshop will be composed of two parts: lecture and seminary one. Lecture parts will be composed of papers presented by recognized researchers of the tradition of the Lvov-Warsaw School concerning the history of the school, its main achievements and the methods applied. In seminar parts, young scholars working under the supervision of their mentors, will present their papers.

Twardowski and his students highly estimated philosophical discussions and substantial, constructive criticism. They considered presenting the results of their work as the best test of the scientific value as well as clarity of presentation of these results. The discussions took place within the university seminars as well as at the meetings of Philosophy Circle and Polish Philosophical Society, established by Twardowski in Lvov. Referring to these traditions, the planned workshop is intended to serve as a forum where young philosophers may present the results of their work. The discussions will be conducted in the atmosphere of substantial as well as supportive criticism.

The workshop is planned on 11-14 February, 2021. The date is not accidentally chosen. February 11 is the anniversary of Kazimierz Twardowski’s death. In February 1939, a year after their mentor died, Twardowski’s students prepared a solemn memorial meeting. Next anniversaries were not celebrated in such a way because of the outbreak of the World War II. However, also after the war, some Twardowski’s students mentioned the anniversary in postcards written to colleagues. Moreover, in Februaries 1989 to 2018, thirty editions of Philosophy Lectures took place in Lviv to honor Twardowski’s work and achievements.

The Philosophy Workshop, organized by The Lvov-Warsaw School Research Center in cooperation with Kazimierz Twardowski Philosophical Society in Lvov, aims to continue both traditions. In 2021, the workshop takes place on-line. English, Polish, and Ukrainian languages will be used.

In order to take part in the Workshop, please fill in the form attached. Both active (with a paper) and passive (without a paper) applications are welcomed. Papers presented at the Workshop should be prepared under the supervision of mentors and refer to the broadly understood tradition of the Lvov-Warsaw School.

URL: https://sites.google.com/uw.edu.pl/philosophyworkshop

Agnieszka Kościańska: Gender, Pleasure, and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland, Translated by Marta Rozmysłowicz. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2021.

URL: https://iupress.org/9780253053091/gender-pleasure-and-violence/

DESCRIPTION

Behind the Iron Curtain, the politics of sexuality and gender were, in many ways, more progressive than the West.

While Polish citizens undoubtedly suffered under the oppressive totalitarianism of socialism, abortion was legal, clear laws protected victims of rape, and it was relatively easy to legally change one's gender. In Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, Agnieszka Kościańska reveals that sexologists—experts such as physicians, therapists, and educators—not only treated patients but also held sex education classes at school, published regular columns in the press, and authored highly popular sex manuals that sold millions of copies. Yet strict gender roles within the home meant that true equality was never fully within reach. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and archival work, Kościańska shares how professions like sexologists defined the notions of sexual pleasure and sexual violence under these sweeping cultural changes.

By tracing the study of sexual human behavior as it was developed and professionalized in Poland since the 1960s, Gender, Pleasure, and Violence explores how the collapse of socialism brought both restrictions in gender rights and new opportunities.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Sexology and Society

1. The Development of Sexology and Sexual Rights Activism in Europe and North America

2. The Polish School of Sexology

Part II. Pleasure: Towards Good Sex

3. Sexuality and Scientific Knowledge

4. "Civilized" Sex and Gender Relations under Socialism

5. Gender and Pleasure in Expert Discourse Today

Part III. Violence: Expert Discourse of Rape

6. Rape: Definitions, Legal Understanding and Statistics

7. The Provocative Victim and the Male Limits of Self-Restraint: Stereotypes in Expert Literature

8. In the Court Room

9. Feminism: Changes in Expert Discourse and in the Court Room

Conclusions

Works Cited

Index

AUTHORS

Agnieszka Kościańska is Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw. She is author and co-editor of several volumes on gender and sexuality, including (in Polish) The Power of Silence: Gender and Religious Conversion.

Technology and Culture 2020, Vol 61, No 4

The new issue of Technology and Culture, including a special issue on Early Modern Technology and a session on public history of Chernobyl, is online. URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/43645

October 2020, Vol 61, No 4

Special Issue: Manufacturing Modernity. Innovations in Early Modern Europe

Manufacturing Modernity. Innovations in Early Modern Europe—An Introduction | Adam Lucas

A Politics of Intellectual Property: Creating a Patent System in Revolutionary France | Jérôme Baudry

Illuminated Publics: Representations of Street Lamps in Revolutionary France | Benjamin Bothereau

Changing Scale to Master Nature: Promoting Small-scale inventions in Eighteenth-century France and Britain | Marie Thébaud-Sorger

Machines, Motion, Mechanics: Philosophers Engineering the Fountains of Versailles | Luciano Boschiero

A New Perspective on the Natural Philosophy of Steams and its Relation to the Steam Engine | David Philip Miller

Public History

Public History Take 1: Historians of Technology Watching Chernobyl | The Editors

Chernobyl the TV Series: On Suspending the Truth or What’s the Benefit of Lies? | Sonja D. Schmid

Ukrainian Memory Spaces and Nuclear Technology: the Musealization of Chornobyl’s Disaster | Anna Veronika Wendland

Chernobyl as Technoscience | Eglė Rindzevičiūtė

Conference Proceedings

“Technology and Power”: Forty-Sixth Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland (22–27 July 2019) | Sławomir Łotysz, Ciro Paoletti, Glen O’Sullivan, Kamna Tiwary, Magdalena Zdrodowska

ARCHIVES REVISITED

Sixty-years of Scholarship | The Editors

Urban Transport and Mobility in Technology and Culture | Peter Norton

Book Reviews

REVIEW OF TECHNOLOGY: CRITICAL HISTORY OF A CONCEPT BY ERIC SCHATZBERG | DAVID E. NYE

REVIEW OF FIFTY YEARS OF MEDIEVAL TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE EDITED BY STEVEN A. WALTON | ADAM LUCAS

Review of Alles im Fluss: Die Lebensadern unserer Gesellschaft [Everything Flows: The Lifeblood of our Society] by Dirk van Laak| Nil Disco

Review of Screen Culture: A Global History by Richard Butsch | Noah Arceneaux

Review of Technology and Rural Change in Eastern India 1830-1980 by Smritikumar Sarkar| Animesh Chatterjee

Review of Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory: Technology, Lifeways and Cuisine edited by Peter Jordan and Kevin Gibbs | Ian Gilligan

Review of Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings About Technology, From the Telegraph to Twitter by Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt | Martina Hessler

Review of Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat by Ai Hisano | Barkha Kagliwal 

Review of Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World by Jason Farman | David Zvi Kalman

Review of Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830–1930 by Grame Gooday and Karen Sayer | Coreen McGuire

Review of Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computers by David Parisi | Rachel Plotnick

Review of Silent Serial Sensations: The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema by Barbara Tepa Lupack | J. P. Telotte

Review of Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945 by Kerim Yasar| Daqing Yang

Review of Spectacular Flops: Game-Changing Technologies That Failed by Michael Brian Schiffer | Jonathan Coopersmith

Review of Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War by Douglas O’Reagan| Bruce Seely

Review of The American Lab: An Insider’s History of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by C. Bruce Tarter | Benjamin Sims

Review of The TVs of Tomorrow: How RCA’s Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs by Benjamin Gross| Michael Aaron Dennis

Review of Transnational Cultures of Expertise. Circulating State-Related Knowledge in the 18th and 19th Centuries edited by Lothar Schilling and Jacob Vogel | Göran Rydén

Review of Die Versorgung der Hauptstadt der Bewegung. Infrastrukturen und Stadtgesellschaft im nationalsozialistischen München [Supplying the Capital of the Movement: Infrastructures and Urban Society in National Socialist Munich] by Mathias Irlinger | Jens Ivo Engels

Review of A River in the City of Fountains: An Environmental History of Kansas City and the Missouri River by Amahia K. Mallea | Brian Frehner

Review of Submarine Telegraphy and the Hunt for Gutta Percha: Challenge and Opportunity in a Global Trade by Helen Godfrey | Bruce J. Hunt

Review of Wege in die Digitale Gesellschaft: Computernutzung in der Bundesrepublik 1955-1990 [Towards a Digital Society: Computer Use in West Germany 1955-1990] edited by Frank Bösch | Corinna Schlombs

Review of Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life by Colin Milburn | Pieter Van den Heede

Review of When They Hid the Fire: A History of Electricity and Invisible Energy in America by Daniel French | Michael Kay

Review of Radio Soundings: South Africa and the Black Modern by Liz Gunner | Marissa J. Moorman

Review of Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation by Dana E. Powell, | Caleb Wellum

Review of The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad edited by Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin | Robert Cliver

Review of Harvest of Hazards: Family Farming, Accidents, and Expertise in the Corn Belt, 1940 -1975 by Derek S. Oden | Mark D. Hersey

Review of Toxic Shock: A Social History by Sharra L. Vostral | Donna J. Drucker

Review of Poisonous Skies: Acid Rain and the Globalization of Pollution by Rachel Emma Rothschild | Blair Stein

Review of Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape by Molly Wright Steenson | Orit Halpern

Review of Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present by Pamela M. Lee| B. Jack Hanly

Review of Behind the Exhibit: Displaying Science and Technology at World’s Fairs and Museums in the Twentieth Century edited by Elena Canadelli, Marco Beretta, and Laura Ronzon | Morris Low

HIRA&hps.cesee Digital Book Launch: Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870–1950 (Routledge, 2020), eds. Eszter Gantner, Heidi Hein-Kircher, Oliver Hochadel

January 21, 2021, 6 –7 pm (CET)

Introduction by

Heidi Hein-Kircher (Herder Institute) and Oliver Hochadel (Institució Milà i Fontanals, CSIC Barcelona)

Commentaries by

Harald Stühlinger (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz) and Jan Surman (Senior Researcher, Masaryk Institute and Archive of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

Moderation: Tatsiana Astrouskaya (Herder Institute)

Around 1900 cities in Southern and Eastern Europe were persistently labeled "backward" and "delayed." Allegedly, they had no alternative but to follow the role model of the metropolises, of London, Paris or Vienna. This edited volume fundamentally questions this assumption. It shows that cities as diverse as Barcelona, Berdyansk, Budapest, Lviv, Milan, Moscow, Prague, Warsaw and Zagreb pursued their own agendas of modernization.

This interurban perspective helps to overcome nationalist perspectives in historiography as well as outdated notions of "center and periphery." This volume appeals to scholars from a large number of disciplines, including urban historians, historians of Eastern and Southern Europe, historians of science and medicine, and scholars interested in transnational connections.

More on the book: https://www.routledge.com/Interurban-Knowledge-Exchange-in-Southern-and-Eastern-Europe-18701950/Gantner-Hein-Kircher-Hochadel/p/book/9780367333294

Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeMAfe6aVoMQhv5DeqTK_ml7l7OYv9t01ugn_3TQD38uQyrIg/viewform

Digital HIRA (Herder Institute Research Academy) 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.

HPS.CESEE is an online platform about the history of science in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Its aim is to facilitate the exchange of information among HPS scholars in the region stretching from Prague to Perm and from Tallinn to Tirana. You can find it on blogger (https://hpscesee.blogspot.com/), facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/hps.cesee/) and twitter (https://twitter.com/hpscesee).

Call for Papers: “Bring Out Your Dead”: Visions of Pandemics Past, Present and Future in Literature and the Arts

Editors

Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Editors Brodman and Doan are seeking original essays for the sixth of a series of books on visions of the supernatural and the apocalyptic in literature and the arts.* They encourage submissions from peoples and cultures around the world and from scholars of the Sciences as well as the Arts. Each of section of this collection will focus on one of the following categories:

Visions of pandemics past in literature and the arts, with emphasis on critical analysis of the lessons learned and lost during and after each event and the causes and consequences of each;

Visions of modern pandemics in literature and the arts, with emphasis on critical analysis of lessons learned and lost during and after each event and the causes and possible consequences of each;

Futuristic visions of pandemics in literature and the arts, with emphasis on a critical analysis of the proposed outcomes of those events and their effect on the planet and the human species.

Abstract Due Dates

Abstracts are due before February 1, 2021. They should be no longer than 300 words.

Final manuscripts of 5,000-7,000 words should be submitted in Chicago Style (most recent edition: notes and bibliography system) by September 15, 2021.

Contact us and send abstracts to: brodman@nova.edu or doan@nova.edu

* The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013), Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013), The Supernatural Revamped: From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016), Apocalyptic Chic: Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017), Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump: Images from Literature and Visual Arts (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2019)

Contact Info:

James E. Doan, Professor, Dept. of Humanities and Politics, NSU, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33314

Call for papers: Conference on the history of mathematics, Poland

Kolejna, XXXIV Konferencja z Historii Matematyki odbędzie się w Ośrodku Instytutu Matematycznego PAN (Centrum Banacha) w Będlewie w dniach 17–21.05.2021. Konferencja poświęcona będzie głównie historii matematyki polskiej, jednak możliwe będą też odczyty dotyczące innych zagadnień, np. jubileusze związane z historią matematyki, czy też historia matematyki światowej.

Zalecany jest przyjazd do Będlewa w niedzielę 16 maja 2021 roku po południu. Od tego dnia zarezerwowane będą pokoje dla uczestników konferencji.

Udział w konferencji i tytuły referatów proszę zgłaszać bezpośrednio na adres: witold.wieslaw@math.uni.wroc.pl, najpóźniej do połowy kwietnia 2021 roku.

Komitet Organizacyjny XXXIV Konferencji z Historii Matematyki:

Przewodniczący Komitetu Organizacyjnego: Witold Więsław  (Wrocław)

Lech Maligranda (Lulea)

Roman Murawski (Poznań)

Jan Strelcyn (Paryż)

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Fasora Lukáš, Hanuš Jiří, Čermin Jan, Čerminová Jana, Máliková Michaela: Sto tváří, sto příběhů. Vybrané osobnosti v dějinách Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity [One hundred faces, a hundred stories. Selected personalities in the history of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University]. Brno: Masarykova univerzita 2020.

 

Kniha připomínající sté výročí vzniku Filozofické fakulty MU je zároveň příspěvkem k celouniverzitnímu jubileu. Jejím cílem je rekapitulovat dějiny fakulty prostřednictvím biografické metody, tedy s pomocí krátkých životopisů představujících profilové, významné nebo zajímavé osobnosti spojené svým osudem a dílem s fakultou. V dosavadním bádání nad dějinami školy zajisté nechyběl ani biografický pohled, takto komplexní soubor biogramů ale dosud shromážděn nebyl. Publikace však přináší více: autoři využívají rozsáhlý soubor životopisných dat k interpretaci dějin fakulty z pohledu střídání akademických generací, zamýšlejí se nad formativním generačním prožitkem a nad jevy, které v uplynulých sto letech ovlivňovaly život akademiků a studentů. Jde pochopitelně o jevy pozitivní i negativní; publikace proto není pouze přehledem zasloužilých osobností, respektovaných vědců a charismatických pedagogů, ale otevřeně pojednává i o životních osudech akademiků kontroverzních. Soubor biogramů tak podává věrohodné svědectví o stoleté práci fakulty, v níž se trvale prolínají studium, věda a politika.

Marcin Kula: Wizytówka Historyka [Marcin Kula: Business Card of a Historian]. Warszawa: Aspra 2021. ISBN: 978-83-820-9085-7

 

Marcin Kula – historyk, z wykształcenia także socjolog. Emerytowany profesor Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Obecnie wykłada w Akademii Teatralnej im. Aleksandra Zelwerowicza, gdzie jednak, szczęśliwie dla polskiego teatru, nie uczy ani aktorstwa, ani reżyserii, ani lalkarstwa. Niedawno został członkiem-korespondentem PAU.

Urodził się w 1943 r. Warszawie. Nie był to najlepszy moment i miejsce do przychodzenia na świat, ale nie miał w tej sprawie nic do powiedzenia. Dorastał w rodzinie humanistów, z czasem profesorów Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Od dłuższego czasu na nieuniknione pytanie „Czy jest pan synem...”, mógł jednak odpowiadać: „Tak, ale jestem też ojcem...” – zaś od kilkunastu lat może odpowiedzieć „Tak, ale jestem też dziadkiem...”.

Maturę uzyskał w 1960 r. w Liceum im. Joachima Lelewela w Warszawie. Studiował na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim. Szkoła i studia miały oczywiście mnóstwo wad swoich czasów, ale nie jest prawdą, jakoby kształciły „wykształciuchów” (jak niedawno nazwano absolwentów z tego okresu).

Doktoryzował się i habilitował w Instytucie Historii PAN w latach 1968 i 1976. Tytuł profesorski uzyskał w 1985 r. Wypromował 11 licencjatów, 149 magistrów oraz 22 doktorów. Może zbyt wielu jak na panujące zwyczaje, ale jest dumny ze swoich uczennic i uczniów, także takich, którzy pozostawali z nim tylko w niesformalizowanym kontakcie.

Badawczo pracował nad historią Ameryki Łacińskiej, najnowszą historii Polski, migracjami i mniejszościami narodowymi, rolą myślenia o historii, socjologią historyczną. Mając tak rozstrzelone zainteresowania, nie przejmując się granicami dyscyplin i dużo pisząc, uchybił zapewne funkcjonującemu wzorowi osobowemu historyka.

Nie chce nauki robionej z metra i ocenianej na punkty. Nie popiera ani ograniczania się do standardu „Stół ma cztery nogi, jak powiedział Pierre Bourdieu”, ani głoszenia dumy z historii narodowej, czy podejścia do dziejów w roli prokuratora. Ta książka jest swego rodzaju wizytówką. Autor przedstawia w niej swoją drogę zawodową. Czasem dopisuje komentarz do prac, które opublikował. Pisze o sobie, ale jednocześnie o historiografii i jej społecznych funkcjach.

Call for Papers: CIENS International Conference on "Nuclear deterrence in Europe. Visions, debates, opportunities, and challenges from 1945 to present", June/ July 2021

The Interdisciplinary Centre on Nuclear and Strategic Studies (CIENS) has launched a new Call for papers for the next CIENS international conference – held in partnership with the NPIHP (Wilson Center) – entitled “Nuclear deterrence in Europe. Visions, debates, opportunities, and challenges from 1945 to present”. The Conference, which had been originally scheduled to take place in Paris on 27-28 November 2020, is now taking place in summer 2021.

The CFP is open to researchers in History as well as other Social and Human Sciences (including Political Sciences, Economy, Law and Philosophy), including young researchers and PhD candidates at an advanced stage of their programme. The organisers will consider additional proposals which potential contributors believe would fit in the overall framework of the conference.

This additional deadline for proposals is set for February 19th 2021.  Proposals should be e-mailed to nuclear.deterrence.in.europe@gmail.com. They should include a title, an outline of 400 words (max.) and a one page CV of the author with a list of major publications. Selected authors will be announced in spring 2021. Following the acceptance of the proposals, authors will receive editorial guidelines (e.g. format of the papers). In order for the papers to be available to conference participants beforehand, authors will be asked to submit their draft papers three weeks before the conference. A publication of selected papers will be considered in 2021-2022.

Participants will receive reimbursement for their transportation on the basis of economy fare as well as accommodation during their stay in Paris for 2 nights.

More details about the Conference and the CFP can be found here: http://www.geographie.ens.fr/call-for-paper-international-conference.html?lang=fr

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte – History of Science and Humanities 4/2020 (S. 459–614). Special Issue: Diplomats in Science Diplomacy: Promoting Scientific and Technological Collaboration in International Relations

Editorial

Diplomats in Science Diplomacy: Promoting Scientific and Technological Collaboration in International Relations (S. 465–472)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bewi.202080402

Lif Lund Jacobsen, Doubravka Olšáková

Beiträge (Special Issue “Diplomats in Science Diplomacy: Promoting Scientific and Technological Collaboration in International Relations”)

Science for Competition among Powers: Geographical Knowledge, Colonial‐Diplomatic Networks, and the Scramble for Africa (S. 473–492)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.202000016

Daniel Gamito‐Marques

Niels Bohr's Diplomatic Mission during and after World War Two (S. 493–520)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.202000026

Finn Aaserud

The Unflinching Mr. Smith and the Nuclear Age (S. 521–541)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.202000019

Simone Turchetti

A Matter of Courtesy: The Role of Soviet Diplomacy and Soviet “System Safeguards” in Maintaining Soviet Influence on Czechoslovak Science before and after 1968 (S. 542–559)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.202000023

Doubravka Olšáková

Engineering Education in Cold War Diplomacy: India, Germany, and the Establishment of IIT Madras (S. 560–580)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.202000014

Roland Wittje

For the Benefit of All Men: Oceanography and Franco‐American Scientific Diplomacy in the Cold War, 1958–1970 (S. 581–605)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.202000015

Beatriz Martínez‐Rius

Einzelbeitrag

The Meaning of Deviation in the Early Modern Evolution of Knowledge Management Systems: A Response to Richard Yeo (S. 606–614)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.202000025

Alberto Cevolini

Quaestio Rossica Vol 8 No 5 (2020) (open access) (Russian with English abstracts)

URL: https://qr.urfu.ru/ojs/index.php/qr/issue/view/317

Special sections: Cultural Diplomacy in the USSR

Controversial Symbols of Moscow

Fear and Political Myth in Outsider Art

ICON the bi-annual journal of ICOHTEC VOL. 25, no 2, 2020

Front Matter,  Prizes 2020

James Williams

Kranzberg Lecture

Research Articles

Jeffrey Boadu and Viktor Pál

Continuities of Dependence: Hydropower and Modernisation in Twentieth-Century Ghana

Thomas Schuetz et al.

The Decline And Resurrection Of Industries: The Example Of The Consumer Goods Industry In Germany

Svetlana Usenyuk-Kravchuk, Nikita Klyusov, Sampsa Hyysalo, Viktor Klimenko

Depending on Users: the Case of Over-snow Motorised Transport in Russia

Alexia Sofia Papazafeiropoulou

‘Eve at the steering wheel’: Female representations in Greek motoring magazines from the 1950s to the 1980s

Tomáš Gecko

How the Prague School of Japanese Scholars Benefited from Technology Transfer

Research in Brief

Sheila Palomares

Marsá Reinforced Concrete Beams and their Application in Spanish Agricultural Industrial Architecture

Petter Wulff

The Climate Legacy of Svante Arrhenius

Biography

Mircea O. Popoviciu

Aurel Barglazan Founder of the Timisoara Hydraulic Machinery School

Book Reviews

Atte Arffman

Review of Urbanizing Nature: Actors and Agency (Dis)connecting Cities and Nature Since 1500 by Tim Soens, Dieter Schott, Michael Toyka-Seid and Bert De Munck, eds.

Mariia Koskina

Review of Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes: Myth, Propaganda, Reality, edited by Stephen Brain and Viktor Pál

Jaroslav Švelch

Review of Minor Platforms in Videogame History by Benjamin Nicoll

Inna Häkkinen

Review of Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond, edited by Imre Szeman and Jeff Diamanti

Matúš Mišík

Review of The Energy of Russia: Hydrocarbon Culture and Climate Change by Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen

Contact Info:

editor@icohtec.org

Contact Email:

editor@icohtec.org

URL:

http://www.icohtec.org/icon/

Call for Papers: "Translation and Transfer," of the Transottomanica Network (DFG SPP 1981), Marburg 6–9 October 2021. Deadline January 31, 2021.

 

The DFG Priority Programme (SPP) “Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics” looks at social and (trans)cultural ties between the Muscovite Tsardom and/or Petersburg Empire, Poland-Lithuania, the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia and Iran from the early modern period to the beginning of the twentieth century. After the completion of the first phase of the project (2017–2020) and the forthcoming publication of four thematic volumes (see: https://www.transottomanica.de/pub/vrseries), the second phase will look more closely at specific phenomena of transregional mobility within the region under study.

Practices of translation between languages and the pragmatic transfer of translated texts into actual usage have emerged as the topic central to the majority of the sixteen research projects in our network. To discuss this topic in greater detail, we invite interested scholars to the medieval town of Marburg to share their expertise with us at a conference in October, 2021.

There are many aspects of the topic such as actual written translations in the Transottoman region and translators who earned their living through their expertise. Possible questions to be discussed at the conference include what functions these translations – full or partial, systematic or occasional – had and why people became translators with a broad or narrow functional focus. Within our Transottoman focus we are interested in multi-lingual brokers of languages who were negotiating and constituting the practical nodes of the shared social, commercial, diplomatic, political, or private worlds.

The actual usage of translations by specialists in the military or administration, for example, but also in church structures or in everyday life in general constitutes a second main aspect of the planned conference. Here, themes around translated terminologies, genres, narratives, concepts or individual books and their usage in a new linguistic environment become relevant.

While we are well aware of the broader implications of the translational turn, the conference will stress the pragmatic implications of the translation of texts in its narrower sense and the translators involved in activities across or within the Transottoman focus region. For a closer look at this and the multiple projects within this framework, please visit our website at www.transottomanica.de.

Costs for travel and accommodation in Marburg will be provided for successful applicants for the duration of the conference.

Please send a description of your proposal, including the topic, the specific approach, and the sources used (one page) and a short academic CV by 31 January 2021 to: florian.riedler@uni-leipzig.de.

PSYCHOANALYSIS IN POLAND - ONLY HISTORY OR CHALLENGE? International Conference (online)

  📅 dates: 29 – 31 January (Friday – Sunday) 2021

URL: https://www.facebook.com/events/3450325588526915/

❗❗ The conference will be held online via an Internet platform ZOOM. The lectures on Friday the 29th by Lilli Gast and Ludger Hermanns will be given in English. The panel discussions on Saturday and Sunday will be held in Polish.

◼ The conference will be the result of 6 years of research work carried out by a group of people within the framework of the NPRH grant realized at IFiS PAN, and of the cooperation between the International Psychoanalytic University of Berlin and the Pedagogical University of Cracow. The research concerned the history of psychoanalysis in Poland in the European cultural context. It will also be the first conference co-organized by the Centre of Psychoanalytical Thought at IFiS PAN, whose creation was one of the effects of the grant participants' work.

We would like to reflect on how to place the reception of psychoanalysis in Poland in the 20th century against the background of Polish culture and what is the significance of the achievements of this current for us today. Are there any important messages in the rich literary legacy of this current that has reached us today? Will we find in it the questions that bother us even today? The conference will be also opportunity to reflect on the challenges that psychoanalysts and philosophers/scientists inspired by psychoanalytic theories face today's in Poland and worldwide.

❗❗ You will receive the link in a separate email after applying for participation.

◼ Conference fee: 10 EU; 12 USD

/// Bank account number: 55 1130 1017 0020 1463 0820 0001

[ Please add the transfer title: Psychoanalysis in Poland - only history or challenge?]

◼ Organizers: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Centre of Psychoanalytical Thought, Ministry of Science and Higher Education’s programme in Poland / the National Programme for the Development of Humanities

✉ Contact: psychoanalizawpolsce@gmail.com

◼ PROGRAM

Friday, January 29

🔹 CONFERENCE OPENING 5:00 PM (UTC+1)

History of Psychoanalysis in Poland

as a challenge

Paweł Dybel, IFiS PAN, Warsaw

🔹 OPENING LECTURE:

5:15 – 6:00 PM

Psychoanalysis and University

Lilli Gast, IPU Berlin

Discussion: 6:00 - 6:20 PM

LECTURES:

🔹 6:20 – 6:50 PM

What lessons can be learned today from research on the history of psychoanalysis?

Ludger Hermanns, Karl Abraham Institut, Berlin

Discussion: 6:50 – 7:10 PM

🔹7:10 – 7:40 PM

Psychoanalysis between humanities and neuroscience

Ewa Kobylińska-Dehe, IFiS PAN,

Frankfurter Psychoanalytisches Institut

Discussion: 7:40 – 8:00 PM

// Chair: Mira Marcinów

Saturday, January 30

🔹 PANEL I 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (UTC +1)

Psychoanalysis during the period of the partitions of Poland, in the interwar time (1918 – 1939) and in the communist era (1945 – 1989). Winding roads of the reception.

Bartłomiej Dobroczyński, Paweł Dybel,

Mira Marcinów, chair: Andrzej Leder

🔹 PANEL II, 1:00 – 3:00 PM

The Kinships from the Era. Psychoanalysis and Polish literature of modernism and the interwar period

Paweł Dybel, Szymon Wróbel, Joanna Stryjczyk, Paulina Urbańczyk, chair: Adam Lipszyc

🔹 PANEL III, 5:00 – 7:00 PM

Psychoanalysis and Shoah

Katarzyna Prot-Klinger, Agnieszka Makowiecka-Pastusiak, Krzysztof Szwajca, chair: Ewa Głód

Sunday, January 30

🔹 PANEL IV, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Being a psychoanalyst in difficult times

Ewa Kobylińska-Dehe, Ewa Modzelewska, Ewa Głód, Jakub Bobrzyński, chair: Julia Jastrzębska

Кресін О.В. Формування порівняльно-правового мислення варшавських юристів у першій третині ХІХ століття: монографія / Інститут держави і права імені В.М. Корецького НАН України. Київ: Норма права, 2021. 252 с.

У книзі розкрито політичний, інституційний та інтелектуальний контексти розвитку правової думки варшавських учених у першій третині ХІХ ст. Показано, що в цей період варшавські вчені-юристи стали авторами оригінальних ідей щодо: позитивного та національного характеру права та національного правопорядку як одиниці правової картини світу, яка забезпечувала плюральність правового та політичного розвитку; правових сімей та класифікації національних правопорядків; іманентного характеру загального елемента в праві. У такий спосіб вони побудували тріаду окремого, особливого та загального в праві, яка стала основою позитивістського правового мислення та юридичної науки взагалі.

У різних контекстах продемонстровано особливості порівняльно-правового (неметафізичного, емпірико-центричного, позитивістського, соціологічного, плюралістичного) мислення варшавських юристів, яке втілилося у формуванні відповідної наукової правової картини світу, баченні характеру нової юридичної науки та місця у ній порівняльно-правового знання.

Ознайомитися із змістом і передмовою, а також придбати книгу можна за посиланням: https://jurkniga.ua/formuvannya-porivnyalno-pravovogo-mislennya-varshavskikh-yuristiv-u-pershiy-tretini-khikh-stolittya

Call for papers: Roundrable «Казимир Твардовський та його українські учні». February 11, 2021

Міжвоєнний Львів – це багатокультурне та багатонаціональне середовище. Такою багатонаціональною формацією була Львівська філософська школа, заснована Казимиром Твардовським (20.10.1866 Відень – 11.02.1938 Львів).

Якою була роль українців у цій школі, над розв’язанням яких філософських проблем вони працювали, як вплинув на них методологічно й тематично Казимир Твардовський, чи українці, котрі були знайомі з Казимиром Твардовським, слухали його лекції та відвідували семінари, розвивали той тип філософування та використовували запропоновану ним методологію філософських досліджень, чи ж вносили якісь зміни у них, були новаторами й відхилялися від генеральної лінії Школи. Таке коли питань пропонується для обговорення, але воно не є остаточним, тому вітається висвітлення у доповідях інших питань, дотичних до загальної теми Круглого столу, на яких хочуть зосередитися доповідачі.

Тези, обсягом 2-3 сторінки, 14 шрифт New Times Roman, 1.5 міжрядковий інтервал, береги 2 см, разом із заявкою, в якій треба вказати прізвище, ім’я, по-батькові, місце праці, посаду, вчене звання, науковий ступінь, контактні телефони та електронну адресу, надсилати до 1 лютого 2021 року на поштову скриньку: ihor.v.karivets@lpnu.ua Тези і заявки надіслані після 1 лютого не розглядатимуться. Оргкомітет круглого столу відхилятиме тези, які не відповідатимуть проблематиці круглого столу та сумнівної наукової якості. Круглий стіл відбуватиметься онлайн на платформі Zoom. Оргвнесок не передбачено. Перед початком роботи круглого столу усім учасникам буде надіслано програму та збірник тез.

Міністерство освіти і науки України

Національний університет «Львівська політехніка»

Інститут гуманітарних і соціальних наук

Кафедра філософії

Національна академія Державної прикордонної служби імені Богдана Хмельницького

Кафедра психології, педагогіки та соціально-економічних дисциплін

АНОНС

Запрошуємо до участі у міжуніверситетському Круглому столі

«Казимир Твардовський та його українські учні»,

присвяченого пам’яті засновника Львівсько-Варшавської школи

Казимиру Твардовському

Call For Papers: The Digital Turn and History of Education Research - State of the Field and Perspectives. Mpnster, 18.06.2021 - 18.06.2021. Deadline 01.03.2021

 

This workshop is intended to offer a forum for critical-constructive discussions and presentations of current research projects in which digital techniques and methods are explored or innovatively applied. This also raises the question of the challenges, risks, and opportunities emerging from the growing use of digital techniques and methods in history of education research.

THE DIGITAL TURN AND HISTORY OF EDUCATION RESEARCH: STATE OF THE FIELD AND PERSPECTIVES

In the last decades, the history of education has become a diverse and interdisciplinary research field in terms of topics, methods, and theoretical approaches. Scholars in this field, however, have so far paid little or no attention to techniques and methods of “Digital Humanities” that have already demonstrated a sustainable effect on the humanities and cultural studies. Despite the promising innovation potential, digital research projects in the field of history of education usually do not go beyond exploratory approaches. Though a number of libraries, archives, and research institutions already provide digital infrastructure allowing scholars to gain easier access to collections of digitalized sources, the effect of the digital turn is still somewhat limited, particularly as computer-based methods and new technologies are applied only rarely for analysis and interpretation in history of education research. The term “Digital Humanities” does not refer to a specific set of methods, but rather to new techniques, skills, and tools that help scholars to make their research more effective, complex structures more visible, and results easier to document. If new or better results are obtained that otherwise could not have been achieved, “Digital Humanities” are also important in terms of methodology.

Against this backdrop, this planned workshop is intended to offer a forum for critical-constructive discussions and presentations of current research projects in which digital techniques and methods are explored or innovatively applied: digital editions, wikis, digital tools for analyzing pictures and texts, GIS applications, and further visualization concepts, etc.

This also raises the question of the challenges, risks, and opportunities emerging from the growing use of digital techniques and methods in history of education research (Van Ruyskensvelde 2014). What is their genuine added value? Which changes can be observed? The crucial question here is whether digital methods will eventually meet the expectations to conduct research more analytically than descriptively, just as approaches from statistics seem to indicate (Tenorth 2016). Certainly, digital techniques “imply more than numerical operations” or sociometric data, but a diversity of complex information that challenges our knowledge and makes it necessary to work “creatively [...] with the contradictions and inconsistencies that have been produced and have accumulated previous configurations of our field” (Priem/Fendler 2019: 620).

The deadline for submitting abstracts (max. 500 words) for a 20-minute presentation and full author details is 1 March 2021. Please send your paper proposals to Andreas Oberdorf (andreas.oberdorf@uni-muenster.de). Presenters will be notified whether they have been accepted by 31 March 2021. Submissions from emerging researchers are welcome, as well as trans- and interdisciplinary approaches. The conference languages will be German and English. The publication of the contributions is planned as an edited volume by the publishing house Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn. The full paper is due on 15 October 2021.

Selected bibliography:

Bachmann-Medick, Doris: “Cultural Turns, Version: 2.0.” Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte [17.06.2019]. DOI: 10.14765/zzf.dok-1389.

Jannidis, Fotis/Kohle, Hubertus/Rehbein, Malte (eds.): Digital Humanities. Eine Einführung, Stuttgart 2017 (2. Aufl. 2021). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-476-05446-3.

König, Mareike: “Die digitale Transformation als reflexiver ‚turn‘: Einführende Literatur zur digitalen Geschichte im Überblick.” Neue Polit. Lit. [24.11.2020]. DOI: 10.1007/s42520-020-00322-2.

Nieländer, Maret/De Luca, Ernesto William (eds.): Digital Humanities in der internationalen Schulbuchforschung. Forschungsinfrastrukturen und Projekte, Göttingen 2018.

Priem, Karin/Fendler, Lynn: “Shifting Epistemologies for Discipline and Rigor in Educational Research: Challenges and Opportunities from Digital Humanities.” EERJ, 18 (2019), 5, 499–512. DOI: 10.1177/1474904118820433.

Schuch, Jane/Tenorth, Heinz-Elmar/Welter, Nicole: “Historische Bildungsforschung – Innovation und Selbstreflexion.” ZfPäd, 56 (2010), 643–647.

Schwandt, Silke (ed.): Digital Methods in the Humanities. Challenges, Ideas, Perspectives, Bielefeld 2020.

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Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne 2020, vol. 5. Open acess (Polish, with English Abstracts)

URL: http://journals.pan.pl/hsm/136174

SPIS TREŚCI 

Od redakcji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 

Jakub Muchowski, Rafał Swakoń Historia społeczno-gospodarcza, integracja nauk i szkoła Annales. Historia według Historyki w latach 1967-1995 . . . . 9 

JERZY TOPOLSKI. TEORIA HISTORII, HISTORIA GOSPODARCZA I SPOŁECZNA ORAZ SYNTEZA HISTORYCZNA 

Jan Pomorski Teoria narracji historycznej Jerzego Topolskiego. Na tropach ostatniej książki Profesora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 

Krzysztof Zamorski Historia gospodarcza Jerzego Topolskiego. Narracja o wybranych wątkach dziejów gospodarczych Polski. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 

Jacek Wijaczka, Krzysztof Mikulski Historia Polski wczesnonowożytnej w syntezach Jerzego Topolskiego. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 

Cezary Kuklo Historia społeczna w teorii i praktyce badawczej Jerzego Topolskiego. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 

DWUGŁOS O HAUNTING HISTORY ETHANA KLEINBERGA Ewa Domańska Dekonstruktywistyczne podejście do przeszłości . . . . . . . . . . 131 

Artur Kula Historia, widma i dekonstrukcja . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 

PROBLEMY 

Kalle Pihlainen Historia jako komunikacja i zobowiązanie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 

Jakub Dadlez Filozofia a historiografia, czyli o możliwości historii myślenia . . 199 

Karol Kasprowicz Przeszłość w pryzmacie teorii gier. Studium przypadków portugalskich z XX w.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 

Zachary Mazur How to Kill Ghosts: Polish Aristocrats during the First World War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 

Tomasz Wiśniewski Refleksja postsekularna Dominicka LaCapry. Rozpoznanie krytyczne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 

WARSZTAT HISTORYKA 

Krzysztof Pomian World History: historia światowa, historia powszechna. . . . 281 

Zbigniew Głąb Badania nad społeczną historią niepełnosprawności w Polsce – kierunki, metody, wyzwania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 

Małgorzata Praczyk Historia środowiskowa jako praktyka badawcza . . . . . . . 351 

Joanna Dzionek-Kozłowska, Rafał Matera Which Institutions Are Really Needed to Reach Wealth? A Clarification of Acemoglu and Robinson’s Concept . . 377

Maciej Piegdoń Romanizacja, kreolizacja, globalizacja, tożsamość czy też „stawanie się Rzymianinem”? Kolonialne i postkolonialne spojrzenie na problem przemian kulturowych w Imperium Romanum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 

Wiktor Werner, Adrian Trzoss W stronę historiografii zjawisk cyfrowych . . . . 421 

LUDZIE, IDEE I POGLĄDY 

Bartosz Jan Kołoczek Antykwarystyka jako alternatywny model rozwoju refleksji historycznej w starożytnym Rzymie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439 

Piotr Kowalewski Jahromi Powrót do przyszłości Paula A. Rotha. Historia i nauka jako racjonalne działanie człowieka (ponownie) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461 

Piotr Kowalewski Jahromi W stronę logicznej struktury narracji historycznych. Wywiad z Paulem A. Rothem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

 OMÓWIENIA I RECENZJE 

Dariusz Janota Kobieca korespondencja z uzdrowisk. O edycji źródłowej listów Stefanii z Lemańskich Rzewuskiej do męża . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505 

Jan Pomorski Historie rodzinne jako gatunek piśmiennictwa historycznego . . . 513 

Stanisław Witecki „Fakt społeczny, niecałościowy” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519 

Agata Kwiatek Rzeczpospolita na politycznym rozdrożu a historyk na badawczym bezkresie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531 

Przemysław Sołga NSZZ „Solidarność” w refleksji teologa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543