Call for Papers Driburger Kreis 2021 (virtuelle Konferenz)

Der Driburger Kreis trifft sich vom 16. bis 17. September 2021 virtuell und wird dieses Jahr gemeinsam mit den Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen der Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte ausgerichtet. Er richtet sich explizit an Wissenschaftler:innen, die am Anfang ihrer Karriere stehen (Studierende, Promovierende, Post-Docs, Habilitanden) der Wissenschafts-, Medizin- und Technikgeschichte und angrenzender Disziplinen. Der Driburger Kreis findet im Vorfeld der gemeinsamen Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Wissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik (GWMT) und der Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte (GTG) statt, die entweder in Wien oder ebenfalls virtuell tagen wird.

Der Driburger Kreis versteht sich als informelles Forum, in dem Probleme, Schritte und Ergebnisse eigener Arbeiten vorgestellt und in einer konstruktiven Atmosphäre diskutiert werden können. Ausdrücklich erwünscht sind auch Projektvorstellungen jenseits des Rahmenthemas.

Das diesjährige Rahmenthema lautet:

Ersatz

Der Driburger Kreis wird dieses Jahr gemeinsam mit den Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen der

Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte das Thema Ersatz aufgreifen. Der Begriff Ersatz enthält laut dem

etymologischen Wörterbuch mindestens drei unterschiedliche Bedeutungsebenen: Ersatz ist, „‘was

als Erneuerung, Vertretung oder Wiederherstellung dient’ (18. Jh.)“ (o.D.). Diese Dimensionen des Begriffs eröffnen ein breites Spektrum an Anwendungsmöglichkeiten im Rahmen des Driburger Kreises – von Prothesen, Hormonersatztherapien und Reparaturmaßnahmen bis hin zum Austausch etablierter Materialien, Personen, Systeme oder Ideen.

Ersatz klingt zunächst nach einer Substitution, die weniger vollständig oder passend ist als der Ausgangszustand: Was ersetzt wurde, ist nun nicht mehr da, hat Schaden genommen oder ‚musste‘ entfernt werden. Etwas – seien es großtechnologische Systeme, Beziehungskonstellationen, Körperteile oder Auffassungen – wird provisorisch wiederhergestellt oder durch stetigen Ersatz am Laufen gehalten. In dieser Bedeutung klingt mehr Notdürftigkeit mit als eine vollständige, akzeptable Wiederherstellung. Beispiele hierfür sind etwa der Lebensmittelersatz, aber auch die rechtliche Dimension der Rückerstattung, Entschädigung oder Abfindung.

Ersatz als Erneuerung hat hingegen eine positive Konnotation – mit einem ungebrauchten ‚Bauteil‘ läuft ein System wieder, greift ineinander und funktioniert ‚wie es eigentlich gedacht war’. Konjunkturen des Ersetzens von Stoffen beispielsweise treten ein, sobald neue Materialien entdeckt und für zweckmäßig gehalten werden – als Beispiel können hier Kunststoffe in der Medizintechnik oder in der Kommunikationstechnik die Ablösung des Kupferkabels durch die Glasfaser dienen. Ersatz kann also als Fortschritt interpretiert werden, d.h. als technikoptimistische Konstanz der Neuentwicklung und Überarbeitung von Geräten. Auch jede politische Initiative ist immer schon Ersatz des Vorherigen und lebt von dieser Abgrenzungsbewegung. Neue Bewertungskriterien, gesellschaftliche Ziele oder Wissensgrundlagen, lösen einen Ersatz des Alten aus. Ein aktuelles Beispiel ist die Stromgewinnung: Erneuerbare Energien drängen Atom- und Kohlekraftwerke zurück. Welche Ideen werden ersetzt und welche Personen in die Position gebracht, um ein als ‚überholt‘ geltendes System zu erneuern? 

Die Frage nach Ersatz ist oft eine Frage nach dem Zusammenspiel zwischen Mensch, Technologie und Ideologie. Der Austausch einzelner Körperfunktionen oder -teile der ‚Ersatzteilmedizin‘ prägte die Wahrnehmung des Menschen als Zusammenhang funktionierender Einzelteile, dem Menschen als Maschine (vgl. RABINBACH 2001). Allen voran ist hier die Prothese zu nennen, die als medizinischer Eingriff nach dem 1. Weltkrieg reüssierte. Als körperliche Anpassung an die Massenproduktion war sie gleichermaßen an Männlichkeitsideale des Versorgers und an die Erhaltung des Nationalbewusstseins gekoppelt (HARASSER 2013). Optimierungsbestrebungen, z.B. durch HighTech-Prothesen oder andere Human Enhancement- und KI-Technologien, scheinen weniger etwas Fehlendes ersetzen zu wollen als Körpergrenzen auszudehnen. KI-Technologien können auch ganze Lebensbereiche ersetzen: dies trifft etwa auf das autonome Fahren, menschenlose Cockpits oder eigenständige Serverfarmen zu. Was wird ersetzt, wer darf darüber entscheiden und welche Voraussetzungen und Konsequenzen hat der Ersetzungsprozess?

Die Entscheidung, etwas zu ersetzen, hängt auch mit der Frage nach der Lebensdauer von Dingen

zusammen. Der Ersatz von Automobilteilen in der Reparatur ist weit verbreitet. Insbesondere in der DDR wurden Artikel wie der Simson Motorroller oder der Trabbi mit der Möglichkeit ausgestattet, Teile auch mit wenig Vorwissen zu ersetzen, anstatt das vollständige Objekt auszutauschen. In der Elektrotechnik wird der Ersatz erschwert oder unmöglich gemacht. Durch verklebte Teile, Patentwissen, steigende Komplexität oder Sicherheitsvorkehrungen bleibt das Innere eines Gehäuses eine Black-Box; d.h. Herstellungsprozesse und Einzelteile des Ganzen sind unsichtbar (vgl. LATOUR 1999, S. 304). Nicht zuletzt stellen auch Institutionen- und Hierarchiegefüge eine Black Box dar, da sie von außen undurchdringlich und gegenüber niedrigschwelliger Partizipation verschlossen wirken. Einstellungskriterien für die Neubesetzung politischer Ämter, wissenschaftlicher Positionen oder in Aufsichtsräten, also Ersatz als Erneuerung, werden zunehmend hinterfragt.

Sophia Wagemann, Universität Leipzig

Abstracts von einer Seite für ca. 15-minütige Vorträge nebst Kurzlebenslauf (zusammengefasst in einem pdf) werden erbeten bis zum 1. Juli 2021. Für die Diskussion werden ca. weitere 30 Minuten zur Verfügung stehen. Vorträge außerhalb des Rahmenthemas sind ebenso willkommen.

Die Abstracts und gerne auch Fragen schickt bitte an rebecca.mossop@uni.lu und a.m.stoger@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Organisiert vom Driburger Kreis (vertreten durch Carola Oßmer: carola.ossmer@leuphana.de, Elena Kunadt: elena.kunadt@tu-berlin.de und Linda Richter) und der Nachwuchsvertretung der GTG (Nikolai Ingenerf: nikolai.ingenerf@rub.de und Rebecca Mossop: rebecca.mossop@uni.lu)

Literatur:

DIGITALES WÖRTERBUCH DER DEUTSCHEN SPRACHE (o. D.). Ersatz, in: Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen. https://www.dwds.de/wb/etymwb/Ersatz.

HARASSER, KARIN (2013): Sensible Prothesen. Medien der Wiederherstellung von Produktivität, in: Body Politics 1;1, S. 99-117.

RABINBACH, ANSON (1998): Ermüdung, Energie und der menschliche Motor, in: Philippe Sarasin/Jakob Tanner (Hrsg.), Physiologie und industrielle Gesellschaft. Studien zur Verwissenschaftlichung des Körpers im 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert, Frankfurt/Main, S. 286-312.

Stanisław Pieróg: Pokusa ideologii. Studia i szkice o filozofii polskiej epoki romantyzmu [The temptation of ideology. Studies and sketches on the Polish philosophy of the Romantic era]. Warszawa: Fundacja Augusta hr. Cieszkowskiego 2020. ISBN: 978-83-657-8746-0

 

Tym, co łączy zebrane w tym tomie teksty i pozwala związać w jedną całość, jest (poza osobą autora) ich intencjonalny przedmiot – myśl filozoficzna polskiego romantyzmu. Uporządkowałem je przeto zgodnie z zasadą chronologii określającej historyczny proces powstawania i kształtowania się polskiej myśli filozoficznej epoki romantyzmu.

Filozofia polska epoki romantyzmu zawsze chyżo wzbijała się pod niebiosa, ale też – wbrew utartej o niej opinii – zawsze pewnie stąpała po ziemi. Choć przybyła do nas w czasach wojen i narodowych katastrof, zadomowiła się u nas i przebywała z nami co najmniej lat czterdzieści. Polubiła nasz kraj i brała mężnie udział w naszych śmiałych przedsięwzięciach. Energicznie zajęła się też naszymi sprawami, zagrzewając nas do działania i wskazując nam dalekosiężne, nawet ostateczne cele. Czy zeszła do nas ze świata idei, czy też raczej wyłoniła się z „głębi ducha naszego” i z „istoty naszego jestestwa”? Tego nie wiem, lecz podejrzewałem zawsze, że przybyła do nas wiedziona jakąś przemożną pokusą. Nazwałem ją pokusą ideologii.

Spis treści: https://kronos.org.pl/wp-content/uploads/Pokusa-ideologii_spis-tresci.pdf

Call for papers: Diplomatic Studies of Science

Diplomatic Studies of Science: The Interplay of Science, Technology and International Affairs After the Second World War 

Monday, November 8th, 2021 and Tuesday November 9th, 2021

9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Maison de la Chimie, 28 Rue Saint-Dominique, 75007 Paris

The Gordon Cain Conference 2021 focuses on the fascinating interplay of science, technology and international affairs after the Second World War. By doing so it marks the emergence of Diplomatic Studies of Science as a field at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies, History of Science, Diplomatic History, and International Politics. The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Science History Institute and the Gordon Cain Conference Fellow, Maria Rentetzi, invite contributions that explore the ways science and diplomacy have been co-produced throughout the second half of the 20th century reaching the present.

Call for Abstracts

To submit a paper to the 2021 Cain Conference, please send a 250-word abstract and a two-page CV to the following email address: Cainconference2021@sciencehistory.org. The deadline for submissions is June 13, 2021. Decisions will be made by July 7, 2021. Travel and accommodation subsidies will be available to contributors. Following the conference, Prof. Rentetzi will invite contributors to submit draft manuscripts of approximately 5,000 words for publication in an edited volume.

Conference Organizer: Maria Rentetzi

Maria Rentetzi is the chair for science, technology and gender studies in the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Theology at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany. She has been trained as a physicist and as a historian of science and technology. Her research focuses on two intertwined areas of inquiry: the investigation of the politically and historically situated character of technoscience and the critical examination of gender as a major analytic category in technoscientific endeavors. As part of her ERC Consolidator Grant project Rentetzi currently leads the development of what she calls “The Diplomatic Studies of Science.” This is a highly interdisciplinary field of research at the intersection of science and technology studies, history of science, diplomatic history, political sciences, and international affairs. Before joining FAU, she was a guest professor at the Technische Universität Berlin and a Professor for History and Sociology of Science and Technology at the National Technical University of Athens.

More Information

Please send all enquiries to Daniel Jon Mitchell, Director of the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, Science History Institute, at dmitchell@sciencehistory.org.

Opera historica. Journal of Early Modern History 21 (2020), 2, Epidemien in den habsburgischen Erbländern in der Frühen Neuzeit

 

Inhalt

Wissenschaftliche Studien

Miroslava Květová – Marie Tošnerová

Morové epidemie v českých raně novověkých městech optikou narativních pramenů

Die Pestepidemien in böhmischen frühneuzeitlichen Städten aus der Sicht der narrativen Quellen

Martin Scheutz

Göttlicher Zorn, Pestlazarette und Donauinseln. Die Wiener Pest von 1713 und die Obrigkeit

Karel Černý

Počátky variolace proti neštovicím v Evropě (1713–1721)

Die Anfänge der Variolation in Europa (1713-1721)

Andreas Weigl

Choleraepidemien in den Städten der österreichischen Alpenländer in den 1830er Jahren

Markéta Skořepová

Cholera a barokní zázraky. Epidemie roku 1832 a poutní místo Křemešník

Die Cholera und Barockwunder. Die Epidemie des Jahres 1832 und die Wallfahrtsort Křemešník

Vojtěch Kessler

„S podzimem dostavil se zlý host.“ Cholera ve válečném roce 1866 v pramenech osobní povahy

„Mit dem Herbst kam ein böser Gast.“ Die Cholera im Kriegsjahr 1866 in den Ego-Dokumenten

Editionen und Dokumente

Kateřina Pražáková

Die Beurteilung des Böhmischen Aufstands im Pamphlet vom Winter 1618/1619

URL: https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=2456

Валерий Брюсов и Петр Струве : Переписка. 1906–1916 [Valery Bryusov and Petr Struve: Correspondence]. вступит. статья, составл., подготовка текста, коммент. А. В. Лаврова. — СПб. : Нестор-История, 2021. ISBN 978-5-4469-1796-9

В издании впервые в полном объеме публикуется переписка двух крупнейших деятелей русской истории и культуры начала ХХ века — поэта, лидера символистской школы В. Я. Брюсова и общественного деятеля, публициста и социолога П. Б. Струве.

По своей проблематике переписка сосредоточена главным образом на совместной работе Струве и Брюсова по изданию ежемесячного литературного и общественно-политического журнала «Русская Мысль», но затрагивает и многие другие темы, значимые для осмысления истории двух предреволюционных десятилетий.

Книга предназначена для историков русской литературы и общественной мысли начала XX века, а также для широкого круга читателей.

Andreeva, Elena (2021) Russian Central Asia in the Works of Nikolai Karazin, 1842–1908: Ambivalent Triumph. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-36337-6

 

- Analyzes the ways Karazin’s discourse inflected, and was inflected by, the expansion of the Russian empire

- Sheds light on the place of art and culture in the Russian colonial enterprise

- Represents the first attempt to interpret Karazin’s images of Central Asia within Russian imperial networks – and within the maze of the Russian national identity that informed them

“This book provides a deep reading of Nikolai Karazin’s works and his relationship with Central Asia. Elena Andreeva shows how Karazin’s prolific creations have much to tell us about Russian imperialism, colonial and local society as well as Russians’ self-identity as colonizers and Europeans.  The work offers an original contribution to the scholarship on Russian imperial history and that of Central Asia, and Russian literary history also.  Karazin’s importance—at the time and now—is appropriately highlighted.”

-       Jeff Sahadeo, Associate Professor, Carleton University, Canada

“Elena Andreeva’s book resurrects a vital if forgotten figure from the Russian past: Nikolai Karazin, Russia’s Kipling, a multifaceted participant in Russian imperial expansion, whose fiction, journalism, ethnography and visual representations may well have done more than any agent of the Russian state to represent and popularize Russia’s conquest of Central Asia to a newly literate Russian public beyond the educated elites. Archivally based and carefully argued, Andreeva’s study of Karazin reveals the absence of any singular logic to Russian imperial expansion. In her analysis Karazin emerges as a vernacular enthusiast of empire who was able to reconcile a skeptical attitude towards tsarist autocracy with an idealized view of Russia’s 'civilizing' mission in the East.”

-       Harsha Ram, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA

This book is dedicated to the literary and visual images of Central Asia in the works of the popular Russian artist Nikolai Karazin.  It analyzes the ways Karazin’s discourse inflected, and was inflected by, the expansion of the Russian empire – and therefore sheds light on the place of art and culture in the Russian colonial enterprise.  It is the first attempt to interpret Karazin’s images of Central Asia within Russian imperial networks and within the maze of the Russian national identity that informed them.

Elena Andreeva is Professor of History at Virginia Military Institute, USA, and the author of Russia and Iran in the Great Game: Travelogues and Orientalism (2007) and co-editor of Russians in Iran: Diplomacy and Power in the Qajar Era and Beyond (2018).

[7-8 & 14-15 May 2021 – Virtual conference] HIDDEN HISTORIES: Women and Science in the Twentieth Century

The Faculty of Political Science (University of Bucharest), together with the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (University of Heidelberg) are organizing the virtual conference

HIDDEN HISTORIES: Women and Science in the Twentieth Century

7-8 & 14-15 May 2021

Organizers: Dr Amelia Bonea (University of Heidelberg) & Dr Irina Nastasă-Matei (University of Bucharest)

The full program is available for download here: http://tiny.cc/wo5wtz. Please note that all times in the program are local Berlin time. The conference is open to the public, but we have only a limited number of slots available and they will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. To register, please drop us an email at the email address listed on the poster by May 1, 2021.

We would like to thank the German Research Foundation for generously supporting this event and Dr. Ipsa Jain for the flyer design.

Call for Papers: Wissens- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte in imperialen, nationalen und post-nationalen Kontexten. Deutsch-Tschechische und Deutsch-Slowakische Historikerkommission, 16.09.2021 - 17.09.2021, Deadline 01.06.2021

 

Nach Doktorandenworkshops 2012 in Bratislava und 2016 in Olomouc widmet sich die Nachwuchstagung 2021 dem Thema „Wissens- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte in imperialen, nationalen und post-nationalen Kontexten“.

Wissens- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte in imperialen, nationalen und post-nationalen Kontexten

Die Deutsch-Tschechische und Deutsch-Slowakische Historikerkommission (DTDSHK) erforscht die Geschichte der wechselvollen Beziehungen von Deutschen, Tschechen und Slowaken. Die Kommission arbeitet interdisziplinär und vergleichend. Sie veranstaltet Tagungen, Workshops und Expertengespräche. Seit 1993 sind in der Schriftenreihe „Veröffentlichungen der Deutsch-Tschechischen und Deutsch-Slowakischen Historikerkommission“ 24 Bände erschienen. 2019 konnten unter dem Titel „Deutsche, Tschechen und Slowaken im 20. Jahrhundert“ Materialen für den Geschichtsunterricht publiziert werden. Gegenwärtig entwickelt die Kommission ein Online-Portal mit Dokumenten, Interviews und einem Open-Access-Journal.

Der trilateralen Historikerkommission ist die Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses ein wichtiges Anliegen. Nach Doktorandenworkshops 2012 in Bratislava und 2016 in Olomouc widmet sich die Nachwuchstagung 2021 dem Thema „Wissens- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte in imperialen, nationalen und post-nationalen Kontexten“. Der Workshop wird je nach Pandemie-Entwicklung als Präsenz, Online- oder Hybridveranstaltung am 16. und 17. September 2021 am Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO) in Leipzig stattfinden.

Eingeladen sind Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen, laufende Dissertations- und PostDoc-Projekte aber auch weit fortgeschrittene MA-Arbeiten zur Diskussion zu stellen sofern sie einen thematischen Bezug zu Produktion, Zirkulation, Vermittlung und Aneignung von Wissen in allen Kulturbereichen und Disziplinen vom 18./19. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert haben.

Der Workshop soll vor allem als Plattform für die Vernetzung aktueller Forschungen dienen. Erwünscht sind kurze Vorträge (max. 15 min, Deutsch oder Englisch), die den Stand der jeweiligen Projektphase abbilden. Es besteht im Nachgang des Workshops die Möglichkeit, herausragende Forschungsergebnisse als Working Paper zu veröffentlichen.

Die inhaltliche Verantwortlichkeit für die Veranstaltung liegt bei Prof. Dr. Frank Hadler (GWZO Leipzig), Doc. PhDr. Kristina Kaiserová, CSc. (FF UJEP Ústí nad Labem) und Prof. Martin Pekár, PhD. (UJPS Košice). Bewerbungen mit einer kurzen Projektbeschreibung und einem CV werden bis zum 1. Juni 2021 erbeten an den Wissenschaftlichen Sekretär der deutschen Sektion der DTDSHK, Dr. K. Erik Franzen, unter erik.franzen@collegium-carolinum.de.

Kontakt

erik.franzen@collegium-carolinum.de

http://www.dt-ds-historikerkommission.de

Call for Papers: Dickstein Forum 2021, Cracow, 14-17 September 2021.

We are pleased to invite you to participate in Dickstein Forum 2021 to be held in Cracow, 14-17 September 2021. 

The Organizing Committee of Dickstein Forum 2021 Cracow, considering the general situation with COVID-19, decided to transform the Conference into virtual attendance.

Registration is required for all participants and exhibitors. 

The registration fee is 25 EUR and covers scientific program attendance through the online platform, e-Conference materials (i.e. e-program, certificate), networking opportunities, and access to the online exhibition area. Additional information about discounts for early bids, students and retired will be given in the next announcement.

The subject of the conference is quite broad and is related to the activities of its patron. Samuel Dickstein (1851-1939) was a Polish mathematician and historian of mathematics. Born and educated in Warsaw, where he spent all his life. He was a founder or co-founder of scientific journals, including his own “Wiadomości Matematyczne” (Mathematical News), a charter member and vice-president of the Warsaw Scientific Society, a charter member of the Society of Scientific Courses (Courses were a substitute for a non-existing Polish university), a representative of Polish mathematics in all International Congresses of Mathematicians prior to WWI. Dickstein was also a vice-president of the International Academy of the History of Sciences. He has published many textbooks for secondary schools and collected materials for the history of science. His scientific research was connected to number theory, vector algebra, set theory, and the history of mathematics.

Abstract submission is open. Please send your papers and posters by e-mail to Stanisław Domoradzki (domoradz@ur.edu.pl).

The conference is organized by Commission on the History of Science, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU Kraków), International Academy of the History of Science

and cooperating institutions:

Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Ivan Franko National University of Lvov (Ukraine)

Institute of History of University of Rzeszów (Poland)

Institute of Mathematics, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic)

The Ludwik and Aleksander Birkenmajer Institute for the History of Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (Poland)

Polish Mathematical Society - Cracow (Poland).

In case you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us by email to marek.skarupski@pwr.edu.pl .

Stay safe and healthy! 

Anna Horeczy: Recepcja włoskiej kultury intelektualnej w krakowskim środowisku uniwersyteckim w II poł. XIV i w I poł. XV wieku [Reception of Italian Intellectual Culture in the Cracow University Milieu in the second half of the 14th-first half of the 15th Centuries]. Warszawa: IH PAN 2021. ISBN 978-83-65880-86-4

 

Książka przedstawia zagadnienie recepcji włoskiej kultury intelektualnej, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem nowej humanistycznej retoryki, w szeroko pojętym krakowskim środowisku uniwersyteckim w drugiej połowie XIV i pierwszej połowie XV w. Omówione zostały wybrane kwestie związane z procesem recepcji kultury – grupa Polaków studiujących we Włoszech jako pośredników tegoż zjawiska, manuskrypty wywodzące się od hipotetycznego rękopisu Jana z Ludziska zawierającego włoską kolekcję retoryczną przywiezioną z Padwy jako nośniki, a także obecność dzieł wybitnego humanisty florenckiego Leonarda Bruniego w Krakowie jako miernik zasięgu humanistycznych wpływów. Recepcja kultury ukazana została jako zjawisko złożone, uwarunkowane wieloma czynnikami, którego nie można uchwycić jedynie za pomocą prostych kwestionariuszy i tradycyjnych metod badawczych, takich jak statystyczno-propozopograficzna czy ujęć o charakterze katalogowym.

Anna Horeczy – absolwentka historii i italianistyki na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, adiunkt w Instytucie Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Zainteresowania badawcze obejmują recepcję włoskiej kultury intelektualnej w środowisku krakowskim od XIV do XVI w.

Spis treści

Wstęp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Rozdział 1. Studia Polaków na uniwersytetach włoskich

w drugiej połowie XIV i w pierwszej połowie XV w. . . . . . . . 19

Stan badań . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Metoda badań i źródła . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Organizacja i program studiów prawniczych . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Kalendarz akademicki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Organizacja nauczania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Polacy studiujący na uniwersytetach włoskich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Paweł Włodkowic a włoska formacja prawnicza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Wnioski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Rozdział 2. Recepcja włoskich tekstów retorycznych

w środowisku krakowskim w XV w. Rękopis BJ 126 . . . . . . . . 117

Jan z Ludziska – ojciec humanistycznej retoryki w Krakowie? . . . . . . 117

Krótka biografia, studia i pobyt we Włoszech Jana z Ludziska . . . . . . 120

Studia retoryczne Jana z Ludziska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Rękopis BJ 126 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Formularze retoryczne, antologie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Rękopis BJ 126 i jego struktura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Teksty retoryczne w BJ 126 znane z rękopisów europejskich . . . . . . . 148

„Bestsellery” humanistyczne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Rękopis BJ 126 a podobne do niego rękopisy niekrakowskie . . . . . 154

Humanistyczne „bestsellery” padewskie nieobecne w BJ 126 . . . . . 159

Mniej popularne teksty retoryczne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Teksty znane tylko z BJ 126 i rękopisów krakowskich . . . . . . . . . 162

Rękopisy krakowskie z tekstami z włoskiej kolekcji retorycznej z BJ 126 . . 168

Rękopis Oss. 601 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Rękopis Czart. 1242 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Rękopis BJ 42 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Rękopis BJ 173 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Rękopis BJ 2232 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Rękopis BOZ 896 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Rękopis BJ 2038 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Rękopisy zależne i niezależne od BJ 126 – podsumowanie . . . . . . . . . 214

Grupa rękopisów z listem Sicca Polentona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Rękopis BJ 2232 – filiacje . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Rękopis BJ 2038 – filiacje . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Próba rekonstrukcji hipotetycznego rękopisu Jana z Ludziska i jego

losów . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Najbardziej popularne w środowisku krakowskim teksty z kolekcji

retorycznej z rękopisu BJ 126 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Teksty z kolekcji włoskiej występujące w BJ 126 wykorzystane przez Jana

z Ludziska i Piotra Gaszowca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Wnioski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Rozdział 3. Recepcja dzieł Leonarda Bruniego w środowisku

krakowskim w XV w. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Chronologia recepcji dzieł Leonarda Bruniego w środowisku krakowskim

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Wnioski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Rękopisy jako nośniki dzieł Bruniego . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Rodzaje rękopisów z dziełami Bruniego . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Rękopisy formularzowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Rękopisy – miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Antologie humanistyczne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Varia historyczne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Antologia filozoficzna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 

Zależności filiacyjne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Popularność tekstów Bruniego w środowisku krakowskim na tle

europejskim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Wnioski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Teksty przypisywane Bruniemu w rękopisach krakowskich . . . . . . . . 329

Podsumowanie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Zakończenie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Aneks A. Wykaz Polaków studiujących na uniwersytetach

włoskich w drugiej połowie XIV i w pierwszej połowie XV w. . . 342

Aneks B. Zawartość rękopisu BJ 126 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Aneks C. Zestawienie rękopisów europejskich z tekstami

retorycznymi zawartymi w BJ 126, a napisanymi przez

autorów związanych ze środowiskiem padewsko-weneckim . . . 377

Aneks D. Teksty z BJ 126 wykorzystane w mowach Jana

z Ludziska i Piotra Gaszowca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Wykaz skrótów . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Bibliografia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Spis tabel i wykresów . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Indeks osób . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Online Event: The Chernobyl/Chornobyl Disaster: Presenting the New MAPA Project. Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University Seminar in Ukrainian Studies | MAPA LaunchApril 28, 2021, 18:00 CET/19:00 MSK/12:00 EST

Speakers:

Kostyantyn Bondarenko, IT Professional and MAPA Project Manager, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Nataliia Levchuk, Chief Researcher, Ptoukha Institute of Demography and Social Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Department of History, and Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Abstract

Following the successful completion of numerous modules on contemporary Ukraine, based on polling data, the HURI MAPA program is moving into a new area, the mapping and spatial analysis of the impact of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster on the human life and society. The new module is envisioned as an integrated geography project at the crossroads of human and ecological geography. It has been undertaken with a number of partners in Ukraine, including the National Research Center for Radiation Medicine at the National Academy of Medical Sciences and National Cancer Registry of Ukraine.

This panel is organized in conjunction with the official launch for the new project. Its participants will discuss the future direction of research and mapping, and will share the first results of their work, including the organization of the website, the resettlement of the population from the Chornobyl exclusion zone, and the impact of the disaster on the migration patterns and other demographic processes in Ukraine.

Register for the Zoom webinar (https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4NE1e8kiTfG03g_H9U4DZQ) or watch live on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_LAJNH60EM).

About the Speakers

Kostyantyn Bondarenko is an IT Professional at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University and the Project Manager for the MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine program. During his time at the Institute, he has improved and expanded its IT services by designing and developing websites, databases, and GIS maps and web applications. As the Project Manager for the MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine program, Bondarenko manages all technical and organizational aspects of the program. He has worked on all modules of the MAPA program, has presented MAPA projects at several conferences, and is currently working on joint GIS projects between the Ukrainian Research Institute and its partners in the US and abroad.

Nataliia Levchuk is a Chief Researcher at the Ptoukha Institute of Demography and Social Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She is a demographer whose research interests include a wide range of public health issues, mortality by causes of deaths, and changes in life expectancy, as well as the impact of the 1932-33 Holodomor on Ukraine’s population. In 2013 and 2018, she stayed as a GIS Research Fellow at HURI, working on the MAPA Great Famine project. Her recent publications include Levchuk N. et al. (2020). “Regional variations of the 1932-33 Famine losses: a comparative analysis of Ukraine and Russia,” in Nationalities Papers, 48 (3): 492–512; Levchuk N., and L. Luschik (2019). "Interregional differences in life expectancy within Ukraine: main trends and changes," Demography and Social Economy, 2019, 1(35): 26-40.

Serhii Plokhii is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and the Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. A leading authority on Ukraine and Eastern Europe, he has published extensively on the international history of the Cold War. He is the author of numerous books, including Chernobyl: History of the Nuclear Catastrophe, and most recently, Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Call for Papers: 30 years of higher education in journalism and communication in Eastern Europe after 1989: From conquering the freedom of expression to embracing digital communication. Bucharest/Online, May 20-21, 2021. Deadline April 18.

 

URL: http://www.fjsc.unibuc.ro/cercetare/conferintele-fjsc/30-years-of-higher-education-in-journalism-and-communication-in-eastern-europe-after-1989

Between 1989 and 1990, in Eastern Europe emerged the first signs of a new social and political reality in which print and audiovisual media played a fundamental role in achieving the freedom of speech. The first years were dedicated to a fervent construction. Thousands of newspapers and magazines, dozens of television and radio stations were founded, contributing to an effervescent context, in contrast to the censorship of the authoritarian regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. In tandem came the interest for studying the impact of media, as well as the increasing need to train future journalists, equipped to undertake their role in a climate free of ideological constraints, and marked by freedom of expression. The post-communist journalism schools chose as models the Western European and American journalism, understood as practice of democracy (Gross, 2001).

Not only journalism needed specialists but the whole field of public communication required trained professionals. Thus, public relations and advertising became distinct fields of study, following the rapid development of communication industries. The investments of large companies in strategic communications campaigns, as well as regulations regarding the transparency of public institutions have motivated universities to build study programs in the field of communication. The Bologna process has led to the diversification of MA programs and the creation of the first doctoral schools in Communication Studies.

Digital communication technologies, underpinned by the consolidation of Internet access, have brought new challenges for the universities. New disciplines were implemented quickly, in a permanent race with the realities of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and subsequent developments (AI, IoT, etc.).

With the growth of new media, the ethical dilemmas and controversies have multiplied. These add up to the market conditions of media institutions in Eastern Europe, which are characterized by center-periphery relations, that favor the import of technology, but also the adoption of Western editorial concepts. These transformations are problematic as they overlap with previous media issues, such as the lack of the trust in traditional media, the quasi-disappearance of print media, the tabloidization, etc. These controversies impact the activity of journalists, but also that of communication professionals. Traditional media institutions are being under scrutiny (Deuze, 2020), and journalists are facing public distrust, complicated by the rise of fake news.

We invite you to submit papers that discuss the evolution of media and journalism education, as well as the developments of journalism and public communication during the last 30 years.

We welcome abstracts and papers that cover the following topics:

1. Higher education in journalism and communication: history, curricula effects of the Bologna process and the ongoing digitalization.

2. Media and communication professions. transformations, configurations, and challenges.

3. Digital communication: computational propaganda and democracy, fake news, illiberal parties and movements.

4. Political communication: marketization and elections in the age of digitalization.

5. The Coronavirus outbreak and media education: infodemia and censorship in public communication during the state of emergency.

6. Advertising, digital campaigns, globalization and localization.

8. Gender perspectives on journalism and media

9. Ethical dilemmas in journalism, in public relations and advertising.

10. The impact of Internet on journalists and communication professionals.

Participants can also opt to send 500 words abstracts for the following panels:

1. Audiovisual communication in communism and post-communism

2. The impact of technologies on journalism and communication

3. Media and communication policies, media pluralism and independence. New approaches from a systemic perspective of the media system in Central and Eastern Europe

4. The relationship between academia and the advertising industry

5. Political communication in the digital age

6. Gender, politics and communication

PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS:

- Participants can send 500-600 words abstracts (references included). We accept abstracts in English and Romanian. E-mail for sending the abstract: conference(at)fjsc.ro

- There are no participation fees.

- The conference will be organized in the Webex system.

- The selected papers will be published in a proceedings volume or in the special issues of academic journals (Facta Universitatis Series: Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and History; Media Studies and Applied Ethics; Styles of Communication).

Contacts: conference(at)fjsc.ro, romina.surugiu(at)unibuc.ro

IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstract submission deadline: April 18

Feedback to participants on abstracts: April 26

Final programme of the conference: May 10

Conference dates: May 20-21

Laurent Mazliak, Rossana Tazzioli (eds.) Mathematical Communities in the Reconstruction After the Great War 1918–1928. Trajectories and Institutions. Cham: Birkhäuser 2021. ISBN 978-3-030-61682-3

Introduction

This book is a consequence of the international meeting organized in Marseilles in November 2018 devoted to the aftermath of the Great War for mathematical communities. It features selected original research presented at the meeting offering a new perspective on a period, the 1920s, not extensively considered by historiography.

After 1918, new countries were created, and borders of several others were modified. Territories were annexed while some countries lost entire regions. These territorial changes bear witness to the massive and varied upheavals with which European societies were confronted in the aftermath of the Great War. The reconfiguration of political Europe was accompanied by new alliances and a redistribution of trade – commercial, intellectual, artistic, military, and so on – which largely shaped international life during the interwar period. These changes also had an enormous impact on scientific life, not only in practice, but also in its organization and communication strategies.

The mathematical sciences, which from the late 19th century to the 1920s experienced a deep disciplinary evolution, were thus facing a double movement, internal and external, which led to a sustainable restructuring of research and teaching. Concomitantly, various areas such as topology, functional analysis, abstract algebra, logic or probability, among others, experienced exceptional development. This was accompanied by an explosion of new international or national associations of mathematicians with for instance the founding, in 1918, of the International Mathematical Union and the controversial creation of the International Research Council. Therefore, the central idea for the articulation of the various chapters of the book is to present case studies illustrating how in the aftermath of the war, many mathematicians had to organize their personal trajectories taking into account the evolution of the political, social and scientific environment which had taken place at the end of the conflict.

URL: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-61683-0#toc

Front Matter

Pages i-xvi

William Henry Young, an Unconventional President of the International Mathematical Union

Guillermo P. Curbera

Pages 1-29

The Unione Matematica Italiana and Its Bollettino, 1922–1928. National and International Aspects

Livia Giacardi, Rossana Tazzioli

Pages 31-61

L’Enseignement Mathématique and Its Internationalist Ambitions During the Turmoil of WWI and the 1920s

Hélène Gispert

Pages 63-88

Mathematics and Logic in Polish Encyclopedias Published During the Interwar Period

Roman Murawski

Pages 89-117

From the War Against Errors to Mathematics After the War: Public Discourses on a New Mathematical Dictionary

Laura E. Turner

Pages 119-150

International Geodesy in the Post-war Period, as Seen by the French Bureau des Longitudes (1917–1922)

Martina Schiavon

Pages 151-189

“The First Mathematically Serious German School of Applied Mathematics”?

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze

Pages 191-225

The Mathematics of Nonlinear Oscillations in the 1920s: A Decade of Trials and Convergence? Examples of the Work of Nicolai Minorsky

Loïc Petitgirard

Pages 227-251

From Fundamenta Mathematicae to Studia Mathematica: The Renaissance of Polish mathematics in light of Banach’s publications 1919–1940

Frédéric Jaëck

Pages 253-276

Following Béla von Kerékjártó. The Journeys of a Hungarian Mathematician in the Post-war World

Alicia Filipiak

Pages 277-306

Under the Protection of Alien Wings. Russian Emigrant Mathematiciancs in Interwar France: A General Picture and Two Case Studies of Ervand Kogbetliantz and Vladimir Kosticyn

Laurent Mazliak, Thomas Perfettini

Pages 307-355

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Back Matter

Pages 357-363

Call for Papers: Science and the State Governmental Research in War and Peace during the Twentieth Century, 3.- 4. March 2022, ZiF, Bielefeld. Deadline: August 31, 2021

Arguably, governmental research institutes and their scientific output have been crucial to state activities during the twentieth century. Think of the National Physics Laboratory (UK), the US Geological Survey, the Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais (France), or the Materials Testing Laboratories (Germany). However – perhaps due to an emphasis on university-based, “basic” science and its phenomenal growth toward Big Science in this period, or a focus on “applied” science (or technoscience) and its societal effects and repercussions – the research done at governmental institutes is a topic overlooked by many historians of science and technology. Only recently this has begun to change, with sustained efforts especially by political scientists and economists to give governmental science, often analyzed as regulatory science, the attention it deserves. Thus, our conference attempts to place governmental research on the historians’ agenda in an international, comparative perspective, and with a focus on the period of the two world wars and the cold war. For doing so, we wish to scrutinize the diverse national systems of governmental and regulatory science in their respective political, economical and scientific environments.

We especially stress the following themes:

• The institutional organization of governmental science, and its changes.

• The characteristics of its epistemic output, and its uses in innovation, regulation and policy.

• The role of governmental research in armament, resources exploitation, and efforts to secure autarky.

• The role of governmental research in crimes against humanity.

• The relations to administrations in both dictatorial/ totalitarian and democratic regimes, especially during the shifts from peace-time to war-time economies, and back.

• Cultures of remembrance and politics of the past after World War II in the context of governmental science.

We welcome abstracts of not more than 500 words, and a two-page cv, by 31. August 2021. We will be able to cover travel and accommodation. A decision if this conference will take place physically, hybrid, or virtual will be made at a later time.

Kontakt

Ms. Alice Neitzel

E-mail: alice.neitzel@uni-bielefeld.de

Michela Malpangott: Theoricae novae planetarum Georgii Peurbachii dans l’histoire de l’astronomie. Paris: CNRS 2021. ISBN : 978-2-271-13458-5

 
Le présent ouvrage révèle qu’aux Theoricæ novæ planetarum de Georg Peurbach (1423-1461) revient un rôle décisif dans les commence- ments de la révolution scientifique.

Une partie considérable du travail montre que la représentation de l’univers céleste élaborée par Peurbach comporte une innovation sans précédent et permet d’affirmer qu’un siècle avant Copernic, Peurbach avait déjà achevé sa propre révolution astronomique. L’astronomie change désormais de statut : de science abstraitement mathématique, elle s’apprête à devenir science de la réalité céleste où les mathématiques assument un rôle nouveau. Elles deviennent le fondement d’un univers conçu comme physiquement existant. L’édition critique des Theoricæ novæ planetarum, accompagnée de sa tra- duction française ainsi que d’un commentaire technique, permet au lecteur de mesurer de manière fondée la portée novatrice de l’univers conçu par Peurbach.

L’étude de la diffusion des Theoricæ novæ planetarum de 1454 à 1653 montre la façon dont l’univers de Peurbach a eveillé l’intérêt de ses contem- porains qui en ont immédiatement saisi la portée novatrice. Ceci a donné vie à un véritable mouvement de pensée qui s’étend pendant deux siècles et influence la pensée astronomique de l’Europe savante. Il résulte ainsi que sur les Theoricæ novæ planetarum s’est engendrée et assise une astro- nomie pré-copernicienne dotée d’une identité propre et de caractères qui la distinguent de celle du passé. Dans cette astronomie pré-copernicienne la révolution scientifique plonge ses racines.

Bartłomiej Błesznowski, Aleksandra Bilewicz (eds.): Socjologia stosowana. Tradycje naukowe polskiego kooperatyzmu XX wieku [Applied sociology. Scientific traditions of Polish cooperativism in the 20th century]. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa 2021. ISBN 978-83-66056-70-1

 

Opis

Przeszło sto lat temu socjalista i działacz społeczny Edward Milewski określił kooperację mianem „socjologii stosowanej”. Niniejsza książka jest próbą przybliżenia splotu socjologii i spółdzielczości, a więc ukazania styku teorii naukowej i kolektywnego działania. Pragniemy pokazać, jak polska myśl spółdzielcza problematyzowała zagadnienia socjologiczne i jak jeden z ważniejszych ruchów społecznych na ziemiach polskich rozwijał samoświadomość, odwołując się do teorii naukowych. Czytelnik znajdzie w tomie zarówno pisma klasyków polskich nauk społecznych, takich jak Stanisław Ossowski czy Stefan Czarnowski, jak i teksty działaczy spółdzielczych, którzy zajmowali się refleksją nad funkcjonowaniem i rozwojem ruchu. Zadaniem książki jest więc ponowne przyjrzenie się historii związanych ze spółdzielczością idei naukowych, które pozwalają w niej widzieć coś więcej niż wyłącznie jeden z rodzajów gospodarki uspołecznionej. W świetle tekstów zamieszczonych w niniejszej antologii spółdzielczość to oddolne „laboratorium” zmian społecznych.

Spis treści

Socjologia stosowana. Od teorii socjologicznej do instytucji

wspólnego działania (Bartłomiej Błesznowski, Aleksandra

Bilewicz) / IX

Kwestia społeczna — wspólne korzenie spółdzielczości i nauk

społecznych / XIII

Dwie wizje społeczeństwa — Bürgerliche Gesellschaft i doktryna

socjetarna / XX

Socjologowie i spółdzielczość — Tönnies, Mauss, Polanyi /XXVIII

Polska — socjalizm bezpaństwowy jako socjologia przyszłości / XXXVIII

Edward Abramowski — od uspołecznionej duszy do polityki braterstwa / XLIV

Instytucje czystego uspołecznienia / LV

O niniejszym zbiorze / LXIII

Podziękowania / LXXII

Zasady edycji / LXXIV

 

Część I

Teoria społeczna kooperacji

Edward Abramowski Metafizyka doświadczalna / 3

Rozdział V. Tożsamość ludzka. Ideał braterstwa / 3

Rozdział VI. Zagadnienie woli / 10

Rozdział VII. Życiowa etyka przyjaźni / 15

Stefan Czarnowski Wprowadzenie do kwestii społecznej w dobie obecnej / 21

 

Część II

Ideologia i propaganda

Edmund Zalewski Wrażenia wzrokowe w propagandzie ruchu spółdzielczego / 41

Vachan Totomianz Mistycyzm spółdzielczości (o przemianach idei spółdzielczej) / 45

 

Część III

Więzi społeczne i formy współdziałania

Tadeusz Kłapkowski Istota społeczeństwa (fragment) / 53

Rodział III. Więź społeczna / 53

Formy stosunków pomiędzy ludźmi / 53

Istota i rodzaje więzi społecznych / 56

Rozdział IV. Klasyfikacja form społecznych / 58

Stanisław Ossowski Socjologiczne podstawy nowoczesnej urbanistyki / 61

 

Część IV

Konsumpcja, praca, wartość

Maria Orsetti Teoria nadwartości a kooperatyzm spożywców / 79

Bogdan Suchodolski Praca w ujęciu Brzozowskiego i Abramowskiego / 92

 

Część V

Kooperacja w systemach gospodarczych

Väinö Tanner Miejsce spółdzielczości w systemach gospodarczych / 103

Wstęp / 103

Spółdzielczość w ramach gospodarki regulowanej względnie częściowo

planowej / 106

Ruch spółdzielczy w ramach dyktatorsko-kapitalistycznej gospodarki

planowej / 114

System włoski / 115

System niemiecki / 116

System austriacki / 119

Spółdzielczość w ramach gospodarki dyktatorsko-socjalistycznej / 121

Ruch spółdzielczy w ustroju demokratyczno-socjalistycznym / 128

Wnioski / 132

Stanisław Miłkowski Ustrój gospodarki drobnorolnej a spółdzielczość / 135

Kształtowanie się struktury gospodarczej polski / 135

Walka o pozycję gospodarczą wsi / 142

Organizacja / 142

Organizacja przetwórstwa / 145

Organizacja zaopatrywania /. 147

Organizacja obrotu pieniężnego / 147

 

Część VI

Kooperacja, przywództwo, hierarchia

Jan Sondel Działacz społeczny jako socjolog / 157

Socjologia i jej zadania / 157

Socjologia a akcja społeczno-oświatowa i wychowawcza / 160

Wieś jako przedmiot socjologicznego zainteresowania / 164

Socjologia wsi / 171

Edmund Zalewski Socjologiczne podstawy kierownictwa w spółdzielczości / 177

 

Część VII

Nieuchronność instytucjonalizacji? Epilog

Zbigniew Galor Tradycyjna własność spółdzielcza i zarządzanie

w warunkach transformacji ustrojowej / 187

Spółdzielczość w przekształceniach ustrojowych w Polsce / 188

Spółdzielczość — własność a rynek / 189

Problem własności spółdzielczej / 192

Koncepcje własności spółdzielczej / 194

Własność spółdzielcza a spółdzielcze sposoby produkcji, wymiany oraz świadczenia usług / 199

Własność spółdzielcza a zarządzanie / 200

Przypadek grupy Mondragon / 202

Tradycyjne i współczesne formy własności spółdzielczej (spółdzielni) / 203

Kazimierz Z. Sowa Od wspólnoty do związku instytucyjnego. Kilka uwag o rozwoju i społecznych przemianach spółdzielczych zrzeszeń konsumenckich / 207

Społeczna geneza stowarzyszeń spożywców / 207

Rozwój spółdzielczości i koncepcje kooperatyzmu / 219

Spółdzielnie spożywców w Polsce / 225

Rozwój i społeczne przemiany spółdzielczości spożywców w Polsce

Ludowej / 235

Postscriptum 2017 / 248

 

Noty biograficzne / 258

Noty bibliograficzne / 270

Bibliografia / 272

Indeks osób / 278

Bartłomiej Błesznowski, Aleksandra Bilewicz

Socjologia stosowana. Od teorii socjologicznej do instytucji wspólnego

działania

(FRAGMENTY WPROWADZENIA)

Przeszło sto lat temu socjalista i działacz społeczny Edward Milewski określił kooperację mianem „socjologii stosowanej”. […] Przez określenie „kooperacja” Milewski rozumiał ruch społeczny, który został zapoczątkowany ponad sześćdziesiąt lat wcześniej w przemysłowej Anglii. […] Organizacja polityczna przyszłego ruchu robotniczego pozostawała w stałej symbiozie z inicjatywami gospodarczymi grup uciskanych. Sprzężenie idei i praktyki w służbie „solidarności klasowej” było jednym z głównych czynników emancypacji całej klasy ludowej (w tym także chłopstwa i biedniejszej burżuazji) w XIX i początkach XX wieku, które nie ograniczały się wyłącznie do robotników […]

Niniejsza książka stanowi próbę przybliżenia splotu idei spółdzielczości i socjologii, a więc styku nauki i praktyki, na gruncie polskim. Pragniemy pokazac, w jaki sposób polska myśl spółdzielcza problematyzowała zagadnienia socjologiczne, czerpiąc z teorii powstałych zarówno na Zachodzie, jak i na rodzimym gruncie. Pokazujemy zatem, w jaki sposób jeden z ważniejszych ruchów społecznych na ziemiach polskich rozwijał samoświadomość, odwołując się do teorii naukowych. Naszym celem jest ukazanie także, że ze spółdzielczością na różne sposoby byli związani, teoretycznie lub praktycznie (bądź w obu tych sferach), czołowi przedstawiciele polskiej myśli społecznej, jak na przykład Stefan Czarnowski czy Stanisław Ossowski. Refleksjom socjologiczno-spółdzielczym oddawało się także wielu innych autorów związanych z ruchem spółdzielczym, mniej znanych w świecie naukowym.

  

Call for Papers – History of Computing, AI, etc. in the European South – Tensions of Europe Digital Workshop Festival

 

Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Algorithms, Internet of Things, Social Media, Automation, Robotics and Cybernetics: Historical and STS Perspectives from Mediterranean/Southern/Southeastern Europe

 

Part of the ‘Tensions of Europe Digital Workshop Festival’, 28 June-2 July 2021 (https://shtwebinars.nl/)

The workshop aims to advance scholarly research and discussion on the appropriation, localization, adaptation, adjustment, maintenance, repair, use and reconfiguration in use of computing and related technologies in the context of Mediterranean, Southern and Southeastern Europe. We are interested in contributions that rely on historical and STS perspectives in order to address issues of relevance to the discourses and materialities of computing technology and science. Especially welcomed are: papers that address critically the rhetoric of universalism surrounding computing and related technologies; papers on the co-shaping of technology and society, from angles that take into account issues of relevance to work, leisure, gender, race, ethnicity, disability and borders/migration;  and papers on the public history of computing and related technologies, which are in conversation with fields like Cultural and Media Studies, Cultural Heritage, Museum Studies,  Digital History, Science Communication, Digital Heritage and Digital Humanities.

Submissions may relate (without being limited) to the following topics:

·       Histories of computing, from mainframes to microcomputers (home and personal)

·       The emergence of the internet, the web, email and the social media in the European South

·       Historical and STS perspectives on the technologies associated with the so called ‘4th Industrial Revolution’: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Algorithms, Internet of Things

·       Historical and STS perspectives on Automation, Robotics, Cybernetics

Deadline for abstract submissions (250 words, plus a brief author CV): May 2nd 2021. Workshop participants will be invited to contribute to a special journal issue and an edited volume, which will focus, respectively, on historical and STS perspectives. Details on all of the above will be provided through the workshop website, which will become available together with the Second Call for Papers later in the spring of 2021.

Initial Workshop Committee (to be completed by interested scholars from other countries):

Aristotle Tympas, Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Maria Roussou, Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens / Vice-Chair, Greek ACM-Women Chapter / Museum of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Giorgos Zoukas, Postdoctoral Fellow, Greek State Scholarships Foundation / Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Abstract submissions: gzoukas@phs.uoa.gr

For any inquiries, please contact: Giorgos Zoukas (gzoukas@phs.uoa.gr)

CFP: Doing The Global Intellectual History Of Social Movements, Berlin 19.08.2021 - 21.08.2021, Deadline 28.05.2021

 

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This workshop aims to link global intellectual history with the history of social movements. Recent publications have tackled common diffusionist understandings of the relationship between “intellectuals” and social movements. We want to bring together scholars from different parts of the world to engage in a broader discussion about how to research and write global intellectual histories of social movements.

Doing The Global Intellectual History Of Social Movements

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In the last decades, intellectual history has aimed to move away from its traditional focus on famous intellectuals as its main actors. The emergence of a "global" intellectual history further troubled the idea that (normatively white and male) professional intellectuals were the only people with ideas worth taking seriously. The global social movements of the 20th century –– labor movements, Communisms, movements for racial and gender justice, movements for sexual liberation, and conservative and reactionary movements organizing to preserve the status quo –– all of had evolving relationships with ideas and with the figure of "the intellectual" that belie any concept of ideas flowing from a professional intellectual outward into the fields of the social and the political. How can we research and write truly global intellectual histories of social movements?

We are pleased to invite you, with the support of the Global Intellectual History Graduate School in Berlin, to a workshop discussing the methodological, conceptual, and practical problems when dealing with the intellectual history of social movements from a global perspective. We are pleased to welcome as our keynote speaker Dr. Tiffany N. Florvil, Associate Professor of 20th-century European Women’s and Gender History at the University of New Mexico where she writes about Black intellectualism, internationalism, and gender. She is the author of Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement (2020).

We invite papers of twenty minutes (3,000 words) which touch on, expand, or critique the premises of the following questions:

- How do we link quotidian intellectuals and “small” intellectual history to the broader history of ideas?

- How does the social history of intellectuals connect to global intellectual history as a field?

- What kinds of sources and archives are useful and how do we read them? How do we deal with activist writers whose ideas shift over time and are often written in unclear, fragmented, broken, or partial ways (as opposed to professional idea-havers whose ideas are often published in books with clear reception histories)?

- What is an intellectual and how do we think the intellectual more broadly – or should we avoid the category? How has "intellectual history's" vision of "the intellectual" been marked by race, class, and gender; and do global approaches undo or reinforce this?

- How do we complicate the diffusionist idea of ideas flowing from the top down and understand how theory and intellectual practice – even, or especially, in imperfectly or incorrectly translated or understood forms – evolve across related social movements?

We want to make this workshop a place for an engaged discussion around shared questions and not a simple succession of presentations. Therefore, we will ask all presenters to attend all sessions of the workshop. We aim to create a safe, supportive, and collaborative environment in which to discuss work in progress: we would rather participants come with open questions than simply present finished work.

We invite graduate students, researchers, and independent scholars to submit an abstract of 300 words and a short CV by 28 May 2021 to Christian Jacobs (christian.jacobs@fu-berlin.de). Most likely, the conference will take place as an online event 19 – 21 August. However, in the unlikely case, the pandemic situation and travel restrictions allow we will consider hybrid or in person formats. Notices of acceptance will be sent by mid-June 2021. Participants will be asked to send their papers for precirculation two weeks before the conference.

Keynote lecture: Tiffany N. Florvil (University of New Mexico)

Online Conference "The Century of Sputnik and Chernobyl: Science and the European Left during the Twentieth Century," 20-21 April 2021

 CERGU - Centre for European Research at the University of Gothenburg is very pleased to be organising the conference "The Century of Sputnik and Chernobyl: Science and the European Left during the Twentieth Century". This conference will be held online via the platform Zoom. A link will be posted here closer to the conference date.

This conference is organised by the Centre for European Research of the University of Gothenburg (CERGU) and sponsored by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (F19-1548). The goal

of the conference is to explore the reciprocal influences between science and the European left, with the hypothesis that the historical development of one can be explained by the other. While the two topics have been explored separately, we argue that showing the connections between the two can provide new explanatory tools to history and social science.

The conference brings together established scholars and early-career researchers alike from different disciplines and nations.

The conference was originally scheduled for April 2020, but it had to be postponed due to Covid-19. Despite this temporary obstacle, the event is more urgent than ever. Indeed, the global pandemic revealed how science influences politics and what role scientific expertise play in a democracy.

Following Benedetto Croce’s maxim that “All history is contemporary history”, we will have a free discussion at the end of the first day to discuss how the experience of Covid-19 changed the perception of the interaction of scientific expertise, scientific issues and democratic politics and what insights we can apply to the study of the past.

How to participate: to attend the conference, view the speeches and ask questions, visit the CERGU website (https://www.gu.se/en/european-research/events), Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/events/251000709994533/) or write to the conference organisers:

Ettore Costa: ettore.costa@lir.gu.se

Angelica Sohlberg: angie.sohlberg@gu.se

Birgitta Jännebring: birgitta.jannebring@cergu.gu.se

For more information please email the conference organizer, Ettore Costa.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Tuesday 20 April 2021

8:30-9:00: Introduction

9:00-10:30: Panel 1: From Lenin to Gagarin: Communist imagination of science

D. Steila, “Science and Revolution in Russian Marxism (1900-1920)”

G. Bassi, “The Italian Communist Discourse on Soviet Scientific Propaganda (1949-1969)”

M. Schwartz, “The limits of communism. Imaginations of progress and society in Soviet science fiction of the post-Stalin period”

10:30-12:00 Panel 2: Scientific Progress and Human Progress

A. Chakraborty, “Nehru’s Science and 'Scientific Temper': Tracing the Optimism of Socialist Science Backwards”

S. Salvia, “In the Name of Galileo: Scientific Progress, Social Emancipation, Political Struggle, and Cultural Hegemony in the Italian Marxist Left (1957-1968)”

J. Gärdebo, “Old and New Space Aid: The Swedish Space Corporation’s Production of Satellite Data Amidst Shifting Political Priorities of the Left, 1968–1998”

12:00-13:15: Lunch pause, mingling in Zoom

13:30-15:00: Panel 3: Predicting the Future, Mastering the Future

G. O’Hara, “Imagining the Planned future: the British Government's Very Long Term Planning Committee in the 1960s”

E. Rindzeviciute, The science of forecasting and prediction in the Soviet Union

15:00-15:30: Coffee pause, mingling on Zoom

15:30-17:00: Roundtable: “Can Covid-19 help us reread the past of science and politics?”

Wednesday 21 April 2021

9:00-10:30: Panel 4: Scientists as Political Actors and Policy-Makers

E. Costa, “The Bee and the Architect: Scientists against Scientism in Italy, Britain and West Germany (1977-1988)”

M. Emanuel, “Science Diplomacy, Technology Transfer, and Cold War Neutrality: Swedish Collaboration in Astrophysics with the USSR, 1965–1976”

P. Lundin, “Science and Social Democracy: Court Politics in the Shadow of the Cold War”

10:30-12:00: Panel 5: Science and New Politics

S. Topçu, "From resistance to co-management? A social history of contestations over the French nuclear complex (from 1970s to present)”

J. Scholz, B. Kolboske, “At the Intersection of Biopolitics, (Male) Legal Expertise and Women’s Liberation Movement: The West German Abortion Debate and Subsequent Criminal Law Reform in the 1970s & 1980s”.

12:00-13:15: Lunch pause, mingling in Zoom

13:30-15:00: Panel 6: From the Society of Tomorrow to the Society of Risks

K. Ekberg, “A question of scale? - climate change science, nuclear power and the Social Democrats in Sweden 1970-1980”

C. Götter, “Fissionable Fears – Fearful Perspectives on the History of Nuclear Power”

C. Laucht, “The 'New Urban Left' and Anti-Nuclear Politics in Britain, 1980-85” 15:30-16:30:

Discussion on conference findings and publication strategy

Themes and Questions

Exploring the connection between the European left and science opens up a wide range of queries, centred around the following topics:

Science and the Society of Tomorrow: the conference explores the role of science in the imagination of the future by the European left, how it shaped its political programme, rhetoric and culture. It also explores how sociotechnical imaginaries evolved in response to political developments. Particular emphasis is given to the two main branches of the European left in the twentieth century — social democracy and communism —, but the influence of European concepts in decolonised countries will also be covered.

Scientists as policy-makers and political actors: Political and intellectual history usually ignore natural scientists as public intellectuals — unlike artists and literary figures — but recent historiography has shown how they influenced politics and policies acting as advisors, opinionmakers or activists. Focus is given to how expertise was used in policy-formation, legislation, debates — as the twentieth century saw declining trust in experts and growing demand for democratic accountability and citizens’ participation.

Science and the new politics: In Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society, the goal of politics is no longer achieving positive goals, but preventing the worst, since the future was not a blank slate to be shaped, but a source of threats — including technological threats. The conference explores how technological risks became more politically salient across the century, undermining the old left — more concerned with the activist state — and creating new openings for political mobilisation and democratic engagement. This allowed the emergence of a new politics from below and new political actors concerned with health and the environment.

Jan Wnęk: Światowa medycyna w polskiej nauce i dydaktyce lekarskiej. Pedagogiczny aspekt dyfuzji nauki. Część 1 i 2 [World Medicine in Polish Medical Science and Didactics: Paedagogical Aspect of the Diffusion of Science], 2. vols. Warszawa: Aspra, IHN PAN 2020. ISBN 978-83-8209-069-7

 

W ogromnej liczbie publikacji poświęconych dziejom medycyny polskiej obejmującej prace zarówno syntetyczne – ogólne jak i analityczne, dzieło Jana Wnęka zajmuje miejsce wyróżniające się nie tylko swą objętością, ale przede wszystkim śmiałością koncepcji, głębią ujęcia i rozległością horyzontu badawczego. Dodać także wypada niezwykłą podstawę źródłową obejmującą dotychczasową literaturę przedmiotu oraz liczne kategorie materiałów m.in. archiwaliów, prasy, których do tej pory nie wykorzystywano w tak kompleksowy sposób. Dzieło poświęcone jest uniwersalnemu i ponadczasowemu problemowi medycyny w ogóle, a w szczególności medycyny polskiej. Ukazuje, jak w pewnej epoce, niewoli narodowej, braku państwowości i odradzania się jej w okresie międzywojennym, funkcjonowała nauka medyczna polska i światowa. Jak ta ostatnia przenikała do polskiej, jak wpływała na jej rozwój. Zjawisko dyfuzji prądów naukowych i wiedzy, uniwersalnych i narodowych jest czymś powszechnym i stałym. Jednak niemal w każdym przypadku proces ten był i jest wspierany przez państwo, podczas gdy w naszej sytuacji dokonywał się bez własnego państwa, oddolnie i spontanicznie, a potem, kiedy nastąpiło odrodzenie Polski była ona za słaba i biedna by adekwatnie do potrzeb wspierać ten ruch. Dzieło w sposób kompleksowy ukazuje wszystkie płaszczyzny związków medycyny polskiej z powszechną. Widzimy zatem, cudzoziemskich profesorów na katedrach medycznych w uniwersytetach Wilna, Krakowa, Warszawy i Lwowa, modernizujących organizację i nauczanie. Obserwujemy systematyczne i dopełniające studia Polaków w obcych uczelniach, najpierw europejskich potem także amerykańskich. Z kolei otwiera się przed nami rozległa panorama krótkich, spontanicznych wyjazdów lekarzy do różnorodnych klinik, szpitali, ośrodków medycznych dla zapoznania się z nowymi metodami i technikami doskonalenia zawodowego. Przyglądamy się niezwykle szerokiej akcji popularyzacji światowych nowości medycznych przez polskich lekarzy w czasopismach fachowych. Są wśród nich nie tylko medycy wielkich miast i ośrodków uniwersyteckich, ale często także ludzie z bardzo małych prowincjonalnych miejscowości. Po raz pierwszy w takiej skali ukazano tłumaczenia obcych dzieł medycznych na język polski. Ta forma kontaktu z nauką światową pozwalała nawet tym, którzy z wielu powodów np. finansowych, językowych, personalnych nie mogli udać się za granicę, uzupełniać i unowocześniać swą wiedzę i praktykę zawodową. W dziele omówione zostało zagadnienie bardzo trudne do badania nie tylko w zakresie nauk medycznych, to jest obecności obcych prądów, idei, wiedzy na kartach polskich dzieł lekarskich i w dydaktyce uczelnianej. Wszystkie omawiane zagadnienia zostały przedstawione w układzie działowym – specjalizacji medycznych, co daje jasność i przejrzystość obrazu. Jest sprawą oczywistą, iż mimo wielkich rozmiarów dzieła jest ono jedynie zarysem problematyki. Jest jakby praktycznym drogowskazem, w jakim kierunku winny iść dalsze badania, przede wszystkim zbiorowe. Sądzę, że środowisko medyczne zdobędzie się na taką inicjatywę, która w efekcie może zrekonstruować ten wielki ruch modernizacyjny, niespotykany chyba w innych naukach, poza może techniczno-przemysłowymi. Praca taka pozwoliłaby też właściwie ocenić dorobek polskiej medycyny i jej miejsce w nauce światowej. Książka wciągająca czytelnika swą treścią może stanowić doskonałą lekturę nie tylko dla studentów medycyny, środowisk lekarskich, ale także dla szerokich kręgów czytelniczych, jako propedeutyka do kultury i tożsamości narodowej.

Prof. Julian Dybiec

Interdisziplinäres Kolloquium Osteuropäische Geschichte / Polenstudien, Aleksander-Brückner-Zentrum für Polenstudien

 

Das Kolloquium findet im Sommersemester 2021 mittwochs von 18:15 bis 19:45 Uhr online statt.

Solange an der Martin-Luther-Universität keine Präsenzveranstaltungen möglich sind, wird das Kolloquium in Konferenzschaltung via WebEx abgehalten. Externe Interessenten werden um Anmeldung bis spätestens 10 Uhr am Tag des Vortrags gebeten (martin.rohde[at]geschichte.uni-halle.de). Sie erhalten die Zugangsdaten per E-Mail.

Wir freuen uns auf spannende Vorträge!

URL: http://www.aleksander-brueckner-zentrum.org/veranstaltungen/kolloquien/

Sommersemester 2021

14. April 2021 Börries Kuzmany (Wien) Nationale Vielfalt handhaben. Das Konzept der nicht-territorialen Autonomie im Russländischen Reich, 1900-1917

21. April 2021 Tomasz Zarycki (Warschau) Eastern Poland and the new ideology of borderlands

28. April 2021 Dominika Czarnecka & Dagnosław Demski (Warschau) From Western to Peripheral Voices: Ethnographic Shows in Central and Eastern Europe, 1850-1939

5. Mai 2021 Jörn Happel (Hamburg)

Die Vermessung des Imperiums. Der Aralsee, die Oxus-Frage und das Russländische Imperium im 19. Jahrhundert

12. Mai 2021 Helena Holzberger (München)

Fotografie, Gesellschaft und Russlands Orient. Fotografiegeschichte(n) aus Zentralasien

19. Mai 2021 Corinne Geering (Leipzig) Die Erzeugung ländlicher Moderne: Handarbeit und spätimperiale Sozialreformen

26. Mai 2021 Jürgen Heyde (Leipzig)

Die Armenier in Kamieniec/Kam"janec' Podils'kyj im 15.-17. Jahrhundert. Migrantische Handlungspotentiale und transkulturelle Verflechtungen

02. Juni 2021 Fabian Baumann (Basel) und Verena Dohrn (Göttingen/Hannover)

Die Šul'gins und die Kahans im Russländischen Reich - Imperiale Familienbiographien?

09. Juni 2021

Justyna A. Turkowska (Edinburgh)

Architekten der postkolonialen Neuverräumlichung: Osteuropäische Geologen in Westafrika in den 1960-1970er Jahren

16. Juni 2021 Vorstellung aktueller Masterarbeiten

Julian Freytag: Die korenizacija der Wolhyniendeutschen in der Ukrainischen Sowjetrepublik der 1920er und 1930er-Jahre

Pauline Reinhardt: Der Rauch über Birkenau. Weibliche Perspektiven der polnischen und italienischen Lagerliteratur aus der Nachkriegszeit

23. Juni 2021 Vanessa Voisin (Bologna) Nazi crimes trials, death penalty and the "second wave" of trials in the Soviet Union, 1957/8-1965

30. Juni 2021 Magdalena Baran-Szołtys (Wien) Stories Of/In Transformation. Literarische Narrative von Transformation und Ungleichheit im postsozialistischen Polen

07. Juli 2021 Stephanie Weismann (Wien) In schlechtem Ruch. Olfaktorische und emotionale Verortungen der Lubliner Altstadt während des 20.Jahrhunderts

14. Juli 2021 Nadja Weck (Wien) Abschottung gegenüber Russland? Die Habsburgische Eisenbahnpolitik gegenüber Russland

Helena Kokešová: Eduard Albert. Ein böhmischer Intellektueller in Wien. Wien: Böhlau Verlag 2021. ISBN: 978-3-205-21254-6, https://doi.org/10.7767/9783205212560

 

Eduard Albert (1841–1900) war Arzt und Chirurg, Hochschullehrer, Literaturkritiker, Übersetzer, Lyriker, Mäzen und Politiker und gehört zu den vielseitigsten Persönlichkeiten der tschechischen und der österreichischen Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Das Buch verfolgt alle Seiten von Alberts Leben und Wirken, seine Familie, seine Karriere in Wien, Innsbruck und Prag, das eigene literarische Schaffen und das umfangreiche Übersetzerwerk, die gesellschaftlichen Beziehungen und das Mäzenatentum. Die größte Aufmerksamkeit ist Alberts Interesse an der Politik und seiner Tätigkeit in der sogenannten tschechischen Lobby in Wien gewidmet. Weiter wird Alberts Nachleben und sein Vermächtnis in der tschechischen Gesellschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts und im österreichischen und deutschen Raum untersucht.

11th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularization PANDEMIC PASTS, PANDEMIC FUTURES: Sources, histories, imaginations

 Call for Papers for the 11th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularization  PANDEMIC PASTS, PANDEMIC FUTURES: Sources, histories, imaginations, Institut Menorquí d’Estudis, Mahón (Balearic Islands, Spain), 11-13 November 2021 (alternative date, 26-28 May 2022), Organized by the Catalan Society for the History of Science

Coordinated by Francisco Javier Martínez, Celia Miralles-Buil, and Quim Bonastra

All the information about the School's topics, schedule and program (keynote lectures, workshops and poster sessions) is available at the following website:  https://blogs.iec.cat/schct/11th-european-spring-school/ 

The 11th ESS is open to junior scholars and postgraduate students of both social sciences/humanities and scientific background, who will have a great opportunity to engage with cutting edge work and present their own contributions. The School will particularly favour proposals that cross boundaries between disciplines, temporal focus and working spaces. All participants are expected to take part in the discussions of the lectures and workshops, to visit and comment the posters exhibit and to engage in the mentoring and artistic sessions. 

The deadline for proposals to the workshops and poster sessions is 21 May 2021. Please, send a 200-word abstract and a 1-page CV to 11thspringschool@gmail.com

A limited number of grants will be available for graduate students and early career researchers.

Call for Papers: Political Imagination and Utopian Energies in Central and Eastern Europe, Prague, September 16-17

 (from  Honza Geryk)

We would like to invite you to the 13th CEE Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists which will be held in Prague, September 16-17 (hopefully not online).

Here you find a call for papers with more info: http://www.cee-forum.org/download/fca03ad3a6bea600af03ca41d9bb0858/CEE_Forum_Prague21_CfP_final_CPR.pdf and you can also find an application form here http://www.cee-forum.org/forum_2021_prague

We've also created a new fb page (tag above) where you can check the updates as well.

So, we are looking forward to reading your abstracts which you can send until June 6.

Call for Papers: Expeditions in the Long 19th Century. Discovering — Surveying — Ordering. Chair of Eastern European History, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, November 17-19, 2021.

 

Today more than ever, we are fascinated by distant journeys. As covid-related travel bans are implemented throughout the world, people dream of faraway places, they rush to unknown beaches in their thoughts, they find themselves in untouched areas — taking note, rather casually, of the first images and sounds from Mars. It seems as if the familiar distance is more appealing than the unpredictable, the almost unattainable. 

In the long 19th century, the European sciences experienced their second revolution through both government-led and individual expeditions. The white spots of the earth were to be explored, all things foreign could be appropriated and categorized in the private studies and academies of Europe. Life on the peripheries was documented, evaluated, exploited. Languages, head forms, rituals, art, dances and much more had to be recorded, classified and catalogued. Entire disciplines formed and defined themselves around the urge to travel far away. Artifacts, illustrations, and adventure narratives offered selfperception for a European world in search of itself and its origins.

This European self-discovery is neither complete today, nor have the traces of the past disappeared. In the museums, the  overflowing ethnographical depots are a reminder of the past craze for collection, which often enough manifested itself violently. Nevertheless, the pursuit of faraway places had different reasons, ranging from economic and scientific ambitions to the adventurous spirit of private travelers.

Well-organized expeditions led through unknown regions, traversed for the first time by Europeans and their native helpers: For the European conquest of the unknown world would have been impossible without native knowledges. But what were the ideas with which the travelers headed out for the most distant places on earth? Which native concepts of order did the Europeans adopt and what did they leave behind in the countries they had traveled? What is reported about the expeditions and for what reasons are they carried out? Who finances them and with what expectations?

For an online conference to be held at HSU in November 2021 we invite papers that openly inquire about practices of social order, the development of scientific disciplines in contact with various expeditions, native knowledges and companions, artistic adaptations, and ultimately the imagination of (armchair) travelers. 

We ask for initial short proposals of no more than one page and a brief biographical outline by May 9, 2021. Please send your proposals to expeditionen@hsu-hh.de.

Organized by Melanie Hussinger, Hajo Raupach, Jörn Happel

Online event (Russian): Smoke of the Fatherland: Industry, Environment and Society in Russia (XIX - XXI centuries), 8-9 April 2021, zoom, Center "Human, Nature, Technology" UTMN

 Уже в четверг 8 апреля ждем вас на международном семинаре «Дым отечества: промышленность, окружающая среда и общество в России (XIX – XXI вв.)». С коллегами на пяти секциях поговорим об индустриальном опыте Российской империи и СССР. 

Начинаем 8 апреля в 10:00 в коворкинге Института социально-гуманитарных наук (ул. Ленина, 23), а 9 апреля продолжим в конференц-зале Института наук о земле (ул. Осипенко, 2). Полную программу можете посмотреть ниже. Не забудьте паспорт на очную встречу.

Если вы не в Тюмени, но хотите присоединиться к обсуждению — регистрируйтесь на встречу в Zoom: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5EHR46_A6u3DhKh2xK4ocGkp2MiDxXQpmzWMw68MiaNS2nw/viewform

Online Seminar: “Hegemony and inequality in global science: Problems of the centre-periphery model,” Tuesday, 27 April 2021 at 13:00 CET.

 

Scholarly Communication Research Group will host the second seminar in the series „Science and (semi)peripheries”. Our guest speakers will be Simon Marginson and Xin Xu, they will present a paper entitled: „Hegemony and inequality in global science: Problems of the centre-periphery model”. The discussant to a paper will be Krystian Szadkowski.

The seminar is open for everyone interested and it will take place on Zoom.

Register on our website: https://sc.amu.edu.pl/science-and-semiperipheries/

Abstract:

The autonomous global system of science, grounded in collegial networks of scientists, English-language publishing and cross-border authorship, is expanding at a rapid rate and has fostered the growth of national science infrastructure in a growing number of countries. The global geo-politics of science is changing: the United States remains the leading country but there are several strong systems outside Euro-America and China excels in total volume of papers and in some STEM disciplines. Paradoxically, however, this pluralisation plays out within a continuing Euro-American (and predominantly Anglo-American) science world regulated by an inside/outside binary. Global science remains unequalising and homogenising, primarily Anglo-American in its language, leading institutions, disciplinary and publishing regimes, agendas and topics. Other languages and insights are shut out, including endogenous (indigenous) knowledges. Scholarship on science has yet to effectively address these issues. Quantitative studies in scientometrics are under theorised. The dominant conceptual framework for explaining global science is world-systems theory and its centre-periphery model of national systems. However, this framework has passed its use-by date.

In this webinar, the speakers will critically review the centre-periphery model and its applications in science studies. The model is locked within the Eurocentrism it opposes and is unduly determinist. It cannot grasp the dynamics of the specifically global aspect of science; and radically under-estimates the potential for agency outside the ‘centre’ countries, as shown by the capacity of states on the ‘semi-periphery’ and ‘periphery’ to lift science and the scope for ‘peripheral’ scientists to operate autonomously. Advocates of world systems theory in science are forced into recurring modifications, or looser core concepts, signs of an obsolete paradigm. The presenters will argue for a critical focus on global hegemony, instead of the critique of the world as a centre-periphery formation, encompassing cultural factors as well as political economy, and for an ‘ecology of knowledges’ approach to science and knowledge systems.

Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, and Lead Researcher with Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Simon’s research is focused primarily on global and international higher education, the contributions of higher education and higher education as a public and common good, and higher education and social inequality. At Oxford he leads the MSc (Education) subject on ‘Global higher education’. His recent books include Higher Education in Federal Countries, edited with Martin Carnoy, Isak Froumin and Oleg Leshukov (Sage, 2018) and High Participation Systems of Higher Education, edited with Brendan Cantwell and Anna Smolentseva (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Xin Xu is a Research Fellow at Centre for Global Higher Education, Department of Education, and a Junior Research Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford.

Krystian Szadkowski is a researcher at SCRG AMU. His interests cover Marxist political economy and the issues of the public and the common in higher education.

Call for papers: Epidemics and Othering: The Biopolitics of COVID-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives. Bochum, 01.10.2021 - 02.10.2021, Deadline 30.04.2021

 

This digital symposium (Oct. 1-2, 2021) aims at bringing together multi- and interdisciplinary, scholarly approaches to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in regard to the history and present of "Othering" processes. We invite papers that exmine Othering practices in relation to a long human history of epidemics and pandemics, and the myriad historical, political, sociocultural, philosophical, medical, and artistic representations and reactions that have produced and/or challenged such Othering dynamics.

Epidemics and Othering: The Biopolitics of COVID-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has impacted the globe for more than a year. This development sparked renewed interest in the historical, sociocultural, political, and economic aspects of epidemics and pandemics, currently evidenced by an outpouring of scholarship on the consequences of the current pandemic on the world’s population as well as social and economic structures. This symposium provides a forum specifically for the study of the sociocultural developments that lead to “Othering” in situations of a perceived crisis. Aiming at bringing together multi- and interdisciplinary, scholarly approaches to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we invite papers that examine the processes of “Othering” in relation to a long human history of epidemics and pandemics and the myriad social, political, philosophical, medical, artistic, literary, filmic, and poetic, representations and reactions that have produced and/or challenged such Othering dynamics.

The concept of Othering, originating in feminist and postcolonial theories, characterizes hegemonic processes of marking the supposed differences between a superior “We” and an inferior “Other.” Othering processes often function to (re)produce social hierarchies and power relations by constructing marginalized groups as Other while simultaneously constructing the normative self. Epidemics and pandemics like Covid-19 produce and amplify Othering practices and systemic discrimination. Hence, marginalized communities have not only been disproportionately affected by the current pandemic both medically and economically, but public, private, and media discourses have projected fear of the disease onto the social or cultural-ethnic Other, fostering for example, orientalism, xenophobia and racism, ageism, and ableism. In the need to “make sense” of a senseless epidemic, long-established tropes of cultural Othering, including essentialist narratives about cultural and national identity, have successfully been mobilized in this and in prior epidemics to support biopolitical interests. Historically, this dynamic has been intensified in times of increased mobility, which multiplies the perceived risk of contagion by the Other, and is accompanied by a rhetoric of crisis, anti-globalism, and isolationism. Yet, definitions of the Other are contingent and can be instrumentalized by various groups and discursive formations to different effects. A plethora of conspiracy theories/ideologies, protests against lockdown regulations across the political spectrum, and shifting public attitudes and media framings of medical authorities and vaccination policies reveal the complex configurations of the biopolitics of Otherness.

This digital symposium aims at analyzing key factors and cultural narratives that contribute to Othering discourses in the course of Covid-19 and in previous pandemics and epidemics (“real” and “imagined”) from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. The symposiumb will put a geographical emphasis on North America, the Atlantic World, and transatlantic relations, but welcomes contributions that expand this spatial focus to different world regions in order to create a more globally representative and more nuanced knowledge on the historical and current cultural, sociopolitical, economic, and literary narratives and media representations of epidemics and pandemics.

Topics of possible contributions include, but are not limited to:

- Theoretical and methodological examinations of processes of “Othering,” particularly during epidemics and pandemics, from various disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, including American studies, history, sociology, political science, cultural studies, gender studies, queer studies, literary studies, media studies, critical race theory, and disability studies

- Intersectional analyses of the current COVID-19 pandemic (focusing on issues of age, race, gender, class, sexuality, dis/ability, etc.)

- Diseases, epidemics, and (the history of) colonialism

- The history of disease and epidemics and the history of science

- Border security, migration, and (anti-)globalism

- Violence in pandemics (e.g., anti-Asian violence in connection to the - SARS-CoV-2 pandemic or debates about racialized police brutality in pandemics)

- “Lockdowns,” governmentality, civil liberties, and protest history

- Surveillance, medicalization, and digitalization

- Risk, Fear, and Resilience

- The popularization of (medical) science and the visualization of viruses

- The narrativization of epidemics and pandemics in popular media, e.g., representations in literature, film, television, and print

- Practices, Politics, and Histories of Masking

- Pandemics, ecology, and environmentalism

- Epidemics, pandemics, and conspiracy theories/ideologies

- Embodiment, illness, and vulnerability

Please send 300 to 500 word abstracts (in PDF format) of proposed 15 to 20 minute papers to epidemics-and-othering@ruhr-uni-bochum.de by April 30th, 2021. You will be notified in mid-June. The symposium will take place digitally on Friday, October 1st and Saturday, October 2nd, 2021.

Kontakt

Rebecca Brückmann

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaften

Historisches Institut

Universitätsstr. 150

44780 Bochum

epidemics-and-othering@ruhr-uni-bochum.de