CFP: "Junge Hochschulen" – wissenschafts- und hochschulpolitische Herausforderungen seit der 2. Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts

 

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Die Tagung findet vom 22. bis 24. Juni 2022 in Paderborn statt. Sie wird ausgerichtet vom Arbeitsbereich Zeitgeschichte der Universität Paderborn (Prof. Dr. Peter Fäßler/Prof. Dr. Rainer Pöppinghege) anlässlich des 50. Jahrestages der Gründung der Gesamthochschule/Universität Paderborn. Reise- und Übernachtungskosten für Referierende werden vollständig (Inland: DB 2. Kl.) bzw. ggf. anteilig (Ausland) übernommen.

"Junge Hochschulen" – wissenschafts- und hochschulpolitische Herausforderungen seit der 2. Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts

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Arbeitsbereich Zeitgeschichte der Universität Paderborn, 33098 Paderborn (Deutschland)

22.10.2021

Bewerbungsschluss: 30.11.2021

Ab Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts standen Hochschulen – nicht nur in der BRD – vor erheblichen Herausforderungen. Es galt, den tertiären Bildungssektor an die Erfordernisse einer wirtschaftlichen, technischen und gesellschaftlichen Modernisierung anzupassen. Inwiefern die Hochschulen sich dabei an die Spitze der „Modernisierungsbewegung“ setzten, ist strittig. Jedenfalls wurde auch die Politik spätestens in den 1960er Jahren aktiv, indem sie neue Studienkonzepte und Forschungsförderstrategien diskutierte. Erhebliche Investitionen brachten neue Institutionen wie z.B. Fach- und Gesamthochschulen hervor, die das Hochschulsystem nicht nur quantitativ ergänzen, sondern mit neuen – eher praxisorientierten – Schwerpunkten versehen sollten. Die im wahrsten Sinne größte Herausforderung stand dem Hochschulsystem jedoch in Gestalt der Massenuniversität in den 1980er Jahren bevor.

Der auf der Tagung zu verhandelnde Themenkatalog zielt auf folgende Aspekte ab:

- Staatliche bzw. private Reformkonzepte im Bereich der tertiären Bildung

- Institutionelle Neugründungen

- Traditionsuniversitäten und „junge“ Hochschulen

- Reaktionen verschiedener Statusgruppen (Studierende/Lehrende) auf hochschulreformerische Konzepte und deren Umsetzung

- Positionen und Handeln hochschulpolitischer Akteure bzw. Akteursgruppen

- Die Entwicklung des Hochschulsystems in weiteren europäischen Staaten

- Hochschulen im multiplen Wettbewerb: Ost-West-Konflikt; Drittmittelforschung, Anwendungs- bzw. Marktorientierung; Fächerrivalität

- Zwischen Humboldt und Markt: akademisches Selbstverständnis/Identitätskonzepte

In Einzelfällen ist auch eine rein digitale Teilnahme möglich. Tagungssprachen sind Deutsch und Englisch.

Erwünscht sind Vorschläge für 30minütige Vorträge, die anschließend in einem Tagungsband publiziert werden. Bitte senden Sie ein Exposé von max. 2.000 Zeichen bis zum 30. November 2021 an:

Prof. Dr. Rainer Pöppinghege, rainer.poeppinghege@upb.de

Eine Rückmeldung wird es bis spätestens zum 20. Dezember geben.

Martin Franc a kolektiv: Habitus českých vědců 1918-1968. Příklad dvou generací [Habitus of Czech Scientists: Example of Two Generations]. Praha : Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR. ISBN: 978-80-88304-65-4

 

Jak probíhaly modelové kariéry českých vědců od vzniku Československa až po rok 1968? Co ji ovlivňovalo? Jak vypadalo jejich dětství a dospívání? Jak trávili volný čas? Kolik vydělávali a za co utráceli? Jakou roli hráli jejich styky se zahraničím? Jak se sdružovali ve společnostech a jak si (ne)rozuměli s politiky? Jak se slavily na veřejnosti jejich jubilea a jak probíhaly jejich pohřby? A jak vypadaly postavy vědců v českém filmu a televizi? To vše ukazuje kniha Habitus českých vědců 1918–1968. Příklad dvou generací od kolektivu autorů z Masarykova ústavu a Archivu Akademie věd ČR. Dozvíme se z ní leccos o utváření vzorců chování předních českých vědců i o tom, jak se tyto vzorce postupně proměňovaly. Zároveň se zamýšlí ve dvanácti kapitolách, jak se dynamicky vyvíjela pozice vědců ve společnosti.

History of Universities Seminar 2021-22

Academic year 2021-22. URL and details on registration: https://www.histgeog-uni.net/history-of-universities-seminar/

Convenors

Miles Taylor (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)

Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)

Heike Jöns (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)

Tamson Pietsch (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

Timing

Wednesdays, fortnightly, 2.00-3.30 pm (BST/UTC+1 or GMT/UTC+0), online via Zoom

Contact email

historyofuniversities@gmail.com

3 November 2021

2 pm (BST/UTC+1)

Research education across the globe: disciplines, institutions, and nations, 1840-1950

Kevin Chang (Academia Sinica Taiwan) | Abstract

Chaired by Miles Taylor (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Please register your free online attendance here.

1 December 2021

2 pm (GMT/UTC+0)

A Scottish classic after sixty years: George Davie’s The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and her Universities in the Nineteenth Century

Robert Anderson (University of Edinburgh) | Abstract

Chaired by Kevin Chang (Academia Sinica Taiwan)

Please register your free online attendance here.

2 February 2022

2 pm (GMT/UTC+0)

Evaluating scientific papers, and their authors, at the Royal Society of London, c.1780-1980

Aileen Fyfe (University of St Andrews) | Abstract

Chaired by Heike Jöns (Loughborough University)

Please register your free online attendance here.

2 March 2022

2 pm (GMT/UTC+0)

Habsburg universities 1848-1918: biography of a space

Jan Surman (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences) | Abstract

Chaired by Miles Taylor (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Please register your free online attendance here.

4 May 2022

2 pm (BST/UTC+1)

The twisted roots of social inequality and higher education in liberal democracies

Christi M. Smith (Washington University in St. Louis) | Abstract

Chaired by Heike Jöns (Loughborough University)

Please register your free online attendance here.

1 June 2022

2 pm (BST/UTC+1)

Universities and the wars of religion in early modern Europe: a roundtable discussion

Chaired by Miles Taylor (Humboldt University of Berlin)

The University as a place of refuge: religious exiles at the University of Tübingen during the Thirty Years’ War

Richard Kirwan (University of Limerick) | Abstract

An unintended export: rethinking the founding of Harvard College

Salvatore Cipriano (Boston College) | Abstract

From St Andrews, via Coimbra, to Leiden and onto Edinburgh: Protestant teaching, scholars and networks in Scotland and the Dutch Provinces

Esther Mijers (University of Edinburgh) | Abstract

Please register your free online attendance here.

6 July 2022

2 pm (BST/UTC+1)

University as a space to experiment with ideologies: Kenkoku University in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, 1938-45

Yuka Kishida (Bridgewater College) | Abstract

Chaired by Kevin Chang (Academia Sinica Taiwan)

Please register your free online attendance here.

online video: hps.cesee global book talk: History of Polish Sex Education, with Agnieszka Kościańska, Denisa Nešťáková and Ella Rossman

 

URL: https://youtu.be/AzUx3n11TZQ

The virtual platforms History of Science in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe and  Gender History of Central and Eastern Europe are proud to present the global book talk "History of Polish Sex Education". Denisa Nešťáková (Marburg) and Ella Rossman (London) joined with Agnieszka Kościańska (Oxford/Warsaw) to discuss her recently published book "To See a Moose: The History of Polish Sex Education" (New York 2021) [1], in a discussion moderated by Jan Surman (Prague). It is part of a series of open online events aiming to foster the discussion of new books and approaches within the history of science and scholarship (broadly understood) in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

[1] Agnieszka Kościańska: To See a Moose: The History of Polish Sex Education. New York: Berghahn Books 2021.

Participants:

Agnieszka Kościańska is an associate professor in the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw and, in 2021, Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, sexual violence, religion, and racism. She is the author of Zobaczyć łosia (To See a Moose. The History of Polish Sex Education, 2017, English version Berghahn Books, 2021), Płeć przyjemność i przemoc (Gender, Pleasure and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland 2014; English edition Indiana University Press 2021),

Denisa Nešťáková is a Research Associate at the Herder Institute in Marburg, Germany and a History faculty member at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia . Her work focuses on gender issues relating to Czech and Slovak history. Most recently she has been working as a member in a multinational project “‘Family Planning’ in East Central Europe from the 19th Century until the Authorization of ‘the Pill’”. She most recently edited the book Moc sexu: Sex a sexualita v moderných dejinách Slovenska [The Power of Sex: Sex and Sexuality in the Modern History of Slovakia] (forthcoming in November 2021)

Ella Rossman is a PhD student at SSEES UCL London with a thesis concerned with girlhood in the late Soviet era. She is also a feminist activist and does work to educate the public about women's history, gender history, and history of feminism in Russia and the Soviet Union, among others in the project Antiuniversity which she co-founded in Moscow in 2019. Most recently she published on history of gender history in post-Soviet Russia, gender and Holocaust and sex under Socialism.

Call for papers: Healing Plants in Science and Culture, May 20-22, 2022, Warsaw. Deadline January 15, 2022

 

URL: http://etnofarmacja.pl/informacje

http://ihnpan.pl/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Zaproszenie-Konferencja-Rosliny-lecznicze.pdf

Konferencja naukowa

Rośliny lecznicze w nauce i kulturze

POD PATRONATEM

Państwowego Muzeum Etnograficznego w Warszawie

PATRONAT MEDIALNY

Pism naukowych „Farmacja Polska”, „Medycyna Nowożytna”, „Postępy Fitoterapii”.

TERMIN I MIEJSCE:

Warszawa, 20–22 maja 2022 r.

Rośliny i leki pochodzenia roślinnego są przedmiotem zainteresowania nie tylko badaczy prowadzących prace w zakresie nauk przyrodniczych, ale także są problemem badawczym w naukach humanistycznych i społecznych. Te nurty badań rzadko się spotykają, konfrontują czy dopełniają. Wysiłki zbliżenia nauk eksperymentalnych, np. fitochemii i farmakologii z badaniami historycznymi i społecznymi w zakresie ziołoznawstwa i ziołolecznictwa podejmowała profesor Barbara Kuźnicka w Instytucie Historii Nauki, Oświaty i Techniki Polskiej Akademii Nauk od lat 80. XX wieku. Do tych wysiłków nawiązuje tytuł konferencji, która jest adresowana do badaczy reprezentujących antropologię kulturową, historię nauki, historię medycyny, historię farmacji, historię botaniki, archeobotanikę, językoznawstwo, farmakognozję, botanikę farmaceutyczną, rolnictwo, leśnictwo i inne dyscypliny.

FORMA KONFERENCJI:

Przewidujemy około 20 referatów 25 minutowych w 4–6 sesjach.

TERMIN ROZPOCZĘCIA REJESTRACJI:

21 października 2021 r.

TERMIN NADSYŁANIA ZGŁOSZEŃ:

15 stycznia 2022 r.

hybrid event: How ideas travel: knowledge relations and the Cold War. DHI Warschau - NIH Warszawa. 02 December 2021, 18:00 CET

 

Wir laden herzlich zum 21. Joachim- Lelewel-Gespräch ein. Die Diskussion findet vor Ort am DHI Warschau statt und wird online übertragen. Der Zugangslink wird noch bekannt gegeben.

Alle Gäste bitten wir, während der veranstaltung einen Mund-Nase-Schutz zu tragen und ein gültiges Impfzertifikat gegen Covid-19 bzw. einen negativen Antigentest vorzulegen.

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In the wake of the Cold War and decolonization, both Western and Eastern blocs offered various kinds of education and development programs to bring countries of the ‘Third World’ into their respective spheres of influence. Knowledge and technical assistance, personified by large numbers of experts involved in these programs, were instrumental in the efforts to forward the competing models of capitalist/socialist modernization. Through educational aid, and most significantly scholarship programs, both sides of the political divide struggled for hearts and minds of future elites of the postcolonial world.

The dominant discourse on these knowledge engagements continues to assume the logic of transfer, whereby knowledge and technical expertise originating from the ‘First/Second World’ were taught, distributed and implemented in the ‘Third’. Participants of this Lelewel-Talk will challenge such logic through their research on different kinds of knowledge relations that unfolded between Polish People’s Republic and the countries of Africa and the Middle East. Rather than unidirectional transfer of ideas, the perspective of knowledge relations allows to explore how knowledge was produced in interaction between different actors – students, teachers, experts and others – in particular spatial, temporal and institutional contexts. By bringing together scholars working on both ‘Third World’ students in Poland and Polish experts abroad, the debate aims to showcase and reflect upon the different mechanisms and trajectories, as well as meanings and legacies, of knowledge mobilities during the Cold War.

Participants:

Justyna Turkowska (University of Edinburgh)

Matthieu Gillabert (University of Fribourg)

Zaur Gasimov (University of Bonn)

Chair: Dorota Woroniecka-Krzyżanowska (German Historical Institute of Warsaw)

02 December 2021, 18:00, hybrid format (on-site and per Zoom)

https://www.dhi.waw.pl/veranstaltungen/joachim-lelewel-gespraeche/detail/news/knowledge-relations-between-polish-peoples-republic-and-the-friendly-regimes-of-africa-and.htm

Call for Papers: Beyond Moscow: Rethinking the international and transnational dimensions of the Soviet Republics. 2-3 October 2022

 Call for Papers: Beyond Moscow: Rethinking the international and transnational dimensions of the Soviet Republics. 2-3 October 2022. Scuola di Procida per l'Alta Formazione, University of Naples ‘L'Orientale’ in collaboration with the Higher School of Economics (HSE) Institute for Advanced Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies

Thirty years after the Soviet collapse, it remains challenging to identify an international role for the USSR that goes beyond the patterns of the Cold War. Nor is it possible to clearly assess the complexity of a system where international politics, diplomacy and cooperation did not pass solely through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Central Committee in Moscow but included a range of peripheral actors far from the center. Among these were the ministries, politicians, cultural and even scientific institutes of the USSR’s 15 Soviet Socialist Republics, which, as federated entities, had a specific subjectivity and relevance even in the international and transnational sphere.

In the years of diplomatic isolation, in an era disrupted by ideological disagreements, world conflicts, and the bipolarity of a world divided by the Cold War and the uncertainties of decolonization, what were these alternative centers active in international relations? What were the interlocutors, issues, factors, interests, and levels of subjectivity promoted by these republics and political actors at the republican level? How, in 1991, would these issues be at the origins of the systems of international relations that the republics would inherit once they became independent? Recently, scholars have started to address these issues in separate case studies. Nevertheless, these and many other questions still need to be tackled in a comprehensive manner to provide a more complete picture of the multipolarity of Soviet international affairs.

For this reason, the University of Naples L'Orientale (UniOr), in collaboration with the Higher School of Economics (HSE) Institute for Advanced Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, has organized the international conference Beyond Moscow. Rethinking the international and transnational dimensions of the Soviet Republics. The event will be held on 2-3 October 2022, in Procida at the Scuola di Procida per l'Alta Formazione. It seeks to attract historians, area specialists and scholars of international relations who work on the international and transnational dimensions of the Soviet Socialist Republics during the interwar years, the Second World War, and the Cold War era.

We invite proposals for papers that consider, in a historical perspective, examples from the Soviet periphery, including peculiarities in their international and transnational dimensions, rethinking - from a local perspective - the different declinations of empire, nation and people; their strategic role and international dimensions during the interwar period, the Second World War, the Cold War and decolonization; the institutional framework, interactions and divergences and subjectivity of the SSRs in international organizations and agencies; the religious, cultural and linguistic peculiarities and relations of the Soviet regions with the “Foreign East”; intra/inter-party relations with the Communist, leftist and socialist parties in the West and national organizations and movements in the Third World; local models of Soviet developmentalism and their promotion within the UN platforms and abroad; cooperation in the fields of science, academics, research and education or in literature, cinema and sport; interactions with the diasporas abroad; the international and transnational ambitions of the republican government and party leaders; and other issues related to the international and transnational dimensions of the Soviet republics.

This initiative aims to build a network of scholars working on the international and transnational dimensions of the Soviet republics and publishing the most relevant results in dedicated special issues of internationally regarded peer-reviewed journals.

We welcome senior researchers’ contributions, but also encourage PhD candidates to submit proposals and participate in the conference. Participation is free of charge. The organizers, however, are unfortunately unable to cover travel and accommodation. The organizers will attempt to secure additional funding for a limited number of travel grants. At the same time, we encourage participants to seek their own funding for travel and accommodation.

The conference will be held in person, and we strongly recommend taking advantage of the opportunity this will provide to participate actively and visiting Procida. In exceptional circumstances, we may be able to provide remote video connection for those who are unable to attend the event.

Proposals should be sent by 31 January 2022 to the "Beyond Moscow" Organizing Committee (rcucciolla@unior.it or avoronovici@hse.ru) and should include:

- abstract (500 words max)

- short biographical note (150 words max)

Papers will be selected by the end of March 2022. Participation must be confirmed by April 2022. The conference will be based on pre-circulated papers.

Deadline for the papers - 1 August 2022.

Organizers

Riccardo Mario Cucciolla (UniOr) and Alexandr Voronovici (HSE)

Scientific Committee

Simone Attilio Bellezza (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), Oleg Budnitskii (HSE), Giuseppe Cataldi (UniOr), Riccardo Mario Cucciolla (UniOr), Carolina De Stefano (LUISS Guido Carli), Andrea Graziosi (Scuola Superiore Meridionale), Artemy Kalinovsky (Temple University), Michael Loader (University of Glasgow), Simona Merlo (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), Adriano Roccucci (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), Isaac Scarborough (Leiden University), Tommaso Trevisani (UniOr), Alexandr Voronovici (HSE), Paolo Wulzer (UniOr), Vladislav Zubok (London School of Economics and Political Science).

Call for Papers: Seventh Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS)

 

*Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto*

*17-18 June 2022*

After a two-year pandemic delay, this two-day conference of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS) will bring together researchers working on the history of post-World War II social science (HISRESS; https://hisress.org) will bring together researchers working on the history of post-World War II social science. It will provide a forum for the latest research on the cross-disciplinary history of the post-war social sciences, including but not limited to anthropology, economics, psychology, political science, and sociology as well as related fields like area studies, communication studies, history, international relations, law, and linguistics. The conference aims to build upon the recent emergence of work and conversation on cross-disciplinary themes in the postwar history of the social sciences.

Submissions are welcome in such areas including, but not restricted to:

* The interchange of social science concepts and figures among the academy and wider intellectual and popular spheres

* Comparative institutional histories of departments and programs

* Border disputes and boundary work between disciplines as well as academic cultures

* Themes and concepts developed in the history and sociology of natural and physical science, reconceptualized for the social science context

* Professional and applied training programs and schools, and the quasi-disciplinary fields (like business administration) that typically housed them

* The role of social science in post-colonial state-building governance

* Social science adaptations to the changing media landscape

* The role and prominence of disciplinary memory in a comparative context

* Engagements with matters of gender, sexuality, race, religion, nationality, disability and other markers of identity and difference

The two-day conference will be organized as a series of one-hour, single-paper sessions attended by all participants. Ample time will be set aside for

intellectual exchange between presenters and attendees, as all participants are expected to read pre-circulated papers in advance.

Proposals should contain no more than 1000 words, indicating the originality of the paper. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is February 4, 2022.

Final notification will be given in early March 2022 after proposals have been reviewed. Completed papers will be expected by May 13, 2022.

The organizing committee consists of Jamie Cohen-Cole (George Washington University), Philippe Fontaine (Ecole normale supurieure Paris-Saclay),

Jeff Pooley (Muhlenberg College), Mark Solovey (University of Toronto), and Marga Vicedo (University of Toronto).

All proposals and requests for information should be sent to submissions@hisress.org.

Periodicals in the Slavic World. Contemporary and Historical Perspectives, International Conference, Hybrid, 21.10.2021 – 22.10.2021

 

Venue: Seidlvilla, Nikolaiplatz 1b, 80802 München + Zoom

Concept and Organization: Wiener Slawistischer Almanach (Ilja Kukuj, Riccardo Nicolosi, Brigitte Obermayr, Tilmann Reuther)

For the Zoom-link, please register by emailing sekretariat.nicolosi@slavistik.uni-muenchen.de

PROGRAM

Thursday, Oct 21:

Philology Journals Today: In and on Slavic Cultures

9:30: Welcome & opening remarks

9:45: Aage Hansen-Löve (Vienna) / Tilmann Reuther (Klagenfurt): How the Story Began and the Reasons for its Amazing Long Run. On the Wiener Slawistischer Almanach

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00 Round table 1: Philology Journals in Slavic Cultures Today

Chair: Riccardo Nicolosi (Munich)

Participants:

Jasmina Vojvodić (Zagreb), Editor-In-Chief of Umjetnost riječi (The Art of Words)

Oleh Kotsyuba (Boston), Director of Product, Web and International Representative of Krytyka, Thinking Ukraine and publisher of Harvard Ukrainian Studies

Anna Nasiłowska (Warsaw), Deputy Editor-In-Chief of Teksty drugie (Second Texts)

Irina Prochorova (Moscow), Editor-In-Chief of Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (New Literary Observer)

Richard Müller (Prag), Editorial Board of Česká Literatura

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 Round table 2: Academic Journals of Slavic Studies today

Chair: Brigitte Obermayr (Potsdam)

Participants:

Serguei Oushakine (Princeton), Associate Editor of The Russian Review

Ellen Rutten (Amsterdam), Editor-In-Chief of Russian Literature

Schamma Schahadat (Tübingen), Co-Editor of Die Welt der Slaven

Barbara Sonnenhauser (Zurich), Editor-In-Chief of Russian Linguistics

Friday, Oct 22:

On the History of Periodicals in Russian Culture

Chair: Ilja Kukuj (Munich)

9:00: Andrej Kostin (St Petersburg): Смерть продает: частная русская периодика XVIII века и публичная сфера

9:45: Alexandr Sobolev (Moscow): Эволюция стихотворного раздела в журналах русского модернизма

10:30-10:45: Coffee break

Chair: Tilmann Reuther (Klagenfurt)

10:45: Brigitte Obermayr (Potsdam): Montage: Changing Device and Aesthetics (1920s compared to Late Soviet Practices)

11:30: Evgeny Dobrenko (Venice): Журнал как институция в сталинской литературной культуре

12:15-14:00: Lunch break

Chair: Aage A. Hansen-Löve (Vienna)

14:00: Josephine von Zitzewitz (Tromsø): New Russian Literature and Online Journals

14:45: Ann Komaromi (Toronto): Dissident Truth-Telling and Samizdat Periodicals

15:30-15:45: Coffee break

15:45: Yasha Klots (New York): Contraband Russian Literature in Tamizdat Periodicals of the 1960s: Generation Gap and the Cold War Engagement

16:30: Ilya Vinitsky (Princeton): Вестница Европы: журнал В.А. Жуковского в контексте русской культуры XIX в.

Call for articles: Zapomenutý 17. listopad: 70. výročí založení ČSAV in: Práce z dějin Akademie věd

 Téma čísla: Zapomenutý 17. listopad: 70. výročí založení ČSAV

Redakční uzávěrka: 31. března 2022

Kontakt: smidrkalova@mua.cas.cz

Publikační jazyky: čeština, angličtina, slovenština

Webová stránka časopisu: https://www.mua.cas.cz/cs/prace-z-dejin-akademie-ved-114

Plný obsah časopisu: www.ceeol.com

Sedmnáctý listopad je z pohledu československé historie významným a symbolickým datem, ať už máme na mysli uzavření českých vysokých škol a perzekuci studentů v roce 1939 anebo Sametovou revoluci o padesát let později. Sedmnáctý listopad však byl také dnem, kdy bylo v roce 1952 v Národním divadle slavnostně vyhlášeno založení Československé akademie věd a zrušeny dosavadní vědecké instituce a společnosti.

Kořeny dnešní Akademie věd ČR však bezesporu leží ve vědeckých společnostech a institucích, které zde existovaly právě před rokem 1952. Velmi významnou úlohu v tomto ohledu sehrála zejména Česká akademie věd a umění, která vznikla v roce 1890. Nikoliv náhodou tak Akademie věd ČR mohla v roce 2015 veřejně oslavit 125 let své existence. Z pohledu historiografie československé vědy však byl vznik ČSAV v roce 1952 zásadním milníkem, jenž měl dopad nejen na osudy dosavadních vědeckých společností a institucí, ale také na život mnohých československých vědců a jejich vědeckou činnost. Nadcházející číslo časopisu Práce z dějin Akademie věd, které bude vydáno v roce 2022, by tak chtělo připomenout sedmdesáté výročí tohoto pozapomenutého a méně slavného sedmnáctého listopadu.

V souvislosti s přípravou výše zmiňovaného tematického čísla časopisu Práce z dějin Akademie věd věnovaného 70. výročí založení ČSAV redakce poptává odborné studie týkající se tematicky následujících oblastí:

Vznik ČSAV v kontextu sovětizace československé vědy

Osudy českých a slovenských vědeckých institucí a společností po roce 1952

Významné osobnosti počátků ČSAV

Vědecká (ne)svoboda v ČSAV a zahraniční (ne)spolupráce

Bilance 70 let ČSAV/AV ČR

CFP: Centenary of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations

 CFP: Centenary of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations. Université de Lausanne (Section d'histoire), United Nations Library and Archives (United Nations Office in Geneva), 1211 Geneva (Switzerland). 12.05.2022 - 13.05.2022, Deadline: 15.11.2021

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International conference dedicated to the centenary of the International Committee for Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations. Will take place from May 12 to 13, 2022 at UN Geneva and brings together all the people working on scientific and cultural relations in the interwar period and the League of Nations.

Centenary of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations

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On August 1, 1922, on the shores of Lake Geneva, the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) met for the first time in what would later become the “Palais Wilson”. Although this was the first time that these twelve international personalities from the sciences and arts, including Henri Bergson, Kristine Bonnevie, Marie Curie-Sklodowska, Albert Einstein, Gilbert Murray, Jules Destrée and George E. Hale, came together, the idea of creating such a coordinating body for intellectual matters predates the founding of the League of Nations and has its origins in the internationalist movements of the late 19th century. What would later be considered by its actors as an attempt to build a “General Republic of Intelligence” or a “League of the Minds”, was just one element of the vast diplomatic and bureaucratic machine that was set up at the end of the Great War to try to pacify Europe and create a new world order based on multilateral cooperation.

But the idea of intellectual cooperation nonetheless inspired the work of bodies and institutions that operated for nearly 20 years, trying to find their place and define their missions in a rapidly changing context. From a consultative committee, it quickly grew to become a real center of activity with the founding of the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (IIIC) in Paris in 1926 and other third-party structures like the International Educational Cinematographic Institute (Rome, 1928). Not without generating some tensions with the League of Nations at the turn of the 1930s, this institutionalization led to intellectual cooperation gradually becoming independent from the League’s Secretariat. Although the Second World War interrupted the transformation of the Committee and the Institute into a full-fledged international organisation, UNESCO would resume and expand the activity in this field at the end of the conflict.

The centenary of the creation of the ICIC is an opportunity for historians to step back and examine the achievements but also the limitations of this enterprise, its lack of diversity and cultural representativeness. In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in this field of research (see bibliography), in parallel with a renewed interest in the League of Nations as a whole, in a context of doubts about the capacity of multilateral institutions. Without attempting to cover all the areas that remain to be studied in relation to intellectual cooperation and soft power diplomacy in the interwar period, such an event therefore seems to be a useful place of exchange at the crossroads between the archives, teaching and research communities. To do this, the scientific committee invites participants to reflect in particular on the renewal of our methods: whether it is about new approaches or the use of innovative digital tools, the aim of this conference is not only to look at the past but also to inspire future research.

Communications can focus on the following areas (but are not limited to):

- The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, its sub-committees and activities

- The International Institute on Intellectual Cooperation, its sections and activities

- The International Educational Cinematographic Institute

- The International Bureau of Education and its relations to the League of Nations

- The Congresses of Intellectual Cooperation, intellectual networks and debates

- Actors that have been overshadowed or from countries not represented in the Council of the League of Nations

- Women involved in intellectual cooperation or playing a role in any of the organisations concerned with intellectual cooperation

- The historiography of Intellectual Cooperation and the intellectual foundations of the League of Nations

- Innovative methods, impact of digitization and use of digital tools on the study of Intellectual Cooperation or the League of Nations archives

- Bureaucratization of cultural, educational and scientific relations during the interwar, administrative machinery of Intellectual Cooperation at the League of Nations

- Other cultural, educational and scientific organisations during the interwar period and their relation to the League of Nations

- Transition between Intellectual Cooperation and UNESCO, legacy of this first experience

- Successful or unsuccessful implantation of Intellectual Cooperation in specific countries/regions, National Committees on Intellectual Cooperation (especially in contexts outside Western Europe)

- National and regional responses to intellectual cooperation initiatives in the field of education

- Coordination of the exchanges of students and professors during the interwar period, university relations and education

- Specific issues dealt with by the League of Nations in relation to cultural, educational and scientific questions (eg. museums, intellectual property, textbooks, libraries, intellectual workers, radio, etc.)

- Relationship to moral disarmament in the interwar period

Paper proposals should be sent to info[at]intellectualcooperation.org by November 15, 2021. They should be submitted in the form of an abstract of 500 to 1000 words (not including references), accompanied by a short biography of the author (50 to 100 words). In addition to the purpose of the study, the abstract should indicate precisely how the topic will be addressed (based on which archives/data, method).

Prior to the conference, authors will be invited to share an extended version of their paper so that participants can prepare for the discussions. The organizers are considering the publication of a collective monograph based upon the papers submitted to the conference.

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Victoria A. Malko: The Ukrainian Intelligentsia and Genocide: The Struggle for History, Language, and Culture in the 1920s and 1930s. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-4985-9678-7

 

This study focuses on the first group targeted in the genocide known as the Holodomor: Ukrainian intelligentsia, the “brain of the nation,” using the words of Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term genocide and enshrined it in international law. The study’s author examines complex and devastating effects of the Holodomor on Ukrainian society during the 1920–1930s. Members of intelligentsia had individual and professional responsibilities. They resisted, but eventually they were forced to serve the Soviet regime. Ukrainian intelligentsia were virtually wiped out, most of its writers and a third of its teachers. The remaining cadres faced a choice without a choice if they wanted to survive. The author analyzes how and why this process occurred and what role intellectuals, especially teachers, played in shaping, contesting, and inculcating history. Crucially, the author challenges Western perceptions of the all-Union famine that was allegedly caused by ad hoc collectivization policies, highlighting the intentional nature of the famine as a tool of genocide, persecution, and prosecution of the nationally conscious Ukrainian intelligentsia, clergy, and grain growers. The author demonstrates the continuity between Stalinist and neo-Stalinist attempts to prevent the crystallization of the nation and subvert Ukraine from within by non-lethal and lethal means.

John Aubrey Douglass (ed.): Neo-nationalism and Universities. Populists, Autocrats, and the Future of Higher Education. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2021. ISBN: 9781421441863. Open Access

OPEN ACCESS: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/85165 .

The rise of neo-nationalism is having a profound and troubling impact on leading national universities and the societies they serve. This is the first comparative study of how today's right-wing populist movements and authoritarian governments are threatening higher education.

Universities have long been at the forefront of both national development and global integration. But the political and policy world in which they operate is undergoing a transition, one that is reflective of a significant change in domestic politics and international relations: a populist turn inward among a key group of nation-states, often led by demagogues, that includes China and Hong Kong, Turkey, Hungary, Russia, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In many parts of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity for populists and autocrats to further consolidate their power. Within right-wing political ecosystems, universities, in effect, offer the proverbial canary in the coal mine—a clear window into the extent of civil liberties and the political environment and trajectory of nation-states.

In Neo-nationalism and Universities, John Aubrey Douglass provides the first significant examination of the rise of neo-nationalism and its impact on the missions, activities, behaviors, and productivity of leading national universities. Douglass presents a major comparative exploration of the role of national politics and norms in shaping the role of universities in nation-states—and vice versa. He also explores when universities are societal leaders or followers: When they are agents of social and economic change, or simply agents reinforcing and supporting an existing social and political order.

In a series of case studies, Douglass and contributors examine troubling trends that threaten the societal role of universities, including attacks on civil liberties, free speech, and the validity of science; the firing and jailing of academics; anti-immigrant rhetoric; and restrictions on visas with consequences for the mobility of academic talent. The book also offers recommendations to preserve the autonomy and academic freedom of universities and their constituents. Neo-nationalism and Universities is written for a broad public readership interested and concerned about the rise of nationalist movements, illiberal democracies, and autocratic leaders.

Contributors: José Augusto Guilhon Albuquerque, Elizabeth Balbachevsky, Thomas Brunotte, Igor Chirikov, Igor Fedyukin, Karin Fischer, Wilhelm Krull, Brendan O'Malley, Bryan E. Penprase, Marijk van der Wende

Table Of Contents

Preface. Something's Going On

John Aubrey Douglass

Chapter 1. Neo-nationalism and Universities in Historical Perspective

John Aubrey Douglass

Chapter 2. Neo-nationalism and Universities: A Conceptual Model

John Aubrey Douglass

Chapter 3. The Mystery of Brexit: Tumult and Fatigue in British Higher Education

Brendan O'Malley

Chapter 4. Trumpian Nationalism and American Universities

John Aubrey Douglass

Chapter 5. Turbulent Times: Intellectual and Institutional Challenges for Universities in Germany, Hungary, and Poland

Wilhelm Krull and Thomas Brunotte

Chapter 6. Neo-nationalism in the European Union and Universities

Marijk van der Wende

Chapter 7. Turkish Academics in the Era of Erdoğan

Brendan O'Malley

Chapter 8. Nationalism Revived: China's Universities under President Xi

Karin Fischer

Chapter 9. Balancing Nationalism and Globalism: Higher Education in Singapore and Hong Kong

Bryan E. Penprase and John Aubrey Douglass

Chapter 10. The Role of Universities in Putin's Russia: Reinforcing the State

Igor Chirikov and Igor Fedyukin

Chapter 11. Bolsonaro's Brazilian Neo-nationalism and Universities

Elizabeth Balbachevsky and José Augusto Guilhon Albuquerque

Notes

Contributors

Index

CFP: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: Junge Perspektiven auf Interdisziplinarität in der Osteuropaforschung

 

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Interdisziplinarität ist nicht nur ein wissenschaftliches Modewort der letzten Jahre, sondern für einen Großteil des aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses auch elementarer Bestandteil der eigenen Ausbildung. In einem zweitägigen Workshop soll die Frage diskutiert werden, wie diese postulierte Interdisziplinarität zu den nach wie vor in Disziplinen verhafteten Strukturen der Universität steht.

Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: Junge Perspektiven auf Interdisziplinarität in der Osteuropaforschung

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Regionalgruppen der Jungen DGO in Bamberg-Erlangen und München, Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien an der LMU München (Magdalena Burger (Bamberg) und Matthias Melcher (München)), 96047 Bamberg (Deutschland)

21.01.2022 - 22.01.2022

Bewerbungsschluss: 31.10.2021

Spätestens seit der Umsetzung des Bologna-Prozesses scheint es keine Ausnahme mehr zu sein, zwischen Bachelor und Master – besonders bei einer bestimmten regionalen Schwerpunktbildung – die Disziplinen zu wechseln. Darüber hinaus sind viele Masterstudiengänge und Graduiertenschulen, die sich dem Ansatz der Regionalwissenschaften verschrieben haben, genuin interdisziplinär gedacht.

Das Organisationsteam dieses Workshops (Regionalgruppen der Jungen DGO in Bamberg-Erlangen und München, Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien an der LMU München) stellt die Frage, wie diese postulierte Interdisziplinarität zu den nach wie vor in Disziplinen verhafteten Strukturen der Universität steht. Denn spätestens beim Verfassen einer Masterarbeit oder Dissertation steht der wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs vor der Frage, welcher wissenschaftlichen Tradition er oder sie sich zuordnen will. Besonders vor dem Hintergrund der Area Studies erscheint eine interdisziplinäre Herangehensweise an wissenschaftliche Fragestellungen angezeigt. Doch wo liegen die Grenzen der Interdisziplinarität? Wie viel disziplinübergreifendes Theorie- und Methodenwissen kann im Laufe eines Studiums vermittelt werden? Wo verläuft der schmale Grat zwischen dilettantischer Aneignung „fachfremder“ Verfahren und wertvollen Impulsen von jenseits des eigenen akademischen Tellerrands? Wie kann sich eine jüngere Generation von interdisziplinär sozialisierten Osteuropa-Wissenschaftler:innen, mit den Erwartungen einer disziplinären Kategorisierung arrangieren?

Fortgeschrittene Studierende und Promovierende, die sich in den Area Studies (u.a. aber nicht ausschließlich bzgl. Osteuropa) verorten, sind herzlich eingeladen, sich mit Beiträgen (max. 15 min) zu folgenden Themen oder eigenen relevanten Vorschlägen am Workshop zu beteiligen:

- Geschichte und Zukunft der Interdisziplinarität,

- Interdisziplinarität zwischen Antragsrhetorik und alltäglicher wissenschaftlicher Praxis,

- Best Practice Beispiele interdisziplinärer Methodik aus der eigenen Forschung,

- Chancen und Herausforderungen durch Interdisziplinarität in Hochschulbetrieb und Beruf.

Arbeitssprachen sind Deutsch und Englisch. Es wird angestrebt, die Ergebnisse der Tagung in Form von working papers weiterzuverfolgen und evtl. gesammelt zu publizieren. Vorbehaltlich der Finanzierungszusage sollen die Reise- und Übernachtungskosten der Teilnehmenden übernommen werden.

Bewerbungsfrist: 31. Oktober 2021 (Abstract mit max. 400 Wörtern und Kurzlebenslauf an jungedgo-bamberg-erlangen@dgo-online.org)

Zusagen werden bis Mitte November 2021 verschickt.

Vorläufiges Programm des Workshops

Freitag, 21. Januar 2022

- Ankunft in Bamberg

- öffentliche Keynote: Alexander Libman (Berlin): „Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Interdisziplinarität in der Osteuropaforschung“ (Arbeitstitel)

- Abendessen und informeller Austausch

Samstag, 22. Januar 2022

- Präsentation der Teilnehmer:innen und Diskussion – Block 1 und Block 2

- Mittagessen

- Präsentation der Teilnehmer:innen und Diskussion – Block 3

- Entwicklung konkreter Ideen für working papers in Kleingruppen

- Zusammenfassung im Plenum

- Abreise

Alexander Friedrich, Alfred Gall, Petra Gehring, Peter Oliver Loew, Yvonne Pörzgen (Hg.) Kosmos Stanisław Lem. Zivilisationspoetik, Wissenschaftsanalytik und Kulturphilosophie. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2021. ISBN: 978-3-447-11623-7

 

Der Kosmos des polnischen Zukunftsdenkers, Romanschriftstellers und Visionärs Stanisław Lem spannte sich weit: Vom Weltraumabenteuer bis zu pessimistischer Kulturphilosophie, von poetischer Beschreibung der Zivilisation bis zur analytischen wissenschaftlichen Abhandlung. Im vorliegenden Sammelband liefern pünktlich zum 100. Geburtstag des Autors führende Spezialistinnen und Spezialisten aus Deutschland, Polen und weiteren Ländern für Lems Schaffen neue Einsichten und Einblicke.

Die Beiträge diese Bandes erschließen Lems Schreiben und Denken aus dem Spannungsverhältnis der verschiedenen Bezüge und Deutungsmöglichkeiten, die von Lem auf mal subtile, mal lakonische, mal gelehrsame, mal parodistische Weise mobilisiert werden, um die Grenzen der Vernunft, aber stets auch mögliche Wissenschaft und ein gewissermaßen seinerseits experimentell-technisches Philosophieren in spielerischer Fabulierlust, philosophischer Reflexion, moralistischer Kritik und satirischem Furor auszuloten.

Der vorliegende Band erweitert die kontextuellen Einbettungen von Lems belletristischem und technikphilosophischem Schreiben und sieht Lem auch weniger einem Wissenschaft vermittelnden Projekt als einer polykontexturalen Vernetzung und nicht zuletzt einer (wissenschafts-)philosophisch-experimentellen Überbietung von Wissenschaft verpflichtet.

(Aus der Einführung der Herausgeber, nach: https://www.deutsches-polen-institut.de/publikationen/reihe-veroeffentlichungen-des-dpi/kosmos-stanislaw-lem/)

Call for articles: Assist and Unify? Nation Building and Welfare in the Upper Adriatic and Eastern Baltic Sea Region in the 20th Century

Call for papers for a monographic issue of «Qualestoria. Rivista di storia contemporanea»

Assist and Unify? Nation Building and Welfare in the Upper Adriatic and Eastern Baltic Sea Region in the 20th Century

edited by Andrea Griffante

Scholarly literature on the emergence, development and spread of welfare practices during the 20th century has long been focused on the national dimension of the phenomenon. Over the last decade, however, increasing attention has been payed to the multidimensional nature of welfare practices and of the networks in which welfare actors have operated. Even if welfare practices have generally been acknowledged as tools of nation-building, their particular role in state’s border and multinational areas has been neglected.

Questioning the primacy of the nation-state, a special issue of Qualestoria to be published in December 2022 aims to analyze how different welfare practices (from large-scale humanitarian actions to vernacular expressions of humanitarianism) have represented – by will of their own promoters or of some of the actors involved in welfare networks – a tool of nation-building in territories contested by various national groups or states. In particular, the issue seeks to investigate how welfare practices have fulfilled this function in peculiar historical caesurae such as wars and their immediate aftermath, when the need to demobilize the army and society not only posed a renewed demand for social cohesion, but also paved the way for the emergence of (re)new(ed) concepts and practices of citizenship. In the light of recent historiography, the issue will analyze welfare practices as actions whose meanings and results have been the outcomes of continuous renegotiation between givers and recipients of aid.

We invite contributors to examine the aforementioned cluster of problems and propose case studies related to two specific areas in Central and Eastern Europe: the eastern Baltic Sea region and the Upper Adriatic. In both areas, which belonging to a ‘national territory’ was sanctioned by the collapse of European multinational empires at the end of the First World War, the dialectic between titular nation and minorities has represented one of the main elements through which citizenship has been constructed and continuously renegotiated up to the present day. But to what extent have different political contexts affected the use of welfare for nation-building purposes? What role have welfare practices played in strengthening the position of the titular nation or in attempting to integrate/assimilate minorities? And how many “bottom-up” initiatives have succeeded in proposing models contesting dominant public practices and discourse?

We invite contributions that pick up on or extend, among others, the following topics:

-The role of international humanitarian networks;

-The interconnection between local and international humanitarian actors;

-Conflicts between welfare actors and local political classes (divergences);

-Reactions of local political classes to national welfare practices/international humanitarian intervention;

-Genealogies of international aid and relationship with local communities;

-Gender, border and welfare;

-National welfare: aid coming from the center vs. aid coming from the suburbs?

-Relation between social status, welfare and nation building (reception);

-Alternative welfare networks (‘aid from above’).

A limited number of case studies relating to other areas of Central and Eastern Europe may be considered.

Please send abstracts (500 words) and a short CV to lucagiuseppe.manenti@gmail.com and griphusrex@yahoo.it by 10 November 2021. Accepted proposals will be notified by 1 December 2021. Finished articles (10,000 words) in Italian or English will be due by 1 April 2022. The special issue of Qualestoria will be released in December 2022. All submitted articles will be double blind-peer reviewed.

Natalia Tsvetkova: The Cold War in Universities: U.S. and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy, 1945–1990. Leiden: Brill 2021. ISBN: 978-90-04-47177-1

 

In Cold War in Universities: U.S. and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy, 1945–1990 Natalia Tsvetkova recounts how the United States and the Soviet Union aspired to transform overseas academic institutions according to their political aims during the Cold War. 

The book depicts how U.S. and Soviet attempts to impose certain values, disciplines, teaching models, structures, statutes, and personnel at universities in divided Germany, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, both Vietnams, and Cuba as well as Guatemala were foiled by sabotage, ignorance, and resistance on the part of the local academic elite, particularly professors. 

Often at odds with local academic communities, U.S. and Soviet university policies endured unexpected frustrations as their efforts toward Americanization and Sovietization faced developmental setbacks, grassroots resistance, and even political fear.

Věra Dvořáčková a kolektiv: Stavbám na kloub. Stoleté dějiny ústavu teoretické a aplikované mechaniky [Buliding Together. Hundred year of the Institute for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics]. Praha: Ústav teoretické a aplikované mechaniky AV ČR a Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR 2021. ISBN: 978-80-88304-61-6

 

Kolektivní monografie vydaná ke 100. výročí založení ústavu sleduje jeho dějiny od vzniku jeho předchůdce, Výzkumného ústavu stavebně inženýrského, v roce 1921, kdy působil pod hlavičkou Českého vysokého učení technického v dřevěném provizoriu, přes jeho etablování v meziválečné éře spojené se stěhováním do nových budov v Dejvicích, přes bouřlivou dobu protektorátu a jeho převedení do struktur Československé akademie věd v roce 1952 až do dnešních dnů, kdy tvoří jedno z předních pracovišť nově restrukturované České akademie věd.

Call for papers: International Conference "Joachim Lelewel and the Past, Present State, and Future of Historical Auxiliary Sciences". 16-17 June 2022, Location: The Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius, Tilto g. 17, Main Hall

 

(alternative cfp in Polish (https://www.istorija.lt/joachim-lelewel-i-przeszo-teraniejszo-oraz-przyszo-nauk-pomocniczych-historii/787) and Lithuanian (https://www.istorija.lt/joachimas-lelevelis-ir-pagalbiniu-istorijos-mokslu-praeitis-dabartis-ateitis/786)

In 2022, we will celebrate the bicentenary  of the publication in Vilnius of the book Nauki dające poznawać źródła historyczne (Sciences which allow for understanding historical sources) by Joachim Lelewel, a central personality in the history of Lithuanian and Polish scholarly exploration of history in the first half of the 19th century. To commemorate this event, on 16-17th June 2022, a conference will be held at the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius entitled Joachim Lelewel and the Past, Present State, and Future of Historical Auxiliary Sciences. This symposium will attempt to present the scholarly activities of J. Lelewel in their European context, his originality and the novelty of his conception of auxiliary historical disciplines, the state of research concerning his person, as well as new discoveries of source materials.

Lelewel has attracted the attention of historians for many years. His life, subsequent phases in his learned activity, and his scholarly output have been studied in detail. Considerable time and effort have been devoted to archival studies, and numerous materials have been discovered. Researchers have attempted also to disclose his role in the development of the concept of historical auxiliary sciences, in particular in the context of German academe of the 18th and 19th centuries.

The bicentenary of Lelewel᾿s book is an appropriate moment to return to study of his life and achievements. The Organizing Committee of the conference would like concentrate on to two themes, viz.: the source materials which constitute the foundations of research on the great historian, including new findings in this field which could broaden the scope of our knowledge concerning Lelewel – we have reasons to believe that not everything has been revealed and brought to light. The organizers are also convinced that much can also be added to discussion of the historical background of his life and activities. The second general theme is envisaged as the opening of a broader discussion concerning the auxiliary disciplines of history and their development in Central and Eastern Europe in the past and their future aims. This discussion should go beyond matters Lelewelian and encompass wider perspectives. An additional attraction that will provide opportunities for interesting reflections is the foreseen opening of an exhibition at the Wróblewski Library that will be devoted to medieval and early modern notarial marks.

The Organization Committee proposes the following subject groups for conference papers:

1. Lelewel: person and scholar in his social and professional milieu,

2. Source materials for research on J. Lelewel,

3. Lelewel in historical research,

4. Lelewel᾿s conception of historical auxiliary disciplines: novelty or conservatism in the European context,

5. The present state of, and scholarly perspectives for historical auxiliary disciplines.

The conference will conclude with a “round table” plenary discussion of selected scholars devoted to the present condition and the perspectives of historical auxiliary disciplines.

Two types of presentations are invited: regular papers (30 minutes) and short communiqués (20 minutes).

Conference languages: Lithuanian, Polish, and English.

The conference will be held in the Lithuanian and Polish languages, with simultaneous translation. Papers may be delivered in English too.

The papers presented will be published in a special volume which should sum up research on Lelewel to date. The formation of a special team of scholars is foreseen to prepare an inventory of published and unpublished source materials relative to Lelewel.

Guided tours will be offered:

to the exhibition of notarial marks,

in the footsteps of Lelewel in Vilnius (the house he lived in; the auditorium he lectured in; the location of the publishing house that issued his textbook; the J. Lelewel Hall, etc.).

 

Persons wishing to participate are kindly requested to submit paper titles with short abstracts (ca. 259 words) to: https://forms.gle/j3NVKPtGsFr2PDzT6

The deadline for submissions is 31 December 2021. The Organizational Committee will contact the authors by 15 February 2022.

No conference fee is foreseen.

Contact: lelewelconference2022@gmail.com 

Organizational committee:

Dr Rūta Čapaitė, Lithuanian Institute of History

Dr Loreta Skurvydaitė, Faculty of History, University of Vilnius 

Dr Rima Cicėnienė, Wróblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences

Prof. Dr Jacek Soszyński, L. & A. Birkenmajer Institute for the History of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences

Prof. Dr Jerzy Kaliszuk, L. & A. Birkenmajer Institute for the History of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences

Agnieszka Fabiańska, MA, University of Warsaw Library

Dr Agnieszka Fluda-Krokos, Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow

Prof. Dr Janusz Pezda, The Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow

Prof. Dr Iwona Pugacewicz, Centre for Polish Culture in Paris – Sorbonne Université

Lithuanian Institute of History

Faculty of History, University of Vilnius

Wróblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences

L. & A. Birkenmajer Institute for the History of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences

University of Warsaw Library

Scientific Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow

The Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow

Centre for Polish Culture in Paris – Sorbonne Université

Call for papers: Let’s Get to Work: Bringing Labor History and the History of Science Together. Thursday, June 2, 2022–Saturday, June 4, 2022, Science History Institute

 

From the labor in laboratory to the science in scientific management, the histories of labor and science are marked by intimate connections—many of which still await reflection and historical analysis. To provide a forum for productive conversation between historians of science and labor historians and to help address the pressing scholarly and political questions they share, the Science History Institute’s 2022 Gordon Cain Conference will explore the entanglements of science and labor as they have emerged around the globe between the 16th century and today.

Call for Papers

Download the full call for papers as a PDF here (https://www.sciencehistory.org/sites/default/files/labor_and_science_call_for_papers.pdf).

Plans have been made for post-conference publication of selected papers. Some financial support is available for travel and accommodation costs. Further (competitive) travel grants are available for those who plan to do research using the Science History Institute archives. Interested applicants should submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a brief autobiographical sketch (50–100 words) by September 30, 2021.

All questions and application materials should be sent to laborandscience@sciencehistory.org.

Conference Organizers

Alexandra (Alix) Hui is a historian of science specializing in the history and psychophysics of sound, and especially of sound studies in 19th- and 20th-century Germany. Among her publications is The Psychophysical Ear: Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840–1910 and the co-edited volume, Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality. She is an associate professor of history at Mississippi State University and coeditor in chief of Isis.

Lissa L. Roberts is editor in chief of History of Science and emeritus professor of history of science and technology in global context at University of Twente. Her many publications include Compound Histories: Materials, Governance and Production, 1760–1840 (with Simon Werrett); Centers and Cycles of Accumulation in and around the Netherlands; The Brokered World: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770–1820 (with Simon Schaffer, Kapil Raj, and James Delbourgo); and The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialization (with Simon Schaffer and Peter Dear).

Seth Rockman is an associate professor of history at Brown University. His book Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore won multiple prizes including the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award. Rockman also coedited (with Sven Beckert) Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development. Rockman has been a fellow at re:work, a global labor history research institute in Berlin, and currently serves on the editorial committee of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History.

More Information

Please send all inquiries to laborandscience@sciencehistory.org.

 

About the Gordon Cain Conference

The Gordon Cain Conference is a gathering of scholars in the history of science and related fields. Each conference is organized by an eminent scholar who worked with staff to develop a theme of broad contemporary relevance. Centered on a topic chosen by the conference organizer, the conference consists of an evening public lecture, a symposium, and a collected volume. It is hosted by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry and supported by a generous gift from Gordon Cain.