История медицины и медицинской географии в Российской империи [History of Medicine and Medical Geography in the Russian Empire]. Под редакцией Елены Вишленковой и Андреаса Реннера. М.: Шико, 2021. (OPEN ACCESS)

 

[English below] open access: https://publications.hse.ru/mirror/pubs/share/direct/532847276.pdf

В книге представлены результаты изучения истории российской медицины (1770—1870) сквозь призму производства географических знаний. Читатель узнает о трудностях врачебной службы, о международных наймах медиков, о замыслах медицинских бюрократов, о медико-биологических интерпретациях климата и ландшафта, морских карантинах, медицинской статистике, эпидемиях и местных болезнях, о судовой медицине, врачебных сообществах и практиках лечения. Первая часть описывает организационные условия для проведения в России медико-географических исследований. Она включает административную инфраструктуру, врачебную профессию и научные общества как условия производства и места знания. Во второй части — «Медицинские исследования пространства» — рассказывается о климатических и эпидемических теориях, которые стимулировали в европейской медицине географические исследования, а также об алгоритмах подобных исследований и их результатах в России. Читатель узнает, как следует читать таблицы заболеваемости, сделанные в XIX веке, а также составленные на их основе карты. И в последнем разделе — «На суше и на море: лоскутное одеяло российской медицины» — собраны кейсы,  демонстрирующие разнообразие форм здравоохранения и медико-географических проблем в различных частях Российской империи: в степи, на Крайнем Севере, на военном судне и в «западном крае». Книга рассчитана на читателей, интересующихся историей медицины и географии, историей Российской империи, а также студентов медицинских и гуманитарных специальностей.

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This book looks at the history of Russian medicine between 1770 and 1870 through the prism of the production of geographical knowledge. Contributions explore topics such as the challenges of medical service, the international recruitment of physicians, the plans of medical bureaucrats, bio-medical interpretations of climate and landscape, maritime quarantines, medical statistics, epidemics and local diseases, naval medicine, medical communities, and treatments of diseases. The first section, “Research Infrastructure”, examines the organization of medical and geographic research in Russia. It focuses on the conditions of production and sites of knowledge, such as the state medical agencies, professional structures, and scientific societies. The second section, “Medical Research on Space”, describes the climatic and epidemic theories that stimulated geographic research in European medicine, as well as how these paradigms were transferred and interpreted in Russia. It includes an examination of nineteenth-century morbidity tables and the maps made from these statistics. The final section, “On Land and at Sea: The Patchwork of Russian Medicine”, collects case studies on different parts of the Russian Empire — the steppes, the far North, on warships or  in the Western borderlands. These studies highlight the diversity of health care services and medical problems and how health and sickness were intertwined with geographical conditions. With its focus on topics at the intersection between multiple disciplines, the book offers insights into the history of medicine and geography and provides a new perspective on the history of the Russian Empire.

Over 1,700 book reviews of Charles Darwin’s works go online

Launched online are the results of over sixteen years of research,

finding and collecting contemporary book reviews of Darwin’s works by the /Darwin Online <http://darwin-online.org.uk/>/ project, directed by Dr John van Wyhe <http://darwin-online.org.uk/people/van_wyhe.html>. It is the largest collection of reviews ever created for a historical man of science- and probably for any person in history. There are over 1,700 reviews in sixteen languages spanning the years 1835 to the early 20^th century.

One early reviewer of /Origin of Species/ remarked: “Although it is certain that Mr. Darwin's views will cause painful anxiety to many who will regard them as hostile to the truths of Revelation, we cannot share in that anxiety, and are therefore not disposed to discuss the new theory on any other than strictly scientific grounds. …the conclusions announced by Mr. Darwin are such as, if established, would cause a complete revolution in the fundamental doctrines of natural history”.

Other reviewers could not resist poking fun at Darwin and his work, coming up with titles for their reviews such as ‘Darwin demolished’, ‘The angel or the ape’ or ‘The wonders of worm world’.

This new collection will make possible countless new studies, theses and student projects based not on the usual handful of well-known reactions to Darwin, but a near comprehensive picture of the reactions to one of the greatest scientific developments in history.

The collection of reviews is freely available and searchable on /Darwin Online/:

Introduction:

http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_Reviews_of_Darwin.html

The reviews: http://darwin-online.org.uk/reviews.html

Justyna Radłowska, Edward Białek (eds.) Dzieje polsko-austriackiego transferu kulturowego. Animatorzy życia artystycznego - tłumacze - instytucje kultury [History of the Austrian-Polish Cultural Transfer. Animators of artistic life - translators - cultural institutions]. Wrocław: Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT. ISBN: 978-83-7977-624-5

 

Monografię otwiera rozdział pióra prof. dra hab. Bogusława Dybasia, wieloletniego dyrektora Stacji Naukowej PAN w Wiedniu, jednej z siedmiu zagranicznych jednostek PAN; wybitny historyk przybliża niektóre z rozlicznych osiągnięć naukowych i wydarzeń artystycznych, jakie wypełniały dwunastoletni okres jego „misji w Wiedniu”. Ewa Skotniczna i Adam Korczyński koncentrują swoją uwagę na jednym z podzbiorów Fototeki Lanckorońskich Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności: autorzy prezentują zespół zdjęć wiedeńskiego fotografa Josefa Wlha, które krakowskiej instytucji naukowej przekazał w darze Karol Lanckoroński. Postać słynnego historyka sztuki pojawia się też w rozdziale napisanym przez Aleksandrę Szymanowicz-Hren, która szkicuje dzieje Faniteum, czyli budowli w Wiedniu o charakterze mauzoleum, jaką hrabia Lanckoroński wzniósł na cześć swojej przedwcześnie zmarłej żony Franziski. Katharina Weisswasser opisuje dzieje polonistyki w Instytucie Slawistyki Uniwersytetu Wiedeńskiego. Wymiar dokumentu o znacznej wadze naukowej ma rozdział o sekcji języka polskiego w Instytucie Translatoryki Uniwersytetu Wiedeńskiego, który napisały Zofia Krzysztoforska-Weisswasser i Veronika Weisswasser. Kolejna część monografii poświęcona jest jednej z inicjatyw podejmowanych przez zespół Stacji Naukowej PAN w Wiedniu: Agnieszka Kościuszko przybliża genezę i działalność Dyskusyjnego Klubu Książki. Klub współpracował ściśle z Księgarnią Polską w Wiedniu kierowana przez Zofię Reinbacher; wkład tej niezwykłej organizatorki polskiego życia literackiego nad Dunajem jest przedmiotem rozważań Karoliny Siwek w rozdziale poświęconym cenionej w kręgach Polonii „Xięgarni”. W przeszłość bliższą i dalszą wprowadzają rozważania Romana Macioszka, który udał się na poszukiwania polskich miejsc pamięci na kilku wiedeńskich nekropoliach.

Michał Jamiołkowski podjął próbę ustalenia wkładu warszawskiej Agencji Dramatu i Teatru w dzieło przybliżania odbiorcy polskiemu znaczących dokonań dramaturgii austriackiej XX i XXI wieku. Przełom XIX i XX wieku natomiast to czas, kiedy pojawiają się „wiedeńskie korespondencje Ludwika Szczepańskiego i Tadeusza Rittnera na łamach krakowskiego „Życia”; ich analizy dokonuje Agnieszka Zakrzewska-Szostek. Kamila Śniegocka zastanawia się w swoim rozdziale nad znaczeniami terminów galicyjskość, polskość i niemieckość, głównie w kontekście Listów z Polski Josepha Rotha i jego relacji z Józefem Wittlinem. Szymon Gębuś podejmuje w swoim wywodzie próbę opisu dokonań Martina Pollacka jako tłumacza literatury polskiej. Polska recepcja twórczości Karla-Markusa Gaußa jest natomiast przedmiotem zainteresowania Anny Pastuszki. Berenika Dyczek przybliża niektóre aspekty działania translatorycznego Ernesta Dyczka i Marka F. Nowaka. O doświadczeniu historycznym kontaktów z Austrią jako elemencie kształtowania tożsamości narodowej potomków dawnych mieszkańców Galicji – Łemków – w Polsce pisze Jerzy Żurko. Małgorzata Wyrzykowska analizuje wybrane przykłady opisów Wiednia i jego dzieł sztuki dokonanych przez polskich podróżników w XVII i XVIII wieku. Kolejny rozdział dotyczy wpływów habsburskich na rozwój sztuki na Śląsku; Aurelia Zduńczyk bada je na przykładzie kolumn maryjnych.. Monografię wieńczy rozmowa z Joanną Ziemską, tłumaczką i animatorką życia kulturalnego w „polskim” Wiedniu.

Collaborative Fellowships in the History of Knowledge, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte/The Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF)

 Collaborative Fellowships in the History of Knowledge

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Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte/The Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte), 14195 Berlin (Deutschland)

01.03.2023 - 30.06.2023

Bewerbungsschluss: 28.01.2022

Researchers may apply from across the social sciences and the humanities. Proposals should investigate original research ideas and specify potential applications to real world problems, on regional or global scales. Each pair of scholars would preferably combine historical with contemporary perspectives on the sources and effects of knowledge formations, in scientific, humanistic, economic, social, technological, or environmental domains.

The awards are intended to provide a research stipend (to cover living costs plus reasonable research expenses) for a period of up to five months – with a core, mandatory period of four months commencing 1st March 2023 – for the purpose of working together on an interdisciplinary project, based in Berlin for the duration.

Please read these details carefully – and consult the FAQs – before commencing an application or contacting the ISRF with a query. Applications must be submitted before [DEADLINE]. Applicants are strongly advised to submit applications well in advance of this deadline. If you have any technical issues, please notify Stuart Wilson immediately.

Eligibility:

Eligible Applicants

Only pairs of scholars are eligible to apply, and must apply together. Applicants will normally hold a full-time or part-time salaried position – which may be permanent or fixed-term – at an institution of higher education and research, though independent scholars are also eligible.

Each pair must represent two different disciplines and two different institutions. Applications from two countries or nationalities are also encouraged: one of the aims of this award is to facilitate collaboration across borders.

Eligible Research

Innovative research that breaks with existing disciplinary boundaries and explanatory frameworks. Applications are encouraged to address afresh empirical problems concerning the epistemologies and politics of knowledge formation in different historical and/or cultural contexts; they may focus on the uses of knowledge, its decline, and the plurality of its forms, and areas that have no currently adequate theory or investigative methodology. Innovation may also come from controversial theoretical approaches that pose a critical challenge to incumbent theories, discourses, or practices. Interdisciplinarity in the generation of new investigative initiatives may be achieved by combining, cross-fertilising, and transforming methods, approaches, and theoretical insights from the social sciences and the humanities. We welcome projects ranging across the breadth of the social scientific disciplines, the humanities, and related interdisciplinary research fields.

Terms & Conditions:

Duration & Timing

The awards are intended to provide a research stipend (to cover living costs plus reasonable research expenses) for a period of up to five months - with a core, mandatory period of four months from March to June 2023. Award recipients would be expected to relocate to Berlin for the duration of the award period, and submitted budgets should include costs of travel and accommodation (which may include dependents).

Scholars will be hosted in Dahlem, in close proximity to the main building of the MPIWG (Boltzmannstraße 18). This building is also home of the IMPRS-KIR, a new, research-based PhD programme dedicated to “Knowledge and Its Resources.” They will be granted access to the research facilities and infrastructures of the MPIWG (library and interlibrary loan service, IT, guest service). Each pair of scholars will be provided with a dedicated work space (one office with double occupancy). During their residence, Fellows will be expected to engage with relevant MPIWG events (in person/hybrid/virtual) and in the ongoing activities of the MPIWG's partners in Berlin. Physical presence and intellectual commitment will be crucial to the overall success of this programme.

The term will conclude with a two-day conference, hosted at the Max Planck Society’s Harnack-Haus, at which Fellows will present their work so far, in discussion with scholars from the Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and the MPIWG.

Value:

Applications are expected for awards up to a maximum value of €40,000 per pair. Budgets should itemise planned expenditure, to cover accommodation and subsistence and reasonable research expenses.† Budgets which include teaching (and associated administrative) buy-out costs will be considered, but overheads must be limited to 10% of the total award amount. Budgets must conform with the rules and requirements of applicants’ home institutions, who will manage the award money and process expense reimbursements.

Additionally – and therefore not to be included in the budget – award recipients may be entitled to receive a honorarium for preparation and participation in a joint workshop at the end of the residency.

† Eligible research expenses will vary depending on the nature of the proposed project. They may include, but are not limited to: fieldwork, and associated travel, accommodation and subsistence; conference attendance, and associated travel, accommodation and subsistence; conference organisation costs, fees for invited speakers; interviews, and associated travel, accommodation and subsistence; transcription, translation, statistical analysis and other specialist services; dissemination costs (to be itemised); specialist equipment (where not provided by the Host Institution).

†† This honorarium is paid by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

Terms & Conditions

We reserve the right to extend the deadline for the competition. A short final report will be required.† Award holders may be invited to present their findings in person to the ISRF’s academic representatives in addition to presenting their work at the two-day conference hosted by the MPIWG in Berlin. The ISRF’s and MPIWG’s support is to be acknowledged in all public presentation of research. Full Terms & Conditions governing awards will be provided to successful applicants in their formal offer, based on the draft general terms and conditions available on the ISRF website. Formal acceptance of the award must be completed by the end of December 2023.

† We will not require a lengthy report on your work, although reflections and comments are welcome as an addendum/appendix. For our records we require a short (no more than 500 words) report on the main features of your work: a short recap/outline of research aims and work plan; changes in research plans with reasons; new or surprising findings or results; what was achieved and how; outputs (presentations, publications etc); lessons learned; collaborations, partnerships, networks that have resulted; further plans/projects that arise from research.

Applications to Other Funding Bodies

Applicants may apply without prejudice to other funding bodies. If applications for identical projects were successful it would be expected that only one award (i.e. either the ISRF or another) would be accepted. If applications for either wholly or partly different projects are successful there should be no duplication in the budget headings funded by the ISRF and another body. All awards are conditional upon acceptance of our Standard Award Terms & Conditions.

The Application:

The Research Proposal

All pairs will be expected to provide the following details as part of their proposal:

- The Research Focus: The project’s topic, problem, or question (250 words)

- Collaboration: Why this collaboration is necessary for the success of the research – include details of your collaborative process as relevant. In what ways will the project benefit from your concurrent residency for the duration of the Fellowship? (250 words)

- Background: Current research reference points and their limitations (250 words)

- Project Thesis: The hypotheses or innovative claims the research may enable you to support (250 words)

- Methodology: Methods and procedures your research will employ, with description of the established disciplinary methods you’ve mastered and of interactions among different disciplinary inputs (250 words)

- Work Plan: How your methods and procedures will be structured over the period of the award, with reference to the respective responsibilities of each applicant. Please provide realistic detail to show that your plan can be accomplished in the time available (250 words)

- Outcomes: Describe project contribution, outcomes, dissemination, and any further steps and longer-term goals (250 words)

- Ethics Statement: Any measures required for ethical conduct of the research, including needed regulatory compliance (250 words)

The Submitted Application

This will be read by academic evaluators who are social scientists and humanities scholars but not necessarily in the applicant’s own field; applicants should bear this in mind when writing their application. Our Assessment Procedure is set out online.

In order to be considered for the award, all applications must comprise the following:

A COMPLETED APPLICATION FORM, TO INCLUDE:

- An Abstract (300 words) of the research’s aims, methods, contribution to knowledge, and value in realising the goals of ISRF & MPIWG.

- A completed, anonymised Research Project Proposal form (2000 words total)

- An anonymised Bibliography in support of the proposal, limited to two sides of A4 (this should be uploaded as an additional attachment)

- An anonymised Budget comprising a full outline of employment costs, travel & accommodation, and any relevant research expenses.

CURRICULUM VITAES

- Including lists of relevant publications.

Institutional Approval

Applicants must confirm that their home institutions are aware of their application, and should provide the contact details for the relevant Administrative Officers. Should your application progress, these Officers (Institutional Approvers) will be asked to confirm, on behalf of your departments and institutions that:

- You will be granted the period and proportion of time requested in the Duration and Timing section;

- If replacement costs are requested, you will be in receipt of your normal salary during tenure of the award and the institution will provide cover.

It is therefore advisable that you ensure that your Head of Department is in agreement with the content of your application before you submit.

How to Apply:

Application Procedure

Applicants are expected to submit their complete application electronically via the online application system, in English. Each pair is expected to submit one joint application using the following address:

https://isrf.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/brand-2/xf-1fd085c8edb7/candidate/register

Completed applications must arrive no later than 6pm CET on 28th January 2022.

An individual candidate may only be named in one application.

Applicants can expect to be informed of the result of their applications by email by the end of June 2022.

(open access, bilingual Czech - English) Hanuš Jiří: Idea univerzity z české perspektivy. Rozhovory s Jiřím Hanušem - The idea of a university from a Czech perspective. Conversations with Jiří Hanuš. Brno: Muni Press 2021. ISBN: 978-80-210-9762-9

 

OPEN ACCESS: https://munispace.muni.cz/library/catalog/book/1966 .

[Czech below.]

The aim of this book is to explore the ‘idea of a university’ and specific modern developments both abroad and in the Czech Republic through dialogues with prominent Czech academics: Stanislav Balík, Petr Dvořák, Petr Fiala, Pavel Floss, Jiří Hanuš, Petr Horák, Jakub Jirsa, Jiří Lach, Jiří Macháček, Tomáš Machula, Dominik Munzar, Ivana Noble, Jan Sokol, Daniel Soukup and Kateřina Šimáčková.

Something from the Humboldtian world is still within us - S. Balík

The search for truth - P. Dvořák

Examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good - P. Fiala

Basic research is objectivizing in character - P. Floss

Contact with real people - P. Horák

The coronavirus pandemic acts as an accelerator - J. Jirsa

We won’t survive without inspiration from abroad - J. Lach

A person’s standing should depend on their performance - J. Macháček

The ‘de-elitization’ of society? - T. Machula

Good students recognise a good teacher - D. Munzar

Preserving university culture - I. Noble

A specific part of local culture - J. Sokol

I am an advocate of university profiling - D. Soukup

You recognize a master from the number of masters he has trained - K. Šimáčková

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Cílem knihy je promyslet v dialogu s významnými českými odborníky „ideu univerzity“ i její konkrétní moderní projevy v zahraničí i v České republice. Dialog s Jiřím Hanušem vedli: Stanislav Balík, Petr Dvořák, Petr Fiala, Pavel Floss, Jiří Hanuš, Petr Horák, Jakub Jirsa, Jiří Lach, Jiří Macháček, Tomáš Machula, Dominik Munzar, Ivana Noble, Jan Sokol, Daniel Soukup a Kateřina Šimáčková.

Zůstalo v nás cosi z Humboldtova světa - S. Balík

Hledání pravdy - P. Dvořák

Vše zkoumejte, co je dobré, toho se držte - P. Fiala

Základní výzkum má objektivizující charakter - P. Floss

Kontakt živých osob - P. Horák

Pandemie koronaviru působí jako urychlovač - J. Jirsa

Nepřežijeme bez zahraničních impulsů - J. Lach

Postavení garantovat svým výkonem - J. Macháček

Ztráta sebevědomí elit? - T. Machula

Dobří studenti vědí, kdo je dobrým učitelem - D. Munzar

Péče o univerzitní kulturu - I. Noble

Specifická součást místní kultury - J. Sokol

Jsem zastáncem profilace vysokých škol - D. Soukup

Mistra poznáš podle počtu mistrů, které vychová - K. Šimáčková

an open position in a research project “Expertise in authoritarian societies. Human sciences in the socialist countries of East-Central Europe” (principal investigator Kateřina Lišková

We seek a highly motivated researcher for a postdoctoral position researching East Germany in ExpertTurn, a research project  “Expertise in authoritarian societies. Human sciences in the socialist countries of East-Central Europe” (principal investigator Kateřina Lišková, supported by EXPRO of the Czech Science Foundation), the project website https://ExpertTurn.fss.muni.cz  .

Working time:                     0,5 FTE 

Start date:                            1 January 2022 

Application deadline:       10 December 2021

You will:

• Conduct research on human science expertise during state socialism East Germany, discuss your findings within our team and analyze data, write papers for peer-reviewed journals, disseminate the results to the general public, present your research at international conferences

You are expected to:

• Have successfully completed their Ph.D., preferably in history (previous research in the areas of the history of the family, gender, science, health, or youth during the 20th century in Europe is an advantage)
• Have published in English in respected journals or with recognized publishers
• Speak and read with native fluency in German
• Work flexibly in an international team (ability to combine research in local archives with attending both in-person team workshops and regular online meetings)

We offer:

• half-time job (20 hours per week)
• Flexibility in working hours, workplace in Brno and home office according to Masaryk University guidelines
• 50 000 – 55 000 CZK/month gross monthly salary for a full-time position
• Job offer for one year with an expected extension until June 2024, upon mutual satisfaction with the first year
• Working in an international team on exciting new research
• Close cooperation with accomplished teams and researchers in Europe and beyond
• Active support for professional and personal development (knowledge and experience sharing in the team, summer schools or workshops, support in grant applications, a wide range of activities supported by the university – language courses, sports activities, etc.)
• Six weeks (30 working days) of vacation

Necessary documents:

• Professional CV with detailed descriptions of your previous work on research projects
• A writing sample
• Motivation letter
• Two letters of recommendation

Please use the electronic application form available at https://ExpertTurn.fss.muni.cz  to apply for your position.

The deadline for submission of applications is 10 December 2021.

We are looking forward to your application!

Call for Papers: Die Jahrestagung der GWMT am 22.-23.9.2022 in Erfurt

Call for Papers für die GWMT-Jahrestagung in Erfurt vom 21.-23. September 2022  (hier im Link: https://www.gwmt.de/wp-content/uploads/CfP-Humanities-GWMT-2022-1.pdf).

call for proposals: The Tenth Conference of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS), Brussels 7-10 September 2022

 

The Tenth Conference of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) will take place in Brussels (Belgium), from the 7th to the 10th of September 2022. The theme will be Science Policy and the Politics of Science. The venue in and of itself supports the theme of the conference. Since the foundation of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters, and Fine Arts of Belgium in 1772, Brussels has been the home and venue of significant scientific institutions, from the Solvay Conferences in Physics and Chemistry to the European Commission and Research Council, which have shaped the present state of the sciences as well as their impact on our world. From a historiographical perspective, this will be an opportunity to showcase new histories of scientific institutions and modes of knowledge, networks, and nodes.

The Call for Proposals is now open!: see https://eshsbrussels2022.com/calls/ .

Brussels, Capital of Europe

The National Committee for Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, the Université libre de Bruxelles, and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel are proud to announce the launch of the ESHS 2022 Conference in Brussels. The Belgian capital is a cosmopolitan city that plays a leading role as Europe’s political centre and hosts many international organisations. In addition, Brussels has a wealth of outstanding museums and is home to higher education and cultural heritage institutions that preserve collections of interest for the history of science.

ONLINE CONFERENCE: „To Serve Two Masters”. The Public Roles Played by Experts in the Time of Rebuilding Europe, 19.11.2021

 

The 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, the peace conference in Paris and thorough reconstruction of borders in Europe is behind us. The historians devoted much attention to this, meticulously analyzing the mechanisms of transformation of the political order in Europe and doing justice to the actors of this great political change. Who and how contributed to this change was the key issue in these considerations. The most common answer is: politicians and military men.

However, the third professional group whose role is of increasing interest among scholars are experts, being often distinguished scientists. In recent years, their involvement has been particularly readily written about, more often favorably than with a critical distance. Service to the state or duty to the nation in such dramatic circumstances as the Great War and the rebuilding ofthe world seems to be a natural behavior also today and it does not require any special explanation. It seems that scholars, like politicians and military men, simply fulfilled their duty.

The organizers of the conference on the public roles of experts invite you to jointly reflect on the issue of the political involvement of intellectuals in the fight for an independent state – both from a group and intellectual perspective. The sociology of knowledge, which also deals with the observation of scholars' attitudes towards the Great War, clearly shows that science is a social phenomenon and it cannot be reliably studied in isolation from non-scientific factors. This unambiguity of sociological observations is not always tantamount to the state of consciousness of the scholars themselves. During our meeting we would like to reflect, among others, on the questions such as whether serving the homeland really was an obvious choice and free from controversy. How to reconcile service to one's own state (homeland) with the rigors of science and scholar's ethics? How to represent the interest of the state without ceasing to consider yourself an objective scholar? What were the other values that had been tried to combine with the service and science and which of them became impossible to reconcile? Answering these questions requires an inversion of the question: we are not so much interested in the experts' contribution to the state-building but rather in the place of this involvement in their professional careers and biographies. What was the place of the service to the state and to the nation within this spectrum?

The conference will be broadcasted online via Zoom.

Please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mjV4i1PnSfG_uuipZ06dig .

Streaming live without registration will be available on the Facebook page of the Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CBH PAN) in Berlin.

The event will be held in English and German. Simultaneous translation will be provided.

Programme

9:55 Welcome

Iwona Dadej (Berlin), Maciej Górny (Warsaw)

Panel 1: Geographers and Borders

10.00 – 12:30

Vedran Duančić (Zagreb), Geography is an Objective Science, and it Favors Us: Geography and Politics in Yugoslavia, 1918–1941

Balázs Ablonczy (Budapest), "Turan Cannot Be Humiliated" - Jenő Cholnoky, the Hungarian Geographer in the Period of the Peace Conference, 1918-1921

Maciej Górny (Warsaw), Nature, Culture, Failure: Erwin Hanslik's Borders of Civilization

Chair: Agnes Laba (Wuppertal)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

Panel 2: Experts and States

13:30 – 17:00

Jawad Daheur (Paris), Which state to serve? German foresters facing political change in Western Poland (1918-1922).

Anna Nowakowska-Wierzchoś (Warsaw), Social "female military staff" - co-creators of defense and state education

Iwona Dadej (Berlin), Polnische Historikerinnen und Kuratorinnen im Dienste des Staates? Das Beispiel des Museums Verdienstvoller Polinnen in Lemberg 1929-1939

Sophie Schwarzmaier (Berlin), "Aufbau der polnischen Schule". Polnische Pädagog:innen und der Aufbau des/eines? eigenes Nationalstaates 1911-1925

Martin Rohde (Halle/Saale), "Meine Pflichten als tschechoslowakischer Staatsbürger habe ich ehrlich erfüllt, … ohne den Weg des Karriererismus zu gehen." Galizisch-ukrainische Experten im Bildungswesen der Podkarpatská Rus

Marion Röwekamp (Mexico-City), Serving two masters? Female lawyers between the law and the women´s movement.

Chair: Jan Surman (Prague)

17:15 – 18:45 Keynote Lecture

Katrin Steffen (Sussex), Balancing interests in a post-imperial setting: Experts, modernity and the state in Poland after 1918

Closing remarks

Call for Papers and Sessions - ICOHTEC 2022

The 2022 International Committee for the History of Technology’s 49th Symposium will take place virtually. It will occur in 3 phases, each lasting two days. The 1st meeting will be in June (17, 18), the 2nd in September (24, 25), and the 3rd in October (15, 16). The Kranzberg Lecture will take place in June.

The general theme is “Technology-based and Technology-generated decisions”. Whereas technology-based decisions have a long history, technology-generated decisions of so-called artificial intelligence, AI, are on the horizon since the turn to 21st century and might gain decisive influence within the next years. Which decisions we are willing to handle over to technology? How to define ethical guidelines for this development? The symposium aims to contribute to this discussion, based on a transnational perspective of history of technology.

The deadline for proposal is Sunday, 30 January 2022

For a long time, societies have considered technology a value-neutral instrument for various purposes, including decision-making by organizations. Between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, technology progressively increased its pivotal role in societies: governments, companies, or individual people considered technology essential for living and surviving. But due to increasing over-saturation with technology, negative outcomes became visible and thus, subject of public discussion.

Technology is involved in decision-making in two ways: decisions based on technology and technology-generated decisions. Human societies are used to base their decisions thanks to technologies permitting them, for instance, data collection. Cartography was helpful in decisions such as financing exploratory expeditions traveling, trade, or military operations since the early modern era. In the contemporary World, high-resolution satellite images are the base for the decision-making process in military operations or identifying places where it could be possible to extract mineral and oil resources. Moreover, new technologies often inspire new ways to perform old tasks (e.g., imaging technologies in medical diagnosis) and inspire taking on new tasks (think military rockets being applied to spaceflight). Second, the design and manufacture of technology require decisions that affect how it works, how it is used, how it is manufactured, etc. Certain decisions regarding material properties, usage scenarios (e.g., usability), and areas of application require different types of production. Conversely, the type of production chosen (technology, process, etc.) influences the possible uses of the technology and its artifacts.

Suggestions for more specific questions, derived from the main question:

What are the social/historical/cultural conditions of technology related decision-making?

Decisions on science and technology: inclusion and citizen participation

What are the ethical conditions of technology-generated decisions?

Which transnational perspectives can be taken regarding technology-inherent decisions?

How do these technology-inherent decisions affect the critique of technology (e.g., impact factor in science, “publish or perish”)?

Technocracy is a well-researched topic. What is state of the art in this field? Any new approaches, theories, empirical findings?

Data recording and processing is a core task now carried out with computers. Which technologies were used – and where and how – before the advent of computing?

Modern challenges and technology based/generated decisions (e.g., climate change, COVID-19 pandemic, individual health, and public health); artistic strategies involving technology/generated decisions; body, dis/ability and technology based/generated decisions

The role of images (maps, photographs, etc.) in decision making.

 

The symposium covers all periods and all areas of the globe. In keeping with a cherished tradition of the field, the meeting is open to scholars from all disciplines and backgrounds. Gender-related and worldwide topics are specifically welcome. Besides contributions to the main theme of the symposium, paper and session proposals on different topics of the history of technology are welcome.

Proposal Guidelines

ICOHTEC welcomes proposals for individual papers and posters, but preference will be given to organised sessions of three or more papers. The Programme Committee will also consider submissions not directly related to the symposium theme providing that they relate to the history of technology broadly defined. All proposals must be in English, and should be submitted electronically by 30 January 2022 via our website http://www.icohtec.org/w-annual-meeting/ (will be available, soon). For suggestions about preparing your submission and the conference presentation, please consult the guidelines on www.icohtec.org/proposal-guidelines.html In addition to the scientific programme, the symposium will include plenary sessions, special sessions for the prize winning book and article, the general assembly of ICOHTEC. If you have any questions related to the scientific programme, paper, poster or session proposals, please, do not hesitate to contact Jacopo Pessina, the chair of the programme committee, at j.pessina87@gmail.com.

We especially encourage graduate students to submit proposals and to participate in the symposium.

Members of ICOHTEC and low-income people pay a reduced fee.

INDIVIDUAL PAPER proposals must include: (1) a 300-word (maximum) abstract; and (2) a one-page (maximum) CV. Abstracts should include the author’s name and email address, a short descriptive title, three to five key words, a concise statement of the thesis, a brief discussion of the sources, and a summary of the major conclusions. If you are submitting a paper proposal dealing with a particular subtheme in this CfP, please indicate this in your proposal. In preparing your paper, remember that presentations are not full-length articles. You will have no more than 20 minutes to speak, which is roughly equivalent to 8 double-spaced typed pages. For more suggestions about preparing your conference presentation, please consult the guidelines at the conference website. Contributors are encouraged to submit full-length versions of their papers after the conference for consideration by ICOHTEC’s peer-reviewed journal ICON.

PANEL proposals must include (1) an abstract of the panel (300 words maximum), listing the proposed papers and a session chairperson; (2) abstracts for each paper (300 words maximum); (3) a one-page CV (maximum) for each contributor and chairperson. Panels should consist of three or four speakers. Several panels may be organized on one topic.

We encourage the creation of panels which examine technology-based and technology-generated decisions in different parts of the world, enabling international comparisons, and contributing to an emerging transnational historiography. We welcome especially contributions from beyond Europe and the United States, which so far have been less fully covered by historians of technology.

The programme committee reserves the right to relocate papers to different themes and add papers to panels.

POSTER proposals must include (1) a 300-word (maximum) abstract; and (2) a one-page CV. Abstracts should include the author’s name and email address, a short descriptive title, a concise statement of the thesis, a brief discussion of the sources, and a summary of the major conclusions.

Programme Committee:

Pessina Jacopo IT (Chair), j.pessina87@gmail.com

Florian Bettel AT, florian.bettel@uni-ak.ac.at  

Ercolani Sara IT - supers.ercolani@gmail.com

Fari Simone IT/ES _ fari@ugr.es 

Hadlaw Jan CA, jhadlaw@yorku.ca

Limina Valentina IT - valentinalimina@gmail.com

Min Fanxiang CHI – fanxiangmin@nju.edu.cn

Müürsepp Peeter EST, peeter.muursepp@taltech.ee

Schuetz Thomas GE , thomas.schuetz@hi.uni-stuttgart.de

Yagou Artemis (only for the evaluation of papers) GE/GR , artemis@yagou.gr

Zdrowska Magdalena PL , magda.zdrodowska@uj.edu.pl

 

Call for Articles: Academic Urbanism in the Eastern Bloc: Places and Spaces of Postwar Science (Call for Articles for a thematic section in Studia Historiae Scientiarum 2022, guest edited by Timofei Rakov and Mikhail Piskunov)

Decades after WWII saw the impressive development of sciences, especially hard sciences. New level of science and technology needed extended infrastructure – not only vast reactors or big biological laboratories, but the wide interconnected web of institutions. Gradually, scientific and technological institutions were becoming an urban core, as towns and city clusters formed around them. This new web of scientific and technological towns, technopoles in Allen J. Scott’s term, needed a more complex approach to the architecture of such settlements, organization of space and level of everyday consumption for its inhabitants. As Kate Brown mentions, such cities produced a “middle-class” level of consumption and values (Brown, 2013) and became centers of circulation of knowledge and ideas between two sides of the Cold War (Tatarchenko, 2013).

The 2023 thematic section of  Studia Historiae Scientiarum wants to examine the dimension of this process in the Eastern Bloc. Socialist countries perceived very seriously the idea of Scientific and Technological Revolution, formulated by J. D. Bernal in the 1950s, that should provide them the road to communism. Additionally new constructed science and technology cities, akademgorodoks or naukograds, corresponded very well with socialist economies' extensive plans and aspirations. We see socialist science and technology city as an interconnected unity of new visions of socialism/communism and new forms of socialist science. While some Soviet spaces of this new science such as Novosibirsk Akademgorodok (Josephson 1997) or Obninsk (Orlova 2017) were analyzed in historiography, we still need a complex investigation of an academic city phenomenon in all its international richness.

Thus, we invite proposals for the volume covering following topics

·       Formation of scientific spaces and places in a Eastern Bloc and beyond

·       Architecture, infrastructure and environment of these towns/cities

·       Everyday life in academic city

·       Social and cultural forms of socialist science and technology produced by spaces of new cities

·       Academic urbanism in the Cold War: East -West comparisons

·       People in an academic city and their identities

·       Urban memory: narratives about academic cities and its citizens

·    Postsocialist, post-soviet or neoliberal? Present day and the future of academic cities 

Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words and a short biographical sketch to timofey.rakov@gmail.com and m.o.piskunov@utmn.ru. The deadline for the submission of abstracts: December 20, 2021.

The editors will ask the authors of selected papers to submit their final articles no later than July 1, 2022. Articles will be published after a peer-review process.

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

Call for Papers: 16th Annual Graduate Conference in European History. April 11-13 2022, Oxford, UK. Deadline 15.12.2021

 

What is nature, and does it have a history? According to British philosopher Kate Soper, ‘the natural is both distinguished from the human and the cultural, but [is] also the concept through which we pose questions about the more or less natural or articial quality of our own behaviour and cultural formations; about the existence and quality of human nature; and about the respective roles of nature and culture in the formation of individuals and their social milieu’. In what ways, then, can nature be historicized?

We invite graduate students working on any topic or period in European history and/or Europe in the world to consider the place of ‘nature’ in their research. We define nature in the broadest possible sense, including its material, social, political, and cultural dimensions.

This conference is open to all graduate students. We particularly encourage submissions from those who have not presented their work at conferences before or are from underrepresented regions and/or institutions. We hope to be able to support travel and/or accommodation for a limited number of presenters without access to institutional funding.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

The relationship between nature and humans

How has nature shaped the existence of humans over the centuries? How have humans exploited nature, and to what extent have natural forces been a hindrance or impetus for change? What is the relationship between nature and power?

Topics could include: ecosystems and human economy, post-human and more-than-human approaches to history, natural and supernatural forces and creatures, animal history

Environmental history

How has the environment shaped human societies throughout history and vice-versa? How have humans responded to environmental crises? What is the present and future of environmental history?

Topics could include: climate changes, environmentalism and environmental social movements, concepts of the anthropocene, history of ecology

Seascapes and landscapes, ora and fauna

How has the natural world been experienced or described by both settled historical actors – farmers, peasants, urban dwellers – and those ‘on the move’ – travellers, explorers, pilgrims, seafarers, slaves? What meanings have cultures and social groups attached to landscapes and seascapes, mountains and rivers, animals and plants?

Topics could include: natural and built environments, cultural representations of landscapes, ora or fauna, experiences and perceptions of landscapes/nature

Nature as metaphor

How have concepts of ‘nature’ (or ‘human nature’) informed culture, politics, and identity? What can postcolonial and decolonial perspectives tell us about ‘nature’ and empire? What made certain behaviours and norms ‘unnatural’? What did it mean, in dierent periods, to ‘return to nature’?

Topics could include: human nature and social norms, gender and nature, concepts of nature in social science, race and nature, the natural/social divide, ‘civilization’ and ‘barbarity’, ideas of nature in historical narratives, intellectual histories of nature

Nature in a global perspective

Studies of ‘nature’ address a variety of boundaries and oppositions, be they temporal, geographical, biological (e.g., human/non-human), or technological (natural/articial). What global boundaries exist in the study of nature throughout history? How have these boundaries been challenged and changed? Are there liminal spaces and/or internal/external spaces in a global history of nature?

Topics could include: ‘natural’ vs ‘manmade’ or ‘articial’ frontiers, environmental policy and politics, natural resources, environmental initiatives undertaken globally, regionally, and in cities/villages

Please send an abstract of up to 300 words and a short biography of no more than 100 words to GRACEH2022@history.ox.ac.uk by 15th December 2021.

The CfP and more information is also available on: https://graceh2022.wordpress.com/blog/  . 

Střed | Centre, 1/2022 – Call for Papers: Issue topic: ‘Soft Sciences’ and Science Policy in Central Europe

 

Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2022 ; Contact: stred@mua.cas.cz ;  Languages of publication: Czech, Slovak, English, German

Journal website: https://www.mua.cas.cz/en/stred-centre-journal-for-interdisciplinary-studies-of-central-europe-in-the-19th-and-20th-centuries-323

Indexing: SCOPUS, CEEOL, ERIH+, CEJSH, EBSCO

 Freed from direct political control more than thirty years ago, social sciences and humanities in Central Europe have been facing new challenges. Events like Hungarian government’s ‘ban’ on the discipline of gender studies or pressures against the Central European University that forced it to move some of its activities from Budapest to Vienna made news headlines internationally. Are these cases rather exceptional or do they suggest deeper changes in the relation between the state and academia in Central Europe? What are the current challenges to social sciences and humanities in the region and what development led to this situation?

Unlike other disciplines, social sciences and humanities are defined not only by their object of research and methodologies but also by their specific social position. They are challenged by the permanent need to justify their existence and relevance for the society since their potential to encourage industrial innovations or stimulate economic growth is limited. On the other hand, scholars and scholarship in these disciplines need academic freedom not only to be independent in their research but also to be socially critical and engaged.

Science policy, in its various forms and at various levels, has been the key element in the very existence of social sciences and humanities that more than others depend on public funding. From the international level to the institutional self-government, the question of funding or redistribution of funds, of quality assessment or of scientific management remain vital. Next to the post-socialist ‘catching up’ with the West after 1989, science policy was soon confronted with challenges that were new to both the former East and the West such as the neoliberal emphasis on productivity, marketization, and internationalization. Current illiberal attitudes, de-globalization, and repressions may be a reaction to the development of the previous decades.

This issue of Střed | Centre calls for papers analysing science policy towards social sciences and humanities in Central European countries and their production, social position and reputation in the present and recent past. Comparative and transnational approaches are especially welcome.

The issue suggests following topics:

Funding and defunding of social sciences and humanities

Quality assessment and output measurement

Marketization of humanities and social sciences

Internationalization versus de-globalization

Vanishing and establishing of disciplines and institutions

Publication strategies and development of scientific journals

Public images of and discourses on social sciences and humanities

Hybrid event: Reimagining One’s Own. Ethnographic Photography in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Europe, 01.12.2021 - 03.12.2021

 

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The photo collection of the Volkskundemuseum Wien was established along the lines of a “comparative ethnology of Europe” in the late nineteenth century, focusing on the territories of the Habsburg Monarchy. Today, the assembled materials raise manifold questions about their origins and, as a consequence, about the visual ethnography of “one’s own”.

Reimagining One’s Own. Ethnographic Photography in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Europe

URL: https://www.volkskundemuseum.at/conference_ethnographicphotography  .

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Volkskundemuseum Wien und Photoinstitut Bonartes, 1080 Wien (Austria)

01.12.2021 - 03.12.2021

Just as colonial ethnography created an image of the "others," ethnographers and folklorists in Europe approached their "own" populations within the continent. The work here is always asymmetrical; it was the ethnographers and photographers who determined what the image of those studied by them looked like. Ethnography at the time conceived "people" with a respective essence in mind. It designed primitivizing and exoticizing typologies, such as in the form of so-called type photography—a genre of images that circulated far beyond the narrow scientific context and could serve the most diverse purposes.

In these photographs, scientific, political, and commercial interests interwove to form imaginary spaces that unfolded their effect in nationalist, imperial, but also tourist discourses. They were used to "preserve" what was about to disappear and to support a wide variety of arguments. They predetermined who was to be seen in which role and who remained invisible, and distinguished between "one’s own" and the "other". Ethnographic photography depicted its object but also constructed it in doing so. It contributed to the constitution of the scientific subject of "one’s own people".

The conference is less concerned with motifs than with the genesis and the use of these photographs. How did the construction, production, and commercialization as well as multifariously intersecting interests entwine? How did these images contribute to defining the institutions, networks, and infrastructures in which they and other media circulated? How were the respective typologies used as common space to negotiate culture and politics? And how do museums and archives deal with these records today? How can they be shown and exhibited at all?

The conference will take place as a hybrid event: on-site at the Volkskundemuseum Wien and online via Zoom.

Online pre-registration for on-site participation required. 

No registration required for online participation via live stream.

A conference of Volkskundemuseum Wien and Photoinstitut Bonartes

Organization: Herbert Justnik, Martin Keckeis and Julia Schulte-Werning

Day 1, 1. December 2021, 17.30 to 20.00

17.30 Welcome

Herbert Justnik and Martin Keckeis, Conference Organizers

Monika Faber, Director Photoinstitut Bonartes, Vienna

Matthias Beitl, Director Volkskundemuseum Wien, Vienna

17.45 Key Note and Discussion

The Kaiser‘s Favorite. Mapping the German Empire with Three-Color Photography ca. 1900

Hanin Hannouch, Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Max-Planck, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Berlin / Florence

In Discussion with

Diana M. Natermann, University of Hamburg

Monika Faber, Director Photoinstitut Bonartes, Vienna

19.00 Get together

 

Day 2, 2. December 2021, 9.00 to 19.00

9.00 Key Note

Looking Home. Ethnography, Photography and the Display of Italian Cultures

Agnese Ghezzi, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

10.30 Coffee Break

11.00 Panel I: Ethnographic Photography in Europe as Epistemic Object

Input I

Making Knowledge in the Field. Ethnographic Practices in the Hutsul Region

Martin Rohde, Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg

Input II

Between Realism, Kitsch and Faireality. Imagining Hutsuls in Art and Culture

Bohdan Shumylovych, Center for Urban History, Lviv

Input III

Women as Pioneers of Visual Ethnography. With Camera and Pen to a New Method of Scientific Documentation

Ulrich Hägele, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen

Discussion

Moderation: Magdalena Puchberger, Volkskundemuseum Wien, Vienna

13.00 Lunch Break

14.00 Panel II: Infrastructure and the Circulation of Images

Input I

Searching for Russia‘s Own Orient. Public Debates on Ethnographic Photography in Tsarist Russia and Early Soviet Union

Helena Holzberger, Ludwigs-Maximilians-University, Munich

Input II

One Image, Many Images. The Biography of a Habsburgian Type Photograph

Herbert Justnik, Volkskundemuseum Wien, Vienna

Input III

Europe in Pictures at the Musée de l’Homme. Circulating Photographs, Collecting Types

Anaïs Mauuarin, CNRS-Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris

Discussion

Moderation: Friedrich Tietjen, freelance historian and curator

16.00 Coffee Break and Change of Location

17.30 Exhibition Tour

Überleben im Bild. Wege aus der Anonymität anthropologischer “Typenfotografien” in der Sammlung Emma und Felix von Luschan

Katarina Matiasek, Photoinstitut Bonartes, Vienna

Location: Photoinstitut Bonartes, Seilerstätte 22, 1010 Vienna

18.00 Get together

 

Day 3, 3. December 2021, 10.00 to 17.00

10.00 Panel III: Working with Photographic Records in Museums and Archives

Input I

Unboxing Photographs. Photo-Objects on Display

Stefanie Klamm, Freie Universität, Berlin

Input II

Outliving the Image. Beyond the Anonymous in Anthropological “Type” Photographs from the Emma & Felix v. Luschan Collection

Katarina Matiasek, Photoinstitut Bonartes, Vienna

Input III

On Similarities. Trying to Grasp a Shared History Beyond Narratives of Ethnic Difference in Lower Styria. The Exhibition ŠTAJER-MARK

Eva Tropper, Museumsakademie Joanneum, Graz

Discussion

Moderation: Herbert Justnik

12.00 Lunch Break

13.00 Workshop Session

In three parallel workshops, we will elaborate on the aspects and questions raised at the key notes and panels.

Workshop I

Moderation: Magdalena Puchberger

Workshop II

Moderation: Friedrich Tietjen

Workshop III

Moderation: Herbert Justnik

15.00 Coffee Break

15.30 Concluding Discussion

Moderation: Herbert Justnik and Julia Schulte-Werning, Conference Organizers

Analecta. Studia i Materiały z Dziejów Nauki 30:2021, no 1 is online (Polish, open access)

 

URL: http://ihnpan.pl/analecta-spis-zawartosci/#2021

Łukasz Chodorowski

Starotestamentowe podejście do embrionu ludzkiego na tle innych kultur Bliskiego Wschodu

Old Testamentary Approach to a Human Embryo Against the Background of Other Middle East Cultures

Jacek Rodzeń

Syruć czy Chróścikowski? Wokół kwestii pierwszego polskiego autora publikacji z rachunku różniczkowego i całkowego

Syruć or Chróścikowski? Around the Issue of the First Polish Author of the Publication on the Differential and Integral Calculus

Alicja Zemanek, Piotr Köhler

„Mierz siłę na zamiary” – nauczanie botaniki w Uniwersytecie Stefana Batorego w Wilnie (1919–1939)

“Measure Your Strength Against Intentions” – Teaching of Botany at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius (1919–1939)

Krzysztof Dąbrowski

Austriacki telegraf kolejowy systemu Aleksandra Baina

Austrian Railway Telegraph by Alexander Bain

Krzysztof Dąbrowski

Elektryczne przesyłanie obrazów na odległość

Long-distance Electronic Transmission of Images

Jan Koroński

Konstanty Holly (1954–1998). Życie i dzieło

Konstanty Holly (1954–1998). Life and Work

Zbigniew Hojka

Rudolf Ranoszek – życie i działalność naukowa (1894–1986)

Rudolf Ranoszek – Life and Work

NOVA LITTERARIA

Karolina Figaszewska

Recenzja: Antiphonarium Kielcense = Antyfonarz Kolegiaty Kieleckiej (ok. 1372 r.): wydanie fototypiczne z komentarzem, red. K. Bracha, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego, Wydawnictwo Jedność, Kielce 2020, s. 744, ilustr.

Lidia Maria Czyż

Pokrewieństwa i koligacje sztuk wszelakich. Krew w nauce, literaturze i sztuce. Recenzja: Krew. Medyczne i kulturowe aspekty na przestrzeni dziejów, red. W. Ślusarczyk, R. Wilczyńska, G. Frischke, Episteme, Lublin 2020, s. 262, ilustr.

Wiesław Andrzej Kamiński

Recenzja: Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski, Historii fizyki w Polsce, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2020, s. 574, ilustr.

Jan Piskurewicz

Recenzja: Tomasz Pospieszny, Maria Skłodowska-Curie. Zakochana w nauce, Wydawnictwo Po Godzinach, Warszawa 2020, s. 397, ilustr.

Maciej Jasiński

Recenzja: Marco Bersanelli, Wielki spektakl na niebie. Osiem wizji wszechświata od starożytności do naszych czasów, Copernicus Center Press, Kraków 2020, s. 317, ilustr.

Online symposium - The Meaning of Eugenics: Historical and Present-Day Discussions of Eugenics and Scientific Racism (2nd & 3rd December 2021)

 

Eugenics and scientific racism are widely misunderstood despite their long histories. Studying and sequencing the human genome were supposed to help eliminate common misconceptions about the biological differences between humans. After all, we are 99.9% the same according to our DNA.

And yet, why do these misconceptions continue to persist, resulting in modern day discrimination and bias? We look to the history of science and medicine to help explain.

Since its inception, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has funded forward-thinking research on the historical study of eugenics and other misuses of genetics and genetic information. This includes the broader social, ethical and legal implications (ELSI) of genomics through NHGRI's ELSI Research Program.

NHGRI has invited distinguished historians of science and medicine to speak at a two-day symposium that examines the history of eugenics and scientific racism and their complex legacies in the modern health sciences. In addition, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Museum of Natural History will present their own efforts on these topics and offer free educational and scholarly materials.

NHGRI Historian Christopher Donohue, Ph.D., and Oxford Brookes University Professor Marius Turda, Ph.D., will lead the symposium.

*         Day one will provide historical overviews on the general history of eugenics and scientific racism, with relevance for public health, the history of human genetics, medical ethics and persons with disabilities.

*         Day two will focus on discussions of more recent manifestations of eugenics and scientific racism while underscoring the persistence of scientific and structural racism today in the United States.

To view the full agenda and register, visit: https://www.genome.gov/event-calendar/the-meaning-of-eugenics-historical-and-present-day-discussions-of-eugenics-and-scientific-racism .

CfP: The Right-Wing Parties and Intellectuals in Interwar South-Eastern Europe: between Conservatism and Fascism. 7-8 April 2022, Belgrade, Serbia

The conference is organized by the Institute for Balkan Studies SASA within the framework of the project The Serbian Right-Wing Parties and Intellectuals in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1934-1941 supported by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, PROMIS programme, Grant no. 6062708, Acronym SerbRightWing.

Although in the shadow of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, the smaller states in South-Eastern Europe provide a number of case studies for examining the right-wing politics in the era of fascism. In general, these countries saw a mixture of conservative, radical right and outright fascist shades of right-wing political programmes, organizations and activism. A study of the most extreme, fascist variants have adopted what Roger Griffin has called the “new consensus”, an approach that prioritizes fascist ideology over structures and points out that generic fascism was a transnational phenomenon, emphasizing the common ground in various movements and regimes. From that transnational perspective, it is necessary to peruse not just the transfer of ideas and practices from the Axis Powers, but also to look more closely at the exchanges between the regional actors themselves. The dominant political force in the countries concerned, however, was conservatism, underpinning the authoritarian regimes of the regional monarchies; but the conservative core was also influenced by the fascist examples. To better understand the often tense relationship between the “old”, conservative and the “new”, radical/fascist right, António Costa Pinto and Aristotle Kallis have offered a theoretical model which views it as fluid and reflexive, involving a degree of mutual influence and selective borrowing, creating different hybrid forms of right-wing politics according to the national specifics and, ultimately, leading the conservatives towards radicalization of their policies. But this was an ambivalent process, since there were also domestic pressures at work to distance a political party, or government, from fascist ideology and practice. The antifascist sentiment of public opinion, the need to define a political platform distinct from the pro-fascist opposition, conflicting interests in external affairs could all militate against the imitation and adoption of fascist models. On the other hand, the radicalization of the conservative right cannot be fully grasped without considering foreign policy pressures. The ascendance of the Axis in the international arena, especially the undisputed economic and political hold over the neighbouring region of South-Eastern Europe, backed by military might, had the effect of forcing the governments in the region to acquire some fascist trappings in order to cultivate relations with Berlin and Rome and facilitate their own agenda in foreign affairs.

In turn, the radicalization of the conservative right created a more favourable atmosphere for further dissemination of fascist ideas and style. This was not just apparent in the outlook of political leaders and their party organizations, but also in the public sphere in which a number of prominent intellectuals showed an increasing sympathy for all things fascist. Those personalities, for example writers, journalists, clerics, expressed views, often in polemics with the dissenting voices, which provide more refined insights into the complex reality of right-wing attitudes than those obtained from studying political parties and government agencies. A closer scrutiny of such individuals, the trajectories of their intellectual development and political engagement can substantially contribute to our understanding of how elements of fascist ideology and practices penetrated conservative constituencies and blurred the boundaries between the “old” and the “new” right. Their input in the public sphere coloured, to a certain degree, the political milieu of right-wing politics, while their position on the political and social ladder might serve as something of a barometer of the level of acceptance of their views.

Starting from these considerations, the organizers are interested in papers that explore, but are not limited to, the following topics:

- how conservative parties and politicians dealt with the rise of fascism, what facets of fascism they appropriated, or refused to incorporate, and to what extent and purpose;

- how conservatives negotiated their political platform in the face of growing fascism at home and abroad, and how they positioned themselves on the right-wing political spectrum;

- did the impulse for fascistization come from above or below and, conversely, who among the conservatives offered the greatest resistance and why?

- how did local fascists introduce fascist ideology, practice and style to their own constituencies, and how did they harmonize them with the national interests of their own countries and local socio-political conditions?

- transnational networks and links among right-wingers in South-Eastern Europe;

- prominent personalities in the public sphere who voiced right-wing attitudes and had an impact on their shaping, reception and implementation;

- the effect fascist ideas had on the cultural scene, literature in particular, and the links between the living experiences of right-wing artists and their work;

- the rise of antisemitism, anti-masonic campaigns and eugenics, and the actors responsible for their propagation and development in South-Eastern Europe.

Deadlines and Procedure

We will organize a two-day international conference on Thursday and Friday, 7-8 April 2022. Given the Covid-related difficulties, it is safest to envisage a hybrid conference with both on-site and online participation. The participants are invited to deliver a 20-minute presentation in English. The deadline for submitting paper proposals (no more than 500 words and a short biography in English) is 24 December 2021. Please send your proposals in a single Word document with the subject “Belgrade Conference on Rightists” to: conference.belgrade2022@gmail.com

Proposers will be notified of acceptance by 15 January 2022.

We intend to publish the papers presented at the conference in an edited volume to be published by the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The deadline for submitting papers for publication (8,000-10,000 words, footnotes included) is 30 September 2022.

 

Elena Fratto: Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Columbia University Press 2021. ISBN: 9780231202336

 

Though often seen as scientific or objective, medicine has a fundamentally narrative aspect. Much like how an author constructs meaning around fictional events, a doctor or patient narrates the course of an illness and treatment. In what ways have literary and medical storytelling intersected with and shaped each other?

In Medical Storyworlds, Elena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century—a period when novelists were experimenting with narrative form and the modern medical establishment was taking shape. She traces how Russian writers such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov responded to contemporary medical and public health prescriptions, placing them in dialogue with French and Italian authors including Romains and Svevo and such texts as treatises by Paul Broca and Cesare Lombroso. In nuanced readings of these works, Fratto reveals how authors and characters question the rhetoric and authority of medicine and public health in telling stories of mortality, illness, and well-being. In so doing, she argues, they provide alternative ways of thinking about the limits and possibilities of human agency and free will. Bridging the medical humanities, European literary studies, and Slavic studies, Medical Storyworlds shows how narrative theory and canonical literary texts offer a new lens on today’s debates in medical ethics and bioethics.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Elena Fratto is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University.

ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics 2021, 4/ ΠΡΑΞΗΜΑ. Проблемы визуальной семиотики, Год 2021, номер 4. open access, Russian with English Abstracts

 

URL: https://praxema.tspu.edu.ru/en/archive.html?year=2021&issue=4&fbclid=IwAR2MccWD5S8ceQuwIps3rUi4iE3_h1KIT3HUGtAb3No5XdRvBtpt2gE5i00

(Russian below)

CONTENTS

Editorial ..................................................................................................... 9

ARTICLES

M. Voloshin (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) 3D-visualization of macromolecules in bioinformatics: An epistemological aspect ...................................................................... 12

S. Gavrilenko (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) Images of Earth: Conception of geographical imagination in Denis Cosgrove’s cultural geography ............................................... 36

D. Drozdova (Higher School of Economics, Russia) Time representation in scientific diagrams: Galileo Galilei’s solution to the problem of the motion of a freely falling body ......... 58 

K. Ivanov (S. I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Semiology of preliterate astral figures .................................................. 81

M. Novikov (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia)

How to use the visual in scientific studies? (Following Peter Galison and Lorraine Daston) .................................. 117

A. Pisarev (Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) STS and the possible future of the science museum: Towards a new Kunstkammer ............................................................... 131

P. Sokolov (Higher School of Economics, Russia); Ju. Ivanova (Independent University of Moscow, Russia; University of Cologne, Germany) Louis de Caseneuve’s Δωδεκάκρουνος hieroglyphicorum et medicorum emblematum: Emblems as a language of the 17th century medicine ........................ 186

V. Surovtsev (Tomsk Scientific Center, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Tomsk State University, Russia) Self-reference, theory of types, and categorization in Wittgenstein’s picture theory of statements ..................................... 213

S. Troitskiy (Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia; Sociological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences – Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Saint Petersburg State University, Russia) Topography of the alien: National stereotypes of geography textbooks as a basis for caricatured visualization of ideas about space at the turn of the 20th century .......................................... 234

M. Shestakova (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia); T. Batyr (Gregory Tsamblac Taraclia State University, Moldova) Main approaches to the study of visual thinking ................................ 256

L. Shipovalova (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia) The destiny of visualizations in public science communication: Between action and representation ....................................................... 273

ESSAYS

D. Dorofeev (Saint Petersburg Mining University, Russia); S. Tomaščíková (Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Slovakia) Nietzsche’s self-image-forming and its representation in the postmillennial media .................................................................... 293

M. Gorbuleva (Tomsk State Pedagogical University, Russia); N. Pervushina (Tomsk State Pedagogical University, Russia); A. Tokareva (Soyuzmultfilm, Russia) Prospects of edutainment in pedagogical bioethics ............................ 312

Authors ...................................................................................................... 326

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СОДЕРЖАНИЕ

Предисловие научного редактора ..................................................... 9

СТАТЬИ

Волошин М. Ю. (Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова, Россия) 3D-визуализация макромолекул в биоинформатике: эпистемологический аспект ................................................................ 12

Гавриленко С. М. (Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова, Россия) Образы земли: концепция географического воображения в культурной географии Дениса Косгроува .................................... 36

Дроздова Д. Н. (Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики», Россия) Изображение времени в научных диаграммах: решение Галилео Галилеем задачи о движении свободно падающего тела .................................................................... 58

Иванов К. В. (Институт истории естествознания и техники

имени С. И. Вавилова РАН, Россия) Семиология астральных изображений дописьменного периода ....................................................................... 81

Новиков М. А. (Московский государственный университет

имени М. В. Ломоносова, Россия) Как использовать визуальное в исследованиях науки? (вслед за Питером Галисоном и Лоррейн Дастон) ........................ 117

Писарев А. А. (Институт философии РАН, Россия) STS и возможное будущее музея науки: к новой кунсткамере ..... 131

Соколов П. В. (Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики», Россия); Иванова Ю. В. (Кельнский университет, Германия; Московский независимый университет, Россия) «Двенадцатиструйный источник иероглифических и медицинских эмблем» Луи де Казнёва: эмблематика как язык медицины XVII столетия ........................... 186

Суровцев В. А. (Томский научный центр СО РАН, Россия; Томский государственный университет, Россия) Самореферентность, логические типы и категоризация в изобразительной теории предложений Л. Витгенштейна ...... 213

Троицкий С. А. (Российский государственный педагогический университет имени А. И. Герцена, Россия; Социологический институт РАН – Филиал Федерального научноисследовательского социологического центра РАН, Санкт-Петербург, Россия; Санкт-Петербургский государственны  университет, Россия) Топография чужого: национальные стереотипы учебников географии как основание карикатурной визуализации представлений о пространстве на стыке XIX–XX веков ................ 234

Шестакова М. А. (Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова, Россия); Батыр T. Б. (Тароаклийский государственный университет имени Григория Цамблака, Молдова) Основные подходы к исследованию визуального мышления ..... 256

Шиповалова Л. В. (Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет, Россия) Судьба визуализаций в публичной научной коммуникации: между действием и представлением ................................................ 273

ЭССЕ

Дорофеев Д. Ю. (Санкт-Петербургский горный университет, Россия), Томашчикова С. (Университет имени Павла Йозефа Шафарика, Словакия) Формирование образа человека у Ницше и его репрезентация в современных СМИ ...................................... 293

Горбулёва М. С. (Томский государственный педагогический университет, Россия); Первушина Н. А. (Томский государственный педагогический университет,  Россия); Токарева А. Н. (Киностудия «Союзмультфильм», Россия) Эдьютейнмент с позиции педагогической биоэтики ................... 312

Сведения об авторах .............................................................................. 326

Call for papers: Animal Magnetism in Motion: Reconfigurations and Circulations, 1776–1848. Fribourg, 20.10.2022 - 21.10.2021. Deadline 10.12.2021

 

The European, and later global, circulation of theories and practices of animal magnetism, which covers a large part of the ‘long 19th century’, is a phenomenon that is significant but little studied in its complexity.

Animal Magnetism in Motion: Reconfigurations and Circulations, 1776–1848

The theory of the universal fluid and the magnetic therapies developed by Franz Anton Mesmer in Vienna flourished in Paris, where he moved at the end of 1778. Around 1784, they spread not only all over France, but also to the colonies, to Malta with the network of Harmony societies, and throughout Europe following the trajectories of learned, Masonic, mystical and esoteric societies, and of artistic and musical creation. The texts of the disputes to which they gave rise to were read, translated, commented on and re-elaborated throughout Europe and beyond. While the presence of the “traces” of magnetism in all times and in all peoples became a topos in the writings of its supporters and opponents, the mesmeric fluid became a term capable of bringing together distant worlds, from Chinese culture in Jesuit correspondence to Haitian voodoo or, later, Indian faquirs. This phenomenon of diffusion continued and was extended, particularly after the Revolution, in a double dynamic of claimed continuity with Mesmer’s discoveries, and of re-elaboration in the direction of the practices of somnambulism and hypnosis. It is in this form that animal magnetism, with its ambiguous status, suspended between science and belief, between physical and moral knowledge, makes its contribution to the development of Romantic culture, to philosophical medicine and German Naturphilosophie, as well as to the French and English novel. Its effects are exhibited in clinics and theatres, successively constitute the ground for the global affirmation of spiritualism and, at the end of the century, a source of inspiration for psychoanalysis. The very condemnations by the scientific academies, particularly in France, and, in a religious context, by the Court of Rome, contributed to this reconfiguration, giving the debate on magnetism an international circulation. In these perspectives, the study of magnetism makes it possible to revisit the history of disciplinary boundaries (or encyclopaedisms), the analysis of the political uses of knowledge and the forms and methods of popularisation at work between the 18th and 19th centuries.

This phenomenon of interweaving and circulation, which is extensive, complex and multi-layered, deserves to be studied from different sources, perspectives and disciplinary approaches. Animal magnetism itself offers a theory of circulation: in elaborating his conception of the universal fluid, Mesmer founds on it his own vision of the cosmos and of man, drawing attention to circulatory phenomena that crossed different fields of knowledge, from physics to astronomy, from physiology to politics, from economics to literature. This is one aspect  that of symbolic representations  under which the evolution of mesmerism dialogues with the theme of circulation during the 19th century. At the same time, this evolution is reflected and manifested in a great variety of practices: therapeutic practices first, but also social, political, religious, literary and artistic ones. The question of practices forcefully raises the issue of the heterogeneity of the actors and institutions involved in the often controversial debates on magnetism. This presence of magnetism in many fields justifies the attacks and the multiform oppositions that it arouses and which participate in the complex dynamics at work in the political, intellectual and cultural spaces between the 18th and 19th centuries. It is a longer-term perspective in which the study of animal magnetism lends itself to an understanding of the global reconfiguration of knowledge and techniques in the decades between the rise of the Atlantic revolutions and those of 1848.

The processes of circulation, transfer and hybridization of knowledges and practices between the late 18th and the mid-19th century are the focus of the international conference on animal magnetism which will be held in Fribourg (Switzerland) on October 20th and 21st, 2022, organized by the University of Fribourg, the Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (Université Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne), the Research Center of Gotha (University of Erfurt) and the Institute for the history of philosophy and science in modern age (CNR, Italy), in collaboration with the Harmonia Universalis project (Labex-Hastec). If this theme intersects with your research, you can send an abstract of about 450 words, in English or French, and a few lines summarising your curriculum vitae. Applications from doctoral and post-doctoral students are particularly welcome. The deadline for applications is 10 December 2021. Please send them as a PDF file to mesmer-conference@unifr.ch

Studies in East European Thought, Volume 73, issue 3, September 2021. Special Issue: Philosophy of Jan Patočka: Twenty-First Century Perspectives

 

URL: https://link.springer.com/journal/11212/volumes-and-issues/73-3  .

Issue editors

Michaela BelejkaničováKristína Bosáková

Guest editors' introduction

Authors

Michaela BelejkaničováKristína Bosáková

The hidden teacher: on Patočka’s impact on today’s Czech philosophy

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Jan Frei

The Allure and impossibility of an algorithmic future: a lesson from Patočka’s supercivilisation

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Ľubica Učník

Patočka and the metaphysics of sacrifice

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James Dodd

Solidarity of the shaken: from the experience (Erlebnis) to history

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Michaela Belejkaničová

Epoché and institution: the fundamental tension in Jan Patočka’s phenomenology

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Darian MeachamFrancesco Tava

Against the self-sufficiency of reason. Concept of corporeity in Feuerbach and Patočka

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Kristina Bosakova

Patočka’s asubjective phenomenology as latent possibility of Husserl’s Logical Investigations

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Riccardo Paparusso

Translation of Jan Patočka’s “Galileo Galilei and the end of the ancient cosmos”

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Martin Pokorný

Review of Martin Koci: Thinking faith after Christianity. A theological reading of Jan Patočka's phenomenological philosophy. New York: SUNY Press, 301 pp. Hardcover: ISBN: 978-1-4384-7893-7, $95.00, paperback: ISBN: 978-1-4384-7892-0, $32.95

Authors

Martin Ritter

Review of Hila Naot, Raft on the Open Sea—Man and the World in Jan Patočka’s (1907–1977) Phenomenological Philosophy, (in Hebrew) Jerusalem: Carmel 2020, 536 pp. 107 shekels

Authors

Oded Balaban

Makowski Krzysztof A., et al. (eds.) With a zest and in a refined form... : the 7th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Warsaw, 1933. Poznań 2021

 Makowski Krzysztof A., Michalski Maciej, Schramm Tomasz, Filipowska Karolina (eds.) With a zest and in a refined form... : the 7th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Warsaw, 1933. Poznań : Wydawnictwo Wydziału Historii Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza: Wydawnictwo Miejskie Posnania: Fundacja TRES 2021. 978-83-66355-48-4

Call for Papers: Epidemics and emotions. Historical and transdisciplinary perspectives. Linz, 23.06.2022 - 25.06.2022. Deadline 31.12.2021

 

Like hardly any other period in the last 100 years, the past two years have been marked by the collective experience of a pandemic and its manifold consequences. The longer this „state of emergency“ lasts, the more clearly the high relevance of emotional aspects in social health crises, such as epidemics, becomes apparent. Close interdependencies between socio-cultural, political and economic processes at the collective level on the one hand, and psychological and somatic processes at the individual level on the other, have been and are being addressed by psychotherapy and psychology, by the sociology of health and emotion, by socialization and education research, and by the medical humanities. From a historical perspective, the history of mentality and emotion as well as the social history of medicine are active in this field of research. Multi- and transdisciplinary approaches appear to be indispensable for the specific question of the manifold connections between epidemics and emotion.

First and foremost, the images of massive collective „emotional outbursts“ of fear and despair that are triggered by the unexpected occurrence of a highly infectious and highly lethal epidemic come into mind. Such „epidemic panics“ have been known to historiography for a long time: such exceptional social conditions have repeatedly been recorded by those affected. Undoubtedly, so far not all of the historical sources of this kind are known to historical research, and the focus on the emotionality of the narratives also opens up new readings of known source material.

However, the connections between epidemic events and affectivity go far beyond: the mass deaths often associated with dreaded epidemics left a large number of people traumatized – due to their own illness and the risk of death as well as due to the loss of family members and friends, often associated with the agonizing experience of their own helplessness. Equally, however, mental defence mechanisms have occurred in the course of epidemics, consisting in the fact that thoughts related to this danger, are not „allowed“ individually-mentally and communicatively-socially: The result is the repression of the experience, even the denial of the threatening parts of reality, instead of a realistic confrontation with the danger. The unconsciously persisting sense of threat is then often reinterpreted and attributed to other causes, in particular personalized „culprits“, who can then also serve as objects for the projection of one's own negative affects. In this way, epidemics that are dangerous in themselves often give rise to additional negative consequences of social tensions.

The same applies to fundamentally appropriate measures taken to combat epidemic threats: they regularly entail considerable negative consequences at the level of everyday activities, especially in the economic sphere, as well as in the social context, especially when it comes to restricting social contacts in order to prevent infection. Such measures to prevent epidemics have therefore been the subject of highly controversial discussions, as the current situation but also the history of epidemics can show. Emotional aspects of epidemics are manifold. The experiences of pain and disgust associated with concrete symptoms of disease should also be mentioned, as well as the fact that there appears to be something like an „epidemiological“ or „immunological“ ethnocentrism, which, especially in the initial phases of an epidemic in regions or groups not yet directly affected, contributes to the fact that many people suppress the approaching danger and preventive measures are not taken in time. Similarly, more adequate forms of response to epidemics also have essentially emotion-related components; this applies to religious faith as well as to typically "modern" strategies for crisis intervention and resilience enhancement. Effective methods of emotional self-regulation were and are of particular importance for those people who – be it within personal relationships or due to their occupation – also take care of others in times of an epidemic, i.e. who perform care work – which underlines the importance of gender- and age-specific differentiations for relevant studies.

We welcome submissions of papers on the aspects of the conference topic outlined above, but also on related aspects.

The following topics are currently prioritized:

- Collectivized emotion – society, politics and economy in times of epidemic threat

- Individual experience of illness between traumatization and resilience

- Emotion and care

- Emotion and gender

In the context of a public keynote lecture Bettina Hitzer (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin) will speak about „Pandemiegefühle. Nutzen und Grenzen einer emotionshistorischen Perspektive“.

Please send proposals for individual presentations with abstracts of approximately 2,000–4,000 characters (including spaces) by Dec. 31, 2021 to: Elisabeth.Dietrich@uibk.ac.at.

Conference languages: German and English.

The incoming proposals will be discussed by the organizing team together with the board and the cooperation partners and all speakers will be informed about acceptance or rejection by the end of January 2022.

The conference fee for all participants is 100,00 EUR and covers the costs for conference documents, guided tours as well as drinks and snacks during the coffee breaks. Students and persons with low income can apply for a reduced fee of 50,00 EUR.

Following the conference, speakers will be invited to submit a written version of their presentation for publication in a special issue of the journal „Virus. Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin“. The journal is peer-reviewed and published annually in print and open access.

Marcel Chahrour, Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum, Marina Hilber, Carlos Watzka

(Organizing Team).

Kontakt

Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum

Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie

Universität Innsbruck

E-Mail: elisabeth.dietrich@uibk.ac.at