Ю. Горбач: З епістолярної спадщини Леоніда Білецького (1923-1942) [From the epistolary legacy of Leonid Biletsky (1923-1942)]. К.: Неопалима Купина 2021.

 URL: http://archeos.org.ua/?p=16828 .

Call for Papers: Unpacking the Bloc: Circulation of Knowledge, Resources and Practices in Eastern Europe and Beyond. St. Petersburg (hybrid), April 22-23, 2022

Recent scholarship has clearly demonstrated that the Socialist bloc was a more complex formation than merely a set of interests determined by the Soviet Union. Socialist countries were not identical in their political and economic structures, nor in their levels of technological advancement. They thus made up a heterogenous bloc. Yet the ideological rationale of socialist cooperation and integration insisted on a collective effort to enhance progress and forge an alternative to Western rivals. The Socialist bloc was particularly intertwined with diverse economic, technological, scientific and cultural communications. These included both official and intangible connections between individuals and institutes as part of trading, technology transfer, material and cultural exchanges, scientific and environmental collaboration, among other activities.

We invite the submission of individual papers to discuss the implicit mechanisms and dynamics of intra-bloc communication in terms of diversity and complexity rather than unity. We also seek contributions which consider socialist countries in terms of their global connections. We are particularly interested in discussing various forms of connection within the bloc and beyond, including transfers of knowledge, technologies, and resources, as well as numerous practices embedded in cultural, scientific and environmental exchanges, among many others.

What was the role of hidden institutions and connections in integrating state socialism? What informal connections existed between actors at different levels, such as experts and officials, managers of enterprises and leaders of scientific organizations? What were some of the global intangible connections of the bloc and how did they change over time? We especially invite contributions on marginal aspects of Comecon’s history, such as economic mechanisms of integration, hidden political impacts, cultural exchange, technology transfers, and environmental cooperation.

The workshop will be held in a hybrid form. We invite both online and on site presentations to take place at the HSE University in St. Petersburg.

The organizers will provide meals for the on site participants.

Working language: English

Organizers:

*Dr. Elena Kochetkova (HSE University)  *Dr. Aleksei Popov (Chelyabinsk State University)

Conference Committee:

Prof. Mikhail Lipkin (Institute of World History Russian Academy of Science)

Dr. Oxana Nagornaja (Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University)

Dr. Uwe Mueller (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe)

Dr. Valentina Fava (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)

Dr. Elena Kochetkova (HSE University–St. Petersburg)

Dr. Kirill Chunikhin (HSE University–St. Petersburg)

Dr. Алексей Попов (Chelyabinsk State University)

Please send your application by March, 1, 2022 via the following link: https://forms.gle/oojRhH96bxt9zhwo8

For any queries, please contact the organizers via unpacking.conference@gmail.com

Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии/The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology (2019. Том XXII, № 5)

 The new issue of Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии/The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology (2019. Том XXII, № 5) is online! Topic of the issue: Alexander Sergeyevich Lappo-Danilevsky

Full issue URL: http://jourssa.ru/?q=ru%2F2019_5

Николай Скворцов

Предисловие (7-11)

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К истории социальной мысли в России

Евгений Ростовцев, Ирина Потехина

Школа А.С. Лаппо-Данилевского (12-37)

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Алексей Малинов

А.С. Лаппо-Данилевский в истории российской социологии (38-53)

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Виктория Василенко

Идеи А.С. Лаппо-Данилевского в интегральной концепции П.А. Сорокина (54-72)

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Владимир Козловский

Историческая метасоциология А.С. Лаппо-Данилевского (73-86)

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Евгения Долгова

«Одна профессура по социологии»: Всероссийский конкурс и институционализация новой кафедры в Первом Петроградском университете, 1919–1922 гг. (87-101)

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Методология исторического познания

Игорь Тяпин

Методология или философия истории? К вопросу о квалификации теории исторического познания А.С. Лаппо-Данилевского (102-120)

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Николай Безлепкин

Методология истории А.С. Лаппо-Данилевского в российских университетах (121-140)

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Александр Рыбас

А.С. Лаппо-Данилевский и критика контизма в социологии (141-153)

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Философские основания истории как науки

Марина Румянцева

Развитие методологической концепции А.С. Лаппо-Данилевского в XX — начале XXI в.: от гуманитаристики к социальным наукам (154-179)

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Елена Михайлова

А.С. Лаппо-Данилевский: социокультурное значение «живых» источников прошлого (180-193)

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Дмитрий Боднарчук

Коммеморации, посвященные А.С. Лаппо-Данилевскому (194-212)

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Вера Серкова

Философские истоки методологии истории А.С. Лаппо-Данилевского (213-222)

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Рецензии

Виктор Куприянов

Академик А.С. Лаппо-Данилевский и российская социология. Размышления над книгой А.В. Малинова «Социологическое наследие А.С. Лаппо-Данилевского: исследования и материалы» (223-236)

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The Division of History of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST) Dissertation prize

 The Division of History of Science and Technology  (IUHPST/DHST) invites submissions to its Dissertation prize in the broad field of the history of science and technology. The Award Committee endeavors to maintain the broadest coverage of subjects, geographical areas, chronology, and civilizations (African, North American, South American, Asian, Islamic, Western and Ancient Civilizations, and others not included in this list).  

Applications open 10 July 2022 and close 1 October 2022 (22:00, GMT). The announcement of prize winners will be in early 2023. 

In order to apply, the following pdf documents should be sent by mail to DHST president Marcos Cueto (marcos.cueto@fiocruz.br):

– The dissertation. Submissions in any language are welcome.

– A summary of the dissertation in English (maximum 20 double-spaced pages)

– A recommendation letter from the PhD supervisor (at most 3 pages) assessing the dissertation and its historiographical significance. The letter is confidential and should be sent separately by the supervisor.

The e-mails accompanying these documents should specify in the subject line: ‘DHST Dissertation Prize-2023” followed by the last name of the candidate as in: ‘DHST Dissertation Prize-2023-Last Name’.

Also, a list of previous winners and their projects may be found on the DHST web page at: http://dhstweb.org/awards/dhst-dissertation-prize

More information can be found at the following link: http://dhstweb.org/2023-dissertation-prize-call .

Piotr Puchalski: Poland in a Colonial World Order. Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918–1939. New York: Routledge 2022. ISBN 9780367674700

 

Poland in a Colonial World Order is a study of the interwar Polish state and empire building project in a changing world of empires, nation-states, dominions, protectorates, mandates, and colonies.

Drawing from a wide range of sources spanning two continents and five countries, Piotr Puchalski examines how Polish elites looked to expansion in South America and Africa as a solution to both real problems, such as industrial backwardness, and perceived issues, such as the supposed overrepresentation of Jews in "liberal professions." He charts how, in partnership with other European powers and international institutions such as the League of Nations, Polish leaders made attempts to channel emigration to South America, to establish direct trade with Africa, to expedite national minorities to far-away places, and to tap into colonial resources around the globe. Puchalski demonstrates the intersection between such national policies and larger processes taking place at the time, including the internationalist turn of colonialism and the global fascination with technocratic solutions.

Carefully researched, the volume is key reading for scholars and advanced students of twentieth-century European history.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Emigrants into Colonists

2. Between Periphery and Core

3. European Solidarity

4. Prometheus Bound

5. Reforming the Wilsonian System

6. Useful Abroad, Unwanted at Home

7. The Last Resort

Afterword

AUTHOR(S)

BIOGRAPHY

Piotr Puchalski is Assistant Professor at the Institute of History and Archival Studies of the Pedagogical University of Kraków, Poland. His academic interests include Polish, French, British, and American diplomacy, as well as Western colonialism, totalitarian regimes, and modern ideologies.

new issue of Práce z dějin Akademie věd

 new issue of Práce z dějin Akademie věd [Studies in the History of the Academy of Sciences], 2021/1 is available (Czech with English Abstracts) (online: https://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=1924)

Studie / Articles

Zdeněk R. Nešpor, Sociologická žurnalistika aneb české časopisy sociálněvědních aktualit

Michaela Šmidrkalová, Vstříc atomovému informačnímu věku: Československo a Mezinárodní nukleární informační systém (INIS) 1970-1989

Archivní fondy / Archival groups

Osobní fond Adolf Černý (Jan Chodějovský)

Osobní fond Jan Hladký (Libor Vaňác)​

Kronika / Chronicle

Přehled archivní činnosti Masarykova ústavu a Archivu Akademie věd ČR v roce 2020 (Marie Bahenská, Daniela Brádlerová)

Na rozloučenou s Janem Jankem (1943-2021) (Soňa Štrbáňová)

HPS. CESEE: Networking History of Science in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (Jan Surman)​

Hidden Histories - utajené příběhy žen ve vědě a utajovaná věda (Libuše Heczková)

Zelenka and His Contenporaries (Zelenka Conference Prague) (Lukáš M. Vytlačil)

Recenze / Reviews

Stefan Zamecki, Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki: Ludzie i Problemy. Lata 1956-1993 (Michaela Šmidrkalová)

Hynek Jeřábek, Úspěšné ženy ve stínu slavných mužů. Příběhy pěti žen, které ovlivnily podobu sociologického výzkumu (Marie Bahenská)

Viktor Velek, Hudební umělci mezi Ostravou a Vídní 1-3 (Milan Palák)

Historical Social Research Suppl. 33 - Epidemics and Pandemics – the Historical Perspective (ed. Jörg Vögele, Luisa Rittershaus & Katharina Schuler). (open access)

 Historical Social Research Suppl. 33 - Epidemics and Pandemics – the Historical Perspective (ed. Jörg Vögele, Luisa Rittershaus & Katharina Schuler). 

OPEN ACCESS: https://www.gesis.org/hsr/aktuelle-hefte/2021/suppl-33-epidemics-and-pandemics .

Jörg Vögele, Luisa Rittershaus & Katharina Schuler: Epidemics and Pandemics – the Historical Perspective. Introduction.

Contributions

Grażyna Liczbińska: Spatial and Social Inequalities in the Face of Death. Pilot Research on Cholera Epidemics in Poznań of the Second Half of the 19th Century.

Evelien Walhout & Eric Beekink: Just Another Crisis? Individual’s Experiences and the Role of the Local Government and Church During the 1866 Cholera Epidemic in a Small Dutch Town.

Kristina Puljizević: Managing the Epidemics in 19th Century Dalmatia: From Fatherly Monarch to Scientific Grounds.

Julia Nebe, Enno Schwanke & Dominik Groß: The Influence of Epidemics on the Concept of the Bogeyman: Images, Ideological Origins, and Interdependencies of the Anti-Vaccination Movement; The Example of the Political Agitator Paul Arthur Förster (1844–1925).

Hannah Fuchs & Karl-Heinz Leven: AIDS & Haiti – Discourses on Origin, Stigma, and Blame.

Iris Borowy: Perspectives on the COVID-19 Vaccine: The Incredible Success versus the Incredible Failure.

Bartosz Ogórek: Quantifying Spanish Flu Mortality in the Cities of the Second Polish Republic.

Martin Gorsky, Bernard Harris, Patricia Marsh & Ida Milne: The 1918/19 Influenza Pandemic & COVID-19 in Ireland and the UK.

Wilfried Witte: Influenza Vaccination and Vaccine Policies in Germany, ca. 1930–1960.

Isabelle Devos, Mélanie Bourguignon, Emmanuel Debruyne, Yoann Doignon, Thierry Eggerickx, Hilde Greefs, Jord Hanus, Wouter Ronsijn, Jean-Paul Sanderson & Tim Soens: The Spanish Flu in Belgium, 1918–1919. A State of the Art.

Wataru Iijima: Jishuku as a Japanese way for anti-COVID-19. Some Basic Reflections.

Patrice Bourdelais: The COVID-19 Pandemic in Historical Perspective.

Nadine Metzger: Poisoning, Ergotism, Mass Psychosis. Writing a History of Ancient Epidemics Beyond Infectious Diseases.

Luisa Ritterhaus & Kathrin Eschenberg: Black Death, Plagues, and the Danse Macabre. Depictions of Epidemics in Art.

Marcin Stasiak: Polio w Polsce 1945-1989. Studium z historii niepełnosprawności [Polio in Poland. A study on the History of Disability]. Kraków: Universitas 2021. ISBN: 978-83-242-3801-9

Autor, podejmując temat doświadczenia niepełnosprawności w powojennej Polsce, punktem wyjścia rozważań czyni epidemię polio. Szczególne nasilenie tej ostrej choroby zakaźnej przypadło na lata pięćdziesiąte XX wieku, a ponieważ dotykała przede wszystkim dzieci, powszechny strach wzbudzały jej skutki: czasowy lub stały paraliż różnych partii mięśni, najczęściej zlokalizowanych w obrębie narządu ruchu. Wychodząc z założenia, że niepełnosprawność jest wytwarzana społecznie i kulturowo na bazie fizycznej niesprawności, Marcin Stasiak stawia pytania o główne składniki dyskursu o niepełnosprawności w PRL-u. Docieka także, jak przyjęte definicje wpływały na kształt życia codziennego tych, którzy w dzieciństwie przeszli polio. Wreszcie, widząc w nich aktywnych aktorów, opisuje postawy i działania osób z niepełnosprawnościami. W Polio w Polsce 1945–1989. Studium z historii niepełnosprawności została wykorzystana pespektywa historii życia: autor zestawił indywidualne biografie konkretnych osób z działaniami państwa, strukturą społeczną i kontekstem historycznym. Dzięki szerokiemu zastosowaniu źródeł wywołanych książka stanowi również próbę oddania głosu tym, którzy z niepełnosprawnościami musieli mierzyć się na co dzień.

Marcin Stasiak – dr, historyk, pracownik naukowy Instytutu Historii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Jego zainteresowania badawcze obejmują historię społeczną i antropologiczną Polski po 1945 roku oraz metodologię badań historycznych. Współautor (wraz z Martą Kurkowską-Budzan) książki Stadion na peryferiach, wydanej przez TAiWPN Universitas w 2016 roku.

Александр Александрович Богданов [Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov] / Под ред. М.В. Локтионова. М. : Политическая энциклопедия, 2021. ISBN 978-5-8243-2477-8.

 

Настоящий том посвящен философу, революционеру и писателю Александру Александровичу Богданову (Малиновскому) (1873–1928). Его научно-теоретическое и литературное (в том числе архивное) наследие и сегодня вызывает интерес, а также острые дискуссии как в России, так и за рубежом. В книге собраны статьи современных философов, ученых и писателей, в которых идеи А. А. Богданова актуализируются, а его интеллектуальная биография представляется в контексте политического и научно-философского круга общения. Книга адресована широкому кругу читателей – философам, историкам, литературоведам, а также всем тем, кто интересуется проблемами российской истории, науки и культуры.

CFP: International Conference Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities, 11–13 July 2022, University of Warsaw and via Zoom worldwide

Call for papers

11–13 July 2022

(Extended Deadline for abstract submission: 31 January 2022)

University of Warsaw and via Zoom worldwide

organized by

The project “Non-anthropocentric Cultural Subjectivity”

realized as part of the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme at the University of Warsaw

and

Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw

Keynote Speakers

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ewa Domańska, Tetsuya Kono

Conference concept and coordination:

Aleksandra Brylska, PhD student

Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec, PhD, professor at University of Warsaw Gabriela Jarzębowska, PhD

Piotr Kociumbas, PhD, DSc

Paweł Piszczatowski, PhD, professor at University of Warsaw Krzysztof Skonieczny, PhD

Conference description

The main aim of the conference (which is correlated with the topics of the project “Non-anthropocentric Cultural Subjectivity” realized as part of the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme at the University of Warsaw) is to reflect on theoretical frameworks in environmental humanities which have emerged as alternative or complementary to western approaches. We would like to support theoretical reflections concerning the relationship between human beings and the environment that have been developed in non-western cultural contexts. By helping to determine the problems crucial for “non-western” environmental humanities, the conference will also be a starting point for further cooperation and research.

We understand the adjective “non-western” in two ways. In one general sense, the term simply implies alternatives to the mainstream theoretical frameworks deriving especially from North America and Western Europe. “Non-western” in this sense includes the trends and theoretical conceptions developed by researchers representing different geographical and historical locations as well as different cultural traditions, for example, the Global South, indigenous and non-white cultures. A narrower understanding of “non-western” suggests research perspectives applied on local scales. Therefore, one of the conference’s main aims is to concentrate on the Eastern European context. This focus entails the presentation of research concerning the environmental history of Eastern Europe as well as at- tempting to work out research frameworks reflecting the local, Eastern European perspectives on the relationship between human beings and their environments.

The conference draws on already existing debates in the field of environmental and postcolonial studies, but will also open up new debates on relations between humans and the non-human environment which challenge the dominant Western perspective. We are open to stimulating case studies from Eastern Europe and the Global South. However, presentations focusing primarily on developing novel theoretical frameworks are especially welcome.

The conference will focus on the following broad topics and questions:

    –  decolonization of knowledge in the field of environmental humanities,

    –  environmental history of Eastern Europe and the Global South,

    –  relations between humans and non-humans in an age of environmental crisis,

    –  non-western imaginaries of non-human animals,

    –  non-western practices of environmental engagement,

    –  the environment in indigenous knowledges,

    –  alternative approaches toward the concept of “nature”,

    –  decolonization of concepts of toxicity and pollution,

    –  non-western stories about the Anthropocene,

    –  alternative ways of environmental storytelling,

    –  the idea of “situated knowledge” in non-western concepts.

    We are also open to presentations going beyond the topics suggested above.

    Proposals for pre-organized panels and workshops are also welcome.

    We especially encourage researchers from the Global South, Eastern Europe, and Asia, as well as in- indigenous scholars. We are fully aware that participation in the conference for scholars from these 

regions may be hindered by financial, political, geographical, and pandemic-related circumstances. Consequently, we offer two solutions that may enable more inclusive participation:

    Participants may apply for reimbursement of their travel costs. Please note that we have travel grants available for a limited number of participants. We do not cover the costs of accommodation in Warsaw during the conference.

    The conference will take place in a hybrid form. Scholars who are unable to come to Warsaw will have an opportunity to present their research during online sessions. Please state your preferred form of presentation in your paper proposal. 

Practical Information

In order to apply for the conference please send to nonwesternapproaches@uw.edu.pl:

    Filled application form (both for individual papers and pre-organized panels) attached to the CFP.

    Filled travel grant application form (if applicable) attached to the CFP. 

All submitted abstracts, panel proposals, and workshop proposals will be peer reviewed by the conference committee. The extended deadline for abstracts is 31 January 2022. Information about accepted presentations will be sent by 15 February 2022. 

CFP: 10th International ESPRit Conference. Periodicals beyond Hierarchies: Challenging Geopolitical and Social “Centres” and “Peripheries” through the Academic Studies Press. Budapest, 8-9 Sep 22, Deadline: Feb 28, 2022

 

https://www.espr-it.eu/news/events/152-esprit-conference-2022 .

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For the first time in East-Central Europe, the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit) convenes its 2022 (10th) international conference in Budapest, Hungary, to focus on the following theme: Periodicals beyond Hierarchies: Challenging Geopolitical and Social “Centres” and “Peripheries” through the Press.

The conference should reflect on how periodicals challenge, transform or interpret the notion of “centres” and “peripheries” in a context of permanently shifting and historically unstable situations. Papers should investigate these questions through essential forums of the public sphere, namely periodicals, from the mid-18th century to the present day. The generation of knowledge, social dialogue, and transnational communication (both textual and visual) hosted by periodicals gave visibility and platforms to politically and economically “peripheral” areas, as well as socially marginalized groups. At the same time, other journals provided means to maintain cultural and political hegemony of “central” social classes or global powers.

We invite scholars to reflect on the ways periodicals represented, created, maintained, or challenged, even deconstructed the notions of “centre” and “periphery” as related to the status of their community, audience, editorial board or geographical areas.

We are particularly interested in encounters, and negotiations between geopolitical or social “centres” and “peripheries” taking place in periodicals. The conference should focus on matters, including but not limited to, such as:

- Theoretical reflections on “centres” and “peripheries” and the possible contribution of Periodical Studies to define the shifting meaning of this conceptual model

- Circulation, adaptability and reworking of periodical models and genres, including the mainstream press; middlebrow periodicals and “little magazines”

- Hybridity, performativity, materiality – how researching periodicals opens up new perspectives in literary, art and media history?

- Shifting, emerging, and declining geopolitical centres and the press, from the Napoleonic wars to the end of the Cold War and beyond

- Challenging the concept of “Eastern”, “Western”, “Southern” and “Central” – the periodicals in the entangled history in Empires – from a post-Empire perspective

- Colonization, decolonization, and the periodicals – a postcolonial perspective

- The effect of dominant discourses on marginal/”peripheral”/”provincial”/local contexts – and vice versa.

- The role of journals in social conversation, including the voice of marginalized groups in/out of/against the mainstream press: the rise of counter-publics in periodicals

- The diachronic and political dimension of artistic canons, and the role of periodicals in canonizing, theorizing, and financing art and culture

- De-centring established cultural “centres” through a transnational network of “little magazines”. Establishing “imagined communities” (a term coined by Benedict Anderson) in periodicals

The working language of the conference is English. We welcome proposals from researchers at all stages of advancement. Proposals of around 250 words (references not included) for 20-minute papers and a short CV (no more than 200 words) should be sent to 2022esprit@gmail.com by February 28 2022. We also welcome proposals for joint panels of three papers. Please include a brief rationale for the panel along with an abstract and CV for each presenter. Updates can be found on the 10th ESPRit Conference website, forthcoming.

A Book Discussion | Myron Korduba’s Diary, 1918–1925, 27 January 2022, 10:00 AM (MST, UTC-6) | 12:00 PM (EST, UTC-4) | 7:00 PM (EEST, UTC+3)

 

This event will be devoted to the newly published diary of Myron Korduba (1876–1947). Discovered a quarter of a century ago, until now the diary has been utilized by only a small circle of scholars. This diary is a unique eyewitness source to the period of the “Liberation Struggles” of 1917–1921 and the subsequent years. It was then that the status of the former Eastern Galicia that had been the core of the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic established in November 1918 was decided in the international arena. The author was a well-known historian, a student of Mykhailo Hrushevsky, a political and civic leader, and one of the most active organizers of the Ukrainian (Underground) University, serving as a lecturer and dean. The Korduba diary casts light on the international context around the question of Eastern Galicia as well as the internal affairs. The diary is especially valuable as an insider’s view of the organization of the “state within a state,” the functioning of the Ukrainian quasi-state institutions that emerged after the Polish-Ukrainian war of 1918–1919.

For more details and to register see: https://www.ualberta.ca/canadian-institute-of-ukrainian-studies/news-and-events/seminars/2022/a-book-discussion--myron-kordubas-diary,-19181925.html .

CFP: “Habitability and Empire” A two-day conference exploring ideas of ‘habitability’ and ‘uninhabitability’ in the context of empire and the changing limits of life on Earth, 23-24 June 2022, University College Dublin

 

Notions of ‘habitability’ and ‘uninhabitability’ have long captured human imaginations. From the Greek idea of the oikoumene; to environmentally determinist theories of race and civilisation; to unprecedented climatic changes in the age of the Anthropocene; to searching the universe for new ‘habitable planets,’ ideas of habitability have been incorporated into a wide range of thinking on society, culture, politics, philosophy, geography, environment, science and cosmology. Understandings of the shape and stability of the ‘habitable globe’ have nevertheless varied enormously throughout human history. Likewise, definitions of habitability have rarely been free from political interest or cultural bias, and were frequently bound up in the imperial appropriation of territories and people.

The category of habitability thus represents a fundamental – yet surprisingly understudied – way of tracing debates around environmental stability and change over a range of timescales. Especially from the eighteenth century onwards, these questions took on new significance in the context of imperial expansion and settler-colonialism on a global scale, where new sciences including geology, climatology and ecology brought about new ways of measuring and defining the limits of life on Earth. It was also often recognised these limits were not only natural, and that human intervention could alter habitability, sometimes for better but often for worse (for example, expanding the limits of habitability via technologies from irrigation to air-conditioning, or contracting them through environmental degradation, pollution or changes to the atmosphere).

Following a summer in which parts of Europe flooded while others burned, it is increasingly apparent that long inhabited parts of the world are on course to become uninhabitable within our lifetimes (as the Sixth Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from August 2021 also starkly warns). As astronomers and billionaires continue to search the universe for new habitable planets, it is equally critical to understand and historicise the limits of habitability on this one. The conference aims to place scientific and cultural ideas of ‘habitability’ and ‘uninhabitability’ in their historical contexts, and to reflect on how they can help us to think proactively about our relationship to the environment in an age of climate crisis. Among others, we will consider the following questions:

    How and why has the world been divided into ‘habitable’ or ‘uninhabitable’ regions?

    In what ways were ideas of a limited and/or differentially ‘habitable earth,’ ‘habitable globe’ or ‘habitable world’ deployed and revised in the context of empires, from the eighteenth century to the present?

    What have been the social, cultural and political consequences when places that have long been ‘habitable’ become ‘uninhabitable’?

    When or why have empires intentionally or deliberately tried to render places uninhabitable?

    How has nonhuman habitability overlapped and interacted with questions about the limits of habitability for humans?

    Can the concept of ‘habitability’ present a viable alternative to the now ubiquitous ‘Anthropocene’ for bridging humanities and natural sciences to communicate the current climate crisis?

While primarily historical in its methodological focus, interest is the conference is also very much welcomed from adjacent disciplines including the history of science, geography, literary studies, and environmental humanities (indeed ‘habitability studies’ is an inherently interdisciplinary project). Papers from early career (including graduate) as well as established scholars, and dealing with the theme of habitability and empire from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries (in any part of the world) are all welcome.

If possible the conference will take place in Dublin, though this will of course depend on the prevailing Covid-19 situation and health guidelines. Contingencies for some or all speakers to present via Zoom will be available if required. Should the conference take place in person, it is anticipated that some support for travel/accommodation may be available (with priority given to ECRs and those with the highest need). To express your interest in the conference, please submit a 300 word abstract and CV by 18 February 2022.

Contact: habitabilityandempire@gmail.com    

Organiser: Dr Lachlan Fleetwood (UCD)

Call for Panelists (ASEEES ): Entangled Modernizations in the Polish and Ukrainian histories and cultures from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century

With this Call for Papers, we are looking to compose a panel for the 54th ASEEES convention, which will take place in Chicago, 10–13 November 2022. Panel organizers: Jagoda Wierzejska, University of Warsaw; Martin Rohde, University of Halle-Wittenberg

Entangled Modernizations in the Polish and Ukrainian histories and cultures from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century

In the planned panel we would like to invite you to discuss the paradoxes and complex paths of various modernizations in the Polish and Ukrainian histories and cultures from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century. Our attention is focused on Polish-Ukrainian entanglements in a broad understanding, from contact to cooperation and from delineation to conflicts, as they were reflected in cultural images of modernization projects: political, social, cultural, and individual ones. However, we are also interested in other modernization projects developed by national and ethnic minorities and presented in Polish- and Ukrainian-language discourses and public spheres, on the Polish and Ukrainian political, social and cultural background.
Modernizations are heterogeneous phenomena, full of ambivalence and marked by anxiety. Modernization processes promise development, power, joy, adventure and transformation, but at the same time they threaten to change or even destroy the familiar order. They entail fascinating accelerations, the euphoria of renewal, but also the vortex of disintegration, chaos and precarity. We propose to look at phenomena of modernization from spatial as well as temporal perspectives. In the former, modernization is sometimes reserved for centers or enclaves, or is all-encompassing. In the second, temporal perspective, modernization is stretched between the two poles of time that Enzo Traverso assigned to each transition period. Modernization projects start from a projection leaning towards the future, that is the “horizon of expectations” (Koselleck) towards which thoughts and actions are directed. They end up, in turn, as an element of the past, attracting a backward glance and often evoking a resigned, skeptical attitude, enduing from the field of past experience. Between the extremes of utopia and memory, as Traverso proposes to call them, modernization projects do not always follow a straight path. Sometimes they generate trends that are alternative towards the novum brought by progression, and sometimes backward trends, intended as a remedy to the uncertainty of the new.
We invite presentations examining various aspects of Polish and Ukrainian modernization projects in (1) the subjective field (progressions of social and moral, cultural, and identity-oriented character; projects of emancipation, collective and individual development, self-modernizations); (2) the subjective and objective field (new models of power, authority, and economic development, new forms of educational and historical policy, reflexivity of scholarly discourses); and (3) the institutional field (the role of various institutions in the interpretation and valuation of modernization processes). In doing so, we assume that there are parallels and points of contact between political, social, cultural, and artistic modernizations and also that all modernization projects are entangled in some way in various ideologies.

Our concept includes, but is not necessarily limited to the following thematic areas:
1. Cultural images, testimonies, and definitions of (1) modernization trends as mediums of what is new, unknown, alien, threatening, (2) their negations – as phenomena with common and distinct features in Polish and Ukrainian cultures.
2. Polish and Ukrainian reflections on factors animating and counteracting modernization movements; favorable circumstances and barriers; progressive and retarding processes.
3. Portraits of the main Polish and Ukrainian protagonists and animators of modernization, as well as others and strangers excluded from modernization projects; tropes, figures, phantasms, imaginary schemes used to present them.
4. Reflections on the specific character of Polish and Ukrainian modernization processes and the role which has been played in them by factors such as: violence, imitation, complexes, compensation, the sense of shame and pride, the need to differ, to be original or to defend that what is familiar.
5. Cultural (conscious) representations and (unintentional) disclosures of relations between modernization projects and radical/modernist ideology.

If you are interested in presenting a paper at this panel, please submit an abstract of no longer than 250 words by Friday, February 6, 2022. Please email the abstract to both organizers, and feel free to contact us with any question you might have. We will let you know about the composition of our panel until February 21.

Jagoda Wierzejska, University of Warsaw, j.wierzejska@uw.edu.pl
Martin Rohde, University of Halle-Wittenberg, martin.rohde@geschichte.uni-halle.de

Историко-биологические исследования / Studies in the History of Biology, Том 13, №3, 2021

 Историко-биологические исследования / Studies in the History of Biology, Том 13, №3, 2021

OPEN ACCESS, English and Russian with English abstracts

URL: http://shb.nw.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IBI-3-2021-2.pdf

СОДЕРЖАНИЕ

Contents

Исследования / Research

Радзюн А.Б., Хартанович М.В. Анатомические коллекции Кунсткамеры Императорской Академии наук в Музее антропологии и этнографии им. Петра Великого (Кунсткамера) РАН в XX–XXI вв.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Anna B. Radziun, Maria V. Khartanovich. Anatomical collections of the Kunstkamera of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) RAS in the 20th/21st century

Храмов А.В. Первая книга об эволюции на русском языке: перевод и рецепция «Следов естественной истории творения» в России. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Alexander V. Khramov. The first printed book about evolution in Russian: translation and reception of “Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation”in Russia

Слепкова Н.В. Академик Александр Фёдорович Алимов (1933–2019) — учёный и художник: материалы к биографии. . . . . . . . 57

Nadezhda V. Slepkova. Academician Alexander Alimov (1933–2019), a scientist and artist: materials for his biography

Ковалёв М.В. Русский ихтиолог и советизация чехословацкой науки: случай профессора Б.С. Костомарова. . . . . . . . . . 73

Mikhail V. Kovalev. A Russian ichthyologist and the Sovietisation of Czechoslovak science: the case of Professor B.S. Kostomarov

Курсанова Т.А. Между биохимией, физикой и политикой. Особенности молекулярной биологии в СССР (30–60-е гг.).  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Tatiana A. Kursanova. Between biochemistry, physics, and politics. Characteristics of molecular biology in the USSR (1930s–1960s)

Документы и публикации / Documents and publications

Левченко В.Ф. О скоростях биологической эволюции (как мы писали статью). . . 117

Vladimir F. Levchenko. On the rates of biological evolution (how we wrote this article)

Воспоминания и интервью / Memoirs and Interview

Шалимов С.В. Советско-французские научные связи в области молекулярной биологии и биохимии: интервью с академиком РАН О.И. Лаврик. . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Sergey V. Shalimov. Soviet-French scientific links in the field of molecular biology and biochemistry: Interview with Academician Olga I. Lavrik

Рецензии и аннотации / Book Reviews

Винарский М.В. Живее всех живых: Чарлз Дарвин в современной массовой культуре. . . . . . . . . 150

Maxim V. Vinarski. More Alive than the Living: Charles Darwin in Modern Popular Culture

Хроника научной жизни / Chronicle of Academic Events

Голиков К.А. Выставка «Музей землеведения в зеркале истории МГУ». . . . . . . . . . 156

Kirill A. Golikov. Exhibition “The Earth Science Museum in the mirror of the history of Moscow University”

Читайте в ближайших номерах журнала. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Announcements

gender history / hps.cesee global book talk: Women at Universities in East-Central Europe: In a Search for New Narratives

gender history / hps.cesee global book talk: Women at Universities in East-Central Europe: In a Search for New Narratives, with Martina Bečvářová (Prague), Aleksandra Derra (Toruń), Anna Maria Kola (Toruń), Jan Surman (Prague). Thursday, January 27, 18:00-20:00 CET / 20:00-22:00 MSK/ 12:00-14:00 EST

Virtual platforms "Gender History of Central and Eastern Europe" and "HPS.CESEE: History of Science in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe" is proud to present the global book talk "Women at Universities in East-Central Europe: In a Search for New Narratives." Jan Surman (Prague) will join with Aleksandra Derra (Toruń), Anna Maria Kola (Toruń) and Martina Bečvářová (Prague) to discuss their recently published books "Niewidzia(l)ne. Kobiety i historia Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu" [The Unseen Women and History of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń] (Toruń 2020) [1] and "Doktorky matematiky na univerzitách v Praze 1900–1945" [Female Doctors of Mathematics at Universities in Prague 1900-1945]" (Prague 2019) [2], in a discussion moderated by Adela Hîncu (Jena). Taking examples from both books as the point of departure, we will discuss not only spaces for women in the academia, but also historians' strategies to question the narrative of masculinity of universities. The discussion is part of a series of open zoom events aiming to foster the discussion of new books and approaches within the history of science and scholarship (broadly understood) in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

The meeting is free and open to the public. To receive the link, please register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-book-talk-women-at-universities-in-east-central-europe-tickets-239494112337 or write to hps.cesee@gmail.com.

[1] Aleksandra Derra, Anna Maria Kola and Wojciech Piasek (eds.): Niewidzia(l)ne. Kobiety i historia Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu [The Unseen Women and history of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń], Toruń: Wydawnictwo UMK 2020.

[2] Martina Bečvářová: Doktorky matematiky na univerzitách v Praze 1900–1945 [Female Doctors of Mathematics at Universities in Prague 1900-1945]. Nakladatelství Karolinum, Praha 2019.

Participants:

Martina Bečvářová is mathematician and historian at the Czech Technical University in Prague. She works on history of mathematics in Bohemia and Czechoslovakia, as well as on international contacts between mathematicians. Her most recent publications dealt with history of women in mathematical disciplines at Prague universities, and with history of mathematics in the interwar period.

Aleksandra Derra is philosopher, translator, and philologist and works at the Institute of Philosophy of the Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) in Toruń. Her work focuses on gender, subjectivity, and body problems in contemporary philosophy and cognitive science. Her publications are located within the field of contemporary feminist philosophy and (feminist) science and technology studies.

Adela Hîncu studied world and comparative literature at the University of Bucharest and modern history at Central European University. She received her PhD in Comparative History from CEU in 2019 with a dissertation on the history of social thought and sociology in state socialist Romania (“Accounting for the ‘Social’ in State Socialist Romania: Contexts and Genealogies, 1960s–80s”). Currently she is research fellow at Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena.

Anna Maria Kola is assistant Professor and Vice Dean at Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. She specialises on elite education in Poland and in the world, and pursues research in the field of higher education and science and social work. Most recently she has been expert in the Micro-credentials consultation group established by the European Commission.

Jan Surman is a historian of science and scholarship, focusing on Central and Eastern Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His work was concerned with history of universities in the Habsburg Empire and with history of scientific languages. Currently he works at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague with projects on transnationality of Central European science in the 20th century. 

Социология власти 3(2021)- Полевые исследования: наука за пределами лабораторий OPEN ACCESS

 Fresh issue of the journal Социология власти 3(2021)- Полевые исследования: наука за пределами лабораторий [Field Research: Science outside of laboratories] is online. Russian with English abstracts. OPEN ACCESS

URL: https://socofpower.ranepa.ru/home/archive/2021/464354/ .

ToC

Лабораторная и полевая наука: онтология и эпистемология

Виталий А. Куренной

Ru

Быстрая этнография (REAPFQI+): к прагматике полевых обследований

Владимир В. Картавцев

Ru

Исследование закрытых сообществ: заметки о чужом и собственном опыте

Ирина В. Стародубровская

Ru

Как возможно этнографическое исследование труда в России? Демаргинализация этнографии в поле прикладного исследования

Ольга В. Пинчук

Ru

Поле и жизнь: размышления «укорененного» антрополога

Алима Бисенова

Ru

Уроборос и другие экстернальные эффекты полевой научной инфраструктуры

Александр Сувалко, Мария Фигура

Ru

Осел Гумбольдта: транспорт, транспортные сети и инфраструктуры как фактор полевых исследований

Елизавета Березина

Ru

Полевая наука на море: история морских биологических станций

Юлия Лайус

Ru

Между Индианой Джонсом и врачом без границ: к проблематизации поля в современной лингвистике

Артём Космарский

Ru

Полевые исследования в раннесоветской криминологии (1920-е годы)

Михаил Погорелов

Ru

Дом науки: жизнь и времена тропических и полярных полевых станций

Пол Вeнцель Гейсслер, Энн Х. Келли

Ru

Полевая работа как попытка гальванизации гуманитарных разделов академии Puri S., Castillo D. A. (eds) (2016) Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities: Methods, Reflections, and Approaches to the Global South, New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Артем Рондарев

Ru

Рецензия на книгу: Vetter J. (2016) Field Life: Science in the American West during the Railroad Era. Intersections: Histories of Environment, Science and Technology in the Anthropocene Series, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press

Елизавета Березина, Екатерина Васильева

Ru

Call for Papers (Summer School): Empire of Circulation. Habsburg Knowledge in its Global Settings.

 Call for Papers (Summer School): Empire of Circulation. Habsburg Knowledge in its Global Settings. A summer school organized by the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Johann Gottfried Herder-Research Council in cooperation with the Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS. 3–6 October 2022

Placing Habsburg knowledge production from the 17th to the 20th centuries afresh in its global settings, this event will serve as a platform for doctoral, post-doctoral and senior researchers who specialise in Habsburg history, the history of science, scholarship and intellectual culture. Our event will allot a special place to Bohemia and its role as an interface between the regions of the Empire and as a switchboard between Central Europe and the globe.

Our re-discovery of Habsburg Central Europe as a clearinghouse for the circulation of ideas, practices and objects aims at a broader historiographical purpose: We do not consider Central Europe as a self-contained space, but encourage approaches that think outside the box, uncovering linkages and channels of exchange that help us to move beyond standard notions of space that undergird national and territorial histories. This implies that we will not treat Central Europe as a self-contained specialism, but as a springboard for the global history of knowledge-making. In pursuing this agenda, we encourage the development of research strategies that combine the study of the global ingredient in Habsburg Central Europe with the Central European lineaments of world history in innovative ways.

We invite papers of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers that contribute to one or several of the following thematic fields:

The study of

 institutions of knowledge-production (learned societies, academies, universities, churches, religious orders, secret societies, museums, theatres etc)

 the interplay of regional and global literature (translations, travelling habits, travelling forms, media and genres)

 the activities of go-betweens, brokers and liason agents

 the shifting political functions and expected pay-off of the knowledge produced

Discussing recent cutting-edge advances in the history of knowledge-circulation, relational history and connected history (e.g. Kapil Raj, Simon Schaffer, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Bernhard Schär), the summer school will also give due weight to postcolonial and decolonial approaches.

Our four-day summer school will consist of two components: an extended seminar hosted by the convenors will permit the participates to discuss a precirculated reader that contains both some of the convenors’ own work as well as other exemplary studies; a subsequent series of workshops will enable doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to present and discuss their projects with the faculty.

We invite applications both by junior scholars from Central Europe who work on the above-mentioned themes as well as by colleagues from other parts of the world whose research deals with our region.

Organizers: Franz L. Fillafer (Vienna), Johannes Feichtinger (Vienna), Steffen Höhne (Weimar-Jena), Alfrun Kliems (Berlin), Michael Wögerbauer (Prague)

Conference Languages: English and German

Location: Campus of the Austrian Academy and Sciences, Vienna.

Audience: Doctoral and Postdoctoral researchers

Conference languages: English and German

Application: Abstract of your contribution/research project (250-300 words) and a brief CV Kurzvita (preferably as PDF). Send to: steffen.hoehne@hfm-weimar.de

Deadline for submissions: 13 March 2022

We plan to cover participants’ travel and accomodation costs.

Yvonne Howell, Nikolai Krementsov (eds.) The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early 20th-Century Russia. London: Bloomsbury 2021. ISBN 9781350232839

 

Description

The idea that morally, mentally, and physically superior 'new men' might replace the currently existing mankind has periodically seized the imagination of intellectuals, leaders, and reformers throughout history. This volume offers a multidisciplinary investigation into how the 'new man' was made in Russia and the early Soviet Union in the first third of the 20th century.

The traditional narrative of the Soviet 'new man' as a creature forged by propaganda is challenged by the strikingly new and varied case studies presented here. The book focuses on the interplay between the rapidly developing experimental life sciences, such as biology, medicine, and psychology, and countless cultural products, ranging from film and fiction, dolls and museum exhibits to pedagogical projects, sculptures, and exemplary agricultural fairs. With contributions from scholars based in the United States, Canada, the UK, Germany and Russia, the picture that emerges is emphatically more complex, contradictory, and suggestive of strong parallels with other 'new man' visions in Europe and elsewhere. In contrast to previous interpretations that focused largely on the apparent disconnect between utopian 'new man' rhetoric and the harsh realities of everyday life in the Soviet Union, this volume brings to light the surprising historical trajectories of 'new man' visions, their often obscure origins, acclaimed and forgotten champions, unexpected and complicated results, and mutual interrelations. In short, the volume is a timely examination of a recurring theme in modern history, when dramatic advancements in science and technology conjoin with anxieties about the future to fuel dreams of a new and improved mankind.

Table of Contents

Preface

List of Illustrations

Introduction Nikolai Krementsov (University of Toronto, Canada)

Part 1 – Nurturing the New Man

1. Encyclopedic Worldbuilding: Alexander Bogdanov and the Cognitive Creation of the New Man Michael Coates (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

2. 'The RoadtoLife': Educating the New Man Lyubov Bugaeva (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)

3. The New Man in the Nursery: Making Soviet Dolls and Regulating Children's Play in the 1920s and 30s Olga Ilyukha (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

Part 2 – Imagining the New Man

4. New Sciences, New Worlds, and 'New Men' Nikolai Krementsov (University of Toronto, Canada)

5. Entertaining Sciences, Unlikely Horrors: The Changing Image of Man in Soviet Popular-Scientific Literary Genres Matthias Schwartz (Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Germany)

6. The New Man as a Monster of Eugenic Imagination: The Criminal Brain in Mikhail Bulgakov's 'Heart of a Dog' and James Whale's Frankenstein Irina Golovacheva (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)

Part 3 – Displaying the New Man

7. 'A School of the Peasantry of the Future': Constructing the Image of a 'New Peasant' at the 1923 All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition Olga Elina (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

8. Revolutionary Evolution in Apes and Humans in the 1920s: Sculpture and Constructs of the New Man at the Moscow Darwin Museum Pat Simpson (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

9. A New Man in the Ethnographic Museum: Between the Socialist Content and the National Form Stanislav Petriashin (Russian Museum of Ethnography, Russia)

Part 4 – Conclusion

The New Man: One Hundred Years Later Yvonne Howell (University of Richmond, USA)

List of Contributors

Index

Головнев И. А.: Визуализация этничности в советском кино (опыты ученых и кинемато­графистов 1920–1930-­х годов) [Visualization of ethnicity in Soviet cinema (experiments of scholars and filmmakers of the 1920s – 1930s]. СПб: МАЭ РАН 2021. OPEN ACCESS

 

URL: https://lib.kunstkamera.ru/rubrikator/02/vizualizaciya_etnichnosti_v_sovetskom_kino_opyty_uchenyh_i_kinematografistov_1920_1930_h_godov .

В 1920–1930-х годах в Советском Союзе сложилось полноценное направление этнографического кино. C одной стороны, кинематографическим потенциалом c научными целями овладевали ученые (В. Г. Богораз, Л. Л. Капица, Б. М. Соколов, А. Н. Терской, Н. Ф. Яковлев и др.). С другой — на экзотическом этнографическом поле экспериментировали кинематографисты (А. И. Бек-Назаров, Д. Вертов, В. А. Ерофеев, М. К. Калатозов, Н. А. Лебедев, А. М. Роом, Е. И. Свилова, М. Я. Слуцкий, В. Л. Степанов, В. А. Шнейдеров и др.). Была у этого явления и политическая подоплека — кинематограф использовался советской властью как эффективное средство для конструирования экранного образа многонациональной, разноукладной и прогрессивно развивающейся при социализме страны. Квинтэссенцией научно-исследовательских и фильмопроизводственных подходов стал запущенный по инициативе ЦК партии проект «Киноатлас СССР», направленный на создание многосерийного киноальманаха о народностях и регионах Советского Союза. Введению в научный оборот теоретических и практических открытий в советском этнографическом кино, представляющих живой интерес для современной визуальной антропологии, и посвящена эта книга. На крупном плане каждый из рассматриваемых опытов выражает специфический документальный или художественный стиль, отражавший процесс поиска матрицы «марксистского» этнофильма. На общем же плане эти примеры действительно складываются в своеобразный этнографический киноатлас, на страницах которого запечатлены разножанровые образы научно-творческого и идеологического позиционирования Страны Советов в мире.

Для историков, этнологов, этнографов, антропологов, социологов, философов, политологов, культурологов, преподавателей и студентов университетов.

Авторы статей: Головнев И.А.

I. «Киноатлас СССР»: проект и процесс 25

II. Опыты ученых 38

«Марксистская этно-фильма» Владимира Богораза 38

Киноэтнография Леонида Капицы 66

«Борьба за культурфильму» Бориса Соколова 107

«Этнографическая фильма» Анатолия Терского 130

Этнографическое кино как научный метод: концепция Николая Яковлева 149

III. Опыты кинематографистов 177

Этнографическая кинопостановка Амо Бек-Назарова 177

Кинематографический конструктивизм Дзиги Вертова 195

Антропологическая кинохроника Владимира Ерофеева 223

Революционный романтизм Михаила Калатозова 267

Идеологическая кинопублицистика Николая Лебедева 291

Пропагандистское кино Абрама Роома 320

Монтаж кинодокументов Елизаветы Свиловой 341

Художественная документалистика Михаила Слуцкого 357

Этнографический кинорепортаж Владимира Степанова 373

Видовое кино Владимира Шнейдерова 394

Заключение 412

Источники 427

Литература 428

Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire. Conference Proceedings 2021 (OPEN ACCESS)

 

October 4-9, 2021 online conference

https://www.mp.pl/auschwitz/conference/edition2021/proceedings2021/show.html

Prologue

The women’s medical ward in Frauenkonzentrationslager Lublin (Majdanek)

The prisoners’ hospital in Gross-Rosen concentration camp in the articles published in Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim

Childbirth in Stutthof concentration camp

Medical care for POWs in Camp Fünfeichen (Stalag II-A Neubrandenburg) during the Second World War

The Ujazdowski Hospital in Warsaw under Nazi German occupation, 1939–1944

Care for the wounded in the medical wards of the Warsaw Uprising

Pediatrics in the Warsaw Ghetto. An attempt at conceptualizing the issue

A story of Dr Mitsuo Kaneda, the first person who introduced the Auschwitz report to Japan

The worth of a woman: Compensating the chemical sterilization victims of Auschwitz Block 10

Froukje Carolina de Leeuw (1916-2002), a women prisoner doctor’s view of Block 10 in Auschwitz

Jeremiasz Barth, a dentist: “Medical treatment means dealing with and surviving”

Martina Bečvářová (ed.) The Development of Mathematics Between the World Wars: Case Studies, Examples and Analyses. London: World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd 2021. ISBN 978-1-78634-930-9.

 

The Development of Mathematics Between the World Wars traces the transformation of scientific life within mathematical communities during the interwar period in Central and Eastern Europe, specifically in Germany, Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Throughout the book, in-depth mathematical analyses and examples are included for the benefit of the reader.

World War I heavily affected academic life. In European countries, many talented researchers and students were killed in action and scientific activities were halted to resume only in the postwar years. However, this inhibition turned out to be a catalyst for the birth of a new generation of mathematicians, for the emergence of new ideas and theories and for the surprising creation of new and outstanding scientific schools.

The final four chapters are not restricted to Central and Eastern Europe and deal with the development of mathematics between World War I and World War II. After describing the general state of mathematics at the end of the 19th century and the first third of the 20th century, three case studies dealing with selected mathematical disciplines are presented (set theory, potential theory, combinatorics), in a way accessible to a broad audience of mathematicians as well as historians of mathematics.

 

Sample Chapter(s)

Preface: https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/suppl/10.1142/q0273/suppl_file/q0273_preface.pdf .

Chapter 1: German Mathematics Between the Two World Wars: https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/epdf/10.1142/9781786349316_0001 .

Deadline extended: Call for Abstracts for symposium “Science Studies between Science Policy and the Politics of Science” at ESHS 2022 (Brussels, 7-10 September 2022) organised by Fabian Link (Wuppertal), Jan Surman (Prague), Monika Wulz (Lucerne)

 

Studying the sciences has a long connection to underscoring the practical and political side of scientific research, epitomised by British historian J.D. Bernal and Hubert Laitko in the GDR, the scholarly tradition of Polish “Science of Science” since the interwar period, or Praxeology by Polish philosopher Tadeusz Kotarbiński. In the 1960s this connection became more tuned toward an applied history of science, now represented by scholars like Eugene Garfield or Gennady Dobrov. By then, science studies’ aim was as much to analyse sciences, as to propose the ways of their perfection, making “science of science” a meta-science of modernity. In the 1970s and 1980s sociological oriented science studies developed a poststructural critique of past and present scientific practices in terms of their military application and male dominance, becoming one of the driving forces behind changes at universities. Moreover, scholars also used science studies’ research to inform state science policy.

In our section we want to look at processes in which the study of science has been discussed and/or practiced as an applied, practice-related science governing or advising state science policy or, on the contrary, critically engaging with the role of science in state policy. Such cases range from science studies serving global peace and mutual understanding (ICHST, UNESCO projects, global planning endeavours etc.) or developing economic perspectives on the role of science in society, through meso-level of tuning national science systems with the help of cybernetic-based science of science and of sociological science studies, or merging science systems together (e.g. managing of science systems after border shifts 1918/1945, or the integration of the GDR’s science system into that of the FRG after 1989), to local case studies, such as the application of sociology and psychology of science in reform of research and higher education units or “experiments” with scientifically based operation in laboratories. In such endeavours, science studies actors were presenting themselves as both scholars and political actors, producing also enticing narratives about science’s importance for the modern society and contributing to the development of the idea of the ‘knowledge society’ on both sides of the Iron Curtain

We are particularly interested in studies analysing the situation in Central-Eastern Europe and Global South countries, as well as those highlighting transnational cooperation.

Proposals (an abstract of max 250 words + a short bio or link to personal webpage) should be sent to panel organizers (flink@uni-wuppertal.de, surman@mua.cas.cz, monika.wulz@unilu.ch) by January 10, 2022. For more information about the conference please visit https://eshsbrussels2022.com/calls/ .

Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, ABHPS Vol. 9, No. 1 (Autumn 2021) (OPEN ACCESS)

 

URL: http://www.bahps.org/acta-baltica/abhps-9-2/

Print cover

Imprint

Contents

Foreword

Articles

Luis Fernandez Moreno, Paula Atencia Conde-Pumpido. Kuhn, Putnam and the Reference.

Stanislav Juznic. The Leading Mid-European Astronomer Marian Wolfgang Koller.

Kadri Pärtel, Ave Suija, Iryna Yatsiuk. The Estonian Mycological Collections of Heinrich August Dietrich (1820–1897).

Vira Gamaliia, Igor Dovzhuk, Halyna Sichkarenko. Organization of Documentation in Ukraine during the Soviet Period.

Nataliia Kovalenko. Vasyl Pastushenko’s Scientific School in the Development of Soil Protection Technologies in Ukraine.

Reviews

Juris Salaks, Marika Garnizone. Review of the Centennial Congress of the International Society for the History of Medicine in Riga.

Mait Talts. The Naturalist Heldur Sander Celebrates His 75th Birthday.

Documents

Rein Vihalemm. ‘On the Character of Knowledge in Ancient Chemistry’.

Style guide for Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum

Zbigniew Opacki: Wydział Humanistyczny Uniwersytetu Stefana Batorego w Wilnie 1919–1939 [Humanities Faculty of the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius 1919-1939]. Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego 2021. ISBN: 978-83-8206-242-7

 

Spis streści: shorturl.at/xAEM4 .

„Dzieło profesora Zbigniewa Opackiego poświęcone Wydziałowi Humanistycznego Uniwersytetu Stefana Batorego w Wilnie (1919-1939), jego strukturze, kadrze i osiągnięciom naukowo-dydaktycznym, to niewątpliwie opus magnum autora […], jest jednak również szczególną liber denissima, która do pewnego stopnia – wbrew tytułowi – wkracza poza zwykłe dzieje wileńskiej humanistyki. A staje się niezwykłą fotografią i analizą znacznej części humanistycznego środowiska profesorskiego przedwojennej Rzeczypospolitej. Bowiem Uniwersytet Stefana Batorego, choć najmniejszy w II RP, nie działał w odosobnieniu […]. Analiza środowiska humanistycznego, nie tylko Uniwersytetu Stefana Batorego, ale również środowisk je wspierających lub inspirujących oraz wywierających wpływ, poprzez drobiazgowość tego obrazu daje możliwość zrozumienia mechanizmów istniejących w środowisku akademickim, wzajemnych animozji, ale też sympatii i przyjaźni. Recenzowana monografia jest więc wyjątkowym studium funkcjonowania tego środowiska, a także wnosi wiele nowych ustaleń do naszej znajomości przedwojennej humanistyki i jej, jeśli nie najwybitniejszych, to najczęściej analizowanych i cytowanych reprezentantów”.