Herder Institute Research Academy and the virtual platform HPS.CESEE: History of Science in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe are proud to present the global book launch "Clandestine Research in occupied Poland (1939-1945)." Beata Halicka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) and Johannes Feichtinger (Austrian Academy of Sciences) will join with Friedrich Cain (University of Vienna) to discuss his recently published book "Wissen im Untergrund: Praxis und Politik klandestiner Forschung im besetzten Polen (1939–1945) [Knowledge in the Underground. Practices and Politics of Clandestine Research in Occupied Poland (1939–1945)]" (Tübingen 2021) [1], in a discussion moderated by Jan Surman (Prague). The discussion is a joint event of two series of online book discussions, HIRA Book Launch by the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Institute of the Leibniz Association, and hps.cesee global book talks by the virtual platform HPS.CESEE: History of Science in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
The meeting is free and open to the public. To receive the link, please register at http://tiny.cc/booktalkcain or write to events-hira@herder-institut.de.
[1] Friedrich Cain: Wissen im Untergrund: Praxis und Politik klandestiner Forschung im besetzten Polen (1939–1945) [Knowledge in the Underground. Practices and Politics of Clandestine Research in Occupied Poland (1939–1945)]. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2021.
Abstract: Starting from the premise that scientific research is bound to specific places, times and practices, Friedrich Cain's book focuses on moments in which these contexts are disrupted. During the German occupation (1939–1945), most Polish scientists were forced to find clandestine modes for their research. They often adjusted their laboratories and libraries or reassembled them from scratch as the book shows for contexts of social sciences, experimental systems of typhus research in Lwow and beyond, on studies of hunger in the Warsaw ghetto, and finally on attempts to organise physical research. It explores how practices and procedures were replaced, newly established or dynamised in the 'laboratory situation of war' and how strongly programmes of scientific neutrality had to be reconciled with political agendas.
More on the book: https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/wissen-im-untergrund-9783161589058
Participants:
Friedrich Cain is an university assistant (post-doc) at the Chair of Historical Transregional Studies. His research focuses on the history of science, especially political epistemology. He deals with questions of the organization and utilization of knowledge, precarious knowledge systems, and a praxeology of truth. Another focus is the history of East Central and Eastern Europe.
Johannes Feichtinger is a Senior Researcher at and interim director of the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His interests are intellectual history and history of science global and regional (18th–20th century), history of the Habsburg Monarchy and Austria (17th–20th century), studies in culture (postcolonial theory, memory & identity).
Beata Halicka is professor of contemporary history at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań. Her most recent projects have been concerned with forced migration and cultural appropriation of the Oder region 1945-1948, and constructions of identity by migrants from Eastern to Western Europe and to the USA in the 20th Century.
Jan Surman is a historian of science and scholarship, focusing on Central and Eastern Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 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.
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