Call for thematic dossier | HoST – Journal of History of Science and Technology | December 2023

 Call for thematic dossier | HoST – Journal of History of Science and Technology | December 2023

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HoST – Journal of History of Science and Technology
Call for two thematic dossiers to be published in 2024
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HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology<https://sciendo.com/journal/host> is an open access, on-line peer-reviewed international journal devoted to the History of Science and Technology, published in English by a group of Portuguese research institutions and De Gruyter/Sciendo. HoST encourages submissions of original historical research exploring the cultural, social and political dimensions of science, technology, and medicine (STM), both from a local and a global perspective.



Past thematic issues have dealt with topics as diverse as circulation, science communication, natural history, or the relation between science, technology and politics. Future issues might deal with both established and emerging areas of scholarship. The editors of HoST are looking for proposals for two thematic dossiers to be published in 2024 (HoST volume 18, issue 1-June, issue 2-December).



Each thematic dossier should be prepared by the guest editor(s) and include four research papers along with an introduction.



Submission guidelines
Proposals should include the following items:

  1.  An abstract describing the topic for the thematic dossier and its significance (500 words);
  2.  A list of the contributors along with the titles and abstracts (300 words) of the four research papers;
  3.  Brief CVs (300 words) of the guest editor(s) and authors;



The guest editor(s) and the contributors must be prepared to meet HoST's publication schedule:

  *   Abstract and titles submission: 20 January 2023
  *   Submission of complete research papers: 30 August 2023 (Issue 1); 30 December 2023 (Issue 2)
  *    Publication: June 2024 (Issue 18.1) December 2024 (Issue 18.2)



Proposals will be subject to approval by the Editorial Board and the outcome will be known to the authors by February 2023. Submissions should be sent as an e-mail attachment (preferably in one single .doc, .docx, .rtf or .odt file), to the chief-editor: chiefeditor@johost.eu<http://johost.eu>

Mikołaj Getka-Kenig: Stanisław Kostka Potocki

 Mikołaj Getka-Kenig: Stanisław Kostka Potocki. Studium magnackiej kariery w dobie upadku i „wskrzeszenia” Polski [Stanisław Kostka Potocki. A Study of a Career of a Magnate during Fall and "Revival" or Poland]. Warszawa: Muzeum Pałacu Króla Jana III w Wilanowie i Muzeum Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2021. ISBN 978-83-66104-92-1

Biografia Stanisława Kostki Potockiego (1755-1721) obejmującą działalność polityczną i reformatorską aktywnego w wielu obszarach przedstawiciela kultury oświecenia. Badacz, kolekcjoner i mecenas sztuki, reformator polskiego systemu edukacji i współtwórca Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, w 1805 r. wraz z żoną Aleksandrą udostępnił publiczności swoją kolekcję w pałacu wilanowskim, historycznej rezydencji królewskiej, tworząc pierwsze na ziemiach polskich muzeum sztuki.

4 tom serii „Johann Joachim Winckelmann i / und Stanisław Kostka Potocki.

Nowe badania i dokumenty / Neue Forschungen und Dokumente”.

Call for papers: Global fat resources: Connecting themes, approaches and narratives, ca. 1850-2022

Call for papers: Global fat resources: Connecting themes, approaches and narratives, ca. 1850-2022, University of Bergen, 23-24 May 2023, Deadline for proposals: 8 January 2023

Global resources have become a hot topic in many historical disciplines. Societies and economies around the globe have become increasingly dependent on the import and export of energy resources, metals, agricultural products and other commodities. The exploitation of global resources created wealth, triggered innovation and, on the other, side led to tremendous social and environmental costs. In addition, resource exploitation and trade meant new dependencies and vulnerabilities across the globe, increasing competition for global resources and volatile commodity prices. Global resources represent a subject connecting major societal challenges such as resource security, global justice and environmental and climate change.

This workshop aims at facilitating and building connections between different historical themes, approaches, narratives and disciplines in the investigation of global resources since the mid-19th century until today, with a particular focus on fat resources. Building connections comprises the challenge of connecting themes and subjects such as spaces in the Global South and in the Global North, power relations across large distances, colonial violence and indigenous agency, resource exploitation and social and environmental transformation, resource security and sustainability, etc. Such thematic connections suffer from enormous imbalances and bias, e.g. through the overwhelming predominance of historians and sources from the Global North and the challenging dearth of indigenous and environmental sources and perspectives.

Building connections likewise means crossing disciplinary boundaries and linking concepts and approaches for the investigation of global resources that have been developed in historical disciplines such as global history, environmental history, colonial history, commodity history, history of science and technology and economic history. The workshop encourages discussion, which (different) questions researchers ask, which concepts and approaches they use, which literatures and sources they consider, which interpretations and narratives they construct and with which problems they struggle. It is a major goal to fertilize connections and future cross-disciplinary research perspectives and approaches for the development of future research projects on global resources.

Global fat comprises all kinds of edible fat and (non-fossil) oil resources ranging from oil seeds such as soybeans, palm fruits, coconuts and others to various types of animal fats ranging from whale oil to cattle feed oils. Industries in the Global North became dependent on fat resources from the Global South during the late 19th and 20th centuries. While colonial ventures, trade imperialism and the accelerating globalization of postcolonial fat trade generated tremendous profits primarily in the Global North, it made tropical countries fatefully dependent on the exploitation of their natural resources and became a driving force of accelerating deforestation and social and environmental disruption and change.

We invite proposals on global resource connections, particularly on global fat, including a short abstract (ca. 300 words) and a one page CV until 8 January 2023. Please send your proposal to the following address: matthias.heymann@css.au.dk. The workshop is open to all researchers of relevant disciplines. Travel support will be available for participants without own funding. If you need travel support, please note so on your proposal and give an approximate estimate of the expected travel expenses. This workshop is part of the Tensions of Europe Research Group Technology, Environment and Resources, funded by the research network “Challenging Europe: Technology, Environment and the Quest for Resource Security” (EurReS) and will be organized by Ines Predöhl and Elena Kochetkova (University of Bergen) and Matthias Heymann (Aarhus University).

New (in open access): Martin Rohde Nationale Wissenschaft zwischen zwei Imperien Die Ševčenko-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 1892–1918

Martin Rohde: Nationale Wissenschaft zwischen zwei Imperien. Die Ševčenko-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 1892–1918. Vienna: V&R unipress, Vienna University Press 2022. ISBN: 978-3-8470-1390-7

URL: https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/book/10.14220/9783737013901 .

See also our global book talk with Martin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48ygKnXy4sg .

Which factors influenced the knowledge production of non-dominant groups in hierarchized contact zones? This question is discussed with the example of the Ukrainian Shevchenko Scientific Society in Habsburg Galicia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This young institution was the only centre of the Ukrainian scholarly community during this period, enabling investigation into nascent Ukrainian science through the history of this association. Although this book deals with a group of nationalizing scholars, the focus is not exclusively on conflicts, but rather on European entanglements as well as the possibilities, limits, and delineations of Ukrainian science in its pursuit of justifying the existence of Ukraine.

Donation campaign to fight a SLAPP suit against Munich historian Franziska Davies

Over the last months, Munich historian Franziska Davies has been fact-checking and scholarly criticising a German journalist and "Putin-Emphasiser" Gabriele Krone-Schmalz, whose work was popularizing a Putinist vision of Russia and Ukraine. Now Krone-Schmalz is suing Davies, in the style of SLAPP-suit (Strategic lawsuit against public participation). A group of scholars, incl. the board of VOH – Verband der OsteuropahistorikerInnen, started a donation campaign to collect money to help cover the process cost – surplus money will go to Ukrainian charities. Please support the campaign here (https://www.betterplace.me/solidaritaet-mit-franziska-davies?) and by sharing it!

CfP: Women in Science: Achievements and Barriers, June 8-9, 2023

Inspired by its 2023 exhibition Women in Science, the American Philosophical Society is organizing two international conferences that will explore the history of women in science, the present state of science and society, and the opportunities to create a more inclusive and diverse practice of science. The Society’s first gathering will focus on the themes “achievements and barriers,” while the second will focus on “opportunities.” Both conferences aim to examine these themes from historical, contemporary, and interdisciplinary perspectives.  

The program committee is now accepting proposals for the first conference on “Women in Science: Achievements and Barriers.” The conference will be held in-person at the Society in Philadelphia on June 8-9, 2023. The conference will also be livestreamed.

The program committee invites paper proposals from scholars in all fields, and especially historians, practitioners, policymakers, educators, and others whose work bears upon this theme.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

The contributions women have made to the advancement of scientific knowledge throughout time, and the varied forms these accomplishments have taken

The barriers that women have faced and continue to face in accessing scientific knowledge, education, and professional training

The challenges women have faced and continue to face in achieving full and equal participation and recognition in scientific endeavors and research opportunities

The impact of differences across scientific disciplines on the experiences of women in science

The impact of race, disability, class, and other identities on the experiences of women in science

The historical efforts taken by individuals, groups, policymakers, educators, and institutions to reduce barriers, their successes and failures, and how they continue to influence scientific education and practice today

Studies of scientists, cohorts, and intellectual networks that have affected women’s access to and participation in science

The ways in which the labor, politics, and economics of scientific research practices impact women’s roles in science 

The ways in which gendered social roles affect the careers of women in science

Applicants should submit a title and a 250-word proposal along with a C.V. by January 16, 2023 via Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/117770

All presenters will receive travel subsidies and hotel accommodations. Accepted papers will be due a month before the conference and pre-circulated to registered attendees. Papers should be no longer than 15-double spaced pages. Presenters may also have the opportunity to publish revised papers in the APS’s Transactions, one of the longest running scholarly journals in America.

Contact Info: 

For more information, visit https://www.amphilsoc.org/, or contact Adrianna Link, Head of Scholarly Programs, at alink@amphilsoc.org

CfA: Medical Authority and Professional Power Relations in East Central Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Actors, Spaces, Discourses. The Hungarian Historical Review

call for articles: Medical Authority and Professional Power Relations in East Central Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Actors, Spaces, Discourses. The Hungarian Historical Review, The deadline for the submission of abstracts: December 15, 2022

The deadline for the submission of accepted papers: March 31, 2023.

The Hungarian Historical Review (https://www.hunghist.org) invites submissions for its third issue in 2023, the theme of which will be: Medical Authority and Professional Power Relations in East Central Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Actors, Spaces, Discourses.

MEDICAL AUTHORITY AND PROFESSIONAL POWER RELATIONS IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES: ACTORS, SPACES, DISCOURSES

The deadline for the submission of abstracts: December 15, 2022

The deadline for the submission of accepted papers: March 31, 2023

Over the course of the past few decades, many new studies focusing on the medical history of East Central Europe have been published, and today there is a growing body of secondary literature on the subject with strong theoretical underpinnings. A common thread of these analyses is that in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, medical knowledge was presented as an authoritative form of knowledge in the context of the various tendencies of modernity, and this knowledge was given an imperative role in upholding social, economic, and political orders, both in socialist and capitalist societies.

From the last decades of the nineteenth century onwards, closer cooperation with the state has secured doctors an increasingly prominent and socially prestigious function. This has meant, as a consequence of various processes through which the state has promoted certain forms of professionalization within the world of medicine, that the knowledge and forms of expertise of medical doctors have stood out in comparison to knowledge and forms of expertise of related professions. For the state, furthermore, cooperation with doctors offered new means of enforcing regulatory processes. These phenomena have been partly interpreted in medical historiography in the context of macro-level changes in the relations of production and their translation into the meso-levels and micro-levels of society, consequently giving rise (and currency) to visions of the primary social benefit of medical activity as a means of ensuring a large, healthy, productive labor force and preventing threats to civilizational harms (such as physical or mental illness). This approach, however, also risks reducing the medical gaze purely to an instrument of state control.

At the same time, however, there have been overarching ideological, temporal, and geographical pursuits that have focused on maintaining and expanding the autonomy of the medical profession and developing the institutional background in which this type of knowledge can be exercised (e.g., the development of the standard forms of medical administration, the gradual emergence of hospitals and clinics as total institutions, and the increasing valorization of medical secrecy). These efforts have contributed to enabling everyday medical practice to function as independently as possible, allowing little or no insight to those outside the profession. An examination of these phenomena sheds light precisely on how the forms of social control exercised by medical professionals and their institutions are not formed by consensus but rather through a relationship saturated with social conflict, power imbalances, and, in some instances, conflicts of interest between the state, physicians, and their patients.

This special issue particularly welcomes papers discussing the following fields:

- healthcare institutions as spaces of professional advocacy and protection

- professional organizations and associations as sites of advocacy and protection

- medical authority and political advocacy

- the development of specific forms of medical administration (e.g., medical reports, statistics, etc.) as a covert claim to autonomy

- the use of medical language as a means of advocacy outside professional circles

- changing patient roles and patient rights: theoretical concepts and practical realizations on different levels of society and medical care

- inequalities in the doctor-patient relationship arising from differences in knowledge or social prestige

- gender issues in diagnosis, therapy, and medical work

- minorities, ethnicities, and the authority of medical knowledge (discrimination justified by medical knowledge, differences in access to care based on ethnicity)

- medical authority and different forms of funding and employment

Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words and a short biographical note with a selected list of the author’s three most important publications (we do not accept full CVs) no later than December 15, 2022.

Proposals should be submitted to the editors of the issue by e-mail: kovacs.janka@btk.elte.hu and viola.laszlofi@ehess.fr.

The editors will ask the authors of selected papers to submit their final articles (max. 10,000 words) no later than March 31, 2023.

The articles will be published after a double-blind peer-review process. We provide proofreading for contributors who are not native speakers of English.

All articles must conform to our submission guidelines.

The Hungarian Historical Review is a peer-reviewed international quarterly of the social sciences and humanities, the geographical focus of which is Hungary and East-Central Europe. For additional information, including submission guidelines, please visit the journal’s website: https://www.hunghist.org.

Silke Pasewalck , Rūta Eidukevičienė , Antje Johanning-Radžienė und Martin Klöker (ed.): Baltische Bildungsgeschichte(n). De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022. Open access

Silke Pasewalck , Rūta Eidukevičienė , Antje Johanning-Radžienė und Martin Klöker (ed.): Baltische Bildungsgeschichte(n). De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022. ISBN: 9783110998672

Open access: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110987133/html?lang=de#contents .

ÜBER DIESES BUCH

Für die baltischen Länder ist Bildung ein Schlüsselthema, das ihre Geschichte und ihr Selbstverständnis sowohl im Hinblick auf die Fremdbestimmung als auch auf die eigene Staatenbildung betrifft. Im Zuge von Handelskontakten, Christianisierung, Ordenskriegen und Rechtsimport gerieten die autochthonen Völkerschaften des baltischen Raums unter kulturelle, sprachliche und politische Einflüsse unterschiedlichen Gewichts. Sie waren dadurch zum Teil gewaltvollen Formierungsprozessen ausgesetzt. Im vorliegenden Band wird das Baltikum in Geschichte und Gegenwart aus der Perspektive eines weit gefassten Bildungsbegriffs untersucht. Die Beiträge stammen aus der Feder von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern aus Estland, Lettland, Litauen und Deutschland, insbesondere der Germanistik, aber auch der Geschichte, Bildungsgeschichte, Rechtsgeschichte, Slavistik und Komparatistik. Der Band zeigt wesentliche Aspekte der baltischen Bildungsgeschichte und ihrer Narrationen an beispielhaften Analysen und Fallstudien für alle drei baltischen Länder auf.

AUTORENINFORMATION

Silke Pasewalck, BKGE; Rūta Eidukevičienė, Vytautas Magnus Universität Kaunas, Litauen; Antje Johanning-Radžienė, Herder-Institut in Marburg; Martin Klöker, Under und Tuglas Literaturzentrum der Estnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Tallinn.

Call for papers: 17th Annual Graduate Conference in European History April 17-19, 2023, Central European University, Vienna

 Call for papers: 17th Annual Graduate Conference in European History April 17-19, 2023, Central European University, Vienna

VOICES HEARD AND UNHEARD: AUTHORITY, TRUTH, AND SILENCE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Étienne Pasquier“Time refines work like gold: what today lacks some credence will tomorrow authorize itself“

The past — mediated through written, visual, or material sources—is filled with empty spaces. Incomplete versions of what happened have been taken at face value, passed through time as representing the “real,” and validating particular kinds of the historical understanding devoid of (un)documented actors, practices, and processes.

Over the past few decades, scholars have been increasingly interested in voices from “underneath”, lending their ear to, for example, oral histories, messages between the lines, hints, clues, symbols, humor, satires, gestures, or objects to unearth that which has been doomed to non-existence or silence. This approach to historical sources could be labeled as relying on “weak evidence,” for even though it breaks the silence, it escapes clear-cut explanations. How can we retrieve voices from the past? When is “weak evidence” evidence enough to challenge or even replace dominant and established historical interpretations and narratives? To what kind of evidence do we grant higher authority over the other and why? How is authority attached to a piece of evidence? What is the purpose of establishing authority? Is it to state that something actually happened? Or to create an authentic world that looks as veridic as possible? How can a source be used to represent or construct truth?

We invite graduate students working on any topic or period in European history and/or Europe in global perspective to delve into these questions and consider the multiple layers conveyed by the notion of historical authority and its implicit elements in historical perspective.

We welcome submissions dealing with oral history, popular history, history of science, material history, intellectual history, history of ideas, book history, literary history, art history, social history, political history, legal history, historical anthropology, history in public sphere, archeology, museum studies, media history, and gender history.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

Voices and truth from below: voices of minorities, marginalized, oppressed/suppressed groups (on the basis of race, class, gender, religion and many more);

Establishing and identifying authority and truth in written, visual, material sources: expressing agency, creating authenticity, authorial practices and authorship, self-fashioning;

Whose authority? Whose truth?: Practices, regimes and actors of authority, crafting official scientific and historical discourses, forms of erasure, violence, (un)truth, and (in)justice;

Mediality and materiality: displaying authority, emblems/signifiers of authority, objects as tokens of authority and truth, “making history” through objects, fakes, distortions, and reproductions;

Historical truth in/and literary evidence: the status of historical fiction, the power of myths, propaganda, literature as a historical source, reimagining history across genres (fiction, non-fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, drama, poetry, folktale, and so on);

What happened? What is said to have happened?: Layers of authority, “meta” methodological approaches to history writing, critically engaging with historical narratives and historiography, the issue of objective past, “making history” and institutions (institutes, archives, museums, and so forth).

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.

Keynote speakers:

Dr. Clio Doyle (Queen Mary University of London)

Dr. James Alexander Kapaló (University College Cork)

Please send abstracts up to 300 words and a brief biography (max 100 words) to graceh2023@ceu.edu by January 17, 2023. Participants will receive a notification of acceptance by February 17, 2023. Final papers (up to 2000 words) are due by March 17, 2023 for pre-circulation.

Image credit: An ear relief ( 1st century B.C. ), dedicated to Serapis and Isis, with dedication made by Marcus Agelleius, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Linda Hall Library Fellowships (incl. Ukraine Fellowship with virtual funding)

 The Linda Hall Library invites researchers to apply for its 2023-24 fellowships in the history of science and related humanities fields. These fellowships provide scholars of exceptional promise with financial support to explore the Library’s collections and join a dynamic intellectual community of in-house experts, fellows, and scholars from other Kansas City cultural and educational institutions.

The Linda Hall Library is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive research environment and encourages members of any groups that have traditionally been underrepresented in academia to apply for fellowship support.

To apply, click the button below. All application materials, including recommendation letters, must be received by January 20, 2023. For additional information about the Library’s fellowships and the application process, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page (https://www.lindahall.org/research/linda-hall-library-fellowships/fellowships-frequently-asked-questions) or email fellowships@lindahall.org.

2023-24 GENERAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

The Linda Hall Library offers general fellowship support to doctoral students, postdoctoral scholars, and independent researchers whose projects examine the relationship between science, technology, and society. General fellowship funding is offered at a rate of $3,000 per month for doctoral students and $4,200 per month for postdoctoral researchers and scholars with other terminal degrees (e.g., MFA, MLIS).

Residential fellowships last between one and four months and support scholars who travel to Kansas City to access the Linda Hall Library’s collections. Residential fellows will be required to abide by the Library’s COVID-19 safety procedures and may be asked to complete their fellowships remotely depending upon public health conditions in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Virtual fellowships last between one and four months and support scholars working off-site using resources from the Library’s digital collections. Virtual fellows receive personalized research assistance from reference staff and may request complimentary scans of Library resources in accordance with our in-house digitization policies.

2023-24 SPECIALIZED RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

In addition to the general research fellowships listed above, the Linda Hall Library is offering several fellowships aimed at specific groups of researchers.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Postdoctoral Fellowship provides nine months of residential funding at a rate of $5,000 per month to a postdoctoral scholar whose research explores the intersection of science and the humanities. The NEH Fellow will spend the academic year conducting research at the Linda Hall Library and actively participate in the Library’s scholarly community. The NEH Fellow must be a United States citizen or a foreign national who has lived in the United States for the three years immediately preceding the application deadline. Doctoral candidates must have completed all degree requirements, except for the actual conferral of the degree, by the application deadline for the fellowship.

The History of Science and Medicine (HSM) Fellowship is jointly sponsored by the Linda Hall Library and the Clendening History of Medicine Library at the University of Kansas Medical Center. This residential fellowship provides one month of residential funding ($3,000 per month) to a doctoral student whose research examines the intersecting histories of science and medicine. The HSM fellow will spend one month in Kansas City conducting research in both libraries’ collections.

The Pearson Fellowship in Aerospace History honors the life and legacy of aerospace engineer Jerome Pearson. This fellowship provides up to two months of residential funding ($4,200 per month) to a postdoctoral scholar studying any aspect of aerospace history, including, but not limited to: engineering, physics, astronomy, astrophysics, and other disciplines related to space travel and exploration.

The Presidential Fellowship in Bibliography provides up to four months of residential funding ($4,200 per month) to a postdoctoral scholar whose research focuses on the study of books and manuscripts as physical artifacts, including projects that examine the history of printing techniques, publication practices, textual transmission, and reading strategies.

The Ukraine Fellowship provides up to two months of virtual funding ($5,000 per month) to a Ukrainian doctoral student or postdoctoral scholar whose research would benefit from the Library’s holdings. As with other virtual research fellowships, the Ukraine Fellow will conduct research using the Library’s digital collections and request complimentary scans in accordance with our in-house digitization policies. Applicants must be able to write and speak about their research in English.

This fellowship is being offered in partnership with the UK-Ukraine Twinning Initiative, an institution-to-institution collaborative model supported by Universities UK International and coordinated by the Cormack Consultancy Group that allows universities, as well as other intellectual organizations and consortia around the world, to support their Ukrainian counterparts.

 

hps.cesee article alert

Lukić, Dejan. "Science Education and Bureaucratization of Fieldwork: Creating a Geological Collection in Nineteenth-Century Serbia." Journal for the History of Knowledge 3, no. 1 (2022): 5, pp. 1_12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55283/jhk.11713 .

Hîncu, A., Baghiu, Ş. Existentialism, existentialists, and Marxism: From critique to integration within the philosophical establishment in Socialist Romania. Stud East Eur Thought (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-022-09514-w .

Baumann, Fabian. "Nationality as Choice of Path: Iakov Shul´gin, Dmitrii Pikhno, and the Russian-Ukrainian Crossroads." Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, vol. 23 no. 4, 2022, p. 743-771. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/kri.2022.0062.

Rohde, Martin. "Ukrainian "National Science" from a Spatial Perspective: How the Hutsul Lands Were Mapped." Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, vol. 23 no. 4, 2022, p. 773-801. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/kri.2022.0056.

hybrid event: Katja Castryk-Naumann: Expertise and International Politics. Polish Economists in the UN Secretariat (1946 to the 1960s)

 hybrid event: Katja Castryk-Naumann: Expertise and International Politics. Polish Economists in the UN Secretariat (1946 to the 1960s), Wednesday, November 23, 2022 at 17:30 CET (Prague&zoom)

Collegium Carolinum,

the German Historical Institute Warsaw,

and the Leibniz-Institute for History and Culture in Eastern Europe

in collaboration with the Cold War Research Group at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and Masaryk Institute and Archive CAS

cordially invite you to the lecture

Dr. Katja Castryk-Naumann (GWZO Leipzig):

Expertise and International Politics. Polish Economists in the UN Secretariat (1946 to the 1960s)

Commentary: Dr. Jan Surman (MIA CAS)

Moderation: Lucie Dušková, Ph.D. (GWZO Leipzig)

Wednesday, November 23 2022, 5.30 p. m.

Faculty of Arts, nám. Jana Palacha 1/2, room 001

The lecture will be streamed via Zoom. For the link, please contact florian.ruttner@collegium-carolinum.de

The history of international politics is much more than the history of diplomacy and state representation. International organizations had a big share in it, and the broad spectrum of actors who were engaged in these institutions, including experts, international civil servants, and all of sorts of activists. Based on this trend, this lecture deals with the early years of the UN headquarters in New York and its department of economic affairs which was key in the negotiations of international economic affairs after World War II. The departments’ work was shaped strongly by Polish economists who entered it as officials. Tracing their careers within the UN secretariat and their professional biographies before and after the service in the UN enables to reconstruct entanglements between international and Polish histories from a fresh angle. Connections include the origins of the economic intelligence of the UN secretariat in the expertise and networks of Polish and East Central European economists of the inter-war-period and during the war as well later collaboration across the divides of the Cold War.

Katja Castryck-Naumann studied history, political science and philosophy at the universities of Leipzig, Edinburgh and Vienna. She was visiting scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Aarhus Universitet, Université Science-Po, Lyon and CNRS Paris. She got research fellowships from the DHI, Washington D.C., the University of Chicago and European Science Foundation. Since 2020 she has been a coordinator of young researchers’ support at the GWZO. She is the author of Laboratorien der Weltgeschichtsschreibung: Lehre und Forschung an den Universitäten Chicago, Columbia und Harvard von 1918 bis 1968, Göttingen 2018.

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💡 Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

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🇨🇿 Die „Prager Vorträge“ der Prager Außenstellen des Collegium Carolinum, des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Warschau und des Leibniz-Instituts für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO) wenden sich zunächst an Fachhistoriker und Fachhistorikerinnen aus der Tschechischen Republik. Sie wollen einen Begegnungs- und Kommunikationsort zwischen tschechischen und deutschen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern bilden.

Darüber hinaus bieten die Vorträge aber auch geschichtliche Informationen und Anregungen für die interessierte Öffentlichkeit. Auf der Grundlage neuer Ansätze und Forschungsthemen mit entweder regionalem, europäischem oder globalem Bezug wirkt die Reihe als fortlaufendes Diskussionsforum.

Zum Programm: https://leibniz-gwzo.de/sites/default/files/dateien/22_LeiPra_Prager%20Vortr%C3%A4ge.pdf

Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen!

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📷 Bild von Denis Poltoradnev auf Pixabay

3rd Conference of the DHST Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy:

 Call for Papers

3rd Conference of the DHST Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy:

Circulation and Exchange in Science and Diplomacy

19-21 July 2023 | University of São Paulo

Co-hosted with the Department of Political Science of University of São Paulo (DCP/FFLCH-USP)

The DHST Commission of Science, Technology and Diplomacy (STAND) exists to promote and coordinate interdisciplinary historical studies on the relationships between science, technology and diplomacy. In 2019, we held our first conference in Copenhagen. Our second, in 2022, was a hybrid meeting hosted in Beijing. In 2023, we will meet in São Paulo, Brazil. 

In this meeting we will continue our project of developing a more diverse and inclusive global history of science, technology and diplomacy. This meeting will consider the plurality of historical actors that have engaged with issues related to science, technology, medicine, and the environment. We aim to consider their influence and impacts in both intra- and inter-regional contexts with particular emphasis on (but not limited to) the agency, activities, and influence of actors from Latin America.

We invite contributions exploring a wide range of themes but in particular welcome those involving or engaging with:

Transboundaries (regionality and regional approaches; ‘science diplomacy’ and e.g., the Amazon or the Andes; transboundary water diplomacy; health issues across borders; transboundary pollution and monitoring)

Networks and asymmetries (novel networks; South-South relations; indigenous approaches)

Actors in ‘science diplomacy’ (local and non-governmental actors in IR; gender and ‘science diplomacy’; activism and actors in science diplomacy; indigenous approaches)

‘Science diplomacy’ and the Environment (conservation; water challenges)

Materiality and ‘science diplomacy’ (diplomatic objects; water technologies; disaster diplomacy)

Open Science (Open Access/Source Science; and Digital Science Diplomacy)

Advancing Science Diplomacy studies (theory, historiography, Southern approaches)

We invite submission of paper proposals which include: a title, abstract (300 words maximum), and a short CV (150 words maximum) to STAND@manchester.ac.uk <mailto:STAND@manchester.ac.uk> by 20 January 2023.

Published on behalf of the STAND 2023 Program Committee; Dr Aya Homei (Chair), Dr Barbara Silva, Dr Gabriela Ferreira, Dr Luciana Vieira Souza da Silva, Dr Sam Robinson

Notes:

The conference is open to scholars at any career stage.

The conference will be conducted in English.

We particularly welcome submissions from Early Career Researchers, and a small number of grants to support attendance will be available.

There will be no fee to attend the conference, but participants will need to fund their own travel to/from, and accommodation in São Paulo.

Roberto Lalli, PhD

Assistant Professor (RTDb)

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMEAS), Politecnico di Torino

Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, Italy

Visting Scholar

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

https://mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de <https://mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/>

Vice-President, Inter-Union Commission on the History and Philosophy of Physics (IUPAP - DHST/IUHPST)

Secretary, European Society for the History of Science

Scientiae 2023: Prague, 7-10 June -- CFP Open

 Scientiae 2023: Prague, 7-10 June -- CFP Open

The 10th annual meeting of *Scientiae* will take place in Prague, with

support of the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences and

Faculty of Arts, Charles University. We are delighted to accept proposals,

and we are keenly aware of the importance of meeting in person; by design,

our forum has always been warm and inclusive, as well as a suitable arena

for collaboration between senior and early career historians. In addition

to regathering after the pandemic, and inviting new contributions, the

conference in Prague maintains as one of its primary goals that of bridging

the gap between studies of material culture and history of ideas.

Historians of science, philosophers, literary scholars, art historians, and

many other seemingly distant experts are encouraged to reflect together on

the complexities of the early modern period.

While the brand of *Scientiae* has grown considerably, demonstrating its

ongoing relevance, every past attendee knows that ‘interdisciplinary’ is

not just a keyword for us, but a productive look at epistemic practices in

the transformation of learning. Likewise, our methodology does not merely

reflect a variety or another of history of knowledge, but also considers

breakdowns or blind spots, image-making, the supernatural, and it is highly

conducive to a global perspective.

The congress is open to all topics related to the 1400-1800 period. Some

papers will be strongly theoretical, others deeply archival, but in any

case researchers who meet at *Scientiae* come prepared for *significant

discussions*. The assemblage of sessions will naturally build on our desire

to promote a thematic exchange between fields of study, rather than a

preformed sense of proximity, be it disciplinary, academic, or geographic.

As the programme begins to coalesce, we are very proud to announce two

keynote addresses by *Alexandra Walsham* (Cambridge) and *Bernd Roling*

(Berlin), as well as a cluster of papers dedicated to the Rudolphine legacy

of our hosting city. A further list of confirmed participants will

circulate later, by or around Christmas.

The organizing committee consists of Gábor Almási (Budapest), Barbara

Bienias (Warsaw), Leonie Hannan (Belfast), Iva Lelková (Prague), Tomáš

Nejeschleba (Olomouc), and Ovanes Akopyan (I Tatti). The organization is

led by Stefano Gulizia (Milan) and Vladimír Urbánek (Prague). Inquiries

should be addressed to: stefano.gulizia@unimi.it.

We envision three ways to join:

·        *Individual, 20-minute papers*: Please submit a descriptive title,

200-word abstract, and one-page CV.

·        *Complete panels*: Same as above for each paper, plus 200-word

rationale for the panel. Maximum four presenters, including chair (and/or

respondent).

·        *Workshops or seminars*: One-page CV for each session leader, plus

200-word plan explaining the topic's suitability, and its techniques or

resources.

Submit your proposal online *before January 15th, 2023*, at

http://scientiaeacademic.com.

There will be no extension of this deadline.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to Prague!

Roundtable discussion, “Rethinking Theoretical and Methodological Frameworks for the History of Russian & European Science, Technology & Medicine,”

CHORUS: Colloquium for the History of Russian and Soviet Science cordially invites you to the roundtable discussion, “Rethinking Theoretical and Methodological Frameworks for the History of Russian & European Science, Technology & Medicine,” featuring three panelists:

James T. Andrews (Iowa State University)

William Nickell (University of Chicago)

Alessandro Mongili (University of Padua)

Moderator: Slava Gerovitch (MIT)

Participant-presenters of this roundtable will reflect on the role that theoretical frameworks play in our analysis of case studies in the history of Russian and European science. Increasingly, scholars in STS have applied inter-disciplinary methodologies to their research to better integrate the history of technology, science, and medicine into both broader historical narratives, as well as complex current schools of analytical methods. Each roundtable participant, a senior historian/socio-cultural theorist in the field, will reflect on their own past methodologies as well as how theory has been serving as frameworks for their current work. They will also attempt to briefly comment on how the current situation in Eastern Europe/Russia might imminently affect not only their access to primary sources, but potentially their methodological frameworks as well. Each participant will speak for about 12-15 minutes, then the moderator will help guide and channel these overviews and meditations into a general discussion about the role of theory in the history of science.

The meeting will be held on Thursday, December 1, at 17:00 (Kyiv) / 18:00 (Moscow) / 10 аm (New York) / 7 am (Los Angeles).

Join Zoom Meeting

https://mit.zoom.us/j/93665011585?pwd=eExmZEFsamtGRm85WWVVRC9mMmJvQT09

Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues.

Biennial Call for Special Issue proposals for Centaurus

Centaurus, the official Journal of the European Society for the History of Science, regularly publishes issues dedicated to a special theme. Recently published Special Issues include:

• Science at the Zoo: Producing Knowledge about Exotic Animals (Sept. 2022)

• Making power visible. Codifications, infrastructures, and representations of energy (Nov. 2021)

• The Material Culture and Politics of Artifacts in Nuclear Diplomacy (May 2021)

• Global Perspectives on Science Diplomacy (Feb. 2021)

The ESHS and the Editorial Board of Centaurus are now soliciting proposals for Special Issues to be published in 2024 and 2025.

*Deadline: *proposals should be sent to the Editor (at the address below) no later than January 10, 2023.

Proposals should include the following:

1. A description of the topic and its significance (less than 200 words).

2. A short description of (a) the topic’s relationship to the literature;

(b) the degree to which the proposal links history of science to other fields of knowledge; (c) the audience that is targeted by the volume; (d) the main innovations of the proposal; (e) why the volume is especially relevant, timely and important (less than 500 words).

3. A list of (approximately) 6 to 10 contributors, together with a title and a short paragraph describing each contributor’s individual essay.

4. A brief CV of the guest editor(s).

5. A schedule of production (time needed for internal review by the guest editors; date of first submission; time for peer review; time for

revisions; final version ready).

All topics that fall within the scope of the journal can be chosen. We are especially looking forward to receiving proposals for interdisciplinary special issues.

Note that Centaurus underwent some major changes in the last year: we changed publisher, became a fair and equitable Diamond Open Access journal (at no cost for neither readers nor authors) and our 2021 Impact Factor and Scopus CiteScore are (among) the highest in the field. See the website of the journal at: http://www.eshs.org/centaurus/ and https://www.brepols.net/series/CNT, and follow us on

Twitter: @Centaurus_ESHS.

The committee selecting the special issues will be composed of representatives of the editorial board and the ESHS. Criteria include the quality, innovative character, relevance, timeliness and interest of the proposal, the expertise of the guest editor(s), the expertise of the authors, the diversity of the group of authors (geography, age, gender, etc.), and the coherence and feasibility of the project.

http://www.eshs.org/2022/10/21/biennial-call-for-special-issue-proposals-for-centaurus/

Sincerely yours,

Koen Vermeir, Editor of Centaurus

EiC.Centaurus@zoho.eu

Marina Mogilner: A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. ISBN: 978-0-674-27072-5.

 Marina Mogilner: A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. ISBN: 978-0-674-27072-5.

The forgotten story of a surprising anti-imperial, nationalist project at the turn of the twentieth century: a grassroots movement of Russian Jews to racialize themselves.

In the rapidly nationalizing Russian Empire of the late nineteenth century, Russian Jews grew increasingly concerned about their future. Jews spoke different languages and practiced different traditions. They had complex identities and no territorial homeland. Their inability to easily conform to new standards of nationality meant a future of inevitable assimilation or second-class minority citizenship. The solution proposed by Russian Jewish intellectuals was to ground Jewish nationhood in a structure deeper than culture or territory—biology.

Marina Mogilner examines three leading Russian Jewish race scientists— Samuel Weissenberg, Alexander El’kind, and Lev Shternberg—and the movement they inspired. Through networks of race scientists and political activists, Jewish medical societies, and imperial organizations like the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population, they aimed to produce “authentic” knowledge about the Jewish body, which would motivate an empowering sense of racially grounded identity and guide national biopolitics. Activists vigorously debated eugenic and medical practices, Jews’ status as Semites, Europeans, and moderns, and whether the Jews of the Caucasus and Central Asia were inferior. The national science, and the biopolitics it generated, became a form of anticolonial resistance, and survived into the early Soviet period, influencing population policies in the new state.

Comprehensive and meticulously researched, A Race for the Future reminds us of the need to historically contextualize racial ideology and politics and makes clear that we cannot fully grasp the biopolitics of the twentieth century without accounting for the imperial breakdown in which those politics thrived.

CFP: From Student Unions to Trade Unions: Campus-Based Activism and Beyond

 CFP: From Student Unions to Trade Unions: Campus-Based Activism and Beyond

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On 13 January 2023, the Histories of Activism group at Northumbria University (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) will host a workshop to examine links between student activists and different social and political movements. We welcome paper proposals for this event, which is being organised with support from the Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH).

From Student Unions to Trade Unions: Campus-Based Activism and Beyond

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Histories of Activism Research Group, Northumbria University, NE1 8ST Newcastle upon Tyne (United Kingdom)

13.01.2023 - 13.01.2023

Bewerbungsschluss: 20.11.2022

This workshop will explore the different ways in which campus-based activism linked to wider goals of social and political change as well as tracing the conflicts that emerged in such settings. It will bring together historians working on different countries and regions, with discussions that encourage comparative and transnational perspectives.

In 1922, student leaders from England and Wales established the National Union of Students (NUS) and, in doing so, connected local efforts to represent students with endeavours that were being waged within the national and international spheres. The formation of the NUS was part of a broader, international phenomenon – namely the creation of bodies that staked claims beyond individual college or university settings. From the very beginning, local and national student unions were subject to underlying tensions. On the one hand, some activists were keen to focus on matters that seemed to have a direct bearing on student concerns, from dealing with educational provision and student welfare to promoting sports or travel. On the other hand, a competing conception of student activism sought to link it to wider social and political visions. The latter variety manifested itself in different ways, for instance student involvement in anticolonial struggles, the rise of radical protest in 1968 and students’ involvement in international solidarity campaigns during the 1970s. In many ways, these dual foci, and the tensions that they often entail, have been consistent features of student politics.

We encourage papers that focus on different countries as well as contributions that explore international, transnational and methodological dimensions. Speakers may focus on different time periods. We are particularly interested in contributions that help to shed light on some of the following questions:

- In what ways and what contexts did student activists forge connections with other social and political actors, for instance trade unions, political parties and social movements?

- How did participation in welfare provision and self-help relate to broader quests for social change?

- How did students engage with industrial relations on campus (e. g. lecturers’ strikes)?

- What roles did local or national student unions play in specific political campaigns? 

- What were the manifestations and limitations of international solidarity (as articulated by student activists)?

- How did officials and state agencies engage with student activists and their politics?

- What are the sources and methods through which we can examine student activism, especially in terms of its relationship with social movements?

The event is hosted by the History of Activism research group at Northumbria University, with support from the Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH). Thanks to funding from the SSLH, we can provide some partial travel subsidies to PhD students and early-career researchers who do not have access to institutional funds. If you would like to offer a paper for this event, please submit a brief abstract (150–200 words) and a biographical note to Daniel Laqua (daniel.laqua@northumbria.ac.uk) by 20 November 2022.

New journal: History of Social Science

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new journal, *History of Social Science*, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS).

https://hss.pennpress.org/home/

*History of Social Science* offers an international forum for the examination of the transformations of the social sciences since the early twentieth century. The journal covers a variety of disciplines, from the core social sciences of economics, political science, and sociology, to disciplines with links to natural science, such as anthropology, geography, and psychology, and disciplines closer to the humanities, such as history and philosophy. Related fields, including area studies, business, communication studies, criminology, law, and linguistics, are also included under the journal’s editorial scope. An important editorial commitment of the journal is to solicit and cultivate scholarship on the history of the social sciences throughout the world, as well as work that traces the transnational circulation and mutual shaping of ideas, practices, and personnel.

The journal is now accepting submissions:

https://hss.scholasticahq.com/for-authors

More information can be found on the journal’s website, including Author Guidelines and the Editorial Board

https://hss.pennpress.org/home/

The first issue is slated to appear in Spring 2024.

The journal’s sponsor is the Society for the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS), which also hosts a small annual conference on the worldwide history of the social sciences in the twentieth century. Next year’s symposium will be held in Uppsala, Sweden, in June; see the call for papers for more details:

https://hss.pennpress.org/home/

Please contact the journal editors at hss@hisress.org with submission inquiries or any other questions.

Jamie Cohen Cole, Philippe Fontaine, and Jeff Pooley

Co-editors, *History of Social Science*

New edited volume: Elity intelektualne Lwowa [L'viv's intellectual elites]

Materiały z XV Polsko-Ukraińskiej Konferencji Naukowej „Lwów: Miasto – społeczeństwo – kultura. Intelektualne elity miasta” zorganizowanej w dniach 9-11 grudnia 2020 r. w Krakowie, redakcja tomu Kazimierz Karolczak i Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek.

Vol. 13 (2021): Elity intelektualne Lwowa

To access the edited volume, please follow the link: https://journals.akademicka.pl/kpk/issue/view/296

Introduction

WstępKazimierz Karolczak, Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek 7 PDF

Articles

Środowisko intelektualne Zakładu Narodowego im. Ossolińskich w dziewiętnastowiecznym LwowieKazimierz Karolczak 15-26 PDF

Lwów i jego mieszkańcy w latach 1847-1850 w świetle „Pamiętników” Ksawery z Brzozowskich GrocholskiejWiktoria Kudela-Świątek 27-50 PDF

„Ja nie znam Ojczyzny jak Polska, w jej zmartwychwstanie wierzę jak w Boga”Dominikanin Piotr Zachariasz Korotkiewicz (1803-1873) jako jeden z duchowych przywódców ruchu patriotyczno-narodowego we Lwowie w 1848 r.Marek Miławicki OP 51-76 PDF

Życie i twórczość Platona Kosteckiego jako wyzwanie biograficzne i źródłoznawczeAdam Świątek 77-94 PDF

Zofia Romanowiczówna (1842-1935) – lwowska pamiętnikarka i działaczka społecznaKatarzyna Świetlik 95-110 PDF

Wokół biografii metropolity Andrzeja Szeptyckiego – stan badań, źródła i metodaMagdalena Nowak 111-135 PDF

Z rektorskiego fotela do poselskich ławRektorzy Uniwersytetu Lwowskiego jako posłowie wirylni do Sejmu Krajowego GalicyjskiegoDamian Szymczak 137-151 PDF

Środowisko intelektualne Towarzystwa Miłośników Przeszłości Lwowa (1906-1939)Lidia Michalska-Bracha 153-164 PDF

Lwów i lwowianie w czasie wojny polsko-bolszewickiej (lipiec-sierpień 1920 r.)Ihor Mraka 165-186 PDF

Spisy powszechne w Polsce w latach 1921 i 1931 jako źródło do badań liczebności, struktury etniczno-wyznaniowej i zatrudnienia przedsiębiorców przemysłowych we Lwowie w okresie międzywojennymOłeh Dudiak 187-202  PDF

Lwowski okres twórczości Wasyla SimowyczaOlha Szeluch, Emilia Kazan 203-208 PDF

„Lwów był dla mnie Mekką”. Wspomnienia Ułasa SamczukaZoja Baran 209-223 PDF

Wojenne losy Aleksandra Prusiewicza i jego „Dziennik z wydarzeń II wojny światowej 1939-1941”Agnieszka Biedrzycka 225-244 PDF

„Przy partyjnym stole”. Dostawy towarów spożywczych dla nowej elity lwowskiej w latach 1944-1947Roman Heneha 245-259 PDF

Ustanowienie sowieckiego systemu przysposobienia obronnego w cywilnych szkołach wyższych we Lwowie (1944-1961)Łarysa Szełestak 261-270 PDF

Ten, który łączył niepołączalne. O profesorze Petrze Nedbajle i prawach człowiekaRusłan Siromśkyj 271-285 PDF

„Nie wychowywać nowej inteligencji”. Trudne lata mniejszości polskiej we Lwowie 1959-1962Piotr Olechowski 287-300 PDF

Reviews

Konferencje „Lwów: Miasto – społeczeństwo – kultura”. 30 lat współpracy polskich i ukraińskich historyków z Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego im. KEN w Krakowie i Lwowskiego Uniwersytetu Narodowego im. I. FrankiKazimierz Karolczak 301-308  PDF