Call for Abstracts: The Past and Present of Humanities Peer Review

 Call for Abstracts: The Past and Present of Humanities Peer Review

Special Issue of Minerva - A Review of Science, Learning and Policy

Abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2024

Peer review, i.e. the institutionalized evaluation of scholars and their outputs by others working in the same field, is fundamental to knowledge production and research evaluation in the present-day humanities. However, the origins and development of humanities peer review remain remarkably poorly understood, particularly in comparison to the history of peer review in the natural and social sciences. This special issue aims to bridge this knowledge gap by exploring the historical evolution of peer review in humanities disciplines such as history, theology, philosophy, musicology, and linguistics. It seeks to uncover the diverse forms of humanities peer review that have existed throughout history, extending beyond currently dominant practices of academic peer review. By starting to explore the global historical context of peer review in the humanities and by situating this history alongside the history of scientific peer review, this special issue offers valuable insights for historians and sociologists interested in academic evaluation, quality control, and gatekeeping. Additionally, by revealing the broad spectrum of evaluative practices that have historically been employed within the humanities, it opens up new perspectives that have the potential to inspire the present and future of peer review across the humanities and sciences.

Key topics for articles

We invite scholars to submit proposals for papers that explore the historical development of peer review in the humanities, with a particular focus on the period from the nineteenth century up to the present. We welcome historical and sociological contributions that promise to offer new insights into the historical and/or recent developments of peer review in the humanities, and that help situate current evaluative practices within a broader historical context.

Proposals may explore the social, cultural, political, and epistemological aspects of the recent history of peer review in the humanities. We invite potential contributors to consider topics related to questions such as:

● How have peer review practices in the humanities historically differed from those in the natural and social sciences?

● How have peer review processes in the humanities historically been organized?

● Who were allowed to act as reviewers, and who were excluded from this role?

● How has the organization and practice of the peer review process changed within the humanities?

● What has been the impact of peer review on the production of knowledge in the humanities?

For a more detailed introduction to the special issue and potential topics for articles, please see the full Call for Papers, which can be found here: https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/RestApi/Public/GetFile?Employee=59273&l=EN&id=1808&t=000000.

Submission guidelines

Extended abstracts (max. 1000 words, not including the bibliography) should be submitted by March 15, 2024 to mariegabrielle.verbergt@ugent.be and s.l.tenhagen@uu.nl Authors whose article proposals have been accepted will be asked to submit a preliminary outline of their paper of approximately 3000 words in length. This outline will be discussed during an online workshop scheduled for the summer or fall of 2024. The submission deadline for full papers (6,000-9,000 words) is November 15, 2024.

Contact Information

Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt

Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt is a historian and sociologist working as a doctoral scholar at Ghent University’s Department of History. Her work focuses on the historical and contemporary conditions in which humanities knowledge is produced. She pays particular attention to peer review and selection mechanisms, as well as the changing relationships between the academy, funding organizations, and the state. Her dissertation The Price of History: A History of European Funding for Historical Research (1970-2020) reconstructs how historical research was funded by the European Science Foundation and the European Union.

mariegabrielle.verbergt@ugent.be

Sjang ten Hagen

Sjang ten Hagen is an assistant professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Utrecht University, where he studies the phenomena of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity from historical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives. He is particularly interested in the origins and transformations of disciplines in the natural sciences and humanities, as well as in their mutual interactions. In his research, Sjang has explored the academic genre of book reviewing as an evaluative practice across various disciplines, including history, psychology, and physics.

s.l.tenhagen@uu.nl 

CFP: Media and Epidemics: Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health, 20th-21st Centuries

 CFP International Conference: Media and Epidemics: Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health, 20th-21st Centuries

CFP International Conference

Media and Epidemics:

Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health,

20th-21st Centuries

Organizers:

Media and Epidemics Project, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest,

in collaboration with the

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester

Bucharest, 30-31 May 2024

Abstracts submission deadline: 31 January 2024

Epidemics provide significant opportunities to reflect on the ways in which media, technology and society are co-constituted. As medical and social phenomena, they tend to be highly mediatized events, although the limits and local inflections of that mediatization are yet to be subjected to sustained critical attention in both historical and contemporary settings. Moreover, as the Covid-19 pandemic has reminded us, outbreaks of infectious diseases represent a veritable test for a country’s underlying socio-economic and political structures. This includes the ability to harness technologies and infrastructures of communication to overcome public health crises, by implementing population surveillance measures, communicating with broader publics, coordinating epidemic responses or devising strategies of preparedness against future outbreaks. By becoming testing grounds for various technologies of epidemic management (e.g., Lynteris 2018), epidemics also accelerate innovation, adaptation and change, while highlighting inequalities of access, legal, ethical and privacy dilemmas, questions of public trust, effective communication of science and (mis)information overload. This is particularly visible in the disproportionate impact of epidemics on groups that suffer from higher degrees of socio-economic marginalization, such as women, who represent the majority of primary caregivers, ethnic minorities and immigrants, who are often targeted as disease carriers, or persons with disabilities, who are frequently excluded from decision-making processes and have limited access to public health information.

This conference seeks to explore, from historical and contemporary, as well as trans-disciplinary and trans-regional perspectives, the role of media and communication technologies in the making and management of epidemic outbreaks since the beginning of the twentieth century. We welcome submissions from across the humanities and social sciences, pertaining to any area of the world, that engage with the following topics, but are not restricted to them:

- The role of state and non-state actors (medical and public health professionals, health advocates and activists, media and international organizations) in epidemic management.

- The relationship between international organizations and media in the context of public health crises.

- The intersections of media and marginalization in epidemic outbreaks, e.g., how socio-economic marginalization (of women, young people, ethnic minorities, immigrants, persons with disabilities) shapes access to media and communication technologies.

- Historical and contemporary strategies for the management of medical (mis)information and the role of media and communication technologies therein.

- Debates about medical professionalization, expertise and trust in a changing media landscape.

- Environmental communication during epidemic outbreaks.

- The transnational and transmedial study of epidemics, media and circuits of communication.

- The language by which diseases are articulated and understood, and the critical interchange between literature and socio-political uncertainties about disease, vaccination and invasions of the mind and body.

Keynote speakers:

Dr Amelia Bonea (University of Manchester) &

Dr Jaehwan Hyun (Pusan National University)

Submission guidelines

Abstracts of max. 250 words, along with a brief biographical note, should be submitted to MEDEPconference@gmail.com by January 31, 2024. We welcome submissions from early career as well as more established scholars based in any area of the world. Limited funding might be available to contribute towards travel expenses, depending on the overall number of applicants and their financial circumstances. For any queries, please contact Dr Irina Nastasă-Matei at the above email address.

The conference is supported through a grant from the Romanian Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CNCS/CCCDI-UEFISCDI (Project no. COFUND-CHANSE-MEDEP, PNCDI III). It is organized as part of the CHANSE-funded project Media and Epidemics: Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health in the 20th and 21st Centuries. More information about the project is available at the following links:

https://mediaepidemics.com/

https://chanse.org/medep/

Kontakt

Dr Irina Nastasă-Matei

MEDEPconference@gmail.com

Call for papers : Moving beyond the center-periphery dynamics: Central and Eastern Europe from the mid-19th century to the present

 Call for papers : Moving beyond the center-periphery dynamics: Central and Eastern Europe from the mid-19th century to the present 

April 5-6, 2024 | University of Ottawa, Canada  

May 30-31, 2024 | University of Lille, France 

 

The University of Ottawa (Canada) and the University de Lille (France) invite to participate in the conference Moving beyond the center-periphery dynamic: Central and Eastern Europe from the mid-19th century to the present.  

 

This conference will be held on April 5-6, 2024, at the University of Ottawa (Canada), and on May 30-31, 2024, at Université de Lille (France). 

 

All abstracts are due by January 7, 2024. 

 

Since the 18th century, the discourse on modernization—understood as a process aiming to align social organization with the expectations and needs of societies and carrying a promise of emancipation—identifies the Western form of modernity, in its political (democracy) and economic (market capitalism) dimensions, as a model to follow. In the multicultural empires of Central and Eastern Europe, divergences in the paths and rhythms of political, economic, and social modernization engraved in collective imaginaries the idea of a structural delay of these societies compared to the rest of Europe, relegating them to the periphery—or semi-periphery—of the Western world (Ivan T. Berend). Since the works of Larry Wolf and Maria Todorova, this sort of intra-European orientalism has been deconstructed. Nevertheless, the discourse of structural delay in this part of Europe compared to the core of the western world has been influential in the Austrian, Russian, and Ottoman empires and in the countries that succeeded them, from the end of the First World War to today. This discourse justified structural reforms and enabled the rise of social groups interested in and useful for these reforms. It also fueled dissenting discourses and contributed to the production of alternative models, in a relationship of interdependence and exchange with countries situated in the core of the Western world (Claudia Kraft). 

 

This conference aims to examine the experience of Central and Eastern European countries with the modernization process from the late 18th century to the present, beyond the center-periphery dynamics. 

 

The conference will take place in two sessions, one in Ottawa (Canada) and the other in Lille (France). The organizers seek proposals that engage these questions. Proposals may focus on any time period and may draw from any discipline, including but not limited to history, political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, and law. The presentations of 15-20 minutes should fit into at least one of the following themes: 

 

1. Modernization Strategies 

It is customary to consider that faced with the challenges of following the Western model of modernization ("double revolution," Eric Hobsbawm) in the same form and at the same pace, countries of Central and Eastern Europe gradually turned towards alternative models, more rooted in the local context. These ranged from the Enlightened absolutism of 18th and 19th century to physiocratic movements, agrarianism, fascism, communism, and illiberal democracies today. Some of these alternative modernization strategies reinforced the power of the State and its authoritarian tendencies at the expense of individual and collective freedoms. Most of them challenge the Western model in terms of its effectiveness, universality, and adaptability to a different context from the one for which it was created. 

 

From this perspective, it would be possible to examine the causes of the emergence of these models, their logics and operational mechanisms, their relationships with the Western model and with other counter-models developed in other spaces located at the periphery of the Western world (Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, etc.), and the factors that facilitated or hindered their adoption. 

2. Actors and Spaces of Modernization 

 

The study of the actors involved in the process of modernization, their particular interests, and potential synergies sheds light on their capacity to define the norms of their own existence. It can be approached by examining debates about the advantages and disadvantages of adopting the Western model or even its feasibility, considering the nature of local societies. It can also be explored by studying the ways knowledge and know-how circulated within this region, between this region and the core of the Western world, or other (semi-)peripheral regions—ranging from multicultural empires in the 19th century to global illiberal regimes today, to the Eastern, Western, and Southern blocs during the Cold War era. Another possible way is to examine various arenas where these debates took place: the media, salons, scholarly circles, economic networks, Masonic lodges, corporations, or party universities. From diffusionist models to polycentric phenomena, various interconnected experiences and forms of modernity emerged, constantly influenced by the international context. 

 

Several spaces assume the roles of showcases and laboratories for modernization. In the 19th century, cities like Trieste, Sarajevo, Timisoara, or Lviv played this role for the Habsburg Empire, just as Saint Petersburg or Odessa did for the Romanovs, Thessaloniki for the Ottoman Empire, or Essen for the Hohenzollerns. Between the wars, innovative modernization projects emerged, such as the districts of Red Vienna or the worker city of Baťa in Zlín. Under socialism, these "laboratories of modernity" were embodied by new cities like Stalinvaros, Nowa Huta, Dimitrovgrad, or Stalinstadt. Simultaneously, these spaces of intensive modernization existed alongside areas experiencing chronic developmental delays. 

3. The Chronology of Modernization 

Another way to study the modernization process is by examining its chronology. It is often claimed that Central and Eastern European countries experienced a delayed modernization, lagging behind the economic and political core of the continent. This modernization accelerated from the 1860s-1870s, prompted by the confrontation with a more developed West, before slowing down between the wars due to unfavorable economic and political factors. It then experienced a new acceleration after 1945, thanks to socialist-style modernization, which itself faced a crisis in the 1970s, before witnessing a new surge since the 1980s, as these countries progressively aligned with capitalism and democracy. 

 

This overall periodization could be subject to debate when considering its rhythms of modernisation of this region, its moments of acceleration and deceleration, discrepancies concerning the adopted models, or the breaks and continuities in the long term, well before the 19th century, and taking into account the political changes, revolutions, and wars that this region has experienced, along with the contexts, scales, and models of modernization deployed. 

 

4. The Impact of Modernization Strategies 

 

What is the impact of the various modernization strategies implemented in Central and Eastern European countries on their social structures and political communities, economies and technological development, and cultural identities? How did these modernization strategies affect social hierarchies and mobility, ethnic and class divisions, relations between urban and rural areas, between the capital and provincial centers, and among regions? Last but not least, what is their legacy today? 

 

Submission Guidelines 

 

Please submit a 250-300 word abstract in French or in English outlining the topic and approach of your work by January 7, 2024, to boris.vinogradov@univ-lille.fr.  

 

The authors of the submissions will be notified of the selections by January 20, 2024, at the latest.  

 

Financial assistance will be available to support panelists’ travel and lodging expenses. Selected papers will be published as a collective volume. 

 

Please reach out to the conference organizers with any questions: Roman Krakovsky (roman.krakovsky@uottawa.ca) and Boris Vinogradov (boris.vinogradov@univ-lille.fr). 

 

This conference is jointly funded by the Chair in Slovak History and Culture of the University of Ottawa, and Chaire d’excellence de l’Université de Lille. 

Call for papers: Boris Grinchenko: known and unknown.

 Call for papers: Boris Grinchenko: known and unknown. 

Шановні колеги!

запрошуємо Вас взяти участь Міжнародній науковій конференції «Борис Грінченко: знаний і невідомий», присвяченій 160-річному ювілею Великого Українця, яка відбудеться 19 січня 2024 року посвідчення УкрІНТЕІ № 515 від 05 грудня 2023 року

На обговорення виносяться наступні тематичні напрями:

• Родина Бориса Грінченка в історико-культурному дзеркалі.

• Харківщина у житті Б. Грінченка.

• Борис Грінченко у спогадах сучасників та оцінках нащадків.

• Борис Грінченко як політичний і громадський діяч.

• Педагогічні погляди Бориса Грінченка.

• Публіцистика та епістолярна спадщина Бориса Грінченка.

• Етнографічні та фольклористиці праці Бориса Грінченка.

• Борис Грінченко – історик і теоретик літератури й мистецтва.

• Мовознавчі студії Бориса Грінченка.

• Словникарська спадщина Бориса Грінченка.

• Майстерність Бориса Грінченка-перекладача.

• Художня творчість Бориса Грінченка в епоху літературного помежів’я.

• Естетичні, поетикальні новації Бориса Грінченка-прозаїка.

• Поетичні шукання Бориса Грінченка: текст і контекст.

• Драматургія Бориса Грінченка в літературному й театральному контексті.

Для участі у конференції просимо до 15 січня 2024 р. надіслати заявку на електронну адресу: aksjonovanat@ukr.net. Контактний телефон: +380504015805 Наталя Аксьонова.

За результатами конференції можна опублікувати свої наукові доробки у фахових виданнях категорії Б: «Вісник ХНУ імені В.Н. Каразіна. – Сер.: Історія України. Українознавство» (https://periodicals.karazin.ua/uahistory) та «Вісник ХНУ імені В.Н. Каразіна. – Сер.: Філологія» (https://periodicals.karazin.ua/philology). Статті просимо оформлювати за зразком останнього номеру Вісника.

Оргкомітет залишає за собою право відбору доповідей для включення до програми конференції. Усім учасникам будуть видані сертифікати. Офіційні мови конференції: українська, англійська.

Зразок

заявки на участь у Міжнародній науковій конференції «Борис Грінченко: знаний і невідомий»

Прізвище, ім’я, по батькові

Місце роботи (навчання)

Посада

Науковий ступінь, вчене звання (за наявністю)

Тема доповіді

Номер контактного телефону

E-mail

З повагою, ОРГКОМІТЕТ

Харківський національний університет імені В. Н. Каразіна

Філософський факультет

Кафедра українознавства

Філологічний факультет

Кафедра історії української літератури

Центр українських студій та краєзнавства імені академіка П. Т. Тронька

Відділ українських студій імені Д. І. Багалія

CFP: Wissenschaft und Aktivismus - Lueneburg 09/2024

 CFP: Wissenschaft und Aktivismus - Lueneburg 09/2024

Jahrestagung der GWMT 2024 in Lüneburg

Wissenschaft und Aktivismus: Historische Perspektiven und methodologische Herausforderungen der Wissenschafts-, Medizin- und Technikgeschichte

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Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik (GWMT), 21335 Lüneburg (Deutschland)

25.09.2024 - 27.09.2024

Bewerbungsschluss: 31.01.2024

Dass Wissenschaft, Medizin und Technik nicht isoliert von ihren kulturellen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen Kontexten stehen, gehört zu den grundlegenden Einsichten der neueren Wissenschafts-, Medizin- und Technikgeschichte. Die Trias von Wissenschaft, Politik und Öffentlichkeit wurde seit den 1970er Jahren insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund sozialer Bewegungen um „Aktivismus“ als weiteres Element ergänzt: Politische Praktiken, die auf gesellschaftliche Veränderung abzielten, gingen zunehmend mit der Forderung nach Anerkennung und Beteiligung neuer Akteur:innen und deren Wissensformen am hegemonialen wissenschaftlichen, medizinischen und technologischen Diskurs einher. Gleichzeitig ist gesellschaftspolitisches Engagement durch und in Wissenschaft, Medizin und Technik kein neues Phänomen, sondern quer durch die Geschichte hindurch belegt.

Die GWMT lädt dazu ein, während der Jahrestagung 2024 in Lüneburg das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft, Medizin, Technik und Aktivismus in seiner ganzen historischen Breite zu beleuchten und dabei auch das Verhältnis der Wissenschafts-, Medizin- und Technikgeschichte zu aktivistischen Forderungen und Praktiken zu diskutieren.

Zu diesem Zweck muss zunächst eine grundsätzliche Klärung zentraler Begriffe, Diskurse und Sozialfiguren vorgenommen werden: Wer gilt im Bereich der Wissenschaften, Medizin und Technik als „Aktivist“ oder „Aktivistin“? Was ist unter „Aktivismus“ eigentlich zu verstehen, welche verschiedenen Verwendungsweisen lassen sich dabei historisch ausmachen und in welchem Verhältnis steht und stand der Begriff zu dem der Politik bzw. dem des Politischen? Wie verhält sich Aktivismus zu Formen der „Kritik“ oder des „Protests“? Wann und in welchen historischen Konstellationen taucht die Sozialfigur des:r Aktivist:in im affirmativen Sinn als Akteurskategorie auf, und unter welchen Umständen wird der Begriff in pejorativer Absicht verwendet, um das Gegenüber zu diskreditieren und ihm mangelnde Distanz und Objektivität sowie ideologische Verstrickungen vorzuwerfen? Und seit wann kann man überhaupt von „Aktivismus“ in Wissenschaft, Medizin und Technik sprechen? Lässt sich der Begriff fruchtbringend auf diverse historische, auch vormoderne Praktiken politischen Handelns anwenden, die auf gesellschaftliche Veränderung abzielen? Welche Effekte und neue Einsichten ergeben sich daraus, wenn man historische Akteur:innen der Vormoderne als „Aktivist:innen“ versteht?

Ein zentraler Aspekt im Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Aktivismus betrifft die Frage der Beteiligung neuer, häufig lange marginalisierter und/oder gänzlich aus dem wissenschaftlichen, medizinischen oder technischen Diskurs ausgeschlossener Wissensproduzent:innen, zu denen indigene Gemeinschaften und Patient:inneninitiativen ebenso gehören wie (öko)feministische Kollektive oder migrantische Gruppen, um nur einige Beispiele zu nennen. Auf der Jahrestagung sollen die historischen Bedingungen unter denen, sowie die konkreten Mittel, mit denen jene Akteursgruppen um Eingang in den wissenschaftlichen, medizinischen und technischen Diskurs kämpften, diskutiert werden. Von Interesse ist dabei auch die Frage, welche Kritik jene Akteur:innen an den Wissenschaften und ihren Erkenntnisprozessen formulierten und welche Neusortierungen epistemischer Autorität damit einher gingen.

Das Rahmenthema soll zudem Gelegenheit zur Selbstreflexion der gegenwärtigen Wissenschafts-, Medizin- und Technikgeschichtsschreibung bieten. Welche methodischen, theoretischen und historiographischen Herausforderungen und Möglichkeiten ergeben sich durch die Einbeziehung jener neuen Akteursgruppen? Diskutiert werden soll dabei nicht nur, wie sich der Umgang der Wissenschafts-, Medizin- und Technikgeschichte mit Aktivismus und Aktivist:innen darstellt, sondern auch, wie sich unsere Disziplinen zu den seitens der environmental humanities, der gender, postcolonial oder disability studies bereits seit mehreren Jahrzehnten programmatisch formulierten Bekenntnissen zu „engagierter“ und „mission-driven“ Wissenschaft und der dazugehörigen Selbstbeschreibung von Forschenden als „scholar activists“ verhalten.

Erwünscht sind Einzelbeiträge ebenso wie Bewerbungen für ganze Sektionen. Vorträge sollen nicht länger als 20 Minuten dauern. Sektionen bestehen entweder aus vier Vorträgen oder drei Vorträgen mit Kommentar und umfassen inkl. Diskussion 120 Minuten. Um dem kontroversen Thema gerecht zu werden, sind diesmal auch Bewerbungen für „Roundtables“ – Podiumsdiskussionen von max. 5 Teilnehmenden, die schrittweise dem Publikum geöffnet werden – möglich.

Bitte reichen Sie Abstracts von etwa einer halben Seite Länge über unser Einsendeformular auf [www.gwmt.de](http://www.gwmt.de/) ein. Bei Sektionen ist neben den Abstracts der Einzelvorträge eine kurze Einführung in die Sektion einzureichen. Bei gleicher Qualität werden Sektionen, die akademische Generationen überspannen, bevorzugt. Auch Vorschläge für Vorträge und Sektionen, die sich nicht auf das Rahmenthema beziehen, können sehr gerne eingereicht werden.

Bitte reichen Sie Vorschläge bis zum 31.1.2024 über das Online-Einsendeformular auf der Webseite der GWMT ein.

Bitte beachten Sie: Dies ist eine Präsenztagung; Ausnahmen sind ausschließlich zum Zwecke der Barrierefreiheit möglich.

Kontakt: Christina Wessely & Jan Müggenburg, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, [gwmt24@leuphana.de](mailto:gwmt24@leuphana.de)

CfP: "Humanitarian and Development Aid during the Cold War

 CfP: "Humanitarian and Development Aid during the Cold War" March 21-22, 2024, Bucharest, ROMANIA Organizer: New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Studies Interested participants should send abstracts of 600 words, in English or French, and short CVs to mia.jinga@gmail.com and dalia.bathory@gmail.com by Friday, February 2nd, 2024. The authors of accepted proposals will be informed by February 9th, 2024. https://rohumaid.wordpress.com/home-2/news/ .

Střed | Centre, 2023/1 . Enviromentální dějiny pohraničí, 1890–2021 | Environmental History of the Borderlands, 1890–2021

 Střed | Centre, 2023/1

Enviromentální dějiny pohraničí, 1890–2021 | Environmental History of the Borderlands, 1890–2021

URL: https://asjournals.lib.cas.cz/Stred/archiv;pid=uuid:76bcc055-7b64-4a14-b3d2-7e6030e1d032?lang=en .

OBSAH | CONTENTS

VĚDECKÉ STATI | RESEARCH ARTICLES

Stanislav Holubec: Náš Yellowstonský park? Státní ochrana přírody a veřejnost v českých a slezských Krkonoších od konce 19. století do druhé světové války [Our Yellowstone Park? State Nature Protection and the Public in the Bohemian and Silesian Giant Mountains from the late 19th Century to the Second World War]

Eliška Švarná: „Stejně vše zahladí a srovná jednou voda.“ Vodní dílo Lipno a jeho role v budování poválečného československého pohraničí [“Water Will Smooth and Level Everything Anyway”. The Lipno Reservoir and Its Role in Building of the Post-War Czechoslovak Borderlands]

Kateřina Vnoučková: Pollution of the Thaya River as a Cross-Border Problem

RECENZNÍ STAŤ | REVIEW ARTICLE

Milan Scholz: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk a Nová Evropa z italského pohledu [Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and “The New Europe” from an Italian Viewpoint]

RECENZE | BOOK REVIEWS

JOS STÜBNER, Kleinstadt, Klasse und Nation. Stadtkonzepte in Böhmen vor und nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg am Beispiel von Rokycany und Cheb/Eger (Zdeněk Nebřenský)

VOJTĚCH KESSLER, DAVID SMRČEK, Děti křtěné Dunajem. České vzpomínky na meziválečnou Vídeň (Jakub Vrba)

STANISLAV HOLUBEC, Nešťastná revolucionářka. Myšlenkový svět a každodennost Luisy Landové-Štychové (1885–1969) (Jana Malínská)

CHAD BRYANT, Prague: Belonging in the Modern City (Jaroslav Ira)

PAVEL BALOUN, „Metla našeho venkova!“ Kriminalizace Romů od první republiky až po prvotní fázi protektorátu (1918–1941) (Renata Berkyová)

LENKA KRÁTKÁ, PAVEL MÜCKE (eds.), Za hranice služebně. Pracovní cesty z Československa do zahraničí v letech 1945 až 1989 (Ladislav Beneš)

ZPRÁVY A ANOTACE | SHORT REVIEWS AND ANNOTATIONS

Call for papers: Shaping Transformation. University Collections in a Changing World

 Call for papers: Shaping Transformation. University Collections in a Changing World. Dresden, 24.09.2024 - 29.09.2024, Deadline 21.01.2024

From September 24th to 29th, 2024, ICOM-UMAC, the International Council of Museums’ Committee for University Museums and Collections, and the European Academic Heritage Network UNIVERSEUM will hold their first joint annual meeting at TUD Dresden University of Technology in Dresden, Germany. The conference, hosted by TUD’s Office of Academic Heritage, Scientific, and Art Collections, will be held on-site, with selected keynotes streamed online. The conference language is English.

In a world undergoing profound processes of transformation, societal, political, and environmental changes are increasingly impacting all areas of human life. For university collections and museums, such developments present both challenges and opportunities. The way academic heritage is perceived and the infrastructures dedicated to its management and care are currently in a state of flux, leading sometimes to decline, sometimes to new life. Looking back, similar developments have affected academic heritage at various points in history, and they are likely to do so in the years to come.

These processes of transformation and transition, their impact on university collections and museums, and how we respond to them both individually and as a community, will be the overarching theme of the 2024 Dresden conference.

SUB-TOPICS

1. University Collections and Museums Addressing Challenge and Transition

Although academic institutions all over the world follow the same core mission in education and research, change affects them in different ways. The same is true for the collections and museums safeguarding academic heritage. External factors such as economic or societal shifts can directly impact their work and outlook, highlighting a state and position that are often precarious. At the same time, internal processes, such as critical research from within the academic community, are increasingly questioning systems of power and knowledge as well as identity and ownership, pushing for a fundamental reassessment of collecting practices and object use. As a result, academic heritage institutions are increasingly faced with a need to question and redefine their roles, both in an institutional context and in wider society.

- How can we embrace these challenges as opportunities for transformation and change?

- How can we harness their potential to actively shape rather than merely passively accept transformation?

- How do challenges and transitions affect the way we approach and (re-)think academic heritage?

2. Activating University Collections for Research and Teaching in Times of Change

Within the unique environment of academic institutions standing at the forefront of knowledge production and higher education, university museums and collections harbor great potential. As custodians of academic heritage, they carry an obligation to actively contribute to their institution’s mission. To fulfill this role, they need to develop and apply innovative approaches to object-based research and teaching. While working with physical objects remains at the core of this task, the digital transformation has opened new ways for collection-oriented work. From digital research infrastructures to AI and beyond, virtual tools present both major possibilities and challenges for object-based teaching and research as well as collection management and outreach.

- How can academic objects and collections be “activated” for current and future research and teaching?

- What skills and strategies are needed for successful object-based teaching and research, especially in times of change?

- How can university collections and museums best address the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities offered by the digital transformation?

3. Academic Heritage Institutions as Places of Exchange and Discourse

Against the backdrop of increasing fragmentation both on an institutional and disciplinary level, spaces that allow for open dialogue and debate beyond these limits are needed now more than ever. They gain particular significance in times of crisis and transition, as they can offer platforms of dialogue, inviting individuals from diverging backgrounds to tackle issues and share ideas. University collections and museums, in their diversity, constitute ideal environments for such encounters. They harbor great potential for building bridges, both within the academic community and beyond. Also, serving as access hubs for broader audiences, they can help strengthen their institutions’ integration into society at large.

- In what ways can university museums and collections facilitate and shape exchange processes?

- How can they serve as hubs of dialogue and debate within the academic sphere?

- How can they enhance the visibility of academic discourse by supporting knowledge transfer and participation among wider and more inclusive audiences?

PAPER AND POSTER PROPOSALS

The organizers invite contributions on all aspects of the conference theme. We welcome proposals for the following formats:

Paper Presentations

Paper presentations may address any aspect of the conference theme and its three sub-topics. Speaking time is strictly limited to 15 minutes. Papers will be grouped into thematic panels with time for joint discussions at the end.

Flash Talks

Flash talks offer participants the opportunity to present projects, topics, and questions related to the conference theme in a concise format. Speaking time is strictly limited to 5 minutes. Flash talks will be grouped into thematic panels, with time for joint discussions at the end.

Posters

A poster session will showcase ongoing projects in the academic heritage community. All topics are welcome. Posters will be exhibited physically and should be printed in A1 portrait format (594mm × 841mm).

Project Speed Dating

This newly launched format offers the opportunity to present new projects or project ideas by individuals or teams looking for partners or collaborations. All topics are welcome.

Speaking time is strictly limited to 5 minutes. Presentations will be grouped together in a panel, followed by time to connect on a one-to-one basis.

Round Tables

Round tables offer the chance to approach key topics in a broader perspective. Short keynotes presented by speakers on stage will serve as points of departure for a joint discussion with the audience. We welcome proposals for keynotes addressing the following topics:

- Collaborative Practices: Cross-encounters between Art and Science in University Collections

- Difficult Heritage: Provenance and Restitution

- Shaping Transformation: Future Perspectives for University Collections and Museums

Speaking time for keynotes is strictly limited to 5 minutes. Each round table will feature 3 to 4 speakers.

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

The conference will be preceded by three pre-conference workshops, to be held on Tuesday, September 24th, 2024, from 1:30 to 5:30 pm.

Workshop 1

Natural Science Objects in Digital Collections: Opportunities and Challenges

Hosted by the Chair of Botany, TUD Dresden University of Technology and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Pietism Research at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in cooperation with the Saxon State and University Library

Natural History objects in collections and their metadata are increasingly being made accessible with the help of digital technologies, so that purely physical collections are becoming part of a powerful and comprehensive knowledge base. In this workshop, we will share experiences of using digitized collections and Linked Data in multidisciplinary approaches. A joint research project will serve as the basis for discussing opportunities and challenges.

Workshop 2

Questioning Collections

Hosted by the Coordination Centre for Scientific University Collections in Germany

The workshop addresses the potential of collections from an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective and poses a wide variety of questions about objects. Drawing on examples from the various collections held at TUD Dresden University of Technology, we will consider materiality, provenance, and use of collections within academic contexts together with collection managers and workshop participants.

Workshop 3

Object-Based Teaching and Learning Today

Hosted by the ERASMUS+ project “Teaching with Objects”

Object-based Teaching and Learning (OBTL) is of key significance for higher education, academic heritage, and university museums and collections worldwide. The ERASMUS+ project “Teaching with Objects,” supported by UNIVERSEUM, invites practitioners, researchers, and curators to share their approaches to OBTL in short presentations. We will discuss the current state of OBTL and its wider role for education and collections.

TRAVEL GRANTS

Both ICOM-UMAC and UNIVERSEUM offer a limited number of travel grants for conference participants.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

What to submit

Proposals for paper presentations, posters, flash talks, project speed dating, and round tables should include:

- a title

- an abstract (max. 250 words)

- a biographical note (max. 50 words)

> 3 to 5 keywords

Applications for the pre-conference workshops should include

- a letter of motivation (workshops 1 and 2) OR an abstract (workshop 3) (max. 500 words)

- a short CV (max. 250 words)

For detailed information, visit:

https://tu-dresden.de/umac-universeum2024/program/workshops

Applications for the travel grants should include

- a letter of motivation (max. 500 words)

- a short CV (max. 250 words)

For detailed information, visit:

https://tu-dresden.de/umac-universeum2024/travel/grants

Where to submit

Submissions and applications will be accepted exclusively via the conference’s online submission portal.

To access the portal, visit:

https://eventclass.it/umac-universeum2024/

DEADLINE

Final deadline for all submissions and applications is

January 21st, 2024.

All paper proposals will be considered by an international program committee.

Successful applicants will be notified by March 15, 2024.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about the conference, visit:

https://tu-dresden.de/umac-universeum2024

CfP: 31st Conference of Junior Scholars in the Field of East European Studies

 CfP: 31st Conference of Junior Scholars in the Field of East European Studies

The Annual Conference of Junior Scholars in East European Studies (JOE) will take place from 4–6 July 2024 in Giessen. The conference aims to bring together scholars from various disciplines with a focus on Eastern Europe namely advanced students, Ph.D. candidates, and young scholars who have already completed their doctoral research. The conference encourages all participants to present and discuss their research projects with other prospective scholars and qualified professionals. The convention provides an overview of current research projects on East Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia in the German-speaking area. It enables interdisciplinary exchange and networking among young scholars.

In addition, proposals for panels consisting of three contributions could be suggested. Contributions can be submitted in German and English languages. Passive knowledge of German language is necessary.

The conference is organized by the German Association for East European Studies (DGO), the Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO) at the University of Bremen, the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), the Giessen Center for Eastern European Studies (GiZo), the Chairs of Eastern European History at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen and the Herder Institute for Historical Researchon

East Central Europe Marburg. The costs for accommodation and catering are

covered by the organizers. Travel expenses will not be refunded.

Suggestions for individual projects:

– An abstract of maximum 400 words which relates to the research question, findings, theoretical approach and method;

– Five key words to summarize the thematic focus;

– Information about the status of the research project and institutional affiliation.

Suggestions for panels:

– Summary of maximum 200 words with the title, topic, and target of the panel;

– Abstracts and information on the individual texts;

– Five key words per abstract to summarize the thematic foci;

– A panel should consist of three speakers and represent at least two different institutions. The moderation is arranged by the organizer.

Please send your abstract(s) by 22 January 2024 to joe-tagung@dgo-online.de

Selection decisions will be communicated by 15 February 2024.

In the case of acceptance to the conference, you have to submit a German or English-language paper (max. 3.000 words) by 25 May 2024. It will be made accessible to the other participants prior to the conference. Unfortunately, projects that have already been presented cannot be considered.

Online seminars of Science of Science Department of the Institute for the history of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

 

Zapraszamy do wzięcia udziału w łączonych posiedzeniach Pracowni Naukoznawstwa IHN PAN oraz Komisji Historii Nauki PAU w ramach cyklu seminaryjnego „Naukoznawstwo: historia i współczesność”. W grudniu odbędą się jeszcze dwa posiedzenia.

11 XII 2023 od g. 18:00

za pośrednictwem platformy ZOOM

Seminarium poświęcone książce śp. prof. dr. hab. Piotra Hübnera „Encyklopedia polskiej nauki akademickiej”

13 XII 2023 od g. 16:15

za pośrednictwem platformy ZOOM

dr Mateusz Hübner (Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów PAN)

Uczeni wobec biurokratyzacji nauki w II Rzeczypospolitej

Osoby zainteresowane uczestnictwem w spotkaniu proszone są o kontakt mailowy z dr. Mateuszem Hübnerem (mhubner@ihnpan.pl lub mateuszhubner@wp.pl).

hps.cesee job digest

  Professor "Early Modern History, c.1500-1800" (European Univ. Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole) https://www.eui.eu/Documents/ServicesAdmin/AcademicService/JobOpportunities/2023/HEC-23-4-Info.pdf .

Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden, has announced an open position of Professor of the History of Ideas, specialising in the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe! https://www.sh.se/english/sodertorn-university/meet-sodertorn-university/this-is-sodertorn-university/vacant-positions .

Call for papers: International friendship within and beyond the Iron Curtain

Call for papers: International friendship within and beyond the Iron Curtain, Ljubljana 18.04.2024 - 19.04.2024, Deadline 20.01.2024

This workshop aims to explore relations among countries both within and beyond the Iron Curtain through the lens of international friendship. In diplomatic and political history, as well as in public discourse, the term ‘friendship’ is often employed casually to describe various types of interstate relations, ranging from partnerships lacking close bonds to special relationships with dense institutionalized ties. In recent years, however, international relations scholars have acknowledged the analytical and explanatory value of international friendship, recognizing it as a relationship extending beyond conflict-free interstate dynamics. In this regard, international friendship is interpreted as a bilateral relationship that emerges from intersecting collective identities and revolves around shared projects. A friendship bond is marked by a high degree of trust and affect, embedded in close cooperation at different levels of state and society, and expressed in a range of friendship practices (Koschut&Oelsner, 2014; Berenskoetter&Van Hoef, 2017).

The intention of the workshop is to expand the research on international friendship from international relations into the realm of history, particularly by broadening the predominantly Western-focused studies within socialist and Cold War contexts. Scholars are invited to employ conceptual content on international friendship to investigate the processes of formation, maintenance, reproduction, and dissolution of friendship bonds, and to assess their impact on interactions, behaviors, and decision-making at different political and social levels. By examining specific case studies, scholars are encouraged to add valuable empirical insights to the expanding field of (international) friendship studies.

The main objectives of the workshop are to explore the identity- and trust-building processes between states and their peoples, to examine the (de)integrating and (de)mobilizing power of international friendship, and to analyze the interaction between normative factors and strategic or material interests in interstate and transnational relations.

Topics

The preferred topics may include, but are not limited to:

- Actors, such as politicians, government and party officials, cultural workers, scholars, students, entrepreneurs, activists, civil society;

- Institutions, such as government offices, cultural and professional institutions, friendship societies, student associations, business enterprises, mass organizations, and non-governmental institutions;

- Shared narratives rooted in common history, historical memory, cultural patterns, ideologies, norms, and values, and their impact on the formation of collective interstate identities;

- Shared projects aimed at a certain type of world-making, such as larger political projects (post-war reconstruction, separate roads to socialism, non-alignment, peaceful coexistence, demilitarization, political and economic decolonization) and smaller (regional) projects (joint economic enterprises, cross-border infrastructure projects, cultural ventures);

- Friendship practices, such as friendship discourses (both in private and public interactions), symbolic public displays of friendship (celebrations, commemorations), acts of solidarity, giving counsel and privileged access to information, high tolerance of ‘bad news’;

- Channels, such as diplomacy, cultural and economic cooperation, student and youth exchanges, labor exchanges, town twinning, and transnational activism.

We welcome scholars, especially from history, but also from other disciplines such as political science, political anthropology, international relations, and the like. We are looking forward to abstracts from scholars at all stages of their academic careers.

Proposals, limited to 300 words, along with a brief bio, should be submitted by 20 January 2023 to the following address: maja.lukanc@inz.si

Applicants will receive notification of the acceptance of their proposals by 15 February 2024.

The conference will take place in Ljubljana at the Institute of Contemporary History.

Accommodation in Ljubljana will be provided by the organizers.

A specific fund will be allocated for the travel expenses of researchers without institutional or project financial coverage – please indicate if needed.

The workshop is held as part of the project Prospects and Boundaries of International Friendship: Polish-Yugoslav Relations between 1956 and 1968 supported by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency.

Kontakt

maja.lukanc@inz.si

 

Hungarian Studies Review, anniversary volume is online!

 Hungarian Studies Review, anniversary volume is online! (https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/hungarian-studies/issue/50/1-2 .), including a few interesting articles and sources on history of science. 

Special Issue: Hungarian Studies Review at 50

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

HUNGARIAN STUDIES REVIEW AT 50

Leslie Waters

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HUNGARIAN STUDIES REVIEW: THE BEGINNINGS OF THE JOURNAL IN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE 1970S

Árpád von Klimó

Abstract

View articletitled, <em>Hungarian Studies Review</em>: The Beginnings of the Journal in the Historical Context of the 1970s

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ARTICLE CLUSTER

HISTORIES OF PROPERTY IN HUNGARY

Borbála Zsuzsanna Török

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FOSTERING THE NATIONAL INTEREST: UTILIZING HUNGARIAN STATE PROPERTY IN THE JIU VALLEY TO BUILD A MODERN COAL INDUSTRY

Anca Glont

Abstract

View articletitled, Fostering the National Interest: Utilizing Hungarian State Property in the Jiu Valley to Build a Modern Coal Industry

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CULTURE WARS AS PROPERTY STRUGGLES: THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS IN POST-1989 HUNGARY

Kristóf Nagy

Abstract

View articletitled, Culture Wars as Property Struggles: The Hungarian Academy of Arts in Post-1989 Hungary

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ARTICLES

LIVES AND DESTINIES IN HISTORY: THE POSSIBILITIES AND QUESTIONS OF PERSONAL HISTORY

Tibor Valuch

Abstract

View articletitled, Lives and Destinies in History: The Possibilities and Questions of Personal History

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READING SCIENCE FICTION IN SOCIALIST HUNGARY

Zsolt Nagy

Abstract

View articletitled, Reading Science Fiction in Socialist Hungary

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ROUNDTABLE

ISTVÁN DEÁK AND HUNGARIAN HISTORY: REMEMBERING THE LIFE AND CAREER OF A GIANT IN THE FIELD

Leslie Waters

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View articletitled, István Deák and Hungarian History: Remembering the Life and Career of a Giant in the Field

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REMEMBERING A GREAT MAN

Péter Csunderlik

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MY CONVERSATIONS WITH ISTVÁN DEÁK

Csaba Békés

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View articletitled, My Conversations with István Deák

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ISTVÁN DEÁK’S HISTORY OF HUNGARY

Robert Nemes

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View articletitled, István Deák’s History of Hungary

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ISTVÁN DEÁK AND HUNGARIAN JEWISH HISTORY

Howard Lupovitch

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THE MARATHON RUNNER HISTORIAN: A TRIBUTE TO ISTVÁN DEÁK

Attila Pók

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THE OFFICE MATE

Zoltán Szász

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View articletitled, The Office Mate

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FAREWELL TO MY FRIEND ISTVÁN DEÁK

Tibor Hajdu

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PRIMARY SOURCE

“SUCH ARBITRARY AND RUDE ACTION”: ISTVÁN DEÁK’S REPORTS ON HIS EXPULSION FROM HUNGARY IN 1973–74

Szabolcs László; Matthias Duller

Abstract

View articletitled, “Such Arbitrary and Rude Action”: István Deák’s Reports on His Expulsion from Hungary in 1973–74

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INTERVIEW

“I GOT A FEEL FOR ALL SORTS OF HUNGARIAN THINGS”: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES TAYLOR ON HIS INVOLVEMENT IN HUNGARIAN REFUGEE AID IN 1957

Tamás Scheibner

Abstract

View articletitled, “I Got a Feel for All Sorts of Hungarian Things”: An Interview with Charles Taylor on His Involvement in Hungarian Refugee Aid in 1957

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Call for papers: Anatomy of a Suffering Soul: Between Healing and Disciplining

Call for papers: Anatomy of a Suffering Soul: Between Healing and Disciplining. The Formation of Psychiatry in Europe from the 18th until Early 20th Century (app. 1750–1920)

Call for contributions for a workshop conference in Prague, organized in collaboration between Charles University in Prague and the Prague Branch of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw that will take place from May 29th to 31st, 2024.

leidende.seelen.prag2024@gmail.com

Deadline December 31, 2023.

URL: https://www.dhi.waw.pl/en/news/detail/cfp-die-entstehung-der-psychiatrie-in-mittel-und-osteuropa-vom-18-bis-zum-beginn-des-20-jahrhunderts/ .

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Die Anatomie der leidenden Seele

Die Entstehung der Psychiatrie in Mittel- und Osteuropa vom 18. bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts (ca. 1750–1920)

Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für eine Werkstatt-Konferenz in Prag, die in Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Karlsuniversität Prag und der Prager Außenstelle des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Warschau vom 29. bis zum 31. Mai 2024 stattfindet.

leidende.seelen.prag2024@gmail.com

Termin bis 31. Dezember 2023.

Alexej Lochmatow: Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland: Scholarly Battles and the Clash of Virtues, 1945–1956. New York, Milton Park: Routledge 2023

Alexej Lochmatow: Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland: Scholarly Battles and the Clash of Virtues, 1945–1956. New York, Milton Park: Routledge 2023. ISBN 9781032549491

DESCRIPTION

This book explores the public debates among scholars that took place in Early Cold War Poland. The author challenges the traditional narrative on the ‘Sovietisation’ of Central and Eastern European countries and proposes to see this process not as a spread of Marxist ideology or a Soviet institutional model, but as an attempt to force scholars to rapidly adopt new academic and civic virtues.

This book argues that this project failed to succeed in Poland and shows how the struggle against these new virtues united both Marxist and non-Marxist scholars. While covering the arc of Polish scholarly debates, the author invites the reader to go beyond Poland and to use ‘virtues’ as a framework for reflections on both the foundations of scholarly practice and the ‘nature’ of authoritarian regimes with their ambition to teach scholars how to be ‘virtuous.’

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. From the War to the ‘Gentle Revolution’ 2. The Many Faces of the Soviet Union 3. The Teachers of Virtues: The French and the Early Post-War Project 4. The Polish Intelligentsia and an Anti-Authoritarian Vision of Society 5. Between ‘Outdated’ Marxism and ‘Updated’ Catholicism 6. The ‘Failed’ Quest for Unity 7. The School of ‘New Virtues’ 8. ‘1956’ as a ‘Diagnosis’ and ‘Prognosis’. Epilogue: The Concept of Virtues as a Lens.

AUTHOR(S)

BIOGRAPHY

Alexej Lochmatow is a Walter Benjamin Research Fellow at the University of Erfurt. He got his PhD from the University of Cologne and the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research interest lies in the history of science and humanities, public knowledge, and intelligence research.

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Eighth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education (ICHME-8),

CALL FOR PAPERS for "The Eighth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education" (ICHME-8), which will be held in Warsaw on September 16-20, 2024. The local organizer of the conference is the L. & A. Birkenmajer Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences. (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1njqYOL2h4tjgpW0oJyYaZbI38heTm_vN/view?usp=sharing .)

The thematic scope of ICHME-8 includes, among others:

• Methodology of the research in the History of Mathematics Education

• Transmission and reception of new educational ideas in Mathematics Education

• The History of Mathematics Education and the History of Mathematics: Connections and mutual influences

• Actors and Contributors in Mathematics Education

• Development of Mathematics Education in specific countries

• Development and changes in mathematical content within a curriculum and in the form of its presentation

• Mathematics Education of groups historically underserved in education

• Mathematics teacher education

• Mathematics textbooks and other educational resources

• Reforms in Mathematics Education

There will be three forms of active participation in the conference: long presentation (40 min.), short presentations (20 min.) and posters.

Submissions containing title of the presentation and abstract with selected bibliography (in English) should be sent as a Microsoft Word document to the following e-mail address: ichme8@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2024.

The review process will determine in which activity a given submission will be presented.

The First Announcement with detailed information can be found below and at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1njqYOL2h4tjgpW0oJyYaZbI38heTm_vN/view?usp=sharing. 

2024 Trevor Levere Prize (Annals of Science)

 Competition for the 2024 Trevor Levere Prize (Annals of Science) is now open. This prize is awarded annually to the author of an original, unpublished essay in the history of science, technology, or medicine, which is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The prize, which is supported by Taylor & Francis, is intended for those who are currently doctoral students, or have been awarded their doctorate within the past four years. The winning essay is published in the Journal, and the author awarded US$1000 and a free subscription to the Annals of Science. For details see:https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tasc20/collections/best-paper-prize-annals-science#:~:text=This%20prize%20is%20awarded%20annually,under%20consideration%20for%20publication%20elsewhere.

Please send submissions to: Mordechai Feingold (feingold@caltech.edu<mailto:feingold@caltech.edu>)

Deadline for applications: 15 February 2024.

New Journal Webpage of DĚJINY VĚD A TECHNIKY (HISTORY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY)

 New Journal Webpage of DĚJINY VĚD A TECHNIKY (HISTORY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY)

DĚJINY VĚD A TECHNIKY (HISTORY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY) IS SCIENTIFIC PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL FOCUSED ON THE HISTORY OF NATURAL AND EXACT SCIENCES, TECHNOLOGY AND RELATED SCIENCES.

URL: https://dvt-journal.cz/en/ .

The journal was founded in 1968 and is published quarterly by the Society for the History of Sciences and Technology (Prague, founded 1965) with support of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. It is the main journal in this area in the Czech Republic. The journal accepts contributions in Czech and in English. The journal is regularly indexed in important scientific databases, such as ERIH PLUS, CEJSH, or EBSCO.

Archive

Jeske, Martin. Ein Imperium wird vermessen: Kartographie, Kulturtransfer und Raumerschließung im Zarenreich (1797–1919),

Jeske, Martin. Ein Imperium wird vermessen: Kartographie, Kulturtransfer und Raumerschließung im Zarenreich (1797–1919), Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110731620 (open access)

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Maps are instruments for measuring the world. The spatial images they produce document historical developments in all their continuity and dynamism. They reflect the permanence of natural conditions as well as the shifting of power relations and borders. It is especially in times of war that spaces are remeasured and maps are redrawn to be used for public information.

This book is about the surveying and mapping cartography of the Tsarist Empire in the nineteenth century and thus contributes to comparative empire history. The topographical and cartographic development of the largest country on earth is understood as an aspect of Russia's territorialisation and examined in terms of the significance of cultural transfers from Western Europe. The topographical map as a time-bound representation of geographical space is understood as a special form of imperial self-description. The study examines which institutions and with which motives were involved in the surveying and cartographic development of the Tsarist empire, which regions came into the surveyors’ focus, which "language" the cartographers used in the representation of the surveyed space and which role was played by foreign models. The analysis concludes that the tsarist government ultimately did not succeed in creating a comprehensive topographic map of the entire empire based on survey data because their main interest lay in securing Russia's peripheries.

interdisziplinärer Ansatz: Imperien-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte

Karten als historische Quelle

Archivmaterial aus Russland und Estland

AUTHOR / EDITOR INFORMATION

Martin Jeske, Historian, Berlin State Library, Germany.

journal PALLADIUM • ПАЛЛАДИУМ • ΠΑΛΛAΔΙΟΝ

 The new issue of journal PALLADIUM • ПАЛЛАДИУМ • ΠΑΛΛAΔΙΟΝ - Brīvās Universitātes Žurnāls/ Журнал Свободного университета / Free University Journal is online (in Russian), incl. a section on universities and war. 

URL: https://assets.pubpub.org/q4jtnxnw/palladium-7-site-51698269249165.pdf 

Content 

7 Philipp Christoph Schmädeke Introduction 

Philology and Criticism of Language 

10 Sergey Zenkin Philology before the military challenge

 20 Gasan Guseinov Philology and War 

Anti-corruption activism: new challenges, risks and opportunities 

33 Alyona Vandysheva Anti-Corruption Activism in Russia: New Challenges, Risks and Opportunities 

40 Ilya Shumanov The Russian Illicit Financial Flows after the start of the War 

The breakdown of universities and possibilities for the university unionization 

48 Ksenia Luchenko How Russian universities were destroyed 

57 Danila Raskov, Denis Skopin The fate of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of SPbSU before and after February 24, 2022 

67 Dmitry Dubrovsky The Higher School of Economics — the story of rise and fall 

79 Dmitry Dubrovsky How Russian science survives and develops in exile 

87 Andronik Arutyunov What’s rotten in the state of Denmark? 

93 Pavel Kudyukin Trade unions and universities in Russia 

Historical Studies and the Psychological Crisis 

119 Leonid Gozman Psychological status of modern Russia 

127 Evgeny N. Historical Studies and Academia in Russia after February 2022: Conditions, Trends, Future

Science in the Unlawful state 

145 Elena Lukyanova On the role and current state of legal education and constitutional-legal science under the authoritarian rule 

163 Kirill Fokin The Current State of Political Science in Russia: Research in the Sphere of International Relations 

170 Andrei Zayakin From the stolen science to the search of the roots of pseudoscience 

What’s happening to the culture 

181 Jan Levchenko Welcome to Zombieland: Russian Cinema of the New War 

192 Nina Agisheva How the war changed the Russian theater 

205 Olga Roginskaya Theories of Performativity and Theatricality: Reactualization in Contemporary Art Practices and Spaces of Everyday Life 

214 Katya Kapovich Chronicles of this war 

University life 

256 Elena Lukyanova Free University Chronicles. Part 6 

280 Max Goldstein Human nature as the subject of a new interdisciplinary course 

297 Dilyara Tasbulatova Gasan Guseynov: Thinking precisely

Call for abstracts, Networks of knowledge transmission in times of crises

Call for abstracts, Networks of knowledge transmission in times of crises, Symposium at the 11th ESHS Conference Science, Technology, and the Earth. Barcelona 4-7 Sept. 2024.

The COVID-19 pandemic is the most recent example of a global health crisis that revealed multiple social challenges and demanded cooperation between different domains, such as scientists, governments, policy-makers, science communicators, and the publics. Considering the continuous and growing challenges our societies face and the crucial role of science in the organization of knowledge and the shaping of public policies, our panel aims at studying the networks through which knowledge flows are communicated and exchanged in times of crisis. 

The complex processes that characterize times of crisis highlight the need for understanding the features of knowledge circulation (practices, spaces, materialities) in a context of scientific uncertainty. While research and literature have paid much attention to the networks of knowledge that go beyond the academic sphere, issues of production and circulation of knowledge and processes of validation and credibility within the boundaries of scientific communities remain obscure and understudied. 

The panel aims to investigate how the flows of scientific knowledge are affected by urgency and uncertainty. We would also like to discuss how the conditions created in times of crisis affected the communication between scientists and among scientific and political institutions. To that end, we invite papers exploring these issues in various national, geographical, historical, and cultural contexts. We particularly encourage contributions elucidating the local conditions of knowledge production, as well as the kind of intellectual activity that emerges at the intersection of the local with the global in times of crisis. 

Please send abstracts of 300 words and short bios of 150 words, with name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information to Maria Zarifi (marzarif@soc.uoa.gr) and|or Evangelia Chordaki (ec8612@princeton.edu) by 16 November 2023.

call for papers: Sciences, ideologies, and religions in 20th century Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe

call for papers: Sciences, ideologies, and religions in 20th century Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. June 6-7, 2024, Athens/Greece

The Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (Greece), the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Erfurt (Germany), the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture in Eastern Europe (Leipzig), the Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna (Vienna) and the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic) organize an international conference on the intersections of sciences, ideologies, and religions in the 20th century in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

The aim of the conference is twofold. First, it  aims to study historical cases, in which sciences, ideologies and religions seem to intersect, or in which boundaries were explicitly set. Secondly, from an epistemological perspective, we will investigate the practices and effects of delineation, the “boundary making” (Gieryn). How do making and doing “science”, “ideology”, and “religion” influence one another, how do they change during contact?

Thus, we invite papers  that study boundaries and their making, shifting and acting in historical and epistemological dimensions. We take a strong interest in approaches to  rewrite and redraw connections among different spaces, fields, and temporalities. We are also interested in research highlighting and problematizing the possible interaction and/or co-productions of knowledge among and across communities and epistemes and specific practices or agendas, on which they could emerge or that they brought forth. An explicit theme of the conference is that sciences, ideologies and religions are not only intellectual fields, but that they appear in action, and thus produce and interact with political and gender epistemologies. We especially welcome contributions focusing on how the framework and case studies developed for/by the geographical area of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe can interact with scholarship in subaltern areas and the global South.

We invite paper proposals, including a title and an abstract of max. 300 words, name(s), and affiliation(s) of the author(s), as well as contact information. The presentation time will be 20 minutes, with an additional time of 10 minutes for discussion. The conference's language will be English.

Please submit your proposal via email (ktampakis@eie.gr; friedrich.cain@univie.ac.at) by Monday the 18th of December, 2023. We especially encourage young scholars to apply. Notification  of acceptance will be sent by Monday, the 19th of January, 2024.

The attendance is free of charge. Organizers can cover the costs of travel and accommodation for those without institutional support.

The venue of the conference will be the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens.

(Image: Tesla Radio, (C) Andras Csore)

cfp: Climate Change, Empire and the Legacies of Environmental Determinism

 call for papers: Climate Change, Empire and the Legacies of Environmental Determinism. Munich, 18.03.2024 - 19.03.2024, deadline 08.12.2023

CLIMATE CHANGE, EMPIRE AND THE LEGACIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINISM

We live in a time when concern about human effects on the environment and climate are greater than ever. For much of human history, however, the opposite was true, and environments’ and climates’ effects on people were often the more pressing concern.[1] Environmental or climatic determinism – the idea that people are shaped physically, culturally and even morally – by their environments has a long and often insidious history. Determinist thinking had particular utility in the age of European and global empires in the 19th and 20th centuries, taking on new forms amidst attempts to expand and justify imperial dominance. Everything from ‘energy’ to racial characteristics and from ‘civilisational success’ to the limits of habitability were seen as environmentally and climatically determined.

The historiography has traditionally suggested that imperial forms of environmental determinism peaked in the early 20th century, with the likes of Ellsworth Huntington, Ellen Church Semple and Friedrich Ratzel reaching racist and Eurocentric heights that are still being unravelled by geographers and historians dealing with the dark pasts of their disciplines. Despite an alleged mid-20th century lull, ideas linking climate and ‘civilisation’ never really went away (not least in debates about desertification). Today, these ideas are once again being reconfigured in new and troubling ways, such as in the deterministic language sometimes employed around climate and migration, which risks echoing racist, early 20th-century visions of ‘nomadic hordes’.

In a world where our futures are increasingly understood as entangled with anthropogenic climate change, scholars have recently examined various forms of neodeterminism and ‘climate reductionism’, recognising the need to understand the legacies of the environmentally determinist imperial categories that still shape our geographical and environmental imaginations.[2] With the Anthropocene concept placing human and planetary histories and futures on the same scale, tracing the language of environmental determinism has similarly become imperative.[3]

This workshop aims to contextualise environmentally determinist ideas historically and to examine their reconfigurations in the face of today’s climate crisis. To do so, this workshop will consider, among others, the following questions:

- Why have environmentally determinist ideas been so persistent and pervasive, and how did they serve global empires?

- How did environmentally determinist thinking feature in imperial debates about ‘improvement’ and the appropriation of land, people and resources?

- How, on the other hand, were determinist explanations rejected by some imperial agents who instead sought to manage and manipulate climates through advances in medicine and terraforming and geoengineering schemes (especially to enable settler-colonialism)?

- How are environmentally determinist notions embedded in the related ideas of ‘habitability’, ‘uninhabitability’ and debates about demography and the limits of where on Earth we can live?

- How were environmentally determinist ideas adapted into new understandings of climate change and stability in the 19th and 20th centuries, including at a global scale?

- Beyond its simplicity, why has environmental determinism so often appealed to scholars in explaining historical phenomena, from the fall empires to the movement of peoples, and what disconnections emerge from this?

- How do the imperial legacies of environmental determinism inform thinking about climate change today, for example around ‘climate refugees’ and migration?

While primarily historical in its methodological focus, this conference also welcomes contributions from adjacent disciplines, including the history of science, art history, anthropology, geography, literary studies and environmental humanities. Papers from early career (including graduate) researchers dealing with the theme of empire and environmental determinism from the 19th to 21st centuries (in any part of the world) are welcome in addition to those from established scholars.

The workshop will take place in-person at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect at the LMU Munich, Germany. Accommodation in Munich will be provided and some support for travel may be available. To express your interest in the workshop, please submit a 300-word abstract and a short CV by Friday 8 December 2023.

Organiser: Dr Lachlan Fleetwood (LMU Munich)

Contact: lachlan.fleetwood@lmu.de

Sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and co-funded by the European Commission/Horizon Europe

[1] Alison Bashford and Sarah W. Tracy, ‘Introduction: Modern Airs, Waters, and Places’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 86, no. 4 (2012): 495-514.

[2] Mike Hulme, ‘Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism’, Osiris 26, no. 1 (2011): 245-66.

[3] Georgina Endfield, ‘Reculturing and Particularizing Climate Discourses: Weather, Identity, and the Work of Gordon Manley’, Osiris 26, no. 1 (2011): 142-62.

From Scientific Atheism to the Science of Religion: A documentary film by Valerio Severino

From Scientific Atheism to the Science of Religion: A documentary film on the freedom of research in Central and Eastern Europe over the last decades.

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6IRpf_pBaY .

SOME KIND OF LIBERATING EFFECT?

Are we free to study religion in Central and Eastern Europe today?  20 scholars from 8 countries, across 12 cities and 3 generations, answered the question.  30 years after the era of Scientific Atheism and underground churches, a collection of life-lesson portraits intertwines personal stories with the history of science.  The first-ever film documentary on the Academic Study of Religion. 

 Directed by Valerio Severino  

Produced by CROSS project n. 101032467 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions MSCA / EUROPEAN COMMISSION  Executive producer: Palacký University Olomouc, Department of Sociology, Andragogy and Cultural Anthropology 

 I N T E R V I E W E E S  Milda Ališauskienė Madis Arukask Audrius Beinorius Tomáš Bubík Eugen Ciurtin Liudmyla Fylypovych Maija Grizāne Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska Dorota Hall Mihály Hoppál Oleg Kyselov András Máté-Tóth Tamás Nyirkos Jānis Priede Gergely László Rosta Anita Stasulane Alessandro Testa Lech Trzcionkowski David Václavík Ülo Valk

Call for Applications for doctoral positions at IMPRS „Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities"

The Call for Applications for doctoral positions at IMPRS „Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities" starting on September 1, 2024, is now open!

If you would like to apply for a doctoral position at the IMPRS "Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities," (https://imprs.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/) please read carefully the Call for Applications and the FAQs below.

The Call for Applications can be downloaded by clicking here (https://imprs.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/sites/default/files/inline-files/Call_IMPRS-KIR_24.pdf) for the English version and here (https://imprs.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/sites/default/files/inline-files/Ausschreibung-IMPRS-KIR_24.pdf) for the German version.

The application portal will close on January 15, 2024, 23:59 CET. Only complete applications submitted via the application portal will be accepted. Applications can be submitted in English or German.

Call for abstracts: Science and democratisation processes in East Central Europe and beyond, 11th ESHS Conference, Barcelona 4-7 September 2024

Call for abstracts: Science and democratisation processes in East Central Europe and beyond, Panel at the 11th ESHS Conference, Science, Technology, Humanity, and the Earth, Barcelona 4-7 September 2024 (https://eventum.upf.edu/94068/).

Our panel focuses on an under-researched topic: the relationship between science and democracy. Current literature on the relationship between science and democracy tends to focus on tensions between science and democracy, neglecting both historical experience and epistemological issues. Our aim is to historicize this relationship and to examine the role of science (including access to data, tools, technologies, etc.) in the democratization of society. The panel will focus on Cold War science and the role of different expert cultures before and after perestroika. We are particularly interested in analysing the role of science and scientific communities or individual experts in democratisation processes in East Central Europe. In the context of current discussions on the decolonisation of the history of science, we would like to pay special attention to the role of science in the dissolution of the Soviet empire and, in particular, the Soviet Union. Papers may explore national, international or transnational relations as long as they address the practice turn in science as a multilateral process. We particularly welcome scholars working on relations between science and democracy within a broader theoretical framework, or focusing on similar processes in different parts of the world, such as the Global South or East Asia.

We are particularly interested in papers that focus on the divergences between practices and rhetoric, and that critically interrogate received narratives. Our session is not limited to any geographic region, although we encourage the submission of abstracts on less explored regions. Please send abstracts to Doubravka Olšáková ( olsakova@usd.cas.cz) and Jan Surman (surman@mua.cas.cz) by November 10, 2023.  

CFP: Expertise in medicine and the human sciences during the 20th century in Europe and beyond, Prague 16-18 May 2024

CFP: Expertise in medicine and the human sciences during the 20th century in Europe and beyond, Prague 16-18 May 2024

Expertise shapes modern societies, and the issues of health and normalcy form their core. That is why analyzing the disciplines of medicine and the human sciences – such as psychology, sociology, demography, and pedagogy – is helpful in understanding how modern societies function and change. There has been increasing interest in socialist expertise in recent years, and our research project, ExpertTurn (https://expertturn.hiu.cas.cz/), is part of that growing scholarly community. We focus on the human science expertise in East-Central Europe from comparative and transnational perspectives. We want to broaden our scope spatially and temporally during our conference. Thus, we call for papers analyzing human science expertise that circulated in Europe, whether it originated there or elsewhere, during the short 20th century (approximately from the interwar period to post-socialism, the 1920s-1990s). We encourage papers seeking connections across the borders of disciplines, countries, and time periods. 

 

We are interested in papers focusing on: 

•    Expert-to-expert exchanges. How did various forms of expertise communicate with each other? How did experts form alliances or create new (sub)disciplines? How did the topics they studied change in the process? How did experts communicate across the borders of nations and disciplines? 

•    Expert-to-state exchanges. How did experts communicate with the state? How did expertise forge new policies? How did the position of experts vis-a-vis the state change over time? How did expertise travel between national and supranational levels? How were scientific and policy bodies, such as the United Nations and international professional organizations, involved in creating new expertise? How else did knowledge circulate?  

•    Expert-to-people exchanges. How did expertise inform the everyday practices of people? How did forms of communication evolve? How did people pass their ideas on to experts? Under what circumstances could “lay” people become experts? What roles did non-governmental, grassroots, and unofficial spheres play in creating or changing expertise?  

•    Knowledge from the margins: of disciplines, of a given country, of Europe and beyond 

•    Gender, class, and race in expertise 

 

We invite 300-word abstracts by 15 December 2023 at ExpertTurn conference (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnTdhqeZulfZo9V4ejMZhbyMzg0mZ2hCkUrfPJDyRLZYzQvw/viewform). We envision 15-minute presentations, allowing ample time for discussion. You are welcome to submit a panel of three papers, but please allow us to move presentations to other panels if need be. 

 

We encourage doctoral students and early career researchers to apply. We can offer some support by providing accommodation during the conference. Coffee and snacks during breaks and vegetarian and vegan lunches will be provided for all. We do not charge any conference fee. 

 

The conference is organized by the ExpertTurn team, “Expertise in authoritarian societies. Human sciences in the socialist countries of East-Central Europe,” funded by the Czech Science Foundation EXPRO-Excellence in Basic Research. We are based at the Institute of History at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. Our conference will take place at its representative residence, Villa Lanna.

Serhiy Bilenky: Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine between Empire and Nation, 1772–1914. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 2023.

 Serhiy Bilenky: Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine between Empire and Nation, 1772–1914. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 2023. ISBN 9780228017578

When the powers of Europe were at their prime, present-day Ukraine was divided between the Austrian and Russian empires, each imposing different political, social, and cultural models on its subjects. This inevitably led to great diversity in the lives of its inhabitants, shaping modern Ukraine into the multiethnic country it is today.

Making innovative use of methods of social and cultural history, gender studies, literary theory, and sociology, Laboratory of Modernity explores the history of Ukraine throughout the long nineteenth century and offers a unique study of its pluralistic society, culture, and political scene. Despite being subjected to different and conflicting power models during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Ukraine was not only imagined as a distinct entity with a unique culture and history but was also realized as a set of social and political institutions. The story of modern Ukraine is geopolitically complex, encompassing the historical narratives of several major communities - including ethnic Ukrainians, Poles, Jews, and Russians - who for centuries lived side by side.

The first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Ukraine in English, Laboratory of Modernity traces the historical origins of some of the most pressing issues facing Ukraine and the international community today.

ToC:

Preface: What Can Ukraine Teach Us about the Modern World? | ix

Maps follow page xiv

Part One: Ukraine 1772-1831

1 Between Two Empires | 3

The Age of Enlightened Absolutism and Its Legacy | 3

Dynastic Empires Change Space | 9

The Rise of Bureaucracy | 22

How to Tackle Diversity? | 27

2 From Enlightenment to Romanticism | 38

Ukrainians as Empire Builders | 38

Dr Frankenstein’s Laboratory of Nationalism | 50

Heritage Gatherers, Glory Hunters | 57

Ukraine Begins in the East | 72

Old Regime under Threat: Poles and Decembrists | 81

Part Two: Ukraine 1831-1876

3 The Age of Romantic Nationalism | 91

Another Ukraine, Other “Ukrainians” | 91

Inventing an Ancient and Holy City: The Rise of Kyiv | 99

The Making of One Nationality is the Unmaking of Others | 106

From Serf to Prophet: The Improbable Case of Taras Shevchenko | 115

Was There a Revolution in Ukraine in 1848? | 122

4 The Age of Reforms | 132

Tradition vs. Modernization | 132

Liberal Interlude in Russia: The Reformers | 146

Liberal Interlude in Russia: The Reformed | 155

The Birth of the Intelligentsia from the Spirit of Reform | 164

5 The Empire Strikes Back | 179

Poles Rebel, Act II | 179

“There was not, is not, and cannot be” a Ukrainian Language | 189

Fathers and Sons, Ukrainian Style | 205

From Austria to Austria-Hungary | 217

part three: ukraine 1876-1914

6 Galician Exceptionalism | 227

Ruthenians in Search of a Nation | 227

The Ukrainian Piedmont | 241

From Dawn to Dusk of the New Era | 250

Whose City Was It? Lviv vs. Lwów | 260

7 New Society, Old Empire | 274

Nation of Peasants: Social Mobility and Immobility | 274

The Curse and Blessing of Resources | 285

Was Ukraine Russia’s Colony? | 295

Society at the Crossroads | 308

Live Fast, Die Young: Birth, Death, Family, and Gender | 325

The West is the Best? Oil Boom, Rural Poverty, and Emigration | 342

Imperial Pecking Order: Peoples of Ukraine | 357

8 Politics and Culture between Empire and Nation | 384

The World(s) of Fin-de-Siècle and Beyond | 384

The Dubious Blessing of Illiteracy | 402

When Ukraine Learned to Read: Non-Readers into Readers | 411

Between Theater and Terrorism | 430

“People do not exist for States” | 449

The Un/Solved Ukrainian Dilemmas: Epilogue | 470

Timeline | 489

Notes | 497

Bibliographic Essay | 539

Index | 567

Environmental History of East-Central Europe in journal "Historica", Volume 14, Issue 1/2023

 Open Access Special Issue on the Environmental History of East-Central Europe  by the SCOPUS listed journal "Historica", Volume 14, Issue 1/2023

Link to journal's page: https://historica.osu.eu/current-issue/ .

Special Issue in PDF:  https://dokumenty.osu.cz/ff/journals/historica/2023-1/His_23-1-Full.pdf .     (5,64 MB)

Studia Historiae Scientiarum Vol. 22 (2023), is online

Studia Historiae Scientiarum Vol. 22 (2023), is online (as FirstView Articles), English and Polish (with English abstracts): https://ojs.ejournals.eu/SHS/issue/view/758 .

EDITORIAL

The Evolutionary Transformation of the Journal. Part 10

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.001.17692 Michał Kokowski PDF (Język Polski)

TRANSLATIONS

On Symmetry in Physical Phenomena, Symmetry of an Electric Field and a Magnetic Field

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.002.17693 Pierre Curie; Andrzej Ziółkowski PDF (Język Polski)

FOCAL POINT

Why Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) Is Still Interesting? Nicolaus Copernicus’s 550th Birth Anniversary and 150th Anniversary of the Opening Meeting of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kraków

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.003.17694 Michał Kokowski PDF (Język Polski)

A Critical Comment on T.S. Kuhn’s Views about the So-called Copernican Revolution and Several Current Prejudices – Barriers in Scientific Communities

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.004.17695 Michał Kokowski PDF

Incommensurability Explained in the Terms of Presuppositions. A Comment to Kuhn’s Thesis on Radical Meaning Variance

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.005.17696 Adam Grobler PDF

Thomas Kuhn, Stefan Amsterdamski, and the Cycles of Scientific Development

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.006.17697 Anna Martin-Michalska PDF

SCIENCE IN POLAND

An Update of the Paper, ‘On known and less known relations of Leonhard Euler with Poland’ (DOI: 10.4467/23921749SHS.16.005.6148)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.007.17698 Veronika Girininkaitė, Andreas Kleinert, Roman Sznajder PDF

A new proposal for the periodization of the history of botany in Poland

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.008.17699 Piotr Köhler PDF (Język Polski)

Between Biology and Culture. Polish Reflections on the Concept of Race in the Nineteenth Century

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.009.17700 Joanna Nowak, Katarzyna Wrzesińska PDF

Connections Between the Lvov-Warsaw School and the University in Poznań

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.010.17701 Roman Murawski PDF

Mikhail Ziegler, the First Professor of Metallurgy at Warsaw Polytechnic, and His Contribution for Developing our Knowledge about Steels

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.011.17702 Dmytro Zhurylo, Volodymyr Levchenko PDF

The portraits of foreign institutions supporting scientific and cultural activity on the pages of a yearbook “Science and Letters in Poland” and National Culture Fund

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.012.17703 Mateusz Hübner PDF (Język Polski)

An outline of botanical and mycological research on Babia Góra Mt.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.013.17704 Jerzy B. Parusel, Alina Stachurska-Swakoń PDF (Język Polski)

Activity of the Committee of History of Mathematics at the Main Board of the Polish Mathematical Society in 1997–2000

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.014.17705 Stanisław Domoradzki PDF (Język Polski)

SCIENCE IN A EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL CONTEXT

Ideological, political, and philosophical foundations of science and industrial policy https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.016.17707 Vitocase of “soft chemistry” (sanfte Chemie)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.015.17706  Marcin Krasnodębski PDF (Język Polski)

SCIENCE BEYOND BORDERS

Reductionism Debate in Molecular Biology: Max Delbrück’s Complementarity Approach

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.016.17707 Vito Balorda PDF

The Misrepresentation of Petri Dish, as “petri” Dish, in the Scientific Literature

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.017.17708 Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva PDF

BIBLIOMETRICS, SCIENCE POLICY, SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

Journal evaluation model of the Pracownia Naukoznawstwa IHN PAN: update of journal evaluation rules and journal scoring in the history of science in 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.018.17709 Michał Kokowski PDF (Język Polski)

The completed list of Polish historical journals based on the journal evaluation model developed by the Pracownia Naukoznawstwa IHN PAN

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.019.17710 Dorota Kozłowska PDF (Język Polski)

VARIA

Under the Spell of Distant Landscapes: On the Lives and Work of a Few Famous Hungarian Travellers and Explorers after 1945 – an Introduction to the Topic for English-Speaking Readers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.020.17711 Zsolt András Udvarvölgyi PDF

SCIENTIFIC CHRONICLE

The Activity Report of the PAU Commission on the History of Science in 2022/2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.021.17712 Michał Kokowski PDF (Język Polski)

Вікторія Сергієнко (ред.), Михайло Могилянський. Листування з Наталією Полонською-Василенко 1929–1941 [Mykhailo Mohyliansky. Correspondence with Natalia Polonska-Vasylenko 1929-1941]

Вікторія Сергієнко (ред.), Михайло Могилянський. Листування з Наталією Полонською-Василенко 1929–1941 [Mykhailo Mohyliansky. Correspondence with Natalia Polonska-Vasylenko 1929-1941], Харків: «ПРАВА ЛЮДИНИ», 2023.

Знайомство письменника і літературознавця Михайла Могилянського та історикині Наталії ПолонськоїВасиленко відбулося в 1923 році у Києві. Їх об’єднала робота у Комісії для складання Біографічного словника українських діячів Всеукраїнської академії наук, очолюваній Могилянським, та його дружба із чоловіком Полонської-Василенко — колишнім президентом ВУАН, академіком Миколою Василенком, яка поклала початок їхньої власної приязні, що протривала до смерті Могилянського. Збережені Полонською-Василенко листи до неї Могилянського були написані між 1929 — 1941 роками і охоплюють останні роки існування ВУАН та останні роки життя Могилянського, підданого остракізму радянською владою як «бувша людина». Ця книжка є першим науково коментованим виданням усіх 125 листів, що вміщені в Центральному державному архіві-музеї літератури і мистецтва України, а також кількох досі неопублікованих оповідань та есе Могилянського. 

Про упорядницю:

Вікторія Сергієнко, кандидат історичних наук, наукова співробітниця Інституту української археографії та джерелознавства імені Михайла Грушевського НАН України.

CFP: FORCED MIGRATION IN THE XXI CENTURY: CHALLENGES, VALUES, REFLECTIONS, December 1-3, 2023, Augsburg

CFP: FORCED MIGRATION IN THE XXI CENTURY: CHALLENGES, VALUES, REFLECTIONS, December 1-3, 2023, Augsburg

Dear scientists, representatives of authorities, public and cultural activists, volunteers and everyone who is interested

in migration processes!

We invite you to participate in

The International Scientific Symposium

"FORCED MIGRATION IN THE XXI CENTURY: CHALLENGES, VALUES, REFLECTIONS, which will take place on December 1-3, 2023 in Augsburg.

The aim of The Symposium is a multidisciplinary and scientific study of the causes, trends and phenomenon of modern migration, especially that caused by Russia's war against Ukraine.

The application deadline is October 20, 2023.

The selected theses will be published in the symposium proceedings.

The symposium is held with the support of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany. Auswärtiges Amt

The project is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office

Conditions of participation - in the information letter:

In German – https://bit.ly/3rzW7sk

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In English –  https://bit.ly/456eqDf

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The 11th biannual conference of the European Society for the History of Science, call for symposia

 The 11th biannual conference of the European Society for the History of Science  will take place in Barcelona at Pompeu Fabra University  on 4-7 September 2024.

The call for symposia proposals is now open.

We welcome proposals for either 90-minute or 120-minute symposia. 90-minute symposia will comprise at least 3 papers, and 120-minute symposia will comprise at most 4 papers (including comments). The organizer will chair the symposium or may propose a chair, who may not be a speaker in the symposium, as well as a commentator, upon request.Organizers may propose up to 4 symposia on the same subject by using the same title for the related symposia ordered by number, e.g., “History of Astrology 1” and “History of Astrology 2”.

The deadline is on 22 November 2023. The call for standalone papers will open only on 23 November 2023.

Proposals must be uploaded in the section proposals submission of the website of the conference. In the menu proposal select submission/my proposals, and then please select the option symposia. The option for uploading symposium proposals will be active between 1 October 2023 and 22 November 2023.

Prospective symposium organizers are invited to issue an open call for participants through the website of the ESHS http://www.eshs.org/calls-for-symposia-participation/ and to disseminate it in social media (by using the #ESHS2024 official hashtag) and mailing lists related to history of science. Any interested participant is invited to visit the same page for the list of open call for symposia participation.

The theme of the ESHS 2024 conference will be Science, technology, humanity, and the Earth. Science is one of the primary means by which mankind understands, represents and intervenes in the world. Humanity is facing challenges that can threaten its future and the future of the planet where it lives. As historians of science, we are committed to understand, inter alia, how epidemics, wars, poverty, inequalities, and climate change are connected. We invite the community of European historians of science to look at the object of their historical research with a view to the great challenges that humanity has been facing both nowadays and throughout its history. The aim is to distance the conference from a specific methodological approach, and to establish a dialogue between different historiographies, perspectives, and topics.

We welcome proposals for symposia on all periods, geographic locations, and areas of specialisation, including but not limited to, the following:

- Ancient texts, new technologies: digital humanities, computational history of science and the craft of the historian

- Between global histories and microhistories of science

- Decolonizing the history of science: children, women, racialised groups, minorities, and other invisible actors

- “We are part of the Earth and the Earth is part of us.” History of science in the age of the Anthropocene

- Science creating the environment

- Human beings and other animals

- Human sciences and subjectivity

- The changing epistemic limits of science throughout history: astrology, phrenology, pseudoscience, post-truth, and so on

- Science and technology in war and peace

- The material, visual, and textual cultures of science

- Global health and social challenges

- The co-construction of knowledge: Science, technology, medicine and its publics

In selecting proposals for the conference, our scientific committee will give preference to to those proposals that address the conference theme in one or more of its different topics.We particularly encourage proposals that foster gender–equality and diversity, including researchers with various institutional affiliations, at diverse stages of their professional careers, with different geographical origins, and from underrepresented groups.Participants may chair more than one symposium and speak or comment in one symposium and chair another. They may, however, present a paper or comment in a symposium only once, unless they are plenary lecturers or prize-winners. Please note that the conference is a face-to-face event.

For enquieries: eshsbarcelona2024@gmail.com

With best wishes,

The ESHS secretary

Vice-President, Inter-Union Commission on the History and Philosophy of Physics (IUPAP - DHST/IUHPST)Roberto Lalli, PhDAssistant Professor (RTDb)Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMEAS), Politecnico di TorinoCorso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, ItalyVisiting Scholar

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

https://mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de