call for papers: Crossing Boundaries. Human-Animal Relations from Post-Petrine Russia to the Soviet State (1725–1991).

call for papers: Crossing Boundaries. Human-Animal Relations from Post-Petrine Russia to the Soviet State (1725–1991).Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), 29.06.2023 - 30.06.2023, Deadline 10.03.2023 The study of human-animal relations is one of the most promising fields in historiography. We suggest taking a longue durée-perspective on the interplay of human and nonhuman actors that ranges from post-Petrine Russia to the fall of the Soviet Union. For our publication-oriented workshop we are looking for contributions with a spatial scope from western Russia to the Pacific Ocean, and from the steppes of Central Asia to the ice shelves of the Arctic Circle. CROSSING BOUNDARIES. HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONS FROM POST-PETRINE RUSSIA TO THE SOVIET STATE (1725–1991) Workshop The study of human-animal relations is one of the most promising fields in historiography. During the past three decades, it has evolved from animal activism to a highly theorized endeavor that tries to re-situate nonhuman species in societal contexts. Ranging from the large mammals of the seas down to small birds and insects, it discusses phenomena of coevolution, culturalization and commodification. Although pathbreaking works have been published on whaling, hunting, and the animal gaze, the study of human-animal relations remains peripheral in the context of imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. This is all the more surprising, considering that scholars have convincingly argued that exploring human-animal relations can provide us with important new insights and perspectives. Here, the still neglected cultural relationships of local ethnicities with certain species and the role animals play in imperial expansion are only two of the many aspects that deserve to be studied in more detail. While traditionally a strong focus has been set on the economic use of animals, a more thorough treatment of their everyday role in local communities still remains to be desired, as it has recently been shown not least in the example of the Bering Strait. This view would also expand the boundaries of environmental history which has rather been interested in the at times catastrophic consequences of resource extraction and processing instead of interspecies exchanges. In order to address these desiderata, we suggest taking a longue durée-perspective on the interplay of human and nonhuman actors that ranges from post-Petrine Russia to the fall of the Soviet Union. We are looking for contributions with a spatial scope from western Russia to the Pacific Ocean, and from the steppes of Central Asia to the ice shelves of the Arctic Circle. With regards to the theoretical and methodological tools of the thriving field of human-animal studies, this forces us to re-evaluate established narratives of internal colonization (as in the example of the fur trade), culturalization (e.g., in pet-keeping and the emergence of livestock farming), and conflicting agency (as in the rather macabre tales of polar bears and Arctic explorers). What is more, in light of the lasting inaccessibility of Russian archives, it presents us with alternative avenues and opportunities in finding and interpreting historical sources. Thus, our workshop aims at bringing together scholars from such varying backgrounds like environmental, social and cultural history with the goal of producing a peer-reviewed special journal issue that delivers new approaches to an old relationship. Possible contributions may include, but are not limited to, the following topics: 1. Human-animal encounters in contexts of imperial expansion 2. Trans-species agency and processes of culturalization 3. Commodification of animals from proto-capitalist to socialist economies 4. Food cultures in transition and the industrialization of animals 5. Human and nonhuman animals in gendered relations of power Please submit an abstract of 250 words as well as a short bio by March 10, 2023. You will be notified by early April regarding acceptance. Kontakt Timm Schönfelder E-Mail: timm.schoenfelder@leibniz-gwzo.de

100 years GAKhN: Artistic Research between Art and Science.

100 years GAKhN: Artistic Research between Art and Science. Reconsidering the Practice of the State Academy of Artistic Research (1921-1930). Special issue of Studies in East European Thought, open access (https://link.springer.com/collections/jefjhaigcc) The special issue presents a singular institution of Russian scientific and cultural history – the State Academy of Artistic Research (GAKhN), which was founded in Moscow 100 years ago (1921). The contributions of the issue, which were realized as part of the DFG project “Between Encyclopedia and Stenogramm”, show the great variety and innovative character of art theoretical research at the GAKhN, which was realized in close cooperation with artists and museum people. The Academy was dissolved and banned by the Soviet power in 1930. Therefore, the philosophical and art-theoretical heritage of GAKhN is only today slowly coming to light in its scope.

Call for Papers: Negotiating Modern Ways of Life: Life-Reform Movements in Central and Eastern Europe since 1900

Call for Papers: Negotiating Modern Ways of Life: Life-Reform Movements in Central and Eastern Europe since 1900. Early Career Scholars Conference, organised by the Herder-Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (Marburg, Germany) and the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn University (Stockholm, Sweden) Venue: Herder-Institute, Marburg, Germany 18–19 September 2023 Since the late 19th century, a wave of issue-oriented life-reform movements has developed across Europe and America, particularly in the areas of nutrition, clothing, consumption, housing, healthcare and moral reform. Such movements became a corollary and a critique of industrialisation, urbanisation, mass communication, and societal change. The dynamically emerging modern ways of life, particularly in big cities, were frequently perceived as misdevelopments, so life reform movements aimed to construct alternative responses to these modern lifestyle trends. Animal welfare and temperance movements, tobacco abstention and vegetarianism, had counter-cultural ambitions and a social reformist spirit. Abolitionist movements criticised bourgeois double standards and human trafficking and prostitution as the outcomes of poverty and social ills. As a reaction to the environmental problems associated with industrialisation, life reform movements searched for answers in the return to nature. Our conference acknowledges that such trends became trans-imperial and transnational, if not global, phenomena, also emerging in multi-ethnic and multicultural Eastern and Central Europe. During the 20th century, national thinking had an impact on these movements and vice versa, as did Soviet ideology. Our conference aims to examine such movements as social and cultural movements that reflect societies’ particular situations. Through the lenses of life-reform movements and by focusing on people, ideas and practices, as well as institutions and materialities, our conference seeks to explore the local and global connections and circulations, fusions and integrations that cut through and extend beyond the region. We would also like to spotlight the synergies and entanglements of different life-reform movements and their wider societal impacts. Any proposal on these aspects or aspects closely related to the topic of the conference is highly welcome. The conference welcomes papers that build on a wide range of theories, methodologies, and primary sources. We invite around ca. 15 early career scholars to present their research and to discuss it within broad contexts. Keynote speakers from the region and other European countries will introduce the topic. Individual presentations should be no more than 15-20 minutes long, followed by joint discussions. The working language of the conference is English. Travel costs (within Europe) and accommodation will be paid by the organisers. Proposals comprising an abstract (of 300 words) and a short biography of the applicant (including their area of research) should be submitted in one pdf document by 28.02.2023 to: forum@herder-institut.de. The selection process will be completed by the end of March. Contact Info: PD Dr. Heidi Hein-Kircher (academic content and coordination) Herder-Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (Marburg, Germany) heidi.hein-kircher@herder-institut.de Dr. Julia Malitska (academic content and coordination) Centre for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn University (Stockholm, Sweden) julia.malitska@sh.se Hanna Meisel (administrative coordination) forum@herder-institut.de Herder-Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe Gisonenweg 5-7 D 35037 Marburg

CALL FOR PAPERS - Fertile Furrows: Ruling and (Re-)Working Soil in Early Modern Period - Warburg Institute

CALL FOR PAPERS - Fertile Furrows: Ruling and (Re-)Working Soil in Early Modern Period - Warburg Institute CALL FOR PAPERS - Fertile Furrows: Ruling and (Re-)Working Soil in Early Modern Period The Warburg Institute, London CFP Deadline: 1 February 2023 Conference dates: 27-28 June 2023 ONLINE CONFERENCE Organizer: Anca-Delia Moldovan (Warburg Institute) Keynote speakers: Christine Göttler (Professor emerita, Art History, Universität Bern); Frances E. Dolan (Distinguished Professor, Department of English, University of California at Davis) Human life is closely dependent on soil, both for its capacity to produce food and for its geo-political connotations. It is no wonder that soil fertility has been at the centre of human thought from the mythical Golden Age and the fruitful gardens of Homer's Odyssey to the furrows of the Biblical plough, and to the long-lasting doctrine of the four elements. The need to improve the quality of the soil reached a pinnacle in the second half of the sixteenth century, resulting in a boom in printed publications on estate management. Contemporaneous interventions into the environment (both within the surrounding countryside and colonial landscapes) gave rise to a novel consciousness of the empirical ability of people to transform the land, and therefore nature itself. This conference aims to showcase a multifaced and interconnected perspective on ideas and representations of soil in the Early Modern period, focusing on the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. The event invites applications for 20 min papers, from advanced graduate students, early career, and established scholars. It welcomes contributions that engage with the topics proposed below through a variety of methodologies and disciplines, such as history of art, history of science, ecohistory, cultural and intellectual history, politico-economic history, and literature. Topics include (but are not limited to): * The relationship between the new Early Modern science of botany and soil experimentations: from innovations in the type and use of fertilizers to the need to change the alchemy of the soil to acclimatise plants from the New World. Papers are invited to consider how these novel observations determined critical changes in the attitude towards classical authority and established theoretical frameworks. * Politico-economic exploitations directed towards agricultural productivity and conducted in the name of public good (e.g., land reclamations, deforestations). * Myths of a primordial, lost, or restored soil fertility, and their role in supporting Early Modern political governments, environmental interventions, or intellectual ideologies in Europe and overseas. * Geology and soil theories between natural philosophy and religion (as in theories of the Earth and views of the post-diluvian Earth). * Colonial lands: the first encounters with the "rare fruitfulness" of the Americas; appropriations of indigenous peoples' land and seventeenth-century socio-economic theories on governing and ownership. * Representations of fertile or sterile landscapes and their cultural implications. Working the soil or with soil in the visual and material culture. Interested speakers should submit an abstract (max 300 words) and a brief CV to ancadelia.moldovan@sas.ac.uk by 1 February 2023, 23:59 GMT. For full details see: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/CFP-fertile-furrows-2023

CfP: Workshop on The Gravitational Constant, from the Local to the Universal, St Andrews, UK, 20-21 April 2023

CfP: Workshop on The Gravitational Constant, from the Local to the Universal, St Andrews, UK, 20-21 April 2023. The idea of this 2-day workshop, is to bring together perspectives from transnational history, philosophy, mathematics and physics to explore the wider context of interpretational moves, experimental practices in local, institutional and transnational contexts, networks and (dis)connections between scientists, congresses, and epistemic communities at the turn of the 19th to 20th century – increasing our understanding of the context within which the idea of G as a universal constant of nature emerged. The aim of the workshop is to explore this wider context, and foster collaborations around the emerging research questions. So we welcome proposals on other areas, topics, case studies and periods that address the workshop’s remit and transnational perspectives, while addressing one of these themes from a historical or philosophical standpoint: • measurement • circulation practices • ideas about the role of laws • translation and transnational connections Each theme will start with an invited speaker who sets the scene; followed by contributed papers; concluding with a discussion led by one of the project team. Invited speakers are: • Daniel Mitchell (Measurement)(IEEE History Center, Piscataway, NJ) • Richard Staley (Circulation Practices)(Cambridge and Copenhagen) • Jenny Beckman (Translation/parallel publishing)(Uppsala) • Bryan Roberts (Role of Laws)(London School of Economics) • Michael Gordin (Translation)(Princeton) We now invite contributed papers of 20 minutes on the three themes of measurement, circulation practices, translation and transnational connections. Proposals should include an abstract (c.250 words), state which theme they are addressing, and give a brief biography of the speaker. The workshop is part of The Gravitational Constant, from the Local to the Universal, an interdisciplinary collaborative project between St Andrews and the Lichtenberg Group for History and Philosophy of Physics, University of Bonn (https://www.gravconstant.net/ ). Proposals should be submitted to Isobel Falconer (ijf3@st-andrews.ac.uk) by 15 February 2023. Decisions will be notified at the end of February 2023. We have funds to provide some support for early career scholars. https://www.gravconstant.net/

30. Tagung Junger Osteuropa-Expert:innen (JOE)

CFP: 30. Tagung Junger Osteuropa-Expert:innen (JOE) / 30th Conference of junior scholars in the field of East European studies -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1996 – in Köln findet erstmals die Fachtagung junger Osteuropa-Expert:innen (JOE) statt. Fortgeschrittene Studierende, Doktorand:innen und jüngere Promovierte, die sich mit dem östlichen Europa, dem Kaukasus und Zentralasien beschäftigen, kommen aus dem gesamten deutschsprachigen Raum zusammen, um ihre Projekte vorzustellen und gemeinsam zu diskutieren. Eine neue, miteinander vernetzte Generation von Osteuropa-Wissenschaftler:innen entsteht. 30. Tagung Junger Osteuropa-Expert:innen (JOE) / 30th Conference of junior scholars in the field of East European studies -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde (DGO) / Junge DGO, Forschungsstelle Osteuropa (FSO) an der Universität Bremen, Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung, Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien, 93047 Regensburg (Deutschland) 29.06.2023 - 01.07.2023 Bewerbungsschluss: 31.01.2023 2023 – die mittlerweile alljährliche JOE-Fachtagung findet zum 30. Mal statt. Sie richtet sich an die neue Generation junger Osteuropa-Expert:innen. Vom 29. Juni bis 01. Juli 2023 lädt die Junge DGO fortgeschrittene Studierende, Doktorand:innen und kürzlich Promovierte unterschiedlicher Disziplinen zur JOE-Tagung 2023 nach Regensburg ein, um ihre Forschungsprojekte mit Bezug zum östlichen Europa zu präsentieren. Teilnehmende erhalten die Möglichkeit, ihre Vorhaben anderen angehenden Wissenschaftler:innen und ausgewiesenen Fachvertreter:innen zu vorzustellen und mit ihnen zu diskutieren. Die Tagung bietet einen Überblick über die aktuelle Osteuropaforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum und ermöglicht einen interdisziplinären Austausch zum östlichen Europa, dem Kaukasus und Zentralasien sowie eine Vernetzung unter den Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen. Projektskizzen aus den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, den Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften sowie weiteren verwandten Disziplinen im Umfang von höchstens 500 Wörtern sind willkommen und können bis zum 31. Januar 2023 eingereicht werden. Darüber hinaus können auch Vorschläge für Panels, bestehend aus drei Beiträgen, gemacht werden. Beiträge können auf Deutsch und Englisch eingereicht und gehalten werden. Passive Deutschkenntnisse sind jedoch notwendig, da keine Verdolmetschung stattfindet. Die Tagung wird von der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde (DGO) / Junge DGO, der Forschungsstelle Osteuropa (FSO) an der Universität Bremen, dem Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung, der Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien sowie dem Institut für Ostrecht organisiert. Die Kosten für Unterkunft und Verpflegung werden von den Veranstaltern getragen. Fahrtkosten können nicht übernommen werden. Bewerbungen sind spätestens bis zum 31. Januar 2023 an joe-tagung@dgo-online.org zu richten. Bei Zusage muss bis zum 01. Mai 2023 ein deutsch- oder englischsprachiges Paper von ca. 3.000 Wörtern eingereicht werden, das den TeilnehmerInnen vorab zur Verfügung gestellt wird. Tagungsleitung: Olha Martyniuk, Tila de Almeida Mendonça, Niklas Platzer

Luka Boršić , Ivana Skuhala Karasman: Dr. Elza Kučera. Zagreb: Institut za Filozofiju 2022. ISBN 978-953-7137-63-2

Luka Boršić , Ivana Skuhala Karasman: Dr. Elza Kučera. Zagreb: Institut za Filozofiju 2022. ISBN 978-953-7137-63-2 Elzu Kučeru »otkrili« smo baveći se pisanjem enciklopedijskoga priručnika Naše žene 2016. godine. Prva saznanja o njoj dobili smo iz oskudnih enciklopedijskih natuknica, no ubrzo smo shvatili da su podaci o njoj ne samo bili preoskudni glede njezine vrijednosti, već počesto i netočni. Elza Kučera (1883. – 1972.) spominje se kao najranija hrvatska profesionalna knjižničarka. Rjeđe, i to pretežno u stručnoj literaturi, spominje se kao prva psihologinja – ponekad se dodaje riječ »eksperimentalna«, ali slobodno bismo mogli ostaviti i širi pojam psihologinje. No s obzirom na naš znanstveno-istraživački projekt, Hrvatske filozofkinje u europskom kontekstu, 1 ponajviše nam je zapelo za oko to da je doktorirala filozofiju u Zürichu, i to za hrvatske prilike vrlo rano, 1909. godine. Već sam taj podatak da se radi o ženi koja je u trima stvarima bila prva u Hrvatskoj – prva knjižničarka, prva eksperimentalna psihologinja i prva doktorica filozofije – dovoljno je da se detaljnije prouči njezin život i djelo.

Call for papers: Gender and Intersectionality in Science, Technology, and Medicine: Historical Perspectives

 Call for papers: Gender and Intersectionality in Science, Technology, and Medicine: Historical Perspectives

University of Granada, Spain, 2–3 June 2023

International Conference of the Commission on Women and Gender of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine


We invite proposals for organized sessions and individual presentations that engage with the theme, “Gender and Intersectionality in Science, Technology, and Medicine: Historical Perspectives.”

We encourage proposals that interrogate the multi-agent histories of women, gender and sexuality in science, technology and medicine, with particular attention to the roles played by constructions of race/ethnicity, class and further social categories that impacted personal and professional lives in a range of geographical and temporal contexts.

Historiographical traditions in studies of women and gender in science, technology, and medicine have offered analytical frameworks of individual careers, networks of people, and material objects and ideas to promote a more inclusive history of science, technology and medicine. Through this conference, we seek to interrogate the extent to which the concept of intersectionality aligns with contemporary ethos and efforts toward inclusive scholarships in the historiographies of gender, women and sexuality in science, technology and medicine. We especially encourage proposals that consider institutional and geographical contexts beyond the academies of the North/West, in medical, government, NGO, civic, industrial, and corporate institutions. We encourage situated analytical approaches and methodologies with a particular focus on feminist activism, bodies, affect/emotions, queer identities, human-animal studies and ecosocialities among other themes.

We welcome proposals from doctoral students and early career scholars within five years of receiving degrees, for whom limited travel funding will be available.


The deadline for submitting organised sessions and individual presentations is January 31, 2023.


For further details on submissions, please visit https://agnodike.org/conferences/granada2023/call-for-proposals/

Call for Proposals – Commission on Women and Gender in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine - agnodike.org<https://agnodike.org/conferences/granada2023/call-for-proposals/>
Gender and Intersectionality in Science, Technology, and Medicine: Historical Perspectives, University of Granada, Spain, 2–3 June 2023. International Conference of the Commission on Women and Gender of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
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For further questions, please contact:

andrea.nunez.casal@usc.es<mailto:andrea.nunez.casal@usc.es> and mariaj.santesmases@cchs.csic.es<mailto:mariaj.santesmases@cchs.csic.es>

CALL FOR PAPER, UNIVERSEUM 2023 ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 4-7 JULY, UNIVERSITY OF WROCLAW, POLAND

 CALL FOR PAPER, UNIVERSEUM 2023 ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 4-7 JULY, UNIVERSITY OF WROCLAW, POLAND

Dear colleagues,
Dear friends,

First of all the colleagues from the board join me to wish you all a warmfull and stupendous new year.
Our best thought are for our ukrainian colleagues and their remarkable courage towards the war: let’s hope this year will see the end of this barbaric invasion.

Facing lots of challenging issues within society the role of our community is even more acute. Being at the interface between the broader public and universities, between local communities and academics is a very important but difficult role in these polarized times. More than ever, the role of academic heritage is paramount in developing tools for creating and supporting dialogue, engagement and participation of the wider community and to make scientific knowledge accessible and intelligible.

More than ever the role of Universeum should enhance our capacity to work together in that direction and facilitate the sharing of our professional practices and knowledge.

Our next annual conference, that will be host by the University of Wroclaw in Poland, 4th-7th July 2023, will give us the opportunity to move forward in that direction. During the 2023 Universeum meeting, we want to reflect on and share our “Experience of Academic Heritage”.

According to ICOM’s new definition of museums of 2022, museums ‘operate and communicate ethically, professionally and with the participation of communities, offering varied experiences for education, enjoyment, reflection and knowledge sharing’. How do these ways of experiencing apply to academic heritage? In this UNIVERSEUM annual meeting, we wanted to explore how this is resonating with your practice and with how your audiences are experiencing academic heritage.

We would like to move beyond only celebrating to also critically reflect about academic heritage and the experiences it offers and provides. Are there other directions in which you would like to take the interpretation and experience of university collections further? Should we be doing more with what we have? What are the opportunities and obstacles in realising our full potential within our collections, museums, institutions?

Subtheme 1: By whom and for whom?
University collections are presented in many different ways and are experienced by different communities and groups. Increasingly, university museums are working together with various groups to agree on themes, approaches, and interpretations of academic heritage.
How conscious are we of our curation and interpretation processes and how these are experienced by different audiences?
How can we find out if the experience is received as we intended and by whom? How can we learn from this? How do we react to unexpected outcomes?
Does who is involved in the design of these experiences affect the end result and how these are experienced?

Subtheme 2: Experiencing difficult heritage
Experiencing academic heritage can go beyond having fun and joy. They can also include encountering issues and ideas from a long history of academic practices and institutional history that make us uncomfortable and can be disturbing.
What is the role of university museums and collection custodians in this process?
How can they facilitate and encourage debates on difficult heritage in an effective way and not hide from them?
Subtheme 3: Media and methods of interpretation
When designing experiences of academic heritage, we use various means in our disposal for presenting and interpreting these. Some of these, like storytelling, have remained unchanged over the years, while others are constantly evolving, like the use of new technologies and social media.
How do our media and methods for setting up experiences of academic heritage, for instance the language and tools we use, affect the messages we are trying to communicate?
And whom do we involve in the process of selecting and designing interpretative tools and approaches?
How can we evaluate their effectiveness?

During the 2023 Universeum meeting, we want to explore different ways of encouraging discussion and debate, as well as allow as many voices from the community to be heard as possible. We would like to combine short papers, with longer in-depth contributions that reflect more broadly on these themes rather than present specific projects, as well as invite dialogue and discussions from all participants.
SUBMISSIONS
Format of submissions
Under these themes, we invite proposals for:
5-minute talks
15-minute talks
posters
Guidelines for submissions
You will find all necessary information and the abstract template on Universeum website <https://www.universeum-network.eu/evenements/universeum-2023-annual-meeting/>.

The conference language is English. We welcome contributions from cultural heritage professionals and academics, but also post‐graduate students who are encouraged to present.

Please send your abstract proposal (max. 200 words), with an indication of the session you are submitting to (sub-theme 1, sub-theme 2, or 3), plus a short biographical note highlighting main research interests and/or field of professional experience (max. 50 words) to the following email address using the abstract template <https://www.universeum-network.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Universeum_abstract_template_2023-1.doc> by Tuesday 28 February 2023: sekretarz.muzeauczelniane@gmail.com <mailto:sekretarz.muzeauczelniane@gmail.com>
Travel Grants
The UNIVERSEUM Board is able to offer a small number of travel grants of up to 300 Euros each to students whose proposal (for either a poster or a talk) to present at the conference has been accepted.
You can tick the related box if you want to apply in the abstract template <https://www.universeum-network.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Universeum_abstract_template_2023-1.doc>.

Programme Committee:
Frédérique Andry-Cazin, Sorbonne-Universities, UPMC (France), Treasurer of UNIVERSEUM
Natalia Bahlawan, Jagiellonian University Museum (Poland)
Esther Boeles, University of Amsterdam (NL), Secretary of UNIVERSEUM
Marek Bukowski, Medical University of Gdańsk (Poland), Vice-President of the Polish Association of University Museums
Maria Economou, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow (UK), Vice-President of UNIVERSEUM
Hubert Kowalski, Warsaw University (Poland), President of the Polish Association of University Museums
Magdalena Muskała, Medical University of Białystok (Poland), Vice-President of the Polish Association of University Museums
Marta Piszczatowska, Warsaw University Museum (Poland), Vice-President of the Polish Association of University Museums
Joanna Ślaga, Jagiellonian University Museum (Poland), Vice-President of the Polish Association of University Museums
Sébastien Soubiran, University of Strasbourg (France), President of UNIVERSEUM
Martin Stricker, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany), Vice-President of UNIVERSEUM
Marta Szaszkiewicz, (Museum of the University of Gdańsk), (Poland), Secretary of the Polish Association of University Museums

Часопис КРИТИКА - Journal KRYTYKA 11-12, 2022 is published!

 Часопис КРИТИКА - Journal KRYTYKA 11-12, 2022 is published!

Фінальне число 2022 року — з чудовим натюрмортом на обкладинці 🙂

У числі:

🍉 Григорій Грабович. Війна і наука. Про істотне, але нечасто обговорюване

🍉 Дмитро Шевчук. Непозбувна приреченість

🍉 Вадим Василенко. Начерки творчого портрета Ігоря Костецького: світогляд, стиль, письмо

🍉 Галина Бабак. Книжки, закоханості й повсякдення диктатури та окупації. Щоденник юної киянки 1940–1945 років

🍉 Ольга Хомета «Наша рана впадає тепер у вашу рану»

🍉 Віталій Жежера «Гаркофф, муттер, Гаркофф...» https://krytyka.com/ua/journals/11-12-2022

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Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum ABHPS Vol. 10, No. 2 (Autumn 2022)

 Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum

ABHPS Vol. 10, No. 2 (Autumn 2022)

URL: http://www.bahps.org/acta-baltica/abhps-10-2/

Print cover

Imprint

Contents

Foreword

Articles

Elena Tverytnykova, Maryna Gutnyk. World Physics in Ukraine: A Unique Experience of Consolidation of Scientists at Kharkiv Research Center of Physics (in the 1920s-1930s).

Varfolomii Savchuk, Viktoriia Dobrovolska. The First Attempts to Institutionalize Non-State Communities of Engineers and Technicians in the Russian Empire: Livland and Kherson Provinces.

Vitaliy Nadurak. Moral Heuristics and Two Types of Information Processing

Nataliia Kovalenko, Iryna Borodai, Halyna Salata. Scientific and Educational Support for the Agricultural Industry at the Time of National Liberation Movements in Ukraine (1917-1921): The Ethical Principles of Its Development.

Nataliia Rybka, Oksana Petinova, Irina Kadievska, Zoia Atamaniuk. Science, Creative Activity and Academic Plagiarism: Connections and Contradictions

Reviews

Liudmila Klymenko. Ukrainian Scientists in Emigration.

Lyubov Sukhoterina, Vladimir Zharkikh. Oleksandr Mykolayovich Myklashevskyi: An Outstanding Economist and Historian of Economic Science of Ukrainian Origin

Lyubov Sukhoterina, Svetlana Kolot. Aleksander Aleksandrovich Alekseev: A Distinguished Representative of Research in Financial Law in the Early 20th Century.

Book Review

Katrin Velbaum. Maxwell, Nicholas (2017), Understanding Scientific Progress: Aim-Oriented Empiricism, St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 232pp, ISBN: 978-1557789242.

Style guide for Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum

AUC HISTORIA UNIVERSITATIS CAROLINAE PRAGENSIS, Vol 62 No 1 (2022) is online!

 AUC HISTORIA UNIVERSITATIS CAROLINAE PRAGENSIS, Vol 62 No 1 (2022) is online! Czech with English abstracts. OPEN ACCESS: https://karolinum.cz/en/journal/auc-historia-universitatis-carolinae-pragensis/current

Fenomén raně novověké akademické peregrinace jako specifické téma středoevropské historiografie, Ondřej Píš

Jakob Eduard Wittak a jeho doba v univerzitní kanceláři, Milada Sekyrková

Dziennik [Diary] by Władysław Konopczyński on Writing a Biography of Stanisław Konarski, Piotr Biliński, Zofia Zielińska

Ladislav Hejdánek jako student Univerzity Karlovy (1946–1952), Václav Dostál

Pokladnice Českého království v neklidné době. Zpráva o konferenci Kutná Hora a husitství, Jan Boukal, Blanka Zilynská

Jiří Stočes a kol., Jan ze Šitboře. Úředník, literát, mýtus, Anna Pazourková

Olga Lomová (ed.), Ex Oriente lux. Rudolf Dvořák (1860–1920), Michal Továrek

Martin Franc a kol., Habitus českých vědců 1918–1968. Příklad dvou generací, Marek Brčák

Tomáš Weissar – Klára Modlíková – Jana Nechutová (edd.), Gnóthi seauton. Sto let klasických studií v Brně v osobních vzpomínkách i úřední korespondenci, Michal Továrek

Detlef Brandes – Alena Míšková, Z katedry dějin východní Evropy na pražskou radnici: Josef Pfitzner (1901–1945), Jan Boukal

Lenka Krátká – Jana Wohlmuth Markupová – Miroslav Vaněk, (K)lidová věda? Proměny a konstanty v práci i životě vědců a vědkyň v letech 1968–2008, Michal Továrek

Jaroslav Cuhra – Marie Černá – Markéta Devátá – Tomáš Hermann – Pavlína Kourová, Pojetí a prosazování komunistické výchovy v Československu 1948–1989, Michal Továrek

Jaroslav Pinkas, Jak vzpomínáme na normalizaci. Obrazy normalizační minulosti ve filmu, Michal Továrek

Jaroslav Mužík – Radka Löwenhöfferová – Pavel Krpálek, Univerzitní vzdělávání v minulosti, současnosti a budoucnosti, Michal Továrek

Christopher Donohue, Charles T. Wolfe (eds.) Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy. Cham: Springer 2023

 Christopher Donohue, Charles T. Wolfe (eds.) Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy. Cham: Springer 2023. 

open access: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-12604-8

ABOUT THIS BOOK

This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the 19th century to the present. It addresses vitalism, organicism and responses to materialism and its relevance to current biological science. In doing so, it promotes dialogue and discussion about the historical and philosophical importance of vitalism and other non-mechanistic conceptions of life. It points towards the integration of genomic science into the broader history of biology. It details a broad engagement with a variety of nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century vitalisms and conceptions of life. In addition, it discusses important threads in the history of concepts in the United States and Europe, including charting new reception histories in eastern and south-eastern Europe. While vitalism, organicism and similar epistemologies are often the concern of specialists in the history and philosophy of biology and of historians of ideas, the range of the contributions as well as the geographical and temporal scope of the volume allows for it to appeal to the historian of science and the historian of biology generally.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Dr. Christopher Donohue is Historian of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health.  He established the institutional archives at the NHGRI and currently manages the History of Genomics Program, which promotes the study of genomics and its integration into the 20th century life sciences. He has conducted over sixty oral history interviews which cover all aspects of modern biology and genetics. He is the editor of a special issue on “Genomics and the Human Genome Project” for the Journal of the History of Biology. He is an associate editor of the Ideology and Politics Journal, which publishes peer-reviewed scholarly work on post-Soviet ideas and politics.  Dr. Donohue focuses on the history of population genetics as well as conceptual issues in contemporary biological science. His interests range from conceptual appropriation in the biological and the social sciences to the reception of various scientific ideologies (Darwinism, vitalism, materialism) in central and south-eastern Europe.

Charles T. Wolfe is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Université de Toulouse-2 Jean-Jaurès. He works primarily in history and philosophy of the early modern life sciences, with a particular interest in materialism and vitalism. He is the author of Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction (2016), La philosophie de la biologie: une histoire du vitalisme (2019) and Lire le matérialisme (2020), and has edited or coedited volumes on monsters, brains, empiricism, biology, mechanism and vitalism, including most recently (w. D. Jalobeanu) the Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences (2019-2022) and (w. J. Symons, in progress) The History and Philosophy of Materialism. He is co-editor of the book series ‘History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences’ (Springer). Papers available at [https://univ-tlse2.academia.edu/CharlesWolfe]

His-GenderGap, an International Summer School on Gender and Science,

 His-GenderGap, an International Summer School on Gender and Science, aims to place these efforts in a historical context and create a formative space for early career scholars to exchange their academic work in progress.

His-GenderGap

According to the 2021 edition of the European Commission’s She Figures report––the main source of pan-European, comparable statistics on the state of gender equality in research and innovation––there has been considerable progress in gender parity with regard to doctoral graduates in STEM subjects. However, there is still a clear gender gap in the majority of EU countries when it comes to professionals in the sciences, engineering, and information/communication technologies. Despite the persistent efforts of individual universities, university alliances, and the gender policies of the EU, gender equality is not yet fulfilled. His-GenderGap, an International Summer School on Gender and Science, aims to place these efforts in a historical context and create a formative space for early career scholars to exchange their academic work in progress.

When?

May 29 – June 2, 2023

Where?

Universidad de Granada, Spain

Who?

Up to 20 early-career scholars (PhD candidates or postdocs) in gender science studies, science and technology studies, history of science/technology/medicine or any related fields

What is covered?

Allowance for inner-European travel to/from Granada (max. € 425) and pre-booked accommodation at the University of Granada guest residence for five nights

Deadline for applications: January 30, 2023

Please send your application to: ralf.mitschke@fau.de

Please include the following in your application:

- cover letter

- short CV with publications

- research exposé (1,500 to 2,000 words) that directly addresses one of the four thematic sections of the summer school:

1. Debating New Approaches to Gender in Science and Technology Studies

2. Objects, Materiality, and the Female Body in the Sciences

3. Research Spaces Revisited

4. Gender and Engineering: Precedents and Perspectives

If successful, you will be formally invited to attend (by February 28) and asked to submit a more developed exposé (5,000 to 7,000 words; by March 31) that will be discussed and presented during the summer school.

His-GenderGap is organized by Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Prof. María Jesus Santesmases (Spanish National Research Council), and Dr. Ágata Ignaciuk (University of Granada).

It is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and supported by the European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance (EELISA) as well as the Commission on Women and Gender Studies in History of Science, Technology and Medicine of IUHPST/DHST.

CFP: Knowledge Production in Public Transport – Normativities. Actors. Outcomes. Tbilisi, Georgia, 18 – 21 March 2023

 CFP:  Knowledge Production in Public Transport – Normativities. Actors. Outcomes. Tbilisi, Georgia, 18 – 21 March 2023

The Leibniz research group “CoMoDe – Contentious Mobilities: Rethinking Mobility Transitions through a Decolonial Lens” at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography welcomes participants to the interdisciplinary symposium “Knowledge production in Public Transport. Normativities. Actors. Outcomes”, which will take place from 18 to 21 March 2023 in Georgia´s capital Tbilisi.

Background of the call

In the face of climate crises and in the name of achieving climate goals, sustainable transformation of urban public transport systems is increasingly seen as one of policy and developmental priorities, to reduce dependency on car-based mobility and fossil fuels. Urban and national governments, transnational developmental and financial institutions, and transnational consultancy companies promote and enact transformative changes in the sector. Cities in formerly Soviet states, many of which experienced unprecedented rupture and decay of public transport infrastructures throughout the first two decades since the collapse of the Union, are now reinvesting and reforming urban public transport systems. Yet not only material infrastructures, financial investments and public regulations that experienced ruptures and transformative changes, but also transport-related knowledge production systems. While reforming urban transport: what happens to the knowledge inherited from Soviet planning practices? What happens to knowledge accumulated by private and often informally operating actors (e.g stakeholders of the marshrutka sector)? What new knowledge and expertise is mobilised while planning and implementing reforms? Which actors manage to articulate their concerns and interests, and which actors are silenced? Which broader imaginaries and desires about development and modernisation shape urban public transport reforms?

Scope of the symposium

This symposium is dedicated to understanding knowledge production in public transport, primarily in formerly Soviet cities and beyond. It focuses on three interrelated topics: First, it focuses on normative visions surrounding public transport reforms. Which kinds of socio-economic orders are promoted as desired developmental paths while reforming public transport? How are socialist and capitalist modernities narrated in relation or through reforming public transport? How are sustainability, social, spatial and mobility justice defined, how such definitions and developmental imaginaries travel? Second, it focuses on actors that produce knowledge about public transport, ranging from state officials, manufacturers, consultancies, developmental organisations and investors to users, service providers, transport workers, civil society actors and transport enthusiasts. How do actors accumulate transport- related knowledge and how do they manage or fail to influence transport -related policy making?

Finally, the symposium looks into the outcomes of specific constellations of knowledge production. How do various knowledges re-shape policies, material infrastructures, and what kind of socio-spatial consequences do they carry for urban dwellers? The workshop will take the form of a four-days meeting with a schedule highly shaped by the academic, artistic and practice-oriented input of its participants, and will furthermore include keynote lectures, public debates, and excursions to major and contentious public transport sites in Tbilisi.

Your application

We invite participants irrespective of disciplines and affiliations – scholars, practitioners, transport activists, enthusiasts or artists – to submit paper abstracts or proposals for presentations, round tables, workshops, walks, screenings, exhibitions. and other interventions related to one or more key topics raised by the symposium: normativities, actors and outcomes. Please send your application incl. a statement of motivation, a brief bio and abstract/ project description (250 words) as a single pdf document via e-mail with the keyword: CoMoDe Tbilisi to: l_pozharliev@leibniz-ifl.de

Deadline: 31 January 2023

Accepted participants will be notified within 15 days after this deadline. Partial or full financial support for accommodation and travelling is available to selected participants. Please indicate if you would like to receive such support, including a preliminary calculation. Please check the availability of institutional funding options first. This will allow us to dedicate travel budgets to participants who would not be able to attend otherwise. By submitting the application, you consent to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of the application procedure. Contact: Dr Lyubomir Pozharliev (+49 341 600 55-160, l_pozharliev@leibniz-ifl.de)

Further information

The IfL conducts basic research on the regional geography of Germany and Europe and communicates its research findings to a wider public. Under the heading “Geographies of the Regional”, the institute develops perspectives on socio-spatial developments in a globalised society that is increasingly characterised by differences, diversity and complexity. The CoMoDe project brings a novel lens to mobility transitions literature by combining critical mobilities research and post-Soviet decolonial thinking. CoMoDe opens up new pathways for devising policy instruments able to contribute to environmentally viable and socially inclusive mobility futures. The project conceptualises mobility transitions beyond technocratic fixes, and adopts a perspective sensitive to epistemic perceptions and power constellations, still unexplored in human geography and mobility studies. More details at https://comode.leibniz-ifl-projekte.de

Scientiae 2023: Prague, 7-10 June

 The 10th annual meeting of Scientiae will take place in Prague, with support of the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences and Faculty of Arts, Charles University. We are delighted to accept proposals, and we are keenly aware of the importance of meeting in person; by design, our forum has always been warm and inclusive, as well as a suitable arena for collaboration between senior and early career historians. In addition to regathering after the pandemic, and inviting new contributions, the conference in Prague maintains as one of its primary goal that of bridging the gap between studies of material culture and history of ideas.

Historians of science, philosophers, literary scholars, art historians, and many other seemingly distant experts are encouraged to reflect together on the complexities of the early modern period.

While the brand of Scientiae has grown considerably, demonstrating its ongoing relevance, every past attendee knows that ‘interdisciplinary’ is not just a keyword for us, but a productive look at epistemic practices in the transformation of learning. Likewise, our methodology does not merely reflect a variety or another of history of knowledge, but also considers breakdowns or blind spots, image-making, the supernatural, and it is highly conducive to a global perspective.

The congress is open to all topics related to the 1400-1800 period. Some papers will be strongly theoretical, others deeply archival, but in any case researchers who meet at Scientiae come prepared for significant discussions. The assemblage of sessions will naturally build on our desire to promote a thematic exchange between fields of study, rather than a preformed sense of proximity, be it disciplinary, academic, or geographic.

As the programme begins to coalesce, we are very proud to announce two keynote addresses by Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge) and Bernd Roling (Berlin), as well as a cluster of papers dedicated to the Rudolphine legacy of our hosting city. A further list of confirmed participants will circulate later, by or around Christmas.

The organizing committee consists of Gábor Almási (Budapest), Barbara Bienias (Warsaw), Leonie Hannan (Belfast), Iva Lelková (Prague), Tomáš Nejeschleba (Olomouc), and Ovanes Akopyan (I Tatti). The organization is led by Stefano Gulizia (Milan) and Vladimír Urbánek (Prague). Inquiries should be addressed to: stefano.gulizia@unimi.it.

We envision three ways to join:

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

200-word abstract, and one-page CV.

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

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

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

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

Submit your proposal online before January 15th, 2023, at http://scientiaeacademic.com. There will be no extension of this deadline.

For more information or to find out more about Scientiae, please visit us

at: https://scientiaeacademic.com/

Call for Papers The International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society

 *Call for Papers* *The International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society * *4th Annual Conference * 12–14 July 2023

University of Exeter, UK, and Online (hybrid conference)

*Bursaries to support attendance are available *

The International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society <https://scienceandbeliefinsociety.org/> has been at the centre of the recent significant growth in social scientific and humanities research focusing on science, religion, and belief in society. Following our successful hybrid conference in 2022, this 4th annual conference of the network will continue the hybrid in-person and online format.

As this field of research has grown it has engaged in myth-busting popular perceptions and stereotypes about the relationship between science and religion, which treat both science and religious/spiritual populations as monolithic. To date, much of this foundational and vital research has aimed at empirical description. This conference seeks to build on this essential work and address future avenues for research within the social scientific and historical study of science, religion, and belief in society to develop ways of theorising the complex relationships between science and religion in their varying global manifestations that have been identified and to further understand the practical implications and applications of research in this field.

This conference will bring together international researchers with backgrounds in sociology, science and technology studies, psychology, political science, history, social anthropology, and related humanities or social science disciplines, to discuss perspectives on the overarching topic of science and belief in society.

We are pleased to invite submissions of papers that relate to any aspect of STEMM in society (science, technology, engineering, medicine, and mathematics), that discuss any religious, spiritual or non-religious tradition, position or worldview.

Abstracts are invited for the conference relating to the following themes:

- Public engagement with STEMM in pluralistic or religiously diverse

societies;

· The social scientific and historical study of the relationship

between science and religious and/or non-religious belief and identity;

· Public perceptions of the relationship between science, religion

and non-religion and their respective roles in society;

· National and international comparative perspectives on the study

of science, religion and belief in society;

· Past and present media or popular representations of science,

religion and belief in society;

· The past or present roles of science, rationalism, religion and

belief in national, social or cultural identity and related geopolitical narratives;

· Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the study

of science, religion and non-religion in society;

· Methodological approaches to, and issues in, the study of

science, religion and belief in society;

· Studies on the impact of publics’ views on science and religion

on policy making, and provision for religious, spiritual or non-religious communities across a range of geographies and issues (e.g. healthcare provision, educational policy, science policy, environmental policy or development).

· Religion and inequalities in access to science and technology,

including the intersections between religious and racial, ethnic, class and/or gender inequalities.

Individual or panel session submissions may cross over several of the themes listed above, and those intending to submit papers are encouraged to consider the relevance of their work to other academic disciplines.

*Conference format*

We encourage speakers and attendees to attend the conference in-person if they are able to and feel comfortable doing so. However, we acknowledge the on-going impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the inequitable constraints it has imposed. Therefore, the conference will continue to use a hybrid format that combines in-person presentations at the University of Exeter, UK, with limited online contributions by those unable to travel due to ongoing restrictions and health concerns.

The conference will be run in line with any UK COVID regulations as they stand in July 2023, and will adopt best-practice regarding health and safety of attendees on-site.

*Please note *that as in prior years, we will be running an in person, fully-funded early career workshop in the days prior to this conference, but this will be announced and advertised via a separate call.

We have bursaries available to support both in-person and online attendance (see below).

If you have any questions or concerns about access or the conference format, please email INSBS@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

*Paper and Panel Submissions*

Please follow the below links to submit a stand-alone paper or a panel proposal. Information on what is required on the form can be found below:

Submit an individual paper:

https://birminghamcoaal.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1S4fLhvyquuOd82

Submit a panel proposal:

https://birminghamcoaal.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8wfeoEEdHXuk7ZQ

*Individual paper submissions *

To submit a paper proposal, please write a title and abstract of no more than 300 words, alongside a biographical note of no more than 200 words (please use this online form <https://birminghamcoaal.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1S4fLhvyquuOd82>).

*Panel session proposals *

We will also be accepting a limited number of panel proposals with a maximum of four speakers. To submit a panel proposal, using the online form <https://birminghamcoaal.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8wfeoEEdHXuk7ZQ>

please send a session summary of no more than 250 words, alongside abstracts of no more than 300 words for each individual paper and a short biography of no more than 200 words for each contributor. The format and individual presentation length for panel sessions is flexible, but please note that panel sessions must not take longer than 90 minutes overall.

*Contributor Biographies *

For all submissions, please send a biography of no more than 200 words for each contributor, including name, institutional affiliation, email address, primary discipline or subject area, a statement regarding career stage (e.g., early career, mid-career), and if possible, a link to a personal profile on an institutional website or similar. Biographies of successful applicants will be added to the International Network’s Research Directory <https://scienceandbeliefinsociety.org/research-directory/>*. *Please indicate on your application if you would like to opt out of being added to the Research Directory.

*All abstracts and panel proposals must be submitted online by** 23rd January 2023.*

*Conference Costs and Bursaries*

This conference is funded by the International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society, as part of a grant from the Templeton Religion Trust <https://templetonreligiontrust.org/>. Please note that for all successful applicants, accommodation and registration costs will be covered by this grant. In addition, a number of bursaries are also available to help with costs that may be incurred as a result of conference

participation:

· *Conference attendance bursaries. *For those attending the

conference in-person, who do not have institutional funds for conference attendance, these bursaries are designed to allay the costs of attending.

· *Childcare/dependent bursaries. *For both those participating

in-person and online, these bursaries are to help cover the costs of any extra childcare or other dependents’ costs incurred from participating.

· *Digital inclusion bursaries. *For those participating online

these bursaries can be used to cover any extra costs incurred related to digital access (e.g. Wi-Fi costs or data packages). Please note these bursaries cannot be used for hardware (e.g. laptops).

We will prioritise those who have the most need such as postgraduate, early career, retired, low income/unwaged, or any researcher who may not ordinarily be able to access institutional funds.

To request a bursary or any additional support, when submitting your abstract, please complete the additional box on the online submission form.

Please note that while completing the form you will be asked whether you are planning to attend in-person or virtually, however given the uncertainties of the coming months with regards to international travel, you will only have to confirm in-person attendance after your abstract is accepted.

*Key Dates *

Deadline for online submissions (abstracts, panels & bursaries):* 23:59 GMT, 23 January 2023*

Decision notification: * 10 February 2023*

The conference is supported by the Templeton Religion Trust and is being held as part of the activities of the International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society, based at the University of Birmingham (UK).

For more information about the conference or wider network please email INSBS@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

Call for papers: Ecologies of Health and Disease in Eurasia: New Perspectives in the Medical-Environmental Humanities and History

 Call for papers: Ecologies of Health and Disease in Eurasia: New Perspectives in the Medical-Environmental Humanities and History

The call for papers for the workshop Ecologies of Health and Disease in Eurasia: New Perspectives in the Medical-Environmental Humanities and History is now open! 

Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, University of Oslo, Norway. June 1-2, 2023.

Keynote speaker: Professor Kate Brown (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Aims of the workshop

This workshop aims to develop a multidisciplinary dialogue on the entanglements of politics, society, ecology, environment, health, and disease in the regions of East-Central Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, bringing together scholars in the history of medicine and the medical humanities with scholars in environmental history and the environmental humanities.

It aims to deepen understandings of regional particularities and traditions, including a possible divergence in approaches to environment and health in Eurasia from approaches taken in other regions, such as Western Europe, East Asia, and South Asia.

At the same time, the workshop aims to explore the local, transnational, international, and global connections, circulations, and integrations that cut through and extend beyond the regions of Eurasia and call its distinctiveness into question. It aims to foster a discussion about what the study of the regions of Eurasia might contribute to the developing fields of medical-environmental humanities and medical-environmental history.

Questions that the workshop will address include:  

• Where were links between the physical environment, health, and disease made visible in the regions of Eurasia, and where were they obscured? How can these developments be explained?
• Which categories, concepts, disciplines, and practices were employed to analyse and enact the relationship between environment, health, and disease in the regions of Eurasia, and how did these shape approaches to managing, protecting, building in, and transforming the physical environment? Who were the main actors participating in these processes?

Papers

The workshop welcomes papers on diverse topics, building on a range of methodologies and theories. Drawing on the “environmental turn” in the history of architecture, design, and planning, it seeks also to integrate the built environment into the medical-environmental humanities of the regions of Eurasia.

Papers are welcome in and across such disciplines as history; anthropology; science and technology studies; literature; film studies; history of art, architecture, design and planning; and geography.

Papers may address some of the following themes:

• the role of ecology, climate, geography, and/or landscape in medical research, theory, and practice
• the environmental knowledge produced in biomedical research, also in relation to indigenous and vernacular knowledge
• indigenous, vernacular, religious, and spiritual epistemologies, knowledges, practices, and environments
• psycho-physiological responses to the physical environment and understandings of the human body and mind
• antibiotic and probiotic medical research, theory, and practice in ecological and environmental context
• entanglements of human and more-than-human health and disease
• biopolitics and micro-biopolitics in relation to the physical environment
• (divergences in) approaches to global health, international organizations, and congresses in relation to the physical environment
• architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and environmental design in relation to environmental management, transformation, and protection and to medicine and public health
• agriculture and the health and disease of plants, animals, and soils
• toxicity, radioactivity, and pollution, in relation to environment, medicine, health, and disease

How to apply

To apply for the workshop, please send a paper title and abstract (200-400 words) and a brief academic biography (200-400 words) to Johanna.Conterio@iakh.uio.no by February 1, 2023. Workshop papers will be pre-circulated and are due May 15, 2023.

PhD students and early career researchers are encouraged to apply. An edited volume drawing on workshop papers is planned.   

Practical information

The workshop will be in a hybrid format, allowing for virtual participation.

Accommodation for two nights in Oslo will be provided for all in-person participants. Limited funds will be available to offset travel costs.

Contact details

Dr Johanna Conterio, conference convener
Associate Professor of Environmental History 
University of Oslo
Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History 
PB 1008, Blindern, NO-0315 Oslo, Norway
Johanna.Conterio@iakh.uio.no 

Supported by the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities.

Tomasz Mróz: Stanisław Lisiecki (1872-1960) i jego Platon [Stanisław Lisiecki (1872-1960) and his Plato], Kęty: Wydawnictwo Marek Derewiecki 2022.

Tomasz Mróz: Stanisław Lisiecki (1872-1960) i jego Platon [Stanisław Lisiecki (1872-1960) and his Plato], Kęty: Wydawnictwo Marek Derewiecki 2022. ISBN: 978-83-669-4134-2

Otrzymujemy książkę, do której z pewnością zechcą sięgnąć zarówno ci, którzy interesują się myślą Platona jako takiego, jak też ci, którzy interesują się życiem naukowym i interpretacjami powstałymi w naszym kraju już niemal przed stu laty. Interpretacjami, które uległyby zapomnieniu, gdyby nie wspaniały wysiłek T. Mroza, aby udostępnić i przybliżyć je współczesnemu czytelnikowi, a dzięki temu ocalić fragment naszej kultury i tradycji intelektualnej, tak niesprawiedliwie skazany przez okoliczności historyczno-społeczne na zapomnienie.

z recenzji wydawniczej dra hab. Artura Pacewicza

(Uniwersytet Wrocławski)

Poglądy Lisieckiego na poszczególne, istotne kwestie z zakresu filozofii Platona, zostały przedstawione klarownie i systematycznie, na tyle, na ile pozwalał materiał źródłowy. Z tych analiz wyłania się obraz uczonego, który był świadomy swojego warsztatu filologicznego, w sposób kompetentny polemizował ze współczesnymi sobie badaczami i tłumaczami, posiadł gruntowną znajomość filozofii Platona, stronił od dogmatyzmu, jak również otwarty był na nowe propozycje interpretacyjne. Do swojej pracy badawczej podchodził gorliwie, z niegasnącym przez długie lata zapałem, mimo kłopotów, wynikających z niechętnego nastawienia niektórych przedstawicieli środowiska naukowego oraz rozmaitych niepowodzeń organizacyjnych.

z recenzji wydawniczej dra hab. Krzysztofa Łapińskiego

(Uniwersytet Warszawski)

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online event: Aleksandra Derra (Torun): The Role of Feminist Theory in Building Complementary Knowledge. 10 January 2023,, 18:15-19:45 CET.

 ALREADY NEXT WEEK: online event: Aleksandra Derra (Torun): The Role of Feminist Theory in Building Complementary Knowledge. 10 January 2023,, 18:15-19:45 CET. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/a-derra-the-role-of-feminist-theory-in-building-complementary-knowledge-tickets-496238351267 .

In 1999 Londa Schiebinger published her book entitled Has Feminism Changed Science (Schiebinger 1999) where she showed how the growing number of female scientists gradually transformed certain fields of science. Following her line of reasoning one can ask how feminist theories influence particular fields of knowledge today? Do they have impact on methodologies and formulation of research priorities? Do they cognitively enrich theories and consequently change the social dynamics of scientific institutions? These are important issues which require extended research in order to ask these questions for each particular scientific field. The goal of my talk is more modest. I would like to provide some evidence that feminist theories have played crucial role in creating the missing link between science studies and socio-political research (Keller 1983). Many feminist thinkers being both a scientist and critical scholar has shown that feminist theory is not only about the social and the political, but also and sometimes primarily about the cognitive and about knowing subject. Joining traditions and methodologies from scientific research and cultural and political studies results in a form of complementary knowledge, which could be truly interdisciplinary. In order to illustrate how it can work out I will shorty present selected threads of neurofeminist approach (Fine 2012, Robyn et al. 2012) and new feminist materialism (Barad 2003, Hird 2009).

Part of the conference "Gendering Epistemologies – Gender and Situated Knowledge Perspectives from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe."