Fasora Lukáš, Sobotka Jaromír: Dějiny Biologického ústavu Lékařské fakulty Masarykovy univerzity [History of the Institute for Biology of the Medical Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno].

Fasora Lukáš, Sobotka Jaromír: Dějiny Biologického ústavu Lékařské fakulty Masarykovy univerzity [History of the Institute for Biology of the Medical Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno]. Brno: Masarykova Univerzita 2022. ISBN: 978-80-280-0168-1 Reprezentativní kniha o historii i současnosti jednoho z nejstarších ústavů Lékařské fakulty Masarykovy univerzity, který od počátku významně přispívá k rozvoji biologických věd. Ústav je spjat se jmény velkých osobností – Edwarda Babáka, Františka Karla Studničky, Jana Bělehrádka, Ferdinanda Herčíka a dalších –, jeho zakladatelé stáli u zrodu Československé biologické společnosti. Život a fungování ústavu stejně jako osudy jednotlivých akademiků odrážely společenskou situaci v naší zemi. Biologický ústav dnes, vedle výuky českých i zahraničních studentů, zajišťuje koordinaci mezinárodního Ph.D. programu biomedicínské vědy, vědečtí pracovníci ústavu se v jeho rámci významně podílejí na postgraduálním vzdělávání. Výzkumné skupiny jsou zapojeny do mezinárodních a národních grantových projektů a řada vědců je členy mezinárodních konsorcií. Příběh více jak stoleté historie Biologického ústavu autorů Lukáše Fasory a Jaromíra Sobotky doprovází množství dobových i současných fotografií, medailony přednostů ústavu a zajímavosti dokreslující pestrou cestu, kterou ústav i naše země prošly.

Intellectuals and the “National Question” in Post-1918 Central and Eastern Europe. Forum Historiae, 2022, roč. 16, č. 1 (open access)

Intellectuals and the “National Question” in Post-1918 Central and Eastern Europe. Forum Historiae, 2022, roč. 16, č. 1, ISSN 1337-6861. (Open access: http://forumhistoriae.sk/sk/tema/intellectuals-and-national-question-post-1918-central-and-eastern-europe] Buzássyová, Barbora – Vörös, László Intellectuals and the “National Question” in Post-1918 Central and Eastern Europe (An Introduction) Harvát, Matej From Slavic Leader to National Ruler: A Modern Discursive Construction of the Early Medieval Rulership of Pribina († 861) Seneši Lutherová, Silvia The Fight for the “Modern Peculiar Character.” The Nationalist Narrative Within the Concept of Applied Art Modernization Reform in 1920’s Slovakia Nádaskay, Viliam Slovakness in the Making: The Concept of “Nation” and “National Literature” in the Works of 1930s Literary Critics Lenčéšová, Michaela The Concept of “Nation” and “National Community” in the Thinking of Štefan Polakovič: A Case of the Nazi Idea of Volksgemeinschaft Spread within Slovak Catholic Nationalism Balikić, Lucija Between Historiographies of Finitude and Appropriation of the Annales School: The “National Question” in Post-1945 Croatian Intellectual History Hudek, Adam The Nationalist Perspective within Slovak Communist Intellectual Thinking (1921–1968) Konovšek,Tjaša The Normativity of a Nation: A Case Study of Slovene Historians in Early Post-socialism

Adam Olczyk: Filozofia Leszka Kołakowskiego: marksizm, chrześcijaństwo i prawa człowieka [Leszek Kołakowski's philosophy: Marxism, Christianity and Human Rights].

Adam Olczyk: Filozofia Leszka Kołakowskiego: marksizm, chrześcijaństwo i prawa człowieka [Leszek Kołakowski's philosophy: Marxism, Christianity and Human Rights]. Cracow: Universitas 2023. ISBN: 978-83-242-3900-9 Opis książki: „Adam Olczyk oddaje świat i poglądy Leszka Kołakowskiego z punktu widzenia jego stosunku i nastawienia do ważnych zjawisk, zdarzeń, kultury, prawa oraz ludzi, a także ocen tychże. Sympatyzując, jak można sądzić, z bohaterem swojego opracowania, Autor wskazuje jego niepopularne dziś, nieaktualne i czasem niesłychanie krytykowane poglądy i postawy życiowe Kołakowskiego; usprawiedliwia je »życiorysem« i uzasadnia etapem twórczości filozofa. Jednocześnie prezentuje swojego bohatera jako filozofa otwartego na zmiany, gotowego na nowe argumenty, otwartego, niezależnego i nieskostniałego, któremu nie można postawić zarzutu koniunkturalizmu czy mimikry”. prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Król, Uniwersytet Łódzki „Ostateczny efekt prowadzonej przez Autora analizy myśli filozoficznej »sceptycznego metafizyka« jest pesymistyczny. Jesteśmy skazani na niepewność immanentną filozoficznej narracji sensotwórczej, którą Autor trafnie uznaje za rdzeń myślenia metafizycznego. Przykład Leszka Kołakowskiego pokazuje dobitnie, że poszukiwanie trwałych fundamentów ładu aksjologicznego organizującego naszą rzeczywistość społeczną, nigdy nie prowadzą do ostatecznych i niepodważalnych rozstrzygnięć”. prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Pulka, Uniwersytet Wrocławski Adam Olczyk – doktor w dziedzinie nauk społecznych w dyscyplinie nauki prawne, adiunkt w Kolegium Ekonomiczno-Społecznym w Szkole Głównej Handlowej w Warszawie, radca prawny zajmujący się w sprawami dotyczącymi prawa podatkowego, absolwent Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego na kierunkach Prawo oraz Filozofia; przez lata związany z Naczelnym Sądem Administracyjnym; sekretarz redakcji czasopisma naukowego „Analizy i Studia CASP”; jego zainteresowania naukowe, obok prawa podatkowego, skupiają się również na teorii i filozofii prawa.

Martin Rhode, Gualtiero Boaglio (eds.) Kontaktzonen in Zentraleuropa

Martin Rhode, Gualtiero Boaglio (eds.) Kontaktzonen in Zentraleuropa / Zone di contatto nell’Europa centrale. Geschichte und Region / Storia e regione 31/2 (2022). ISBN 978-3-7065-6256-0 Mary Louise Pratt führte das Konzept der transkulturellen Kontaktzonen für die Beschreibung von überseeischen Kolonialraumen ein, doch erlaubt ihre flexible Definition sozialer Räume auch die Anwendung auf andere Regionen und Räume. So greift dieses Heft von „Geschichte und Region/Storia e regione“ die Impulse, die Pratts Konzept anstößt, auf für die Untersuchung von Regionen in Zentraleuropa um 1900: Dabei richten die Aufsätze den Fokus auf die Habsburgermonarchie, während die Forumsbeiträge die räumlichen und zeitlichen Perspektiven erweitern. Die Schwerpunkte liegen bei Fragen der Mehrsprachigkeit, transnationaler oder transkultureller Kooperation sowie Wissenspraktiken in Kontaktzonen. INHALT Martin Rohde/Gualtiero Boaglio Editorial / Editoriale Martin Rohde Ethnographie in transkulturellen Kontaktzonen. Imperiale Kooperationen und regionales Wissen über den ostgalizischen Raum Sebastian Ramisch-Paul Mit „liebevoller Sorgfältigkeit und strenger Wissenschaftlichkeit“. Zur Wissensgeschichte der Uhors’ka Rus’/Podkarpatská Rus/Zakarpattja von der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis in die 1920er Jahre Alexander Piff Attori di confine nei distretti meridionali del Kronland tirolese intorno al 1900. Tra mobilità, lealismo e sovranità sui saperi Frederik Lange Kooperation und Konfrontation – Der Grenzstreit in der habsburgisch-serbischen Kontaktzone Drina-Becken, 1878–1914 Andreas Gottsmann Cooperazione e conflitto in Istria. Il caso del distretto di Volosca-Abbazia FORUM Gualtiero Boaglio Guida bibliografica agli studi storico-linguistici sulla monarchia asburgica Ulrich Schmid Was hielt das Habsburgerreich zusammen? Kultursprachen und Sprachkulturen als Kontaktzone Kateryna Pasichnyk Knowledge of Epidemic Danger in the Middle Dniestr Region in the Late 18th Century Phillip Schroeder Kontaktzone Taschkent – sowjetischer Städtebau kolonial und imperial? Daria Kozlova Der Holocaust in Bohdanivka und seine lokale Aufarbeitung im gesamtukrainischen und regionalen Kontext Sebastian Ramisch-Paul/Matthäus Wehowski Vergleichende Grenzgebietsforschung digital. Überlegungen zur Vernetzung ortsunabhängig arbeitender Teams Philipp Tolloi Rediscovering Gaismair. Neue Quellen zum Revolutionär von 1525/32. REZENSIONEN

Ivana Lorencová, Luděk Žilka (eds.) Státní radiologický ústav v Praze. Historie a transformace [State Institute of Radiology in Prague. History and transformation].

Ivana Lorencová, Luděk Žilka (eds.) Státní radiologický ústav v Praze. Historie a transformace [State Institute of Radiology in Prague. History and transformation]. Národní technické muzeum, Praha 2022. ISBN 978-80-7037-343-9 Státní radiologický ústav (SRÚ) byl založen v roce 1919 Praze. Do jeho programu byl zahrnut především výzkum v oblasti záření a certifikace jáchymovského radia, konzultační činnosti a metodické služby pro zájemce z lékařských a průmyslových kruhů. V roce 1959 byl ústav přejmenován na Ústav pro výzkum, výrobu a využití radioizotopů (ÚVVVR) a existoval do roku 1990. V knize je zmapována historie ústavu, jeho činnost v oblasti výzkumu a výroby zářičů, radioaktivně značených sloučenin a diagnostických souprav, rozvoje metrologie ionizujícího záření a další činnosti související s využitím ionizujícího záření. Pozornost je rovněž věnována institucím, které pokračují a rozvíjejí dále tyto činnosti, které byly v ústavu započaty. ToC RNDr. Ivana Lorencová: Státní radiologický ústav v letech 1919–1959 Ing. Luděk Žilka: Ústav pro výzkum, výrobu a využití radioizotopů (ÚVVVR) v letech 1959–1990 Ing. Bedřich Fridrich: Vzpomínky ředitele Ing. Ctirad Richter: Areál Radiová 1 – minulost (1990), současnost (2019) a budoucnost (2030) Doc. Tomáš Elbert, CSc.: Sloučeniny značené radioizotopy pro zdraví Ing. Václav Mádr, Ing. Jan Plicka: Immunotech a Beckman Coulter, Česká republika – následnické organizace ÚVVVR v oblasti klinické diagnostiky Ing. Zdeněk Zelenka: Filmová osobní dozimetrie včera, dnes a zítra Ing. Pavel Dryák, CSc.: Rozvoj metrologie ionizujícího záření po rozpadu ÚVVVR Ing. Ivan Šimmer: Pokračování výzkumu a výroby uzavřených zářičů po rozpadu ÚVVVR Ing. Miloš Janů, Ing. Jan Holub, PhD.: Zneškodňování radioaktivních odpadů vznikajících při výzkumu, výrobě a využití radioisotopů Ing. Martina Máčelová: Správa úložišť radioaktivních odpadů jako nástupnická organizace ÚVVVR (posléze NYCOM) v oblasti provozu úložišť nízko a středněaktivních odpadů v České republice RNDr. Zdeněk Rozlivka: Aktivity Státního radiologického ústavu v oblasti metrologie ionizujícího záření a ochrany před ionizujícím zářením a jejich přechod do činnosti Státního ústavu radiační ochrany

Małgorzata Geron (ed.) The Faculty of Fine Arts of the Stefan Batory University in Wilno (1919–1939/45). Education, creativity and artistic tradition.

Małgorzata Geron (ed.) The Faculty of Fine Arts of the Stefan Batory University in Wilno (1919–1939/45). Education, creativity and artistic tradition. Torun: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UMK 2022. ISBN: 978-83-231-4862-3 ToC Jerzy Malinowski Wstęp / Introduction / 7 Józef Poklewski 1937–2019 Stulecie wznowienia działalności wileńskiego Uniwersytetu Stefana Batorego i jego Wydziału Sztuk Pięknych 1919–1939–1945. Rozważania jubileuszowe / The centenary of the resumption of the activities of the Stefan Batory University in Wilno and its Faculty of Fine Arts, 1919–1939–1945: considerations occasioned by the anniversary / 13 Małgorzata Geron Malarstwo i rzeźba / Painting and sculpture / 73 Katarzyna Kulpińska Grafika / Print-Making / 131 Maciej Szymanowicz Fotografia artystyczna / Artistic photography / 179 Swietłana Czerwonnaja 1936–2020 Losy wileńskiej szkoły sztuk pięknych podczas drugiej wojny światowej: znane i zapomniane karty historii / The fate of the School of Fine Arts in Wilno during the Second World War: known and forgotten pages of history / 203 Indeks / Index / 253

Conf: “Minority science” in the short 20th century: Imagining science from the margins of academia

Conf: “Minority science” in the short 20th century: Imagining science from the margins of academia, 30.03.-01.04.2023, hybrid. URL: https://imagesofscience.wordpress.com/166-2/ Conference of the project Lumina Quaeruntur project “Images of science” in Czechoslovakia 1918-1945-1968. March 30 - April 1 2023, The Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague and online. 20th century is characterised by manifold processes of redrawing social, cultural, and geographic boundaries – from the fall of empires, to the end of the Soviet Union. Scholars were involved in these redrawings in manifold roles. They could be facilitators of change but also those affected by it. In our conference we will look at those scholars who were located at the margins of the academia, but also became members of minorities due to expulsion or change of political borders. Cultural historians have accentuated that being an “other” can allow a more distant and critical perception of one’s surrounding society, a thesis which we want to investigate closer by looking at scholars and scientists and their imaginations of, and relation to, respective “mainstreams.” By connecting epistemic and social othering and marginalisation we do not want to blur boundaries between them, but on the contrary, investigate how the boundaries between "social" and "epistemic" are drawn and how these entities are interrelated, and thus to uncover how (academic) power relations are entangled with those in the society at large. To participate online please register at https://www.eventbrite.de/e/conference-hybrid-minority-science-in-the-short-20th-century-tickets-511692795927 to participate in person please contact Jan Surman. Thursday, March 30 15:30-16:00 Registration and Introduction 16:00-19:00 Session I Chair: Galina Babak Oksana Blashkiv: Slavic Studies and/or “minority science”: the case of Dmytro Čyževsky Ekaterina Shashlova: Migrants and new knowledge. Franco-German cultural transfer between the world wars Maria Silina: Museum practitioners in exile and the creation of Russian-centred narratives in the Soviet Union Patrick Flack: Roman Jakobson: between Russian Emigration and International Science Friday, March 31 9:00-12:00 Session II Chair: Tomáš Gecko Natalia Aleksiun: Jewish Physicians and Minority Medicine in the Second Polish Republic Lara Bonneau: “general Science of art” (die allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft), Emil Utitz, a German-speaking Czech philosopher (1883-1956) Florian Ruttner: “Religious affiliation: Dissident”. Josef Doppler and the Margins of Academia Laurens Schlicht: Franziska Baumgarten on Gender Identity, the Values of Science, and the Social Role of Psychology, ca. 1920–1950 13:30-15:00 Session III Chair: Joris Vandendriessche Maria Pirogovskaya: Multiple Minority and the Metropolitan Science: One Controversy about Tibetan Studies under Stalin Filip Herza: Researching Ruthenia: Science on the Margins – Marginals in Science Michael Wedekind: Interwar Minority Scholarship in South Tyrol 15:30-17:30 Session IV Chair: Jan Surman Kai Johann Willms: Polish-Jewish Sociologists in Interwar Poland and in American Exile Friedrich Pollack: Empowerment and suppression. Sorbian historiography and the institutionalisation of Sorbian Studies in the GDR Göktuğ İpek: Being a Leftist Academician in New “Democratic” Turkey After The WWII Saturday, April 1 9:00-12:00 Session V Chair: Michaela Šmidrkalová Slava Gerovitch: Playing the System: Soviet Mathematicians’ Strategies of Circumvention Irina Antoshchuk: Russian-speaking computer scientists in the UK as immigrant minority: revealing unexpected advantages and disadvantages Elisa Satjukow: At the Margins of History: The German Sonderweg of East and Southeast European Studies after the End of the Cold War Tina Magazzini: Romani studies between academic power relations and EU funding: methodological field notes

CfP: Workshop (Re)Thinking the University from, in, and beyond (Post-)Socialist Europe

CfP: Workshop (Re)Thinking the University from, in, and beyond (Post-)Socialist Europe, Vienna, 27-29 September 2023 Organizers: Dr. Elisa Satjukow (Leipzig University) and Dr. Friedrich Cain (University of Vienna) in cooperation with the Research Platform “Transformations and Eastern Europe” (University of Vienna), the Center for Transdisciplinary Historical-Cultural Studies (University of Vienna), the Southeast Europe Association, and The University of New Europe. At this workshop, we plan to critically assess the concept and practice of “the university” in the (post-)socialist scientific systems of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe (CESEE). We believe that this focus connects two research areas: on the one hand, it broadens feminist and decolonial perspectives on academic knowledge production, thus helping to expand the historical epistemology of the university in 20th and 21st-century Europe, on the other. Historically, universities are complex conglomerates of (built) structures, social interaction, and distinction, places of specific material, bodily, and intellectual practices. They have become key places of truth, expertise, and authority in all aspects of learning, both in research and education. As pillars of epistemic order but also epistemological laboratories and sites of revolution, universities (and their members) have they navigated between strengthening and opposing state and imperial powers. In the context of recent discussions about the role of science in democratic societies as well as neoliberal approaches to and populist interventions in higher education, it seems that the ambivalences of the university persist. The workshop focuses on the history of universities in (post-)socialist Europe. Following the October Revolution of 1917, the academic system was restructured in the newly established Soviet Union. After 1945, universities in the new socialist states had to comply with the principles of Soviet hegemony. Applied research was perceived as the pinnacle of academic knowledge production in the socialist societies of Europe. Universities were conceived of as efficient and highly exclusive places. They were supposed to serve the progress of socialism, especially since science was declared a “productive force” during the 1960s. At the same time, there was the ambition to design egalitarian and hence more diverse knowledge spaces — at least at the intersection of gender and class. In practice, however, universities often continued to perpetuate social inequalities — not only inside the institutions themselves, but also within the asymmetrical power relations of imperial structures. Apart from reproducing political order, universities were also platforms for counter thought. They were home to reform movements (such as the Praxis School in Zagreb/Belgrade) and hubs for emerging transnational (academic) feminist networks, in and beyond former Yugoslavia, for example. Such semi-secret parallel academic structures developed especially where university politics were particularly restrictive and reactionary. These initiatives were of great significance during the revolutionary upheavals of the 1980s (e.g. the Flying Universities in Poland), and became a decisive oppositional force in many parts of socialist Europe. At the same time, these parallel structures paved the way for the post-1989 academic awakening — away from a limited corpus of politically driven science toward a new freedom of research, at least temporarily. However, the post-socialist transformation of academia was influenced by the wide-ranging sociopolitical and economic challenges of the 1990s. While strong traditionalist groups prevailed, preserving socialist thought and controlling academic practice, reform movements were forced to adapt their position to new economic and discursive conditions. University employees were confronted with inflation and privatization, many were forced to flee from war and nationalist regimes, some regrouped abroad. At the same time, neo-liberal models were adopted, which fundamentally influenced academic labor markets. The German Democratic Republic (GDR) was a special case in many ways. Here, some academic institutions completely ceased to exist and others were transformed according to West German models, which also resulted in large-scale replacement of former academic staff. To this day, the relationship between “Eastern and Western European” universities is characterized by structural inequality. This applies as much to financial resources as to a perceived epistemological inferiority of academic institutions in CESEE. Yet, so far, post-socialist Europe has been a blind spot in postcolonial critiques of university knowledge production. Drawing on the recent debate on decolonizing universities and decolonizing ‘Eastern Europe,’ our workshop tackles the utopia and practice of the university from, in, and beyond (post-)socialist Europe. For this workshop, we would welcome papers addressing the following topics and issues: -(post-)socialist utopias and realities of universities -parallel academic institutions -alternative/dissident/oppositional modes of knowledge production -decolonial and feminist critique of the university -decolonial and feminist critique of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe (and beyond) -key and marginal disciplines in reproducing or countering political order -changes and cesurae in university histories -the relationship between (state) power, society, and the university Both theoretical contributions and specific case studies are welcome. Please submit abstracts (250 words) and a short CV in one file (PDF) to elisa.satjukow@uni-leipzig.de and friedrich.cain@univie.ac.at by 31 March 2023. All applicants will be notified of their participation in the workshop by the end of April 2023. After the workshop, we are planning to prepare a special issue in a peer-reviewed journal with suitable contributions. At the workshop, we will therefore discuss pre-circulated drafts (10 pages), which should be submitted by 1 September 2023. Accommodation and travel costs will be covered by the organizers (subject to confirmation of funds).

Валентина Радзимовська. Українська науковиця поміж революціями і війнами [Valentina Radzimovska. Ukrainian scientist between revolutions and wars].

Олексій Болдирєв: Валентина Радзимовська. Українська науковиця поміж революціями і війнами [Valentina Radzimovska. Ukrainian scientist between revolutions and wars]. Історична правда 10.2.2023: https://www.istpravda.com.ua/articles/2023/02/10/162382/ . У ніч з 5 на 6 січня 1919 року в київській квартирі в будинку 30 по теперішній вулиці Олеся Гончара зібрались троє чоловіків: один військовий і двоє цивільних. Зібралися таємно, бо ціль була висока - Україну рятувати. Метод для тих часів пропонувався звичайний - військовий переворот... Хто ж забезпечив змовникам прихисток? Донцов пише: "сиділи у Р-х, у кабінеті хазяйки при чорній каві". Під цим шифром приховано ім'я приват-доцентки кафедри фізіологічної хімії Київського університету Валентини Радзимовської

K STOLETIIU «FILOSOFSKOGO PAROKHODA». Mysliteli «pervoi» russkoi emigratsii o russkoi revoliutsii i o totalitarnykh soblaznakh 20 veka. 2022

New ibidem-Verlag volume by Professor Emeritus Leonid Luks, at the former Zentralinstitut für Mittel- und Osteuropastudien Eichstätt, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt: https://www.ibidem.eu/en/reihen/gesellschaft-politik/soviet-and-post-soviet-politics-and-society/k-stoletiiu-filosofskogo-parokhoda-mysliteli-pervoi-russkoi-emigratsii-o-russkoi-revoliutsii-i-o-totalitarnykh-soblaznakh-20-veka-9783838217758.html . Содержание - https://www.ibidem.eu/media/catalog/product/9/7/9783838217758_inhaltsverzeichnis.pdf

Call for Papers: Unruly Microbes – Epidemics, Infections, and Ecologies of Change in Historical Perspective, 22-23 June 2023

Call for Papers: Unruly Microbes – Epidemics, Infections, and Ecologies of Change in Historical Perspective, 22-23 June 2023, Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Durham University From spillover diseases to re-emerging infections to rising rates of antimicrobial resistance, stories of unruly microbes have proliferated daily conversation in recent years. These serious and continuing threats to human and nonhuman health fly in the face of triumphalist narratives of epidemiological transition and global disease eradication (Bellamy Foster et al., 2021). The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the extent to which these human-microbial interactions are mediated by ecological change widely construed, from urban and rural land use change driven by global commerce patterns to shifts in internal microbial populations within bodies. While scholars have developed many frames through which to think about the embeddedness of disease in ecological change historically and in the present, these stories remain on the margins of more traditional biomedical studies, and are often siloed into different disciplinary homes. This conference seeks to bring together scholars across disciplines to think through the relationship of epidemics to human-driven environmental change across time and space. Paper and panel proposals are welcome from researchers working on topics widely related to this theme. Examples of possible intersecting themes include: · Capitalism, land use change, and infectious disease. · Colonialism, ecological change, and infectious disease · Urban ecology and sanitation · Zoonoses and multispecies studies of disease · Agricultural systems and human-animal diseases · Hospitals-as-ecologies and histories of infection control · Histories of epidemic and infection control programs · Changing conceptions of human-microbial relationships (the Holobiont, Pathobiont, mutualisms) Abstracts of between 300-500 words on the themes above and related topics are welcome. We are happy to consider co-authored submissions and panel proposals, especially those that include scholars working from multiple disciplines. Please direct abstracts and any questions to Dr Emily Webster (emily.webster@durham.ac.uk) by March 17, 2023.

CFP: Becoming Independent; Institutions and Epistemologies of Knowledge Production in the Age of Decolonisation

CFP: Becoming Independent; Institutions and Epistemologies of Knowledge Production in the Age of Decolonisation ------- The workshop invites contributions which explore changes, transitions and ruptures of knowledge production taking place in the wake of states gaining their formal independence. While we aim to address primarily knowledge production within historiography, we are open to contributions from related fields including social sciences and humanities. Becoming Independent; Institutions and Epistemologies of Knowledge Production in the Age of Decolonisation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- University of Cambridge (Moritz Mihatsch & Casper Andersen), CB3 9EF Cambridge (United Kingdom) 05.06.2023 - 06.06.2023 Bewerbungsschluss: 15.03.2023 It has become a truism that decolonisation is a process, not a singular event. The formal transition to independence, of colonies becoming states, has been deconstructed to the point of disappearance from the historical lens. At the same time, the political project of decolonising knowledge production has gained traction within the last decade. Fully acknowledging that indeed decolonisation needs to be understood as a process, and that decolonisation of knowledge production is an important and very much on-going project, this workshop proposes that nevertheless the end of formal colonial rule impacted the institutions and epistemologies of knowledge production in a variety of fields, including historiography. John Smail suggested in 1961 “that when there occur great changes in the contemporary scene, there must also be great changes in historiography, that the vision not merely of the present but also of the past must change. If the change in the contemporary scene is extreme and rapid, we may speak of a crisis in historiography.” The workshop explores exactly this crisis of knowledge production in the wake of former colonies becoming independent states, which is understood as rooted in both institutional and epistemological change. We suggest that exploring knowledge production and particularly historiography at the moment of such a crisis offers a window in the mechanisms of knowledge production more broadly. Furthermore, this specific crisis of what used to be called the age of decolonisation lets us explore how far there is such a thing as global history, if there are global epistemologies, or if essentially historiography and knowledge more broadly is always local. The workshop invites contributions which explore changes, transitions and ruptures of knowledge production taking place in the wake of states gaining their formal independence. While we aim to address primarily knowledge production within historiography, we are open to contributions from related fields including social sciences and humanities. Case studies may focus on the national or international level, or on specific scholars, departments, journals, or academic associations. Besides more obvious cases from Africa, Asia and the Americas, we also encourage submissions which take a broad interpretation of the theme and discuss the independence of cases like former Soviet republics, the independence of Belgium from the Netherlands in 1830, or the states which gained independence upon the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Contributions should be original and not yet published, as we plan to combine them for a journal special issue. The programme of the workshop includes a keynote lecture by distinguished Professor Toyin Falola (University of Texas) a world leading expert on the topic of the workshop. To apply: Submit in one document: Title and abstract for proposed paper (300-500 words) - Short CV including current affiliation Please send this to ideca@cas.au.dk and mam275@cam.ac.uk. Deadline for abstracts is 15 March 2023. If your proposal is accepted a full paper (approximately 5000 Words) must be submitted by 15 May 2023 for circulation to other workshop participants. Cost and practical matters - The organisers will attempt to facilitate the booking of rooms at colleges in Cambridge at the reduced rate. - The seminar and workshop is supported by the Cambridge history faculty's Trevelyan Fund. This will allow us to support partial travel costs of some of the attendees with preference going to more junior scholars and scholars in precarious employment. - The workshop and seminar is organised by Dr Moritz Mihatsch (Cambridge University) and Dr Casper Andersen (Aarhus University). Two day workshop June 5-6, 2023 in Cambridge. The programme of the workshop includes a keynote lecture by distinguished Professor Toyin Falola (University of Texas) a world leading expert on the topic of the workshop. [Image: "Destroying Cancer." Soviet mosaic, the Cancer Institute in Kyiv.]

Call for Papers ENVIRONMENTAL AND CULTURAL DESTRUCTION IN IMPERIAL SPACES

Call for Papers ENVIRONMENTAL AND CULTURAL DESTRUCTION IN IMPERIAL SPACES Second annual conference of the Research Group “Empires” (University of Freiburg) Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Benno Weiner, Aondover Gabriel Gyegwe 30 November – 2 December 2023, Freiburg, Germany Empires can be guarantors of unity, stability, and peace. At the same time, they are often embedded in a history of destruction of lives, habitats, and cultures. Imperial orders laid waste to many previously autonomous polities and stable ecosystems, creating destruction not only during their ‘rise’, but also through their efforts to maintain control, their demise, and often long thereafter. This conference aims to shed light on destruction in imperial spaces through the dual lens of environmental and cultural destruction. To better understand the relationship between these forms of destruction and imperiality is one of the main goals of the conference. Empires have harmed culture and nature, bodies and minds, objects and peoples, material and non-material heritages. The conference is thus based on a broad understanding of destruction. It envelops a wide array of phenomena of damage and harm, both visible and invisible, immediate and incipient, and of fleeting and lasting impact. Destruction can be a show of force, an incidental by-product or a deliberate policy, ideologically motivated, a result of institutional routines or simply of a lack of care. Destruction has a temporal as well as a spatial dimension. Destructive events and processes can change conceptions of time, memories of the past, and imaginations of the future. The spatial dimension includes the destruction of imperial centres and peripheries as well as empires’ encroachment into ‘unknown’ lands, creating new frontiers and borderlands of destruction. Destruction does not only emanate from the imperial centre, but might also emerge from co-opted local elites or anti-imperial resistance. Imperial subjugation of the ethnic ‘other’ often went hand in hand with the exploitation of the environmental ‘other’. As the quest for resources was often accompanied by civilising missions, imperial expansion has had both environmental and cultural dimensions. In fact, research has long shown that nature and culture are not dichotomic but rather terms that construct a supposed human difference. Moreover, studies on landscape development explain how humans and environments interact. In this vein, the conference aims to explore the specific dynamics of socio-cultural and environmental destruction, as well as to examine how these two forms of destruction align, intersect, and influence each other in imperial spaces. The overarching questions of the conference are: • What is the relationship between destruction and imperiality? • How can we understand environmental and cultural destruction as distinct, yet interrelated phenomena? We welcome applications focusing on a wide range of empires (modern/pre-modern/ancient, maritime/land-based, pastoral/sedentary, authoritarian/democratic, capitalist/communist, continental/over-sea) and exploring them from a variety of different – inter alia economic, political, cultural, landscape – approaches, as well as focusing on different spatial and temporal aspects of destruction. Relevant topics might include, but are not limited to • destruction in warfare. Papers might interrogate how destruction was used and justified against different kinds of opponents, why some imperial wars were more destructive than others (and how to measure such destructiveness), and what traces such wars have left on landscapes and cultures. They might also examine how destruction is rationalised, in, for example, different phases of imperial expansion as well as in anti-imperial resistance movements. • environmental and landscape destruction. Papers might address imperial transformations of environments and landscapes, discourses of human-nature relationships, the interdependence of technological and environmental transformation. But it may also be worth interrogating what kind of ‘nature’seemed worth preserving and why some forms of environmental impact are regarded as destruction while others are not. • cultural destruction. This might relate to the destruction of cultural landscapes, historic places, monuments, and artefacts as well as intangible heritage such as customs, beliefs, traditions, knowledge, concepts, and languages. Papers might probe the specific settings in which the destruction of culture occurs and how the destruction of material culture differs from that of immaterial culture. What influence did post-imperial orders and empire-to-nation-state transitions have on cultures that were considered peripheral and underdeveloped? Papers might also explore those instances where efforts to ‘save’ cultures led to their destruction. • memory/visions of destruction. Ruins of architecture and landscapes keep the memory of destruction alive. Papers might focus on whether and how different forms of destruction are/were remembered differently as well as on how memory itself can be destroyed. They might analyse the role that destruction plays in storytelling and art, and explore how destruction is narrated, visualised, or made into sound and aestheticized. How do artistic reflections on destruction change our perception and memory of destruction? And what are visions of future destruction? Application We welcome contributions from all the humanities and social sciences as well as hybrid sciences such as geography. We especially encourage scholars in the early stages of their career (PhD & Postdoc) to submit proposals. The conference will be held in hybrid format. Interested applicants are invited to send a working title, an abstract of no more than 400 words, and a short biographical note to conference@grk2571.uni-freiburg.de by 17 March 2023. Please also indicate your preference for virtual or in-person participation. Any further queries can be directed to the same address. The accommodation in Freiburg will be covered by the Graduate School “Empires”. We will also strive to at least partially reimburse presenters for their travelling expenses. Presenters will be asked to provide a first draft of their paper at least two weeks prior to the conference. After the conference, we intend to publish selected papers in an edited volume. The conference is the second of a series of annual conferences organised by the DFG Graduate School 2571 “Empires: Dynamic Transformation, Temporality and Postimperial Orders” (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg). More information on the research group can be found at: https://www.grk2571.uni-freiburg.de/events/annual-conference-2023

XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome, 1-8 August, 2024. Philosophy across Boundaries : Call for Papers

XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome, 1-8 August, 2024. Philosophy across Boundaries : Call for Papers - Submissions Key Dates PAPERS/PROPOSALS SUBMISSION DEADLINE 10 November 2023 Papers and proposals received after the deadline, but before 1st February 2024, may be accepted depending on availability. Papers can be submitted via the online Submission Platform only (https://webapp.triumphgroupinternational.com/cmsweb/ABS_Login.asp?IDcommessa=TRM24002&Lang=EN&NOFLAG=1). Submission of a Paper/Panel/Round Table acknowledges the acceptance for the abstract to be published in the official Congress publications. Only one Paper or Panel/Round Table must be submitted by the presenting author/authors. Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest: submitters will be required to disclose any conflict of interests in the submission form. Please, check all the guidelines for the application in the sections: Paper Guidelines (https://wcprome2024.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Guidelines-submission-paper.pdf) Document Template (https://wcprome2024.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/template_contributed_paper.docx)

Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim (1961–1989) // Medical Review Auschwitz (1961-1989)

Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim (1961–1989) // Medical Review Auschwitz (1961-1989) has been digitalised and published online at https://www.mp.pl/auschwitz/journal/polish Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim (Medical Review – Auschwitz) was a scientific journal published annually from 1961 to 1991 by the Kraków Medical Society. The periodical started as a reaction of the Cracovian physicians, many of them Nazi German camp survivors themselves, to the unprecedented medical consequences that internment in concentration camps had for former prisoners, resulting in pioneering research, including that on posttraumatic stress disorder. The 31 issues of Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim comprised 1050 articles by 477 authors dealing with the medical, psychological, and social consequences of Nazi persecution in concentration camps. The studies presented were based on detailed examinations of a few thousand of former prisoners which nowadays would be no longer possible due to the shrinking number of the living survivors. A large portion of the articles present reflections based on the first-hand experience of the former prisoners from various medical and medicine-related professions. The journal was nominated to the Nobel Peace Prize twice (in 1993 and 1994). In spite of the unique scientific value, its contents were for a long time unavailable to the global community. Since 2017, however, the articles from the journal have been consistently translated into English and published on this website, with new texts appearing on a regular basis and available in open access.

Wojciech Piasek: Jadwiga Lechicka – kobieta nowa i nowoczesna. Kulturowy porządek i relacja płci w historiografii polskiej [Jadwiga Lechicka – a new and modern woman. Cultural order and gender relations in Polish historiography].

Wojciech Piasek: Jadwiga Lechicka – kobieta nowa i nowoczesna. Kulturowy porządek i relacja płci w historiografii polskiej [Jadwiga Lechicka – a new and modern woman. Cultural order and gender relations in Polish historiography]. Torun: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika 2022. ISBN:978-83-231-4830-2 Jadwiga Lechicka interesuje autora jako historyczka. Temu zainteresowaniu daje on pierwszeństwo i z takiego punktu wychodzi w swych rozważaniach. Bohaterkę książki przedstawia jako człowieka pojedynczego – jednostkę podejmującą wybory życiowe, mającą indywidualne pragnienia i oczekiwania wobec siebie. Wykorzystuje do tego ślady – biografemy, które pokazują ją jako podmiot prywatny z niepowtarzalnym jednostkowym doświadczeniem, bohaterkę swojego życia. Biografemy to informacje etnograficzne, które identyfikują prywatne doświadczenie, ale nie dają w nie wglądu. W związku z tym autor jednocześnie odwołuje się do biografemów i do stworzonego przez współczesne Lechickiej kobiety nowego wzorca kobiecości – „kobiety nowej i nowoczesnej”, sformułowanego po I wojnie światowej przez środowisko, z którym Lechicka była związana – homo academica. Równolegle z zainteresowaniem Lechicką jako człowiekiem pojedynczym autor zajmuje się kulturowym porządkiem i relacją płci w międzywojennej i powojennej historiografii polskiej. Przygląda się temu z perspektywy doświadczeń Jadwigi Lechickiej, jej stosunku do siebie samej oraz jej działań związanych z edukacją, pracą zawodową i rodziną. Diagnozując przypadek Lechickiej, dokonuje kontekstualizacji jej biografemów w zgodne zestawienie – za sprawą pojęcia uwrażliwiającego porządku i relacji płci – z biografemami innych kobiet oraz dotyczącymi ich danymi statystycznymi.