CHORUS Colloquium: Andrei Rodin (University of Lorraine), A.N. Kolmogorov's Way to the International Mathematical Scene & Gabriela Radulescu (Technical University of Berlin): Soviet Radio Astronomers in Communication with (Extra)terrestrial Intelligence

On Thursday, April 20, you are cordially invited to the next colloquium of CHORUS: Colloquium for the History of Russian and Soviet Science, featuring two talks: Andrei Rodin (University of Lorraine), A.N. Kolmogorov's Way to the International Mathematical Scene Gabriela Radulescu (Technical University of Berlin): Soviet Radio Astronomers in Communication with (Extra)terrestrial Intelligence Details: Andrei Rodin (University of Lorraine), A.N. Kolmogorov's Way to the International Mathematical Scene In this talk, I provide an overview of an early stage of the academic career of Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (before the WW2) with a focus on modalities of his positioning within Russian mathematical community and his professional contacts in Germany and France. Using Kolmogorov’s example, I draw some conclusions about the academic cooperation between the Soviet Russia and the major European countries during this period. Contrary to what one might expect, Kolmogorov’s mathematical publications in foreign journals mark the very beginning of his academic career and chronologically precede his first mathematical publication in a Russian mathematical journal. I show how the place of Russia in the international academic network of the time explains this phenomenon. Andrei Rodin is a mathematician, philosopher and historian; his research interests are mainly in philosophical logic, history and philosophy of mathematics and computer science, and mathematics and computer science education. He is a researcher in the Archives Henri-Poincaré and Loria laboratory in Computer Science at the University of Lorraine in Nancy, France, an associated researcher at laboratory SPHERE (CNRS) at the University Paris-Cité in Paris, and a participant in the Smolny Beyond Boarders Initiative, part of Open Society University Network. He also teaches mathematical and epistemological courses in the Ecole Nationale Supérieure en Génie des Systèmes et de l’Innovation (ENSGSI). He is the author of Axiomatic Method and Category Theory (Springer, 2014), and numerous articles. https://philomatica.org/andrei_rodin/ Gabriela Radulescu (Technical University of Berlin): Soviet Radio Astronomers in Communication with (Extra)terrestrial Intelligence In this talk, I will look at the Soviet contributions to radio astronomy’s attempts at contact with extraterrestrial intelligence from the late 1950s until the mid-1970s. Adding to the existing standard history of American scientific efforts in the field, I emphasize the communication across the Iron Curtain throughout the Space Age. According to the common history, contact with extraterrestrial intelligence became a legitimate topic for radio astronomy in 1959 with the publication of the article ‘Searching for Interstellar Communications’ by Cornell University physicists Phillip Morrison and Giuseppe Cocconi in the journal Nature. By looking in parallel at the international astronautics community of the late 1950s, I will contextualize the demands of the Space Age out of which radio astronomy’s extraterrestrial intelligence emerged. I will show how the domain of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence through electromagnetic waves was prompted by the relationship in outer space between the two sides of the political divide. Gabriela Radulescu is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Science at the Technical University of Berlin and the CHORUS talk is based on her current research. Her previous education background is in History of Ideas and Science (MA, University of Iceland), Social Anthropology (MA, National and University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest), and Philosophy (Bucharest University). https://www.insscide.eu/team/case-study-authors-and-experts/article/gabriela-radulescu The meeting will be held on Thursday, April 20, at 8 am (Los Angeles) / 11 аm (New York) / 17:00 (CET) / 18:00 (Kyiv) / 18:00 (Moscow). To receive the voom link please contact Slava Gerovitch (http://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/).

CFP: 6. Kongress Polenforschung: Aufbrüche – Umbrüche / 6th Congress on Polish Studies: Upheavals – New Beginnings -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Kongress Polenforschung: Aufbrüche – Umbrüche Der sechste Kongress Polenforschung findet vom 14.-17.03. in Dresden statt und bietet Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern mit Arbeitsschwerpunkt Polen erneut Gelegenheit, ihre aktuellen Forschungen zu präsentieren, sich zu vernetzen und über den Stand polenbezogener Forschungen zu diskutieren. Dieses Mal begleitet den Kongress das Rahmenthema „Umbrüche – Aufbrüche / Przełomy – przeobrażenia / Upheavals – New Beginnings“. 6th Congress on Polish Studies: Upheavals – New Beginnings The sixth congress on Polish Studies in March 2024 in Dresden will again offer scholars focusing on Poland the opportunity to present their current research, to network and to discuss the state of Poland-related research. The upcoming congress is framed by the topic „Upheavals – New Beginnings / Aufbrüche – Umbrüche / Zerwania – Nawiązania". 6. Kongress Polenforschung: Aufbrüche – Umbrüche / 6th Congress on Polish Studies: Upheavals – New Beginnings -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deutsches Polen Institut, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden (Deutschland) 14.03.2024 - 17.03.2024 Bewerbungsschluss: 29.05.2023 Polen ist, ähnlich wie seine Nachbarn, in Geschichte und Gegenwart von zerstörerischen wie schöpferischen Brüchen betroffen gewesen. In Geschichte, Literatur, Kultur, aber auch in Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft haben sich vielfältige Reaktionsmodi auf diese Konstellationen der Herausforderung des Einzelnen wie der Gemeinschaft ausgeprägt. So sind spannungsgeladene Narrative entstanden. Deren Genese, aber auch deren Modifizierungen auf nationaler und internationaler Wahrnehmungs- und Aushandlungsebene müssen analysiert und verstanden, nicht selten auch übersetzt werden, um den konstruktiven Dialog zwischen Polen, Deutschland und Europa zu stärken und weiterzuentwickeln. Dabei stellt der mit dem deutschen Überfall auf Polen begonnene Zweite Weltkrieg zweifellos den historisch brutalsten Bruch im deutsch-polnischen Verhältnis dar. Der jüngste dieser Umbrüche vollzieht sich soeben vor dem Hintergrund von Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine. Wie wurden diese Disruptionen in historische Narrative und kulturelle Praxen übersetzt? Wie beeinflussen sie politisches Handeln? Welche Schritte ziehen Brüche nach sich, welche Schatten werfen sie voraus? Und wie werden sie erlebt? Wie hält man es in Polen mit der Vergangenheit, wenn Umbruchsphasen zur ideologischen Einflussnahme auf den Diskurs einzuladen scheinen? Hat die polnische Gesellschaft, die Kultur in Reaktion auf disruptive Konstellationen eine spezifische Resilienz oder Kompensationsfähigkeit ausgeprägt? Trifft das auch auf die Wirtschaft oder das Rechtssystem zu? Lässt sich der polnische Umgang mit Brüchen als Chancen für Veränderung in vergleichende Dimension bringen? Oder sind Polen – als Legionäre, Partisanen oder „unsichtbare“ polnische Nachbarn in Deutschland – vielmehr selbst Triebkräfte und Akteure disruptiver Prozesse? Analysen von Zuschreibungen, Framings, aber auch exemplarische Sonden zu diesen Fragestellungen sollen aus allen Disziplinen heraus gemeinsam zu diesem Rahmenthema beitragen und es in transnationale oder komparatistische Zusammenhänge stellen. Hierzu zählen immer auch ethische Fragen, vor allem die nach Rolle und/oder Verantwortung von Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften in (Kriegs-)Krisen. Wie reagiert die Wissenschaft auf solche geopolitischen Disruptionen? Wie bereitet sie andererseits Gesellschaften auf antizipierte Krisen vor oder trägt sogar – in politisch-ideologischer Dienstbarkeit – zu deren Eintreten bei? Und was haben die Künste zu alledem zu sagen? Das Rahmenthema des Kongresses greift insofern auch den Ausbruch des russisch-ukrainischen Kriegs im Februar 2022 auf, mit dem die Geschichte der Kriege, gewaltsamen Machtübernahmen und Landbesetzungen in Osteuropa weitergeschrieben wird. Postkoloniale Studien, die seit über zwanzig Jahren auch auf osteuropäische, vor allem auf polnische, ukrainische und russische Geschichte, Politik und Kultur angewandt werden, erhalten neue Aktualität, wenn geopolitische Asymmetrien, kulturelle Hegemonien, ethnische Säuberungen und Aneignung/Vernichtung des Kulturerbes der Nachbarländer in den Fokus geraten. Die oft ambivalente Stellung Polens und der Ukraine zwischen Ost und West, die ihre Kolonialgeschichten geprägt hat, wird neu interpretiert, zumal auch in Europa „Aufbrüche“ infolge von Invasion und Gewalt mit Massenmigration in Verbindung stehen. Der Sechste Kongress Polenforschung eröffnet die Möglichkeit, über die Grenzen der Fachgebiete und der deutschsprachigen Länder hinweg Kontakte zu knüpfen und zu pflegen, Projekte zu entwickeln und sich über die Situation der Polenforschung zu informieren. Er knüpft an die ersten fünf Kongresse (Darmstadt 2009, Mainz 2011, Gießen 2014, Frankfurt/Oder 2017, Halle 2020) an, an denen jeweils etwa 300 Wissenschaftler:innen teilgenommen haben. Ausstellungen von Verlagen und Institutionen sowie ein Begleitprogramm ergänzen den Kongress. Tagungssprachen sind Deutsch, Polnisch oder Englisch. Die Technische Universität Dresden, die diesen Kongress gemeinsam mit dem Deutschen Polen-Institut organisiert, ist mit ihrer Exzellenzmaßnahme „TUDiSC“ („TU Disruption and Societal Change Center“, https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/forschung/exzellenzmassnahmen/tudisc) eng mit dem Rahmenthema verbunden. Es ist aber wie bei den vergangenen Kongressen auch möglich, Vorträge bzw. Sektionen vorzuschlagen, die keinen engen Bezug zum Rahmenthema haben, sofern sie aktuelle Forschungsrelevanz besitzen. Bewerbung für Einzelvorträge und Sektionen Wir laden alle Interessierten ein, Vorschläge für Einzelvorträge oder ganze Sektionen einzureichen. Sie können sich am Rahmenthema „Umbrüche – Aufbrüche“ orientieren, aber auch einen anderen thematischen Schwerpunkt behandeln, sofern er von besonderer Forschungsrelevanz ist. Vorschläge von ganzen Sektionen haben in der Regel bessere Chancen, in das Kongressprogramm aufgenommen zu werden. Einzelvorträge: Die Dauer von Einzelvorträgen ist auf 25 Minuten begrenzt. Die Organisator:innen werden die ausgewählten Einzelvorträge zu thematischen, disziplinären oder offenen Sektionen zusammenführen. Sektionsvorschläge: Die Sektionsdauer beträgt zwischen 90 und 120 Minuten. Die Zahl der Referierenden sollte drei bis vier betragen; es wird empfohlen, jeweils einen Kommentar zu integrieren sowie Vertreter:innen von mehr als einem Wissenschaftsstandort zusammenzuführen. Die Veranstalter:innen behalten sich das Recht vor, die ausgewählten Sektionen in Absprache mit den Vorschlagenden zu ergänzen oder zu modifizieren. Bewerbungsschluss für Referate und Sektionen ist der 29. Mai 2023. Über die Auswahl wird bis Ende Juli 2023 entschieden. Bewerbungsformular für Einzelvorträge: https://www.polenforschung.de/assets/Uploads/Anmeldung-Einzelvortrag-dt.pdf Bewerbungsformular für Sektionen: https://www.polenforschung.de/assets/Uploads/Anmeldung-Sektion-dt-neu2.pdf Zusätzlich stehen weitere Veranstaltunsformate zur Bewerbung Auswahl: Forum: Im neuen Format „Forum“ können geeignete Themen in einem zeitlichen Umfang von 90 bzw. 120 Minuten fokussiert werden. Nach einem kurzen Input der Organisator:innen und der von ihnen geladenen Gäste diskutieren die Teilnehmer über das gewählte Thema in einem möglichst multidisziplinären Rahmen. Die Kongress-Veranstalter:innen behalten sich das Recht vor, selbst thematische Foren anzuregen. Bewerbungsschluss für die „Foren“ ist der 15. September 2023. Bewerbungsformular Forum: https://www.polenforschung.de/assets/Uploads/Anmeldung-Forum-dt.pdf Zwischenzeiten: Unter dem Titel „Zwischenzeiten“ stehen jeweils halbstündige Slots für Projektvorstellungen, die Vorstellungen von Institutionen, Publikationen oder Publikationsreihen, für kurze Diskussionen usw. zur Verfügung. Bewerbungsschluss für die „Zwischenzeiten“ ist der 15. September 2023 Bewerbungsformular Zwischenzeiten: https://www.polenforschung.de/assets/Uploads/Anmeldung-Zwischenzeiten-dt.pdf Projektkurzvorstellungen: Zusätzlich zu den längeren Referaten bieten wir – in erster Linie für Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen – die Möglichkeit zu kurzen Projektvorstellungen im Plenum (2-3 Minuten). Bewerbungsschluss für die „Projektkurzvorstellungen“ ist der 15. Dezember 2023. Über die Auswahl dieser Kurzvorstellungen wird bis Ende Januar 2024 entschieden. Bewerbungsformular Kurzvorstellung: https://www.polenforschung.de/assets/Uploads/Anmeldung-Kurzvorstellung-dt.pdf Posterpräsentation: Wenn Sie Ihr Projekt mit einem Poster präsentieren möchten, so können Sie dies bis zum 31. Januar 2024 anmelden. Bewerbungsformular Posterpräsentation: https://www.polenforschung.de/assets/Uploads/Anmeldung-Poster-dt.pdf Aussteller, Stände: Aussteller (Institutionen, Verlage, Unternehmen) können sich in unterschiedlicher Art und Weise auf dem Sechsten Kongress Polenforschung präsentieren. Für die Anmietung von Möbeln (Tische, Stühle, Stellwände) entstehen voraussichtlich nur geringe Kosten. Sollten Sie Interesse haben, so bitten wir um Ihre Abstimmung mit den Veranstaltern bis 15. Januar 2024. Einladung zur Teilnahme ohne eigenen Beitrag Alle an einer Teilnahme ohne eigenen Beitrag Interessierten laden wir ein, sich unter www.polen-forschung.de/Anmeldung-Registration/ anzumelden. Anmeldungen sind ab Sommer 2023 möglich. Bitte beachten Sie: Alle Anmeldungen sind verbindlich und werden erst nach Überweisung der Kongressgebühr wirksam. Eine Rückzahlung von Kongressgebühren ist aus organisatorischen Gründen nicht möglich.

Вісник ХНУ імені В.Н.Каразіна. Серія "Історія" / The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series: History (no. 62, 2022)

Вісник ХНУ імені В.Н.Каразіна. Серія "Історія" / The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series: History (no. 62, 2022) The special issue is published at the website of the journal. Please follow the link below: https://periodicals.karazin.ua/history/index. FOREWORD Since 2014, the Russian military aggression against Ukraine has been responsible for extensive destruction of cultural heritage. According to experts, Ukraine’s losses in this sphere are the most severe since the Second World War. At the same time, the Russian-Ukrainian War has triggered a rethinking of the cultural heritage of Ukrainian cities. In particular, there is a notable change in the views of urban residents regarding what deserves preservation and reconstruction and what should be disposed of, removed from the physical space of cities and the collective memory of urban communities. In addition, as the war continues, new strategies for the protection of cultural heritage are emerging. Various public initiatives, the volunteer movement, and assistance from international organizations all play important roles. This issue of The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series: History deals with problems relating to the destruction and damage to cultural heritage objects and cultural infrastructure of Ukraine as a result of the Russian invasion, as well as strategies for preserving and rethinking the cultural heritage of Ukrainian cities in wartime. The studies collected here have been done under the umbrella of the academic project “CITY AND WAR: Destruction, Preservation and Rethinking of the Cultural Heritage of Large Cities in Eastern and Southern Ukraine During the Russo-Ukrainian War.” This is an interdisciplinary endeavor concerned with various aspects of the cultural heritage of Dnipro, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Odesa, and Kharkiv and focusing specifically on the period since the start of the war in Donbas in 2014 and the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022. The intention of the project is to record and put into dialogue the views of experts (first and foremost academics and museum, library, and archival workers, as well as journalists, writers, artists, photographers, etc.) on the processes of destruction, preservation, and rethinking of urban cultural heritage in Ukraine provoked and driven by the Russian military aggression. The project is an open network involving mainly faculty and students of Ukrainian universities, who work in close cooperation to develop new approaches to Ukraine’s cultural heritage (for more information, visit https://cityface.org.ua/projectheritage.html). The articles and notices in this issue present the preliminary results of research undertaken as part of the project “CITY AND WAR,” mostly by professional historians, particularly university researchers and archival and museum workers. The materials are arranged thematically. The issue includes studies on the destruction and preservation of various types of urban cultural heritage during the Russian-Ukrainian War, contemporary media representation of Ukrainian cities and their cultural heritage, the specifics of the work of museums, archives, and libraries in wartime, and challenges facing the education industry and cultural and artistic life of Ukrainian cities during the war. Publication of this special issue of The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series: History was made possible by the support of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta and with the assistance of the administration of the Faculty of History of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. We would like to thank our peer reviewers for their valuable suggestions and comments, and our literary editors for correcting the texts. We hope that this collection will be of interest to the readers and stimulate further research into cultural heritage in Ukraine. Sergiy Posokhov, Yevhen Rachkov FULL ISSUE PDF (Українська) FOREWORD City and War (Foreword)Sergiy Posokhov, Yevhen Rachkov 9-10 PDF (Українська) ARTICLES Destruction, Preservation, and Rethinking of Ukraine’s Urban Cultural Heritage during the Russo-Ukrainian WarYevhen Rachkov 12-48 PDF (Українська) Destruction of Cult Buildings in Kharkiv during the Russian Military Aggression: Public Perception and Rethinking of Cultural HeritagePavlo Yeremieiev 49-85 PDF (Українська) Monumental Sites of Memory in Wartime: Practices of Media RepresentationYuliya Kiselyova 86-112 PDF (Українська) Challenges of Wartime: The Work of the Central State Archive of Science and Technology (TsDNTA) of Ukraine during the Russian InvasionHanna Holubkina 113-127 PDF (Українська) Odesa’s Libraries during the Martial Law of 2022Ihor Stambol 128-141 PDF (Українська) Ukrainian Education in Wartime: Challenges and ProblemsHanna Bondarenko 142-159 PDF “We Will Discuss the Future and Dream Together”: Cultural and Artistic Life and the Museumification of Urban Space in Wartime KharkivOlha Vovk 160-180 PDF (Українська) Images of Ukrainian Cities in Wartime NarrativesMaryna Kurushyna 181-202 PDF (Українська) “Writing to You. Miss You”: The Image of 2022 Wartime Kharkiv in Residents’ Social Media PostsOleksii Yankul 203-230 PDF (Українська) REVIEWS AND INFORMATION Karazin University’s Museum of Archaeology in Wartime: Challenges and ResponsesIrina Shramko 232-247 PDF (Українська) The Work of Ukraine’s Art Institutions during the WarNataliia Ivanova 248-254 PDF (Українська) “Historiography in Times of War and Exile”: Digest of the Ukrainian-German ColloquiumJulia Obertreis, Liudmyla Posokhova 255-261 PDF (Українська) Heritage-Based Post-War Urban Reconstruction in Ukraine: Preparing Future Experts in Higher EducationDóra Mérai, Loes Veldpaus 262-271 PDF

CFP ”Copernicus and Italy" “Corona magnorum virorum et artificum”:

CFP ”Copernicus and Italy" “Corona magnorum virorum et artificum”: a revolutionary astronomer in the cradle of Humanism, September 28th -- September 30th, 2023, Rome The meeting, in collaboration with the Istituto Polacco, the Universities of Rome Sapienza, Bologna, Ferrara and Padua, the patronage of Accademia dei Lincei and of the Società Astronomica Italiana (SAIt), is intended as a celebration of 550 years from Copernicus birth and as an investigation about his formative stay in our country.It will will focus on the multi-faceted relations between Copernicus and Italy and will also take into account the extraordinary role of Artur Wolynski, the founder of Astronomical and Copernican Museum collection, and of Bronislaw Bilinski, the other crucial Polish philologist and historian that worked in Rome and published important contributions about Copernicus.Participants are invited to submit abstracts and/or interest in attending the meeting. Contributions are accepted also in Italian and Polish.The online registration (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1X3PpY3tOy3DMtots9_-FRX2xZ9DlOtp7Mt1fgDeVYZs/viewform?edit_requested=true) and abstract submission will open the 5th of March 2023 with the following deadlines: April 30th, 2023 : abstract submission deadline June 10th 2023 : program announced, early bird registration fee deadline (Euros 120) July 31st 2023 : late registration fee deadline (Euros 240)ROME, Italy The program of the event and the links for the final registration and payment will be send by email by early-mid June 2023 at the address you would like to provide. Participants are invited to submit abstracts and/or register for attending in-person.

All issues 2022 of the journal Вопросы истории естествознания и техники//Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki are online

All issues 2022 of the journal Вопросы истории естествознания и техники//Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki are online [all articles in Russian with English abstracts, in OPEN ACCESS] Issue 1: https://vietmag.org/issue.2022.1.1/ . Issue 2: https://vietmag.org/issue.2022.2.2/ . Issue 3: https://vietmag.org/issue.2022.3.3/ . Issue 4: https://vietmag.org/issue.2022.4.4/ .

Историко-биологические исследования / Studies in the History of Biology, Том 14, №2, 3, 4, 2022 are online

Историко-биологические исследования / Studies in the History of Biology, Том 14, №2, 3, 4, 2022 are online (open access) № 2: http://shb.nw.ru/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/IBI_2022_02_v03.pdf . № 3: http://shb.nw.ru/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/IBI_2022_03-1-1.pdf . № 4: http://shb.nw.ru/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IBI_2022_04_v2_-1.pdf .

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki / Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology 3 and 4 2022 are online

QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (KWARTALNIK HISTORII NAUKI I TECHNIKI), 2022, ISSUES 3 AND 4 ARE ONLINE. POLISH WITH ENGLISH ABSTRACTS URL: https://www.ejournals.eu/KHNT/2022/3-2022/ & https://www.ejournals.eu/KHNT/2022/4-2022/ .

Taťána Petrasová, Pavla Machalíková et al. (eds.) Dílo a proměna myšlení v české kultuře 19. století [An oeuvre and change of thinking in Czech culture of the 29th century].

Taťána Petrasová, Pavla Machalíková et al. (eds.) Dílo a proměna myšlení v české kultuře 19. století [An oeuvre and change of thinking in Czech culture of the 29th century]. Praha: Academia 2023. ISBN 978-80-200-3420-5 Tématem 42. ročníku plzeňského sympozia jsou díla, která podstatně změnila domácí politickou, sociální i kulturní situaci, ať už tím, že byla přeložena z jazyku originálu nebo bez přiznání začala být interpretována a popírána jinými díly, ve snaze dosáhnout v české společnosti změny. Svazek zpracovává dané téma mezioborově a přináší 23 studií z oborů dějiny a teorie literatury, dějin a teorie umění, filozofie, estetika, muzikologie, historie a historická sociologie.

CFP: SISS Conference of Early Career Scholars in History of Science “Storie di scienza”: Natura incognita Places, methods and representations in the study of nature

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the second SISS Conference of Early Career Scholars in History of Science “Storie di scienza”: Natura incognita Places, methods and representations in the study of nature. The conference will be held at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples on 7-8 September 2023 and it is open to scholars who are pursuing their doctorate or have completed it no more than 6 years ago. Deadline for submitting proposals: 28 April 2023. Please see the call for papers and flyer attached. Information and details (both Italian and English) are also available on the conference webpage: https://www.societastoriadellascienza.it/index.php/it/attivita/convegni-siss/86-convegno-giovani-2023 Please feel free to circulate the call widely! Many thanks for your kind attention. We hope to see you at the conference! Kind regards Valentina Vignieri

The Zhelezka Project: On the Tracks through Central Asia

Central Asian Scholarly Space; Social Innovations Lab Kyrgyzstan, American University of Central Asia; Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography; Volkswagen Foundation Central Asia/South Caucasus programme Invite scholars, practitioners and artists to join The Zhelezka Project: On the Tracks through Central Asia Experimental Mobile Summer School August 18 – September 3, 2023 The Experimental Mobile School aims at generating a unique space for young researchers’ networking and developing conceptual and methodological approaches. In the course of a two-weeks railway journey through Central Asia, they will be applying and enhancing novel, mobile methodologies for creating new knowledge about lesser-explored and multicultural places, exploring transport infrastructures, mobility regimes and lives of communities along railways. Interaction, methodological and theoretical experiments, collaborative and creative research formats aim at establishing a new strong scholarly community in the region, with its own academic voice that is willing to contribute to elaborating mobile and decolonial methodologies and epistemologies of studying Central Asia. A group of twenty researchers, practitioners and artists will travel by train from Astana, through Almaty, Shymkent, Tashkent, Nukus, Bukhara/Kagan, Andijan, Osh and, finally, to Bishkek. During two weeks on mostly Soviet-era trains on the rails commonly known as ‘zhelezka’, the group will focus on exploring life on and off the railroad by unraveling specific travel and mobility practices, documenting urban and rural landscapes, collecting stories of strangers, local communities and railroad workers in three countries of post-Soviet Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan. Some of the activities will include: lectures, workshops, meetings and excursions in cities on the way, collaborative projects, final workshop in Bishkek, documentation, and publication of findings. The project is supported by the Volkswagen Foundation and administered by the Social Innovations Lab Kyrgyzstan, American University of Central Asia and Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography. The project proposal was developed by a group of researchers from Central Asia: Zarina Adambussinova, Zarina Urmanbetova, Indira Alibayeva, Sofya Omarova-du Boulay, and Hikoyat Salimova. To apply, please, send the following info to silk@auca.kg by April 10: • First name, last name and title • Occupation, affiliation • Description of your interest in the Summer school (up to 300 words) • Description of activities you intend to conduct in the school (up to 500 words) • Place of departure to the school • CV All costs of travel and participation are covered. 📷 📷 22All reactions:

CfP: Workshop: ‘Knowing the planet: Environment, technology, and development in the 19th and 20th centuries’

Workshop: ‘Knowing the planet: Environment, technology, and development in the 19th and 20th centuries’ European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy, Friday 26 January 2024 Convenors: Ismay Milford (Leipzig), Corentin Gruffat (EUI), Corinna Unger (EUI) This one-day workshop will interrogate the relationship between environment and technology in developmental projects, practices, and discourses during the 19th and 20th centuries. While histories of environment and histories of technology have each moved in exciting, interdisciplinary directions in recent years, there has been little work analysing the relationship between environment and technology in global history. Meanwhile, there is growing recognition of the entanglements between empire and environmental exploitation, and the origins of environmentalism in (post)colonial societies, but we lack understanding of competing ideas and how they played out. Histories of development are expanding their remit beyond self-described, large-scale projects of the 20th century, inviting a longer term approach that could address these issues. All these scholarly shifts are important to a deeper historicization of environmental knowledge in the context of global climate crisis. Bringing together case studies from different geographical settings across the 19th and 20th centuries, the workshop will ask: What role has technology played in the production of environmental knowledge? What role has environmental knowledge played in the politics of ‘progress’? We interpret all three key terms – environment, technology, development – expansively. Pushing back against a distinction between human-made technologies and the non-human environment, we emphasise co-production, the role of less tangible technologies (techniques, systems, tools) and anthropogenic environments. Equally, ‘development’ here encompasses projects and discourses relating to societal ‘improvement’ or ‘progress’ in all guises. To assess the usefulness of relevant concepts, we seek contributions from broad vantage points and intend to avoid the reproduction of Eurocentric interpretations of environment, technology, or development. We thus welcome critical, multi-disciplinary perspectives on the applicability of these concepts in different spaces and languages; we hope to bring different historiographies into conversation. Proposals may address (but need not be confined to) the following: Changing approaches to specialist, ‘expert’, and ‘local’ knowledge about the planet Versions of, and challenges to, the pervasive notion that technology produces environmental knowledge, which results in progress Techniques as technology; statistics, data, and their production; scholarly disciplines ‘Low-tech’ technologies, tools, and material culture Race, gender, class, and inequality in the making of environmental knowledge Concepts of optimisation, efficiency, innovation, standardisation, incommensurability, and their histories Alternative environmental epistemologies; imaginations of past and future in the environment-technology nexus Actors in the making of environmental knowledge: technicians, scientists, and clerks; business, finance, and entrepreneurs; institutions, organisations, and the state Envirotechnical systems, environing technologies, anthropisation through technology Practical information We plan for a one-day workshop, in person, at the European University Institute, Florence, taking accessibility concerns into account. There will be limited funding available to cover costs; participants without access to institutional funding will be prioritised. Please send proposals consisting of a title, short abstract (max 400 words), and one-page CV (or short biographical statement) as a single pdf file to ismay.milford@uni-leipzig.de AND corentin.gruffat@eui.eu by 15 May 2023. We will respond to all applicants by 30 June 2023. We are considering developing a publication based on workshopped papers. We will ask presenters to pre-circulate short papers (2000 words), where possible, ahead of the workshop. We look forward to reading your paper proposals! Contact Info: Queries can be sent to Ismay Milford. Please see above for submission instructions. Contact Email: ismay.milford@uni-leipzig.de

Claude Debru (ed.) Les sciences en guerre froide (1946-1991) — France — Union soviétique et pays de l'Est — Témoignages.

Claude Debru (ed.) Les sciences en guerre froide (1946-1991) — France — Union soviétique et pays de l'Est — Témoignages. Presses universitaires Rhin & Danube 2023. ISBN : 9782493323408 RÉSUMÉ Des scientifiques, français ou étrangers, membres d’Académies de France (Académie des sciences, Académie des technologies, Académie nationale de médecine, Académie d’agriculture de France, Académie de pharmacie, Académie vétérinaire), universitaires et chercheurs (CNRS, INSERM, INRA), ou d’Académies étrangères (Union soviétique, Russie, Pologne) apportent divers témoignages sur les relations intenses que la France a pu entretenir, pendant la guerre froide et après, avec les collègues de l’Union soviétique, puis Russie, et d’autres pays d’Europe de l’Est, dans un grand nombre de disciplines parfois cruciales pour les deux parties. L’ouvrage montre à la fois la dépendance des relations scientifiques internationales par rapport au contexte politique et aux accords entre États, ainsi que l’indépendance d’initiatives prises localement, en vertu de l’idée « La science d’abord ». L’actualité de ces témoignages et réflexions n’échappera à personne. AUTEURS Ont participé à cet ouvrage Roger Balian, Alain Berthoz, Elena Biryukova, Jacques Blamont, Sylvain Blanquet, Jean-Claude Brégliano, Édouard Brézin, Hervé Cailleau, André Calas, Marie-Lise Chanin, Michel Chauvet, Yves Christen, Sophie Cœuré, Pierre Corvol, Antoine Danchin, Claude Debru, Henri Décamps, Guy Dirheimer, Michel Dufossé, Bernard Dujon, Yves Farge, Pierre Ferron, Richard Giégé, Alain Guichardet, Robert Guillaumont, Jacques Haïssinski, Jean-Jacques Hervé, Michel Imbert, Marcel Jacquemet, Pierre Joliot, Henri Korn, Jean-Paul Legros, Claude Lévi, Tadeusz Luty, Jean Massion, Marie-Claude Maurel, Gérard Orth, Olivier Pironneau, Jean-Paul Poirier, Yves Pomeau, Yves Quéré, Marek Samoc, Jean-Pierre Serre, Mathias Springer, Juliusz Sworakowski, Halina Szatyłowicz, Daniel Tessier, Michel Thibier, Alain-Jacques Valleron, Francis-André Wollman.

Call for Papers "Contentious Collections in Central and Eastern Europe: The Legacy of Ethnographic Shows and Beyond"

Call for Papers "Contentious Collections in Central and Eastern Europe: The Legacy of Ethnographic Shows and Beyond", 26–27 October 2023, Riga. The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), and the Institute of Latvian History, University of Latvia, cordially invite contributions for the two-day conference “Contentious Collections in Central and Eastern Europe: The Legacy of Ethnographic Shows and Beyond”. Organisers: Prof. Dagnosław Demski PhD (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, PAS, Warsaw), Dominika Czarnecka PhD (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, PAS, Warsaw), Ilze Boldāne-Zeļenkova Dr.hist. (Institute of Latvian History, University of Latvia, Riga). The main idea of the conference revolves around research on various types of contentious collections (virtual, private, associated with museums, universities, missions, etc.) held in countries of Central and Eastern Europe. There are various understandings of ‘contentious collection’ across disciplines and countries. For the purpose of the conference, contentious collections are defined as groups of objects of non-European origin, acquired and incorporated into Central and Eastern European collections in the 19th and 20th century, in which the themes of Otherness, savagery, primitivism, exoticism and racism played a central role. They include collections and items associated with the phenomenon of ethnographic shows organised in Europe on a mass scale in the latter half of the 19th and the early decades of the 20th century. At the same time, contentious collections are collections that (along with the associated practices, representations, imaginaries and affective potentialities) create patterns that have the capacity to challenge our sense of who we are today and as a result to open up broader horizons. This conference aims to explore the complex history of contentious collections in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the contemporary entanglements of their status, perceptions and interpretations from a comparative, transregional and dialogic point of view. Apart from exploring contentious collections, the specific non-European objects included in them, and the social actors and their networks connected to such items, the conference will discuss the history of exclusion and the consequences thereof, as well as the mobility and transformations of collections and exhibits in changing ideological, and socio-political orders and contexts in the 19th and 20th century. We invite proposals for papers that focus, among other similarly related topics, on: – material forms of the legacy of ethnographic shows in Central and Eastern Europe, their traces and memories related to them; – the history of contentious collections and objects in Central and Eastern Europe in changing socio-political orders and contexts; – the changing status, content and perceptions of contentious collections and objects in the region; – regional, transregional and global connections as well as the movement of people, animals and things across imperial, national and international spaces and contexts; – the ways of challenging Central and Eastern European perceptions and definitions of the self; – the selection processes, changing classifications, narratives and regimes of representation, including instructions for collecting / acquiring of objects followed in different time periods; – the history of exclusion, including practices of intentional destruction, erasure, exclusion and concealment; – the politics and ethics of storage, circulation, display and consumption of contentious collections and objects; – conceptualisations of the ‘invisibility’ of contentious objects in the past and today; – the affective potentialities of contentious collections and objects. We welcome contributions that traverse different approaches, methodologies and forms of historical evidence, including among others history, art history, geography, anthropology, sociology, postcolonial and heritage studies, visual and material culture studies, music and consumption studies. We encourage scholars at different stages of their career, museum staff, curators and collectors. We aim to publish a selection of papers as a Special Issue in a peer-reviewed journal, or alternatively as an edited volume in English. The conference language is English. Please send the abstract (max. 300 words) of a 20-minute paper and a brief bio (max. 1,000 characters) to Dominika Czarnecka (d.czarnecka@hotmail.com). Abstract submission deadline: 31 May 2023. You will be notified about the status of your proposal by 15 June 2023. There is no conference fee. [Image: "The Dahomeyans. Based on a photo by Rembrandt, made exclusively for Tygodnik". Tygodnik Ilustrowany. July 13, 1889, № 341, p. 32.]

call for papers: Access to higher education in the 21st century – policies and outcomes.

call for papers: Access to higher education in the 21st century – policies and outcomes. October 19-20, 2023, Bucharest, Abstract submission: June 20, 2023. Details: https://tinyurl.com/3uz5cek6 . Enlarging the access to higher education is both a global trend and a requirement of public policies in many countries. While there is an obvious relationship between this trend and the shift towards a knowledge-based society, significant differences persist across countries and inside societies. The global higher education gross enrollment ratio (GER) has doubled in the last two decades and converges to about 40%; in some parts of the world, it is significantly below this global average, in others, it exceeds it, as in North America where it is above 70% already since 2010. Such differences generate different challenges for various stakeholders and policymakers. While in developed economies, demographic constraints impact higher education institutions, enlarging tertiary education access is directly linked to economic and social modernization in other parts of the world. Transnational cooperation helps alleviate some of the existing imbalances while enhancing the quality and outcomes of higher education. The formidable challenge of the COVID19 pandemic has forced universities to adjust to virtual teaching and learning. It is still open, which adjustments will persist and which will be abandoned. All these evolutions raise several academic questions and practical challenges for universities and various authorities governing the higher education systems. How does the massification of higher education change the prospects for would-be graduates and/or for those who do not attend higher education programs? Despite the well-ascertained benefits of higher education in the long term, is it still a factor fostering upward social mobility? In what measure are the higher education systems equitable? How did the higher education institutions adapt their mission while unprecedented changes occurred in the labor market? Do universities adapt to provide skill updates or professional conversion programs through adult education in the context of lifelong learning? What is the relationship between enlarging access to higher education and the sustainability of democratic societies in the 21st century? This list of questions & challenges is far from complete. At the same time, it is evident that policies regulating access to higher education in the 21st century must consider national, regional, and global phenomena. The tasks ahead are formidable. Taking stock of various experiences and reflecting on them can help us tackle these challenges. Details: https://tinyurl.com/3uz5cek6

Susan Grant & Isaac McKean Scarborough (Eds.) Geriatrics and Ageing in the Soviet Union: Medical, Political and Social Contexts.

Susan Grant & Isaac McKean Scarborough (Eds.) Geriatrics and Ageing in the Soviet Union: Medical, Political and Social Contexts. London: Bloomsbury 2023. ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1350273795. Open access: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61207 . DESCRIPTION This open access book brings together an eclectic cast of scholars in related disciplines to examine ageing in the Soviet Union, covering the practice of geriatrics, the science of gerontology, and the experience of growing old. Chapters in the book focus on concepts and themes that analyse Soviet ageing in its medical, political and social contexts, both in the Soviet Union and internationally. Ageing was hardly a uniquely Soviet phenomenon: over the past fifty years, moreover, governments and societies have been dealing with steady increases in their ageing populations. Almost paradoxically, however, societal focus on this ageing population, its lives, and its social impact remains extremely limited. Compared to most sciences, gerontology is pitifully underfunded; geriatrics is amongst the least prestigious branches of medicine; and while the world's population is growing undeniably older, great disagreement remains over what can and should be done in response. These were the same challenges that the USSR faced in the post-war decades (1945-1991), and the contributions included in this volume help to flesh out and contextualize the example of Soviet gerontology and geriatrics as one possible model of response. Geriatrics and Ageing in the Soviet Union captures the growing interest in this important subject, demonstrating the influence of ageing on Soviet science and society and the impact of Soviet gerontology and geriatrics at a global level. The book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Wellcome Trust and Liverpool John Moores University. TABLE OF CONTENTS Editors' Introduction Part I: Soviet Gerontology and Geriatrics 1. The Legend of Gilgamesh: Attempts towards its Fulfilment in Soviet Gerontology Vladislav Bezrukov (Institute of Gerontology, Ukraine) and Konstantin Duplenko (Kiev-Mohyla National University, Ukraine) 2. From the Collections of the Medical Museum: Duality in 1920s Soviet Ageing Research Maria Tutorskaya (Russian Medical Museum, Russia) 3. Ageing Minds and Bodies: Psychiatric Care for the Elderly People in the Post-War Soviet Union Aleksandra Brokman (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) 4. 'Dolphin Babies': The Late Soviet Project of Infant Swimming and the Creation of 'a New Superhuman Being Anna Ozhiganova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Part II: Designing Medical and Social Spaces for Elderly People in the Soviet Union 5. Age and City: Old Age and Urban Planning in Moscow and Kiev Botakoz Kassymbekova (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) 6. 'A Quiet Old Age': Designing Homes for Elderly People Susan Grant (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) Part III: Representation and Perception 7 The Right to a Personal File: Archiving the Lives of Soviet Pensioners Alissa Klots (University of Pittsburgh, USA) and Maria Romashova (Perm University History Museum, Russia) 8. The New Soviet Babushka: Popular Perceptions of Elderly Women after Stalin Danielle Leavitt-Quist (Harvard University, USA) Part IV: International Contexts 9. Ageing and Gerontology in the UK after 1945 Pat Thane (King's College London, UK) 10. The Burden of Old Age: The Fate of Elderly People in the Polish People's Republic Ewelina Szpak (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) 11. The Development of Museums of Medicine in Post-Soviet Countries and their Contribution to the History of Medicine Katarzyna Jarosz (International University of Logistics and Transport, Poland) Epilogue James Chappel (Duke University, USA) and Isaac McKean Scarborough (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) Index

online event: History of Botanics. Quarterly conference of the Commission for the History of Science PAU (Polish)

online event: History of Botanics. Quarterly conference of the Commission for the History of Science PAU (Polish), March 15, 10:00-13:30 CET Kwartalna Konferencja Komisji Historii Nauki PAU, Historia botaniki, 15 marca (środa) 2023, godz. 10.00-13.30 Miejsce: platforma Zoom. Organizatorzy: Kwartalna Konferencja Komisji Historii Nauki PAU Sekcja Historii Botaniki Polskiego Towarzystwa Botanicznego Program: https://pau.krakow.pl/platforma_wymiany_naukowej/zaproszenia/2023/KHN_KWART_progr_2023_03_15.pdf Details: https://pau.krakow.pl/index.php/pl/platforma-wymiany-naukowej-pau/konferencje/kwartalne-konferencje-komisji-historii-nauki-pau Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83639703920?pwd=VGQ1WnRhRVMvb0swdmtxVC8rbCszZz09 Identyfikator spotkania: 836 3970 3920 Kod dostępu: 897021

CfP: Baltic Connections 2023: a Conference in Social Science History

CfP Extended (March 15): Baltic Connections 2023: a Conference in Social Science History June 7-9, 2023, University of Helsinki, Finland. https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/baltic-connections The fourth Riitta Hjerppe Lecture in Social Science History will be given by Price Fishback (University of Arizona). Further solid keynotes will be delivered by Kateřina Lišková (Masaryk University), and Antero Holmila (University of Jyväskylä). The extended deadline for proposals is March 15, 2023. In addition to individual papers, proposals for whole three to four paper panels are appreciated. Proposals can be submitted online (preferred) or by sending email to balticsocsciencehist@gmail.com. The Scandinavian Economic History Review is offering the possibility for conference participants to submit their papers for fast-track consideration for publication. The Finnish Quarterly for History of Technology, Tekniikan Waiheita, also offers conference participants the possibility to submit their papers for fast-track consideration in the journal. Submit online: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/122436/lomake.html Contact Info: The organizing institutions consist of University of Helsinki, University of Jyväskylä, the Finnish Society for the History of Technology, and the Finnish Economic History Association. For more information, please email balticsocsciencehist@gmail.com, or Jari Eloranta and Olli Turunen directly.

Online Conference “Thomas Samuel Kuhn versus Nicolaus Copernicus and the Copernican revolution”.

Online Conference “Thomas Samuel Kuhn versus Nicolaus Copernicus and the Copernican revolution”. 550th Anniversary of the Birth of Nicolaus Copernicus. 15 March 2023 (Wednesday). Time: 16:30–18:30 CET – Central European Time Equivalent time: 10:30–12:30 CDT – Central Daylight Time (Norman, Oklahoma, USA) Institutional organizers: • Komisja Historii Nauki PAU (Commission on the History of Science, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences); • Pracownia Naukoznawstwa IHN PAN (Science-of-Science and Science Studies Research Unit, Institute for the History for Science, Polish Academy of Sciences). Program • 16:30–17:30 (CET – Central European Time): Prof. Peter Barker (Department of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Norman OK, USA), “Islamicate Science after 1500 as Kuhnian Normal Science: What is Missing from the Copernican Revolution Account of the History of Science?” Paper and discussion. • 17:30–18:30 (CET – Central European Time): Prof. Michał Kokowski (Institute for the History for Science, Polish Academy of Sciences), “Thomas Samuel Kuhn: Nicolaus Copernicus and the Copernican Revolution – Historical Facts and Interpretations, Strengths and Weaknesses of the Kuhnian Approaches”. Paper and discussion. Join a Zoom meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83486662085?pwd=RDhjQ2t2RmdITkZFM256MzRQdXcyQT09 . Meeting ID: 834 8666 2085 Access code: 339801

call for articles: Rethinking Intellectual History: Capitalising on Eclecticism,

call for articles: Rethinking Intellectual History: Capitalising on Eclecticism, 2/2023, Forum Historiae. Journal and Portal for History and Related Disciplines Issue: Rethinking Intellectual History: Capitalising on Eclecticism Issue Editors: Matej Ivančík, László Vörös Abstract: While intellectual history carries a brand of an elitist approach, thanks to vigorous efforts to counter such a notion, it has considerably improved its standing. More accurately, one can say it has found its ways into both various approaches as well as local historiographies’ very own challenges. This endeavour could be witnessed as traceable in many directions. Intellectual history’s entanglements with global history, its turn towards de-Westernising the canon, and more recently—although far from sufficiently—the gender perspectives have all shown the field’s adaptability. Among many others, these contributions attempted to prove intellectual history’s viability and academic prowess. There is, however, rather a strong motivation to enhance the field’s outreach even further beyond broadening the “basket of subjects.” Thus, the issue’s aim is to suggest areas and approaches to this endeavour. Intellectual history revolves to a large extent around the corpus, i.e. the canonical texts. While we do not question its primacy, we invite authors to broaden the source textual basis relevant for the field. Furthermore, East-Central European historiography’s relatively young intellectual history endeavours witness, by and large, an encompassment of other dominant approaches, mainly political and social history. Our aim is to take advantage of this predicament and use it to enrich the local intellectual historiography’s standing. In other words, we encourage authors to scrutinise areas and approaches of entanglements and crossovers which allow intellectual history to benefit from the very critique of its fundamentals. Both theoretical and case studies are welcomed. The preferred topics may include, but are not limited to: - The question of insufficient focus on sources and de-canonisation of intellectual history - Epistemological challenges—bringing other methodological approaches (oral history, history of science, political-institutional history etc.) on board with intellectual history - Broadening the scope of analytical tools in intellectual history and history of social and political thought - Intellectual history’s entanglements with political, social, cultural and gender history; deficits, challenges and visions - Intellectual history’s adaptability in the East Central European historiography - Broadening of the corpus of intellectual history - The intellectual history of transitions, crises and transformations and the utilisation of non-canonical sources - Intellectual history and world systems theory with a focus on peripheries and semi-peripheries - Intellectual history’s entanglements with conceptual history and discourse analysis - Case studies that employ, problematize or rethink methodological approaches, analytical tools and/or selection of sources of intellectual history and history of social and political thought - Case studies that employ or invite intellectual history approaches in political, social, cultural or gender history Submissions deadline: 31 May 2023 Submissions: Language: English Length: 15 to 30 standard pages (1800 characters per page) Style: submissions must follow the “Style Manual for the Authors” (Manuscripts that do not comply will be rejected or returned upon receiving for correction). The articles will be published after a double-blind peer-review process. Submit manuscripts in MS Word format (.rtf, .doc or .docx) via Submission form (https://www.forumhistoriae.sk/en/webform/article-submission). Editors' contact: matej.ivancik@uniba.sk histvoro@savba.sk Download: CfP 2/2023 (.pdf) (https://www.forumhistoriae.sk/sites/default/files/cfp2-2023_0_0.pdf)

Call for Papers: Knowing the planet: environment, technology, and development in the 19th and 20th centuries

Call for Papers: Knowing the planet: environment, technology, and development in the 19th and 20th centuries. European University Institute, Florence, Italy, Friday 26 January 2024 Convenors Ismay Milford (Leipzig), Corentin Gruffat (EUI), Corinna Unger (EUI) Argument This one-day workshop will interrogate the relationship between environment and technology in developmental projects, practices, and discourses during the 19th and 20th centuries. While histories of environment and histories of technology have each moved in exciting, interdisciplinary directions in recent years, there has been little work analysing the relationship between environment and technology in global history. Meanwhile, there is growing recognition of the entanglements between empire and environmental exploitation, and the origins of environmentalism in (post)colonial societies, but we lack understanding of competing ideas and how they played out. Histories of development are expanding their remit beyond self-described, large-scale projects of the 20th century, inviting a longer term approach that could address these issues. All these scholarly shifts are important to a deeper historicization of environmental knowledge in the context of global climate crisis. Bringing together case studies from different geographical settings across the 19th and 20th centuries, the workshop will ask: What role has technology played in the production of environmental knowledge? What role has environmental knowledge played in the politics of ‘progress’? We interpret all three key terms – environment, technology, development – expansively. Pushing back against a distinction between human-made technologies and the non-human environment, we emphasise co-production, the role of less tangible technologies (techniques, systems, tools) and anthropogenic environments. Equally, ‘development’ here encompasses projects and discourses relating to societal ‘improvement’ or ‘progress’ in all guises. To assess the usefulness of relevant concepts, we seek contributions from broad vantage points and intend to avoid the reproduction of Eurocentric interpretations of environment, technology, or development. We thus welcome critical, multi-disciplinary perspectives on the applicability of these concepts in different spaces and languages; we hope to bring different historiographies into conversation. Proposals may address (but need not be confined to) the following: Changing approaches to specialist, ‘expert’, and ‘local’ knowledge about the planet Versions of, and challenges to, the pervasive notion that technology produces environmental knowledge, which results in progress Techniques as technology; statistics, data, and their production; scholarly disciplines ‘Low-tech’ technologies, tools, and material culture Race, gender, class, and inequality in the making of environmental knowledge Concepts of optimisation, efficiency, innovation, standardisation, incommensurability, and their histories Alternative environmental epistemologies; imaginations of past and future in the environment-technology nexus Actors in the making of environmental knowledge: technicians, scientists, and clerks; business, finance, and entrepreneurs; institutions, organisations, and the state Envirotechnical systems, environing technologies, anthropisation through technology Submission guidelines We plan for a one-day workshop, in person, at the European University Institute, Florence, taking accessibility concerns into account. There will be limited funding available to cover costs; participants without access to institutional funding will be prioritised. Please send proposals consisting of a title, short abstract (max 400 words), and one-page CV (or short biographical statement) as a single pdf file to ismay.milford@uni-leipzig.de AND corentin.gruffat@eui.eu BY 15 MAY 2023. We will respond to all applicants by 30 June 2023. We are considering developing a publication based on workshopped papers. We will ask presenters to pre-circulate short papers (2000 words), where possible, ahead of the workshop. Queries can be sent to Ismay Milford.

What Good Is Philosophy? - Ukraine Benefit Conference

What Good Is Philosophy? - Ukraine Benefit Conference (from Aaron J. Wendland) Dear Friends, How are you? As Vision Fellow in Public Philosophy at King’s College London, I am organizing a major online benefit event for the Ukrainian academy, entitled: ‘What Good Is Philosophy? – The Role of the Academy in a Time of Crisis’. Here is the link: https://civic.ukma.edu.ua/benefit/ Keynotes will be delivered by world-renowned author, Margaret Atwood, one of the most celebrated scholars of Ukrainian history, Timothy Snyder, and two of Ukraine’s preeminent public intellectuals, Mychailo Wynnyckyj and Volodymyr Yermolenko. Lectures will also be given by some of the most influential philosophers writing today, including Peter Adamson, Elizabeth Anderson, Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, Agnes Callard, Quassim Cassam, Tim Crane, Simon Critchley, David Enoch, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Sally Haslanger, Angie Hobbs, Barry Lam, Melissa Lane, Dominic Lopes, Kate Manne, Jeff McMahan, Jennifer Nagel, Philip Pettit, Kieran Setiya, Jason Stanley, Timothy Williamson, and Jonathan Wolff. The conference will be produced by the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, and it will be broadcast on their YouTube channel on 17-19 March 2023. It can also be streamed here: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/kma-conference ‘What Good Is Philosophy? – A Benefit Conference for Ukraine’ aims to raise the funds required to establish a Centre for Civic Engagement at Kyiv Mohyla Academy. This Centre will provide support for academic and civic institutions in Ukraine to counteract the destabilizing impact that Russia’s invasion has had on Ukrainian higher education and civilian life. By assisting Ukrainian students and scholars today, this Centre will also help pave the way for a vibrant and engaged post-war Ukraine. This benefit conference is designed to provide individual academics, members of the public, colleges and universities, professional associations, charitable foundations, and private companies with a way to support students, scholars, and civic institutions in Ukraine. With that said, you can make a one-time tax-deductible donation here: https://civic.ukma.edu.ua/donate/ You can also help assist the academy in Ukraine by sharing this post and/or posting the following link to your various social media accounts: https://civic.ukma.edu.ua/benefit/ Finally, thank you very much for all your time and consideration. I certainly appreciate your support, and I’m sure my Ukrainian colleagues do, too! And most importantly, I hope all is well with you! Sincerely, -Aaron

CALL FOR PAPERS Conference “Connecting three worlds: health & socialism in the Cold War ”

CALL FOR PAPERS Conference “Connecting three worlds: health & socialism in the Cold War ” Funded by the Wellcome Trust Berlin, Germany, June 14th- 16th, 2023 Organizers: Dora Vargha, Sarah Marks and Edna Suárez-Díaz Keynote: Sean Brotherton (NYU) This conference is organized under the auspices of the Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award “Connecting three worlds: socialism, medicine and global health after WW2”. The project aims to push the boundaries of the history of global health by identifying the particular health cultures produced by socialism. It is clear, however, that to write the history of how socialism has shaped the health cultures of countries around the world we need to go beyond the identification of socialism with the state and identify certain common practices, values, and ways of organization in medicine, public health, and biomedicine that gave shape to different versions of socialism. In our working definitions, we have included the distinction between ‘socialist by default’ and ‘socialist by design’(Savelli 2018) to describe practices in health and medicine, suitable to describe the overall context of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, Cuba, and China after WW2 -also commonly called “real existing socialisms”. “Socialism”, however, is a flexible category, and conditions changed rapidly and radically during the cold war period, as it was the case for some African countries in the decades after decolonization; for which we have added the concept of ‘intermittent socialisms’. What happens in places where socialism takes place outside of the state? Often, the constellation of socialist networks, practices, and institutions that have shaped the long history of social medicine, as is the case in Latin America, have taken place in the interstices of the state. Social democrats, socialist planners, self-declared communist physicians, and progressive left-wing activists —among them women— squeezed their values, practices, and policies into local projects around health care, sometimes even within some of the most notable developmentalist programs and institutions. For those cases, we can also talk about a socialism in the interstices. How do these socialist networks, practices and institutions relate to those of state socialisms, or where socialism in some form was endorsed by political leadership? How does the inclusion of various socialist health practices, their relationships and exchanges challenge our ideas of national and international histories of health? This latter question becomes especially crucial when we consider how international conflicts, whether economic, diplomatic, or military overlapped and interacted with tensions over class, ethnicity, and nationalism. This conference aims to bring together scholars studying situated, highly localized experiences in various regions of the globe, while emphasizing the very international nature of socialist networks and values, and the unexpected connections rising through those collaborations. In telling these stories, we aim to transcend the received periodization and the bipolar confrontation between the US and the USSR, expanding the history of socialist health in the First, Second and Third Worlds. Participants will be invited to submit their paper to an edited volume, to be published with a leading academic publisher. We will be able to contribute to travel costs and accommodation and cover full expenses for early career researchers. Please send your title, abstract of 300-500 words, and CV to vivienne.bates@exeter.ac.uk by March 20. More information about the project can be found at https://connecting3worlds.org/ Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London) Edna Suarez-Diaz (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) Dora Vargha (University of Exeter/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) ----------- Prof. Dora Vargha Professor of History and Medical Humanities

CFP International conference “Printing Centers and Peripheries in the Early Modern Period”

CFP International conference “Printing Centers and Peripheries in the Early Modern Period,” will be held on October 5-6, 2023 at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania in Vilnius in a hybrid format with both in-person and virtual participation. Conference website: https://konferencijos.lnb.lt/printing-centers-and-peripheries/en/ We invite submissions that investigate the 15th- and 18th-century publishing: The development of printing press centers and peripheries. Roles of authors, publishers, distributors, readers, and custodians in the production and dissemination of a printed book. Publishing activities and their impact on the dissemination of knowledge and culture. The printing press market in the early modern period: business strategies and the economics of book production and distribution. Signs of a reading culture in printed book. The application of digital humanities approaches to the study of printing press history and the use of digital tools for the analysis of printed materials. Follow us on social media for rewgular updates: https://www.facebook.com/mazvydoskaitymai