Hybrid-Course: Introduction to Science and Tech Diplomacy: the new geopolitics of technology

 Hybrid-Course: Introduction to Science and Tech Diplomacy: the new geopolitics of technology

Announcement for a hybrid-course for PhD students and postdocs of all fields!

This hybrid-course will give an introduction to understand how scientific and

technological developments work, with a specific focus on their governance and

international spillovers.

The curriculum is based on the ability to think critically and analyze

different use cases for technology and science delivery in the economy and

society, and to understand the unique advantages and the history of the

European approach to technology and science.

Call and application:

https://www.stgs.fau.de/introduction-to-science-and-tech-diplomacy-the-new-geopolitics-of-technology/

When?

09/10/2023 – 15/01/2024

Where?

On-site: 09.-11/10/2023, lectures at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität

Erlangen-Nürnberg, GERMANY

Online: 16/10–18/12/2023, 10 lectures on Mondays // 08/01 and 15/01/2024,

presentation days

Deadlines:

Submission is possible until the 30/06/2023. If successful, you will be

formally invited to the course by 31/07/2023.

Questions? Please emailralf.mitschke@fau.de

JAN JĘDRZEJEWICZ AWARD FOR THE BEST BOOK ON HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

JAN JĘDRZEJEWICZ AWARD FOR THE BEST BOOK ON HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; BOOKS SUBMITTED FOR THE AWARD IN 2023 (Polish)

URL: https://khnit.pan.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=79&Itemid=57&lang=pl .

Żyjący i pracujący w Płońsku Jan Jędrzejewicz (1835–1887), lekarz i astronom, był uczonym cenionym na arenie międzynarodowej i wybitnym popularyzatorem nauki, autorem Kosmografii, wydanej w 1886 roku nakładem Kasy im. Józefa Mianowskiego. Pragnąc uhonorować i spopularyzować tę ważną w dziejach polskiej nauki postać, jak również propagować polskie piśmiennictwo na temat dziejów nauki i techniki, dwie instytucje, Komitet Historii Nauki i Techniki PAN oraz Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego – Fundacja Popierania Nauki, zwróciły się do Burmistrza i Rady Miejskiej w Płońsku z propozycją utworzenia cyklicznej Nagrody im. Jana Jędrzejewicza. Pomysł ten spotkał się z życzliwym przyjęciem i 24 stycznia 2013 roku Rada Miejska w Płońsku podjęła uchwałę o ustanowieniu corocznej Nagrody im. Jana Jędrzejewicza dla najlepszej książki poświęconej historii nauki i techniki, wydanej w roku poprzedzającym wręczenie Nagrody. Wysokość Nagrody, która po raz pierwszy została przyznana w 2013 roku, wynosi 10 tys. zł netto. Laureata Nagrody wyłania siedmioosobowa Kapituła, powołana przez Komitet Historii Nauki i Techniki PAN, Kasę im. Józefa Mianowskiego i Burmistrza Miasta Płońska. Wniosek o przyznanie Nagrody mogą zgłaszać przedstawiciele polskiego środowiska naukowego i kulturalnego oraz wydawnictwa, nadsyłając dwa egzemplarze książki wraz z krótkim uzasadnieniem do siedziby Kasy im. Józefa Mianowskiego (więcej informacji w regulaminie Nagrody).

Transnational_History_Lab: Writing the History of Science and Technology Anew

Transnational_History_Lab: Writing the History of Science and Technology Anew

International Winter School

February 5–10, 2024

Humanity lives in a transnational world. Recent global events such as the Covid-19 pandemic, major supply chain disruptions and the war in Ukraine have reinforced this claim and exposed the challenges of that transnational world. Resources, products, businesses, organizations, activists, and other actors, as well as technologies, ideas, and scientific findings constantly cross borders and exert a decisive influence on both national and global affairs. How can we write transnational history in a world in which science and technology become increasingly relevant? For our “Transnational History Lab” we welcome and encourage proposals that cover a wide range of topics, timelines, and different methodical approaches and academic disciplines to further develop the research field of transnational history.

The winter school will take place over 6 days, allowing researchers to fully retreat “into the laboratory” to develop and experiment with ideas in a setting that not only allows for but actively encourages trial and error. It will be an intensive but rewarding experience for scholars to reflect on the ways they conduct research and develop and share new approaches to transnational history in collaboration with renowned senior researchers. The focus is on four main thematic areas that will form the basis for the discussions and presentations:

  *   International Organizations

  *   Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism

  *   Internationalism and Academic Refugees

  *   Scientific and Technological Standards and Standard Setting

We encourage all interested parties to apply and to join us in experimenting with new approaches, perspectives, and research avenues through an open and productive learning environment. We will invite up to 20 junior scholars (MAs, PhDs, Postdocs), 5 for each of the main thematic areas.

The deadline for the submission of a cover letter (max 1 page), a CV with selected publications (max 2 pages), and an abstract of your paper (1.500 to 2,000 words) is Monday, June 19, 2023. In your cover letter you must indicate which of the four thematic areas mentioned above you wish to participate in, if not we cannot accept your application. Please include your name and contact information in all submitted documents.

Applicants will be informed of the result of the review process by Monday, July 10, 2023. The invited junior scholars will be asked to submit a more developed research paper (no more than 8,000 words) by Monday, October 16, 2023. This will form the basis of their presentations during the winter school and can take the form of a chapter, an article, or a paper. These texts will be circulated among all the participants of the winter school.

Following the completion of the winter school, the students will be issued a certificate of participation.

If you have any questions, please write to Dr. Aske Hennelund Nielsen (aske.h.nielsen@fau.de<mailto:aske.h.nielsen@fau.de>).

When?  Monday, February 5 to Saturday, February 10, 2024.

Where?  Josephs, Augustinerstraße 19, 90403 Nuremberg, Germany.

Who?  Up to 20 early-career scholars (Masters, PhDs, Postdocs) in research fields dealing with transnational history such as History of Science and Technology, Science and Technology Studies, International Relations, Diplomatic History, Sociology and/or Philosophy of Science, or any related fields.

What is covered? Hotel accommodation including breakfast as well as lunch and coffee/tea are covered for all days. Additionally, the organizers can partially cover travel expenses depending on where the students are traveling from. Three dinners will be offered over the winter school.

Who is organizing it?

Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi, Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

Dr. Aske Hennelund Nielsen, Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

Who is funding it?  The winter school is entirely funded by the VolkswagenStiftung.

Important dates?

Deadline for submission of cover Letter, CV and abstract: Monday, June 19, 2023.

Notification of the result of the review process: Monday, July 10, 2023.

Deadline for submission of final paper: Monday, October 16, 2023.

Sincerely,

Aske Hennelund Nielsen

Postdoc at the Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg

E-mail: aske.h.nielsen@fau.de

Olga Burlyuk and Ladan Rahbari (eds), Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe.

Olga Burlyuk and Ladan Rahbari (eds), Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023, https://doi. org/10.11647/OBP.0331

This volume consists of narratives of migrant academics from the Global South within academia in the Global North. The autobiographic and autoethnographic contributions to this collection aim to decolonise the discourse around academic mobility by highlighting experiences of precarity, resilience, care and solidarity in the academic margins.

The authors use precarity to analyse the state of affairs in the academy, from hiring practices to ‘culturally’ accepted division of labour, systematic forms of discrimination, racialisation, and gendered hierarchies, etc. Building on precarity as a critical concept for challenging social exclusion or forming political collectives, the authors move away from conventional academic styles, instead adopting autobiography and autoethnography as methods of intersectional scholarly analysis. This approach creatively challenges the divisions between the system and the individual, the mind and the soul, the objective and the subjective, as well as science, theory, and art.

This volume will be of interest not only to scholars within the field of migration studies, but also to instructors and students of sociology, postcolonial studies, gender and race studies, and critical border studies. The volume’s interdisciplinary approach also seeks to address university diversity officers, managers, key decision-makers, and other readers directly or indirectly involved in contemporary academia. The format and style of its contributions are wide-ranging (including poetry and creative prose), thus making it accessible and readable for a general audience.

CFP: Workshop “Health and socialism: of shortages and solidarity”

CFP: Workshop “Health and socialism: of shortages and solidarity” Berlin, Germany, October 9-10, 2023

Organizers: Dora Vargha, Luis Aue, Alila Brossard Antonielli, Fatima Elfitouri. URL: https://socialistmedicine.com/cfp-health-and-socialism/ . Deadline June 30.

The research project “Socialist Medicine: an Alternative Global Health History”, funded by the ERC Starting Grant SOCMED, invites us to rethink the emergence of global health in the 20th century. The project aims to broaden the scope of global health history by redirecting the focus of research in terms of place, people, and institutions to the socialist world: political ideology, expert networks, economic development, aid, and military interventions connected a fluctuating constellation of socialist countries in Eastern Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.

The workshop takes as a starting point the exploration of existing and perceived material and financial shortages and shortcomings in technological and scientific expertise. It examines how these challenges were addressed through concepts of aid, solidarity, collaboration and exchange in shaping global health structures. Held at Harnack-Haus in Berlin, the workshop invites historians and social scientists to present works that investigate local and global experiences touching these themes.

The West perceived the socialist world through tropes of shortage: of basic necessities, consumer products, and provisions for health. Shortage became a cornerstone of Cold War rhetoric, contrasted with the abundance of the West’s market economy and healthcare. Shortages were, of course, a reality that permeated everyday life, scientific research and medical practice in state socialist countries, sometimes paired with planned or accidental abundance in expertise and medical goods. Local and regional shortages often nested in global scarcity of new vaccines or antibiotics, in which the interests of East and West aligned and clashed. Decolonising states with their contested status in the international health system, and facing grave material, administrative and personnel shortages, became promising targets of aid from both sides.

Socialist countries, themselves recipients of international aid and perceived as in need of development, created a parallel network of aid for the expression of socialist solidarity and material gain through direct interventions into “Third World” countries, and through interactions with the Non-Aligned movement.

We particularly welcome papers that address the following questions through the lens of shortages and solidarity:

• How much do health practices and ideas of the socialist world differ from conceptions of modernity and development as imagined in the West?
• In what ways did colonial and racial ideas and practices permeate Second-Third World aid and assistance in health and medicine?
• How did socialist states integrate their dual status as both recipients and providers of aid into their engagement with global health policies?
• What kinds of medical technologies and technical knowledge were conceived, produced and circulated, adapting to shortages and aid needs?
• What kind of actors and institutions were involved in giving and how they navigated the tensions of material shortages from the perspective of donors and recipient countries?

Participants will be invited to pre-circulate their paper among workshop members in late September. We aim to submit the discussed papers as part of a special issue to a major academic journal. We will be able to contribute to travel costs and accommodation, and to cover full expenses for early career researchers.

To apply, please send your title, abstract of 300–500 words, and CV to alila.brossard.antonielli@hu-berlin.de by June 30.

Organisers:

Dora Vargha (University of Exeter/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Luis Aue (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Alila Brossard Antonielli (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Cermes3)

Fatima Elfitouri (King’s College London)

Inessa Medzhibovskaya (ed.) Tolstoy as Philosopher. Essential Short Writings: An Anthology

Inessa Medzhibovskaya (ed.) Tolstoy as Philosopher. Essential Short Writings: An Anthology. Brookline: Academic Studies Press 2022. 

Beginning with Tolstoy’s first extant records of his written œuvre, this anthology assembles seventy-seven unabridged texts that cover more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910. It constitutes the most complete single-volume edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy’s philosophical output: apothegmatic sayings, visions, intimate sketchbook and day notes, book reviews, open letters, dialogues, pedagogic talks, public lectures, programs and rules for personal behavior, fictions, and reminiscences. Most of these newly translated and thoroughly annotated texts have never been available in English. Among the four reprinted translations personally checked and authorized by Tolstoy is the text titled “Tolstoy on Venezuela,” an archival restoration of an authentic first publication in English of “Patriotism, or Peace?” (1896) that had been deemed lost. In the inaugural piece, a seven-year-old Tolstoy describes violent but natural animal life in contrast with the lazy life of a peaceful barnyard in the countryside. The last entry in the anthology written by an eighty-year-old Tolstoy for his grandchildren provides a lesson on vegetarianism and non-violence that a hungry wolf teaches a hungry boy during their conversation when both are on their way to lunch.

It was the insolvable, the “scandalous,” problems of philosophy that never gave Tolstoy any rest: freedom of the will, religious tolerance, gender inequality, the tonal shape of music, the value of healthy life habits, the responsibilities of teaching, forms of social protest, cognitive development, science in society, the relation between body and mind, charity and labor, human dignity and public service, sexual psychology, national war doctrines, suicide, individual sacrifice, the purposes of making art. And always: What are the sources of violence? Why should we engage in politics? Why do we need governments? How can one practice non-violence? What is the meaning of our irrepressible desire to seek and find meaning? Why can't we live without loving? The typeset proofs of his final insights were brought to Tolstoy for approval when he was already on his deathbed. The reader will find all the texts in the exact shape and order of completion as Tolstoy left them. No matter their brevity or the occasion on which they were written, these works exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive and intellectually absorbing thinker.

Inessa Medzhibovskaya holds tenure in Liberal and Literary Studies at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. Her eight published books include the first definitive biography of Tolstoy’s religious and philosophical evolution, several archival studies of his art and thought, and a book-length entry on Tolstoy with Oxford Bibliographies. A history of Tolstoy’s afterlife is upcoming with Princeton.

Hybrid conference: The Sputnik Factor. Scientific and Technological Global Competition, Collaboration and Circulation of Knowledge in the post-Sputnik years

Hybrid conference: The Sputnik Factor. Scientific and Technological  Global Competition, Collaboration and Circulation of Knowledge in the post-Sputnik years. May 18-20, Barcelona and zoom 

On 4 October 1957 the Soviets launched the first unmanned satellite, the Sputnik I. As Walter A. McDougall has argued, the Sputnik I was a turning point in the history of the USA. A reluctant Eisenhower first and an enthusiast Kennedy later promoted a stronger integration between basic scientific research and military oriented research. Basic research was lavishly funded and oriented by the central government. At the same time collaboration with the Soviets was resumed and one year later the Lacy-Zarubin agreement was signed. Both emotional and rational factors played a part. In early 1960s most US economists were persuaded that given the current rate of growth of the two countries sooner or later Soviet economy would overcome that of the USA. In 1961, Paul Samuelson even foresaw that given the current growth pace of the two countries in a period between 23 and 36 years Soviet economy would overtake that of the USA . In 1963, in his famous ‘white heat speech’ Harold Wilson declared that Britain had to copy the Soviet kind of integration between science and industry. Even if the West maintained a global scientific and technological superiority over USSR, the Soviets were competitive on certain crucial sectors, such as tank production and space technology.  The perspective that Soviet science and technology could compete with that of the West had also a global impact in the competition between the two super-powers in Africa and Asia.

 This workshop aims to explore the impact of the “Sputnik shock” in Eastern Europe, in the West, in the confrontation between the two blocs in the developing countries and in the making of the International and Inter-European scientific organization and collaborative project. Indeed, between 1954 and 1964, the CERN, EURATOM, the European Space Research Organization (ESRO), the European Space Research Vehicle Launcher Development (ELDO) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) were founded. A number of other intra-European scientific networks were envisaged, but did not see the light, such as a NATO project for a European MIT.

In same cases this impact was direct, in other cases it was rather indirect. During the Cold War any cultural, political and economic activity in the Western Bloc was in a way conditioned by what happened in the Eastern Bloc, and vice versa: what the Soviets were doing or what it was believed they were doing influenced the decisions taken in the West and vice versa, even if there was no direct causal connection. Michael Gordin's book on the Velikovsky affair is an example of how the Cold War context, the fear that the Soviets could take the lead in scientific research, shaped the debate around Velikovsky, even if the Soviets played no active role at all in the quarrel.

the workshop can be attended either face-to-face at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona

25/27 Ramon Trias Fargas

Mercè Rodoreda building, room 23S05

or via zoom. Those interested in receiving a zoom link may write to daniele.cozzoli@upf.edu<mailto:daniele.cozzoli@upf.edu>

Programme

Thursday 18th of May

 14:30 Welcome and introduction

 15:00 – 15:45 John Krige (Georgiatech and Science Po, Paris)

 “US global collaboration/competition in the scientific and technological Cold War."

 15:45 – 16:30 Angela Romano (University of Bologna) “European or Transatlantic? Competition or cooperation? WEU Assembly’s debates on how to respond to USSR space achievements.”

 16:30 – 16:45 coffee break

 16: 45 – 17: 30 Matteo Gerlini (University of Siena)

 “The European Commission Joint research centre and the quest for its nuclear reactor type between USA and USSR.”

 17: 30 – 18:15 Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester)

“Globalizing Cold War competition through scientific collaboration: the case of SEATO’s science initiatives, 1957-1977”

 18:15 – 19:00 Giulia Bentivoglio (University of Padua) (on line)

 “In search of modernity. The United Kingdom and Italy between technological gap and European integration”

Friday 19th of May

9:00 – 09:45

Roberto Lalli (Polytechnic of Turin)

“The CERN as a model? The establishments of pan-European schemes of cooperation in physics in post-Sputnik Era”

 09:45 – 10:30

Pedro Ruíz (University of Valencia) and Pablo Soler Ferran (Independent scholar, Madrid)

“The Spanish nuclear industry and the trade relationships to ensure the supply of

enriched uranium

10:30 – 11:15

Giuliana Gemelli (University of Bologna) (on line)

“James Killian and the MIT Revolution in the Sixties”

 11:15 – 11:30 coffee break

 11:30 – 12:15

Daniele Cozzoli, (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)

“The National Academy of Science and the Collaboration with USSR from the Lacy-Zarubin Agreement to the détente (1957 - 1979)”

12:15 – 13:00 Slava Gerovitch (Massachussets Institute of Technology)

“We live in a prison”: Informal international contacts of Soviet mathematicians.”

 13: 00 – 14:30 lunch

 14: 30 – 15:15

 Alexei Kojevnikov (University of British Columbia)

“A Little Sputnik That Could”: Poetic Technologies and Historical Future”

 15:15 – 16:00

Doubravka Olsakova (Czech Academy of Science)

Language and Future Shock: Army Dictionaries, Linguistics, and New Technologies in Eastern Europe

16:00 – 16:45 Jan Surman (Czech Academy of Science) and Lukas Becht (University of Vienna)

“Futures after Sputnik: Future Studies in Central Europe and multiple emancipations”

 16:45 – 17:00 coffee break

 17:00- 17:45 Olga Dubrovina (University of Padua)

“Moscow Space Future Forum of 1987: the Soviet space program 30 years after the launch of the first Sputnik.”

17:45 – 18:30 Tatiana Kasperski (Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University, Stockholm) tatiana.kasperski@sh.se<mailto:tatiana.kasperski@sh.se>

“Radioactive Waste Under Capitalism and Socialism: Environmental Consequences of the East-West Technological Competition in the First Decades of the Atomic Age”

Saturday 20th of May

09:00 - 09:45 Laurence Roche Nye (Sorbonne University)

“A capacity to cooperate. The French-Soviet long duration agreement in space sciences and technology. (1966-1992)”

09:45 – 10:30 Paul Josephson (Colby College)

"Circulating Waters:  Cold War Projects in Hydropower, East and West"

 10:30 – 11:15 Mary Augusta Brazelton (University of Cambridge)

“Biomedical research and development in China during the transition to Maoism”

11:15: 11:30 coffee break

11:30 – 12:15 Steffi Marung (Leipzig University)

“After sputnik and after empire: The reconfiguration of international African Studies since the early 1960s”

12:30 – 13:15 Justina Aniceta Turkowska (University of Edinburgh)

“The (re)birth of scientific detail in the age of planetary knowledge: Geoscientific expertise and education in 1960s West Africa in the context of the Cold War.”

Daniela Brádlerová: Milada Paulová – první česká profesorka: Mezi soudobými dějinami a byzantologií [Milada Paulová - first Czech female professor: Between contemporary history and byzantine studies].

Daniela Brádlerová: Milada Paulová – první česká profesorka: Mezi soudobými dějinami a byzantologií [Milada Paulová - first Czech female professor: Between contemporary history and byzantine studies]. Praha: Masarykův  ústav a Archiv AV ČR 2023. ISBN : 978-80-88304-73-9

Kniha je věnována životním osudům a kariéře významné české historičky Milady Paulové (1891–1970), která jako první žena v Československu dosáhla nejvyšších univerzitních gradů a do historické vědy vnesla kontroverzní otázku, zda je možné aplikovat metody historické práce na téma z moderní historie a zároveň jej objektivně vyhodnotit. Paulová byla favorizovanou žačkou historika a slavisty Jaroslava Bidla, profesora obecných dějin se zaměřením na dějiny východní Evropy a Balkánského poloostrova, který  se rozhodl vychovat z ní svou  nástupkyni v čele katedry obecných dějin východní Evropy a Balkánského poloostrova. Milada Paulova tak měla pokračovat v jeho započatém díle spočívajícím ve vědeckém zkoumání dějin východních Slovanů a Byzantské říše, ale nakonec se přiklonila k tématu mapování českého a jihoslovanského protihabsburského odboje za první světové války. Jaroslav Bidlo, zastánce tzv. čisté vědy, byl konfrontován s výraznou politickou a lobbistickou angažovaností své žačky a faktem, že upřednostnila moderní téma a úzkou specializaci. Jejich spor skončil sice neochotným návratem M. Paulové k byzantologii, v níž se nakonec stala respektovanou představitelkou, která pro tento obor dokázala získat mezinárodní uznání. Do širšího povědomí se ale M. Paulová vepsala jako elitní historička českého a jihoslovanského protihabsburského odboje, přičemž její Jugoslavenski odbor zůstává dodnes fundamentálním dílem zachycujícím zrod Jugoslávie. V životě M. Paulové se zrcadlí jak proměny politických a společenských poměrů, tak proměny historické vědy (zejména slavistiky a byzantologie) a českého, resp. československého univerzitního života.

Mateusz Hübner: Fundusz Kultury Narodowej Józefa Piłsudskiego. Zamysł i realizacja [Józef Piłsudski National Culture Fund. Intention and Realization].

Mateusz Hübner: Fundusz Kultury Narodowej Józefa Piłsudskiego. Zamysł i realizacja [Józef Piłsudski National Culture Fund. Intention and Realization]. Warszawa: De Republica 2023. 

W literaturze przedmiotu informacje dotyczące zagadnień związanych z Funduszem Kultury Narodowej Józefa Piłsudskiego są rozproszone i fragmentaryczne – monografia autorstwa dr. Mateusza Hübnera to pierwsze kompleksowe ujęcie tego tematu. Publikacja ma układ chronologiczno-problemowy. Praca została podzielona na kilka części (zgodnie z porządkiem chronologicznym), w których opisano zarówno okoliczności poprzedzające powstanie Funduszu, pierwsze lata jego działalności, kierunki pracy w zakresie wspierania twórców kultury i nauki w okresie kryzysu gospodarczego, jak i transformacje organizacyjno-prawne tej instytucji, determinowane zmianami ustrojowymi i politycznymi. Autor podjął również próbę ustalenia dorobku Funduszu Kultury Narodowej oraz wyjaśnienia braku tej instytucji w powojennej polskiej polityce kulturalnej i naukowej.

Academic Career Trajectories in Transition

 Academic Career Trajectories in Transition

ACADEMIC CAREER TRAJECTORIES IN TRANSITION

We invite you to participate in a study conducted by Dr. Aslı Vatansever, research fellow at Bard College Berlin, and Dr. Ieva Puzo, dean and senior researcher at the Faculty of Communication at Riga Stradiņš University, on „Academic Career Trajectories in Transition“ by filling out an anonymous research questionnaire. Filling out the questionnaire (https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/CV2PNFB) will take you approximately 7 to 10 minutes.

The purpose of the research is to explore the currently predominant trends in academic career structure in the European Higher Education Area. It is targeted to early-, mid- and advanced-level PhD-holding researchers, who view academia as their main area of work and ideally have experience in higher education-level teaching and scientific research. The benefit of the study will be to provide insights into the sectoral trends. There are no foreseeable risks to the research subjects.

You will be asked a series of questions about your career stage, employment status and work history. Participation in the study is voluntary. You have the right to refuse to fill out the questionnaire, and your refusal will not cause any unwanted consequences. The questionnaire is anonymous. It will not be possible to identify you based on the information provided in the questionnaire. The data will only be used in aggregated form for the pruposes of this specific study. For any further questions, you can contact a.vatansever@berlin.bard.edu and ieva.puzo@rsu.lv.

URL: https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/CV2PNFB

Urszula Bończuk-Dawidziuk, Jarosław Suleja (eds.): Drukarnia akademicka we Wrocławiu 1726-1804 / University printing house in Wrocław 1726-1804.

Urszula Bończuk-Dawidziuk, Jarosław Suleja (eds.): Drukarnia akademicka we Wrocławiu 1726-1804 / University printing house in Wrocław 1726-1804. Wroclaw: ATUT 2022. ISBN: 978-83-7977-750-1

Książka poświęcona drukarni działającej przy uniwersytecie we Wrocławiu w czasach określanych potocznie mianem jezuickich, w nawiązaniu do nazwy zakonu, który był założycielem i pierwszym właścicielem drukarni.

Opracowanie przynosi teksty wprowadzające do tematu działalności jezuitów na Śląsku, ich materialnego i niematerialnego dziedzictwa, a także charakterystykę drukarni. Główną część książki stanowi katalog druków, które ukazały się w drukarni akademickiej we Wrocławiu w latach 1726–1804.

hps.cesee Article alert

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Bikbov, Alexander, et Daria Petushkova. « La matrice d’une révolution intellectuelle : le marché des traductions en sciences humaines et sociales en Russie après 1990 », Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, vol. 246-247, no. 1-2, 2023, pp. 66-93.

Martin Rohde: Wissenstopografien des Grenzraums. Die ruthenisch-ukrainisch bewohnten Ostkarpaten im Visier von ,frontier‘-Wissenschaften des langen 19. Jahrhunderts. In: Raum- und Grenzkonzeptionen in der Erforschung europäischer Regionen, ed. by Lina Schröder, Markus Wegewitz, and Christine Gundermann.  Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde 2023.

Bikbov, Alexander. « « Une péripétie du gouvernement » : la sociologie soviétique entre incitation et répression », Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, vol. 243-244, no. 3-4, 2022, pp. 46-61.

Sapiro, Gisèle. « Du rôle de l’Association internationale de sociologie dans l’institutionnalisation et la structuration de la discipline », Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, vol. 246-247, no. 1-2, 2023, pp. 94-117.

Tamás Turán: Ignaz Goldziher as a Jewish Orientalist. Traditional Learning, Critical Scholarship, and Personal Piety.

Tamás Turán: Ignaz Goldziher as a Jewish Orientalist. Traditional Learning, Critical Scholarship, and Personal Piety. De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110741285 .

About this book

Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921), one of the founders of modern Arabic and Islamic studies, was a Hungarian Jew and a Professor at the University of Budapest. A wunderkind who mastered Hebrew, Latin, Greek, Turkish, Persian, and Arabic as a teenager, his works reached international acclaim long before he was appointed professor in his native country. From his initial vision of Jewish religious modernization via the science of religion, his academic interests gradually shifted to Arabic-Islamic themes. Yet his early Jewish program remained encoded in his new scholarly pursuits. Islamic studies was a refuge for him from his grievances with the Jewish establishment; from local academic and social irritations he found comfort in his international network of colleagues. This intellectual and academic transformation is explored in the book in three dimensions – scholarship on religion, in religion (Judaism and Islam), and as religion – utilizing his diaries, correspondences and his little-known early Hungarian works.

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Tamás Turán, Eötvös Loránd University and Institute for Minority Studies at the Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.

CROATIA LIBORI SUMMER SCHOOL 2023 Women Philosophers and Scientists on Psychology, Mind, and Body Awareness

CROATIA LIBORI SUMMER SCHOOL 2023

Women Philosophers and Scientists on Psychology, Mind, and Body Awareness

Zagreb, 19–22 June 2023

URL: https://cizuf.ifzg.hr/croatia-libori-summer-school-2023/

Long before the advent of psychology proper, psychologic issues were essential concerns of women philosophers. Beginning with authors of the 17th century, this summer school will retrace the development of ideas concerning mind, emotions, introspection, psychic causality, moral principles of psychology, identity, and the awareness and description of the body. Culminating in the early 20th century, we will address and discuss perspectives that preserve the philosophical heritage of psychology vis-à-vis the development of clinical psychology and physiology. Since Descartes, the importance of the continued effort to connect questions about body and mind remains as a central philosophical concern. We are inviting contributions dealing with women thinkers in the context of the history of psychology, psychological philosophy, theory of emotions and values, and ethical questions related to psychology ranging from 17th to early 20th century.

The Libori Summer School is co-organized by the Research Centre for Women in Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy in Zagreb and the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn University.

Organizing Committee:

Dr. sc. Luka Boršić, Institute of Philosophy

Prof. dr. Ruth Hagenbruger, Paderborn University

Dr. Jil Muller, Paderborn University

Dr. sc. Ivana Skuhala Karasman, Institute of Philosophy

Dorota Babilas (ed.) Honouring the Past and Celebrating the Present. One Hundred Years of English Studies at the University of Warsaw 1923–2023.

 Dorota Babilas (ed.) Honouring the Past and Celebrating the Present. One Hundred Years of English Studies at the University of Warsaw 1923–2023. Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 2023. ISBN/ISSN: 978-83-235-6120-0 (open access)

Published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, this book documents the academic and institutional development of the discipline and its academic seat. It pays tribute to scholars whose contribution made this development possible, and showcases research areas currently explored by academics employed at the Institute of English Studies.

Keywords: English Studies, English Philology, Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw.

URL: https://www.wuw.pl/product-pol-18081-Honouring-the-Past-and-Celebrating-the-Present-One-Hundred-Years-of-English-Studies-at-the-University-of-Warsaw-1923-2023-EBOOK.html