Deadline extension - PhD position History of 20th century science

 (apologies for cross-posting)

Call for Applications

1 PhD position in the history of science (3 years, fully funded),
Northwestern Italian Philosophy Convention FINO
(https://www.finophd.eu/)

The position is funded by Prof. Roberto Lalli, in relation to his
participation to the multinational collaboration of the ERC AdG Project
Neworld@a: Negotiating World Research Data – A Science Diplomacy Study
(https://neworldata.org/). The location will be the Department of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Polytechnic University of
Turin. A mobility period of six months at the University of Manchester
is planned.

The theme of the PhD research project will be: "The history and politics
of techno-scientific standardization in the international arena”

The PhD student will analyze the negotiations—among scientists,
institutions, and countries—to set standards in physics and chemistry
in the 20th century and the impact of this international
standard-setting process on the processes of establishing word data
centers and the global system of scientific data exchange.

The ideal candidate should:
- have experience with the transnational approach to the historiography
of science and technology
- combine research on the history of physics and/or chemistry in the
20th century with research on the history of international relations
- demonstrate an excellent level of English (written and spoken)
- have discrete reading knowledge of French and German.

The committee will assess candidates' qualifications:
a. Graduation mark (or arithmetic mean of the marks obtained during the
Master’s Degree if the candidate has applied before the attainment of
the second-level degree), Index and abstract of the thesis (max 500
words), extract of the master’s thesis (max 3000 words including
bibliographic references)
b. publications and other scientific titles
c. research project (max 3000 words) drafted by the candidate,
consistent with the research topics of the PhD course
d. two reference letters

NEW deadline for the application is July 28, 12 am CET.
Call in English http://phd.unipv.it/call-39/
Call in Italian http://phd.unipv.it/bando-39/

For receiving more information about the project, please contact:
roberto.lalli@polito.it

All best,
Roberto

Roberto Lalli, PhD
Assistant Professor (RTDb)
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMEAS), Politecnico
di Torino
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, Italy

Visiting Scholar
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
https://mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de [1]

Vice-President, Inter-Union Commission on the History and Philosophy of
Physics (IUPAP - DHST/IUHPST)

Secretary, European Society for the History of Science

CfA: Journalist Fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin)

CfA: Journalist Fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin)

(with usual apologies for cross-posting)

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin is excited to offer journalist residencies in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science in 2024.

This fellowship presents the opportunity for journalists in all forms of media around the world to gain insight into the work of an international research institute. During the fellowship journalists explore current research in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science; network and engage with academic researchers; and carry out a research project on a relevant topic of their choice. Journalists-in-Residence receive an honorarium of €3,000 per month (for up to two months).

Applying to the fellowship

We invite applications from journalists seeking to utilize the history, philosophy, and sociology of science in their reporting, and with a particular interest in exploring the value of these disciplines for public discourse around contemporary social issues. Applications from all formats of journalism (print, audio, video, radio, online, multimedia, data, etc.) are welcomed. The deadline for applying is August 14, 2023.

Further details, including the application portal, can be found on our website: https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/job-position/guest-residencies-journalists-history-philosophy-sociology-science-2024

Best wishes,

Stephanie Hood

Deputy Head of Communications

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Boltzmannstraße 22

14195 Berlin

Lukáš Holeček (ed.) Deníky Václava Tilleho I. [Diaries of Václav Tille, vol. I], Prague 2023.

Lukáš Holeček (ed.) Deníky Václava Tilleho I. [Diaries of Václav Tille, vol. I], Prague: NLN a.s. a Masarykův  ústav a Archiv AV ČR, v.v.i. 2023. ISBN : 978-80-88304-95-1

Václav Tille (1867–1937), profesor srovnávacích dějin literatury na Filozofické fakultě Univerzity Karlovy a významný představitel meziválečné kultury, si během svého života vedl osobní deníky, které dodnes představují pozoruhodný a cenný historický pramen. Dvousvazková edice zpřístupňuje deníky z posledních deseti let autorova života (1927–1937). Deníkové zápisky dávají nahlédnout do životních okolností tohoto vědce, originálně také glosují pestré dění v prostředí české i zahraniční intelektuální elity, kde se prolínají osudy politiků, herců, umělců, vědců i diplomatů. V denících se zrcadlí neobvyklá šíře Tilleho zájmů, kde měla své místo politika, divadlo, literatura, avantgardní umění i tehdejší nová média, rozhlas a film. Osobní deníky této významné osobnosti poskytují subjektivně zaujatý, přesto však jedinečný vhled do zákulisí české společnosti v první polovině 20. století. První svazek zahrnuje komentovanou edici deníků z let 1927–1931.

Soft Sciences and Science Policy, 1952-2022, thematic issue of Střed/Centre 1/2022

Soft Sciences and Science Policy, 1952-2022, thematic issue of Střed/Centre 1/2022, has just appeared (open access: https://kramerius.lib.cas.cz/view/uuid:f7fb7837-90f5-4e19-9c92-a10e9c7dab5e?article=uuid:b8ef50be-aceb-466d-b4b4-55854dbb369b )

VĚDECKÉ STATI | STUDIES

·  Andrei Ilin – Ksenia Belik: „The Grant Systém Was Something“ : Personal Experiences of Grand-Based Funding in the 1990s Russia

·  Antonín Kudláč – Hana Bortlová-Vondráková : I historici jsou jen lidé…Možnosti „biocentrického“ přístupu ke studiu dějin soudobé české historiografie. Evan Historians Are Just People…The Possibilitties of „Biocentric“ Approach to the Study of the History of Comtenporary Czech Historiography

·  Martin Franc : The Social Sciences in the Czechoslovak Acadeny of Sciences in the First Two Decades of Its Existence

DISKUSE | DISCUSSION

MACIEJ GÓRNY –HISTORY AND NUMEROLOGY. POLISH HISTORIOGRAPHY AFTER 1989 AN AN OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE

RECENZE | REVIEWS OF BOOKS

·  MIKULÁŠ ZVÁNOVECI, Der nationale Schullkampf in Bohmen. Schulvereine als Akteure der nationalen Differezierung (1880-1918)   (Tomáš Kasper)

·  WALTER REICHEL,  Selbstbestimmungsrecht im Widerstreit. Von der nationalen Kontroverse zum militarische Kraftemessen. Grenzkonflik zwischen Deutschosterreich und der Tsechoslowakei 1918/1919 (Lukáš Lexa)

·  FELIX JESCHKE, Iron Landscapes. National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia (Ivan Jakubec)

·  MARTIN CROTTY, NEIL J. DIAMANT, MARK EDELE, The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieh Century. A Comparative History  (Václav Šmidrkal)

·  VÁCLAV RAMEŠ, Trh bez přívlastků, nebo ekonomickou demokracii? Spory o mpodobu vlastnické transformace v porevolučním Československu (Eva Schaffler)

·  KRISTEN GHODSEE MITCHELL ORENSTEIN, , Taking Stock of Shock. Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions (Veronika Pehe)

III International Conference, Everything is Changing: Climate, Society, Landscapes, October 5–8, 2023 Yerevan, Armenia

Call for papers: III International Conference, Everything is Changing: Climate, Society, Landscapes, October 5–8, 2023 Yerevan, Armenia

The canonical definition of the era of modernity goes as follows: “All that is solid melts into air.” In the modern epoch, seemingly eternal traditions and institutions, forms of economic life and social organization collapsed under the onslaught of revolutions, industrialization, and secularization. However, in this definition there is one surprisingly stable element – air. For too long, researchers have assumed that nature is a motionless decoration, a passive object that must be conquered or protected. The current planetary environmental crisis demands that we reconsider our conceptualization of “modernity” as an analytical category. Witness, for example, that as the relationship between human civilization and the environment has taken its place at the center of recent scholarly research agendas and public debates, some have abandoned “modernity” altogether in favor of the neologism “Anthropocene.” Simultaneously, environmental studies, previously a separate, and even marginal, field, has become a pervasive theme in the social and natural sciences. The conference Everything is Changing: Climate, Society, Landscapes aims to contribute to efforts to reappraise the relationship between the environment and “modernity.” We plan to discuss how modern human societies conceptualize, use, destroy, and create ecosystems. Likewise, we seek to reflect on how the material conditionality of modern economies, cultures, politics, and social structures shape and are in turn shaped by nature.

Topics for discussion include, but are not limited to, the following:

· Natural and social sciences in the era of the Anthropocene

· Environmental protests and green movements

· Social consequences of natural disasters

· Ecology and war

· Practices of adaptation of indigenous peoples to changing environments

· Urban spaces and loci

· Water-use issues: History, Economy, and Cultural Practices

· Extractivism and the rational use of natural resources

· Terraforming and geoengineering

· (De)sacralization of landscapes

· International Law and Environmental Protection

· Climate change and new waves of migration

The languages of the conference are Armenian, Russian, and English. Please, submit your CV and abstracts (400-500 words) to anthroposchool@utmn.ru. The deadline is August 1, 2023.

The organizers are able to offer a limited number of travel grants covering accommodation. There is no application fee.

Organised by School for Environmental and Social Studies (AnthropoSchool), University of Tyumen ; Center for Science and Technology Studies (STS Center), European University at St. Petersburg; Department of Cultural Anthropology, Institute of Archeology and Ethnography NAS RA

Izabela Wagner (ed.), Zygmunt Bauman: My Life in Fragments. Hoboken: Wiley, 2023.

Izabela Wagner (ed.), Zygmunt Bauman: My Life in Fragments. Hoboken: Wiley, 2023. ISBN: 978-1-509-55130-9

Zygmunt Bauman was one of the great social thinkers of our time: inventor of the idea of liquid modernity, he transformed our way of thinking about the social conditions shaping our lives today.  His own life was shaped by the great social forces that scarred the second half of the twentieth century – war, communism, antisemitism, forced migration.  His work bears the traces of an outsider who knew all too well the enormous impact that social and political forces can have on personal lives.

Bauman never wrote a full biography, but he wrote extended letters to his daughters in which he recounted the details of his life – his childhood and schooling; his experiences during the war and its aftermath; his forced emigration from Poland in 1968 and his subsequent life in exile, first in Israel and then in the UK, where he eventually settled at the University of Leeds.  This book makes available for the first time these fragments of a life recounted, woven into a compelling autobiographical narrative that is laced with the broader reflections of a master thinker on some of the great issues of our time: identity, antisemitism and totalitarianism.

Korrespondierende Wissenschaft. Gelehrtenaustausch als digitale Edition und Verflechtungsgeschichte

 Präsentation und Abschlussveranstaltung des Projekts "Korrespondierende Wissenschaft" am 22.06.2023 am Collegium Carolinum in München. (hybrid)

KORRESPONDIERENDE WISSENSCHAFT. GELEHRTENAUSTAUSCH ALS DIGITALE EDITION UND VERFLECHTUNGSGESCHICHTE

Das Collegium Carolinum, die Monumenta Germaniae Historica und die Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften präsentieren zum Abschluss des Verbundprojekts „Korrespondierende Wissenschaft“ eine Online-Edition ausgewählter Teile der Gelehrtenkorrespondenz ihrer jeweiligen Vorgängerinstitutionen (https://korrwiss.mwn.de/).

Die jeweiligen Vorträge diskutieren, wie sich deutschsprachige Historikerinnen und Historiker im Laufe des 20. Jahrhunderts in ihren Briefwechseln positionierten, wie sie Wissenschaftspolitik betrieben und wie sie sich gegenüber den sich wandelnden staatlichen Rahmenbedingungen verhielten.

Zudem bieten die Veranstalter Einblicke in den technischen und konzeptionellen Aufbau der Darstellung als Korrespondenznetzwerk, das versucht, inhaltliche und personelle Zusammenhänge über die reine Verknüpfung von Briefen hinaus sichtbar zu machen und Brücken zu verwandten Projekten und Datenbanken schlagen will.

Abgeschlossen wird die Veranstaltung durch einen Abendvortrag zum Thema "Die Folgen von Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine für die Digital Humanities".

Veranstaltungsort: Adalbert-Stifter-Saal, Hochstraße 8, 81669 München.

Die Veranstaltung wird ebenfalls online übertragen. Der entsprechende Link findet sich unter:

https://www.collegium-carolinum.de/institut/aktuelles/einzelansicht/workshop-korrespondierende-wissenschaft-gelehrtenaustausch-als-digitale-edition-und-verflechtungsgeschichte

Eine Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich.

Programm

15.00 Uhr: Beginn

Begrüßung

Martin Schulze Wessel: Einleitung zu Projekt und Thema

Teilprojekte der Institutionen: Editionen und gemeinsame Erkenntnisse

Martina Hartmann: Einleitung und Moderation

René Küpper: Die Historiker der »Gesellschaft zur Förderung deutscher Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur in Böhmen«

Arno Mentzel-Reuters: Ein Jahrzehnt »Reichsinstitut für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde (Monumenta Germaniae Historica)« 1935 – 1945: Eine Episode deutscher Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Matthias Berg: Die »Neue Deutsche Biographie« in der frühen Bundesrepublik

Technische Realisierung und weiterführendes Potential der Plattform »Korrespondierende Wissenschaft «

Bernhard Löffler: Einleitung und Moderation

Sebastian Still: Technische Realisierung des Projekts: Konsistente Dateneingabe, Visualisierung, Dynamisches Register

Johannes Gleixner: Zu den Möglichkeiten digitaler Methoden in der Korrespondenzforschung

17.00 Uhr: Abendvortrag in Kooperation mit dem Lehrstuhl für Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas der LMU München

Peter Haslinger: Die Folgen von Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine für die Digital Humanities

Martin Schulze Wessel: Moderation

Ivana Lorencová: Emil Votoček. Praha: Národní technické muzeum, 2022

 Ivana Lorencová: Emil Votoček. Praha: Národní technické muzeum, 2022. ISBN 978-80-7037-345-3

Emil Votoček (1872–1950) byl významnou postavou české chemie, profesorem experimentální anorganické a organické chemie. Stal se jednou z vůdčích osobností České vysoké školy chemické, z jejíhož chemického odboru vznikla v roce 1920 Vysoká škola chemicko technologického inženýrství. Věnoval se především základnímu výzkumu v organické a analytické chemii a ve fytochemii. Zpočátku se zaměřil na problematiku syntetických barviv, později se zabýval především chemií monosacharidů. Podílel se na podobě českého chemického anorganického názvosloví a byl jedním z prvních našich zástupců v Mezinárodní unii pro čistou a užitou chemii (IUPAC). V časopise Chemické listy byl dlouholetým členem redakční rady. Od roku 1929 vychází časopis Collection of the Czechoslovak Chemical Communications, který založil s Jaroslavem Heyrovským. V roce 1939 musel Emil Votoček předčasně odejít do penze a po válce již v pedagogické práci nepokračoval. Nedožil se bohužel vzniku samostatné Vysoké školy chemicko technologické v roce 1952, ani udělení Nobelovy ceny svým žákům – Jaroslavu Heyrovskému v roce 1959 a Vladimiru Prelogovi v roce 1975. Přesto je Vysoká škola chemicko technologická úzce spjata s jeho jménem a hlásí se k jeho odkazu. Emil Votoček byl renesančním člověkem. Vynikal v přírodních vědách i v řadě humanitních oborů. Byl schopen číst, psát i přednášet francouzsky, německy, anglicky, italsky, španělsky, polsky a srbochorvatsky, uměl latinsky. Spojení záliby v přírodních vědách a zájmu o lexikografii, filologii a frazeologii ho vedlo k sepsání několika vícejazyčných slovníků. Od mládí měl zájem o hudbu, hrál na klavír, housle, violoncello, kontrabas, flétnu a klarinet. V dospělosti několik let studoval skladbu na Pražské konzervatoři. Je autorem řady komorních skladeb a desítek písní, sestavil Hudební slovník cizích výrazů a rčení. Votoček byl rovněž společenským člověkem, rád se setkával s představiteli vědeckého, kulturního a politického života, z nichž se mnozí se stali jeho přáteli. I když byl Emil Votoček významným českým chemikem s mezinárodním přesahem, nebyla mu dosud věnována samostatná monografie. Cílem publikace je shrnout zásadní fakta jeho života, připomenout význam jeho odborné činnosti a zasadit jeho osobnost do dobového a celoevropského kontextu. Pozornost je věnována i Votočkovým uměleckým aktivitám. Dosud nepublikované historické fotografie a dokumenty tvoří mozaiku, jejíž jednotlivé díly do sebe organicky zapadají a přibližují nám Votočka jako neobvykle bohatou a strukturovanou osobnost.

Call for papers:THE HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY: CAPTURED IN TIME AND SPACE (Ukrainian)

 Call for papers:THE HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY: CAPTURED IN TIME AND SPACE (Ukrainian)

ІНСТИТУТ УКРАЇНОЗНАВСТВА ім. І. КРИП’ЯКЕВИЧА

НАЦІОНАЛЬНОЇ АКАДЕМІЇ НАУК УКРАЇНИ

НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ ЗАПОВІДНИК “КИЄВО-ПЕЧЕРСЬКА ЛАВРА”

ВГО “СПІЛКА АРХЕОЛОГІВ УКРАЇНИ”

запрошують взяти участь у

X Міжнародній науковій конференції з історії археології

“ІСТОРІЯ АРХЕОЛОГІЇ: СХОПЛЕНЕ У ЧАСІ ТА ПРОСТОРІ”

Формат проведення конференції: змішаний

Місце проведення: Київ-Львів (Україна), offline-online

Термін проведення: 5–6 жовтня 2023 р.

Напрямки роботи конференції:

- візуальна історія археології;

- простір археології та археологія простору в історичній ретроспективі;

- простір та час у професійному, повсякденному й особистому житті інтелектуальних спільнот;

- простір та час в археології за війн та збройних конфліктів;

- просторово-часовий вимір комунікації й мережування у професійних співтовариствах;

- фотофіксація й археологічний малюнок в історичній ретроспективі;

- усно історичні практики в історії археології;

- популяризація й адвокація історії археології в Україні;

- історія археології у політиці пам’яті в Україні та ін.

Формат конференції передбачає участь у секційних засіданнях (регламент повідомлень до 15 хвилин, доповідей до 20 хвилин).

У зв’язку з воєнним станом формат конференції може бути змінено.

Заявки для участі чекаємо до 1 вересня 2023 року включно.

Після конференції учасники матимуть змогу опублікувати матеріали у фаховому виданні «Матеріали й дослідження з археології Прикарпаття й Волині» за умови дотримання принципів й правил редакційної політики (http://www.inst-ukr.lviv.ua/uk/publications/materials/arch/).

Робочі мови конференції – українська, англійська, польська.

Оргкомітет залишає за собою право відбору доповідей і повідомлень.

Проживання і харчування за рахунок сторони, що відряджає.

Заявки та матеріали надсилайте на адресу: archaeological_communication@ukr.net

Workshop on the Sociology and History of the Social and Human Sciences, Graz, November 16-17, 2023

Workshop on the Sociology and History of the Social and Human Sciences, Graz, November 16-17, 2023

Call for Papers

Social and historical studies of the social and human sciences are increasingly becoming a research field of their own. They have today their own journals (e.g. Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines, History of the Human Sciences, Zyklos, Serendipities, History of Social Science), their own book series (e.g. Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences, Sociology Transformed, Klassiker der Sozialwissenschaften), their own research committees in national and international professional associations, their own collective research projects and research groups, and so on. However, it remains a challenge to maintain a dialogue across the various disciplines involved. Little surprisingly, we encounter in the field of socio-historical studies of the social and human sciences the same plurality of theoretical approaches, objects, methodological tools, research practices and national traditions as in these disciplines themselves.

The series of annual workshops on the sociology and history of the social and human sciences (SHSHS) at the University of Graz, Austria, intends to create a space where these different approaches and interests can meet and enter into dialogue with each other. By providing an open forum of exchange for early-career researchers (Master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral students) the workshops aim at building an interdisciplinary and international community of people interested in socio-historical studies of the social and human sciences.

According to these objectives, we are delighted to launch an open call for papers in the area of socio-historical studies of the social and human sciences broadly conceived. Contributions might concern:

- Authors, groups, collectives, populations, networks, institutions, publishing houses, book series, etc.

- Ideas, concepts, words, labels, “isms”, “thought styles”, practices, etc.

- Research methods, methodologies, instruments, tools, technologies, research practices, empirical surveys, archives, etc.

- National traditions and contexts, processes of translation between contexts, transnational and global circulation of knowledge, international, supranational, transnational and global phenomena involving the social and human sciences.

- Disciplines or “knowledge forms”, their emergence, reconfiguration or disappearance, disciplinary “knowledge cultures” or “epistemic cultures”, exchanges between disciplines, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and “postdisciplinarity”.

- The methodology and epistemology of socio-historical studies of the social and human sciences (theoretical approaches, research designs and strategies, methods, types of sources, epistemological presuppositions and/or consequences, etc.).

- Contemporary phenomena and developments in the social and human sciences as well as public uses of social and human science knowledge.

- Present-day impacts of socio-historical studies of the social and human sciences on these disciplines and/or on society in general.

- We welcome and encourage contributions on individuals or groups that have been marginalized, “forgotten” or “written-out” in the social and human sciences (women, racialized persons, researchers from the global south, etc.) as well as on the underlying processes of marginalization (colonialism and imperialism, sexism, racism, classism, etc.).

- Contributions should adopt a historical, sociological, cultural, anthropological, economic, or other social or human science perspective on these various possible subjects.

- We invite contributions from and/or on the whole array of the social and human sciences: sociology, history, psychology, cultural and social anthropology, political science, economics, statistics, demography, philosophy, linguistics, literary studies, philologies, art history, cultural studies, science studies, history and sociology of science, etc.

The SHSHS workshop series continues a decade-long tradition of “Spring Schools” on the History and Sociology of the Social and Cultural Sciences at the University of Graz (for earlier events, see https://doktoratsprogramm-geschichte-soziologie-sozialwissenschaften.uni-graz.at/de/spring-schools/). It also builds on the recent success of a similar workshop series on the history of German-speaking sociology that resulted in the creation of a national research committee within the German Sociological Association (DGS, see https://soziologiegeschichte.wordpress.com/) as well as in a comprehensive handbook on the history and sociology of German-speaking sociology (see bibliography).

Keynote lecture by Gisèle Sapiro (EHESS/CNRS)

This year’s keynote lecture will be delivered by French sociologist Gisèle Sapiro (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris/Centre national de recherche scientifique, https://cessp.cnrs.fr/-SAPIRO-Gisele) on the topic “Social sciences and humanities, between national and international. Socio-historical perspective, the example of sociology” (https://doi.org/10.4000/socio-logos.5888).

Practicalities

- Target group: Early-career researchers (advanced Master’s to postdoctoral level), the main target group being doctoral students. We welcome, among other things, PhD projects, article projects, historical chapters of PhD theses, research proposals, etc.

- Abstract: Please submit an abstract of your paper (max. 500 words) until August 31, 2023 to stephan.moebius@uni-graz.at, martin.strauss@uni-graz.at and sab.list@uni-graz.at. You will receive a notification concerning acceptance until September 15, 2023.

- Working method: In order to enter into dialogue, we ask you to submit a paper (max. 10 p., preferably in English) three weeks in advance of the workshop. This paper will be commented on (5-10 minutes) by one of your peers and/or local experts. Talks should be 20 minutes long and be held in English.

- Participation: The event will be held in physical presence in Graz. In exceptional cases online participation is possible as well (please contact the organizers in this case). The event is planned to start with the keynote lecture in the afternoon of the first day and end in the evening of the second day.

- Travel funds: For participants coming from outside Graz, we can provide to some extent travel funds. Resources being limited we ask you, however, to check whether you can also get financial support from your institution.

Indicative bibliography

Camic, Charles, Neil Gross, and Michèle Lamont, eds. 2011. Social Knowledge in the Making. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press.

Dayé, Christian, and Stephan Moebius, eds. 2015. Soziologiegeschichte. Wege und Ziele. Berlin: Suhrkamp.

Endreß, Martin, and Stephan Moebius, eds. 2014-. Zyklos. Jahrbuch für Theorie und Geschichte der Soziologie. Yearbook. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Fleck, Christian, Johan Heilbron, Marco Santoro, and Gisèle Sapiro, eds. 2018-. Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences. Book Series. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Fleck, Christian, Matthias Duller, and Victor Karády, eds. 2019. Shaping Human Science Disciplines. Institutional Developments in Europe and Beyond. Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Fleck, Christian, and Christian Dayé, eds. 2020. Meilensteine der Soziologie. Frankfurt/Main: Campus.

Heilbron, Johan, Remi Lenoir, and Gisèle Sapiro, eds. 2004. Pour une histoire des sciences sociales. Paris: Fayard.

Moebius, Stephan, and Andrea Ploder, eds. 2017-2019. Handbuch Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Soziologie. 3 vols. Springer Reference Sozialwissenschaften. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Sapiro, Gisèle. 2022. ‘Les sciences humaines et sociales, entre national et international: Perspective socio-historique, l’exemple de la sociologie’. Socio-logos 17 (April). https://doi.org/10.4000/socio-logos.5888.

Sapiro, Gisèle, ed. 2009. L’espace intellectuel en Europe. De la formation des États-nations à la mondialisation XIXe-XXIe siècle. Paris: La Découverte.

Sapiro, Gisèle, Marco Santoro, and Patrick Baert, eds. 2020. Ideas on the Move in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The International Circulation of Paradigms and Theorists. Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Sapiro, Gisèle, Gabriela Valente, Charlène Ménard, and Maria Da Graça J. Setton. 2022. ‘Por uma história transnacional da sociologia: entrevista com Gisèle Sapiro’. Educação e Pesquisa 48. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1678-4634202248002001.

Sapiro, Gisèle, and Quentin Fondu, eds. 2023. ‘Repenser l’internationalisation’. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 246–247 (April).

Turner, Stephen, and John Holmwood, eds. 2014-. Sociology Transformed. Book Series. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Kontakt

martin.strauss@uni-graz.at

stephan.moebius@uni-graz.at

sab.list@uni-graz.at

hybrid event: Jan Arend (Tübingen), "Stress und die Transformation in der Tschechoslowakei/Tschechien 1960-2010"

 Die RECET Lectures in Transformation Studies, die Forschungsplattform "Transformations and Eastern Europe" und der Arbeitsbereich Historische transregionale Studien am Fakultätszentrum für transdisziplinäre historisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Studien der Universität Wien laden ein zum Vortrag

"Stress und die Transformation in der Tschechoslowakei/Tschechien 1960-2010"

von Jan Arend (Tübingen)

Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2023, 18:00 - 19:30 Uhr

Raum: 2R-EG-07 (Hörsaal des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte, Campus der Universität Wien, Hof 3.2, Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Wien)

& zoom: https://forms.gle/9JuciudL5TcsJ3aZ9

Es ist zur allgemeinen Ansicht geworden, dass "Stress" eine Herausforderung für unser aller Lebensführung darstellt. Wie konnte "Stress" - ein lange Zeit ausschließlich in medizinischen und psychologischen Fachkreisen verwendeter Begriff - eine solche Bedeutung erlangen? Anhand des Beispiels der sozialistischen Tschechoslowakei und der postsozialistischen Tschechischen Republik untersucht der Vortrag die Entwicklung von Stress zu einem Gegenstand sozialer Besorgnis und individueller Aufmerksamkeit.

Dr. Jan Arend ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte und Landeskunde der Universität Tübingen. Seine Forschungsgebiete als Osteuropahistoriker umfassen die jüngere russische, tschechische und jüdische Geschichte. Schwerpunkte bilden die Emotionsgeschichte, die Wissens- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, sowie die Geschichte der postsozialistischen Transformation. In seiner Habilitationsschrift (abgeschlossen im Februar 2023) befasst er sich mit der Geschichte von Stress vor dem Hintergrund des Übergangs vom Spät- zum Postsozialismus in der Tschechoslowakei/Tschechien.

Die Veranstaltung wird auch per Zoom übertragen. Um die Zugangsdaten zu erhalten, ist eine vorherige Registrierung unter dem folgenden Link erforderlich: https://forms.gle/9JuciudL5TcsJ3aZ9

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Irena Remestwenski, M.A.

Call for Papers: Nuclear Heritage in East-Central Europe. Potsdam, December 7th-8th 2023, deadline 15.07.2023

Call for Papers: Nuclear Heritage in East-Central Europe. Potsdam, December 7-8, 2023, deadline 15.07.2023

“Hidden in the middle of dark forests [is] a unique depot [with] (d)ozens of nuclear warheads capable... [of destroying] half of Western Europe (…) between the years 1968 and 1990 not one citizen of the former Czechoslovakia was able to enter the site.”

Today the former depot has been renovated and renamed the “Atommuzeum Depot Javor 51”, in the hopes of attracting visitors who will explore the daunting history of the site. Further up north in the Czech Republic former uranium mines were added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites within the Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří mining cultural landscape in 2019. Both examples illustrate an emerging tendency to treat decommissioned or defunct nuclear sites and related industrial and technological complexes as heritage sites. The heritagization trend is not a Czech phenomenon but rather a global one; it has also been ongoing in different parts of East-Central Europe as part of larger political, social and environmental transformations after the end of the Cold War.

Contemporary scholars have termed these processes of re-appropriation, re-use and re-shaping of defunct or decommissioned sites of nuclear production as nuclear cultural heritage (Rindzevičiūtė 2022, 2019). Nuclear heritage sites and landscapes share many commonalities with other post-industrial sites, although the questions of contamination and the "legacy" of pollution have other long-term dimensions and weight (Holtorf and Högberg 2018). With this workshop we would like to contribute to and further develop this emerging field of research by proposing a focus on former nuclear-related facilities in East-Central Europe. This regional focus will help to narrow down the variety of possible research objects which could include both urban and landscape formations as well as institutions and even encompass entire communities inclusive of technological and research institutes, testing grounds, power plants, military or medical facilities, atomic cities and other locales (Rindzevičiūtė, 2019; Wendland, 2015). Focusing on case studies documenting the formation of nuclear cultural heritage sites in East-Central Europe we aim to develop a more coherent empirical base to discuss this newly emerging field and enhance comparisons of heritagization process within the region. We plan to invite contributions employing theoretical, epistemological, and/or methodological perspectives based on the assumptions and developments of critical heritage studies in particular, but with a broad interdisciplinary spectrum including expertise rooted in history, anthropology, sociology or tourism or cultural studies. Potential ideas the workshop will address include, but are not confined to the following broad questions:

- Sites: What are the specific challenges incurred when nuclear heritage is embedded in landscapes, for example former testing grounds, mining areas for uranium, shelters or bunkers? What role does nuclear waste play in this regard? How is nuclear heritage re-interpreted and re-valorized in the context of the recent debates on the Anthropocene, sustainability and energy policies?

- Actors: Who are the actors and stakeholders in cultural heritage production and what practices of dealing with the material legacies of the nuclear past can be observed? Do social movements play a role in the decommissioning of sites and how do they influence the afterlife of defunct nuclear production sites? What role do national or transnational legal constraints play in the process of heritagization?

- Narratives: How is the nuclear past narrated, displayed or staged at the sites? How are stories about technological and scientific progress navigated with their potentially disastrous outcomes? How are themes of nuclear techno-scientific innovation entangled with issues of colonialism, forced industrialization or slave labor? Can nuclear heritage be perceived as a specific form of difficult heritage? Does the emergence of nuclear heritage hold subversive potentials that challenge narratives about the past?

- Practices: What practices of historical meaning-making take place at sites of nuclear heritage? How, for example, does touristification change the formation and circulation of knowledge about the past and what effect does tourism have on the knowledge of the local community on site? How does the tendency towards heritagization of nuclear sites meld or conflict with the assumptions of „new heritage regimes” (Smith 2006) where heritage is shaped by various actors, including bottom-up management by local communities, and indigenous groups.

- Media: How is nuclear cultural heritage represented, recreated and reproduced in the media, social media and popular culture? What roles does the mediatization of the nuclear past and nuclear disasters play in series such as “Chernobyl”, a recent release in 2019 on the international cable channel HBO? How is nuclear cultural heritage mediatized using digital technologies, such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and online platforms?

- Epistemology: Is nuclear heritage always a form of cultural heritage (Rindzevičiūtė 2022, 2019)? How does the process of heritagization at former nuclear sites broaden or challenge established heritage concepts and categories like tangible/intangible, natural/cultural, difficult and unwanted heritage?

Organization:

The workshop will take place in Potsdam, Germany, from December 7th to 8th 2023. We intend to provide travel costs and accommodation for chosen speakers as indicated in the official regulations of the Leibniz Research Alliance “Value of the Past”, which provides financial support for the workshop.

We look forward to receiving abstracts of no more than 350 words along with short biographical notes by 15th July 2023.

Please send abstracts and notes to both Juliane Tomann (juliane.tomann@geschichte.uni-regensburg.de) and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz (m.banaszkiewicz@uj.edu.pl).

Speakers will be notified of their acceptance by September 15th 2023. The workshop is organized in cooperation with the Leibniz-Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) and the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Leibniz Research Museum for Geo-resources.

Victor Petrov: Balkan Cyberia. Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron Curtain.

 Victor Petrov: Balkan Cyberia. Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron Curtain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. ISBN: 9780262545129

How Bulgaria transformed the computer industry behind the Iron Curtain—and the consequences of that transformation for a society that dreamt of a brighter future.

Bulgaria in 1963 was a communist country led by a centralized party trying to navigate a multinational Cold War. The state needed money, and it sought prestige. By cultivating a burgeoning computer industry, Bulgaria achieved both but at great cost to the established order. In Balkan Cyberia, Victor Petrov elevates a deeply researched, local story of ambition into an essential history of global innovation, ideological conflict, and exchange.

Granted tremendous freedom by the Politburo and backed by a concerted state secret intelligence effort, a new, privileged class of technical intellectuals and managers rose to prominence in Bulgaria in the 1960s. Plugged in to transnational business and professional networks, they strove to realize the party's radical dreams of utopian automation, and Bulgaria would come to manufacture up to half of the Eastern Bloc's electronics. Yet, as Petrov shows, the export-oriented nature of the industry also led to the disruption of party rule. Technicians, now thinking with and through computers, began to recast the dominant intellectual discourse within a framework of reform, while technocratic managers translated their newfound political clout into economic power that served them well before and after the revolutions of 1989.

Balkan Cyberia reveals the extension of economic and political networks of influence far past the reputed fall of communism, along with the pivotal role small countries played in geopolitical games at the time. Through the prism of the Bulgarian computer industry, the true nature of the socialist international economy, and indeed the links between capitalism and communism, emerge.

Victor Petrov is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Call for Papers: Why Intelligence? The political and social roots of a scientific object

 Call for Papers: Why Intelligence? The political and social roots of a scientific object

The Chair for the History of the Sciences will host a workshop under the title "Why Intelligence? The political and social roots of a scientific object" on the 22nd and 23rd of February, 2024. Please send proposals until the 31st of July, 2023.

‘In our opinion, intelligence […] is, first of all, a faculty of knowledge (connaissance), which is directed to the outside world.’ With this definition, the pioneer of the experimental study of intelligence, Alfred Binet, promoted his research programme. It was not an abstract philosophical entity but an ability to communicate with the ‘outside world’ that became a new research subject. From the second half of the 19th century, intelligence as a research object gained currency in both natural and social sciences. In the early 20th century, the scientific discourse on intelligence not only dominated the experimental studies on the mental abilities of humans and animals but also significantly influenced the agenda of non-experimental disciplines. Obviously, the discourse on intelligence reflected all the dominant political issues of the time: heredity and social milieu; equality and inequality; class or national affiliation; and many others. The triumph of intelligence in the 20th century made it one of the most popular research subjects in the history of science. Artificial and swarm intelligence, the sociological critique of the ‘I.Q. ideology,’ the racism of intelligence research, and the role of the discourse on intelligence in popular culture have been the central issues in recent scholarship.

Our workshop aims to change the focus of these debates. We intend to discuss not intelligence research itself but the social and political conditions that allowed intelligence to advance to its leading position in the scientific agenda, as well as the constellation of developments in both sciences and humanities that prepared its brilliant career. Our approach is informed by the recent trends in Political Epistemology; we are primarily interested in attempts to use the concept of intelligence for examining political bodies such as nation, race, class, social stratum etc. Therefore, the questions of social and political grouping rather than the traditional perspective of differential psychology will come to the fore in our discussion. Along with the political background of the concurrence (and ‘cooperation’) of intelligence with other concepts such as mind, talents, wit, Geist etc., we intend to study in what ways debates on animal or ‘biological’ intelligence influenced the applicability of this concept to the analysis of collective entities. Additionally, the appearance of the public and sociological discourse on the intelligentsia as the ‘intelligence’ of a nation (which had special relevance in Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe) will represent an essential issue in our agenda. We also greatly welcome papers that thematise the early stages of the development of intelligence as an integral part of the theories of civilisation as well as the discourses on all-human intelligence (e.g., noosphere). When debating these issues, we expect our discussion to go beyond the routinised view of intelligence and to open up a new field in the history of intelligence research.

We kindly invite you to submit your abstract (circa 300 words) as well as a short CV (or a link to your profile website) via email wissenschaftsgeschichte@uni-erfurt.deby July 31, 2023. We particularly welcome contributions that deal with contexts beyond Western Europe and North America.

For any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our organising team: aleksei.lokhmatov@uni-erfurt.de