journal PALLADIUM • ПАЛЛАДИУМ • ΠΑΛΛAΔΙΟΝ

 The new issue of journal PALLADIUM • ПАЛЛАДИУМ • ΠΑΛΛAΔΙΟΝ - Brīvās Universitātes Žurnāls/ Журнал Свободного университета / Free University Journal is online (in Russian), incl. a section on universities and war. 

URL: https://assets.pubpub.org/q4jtnxnw/palladium-7-site-51698269249165.pdf 

Content 

7 Philipp Christoph Schmädeke Introduction 

Philology and Criticism of Language 

10 Sergey Zenkin Philology before the military challenge

 20 Gasan Guseinov Philology and War 

Anti-corruption activism: new challenges, risks and opportunities 

33 Alyona Vandysheva Anti-Corruption Activism in Russia: New Challenges, Risks and Opportunities 

40 Ilya Shumanov The Russian Illicit Financial Flows after the start of the War 

The breakdown of universities and possibilities for the university unionization 

48 Ksenia Luchenko How Russian universities were destroyed 

57 Danila Raskov, Denis Skopin The fate of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of SPbSU before and after February 24, 2022 

67 Dmitry Dubrovsky The Higher School of Economics — the story of rise and fall 

79 Dmitry Dubrovsky How Russian science survives and develops in exile 

87 Andronik Arutyunov What’s rotten in the state of Denmark? 

93 Pavel Kudyukin Trade unions and universities in Russia 

Historical Studies and the Psychological Crisis 

119 Leonid Gozman Psychological status of modern Russia 

127 Evgeny N. Historical Studies and Academia in Russia after February 2022: Conditions, Trends, Future

Science in the Unlawful state 

145 Elena Lukyanova On the role and current state of legal education and constitutional-legal science under the authoritarian rule 

163 Kirill Fokin The Current State of Political Science in Russia: Research in the Sphere of International Relations 

170 Andrei Zayakin From the stolen science to the search of the roots of pseudoscience 

What’s happening to the culture 

181 Jan Levchenko Welcome to Zombieland: Russian Cinema of the New War 

192 Nina Agisheva How the war changed the Russian theater 

205 Olga Roginskaya Theories of Performativity and Theatricality: Reactualization in Contemporary Art Practices and Spaces of Everyday Life 

214 Katya Kapovich Chronicles of this war 

University life 

256 Elena Lukyanova Free University Chronicles. Part 6 

280 Max Goldstein Human nature as the subject of a new interdisciplinary course 

297 Dilyara Tasbulatova Gasan Guseynov: Thinking precisely

Call for abstracts, Networks of knowledge transmission in times of crises

Call for abstracts, Networks of knowledge transmission in times of crises, Symposium at the 11th ESHS Conference Science, Technology, and the Earth. Barcelona 4-7 Sept. 2024.

The COVID-19 pandemic is the most recent example of a global health crisis that revealed multiple social challenges and demanded cooperation between different domains, such as scientists, governments, policy-makers, science communicators, and the publics. Considering the continuous and growing challenges our societies face and the crucial role of science in the organization of knowledge and the shaping of public policies, our panel aims at studying the networks through which knowledge flows are communicated and exchanged in times of crisis. 

The complex processes that characterize times of crisis highlight the need for understanding the features of knowledge circulation (practices, spaces, materialities) in a context of scientific uncertainty. While research and literature have paid much attention to the networks of knowledge that go beyond the academic sphere, issues of production and circulation of knowledge and processes of validation and credibility within the boundaries of scientific communities remain obscure and understudied. 

The panel aims to investigate how the flows of scientific knowledge are affected by urgency and uncertainty. We would also like to discuss how the conditions created in times of crisis affected the communication between scientists and among scientific and political institutions. To that end, we invite papers exploring these issues in various national, geographical, historical, and cultural contexts. We particularly encourage contributions elucidating the local conditions of knowledge production, as well as the kind of intellectual activity that emerges at the intersection of the local with the global in times of crisis. 

Please send abstracts of 300 words and short bios of 150 words, with name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information to Maria Zarifi (marzarif@soc.uoa.gr) and|or Evangelia Chordaki (ec8612@princeton.edu) by 16 November 2023.

call for papers: Sciences, ideologies, and religions in 20th century Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe

call for papers: Sciences, ideologies, and religions in 20th century Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. June 6-7, 2024, Athens/Greece

The Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (Greece), the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Erfurt (Germany), the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture in Eastern Europe (Leipzig), the Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna (Vienna) and the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic) organize an international conference on the intersections of sciences, ideologies, and religions in the 20th century in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

The aim of the conference is twofold. First, it  aims to study historical cases, in which sciences, ideologies and religions seem to intersect, or in which boundaries were explicitly set. Secondly, from an epistemological perspective, we will investigate the practices and effects of delineation, the “boundary making” (Gieryn). How do making and doing “science”, “ideology”, and “religion” influence one another, how do they change during contact?

Thus, we invite papers  that study boundaries and their making, shifting and acting in historical and epistemological dimensions. We take a strong interest in approaches to  rewrite and redraw connections among different spaces, fields, and temporalities. We are also interested in research highlighting and problematizing the possible interaction and/or co-productions of knowledge among and across communities and epistemes and specific practices or agendas, on which they could emerge or that they brought forth. An explicit theme of the conference is that sciences, ideologies and religions are not only intellectual fields, but that they appear in action, and thus produce and interact with political and gender epistemologies. We especially welcome contributions focusing on how the framework and case studies developed for/by the geographical area of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe can interact with scholarship in subaltern areas and the global South.

We invite paper proposals, including a title and an abstract of max. 300 words, name(s), and affiliation(s) of the author(s), as well as contact information. The presentation time will be 20 minutes, with an additional time of 10 minutes for discussion. The conference's language will be English.

Please submit your proposal via email (ktampakis@eie.gr; friedrich.cain@univie.ac.at) by Monday the 18th of December, 2023. We especially encourage young scholars to apply. Notification  of acceptance will be sent by Monday, the 19th of January, 2024.

The attendance is free of charge. Organizers can cover the costs of travel and accommodation for those without institutional support.

The venue of the conference will be the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens.

(Image: Tesla Radio, (C) Andras Csore)

cfp: Climate Change, Empire and the Legacies of Environmental Determinism

 call for papers: Climate Change, Empire and the Legacies of Environmental Determinism. Munich, 18.03.2024 - 19.03.2024, deadline 08.12.2023

CLIMATE CHANGE, EMPIRE AND THE LEGACIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINISM

We live in a time when concern about human effects on the environment and climate are greater than ever. For much of human history, however, the opposite was true, and environments’ and climates’ effects on people were often the more pressing concern.[1] Environmental or climatic determinism – the idea that people are shaped physically, culturally and even morally – by their environments has a long and often insidious history. Determinist thinking had particular utility in the age of European and global empires in the 19th and 20th centuries, taking on new forms amidst attempts to expand and justify imperial dominance. Everything from ‘energy’ to racial characteristics and from ‘civilisational success’ to the limits of habitability were seen as environmentally and climatically determined.

The historiography has traditionally suggested that imperial forms of environmental determinism peaked in the early 20th century, with the likes of Ellsworth Huntington, Ellen Church Semple and Friedrich Ratzel reaching racist and Eurocentric heights that are still being unravelled by geographers and historians dealing with the dark pasts of their disciplines. Despite an alleged mid-20th century lull, ideas linking climate and ‘civilisation’ never really went away (not least in debates about desertification). Today, these ideas are once again being reconfigured in new and troubling ways, such as in the deterministic language sometimes employed around climate and migration, which risks echoing racist, early 20th-century visions of ‘nomadic hordes’.

In a world where our futures are increasingly understood as entangled with anthropogenic climate change, scholars have recently examined various forms of neodeterminism and ‘climate reductionism’, recognising the need to understand the legacies of the environmentally determinist imperial categories that still shape our geographical and environmental imaginations.[2] With the Anthropocene concept placing human and planetary histories and futures on the same scale, tracing the language of environmental determinism has similarly become imperative.[3]

This workshop aims to contextualise environmentally determinist ideas historically and to examine their reconfigurations in the face of today’s climate crisis. To do so, this workshop will consider, among others, the following questions:

- Why have environmentally determinist ideas been so persistent and pervasive, and how did they serve global empires?

- How did environmentally determinist thinking feature in imperial debates about ‘improvement’ and the appropriation of land, people and resources?

- How, on the other hand, were determinist explanations rejected by some imperial agents who instead sought to manage and manipulate climates through advances in medicine and terraforming and geoengineering schemes (especially to enable settler-colonialism)?

- How are environmentally determinist notions embedded in the related ideas of ‘habitability’, ‘uninhabitability’ and debates about demography and the limits of where on Earth we can live?

- How were environmentally determinist ideas adapted into new understandings of climate change and stability in the 19th and 20th centuries, including at a global scale?

- Beyond its simplicity, why has environmental determinism so often appealed to scholars in explaining historical phenomena, from the fall empires to the movement of peoples, and what disconnections emerge from this?

- How do the imperial legacies of environmental determinism inform thinking about climate change today, for example around ‘climate refugees’ and migration?

While primarily historical in its methodological focus, this conference also welcomes contributions from adjacent disciplines, including the history of science, art history, anthropology, geography, literary studies and environmental humanities. Papers from early career (including graduate) researchers dealing with the theme of empire and environmental determinism from the 19th to 21st centuries (in any part of the world) are welcome in addition to those from established scholars.

The workshop will take place in-person at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect at the LMU Munich, Germany. Accommodation in Munich will be provided and some support for travel may be available. To express your interest in the workshop, please submit a 300-word abstract and a short CV by Friday 8 December 2023.

Organiser: Dr Lachlan Fleetwood (LMU Munich)

Contact: lachlan.fleetwood@lmu.de

Sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and co-funded by the European Commission/Horizon Europe

[1] Alison Bashford and Sarah W. Tracy, ‘Introduction: Modern Airs, Waters, and Places’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 86, no. 4 (2012): 495-514.

[2] Mike Hulme, ‘Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism’, Osiris 26, no. 1 (2011): 245-66.

[3] Georgina Endfield, ‘Reculturing and Particularizing Climate Discourses: Weather, Identity, and the Work of Gordon Manley’, Osiris 26, no. 1 (2011): 142-62.

From Scientific Atheism to the Science of Religion: A documentary film by Valerio Severino

From Scientific Atheism to the Science of Religion: A documentary film on the freedom of research in Central and Eastern Europe over the last decades.

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6IRpf_pBaY .

SOME KIND OF LIBERATING EFFECT?

Are we free to study religion in Central and Eastern Europe today?  20 scholars from 8 countries, across 12 cities and 3 generations, answered the question.  30 years after the era of Scientific Atheism and underground churches, a collection of life-lesson portraits intertwines personal stories with the history of science.  The first-ever film documentary on the Academic Study of Religion. 

 Directed by Valerio Severino  

Produced by CROSS project n. 101032467 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions MSCA / EUROPEAN COMMISSION  Executive producer: Palacký University Olomouc, Department of Sociology, Andragogy and Cultural Anthropology 

 I N T E R V I E W E E S  Milda Ališauskienė Madis Arukask Audrius Beinorius Tomáš Bubík Eugen Ciurtin Liudmyla Fylypovych Maija Grizāne Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska Dorota Hall Mihály Hoppál Oleg Kyselov András Máté-Tóth Tamás Nyirkos Jānis Priede Gergely László Rosta Anita Stasulane Alessandro Testa Lech Trzcionkowski David Václavík Ülo Valk

Call for Applications for doctoral positions at IMPRS „Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities"

The Call for Applications for doctoral positions at IMPRS „Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities" starting on September 1, 2024, is now open!

If you would like to apply for a doctoral position at the IMPRS "Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities," (https://imprs.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/) please read carefully the Call for Applications and the FAQs below.

The Call for Applications can be downloaded by clicking here (https://imprs.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/sites/default/files/inline-files/Call_IMPRS-KIR_24.pdf) for the English version and here (https://imprs.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/sites/default/files/inline-files/Ausschreibung-IMPRS-KIR_24.pdf) for the German version.

The application portal will close on January 15, 2024, 23:59 CET. Only complete applications submitted via the application portal will be accepted. Applications can be submitted in English or German.

Call for abstracts: Science and democratisation processes in East Central Europe and beyond, 11th ESHS Conference, Barcelona 4-7 September 2024

Call for abstracts: Science and democratisation processes in East Central Europe and beyond, Panel at the 11th ESHS Conference, Science, Technology, Humanity, and the Earth, Barcelona 4-7 September 2024 (https://eventum.upf.edu/94068/).

Our panel focuses on an under-researched topic: the relationship between science and democracy. Current literature on the relationship between science and democracy tends to focus on tensions between science and democracy, neglecting both historical experience and epistemological issues. Our aim is to historicize this relationship and to examine the role of science (including access to data, tools, technologies, etc.) in the democratization of society. The panel will focus on Cold War science and the role of different expert cultures before and after perestroika. We are particularly interested in analysing the role of science and scientific communities or individual experts in democratisation processes in East Central Europe. In the context of current discussions on the decolonisation of the history of science, we would like to pay special attention to the role of science in the dissolution of the Soviet empire and, in particular, the Soviet Union. Papers may explore national, international or transnational relations as long as they address the practice turn in science as a multilateral process. We particularly welcome scholars working on relations between science and democracy within a broader theoretical framework, or focusing on similar processes in different parts of the world, such as the Global South or East Asia.

We are particularly interested in papers that focus on the divergences between practices and rhetoric, and that critically interrogate received narratives. Our session is not limited to any geographic region, although we encourage the submission of abstracts on less explored regions. Please send abstracts to Doubravka Olšáková ( olsakova@usd.cas.cz) and Jan Surman (surman@mua.cas.cz) by November 10, 2023.  

CFP: Expertise in medicine and the human sciences during the 20th century in Europe and beyond, Prague 16-18 May 2024

CFP: Expertise in medicine and the human sciences during the 20th century in Europe and beyond, Prague 16-18 May 2024

Expertise shapes modern societies, and the issues of health and normalcy form their core. That is why analyzing the disciplines of medicine and the human sciences – such as psychology, sociology, demography, and pedagogy – is helpful in understanding how modern societies function and change. There has been increasing interest in socialist expertise in recent years, and our research project, ExpertTurn (https://expertturn.hiu.cas.cz/), is part of that growing scholarly community. We focus on the human science expertise in East-Central Europe from comparative and transnational perspectives. We want to broaden our scope spatially and temporally during our conference. Thus, we call for papers analyzing human science expertise that circulated in Europe, whether it originated there or elsewhere, during the short 20th century (approximately from the interwar period to post-socialism, the 1920s-1990s). We encourage papers seeking connections across the borders of disciplines, countries, and time periods. 

 

We are interested in papers focusing on: 

•    Expert-to-expert exchanges. How did various forms of expertise communicate with each other? How did experts form alliances or create new (sub)disciplines? How did the topics they studied change in the process? How did experts communicate across the borders of nations and disciplines? 

•    Expert-to-state exchanges. How did experts communicate with the state? How did expertise forge new policies? How did the position of experts vis-a-vis the state change over time? How did expertise travel between national and supranational levels? How were scientific and policy bodies, such as the United Nations and international professional organizations, involved in creating new expertise? How else did knowledge circulate?  

•    Expert-to-people exchanges. How did expertise inform the everyday practices of people? How did forms of communication evolve? How did people pass their ideas on to experts? Under what circumstances could “lay” people become experts? What roles did non-governmental, grassroots, and unofficial spheres play in creating or changing expertise?  

•    Knowledge from the margins: of disciplines, of a given country, of Europe and beyond 

•    Gender, class, and race in expertise 

 

We invite 300-word abstracts by 15 December 2023 at ExpertTurn conference (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnTdhqeZulfZo9V4ejMZhbyMzg0mZ2hCkUrfPJDyRLZYzQvw/viewform). We envision 15-minute presentations, allowing ample time for discussion. You are welcome to submit a panel of three papers, but please allow us to move presentations to other panels if need be. 

 

We encourage doctoral students and early career researchers to apply. We can offer some support by providing accommodation during the conference. Coffee and snacks during breaks and vegetarian and vegan lunches will be provided for all. We do not charge any conference fee. 

 

The conference is organized by the ExpertTurn team, “Expertise in authoritarian societies. Human sciences in the socialist countries of East-Central Europe,” funded by the Czech Science Foundation EXPRO-Excellence in Basic Research. We are based at the Institute of History at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. Our conference will take place at its representative residence, Villa Lanna.

Serhiy Bilenky: Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine between Empire and Nation, 1772–1914. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 2023.

 Serhiy Bilenky: Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine between Empire and Nation, 1772–1914. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 2023. ISBN 9780228017578

When the powers of Europe were at their prime, present-day Ukraine was divided between the Austrian and Russian empires, each imposing different political, social, and cultural models on its subjects. This inevitably led to great diversity in the lives of its inhabitants, shaping modern Ukraine into the multiethnic country it is today.

Making innovative use of methods of social and cultural history, gender studies, literary theory, and sociology, Laboratory of Modernity explores the history of Ukraine throughout the long nineteenth century and offers a unique study of its pluralistic society, culture, and political scene. Despite being subjected to different and conflicting power models during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Ukraine was not only imagined as a distinct entity with a unique culture and history but was also realized as a set of social and political institutions. The story of modern Ukraine is geopolitically complex, encompassing the historical narratives of several major communities - including ethnic Ukrainians, Poles, Jews, and Russians - who for centuries lived side by side.

The first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Ukraine in English, Laboratory of Modernity traces the historical origins of some of the most pressing issues facing Ukraine and the international community today.

ToC:

Preface: What Can Ukraine Teach Us about the Modern World? | ix

Maps follow page xiv

Part One: Ukraine 1772-1831

1 Between Two Empires | 3

The Age of Enlightened Absolutism and Its Legacy | 3

Dynastic Empires Change Space | 9

The Rise of Bureaucracy | 22

How to Tackle Diversity? | 27

2 From Enlightenment to Romanticism | 38

Ukrainians as Empire Builders | 38

Dr Frankenstein’s Laboratory of Nationalism | 50

Heritage Gatherers, Glory Hunters | 57

Ukraine Begins in the East | 72

Old Regime under Threat: Poles and Decembrists | 81

Part Two: Ukraine 1831-1876

3 The Age of Romantic Nationalism | 91

Another Ukraine, Other “Ukrainians” | 91

Inventing an Ancient and Holy City: The Rise of Kyiv | 99

The Making of One Nationality is the Unmaking of Others | 106

From Serf to Prophet: The Improbable Case of Taras Shevchenko | 115

Was There a Revolution in Ukraine in 1848? | 122

4 The Age of Reforms | 132

Tradition vs. Modernization | 132

Liberal Interlude in Russia: The Reformers | 146

Liberal Interlude in Russia: The Reformed | 155

The Birth of the Intelligentsia from the Spirit of Reform | 164

5 The Empire Strikes Back | 179

Poles Rebel, Act II | 179

“There was not, is not, and cannot be” a Ukrainian Language | 189

Fathers and Sons, Ukrainian Style | 205

From Austria to Austria-Hungary | 217

part three: ukraine 1876-1914

6 Galician Exceptionalism | 227

Ruthenians in Search of a Nation | 227

The Ukrainian Piedmont | 241

From Dawn to Dusk of the New Era | 250

Whose City Was It? Lviv vs. Lwów | 260

7 New Society, Old Empire | 274

Nation of Peasants: Social Mobility and Immobility | 274

The Curse and Blessing of Resources | 285

Was Ukraine Russia’s Colony? | 295

Society at the Crossroads | 308

Live Fast, Die Young: Birth, Death, Family, and Gender | 325

The West is the Best? Oil Boom, Rural Poverty, and Emigration | 342

Imperial Pecking Order: Peoples of Ukraine | 357

8 Politics and Culture between Empire and Nation | 384

The World(s) of Fin-de-Siècle and Beyond | 384

The Dubious Blessing of Illiteracy | 402

When Ukraine Learned to Read: Non-Readers into Readers | 411

Between Theater and Terrorism | 430

“People do not exist for States” | 449

The Un/Solved Ukrainian Dilemmas: Epilogue | 470

Timeline | 489

Notes | 497

Bibliographic Essay | 539

Index | 567

Environmental History of East-Central Europe in journal "Historica", Volume 14, Issue 1/2023

 Open Access Special Issue on the Environmental History of East-Central Europe  by the SCOPUS listed journal "Historica", Volume 14, Issue 1/2023

Link to journal's page: https://historica.osu.eu/current-issue/ .

Special Issue in PDF:  https://dokumenty.osu.cz/ff/journals/historica/2023-1/His_23-1-Full.pdf .     (5,64 MB)

Studia Historiae Scientiarum Vol. 22 (2023), is online

Studia Historiae Scientiarum Vol. 22 (2023), is online (as FirstView Articles), English and Polish (with English abstracts): https://ojs.ejournals.eu/SHS/issue/view/758 .

EDITORIAL

The Evolutionary Transformation of the Journal. Part 10

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.001.17692 Michał Kokowski PDF (Język Polski)

TRANSLATIONS

On Symmetry in Physical Phenomena, Symmetry of an Electric Field and a Magnetic Field

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.002.17693 Pierre Curie; Andrzej Ziółkowski PDF (Język Polski)

FOCAL POINT

Why Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) Is Still Interesting? Nicolaus Copernicus’s 550th Birth Anniversary and 150th Anniversary of the Opening Meeting of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kraków

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.003.17694 Michał Kokowski PDF (Język Polski)

A Critical Comment on T.S. Kuhn’s Views about the So-called Copernican Revolution and Several Current Prejudices – Barriers in Scientific Communities

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.004.17695 Michał Kokowski PDF

Incommensurability Explained in the Terms of Presuppositions. A Comment to Kuhn’s Thesis on Radical Meaning Variance

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.005.17696 Adam Grobler PDF

Thomas Kuhn, Stefan Amsterdamski, and the Cycles of Scientific Development

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.006.17697 Anna Martin-Michalska PDF

SCIENCE IN POLAND

An Update of the Paper, ‘On known and less known relations of Leonhard Euler with Poland’ (DOI: 10.4467/23921749SHS.16.005.6148)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.007.17698 Veronika Girininkaitė, Andreas Kleinert, Roman Sznajder PDF

A new proposal for the periodization of the history of botany in Poland

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.008.17699 Piotr Köhler PDF (Język Polski)

Between Biology and Culture. Polish Reflections on the Concept of Race in the Nineteenth Century

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.009.17700 Joanna Nowak, Katarzyna Wrzesińska PDF

Connections Between the Lvov-Warsaw School and the University in Poznań

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.010.17701 Roman Murawski PDF

Mikhail Ziegler, the First Professor of Metallurgy at Warsaw Polytechnic, and His Contribution for Developing our Knowledge about Steels

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.011.17702 Dmytro Zhurylo, Volodymyr Levchenko PDF

The portraits of foreign institutions supporting scientific and cultural activity on the pages of a yearbook “Science and Letters in Poland” and National Culture Fund

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.012.17703 Mateusz Hübner PDF (Język Polski)

An outline of botanical and mycological research on Babia Góra Mt.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.013.17704 Jerzy B. Parusel, Alina Stachurska-Swakoń PDF (Język Polski)

Activity of the Committee of History of Mathematics at the Main Board of the Polish Mathematical Society in 1997–2000

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.014.17705 Stanisław Domoradzki PDF (Język Polski)

SCIENCE IN A EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL CONTEXT

Ideological, political, and philosophical foundations of science and industrial policy https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.016.17707 Vitocase of “soft chemistry” (sanfte Chemie)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.015.17706  Marcin Krasnodębski PDF (Język Polski)

SCIENCE BEYOND BORDERS

Reductionism Debate in Molecular Biology: Max Delbrück’s Complementarity Approach

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.016.17707 Vito Balorda PDF

The Misrepresentation of Petri Dish, as “petri” Dish, in the Scientific Literature

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.017.17708 Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva PDF

BIBLIOMETRICS, SCIENCE POLICY, SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

Journal evaluation model of the Pracownia Naukoznawstwa IHN PAN: update of journal evaluation rules and journal scoring in the history of science in 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.018.17709 Michał Kokowski PDF (Język Polski)

The completed list of Polish historical journals based on the journal evaluation model developed by the Pracownia Naukoznawstwa IHN PAN

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.019.17710 Dorota Kozłowska PDF (Język Polski)

VARIA

Under the Spell of Distant Landscapes: On the Lives and Work of a Few Famous Hungarian Travellers and Explorers after 1945 – an Introduction to the Topic for English-Speaking Readers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.020.17711 Zsolt András Udvarvölgyi PDF

SCIENTIFIC CHRONICLE

The Activity Report of the PAU Commission on the History of Science in 2022/2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.23.021.17712 Michał Kokowski PDF (Język Polski)

Вікторія Сергієнко (ред.), Михайло Могилянський. Листування з Наталією Полонською-Василенко 1929–1941 [Mykhailo Mohyliansky. Correspondence with Natalia Polonska-Vasylenko 1929-1941]

Вікторія Сергієнко (ред.), Михайло Могилянський. Листування з Наталією Полонською-Василенко 1929–1941 [Mykhailo Mohyliansky. Correspondence with Natalia Polonska-Vasylenko 1929-1941], Харків: «ПРАВА ЛЮДИНИ», 2023.

Знайомство письменника і літературознавця Михайла Могилянського та історикині Наталії ПолонськоїВасиленко відбулося в 1923 році у Києві. Їх об’єднала робота у Комісії для складання Біографічного словника українських діячів Всеукраїнської академії наук, очолюваній Могилянським, та його дружба із чоловіком Полонської-Василенко — колишнім президентом ВУАН, академіком Миколою Василенком, яка поклала початок їхньої власної приязні, що протривала до смерті Могилянського. Збережені Полонською-Василенко листи до неї Могилянського були написані між 1929 — 1941 роками і охоплюють останні роки існування ВУАН та останні роки життя Могилянського, підданого остракізму радянською владою як «бувша людина». Ця книжка є першим науково коментованим виданням усіх 125 листів, що вміщені в Центральному державному архіві-музеї літератури і мистецтва України, а також кількох досі неопублікованих оповідань та есе Могилянського. 

Про упорядницю:

Вікторія Сергієнко, кандидат історичних наук, наукова співробітниця Інституту української археографії та джерелознавства імені Михайла Грушевського НАН України.

CFP: FORCED MIGRATION IN THE XXI CENTURY: CHALLENGES, VALUES, REFLECTIONS, December 1-3, 2023, Augsburg

CFP: FORCED MIGRATION IN THE XXI CENTURY: CHALLENGES, VALUES, REFLECTIONS, December 1-3, 2023, Augsburg

Dear scientists, representatives of authorities, public and cultural activists, volunteers and everyone who is interested

in migration processes!

We invite you to participate in

The International Scientific Symposium

"FORCED MIGRATION IN THE XXI CENTURY: CHALLENGES, VALUES, REFLECTIONS, which will take place on December 1-3, 2023 in Augsburg.

The aim of The Symposium is a multidisciplinary and scientific study of the causes, trends and phenomenon of modern migration, especially that caused by Russia's war against Ukraine.

The application deadline is October 20, 2023.

The selected theses will be published in the symposium proceedings.

The symposium is held with the support of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany. Auswärtiges Amt

The project is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office

Conditions of participation - in the information letter:

In German – https://bit.ly/3rzW7sk

In Ukrainian – https://bit.ly/3RG2JjM

In English –  https://bit.ly/456eqDf

#CivilSocietyCooperation #deuadialog

The 11th biannual conference of the European Society for the History of Science, call for symposia

 The 11th biannual conference of the European Society for the History of Science  will take place in Barcelona at Pompeu Fabra University  on 4-7 September 2024.

The call for symposia proposals is now open.

We welcome proposals for either 90-minute or 120-minute symposia. 90-minute symposia will comprise at least 3 papers, and 120-minute symposia will comprise at most 4 papers (including comments). The organizer will chair the symposium or may propose a chair, who may not be a speaker in the symposium, as well as a commentator, upon request.Organizers may propose up to 4 symposia on the same subject by using the same title for the related symposia ordered by number, e.g., “History of Astrology 1” and “History of Astrology 2”.

The deadline is on 22 November 2023. The call for standalone papers will open only on 23 November 2023.

Proposals must be uploaded in the section proposals submission of the website of the conference. In the menu proposal select submission/my proposals, and then please select the option symposia. The option for uploading symposium proposals will be active between 1 October 2023 and 22 November 2023.

Prospective symposium organizers are invited to issue an open call for participants through the website of the ESHS http://www.eshs.org/calls-for-symposia-participation/ and to disseminate it in social media (by using the #ESHS2024 official hashtag) and mailing lists related to history of science. Any interested participant is invited to visit the same page for the list of open call for symposia participation.

The theme of the ESHS 2024 conference will be Science, technology, humanity, and the Earth. Science is one of the primary means by which mankind understands, represents and intervenes in the world. Humanity is facing challenges that can threaten its future and the future of the planet where it lives. As historians of science, we are committed to understand, inter alia, how epidemics, wars, poverty, inequalities, and climate change are connected. We invite the community of European historians of science to look at the object of their historical research with a view to the great challenges that humanity has been facing both nowadays and throughout its history. The aim is to distance the conference from a specific methodological approach, and to establish a dialogue between different historiographies, perspectives, and topics.

We welcome proposals for symposia on all periods, geographic locations, and areas of specialisation, including but not limited to, the following:

- Ancient texts, new technologies: digital humanities, computational history of science and the craft of the historian

- Between global histories and microhistories of science

- Decolonizing the history of science: children, women, racialised groups, minorities, and other invisible actors

- “We are part of the Earth and the Earth is part of us.” History of science in the age of the Anthropocene

- Science creating the environment

- Human beings and other animals

- Human sciences and subjectivity

- The changing epistemic limits of science throughout history: astrology, phrenology, pseudoscience, post-truth, and so on

- Science and technology in war and peace

- The material, visual, and textual cultures of science

- Global health and social challenges

- The co-construction of knowledge: Science, technology, medicine and its publics

In selecting proposals for the conference, our scientific committee will give preference to to those proposals that address the conference theme in one or more of its different topics.We particularly encourage proposals that foster gender–equality and diversity, including researchers with various institutional affiliations, at diverse stages of their professional careers, with different geographical origins, and from underrepresented groups.Participants may chair more than one symposium and speak or comment in one symposium and chair another. They may, however, present a paper or comment in a symposium only once, unless they are plenary lecturers or prize-winners. Please note that the conference is a face-to-face event.

For enquieries: eshsbarcelona2024@gmail.com

With best wishes,

The ESHS secretary

Vice-President, Inter-Union Commission on the History and Philosophy of Physics (IUPAP - DHST/IUHPST)Roberto Lalli, PhDAssistant Professor (RTDb)Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMEAS), Politecnico di TorinoCorso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, ItalyVisiting Scholar

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

https://mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

István Hargittai, Balazs Hargittai (eds.) Brilliance in Exile: The Diaspora of Hungarian Scientists from John von Neumann to Katalin Karikó.

István Hargittai, Balazs Hargittai (eds.) Brilliance in Exile: The Diaspora of Hungarian Scientists from John von Neumann to Katalin Karikó. Budapest: CEU Press 2023. ISBN: 978-963-386-606-1

By addressing the enigma of the exceptional success of Hungarian emigrant scientists and telling their life stories, Brilliance in Exile combines scholarly analysis with fascinating portrayals of uncommon personalities. István and Balazs Hargittai discuss the conditions that led to five different waves of emigration of scientists from the early twentieth century to the present. Although these exodes were driven by a broad variety of personal motivations, the attraction of an open society with inclusiveness, tolerance, and – needless to say – better circumstances for working and living, was the chief force drawing them abroad.

While emigration from East to West is a general phenomenon, this book explains why and how the emigration of Hungarian scientists is distinctive. The high number of Nobel Prizes among this group is only one indicator. Multicultural tolerance, a quickly emerging, considerably Jewish, urban middle class, and a very effective secondary school system were positive legacies of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Multiple generations, shaped by these conditions, suffered from the increasingly exclusionist, intolerant, antisemitic, and economically stagnating environment, and chose to go elsewhere. “I would rather have roots than wings, but if I cannot have roots, I shall use wings," explained Leo Szilard, one of the fathers of the Atom Bomb.