Call for papers: Anatomy of a Suffering Soul: Between Healing and Disciplining

Call for papers: Anatomy of a Suffering Soul: Between Healing and Disciplining. The Formation of Psychiatry in Europe from the 18th until Early 20th Century (app. 1750–1920)

Call for contributions for a workshop conference in Prague, organized in collaboration between Charles University in Prague and the Prague Branch of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw that will take place from May 29th to 31st, 2024.

leidende.seelen.prag2024@gmail.com

Deadline December 31, 2023.

URL: https://www.dhi.waw.pl/en/news/detail/cfp-die-entstehung-der-psychiatrie-in-mittel-und-osteuropa-vom-18-bis-zum-beginn-des-20-jahrhunderts/ .

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Die Anatomie der leidenden Seele

Die Entstehung der Psychiatrie in Mittel- und Osteuropa vom 18. bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts (ca. 1750–1920)

Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für eine Werkstatt-Konferenz in Prag, die in Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Karlsuniversität Prag und der Prager Außenstelle des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Warschau vom 29. bis zum 31. Mai 2024 stattfindet.

leidende.seelen.prag2024@gmail.com

Termin bis 31. Dezember 2023.

Alexej Lochmatow: Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland: Scholarly Battles and the Clash of Virtues, 1945–1956. New York, Milton Park: Routledge 2023

Alexej Lochmatow: Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland: Scholarly Battles and the Clash of Virtues, 1945–1956. New York, Milton Park: Routledge 2023. ISBN 9781032549491

DESCRIPTION

This book explores the public debates among scholars that took place in Early Cold War Poland. The author challenges the traditional narrative on the ‘Sovietisation’ of Central and Eastern European countries and proposes to see this process not as a spread of Marxist ideology or a Soviet institutional model, but as an attempt to force scholars to rapidly adopt new academic and civic virtues.

This book argues that this project failed to succeed in Poland and shows how the struggle against these new virtues united both Marxist and non-Marxist scholars. While covering the arc of Polish scholarly debates, the author invites the reader to go beyond Poland and to use ‘virtues’ as a framework for reflections on both the foundations of scholarly practice and the ‘nature’ of authoritarian regimes with their ambition to teach scholars how to be ‘virtuous.’

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. From the War to the ‘Gentle Revolution’ 2. The Many Faces of the Soviet Union 3. The Teachers of Virtues: The French and the Early Post-War Project 4. The Polish Intelligentsia and an Anti-Authoritarian Vision of Society 5. Between ‘Outdated’ Marxism and ‘Updated’ Catholicism 6. The ‘Failed’ Quest for Unity 7. The School of ‘New Virtues’ 8. ‘1956’ as a ‘Diagnosis’ and ‘Prognosis’. Epilogue: The Concept of Virtues as a Lens.

AUTHOR(S)

BIOGRAPHY

Alexej Lochmatow is a Walter Benjamin Research Fellow at the University of Erfurt. He got his PhD from the University of Cologne and the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research interest lies in the history of science and humanities, public knowledge, and intelligence research.

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Eighth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education (ICHME-8),

CALL FOR PAPERS for "The Eighth International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education" (ICHME-8), which will be held in Warsaw on September 16-20, 2024. The local organizer of the conference is the L. & A. Birkenmajer Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences. (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1njqYOL2h4tjgpW0oJyYaZbI38heTm_vN/view?usp=sharing .)

The thematic scope of ICHME-8 includes, among others:

• Methodology of the research in the History of Mathematics Education

• Transmission and reception of new educational ideas in Mathematics Education

• The History of Mathematics Education and the History of Mathematics: Connections and mutual influences

• Actors and Contributors in Mathematics Education

• Development of Mathematics Education in specific countries

• Development and changes in mathematical content within a curriculum and in the form of its presentation

• Mathematics Education of groups historically underserved in education

• Mathematics teacher education

• Mathematics textbooks and other educational resources

• Reforms in Mathematics Education

There will be three forms of active participation in the conference: long presentation (40 min.), short presentations (20 min.) and posters.

Submissions containing title of the presentation and abstract with selected bibliography (in English) should be sent as a Microsoft Word document to the following e-mail address: ichme8@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2024.

The review process will determine in which activity a given submission will be presented.

The First Announcement with detailed information can be found below and at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1njqYOL2h4tjgpW0oJyYaZbI38heTm_vN/view?usp=sharing. 

2024 Trevor Levere Prize (Annals of Science)

 Competition for the 2024 Trevor Levere Prize (Annals of Science) is now open. This prize is awarded annually to the author of an original, unpublished essay in the history of science, technology, or medicine, which is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The prize, which is supported by Taylor & Francis, is intended for those who are currently doctoral students, or have been awarded their doctorate within the past four years. The winning essay is published in the Journal, and the author awarded US$1000 and a free subscription to the Annals of Science. For details see:https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tasc20/collections/best-paper-prize-annals-science#:~:text=This%20prize%20is%20awarded%20annually,under%20consideration%20for%20publication%20elsewhere.

Please send submissions to: Mordechai Feingold (feingold@caltech.edu<mailto:feingold@caltech.edu>)

Deadline for applications: 15 February 2024.

New Journal Webpage of DĚJINY VĚD A TECHNIKY (HISTORY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY)

 New Journal Webpage of DĚJINY VĚD A TECHNIKY (HISTORY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY)

DĚJINY VĚD A TECHNIKY (HISTORY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY) IS SCIENTIFIC PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL FOCUSED ON THE HISTORY OF NATURAL AND EXACT SCIENCES, TECHNOLOGY AND RELATED SCIENCES.

URL: https://dvt-journal.cz/en/ .

The journal was founded in 1968 and is published quarterly by the Society for the History of Sciences and Technology (Prague, founded 1965) with support of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. It is the main journal in this area in the Czech Republic. The journal accepts contributions in Czech and in English. The journal is regularly indexed in important scientific databases, such as ERIH PLUS, CEJSH, or EBSCO.

Archive

Jeske, Martin. Ein Imperium wird vermessen: Kartographie, Kulturtransfer und Raumerschließung im Zarenreich (1797–1919),

Jeske, Martin. Ein Imperium wird vermessen: Kartographie, Kulturtransfer und Raumerschließung im Zarenreich (1797–1919), Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110731620 (open access)

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Maps are instruments for measuring the world. The spatial images they produce document historical developments in all their continuity and dynamism. They reflect the permanence of natural conditions as well as the shifting of power relations and borders. It is especially in times of war that spaces are remeasured and maps are redrawn to be used for public information.

This book is about the surveying and mapping cartography of the Tsarist Empire in the nineteenth century and thus contributes to comparative empire history. The topographical and cartographic development of the largest country on earth is understood as an aspect of Russia's territorialisation and examined in terms of the significance of cultural transfers from Western Europe. The topographical map as a time-bound representation of geographical space is understood as a special form of imperial self-description. The study examines which institutions and with which motives were involved in the surveying and cartographic development of the Tsarist empire, which regions came into the surveyors’ focus, which "language" the cartographers used in the representation of the surveyed space and which role was played by foreign models. The analysis concludes that the tsarist government ultimately did not succeed in creating a comprehensive topographic map of the entire empire based on survey data because their main interest lay in securing Russia's peripheries.

interdisziplinärer Ansatz: Imperien-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte

Karten als historische Quelle

Archivmaterial aus Russland und Estland

AUTHOR / EDITOR INFORMATION

Martin Jeske, Historian, Berlin State Library, Germany.