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Thursday 28 December 2023

Call for Abstracts: The Past and Present of Humanities Peer Review

Special Issue of Minerva - A Review of Science, Learning and Policy

Abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2024

Peer review, i.e. the institutionalized evaluation of scholars and their outputs by others working in the same field, is fundamental to knowledge production and research evaluation in the present-day humanities. However, the origins and development of humanities peer review remain remarkably poorly understood, particularly in comparison to the history of peer review in the natural and social sciences. This special issue aims to bridge this knowledge gap by exploring the historical evolution of peer review in humanities disciplines such as history, theology, philosophy, musicology, and linguistics. It seeks to uncover the diverse forms of humanities peer review that have existed throughout history, extending beyond currently dominant practices of academic peer review. By starting to explore the global historical context of peer review in the humanities and by situating this history alongside the history of scientific peer review, this special issue offers valuable insights for historians and sociologists interested in academic evaluation, quality control, and gatekeeping. Additionally, by revealing the broad spectrum of evaluative practices that have historically been employed within the humanities, it opens up new perspectives that have the potential to inspire the present and future of peer review across the humanities and sciences.

Key topics for articles

We invite scholars to submit proposals for papers that explore the historical development of peer review in the humanities, with a particular focus on the period from the nineteenth century up to the present. We welcome historical and sociological contributions that promise to offer new insights into the historical and/or recent developments of peer review in the humanities, and that help situate current evaluative practices within a broader historical context.

Proposals may explore the social, cultural, political, and epistemological aspects of the recent history of peer review in the humanities. We invite potential contributors to consider topics related to questions such as:

● How have peer review practices in the humanities historically differed from those in the natural and social sciences?

● How have peer review processes in the humanities historically been organized?

● Who were allowed to act as reviewers, and who were excluded from this role?

● How has the organization and practice of the peer review process changed within the humanities?

● What has been the impact of peer review on the production of knowledge in the humanities?

For a more detailed introduction to the special issue and potential topics for articles, please see the full Call for Papers, which can be found here: https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/RestApi/Public/GetFile?Employee=59273&l=EN&id=1808&t=000000.

Submission guidelines

Extended abstracts (max. 1000 words, not including the bibliography) should be submitted by March 15, 2024 to mariegabrielle.verbergt@ugent.be and s.l.tenhagen@uu.nl Authors whose article proposals have been accepted will be asked to submit a preliminary outline of their paper of approximately 3000 words in length. This outline will be discussed during an online workshop scheduled for the summer or fall of 2024. The submission deadline for full papers (6,000-9,000 words) is November 15, 2024.

Contact Information

Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt

Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt is a historian and sociologist working as a doctoral scholar at Ghent University’s Department of History. Her work focuses on the historical and contemporary conditions in which humanities knowledge is produced. She pays particular attention to peer review and selection mechanisms, as well as the changing relationships between the academy, funding organizations, and the state. Her dissertation The Price of History: A History of European Funding for Historical Research (1970-2020) reconstructs how historical research was funded by the European Science Foundation and the European Union.

mariegabrielle.verbergt@ugent.be

Sjang ten Hagen

Sjang ten Hagen is an assistant professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Utrecht University, where he studies the phenomena of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity from historical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives. He is particularly interested in the origins and transformations of disciplines in the natural sciences and humanities, as well as in their mutual interactions. In his research, Sjang has explored the academic genre of book reviewing as an evaluative practice across various disciplines, including history, psychology, and physics.

s.l.tenhagen@uu.nl

CFP: Media and Epidemics: Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health, 20th-21st Centuries

CFP International Conference: Media and Epidemics: Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health, 20th-21st Centuries

CFP International Conference

Media and Epidemics:

Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health,

20th-21st Centuries

Organizers:

Media and Epidemics Project, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest,

in collaboration with the

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester

Bucharest, 30-31 May 2024

Abstracts submission deadline: 31 January 2024

Epidemics provide significant opportunities to reflect on the ways in which media, technology and society are co-constituted. As medical and social phenomena, they tend to be highly mediatized events, although the limits and local inflections of that mediatization are yet to be subjected to sustained critical attention in both historical and contemporary settings. Moreover, as the Covid-19 pandemic has reminded us, outbreaks of infectious diseases represent a veritable test for a country’s underlying socio-economic and political structures. This includes the ability to harness technologies and infrastructures of communication to overcome public health crises, by implementing population surveillance measures, communicating with broader publics, coordinating epidemic responses or devising strategies of preparedness against future outbreaks. By becoming testing grounds for various technologies of epidemic management (e.g., Lynteris 2018), epidemics also accelerate innovation, adaptation and change, while highlighting inequalities of access, legal, ethical and privacy dilemmas, questions of public trust, effective communication of science and (mis)information overload. This is particularly visible in the disproportionate impact of epidemics on groups that suffer from higher degrees of socio-economic marginalization, such as women, who represent the majority of primary caregivers, ethnic minorities and immigrants, who are often targeted as disease carriers, or persons with disabilities, who are frequently excluded from decision-making processes and have limited access to public health information.

This conference seeks to explore, from historical and contemporary, as well as trans-disciplinary and trans-regional perspectives, the role of media and communication technologies in the making and management of epidemic outbreaks since the beginning of the twentieth century. We welcome submissions from across the humanities and social sciences, pertaining to any area of the world, that engage with the following topics, but are not restricted to them:

- The role of state and non-state actors (medical and public health professionals, health advocates and activists, media and international organizations) in epidemic management.

- The relationship between international organizations and media in the context of public health crises.

- The intersections of media and marginalization in epidemic outbreaks, e.g., how socio-economic marginalization (of women, young people, ethnic minorities, immigrants, persons with disabilities) shapes access to media and communication technologies.

- Historical and contemporary strategies for the management of medical (mis)information and the role of media and communication technologies therein.

- Debates about medical professionalization, expertise and trust in a changing media landscape.

- Environmental communication during epidemic outbreaks.

- The transnational and transmedial study of epidemics, media and circuits of communication.

- The language by which diseases are articulated and understood, and the critical interchange between literature and socio-political uncertainties about disease, vaccination and invasions of the mind and body.

Keynote speakers:

Dr Amelia Bonea (University of Manchester) &

Dr Jaehwan Hyun (Pusan National University)

Submission guidelines

Abstracts of max. 250 words, along with a brief biographical note, should be submitted to MEDEPconference@gmail.com by January 31, 2024. We welcome submissions from early career as well as more established scholars based in any area of the world. Limited funding might be available to contribute towards travel expenses, depending on the overall number of applicants and their financial circumstances. For any queries, please contact Dr Irina Nastasă-Matei at the above email address.

The conference is supported through a grant from the Romanian Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CNCS/CCCDI-UEFISCDI (Project no. COFUND-CHANSE-MEDEP, PNCDI III). It is organized as part of the CHANSE-funded project Media and Epidemics: Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health in the 20th and 21st Centuries. More information about the project is available at the following links:

https://mediaepidemics.com/

https://chanse.org/medep/

Kontakt

Dr Irina Nastasă-Matei

MEDEPconference@gmail.com

Wednesday 27 December 2023

Call for papers : Moving beyond the center-periphery dynamics: Central and Eastern Europe from the mid-19th century to the present

April 5-6, 2024 | University of Ottawa, Canada

May 30-31, 2024 | University of Lille, France

The University of Ottawa (Canada) and the University de Lille (France) invite to participate in the conference Moving beyond the center-periphery dynamic: Central and Eastern Europe from the mid-19th century to the present.

This conference will be held on April 5-6, 2024, at the University of Ottawa (Canada), and on May 30-31, 2024, at Université de Lille (France).

All abstracts are due by January 7, 2024.

Since the 18th century, the discourse on modernization—understood as a process aiming to align social organization with the expectations and needs of societies and carrying a promise of emancipation—identifies the Western form of modernity, in its political (democracy) and economic (market capitalism) dimensions, as a model to follow. In the multicultural empires of Central and Eastern Europe, divergences in the paths and rhythms of political, economic, and social modernization engraved in collective imaginaries the idea of a structural delay of these societies compared to the rest of Europe, relegating them to the periphery—or semi-periphery—of the Western world (Ivan T. Berend). Since the works of Larry Wolf and Maria Todorova, this sort of intra-European orientalism has been deconstructed. Nevertheless, the discourse of structural delay in this part of Europe compared to the core of the western world has been influential in the Austrian, Russian, and Ottoman empires and in the countries that succeeded them, from the end of the First World War to today. This discourse justified structural reforms and enabled the rise of social groups interested in and useful for these reforms. It also fueled dissenting discourses and contributed to the production of alternative models, in a relationship of interdependence and exchange with countries situated in the core of the Western world (Claudia Kraft).

This conference aims to examine the experience of Central and Eastern European countries with the modernization process from the late 18th century to the present, beyond the center-periphery dynamics.

The conference will take place in two sessions, one in Ottawa (Canada) and the other in Lille (France). The organizers seek proposals that engage these questions. Proposals may focus on any time period and may draw from any discipline, including but not limited to history, political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, and law. The presentations of 15-20 minutes should fit into at least one of the following themes:

1. Modernization Strategies

It is customary to consider that faced with the challenges of following the Western model of modernization ("double revolution," Eric Hobsbawm) in the same form and at the same pace, countries of Central and Eastern Europe gradually turned towards alternative models, more rooted in the local context. These ranged from the Enlightened absolutism of 18th and 19th century to physiocratic movements, agrarianism, fascism, communism, and illiberal democracies today. Some of these alternative modernization strategies reinforced the power of the State and its authoritarian tendencies at the expense of individual and collective freedoms. Most of them challenge the Western model in terms of its effectiveness, universality, and adaptability to a different context from the one for which it was created.

From this perspective, it would be possible to examine the causes of the emergence of these models, their logics and operational mechanisms, their relationships with the Western model and with other counter-models developed in other spaces located at the periphery of the Western world (Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, etc.), and the factors that facilitated or hindered their adoption.

2. Actors and Spaces of Modernization

The study of the actors involved in the process of modernization, their particular interests, and potential synergies sheds light on their capacity to define the norms of their own existence. It can be approached by examining debates about the advantages and disadvantages of adopting the Western model or even its feasibility, considering the nature of local societies. It can also be explored by studying the ways knowledge and know-how circulated within this region, between this region and the core of the Western world, or other (semi-)peripheral regions—ranging from multicultural empires in the 19th century to global illiberal regimes today, to the Eastern, Western, and Southern blocs during the Cold War era. Another possible way is to examine various arenas where these debates took place: the media, salons, scholarly circles, economic networks, Masonic lodges, corporations, or party universities. From diffusionist models to polycentric phenomena, various interconnected experiences and forms of modernity emerged, constantly influenced by the international context.

Several spaces assume the roles of showcases and laboratories for modernization. In the 19th century, cities like Trieste, Sarajevo, Timisoara, or Lviv played this role for the Habsburg Empire, just as Saint Petersburg or Odessa did for the Romanovs, Thessaloniki for the Ottoman Empire, or Essen for the Hohenzollerns. Between the wars, innovative modernization projects emerged, such as the districts of Red Vienna or the worker city of Baťa in Zlín. Under socialism, these "laboratories of modernity" were embodied by new cities like Stalinvaros, Nowa Huta, Dimitrovgrad, or Stalinstadt. Simultaneously, these spaces of intensive modernization existed alongside areas experiencing chronic developmental delays.

3. The Chronology of Modernization

Another way to study the modernization process is by examining its chronology. It is often claimed that Central and Eastern European countries experienced a delayed modernization, lagging behind the economic and political core of the continent. This modernization accelerated from the 1860s-1870s, prompted by the confrontation with a more developed West, before slowing down between the wars due to unfavorable economic and political factors. It then experienced a new acceleration after 1945, thanks to socialist-style modernization, which itself faced a crisis in the 1970s, before witnessing a new surge since the 1980s, as these countries progressively aligned with capitalism and democracy.

This overall periodization could be subject to debate when considering its rhythms of modernisation of this region, its moments of acceleration and deceleration, discrepancies concerning the adopted models, or the breaks and continuities in the long term, well before the 19th century, and taking into account the political changes, revolutions, and wars that this region has experienced, along with the contexts, scales, and models of modernization deployed.

4. The Impact of Modernization Strategies

What is the impact of the various modernization strategies implemented in Central and Eastern European countries on their social structures and political communities, economies and technological development, and cultural identities? How did these modernization strategies affect social hierarchies and mobility, ethnic and class divisions, relations between urban and rural areas, between the capital and provincial centers, and among regions? Last but not least, what is their legacy today?

Submission Guidelines

Please submit a 250-300 word abstract in French or in English outlining the topic and approach of your work by January 7, 2024, to boris.vinogradov@univ-lille.fr.

The authors of the submissions will be notified of the selections by January 20, 2024, at the latest.

Financial assistance will be available to support panelists’ travel and lodging expenses. Selected papers will be published as a collective volume.

Please reach out to the conference organizers with any questions: Roman Krakovsky (roman.krakovsky@uottawa.ca) and Boris Vinogradov (boris.vinogradov@univ-lille.fr).

This conference is jointly funded by the Chair in Slovak History and Culture of the University of Ottawa, and Chaire d’excellence de l’Université de Lille.

Thursday 21 December 2023

Call for papers: Boris Grinchenko: known and unknown.

Шановні колеги!

запрошуємо Вас взяти участь Міжнародній науковій конференції «Борис Грінченко: знаний і невідомий», присвяченій 160-річному ювілею Великого Українця, яка відбудеться 19 січня 2024 року посвідчення УкрІНТЕІ № 515 від 05 грудня 2023 року

На обговорення виносяться наступні тематичні напрями:

• Родина Бориса Грінченка в історико-культурному дзеркалі.

• Харківщина у житті Б. Грінченка.

• Борис Грінченко у спогадах сучасників та оцінках нащадків.

• Борис Грінченко як політичний і громадський діяч.

• Педагогічні погляди Бориса Грінченка.

• Публіцистика та епістолярна спадщина Бориса Грінченка.

• Етнографічні та фольклористиці праці Бориса Грінченка.

• Борис Грінченко – історик і теоретик літератури й мистецтва.

• Мовознавчі студії Бориса Грінченка.

• Словникарська спадщина Бориса Грінченка.

• Майстерність Бориса Грінченка-перекладача.

• Художня творчість Бориса Грінченка в епоху літературного помежів’я.

• Естетичні, поетикальні новації Бориса Грінченка-прозаїка.

• Поетичні шукання Бориса Грінченка: текст і контекст.

• Драматургія Бориса Грінченка в літературному й театральному контексті.

Для участі у конференції просимо до 15 січня 2024 р. надіслати заявку на електронну адресу: aksjonovanat@ukr.net. Контактний телефон: +380504015805 Наталя Аксьонова.

За результатами конференції можна опублікувати свої наукові доробки у фахових виданнях категорії Б: «Вісник ХНУ імені В.Н. Каразіна. – Сер.: Історія України. Українознавство» (https://periodicals.karazin.ua/uahistory) та «Вісник ХНУ імені В.Н. Каразіна. – Сер.: Філологія» (https://periodicals.karazin.ua/philology). Статті просимо оформлювати за зразком останнього номеру Вісника.

Оргкомітет залишає за собою право відбору доповідей для включення до програми конференції. Усім учасникам будуть видані сертифікати. Офіційні мови конференції: українська, англійська.

Зразок

заявки на участь у Міжнародній науковій конференції «Борис Грінченко: знаний і невідомий»

Прізвище, ім’я, по батькові

Місце роботи (навчання)

Посада

Науковий ступінь, вчене звання (за наявністю)

Тема доповіді

Номер контактного телефону

E-mail

З повагою, ОРГКОМІТЕТ

Харківський національний університет імені В. Н. Каразіна

Філософський факультет

Кафедра українознавства

Філологічний факультет

Кафедра історії української літератури

Центр українських студій та краєзнавства імені академіка П. Т. Тронька

Відділ українських студій імені Д. І. Багалія

Monday 18 December 2023

CFP: Wissenschaft und Aktivismus - Lueneburg 09/2024

Jahrestagung der GWMT 2024 in Lüneburg

Wissenschaft und Aktivismus: Historische Perspektiven und methodologische Herausforderungen der Wissenschafts-, Medizin- und Technikgeschichte

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Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik (GWMT), 21335 Lüneburg (Deutschland)

25.09.2024 - 27.09.2024

Bewerbungsschluss: 31.01.2024

Dass Wissenschaft, Medizin und Technik nicht isoliert von ihren kulturellen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen Kontexten stehen, gehört zu den grundlegenden Einsichten der neueren Wissenschafts-, Medizin- und Technikgeschichte. Die Trias von Wissenschaft, Politik und Öffentlichkeit wurde seit den 1970er Jahren insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund sozialer Bewegungen um „Aktivismus“ als weiteres Element ergänzt: Politische Praktiken, die auf gesellschaftliche Veränderung abzielten, gingen zunehmend mit der Forderung nach Anerkennung und Beteiligung neuer Akteur:innen und deren Wissensformen am hegemonialen wissenschaftlichen, medizinischen und technologischen Diskurs einher. Gleichzeitig ist gesellschaftspolitisches Engagement durch und in Wissenschaft, Medizin und Technik kein neues Phänomen, sondern quer durch die Geschichte hindurch belegt.

Die GWMT lädt dazu ein, während der Jahrestagung 2024 in Lüneburg das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft, Medizin, Technik und Aktivismus in seiner ganzen historischen Breite zu beleuchten und dabei auch das Verhältnis der Wissenschafts-, Medizin- und Technikgeschichte zu aktivistischen Forderungen und Praktiken zu diskutieren.

Zu diesem Zweck muss zunächst eine grundsätzliche Klärung zentraler Begriffe, Diskurse und Sozialfiguren vorgenommen werden: Wer gilt im Bereich der Wissenschaften, Medizin und Technik als „Aktivist“ oder „Aktivistin“? Was ist unter „Aktivismus“ eigentlich zu verstehen, welche verschiedenen Verwendungsweisen lassen sich dabei historisch ausmachen und in welchem Verhältnis steht und stand der Begriff zu dem der Politik bzw. dem des Politischen? Wie verhält sich Aktivismus zu Formen der „Kritik“ oder des „Protests“? Wann und in welchen historischen Konstellationen taucht die Sozialfigur des:r Aktivist:in im affirmativen Sinn als Akteurskategorie auf, und unter welchen Umständen wird der Begriff in pejorativer Absicht verwendet, um das Gegenüber zu diskreditieren und ihm mangelnde Distanz und Objektivität sowie ideologische Verstrickungen vorzuwerfen? Und seit wann kann man überhaupt von „Aktivismus“ in Wissenschaft, Medizin und Technik sprechen? Lässt sich der Begriff fruchtbringend auf diverse historische, auch vormoderne Praktiken politischen Handelns anwenden, die auf gesellschaftliche Veränderung abzielen? Welche Effekte und neue Einsichten ergeben sich daraus, wenn man historische Akteur:innen der Vormoderne als „Aktivist:innen“ versteht?

Ein zentraler Aspekt im Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Aktivismus betrifft die Frage der Beteiligung neuer, häufig lange marginalisierter und/oder gänzlich aus dem wissenschaftlichen, medizinischen oder technischen Diskurs ausgeschlossener Wissensproduzent:innen, zu denen indigene Gemeinschaften und Patient:inneninitiativen ebenso gehören wie (öko)feministische Kollektive oder migrantische Gruppen, um nur einige Beispiele zu nennen. Auf der Jahrestagung sollen die historischen Bedingungen unter denen, sowie die konkreten Mittel, mit denen jene Akteursgruppen um Eingang in den wissenschaftlichen, medizinischen und technischen Diskurs kämpften, diskutiert werden. Von Interesse ist dabei auch die Frage, welche Kritik jene Akteur:innen an den Wissenschaften und ihren Erkenntnisprozessen formulierten und welche Neusortierungen epistemischer Autorität damit einher gingen.

Das Rahmenthema soll zudem Gelegenheit zur Selbstreflexion der gegenwärtigen Wissenschafts-, Medizin- und Technikgeschichtsschreibung bieten. Welche methodischen, theoretischen und historiographischen Herausforderungen und Möglichkeiten ergeben sich durch die Einbeziehung jener neuen Akteursgruppen? Diskutiert werden soll dabei nicht nur, wie sich der Umgang der Wissenschafts-, Medizin- und Technikgeschichte mit Aktivismus und Aktivist:innen darstellt, sondern auch, wie sich unsere Disziplinen zu den seitens der environmental humanities, der gender, postcolonial oder disability studies bereits seit mehreren Jahrzehnten programmatisch formulierten Bekenntnissen zu „engagierter“ und „mission-driven“ Wissenschaft und der dazugehörigen Selbstbeschreibung von Forschenden als „scholar activists“ verhalten.

Erwünscht sind Einzelbeiträge ebenso wie Bewerbungen für ganze Sektionen. Vorträge sollen nicht länger als 20 Minuten dauern. Sektionen bestehen entweder aus vier Vorträgen oder drei Vorträgen mit Kommentar und umfassen inkl. Diskussion 120 Minuten. Um dem kontroversen Thema gerecht zu werden, sind diesmal auch Bewerbungen für „Roundtables“ – Podiumsdiskussionen von max. 5 Teilnehmenden, die schrittweise dem Publikum geöffnet werden – möglich.

Bitte reichen Sie Abstracts von etwa einer halben Seite Länge über unser Einsendeformular auf [www.gwmt.de](http://www.gwmt.de/) ein. Bei Sektionen ist neben den Abstracts der Einzelvorträge eine kurze Einführung in die Sektion einzureichen. Bei gleicher Qualität werden Sektionen, die akademische Generationen überspannen, bevorzugt. Auch Vorschläge für Vorträge und Sektionen, die sich nicht auf das Rahmenthema beziehen, können sehr gerne eingereicht werden.

Bitte reichen Sie Vorschläge bis zum 31.1.2024 über das Online-Einsendeformular auf der Webseite der GWMT ein.

Bitte beachten Sie: Dies ist eine Präsenztagung; Ausnahmen sind ausschließlich zum Zwecke der Barrierefreiheit möglich.

Kontakt: Christina Wessely & Jan Müggenburg, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, [gwmt24@leuphana.de](mailto:gwmt24@leuphana.de)

CfP: "Humanitarian and Development Aid during the Cold War

CfP: "Humanitarian and Development Aid during the Cold War" March 21-22, 2024, Bucharest, ROMANIA Organizer: New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Studies Interested participants should send abstracts of 600 words, in English or French, and short CVs to mia.jinga@gmail.com and dalia.bathory@gmail.com by Friday, February 2nd, 2024. The authors of accepted proposals will be informed by February 9th, 2024. https://rohumaid.wordpress.com/home-2/news/ .

Monday 11 December 2023

Střed | Centre, 2023/1 . Enviromentální dějiny pohraničí, 1890–2021 | Environmental History of the Borderlands, 1890–2021

Střed | Centre, 2023/1

Enviromentální dějiny pohraničí, 1890–2021 | Environmental History of the Borderlands, 1890–2021

URL: https://asjournals.lib.cas.cz/Stred/archiv;pid=uuid:76bcc055-7b64-4a14-b3d2-7e6030e1d032?lang=en .

OBSAH | CONTENTS

VĚDECKÉ STATI | RESEARCH ARTICLES

Stanislav Holubec: Náš Yellowstonský park? Státní ochrana přírody a veřejnost v českých a slezských Krkonoších od konce 19. století do druhé světové války [Our Yellowstone Park? State Nature Protection and the Public in the Bohemian and Silesian Giant Mountains from the late 19th Century to the Second World War]

Eliška Švarná: „Stejně vše zahladí a srovná jednou voda.“ Vodní dílo Lipno a jeho role v budování poválečného československého pohraničí [“Water Will Smooth and Level Everything Anyway”. The Lipno Reservoir and Its Role in Building of the Post-War Czechoslovak Borderlands]

Kateřina Vnoučková: Pollution of the Thaya River as a Cross-Border Problem

RECENZNÍ STAŤ | REVIEW ARTICLE

Milan Scholz: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk a Nová Evropa z italského pohledu [Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and “The New Europe” from an Italian Viewpoint]

RECENZE | BOOK REVIEWS

JOS STÜBNER, Kleinstadt, Klasse und Nation. Stadtkonzepte in Böhmen vor und nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg am Beispiel von Rokycany und Cheb/Eger (Zdeněk Nebřenský)

VOJTĚCH KESSLER, DAVID SMRČEK, Děti křtěné Dunajem. České vzpomínky na meziválečnou Vídeň (Jakub Vrba)

STANISLAV HOLUBEC, Nešťastná revolucionářka. Myšlenkový svět a každodennost Luisy Landové-Štychové (1885–1969) (Jana Malínská)

CHAD BRYANT, Prague: Belonging in the Modern City (Jaroslav Ira)

PAVEL BALOUN, „Metla našeho venkova!“ Kriminalizace Romů od první republiky až po prvotní fázi protektorátu (1918–1941) (Renata Berkyová)

LENKA KRÁTKÁ, PAVEL MÜCKE (eds.), Za hranice služebně. Pracovní cesty z Československa do zahraničí v letech 1945 až 1989 (Ladislav Beneš)

ZPRÁVY A ANOTACE | SHORT REVIEWS AND ANNOTATIONS

Call for papers: Shaping Transformation. University Collections in a Changing World

Call for papers: Shaping Transformation. University Collections in a Changing World. Dresden, 24.09.2024 - 29.09.2024, Deadline 21.01.2024

From September 24th to 29th, 2024, ICOM-UMAC, the International Council of Museums’ Committee for University Museums and Collections, and the European Academic Heritage Network UNIVERSEUM will hold their first joint annual meeting at TUD Dresden University of Technology in Dresden, Germany. The conference, hosted by TUD’s Office of Academic Heritage, Scientific, and Art Collections, will be held on-site, with selected keynotes streamed online. The conference language is English.

In a world undergoing profound processes of transformation, societal, political, and environmental changes are increasingly impacting all areas of human life. For university collections and museums, such developments present both challenges and opportunities. The way academic heritage is perceived and the infrastructures dedicated to its management and care are currently in a state of flux, leading sometimes to decline, sometimes to new life. Looking back, similar developments have affected academic heritage at various points in history, and they are likely to do so in the years to come.

These processes of transformation and transition, their impact on university collections and museums, and how we respond to them both individually and as a community, will be the overarching theme of the 2024 Dresden conference.

SUB-TOPICS

1. University Collections and Museums Addressing Challenge and Transition

Although academic institutions all over the world follow the same core mission in education and research, change affects them in different ways. The same is true for the collections and museums safeguarding academic heritage. External factors such as economic or societal shifts can directly impact their work and outlook, highlighting a state and position that are often precarious. At the same time, internal processes, such as critical research from within the academic community, are increasingly questioning systems of power and knowledge as well as identity and ownership, pushing for a fundamental reassessment of collecting practices and object use. As a result, academic heritage institutions are increasingly faced with a need to question and redefine their roles, both in an institutional context and in wider society.

- How can we embrace these challenges as opportunities for transformation and change?

- How can we harness their potential to actively shape rather than merely passively accept transformation?

- How do challenges and transitions affect the way we approach and (re-)think academic heritage?

2. Activating University Collections for Research and Teaching in Times of Change

Within the unique environment of academic institutions standing at the forefront of knowledge production and higher education, university museums and collections harbor great potential. As custodians of academic heritage, they carry an obligation to actively contribute to their institution’s mission. To fulfill this role, they need to develop and apply innovative approaches to object-based research and teaching. While working with physical objects remains at the core of this task, the digital transformation has opened new ways for collection-oriented work. From digital research infrastructures to AI and beyond, virtual tools present both major possibilities and challenges for object-based teaching and research as well as collection management and outreach.

- How can academic objects and collections be “activated” for current and future research and teaching?

- What skills and strategies are needed for successful object-based teaching and research, especially in times of change?

- How can university collections and museums best address the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities offered by the digital transformation?

3. Academic Heritage Institutions as Places of Exchange and Discourse

Against the backdrop of increasing fragmentation both on an institutional and disciplinary level, spaces that allow for open dialogue and debate beyond these limits are needed now more than ever. They gain particular significance in times of crisis and transition, as they can offer platforms of dialogue, inviting individuals from diverging backgrounds to tackle issues and share ideas. University collections and museums, in their diversity, constitute ideal environments for such encounters. They harbor great potential for building bridges, both within the academic community and beyond. Also, serving as access hubs for broader audiences, they can help strengthen their institutions’ integration into society at large.

- In what ways can university museums and collections facilitate and shape exchange processes?

- How can they serve as hubs of dialogue and debate within the academic sphere?

- How can they enhance the visibility of academic discourse by supporting knowledge transfer and participation among wider and more inclusive audiences?

PAPER AND POSTER PROPOSALS

The organizers invite contributions on all aspects of the conference theme. We welcome proposals for the following formats:

Paper Presentations

Paper presentations may address any aspect of the conference theme and its three sub-topics. Speaking time is strictly limited to 15 minutes. Papers will be grouped into thematic panels with time for joint discussions at the end.

Flash Talks

Flash talks offer participants the opportunity to present projects, topics, and questions related to the conference theme in a concise format. Speaking time is strictly limited to 5 minutes. Flash talks will be grouped into thematic panels, with time for joint discussions at the end.

Posters

A poster session will showcase ongoing projects in the academic heritage community. All topics are welcome. Posters will be exhibited physically and should be printed in A1 portrait format (594mm × 841mm).

Project Speed Dating

This newly launched format offers the opportunity to present new projects or project ideas by individuals or teams looking for partners or collaborations. All topics are welcome.

Speaking time is strictly limited to 5 minutes. Presentations will be grouped together in a panel, followed by time to connect on a one-to-one basis.

Round Tables

Round tables offer the chance to approach key topics in a broader perspective. Short keynotes presented by speakers on stage will serve as points of departure for a joint discussion with the audience. We welcome proposals for keynotes addressing the following topics:

- Collaborative Practices: Cross-encounters between Art and Science in University Collections

- Difficult Heritage: Provenance and Restitution

- Shaping Transformation: Future Perspectives for University Collections and Museums

Speaking time for keynotes is strictly limited to 5 minutes. Each round table will feature 3 to 4 speakers.

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

The conference will be preceded by three pre-conference workshops, to be held on Tuesday, September 24th, 2024, from 1:30 to 5:30 pm.

Workshop 1

Natural Science Objects in Digital Collections: Opportunities and Challenges

Hosted by the Chair of Botany, TUD Dresden University of Technology and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Pietism Research at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in cooperation with the Saxon State and University Library

Natural History objects in collections and their metadata are increasingly being made accessible with the help of digital technologies, so that purely physical collections are becoming part of a powerful and comprehensive knowledge base. In this workshop, we will share experiences of using digitized collections and Linked Data in multidisciplinary approaches. A joint research project will serve as the basis for discussing opportunities and challenges.

Workshop 2

Questioning Collections

Hosted by the Coordination Centre for Scientific University Collections in Germany

The workshop addresses the potential of collections from an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective and poses a wide variety of questions about objects. Drawing on examples from the various collections held at TUD Dresden University of Technology, we will consider materiality, provenance, and use of collections within academic contexts together with collection managers and workshop participants.

Workshop 3

Object-Based Teaching and Learning Today

Hosted by the ERASMUS+ project “Teaching with Objects”

Object-based Teaching and Learning (OBTL) is of key significance for higher education, academic heritage, and university museums and collections worldwide. The ERASMUS+ project “Teaching with Objects,” supported by UNIVERSEUM, invites practitioners, researchers, and curators to share their approaches to OBTL in short presentations. We will discuss the current state of OBTL and its wider role for education and collections.

TRAVEL GRANTS

Both ICOM-UMAC and UNIVERSEUM offer a limited number of travel grants for conference participants.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

What to submit

Proposals for paper presentations, posters, flash talks, project speed dating, and round tables should include:

- a title

- an abstract (max. 250 words)

- a biographical note (max. 50 words)

> 3 to 5 keywords

Applications for the pre-conference workshops should include

- a letter of motivation (workshops 1 and 2) OR an abstract (workshop 3) (max. 500 words)

- a short CV (max. 250 words)

For detailed information, visit:

https://tu-dresden.de/umac-universeum2024/program/workshops

Applications for the travel grants should include

- a letter of motivation (max. 500 words)

- a short CV (max. 250 words)

For detailed information, visit:

https://tu-dresden.de/umac-universeum2024/travel/grants

Where to submit

Submissions and applications will be accepted exclusively via the conference’s online submission portal.

To access the portal, visit:

https://eventclass.it/umac-universeum2024/

DEADLINE

Final deadline for all submissions and applications is

January 21st, 2024.

All paper proposals will be considered by an international program committee.

Successful applicants will be notified by March 15, 2024.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about the conference, visit:

https://tu-dresden.de/umac-universeum2024

CfP: 31st Conference of Junior Scholars in the Field of East European Studies

The Annual Conference of Junior Scholars in East European Studies (JOE) will take place from 4–6 July 2024 in Giessen. The conference aims to bring together scholars from various disciplines with a focus on Eastern Europe namely advanced students, Ph.D. candidates, and young scholars who have already completed their doctoral research. The conference encourages all participants to present and discuss their research projects with other prospective scholars and qualified professionals. The convention provides an overview of current research projects on East Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia in the German-speaking area. It enables interdisciplinary exchange and networking among young scholars.

In addition, proposals for panels consisting of three contributions could be suggested. Contributions can be submitted in German and English languages. Passive knowledge of German language is necessary.

The conference is organized by the German Association for East European Studies (DGO), the Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO) at the University of Bremen, the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), the Giessen Center for Eastern European Studies (GiZo), the Chairs of Eastern European History at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen and the Herder Institute for Historical Researchon

East Central Europe Marburg. The costs for accommodation and catering are

covered by the organizers. Travel expenses will not be refunded.

Suggestions for individual projects:

– An abstract of maximum 400 words which relates to the research question, findings, theoretical approach and method;

– Five key words to summarize the thematic focus;

– Information about the status of the research project and institutional affiliation.

Suggestions for panels:

– Summary of maximum 200 words with the title, topic, and target of the panel;

– Abstracts and information on the individual texts;

– Five key words per abstract to summarize the thematic foci;

– A panel should consist of three speakers and represent at least two different institutions. The moderation is arranged by the organizer.

Please send your abstract(s) by 22 January 2024 to joe-tagung@dgo-online.de

Selection decisions will be communicated by 15 February 2024.

In the case of acceptance to the conference, you have to submit a German or English-language paper (max. 3.000 words) by 25 May 2024. It will be made accessible to the other participants prior to the conference. Unfortunately, projects that have already been presented cannot be considered.

Thursday 7 December 2023

Online seminars of Science of Science Department of the Institute for the history of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

Zapraszamy do wzięcia udziału w łączonych posiedzeniach Pracowni Naukoznawstwa IHN PAN oraz Komisji Historii Nauki PAU w ramach cyklu seminaryjnego „Naukoznawstwo: historia i współczesność”. W grudniu odbędą się jeszcze dwa posiedzenia.

11 XII 2023 od g. 18:00

za pośrednictwem platformy ZOOM

Seminarium poświęcone książce śp. prof. dr. hab. Piotra Hübnera „Encyklopedia polskiej nauki akademickiej”

13 XII 2023 od g. 16:15

za pośrednictwem platformy ZOOM

dr Mateusz Hübner (Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów PAN)

Uczeni wobec biurokratyzacji nauki w II Rzeczypospolitej

Osoby zainteresowane uczestnictwem w spotkaniu proszone są o kontakt mailowy z dr. Mateuszem Hübnerem (mhubner@ihnpan.pl lub mateuszhubner@wp.pl).

hps.cesee job digest

Professor "Early Modern History, c.1500-1800" (European Univ. Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole) https://www.eui.eu/Documents/ServicesAdmin/AcademicService/JobOpportunities/2023/HEC-23-4-Info.pdf .

Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden, has announced an open position of Professor of the History of Ideas, specialising in the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe! https://www.sh.se/english/sodertorn-university/meet-sodertorn-university/this-is-sodertorn-university/vacant-positions .

Call for papers: International friendship within and beyond the Iron Curtain

Call for papers: International friendship within and beyond the Iron Curtain, Ljubljana 18.04.2024 - 19.04.2024, Deadline 20.01.2024

This workshop aims to explore relations among countries both within and beyond the Iron Curtain through the lens of international friendship. In diplomatic and political history, as well as in public discourse, the term ‘friendship’ is often employed casually to describe various types of interstate relations, ranging from partnerships lacking close bonds to special relationships with dense institutionalized ties. In recent years, however, international relations scholars have acknowledged the analytical and explanatory value of international friendship, recognizing it as a relationship extending beyond conflict-free interstate dynamics. In this regard, international friendship is interpreted as a bilateral relationship that emerges from intersecting collective identities and revolves around shared projects. A friendship bond is marked by a high degree of trust and affect, embedded in close cooperation at different levels of state and society, and expressed in a range of friendship practices (Koschut&Oelsner, 2014; Berenskoetter&Van Hoef, 2017).

The intention of the workshop is to expand the research on international friendship from international relations into the realm of history, particularly by broadening the predominantly Western-focused studies within socialist and Cold War contexts. Scholars are invited to employ conceptual content on international friendship to investigate the processes of formation, maintenance, reproduction, and dissolution of friendship bonds, and to assess their impact on interactions, behaviors, and decision-making at different political and social levels. By examining specific case studies, scholars are encouraged to add valuable empirical insights to the expanding field of (international) friendship studies.

The main objectives of the workshop are to explore the identity- and trust-building processes between states and their peoples, to examine the (de)integrating and (de)mobilizing power of international friendship, and to analyze the interaction between normative factors and strategic or material interests in interstate and transnational relations.

Topics

The preferred topics may include, but are not limited to:

- Actors, such as politicians, government and party officials, cultural workers, scholars, students, entrepreneurs, activists, civil society;

- Institutions, such as government offices, cultural and professional institutions, friendship societies, student associations, business enterprises, mass organizations, and non-governmental institutions;

- Shared narratives rooted in common history, historical memory, cultural patterns, ideologies, norms, and values, and their impact on the formation of collective interstate identities;

- Shared projects aimed at a certain type of world-making, such as larger political projects (post-war reconstruction, separate roads to socialism, non-alignment, peaceful coexistence, demilitarization, political and economic decolonization) and smaller (regional) projects (joint economic enterprises, cross-border infrastructure projects, cultural ventures);

- Friendship practices, such as friendship discourses (both in private and public interactions), symbolic public displays of friendship (celebrations, commemorations), acts of solidarity, giving counsel and privileged access to information, high tolerance of ‘bad news’;

- Channels, such as diplomacy, cultural and economic cooperation, student and youth exchanges, labor exchanges, town twinning, and transnational activism.

We welcome scholars, especially from history, but also from other disciplines such as political science, political anthropology, international relations, and the like. We are looking forward to abstracts from scholars at all stages of their academic careers.

Proposals, limited to 300 words, along with a brief bio, should be submitted by 20 January 2023 to the following address: maja.lukanc@inz.si

Applicants will receive notification of the acceptance of their proposals by 15 February 2024.

The conference will take place in Ljubljana at the Institute of Contemporary History.

Accommodation in Ljubljana will be provided by the organizers.

A specific fund will be allocated for the travel expenses of researchers without institutional or project financial coverage – please indicate if needed.

The workshop is held as part of the project Prospects and Boundaries of International Friendship: Polish-Yugoslav Relations between 1956 and 1968 supported by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency.

Kontakt

maja.lukanc@inz.si

Monday 4 December 2023

Hungarian Studies Review, anniversary volume is online!

Hungarian Studies Review, anniversary volume is online! (https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/hungarian-studies/issue/50/1-2 .), including a few interesting articles and sources on history of science.

Special Issue: Hungarian Studies Review at 50

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

HUNGARIAN STUDIES REVIEW AT 50

Leslie Waters

Extract

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