Le champ éditorial, creuset de transformations politiques. Études de cas post-soviétiques et post-yougoslaves

 Connexe. Les espaces postcommunistes en question(s) Vol. 10 (2024): Le champ éditorial, creuset de transformations politiques. Études de cas post-soviétiques et post-yougoslaves

Le dossier thématique codirigé par Bella Delacroix Ostromooukhova, Anne Madelain et Daria Petushkova se penche sur l’écosystème du livre après la fin des régimes socialistes à l’est de l’Europe. En comparant des terrains post-soviétiques et post-yougoslaves, il montre qu’il y a là une riche matière pour penser les mutations du livre dans la globalisation. Le dossier affirme aussi qu’il s’agit d’une entrée novatrice pour étudier les transformations politiques des sociétés contemporaines, qu’il s’agisse des formes de contrôle social, des enjeux identitaires ou des formes d’internationalisation.

Le dossier s’ouvre sur la contribution de Daria Petushkova, qui retrace la trajectoire des ‛Éditions du Progrès’ pendant la perestroika et le processus d’émancipation du champ éditorial soviétique de sa tutelle étatique au tournant des années 1990. Vanda Mikšić et Mirna Sindičić Sabljo se penchent pour leur part sur la place et les modalités des traductions d’auteurs francophones chez les éditeurs croates depuis 1990, alors qu’Anne Madelain analyse les circulations de livres entre les États successeurs de la Yougoslavie, qui touchent à la définition très politique des frontières des langues et des cultures. Bella Delacroix Ostromooukhova expose l’émergence depuis les années 2000 d’un milieu d’éditeurs jeunesse en Russie, critique, féru de traductions occidentales, ainsi que son devenir depuis la guerre en Ukraine. Cet événement, qui a bouleversé le monde éditorial russe, est aussi en toile de fond de la contribution que Bella Delacroix Ostromooukhova a coécrite avec Dmitrii Khriakov et qui décrypte le développement des éditions ‛Centurie noire’ et des librairies Feuillage qui lui sont associées, ainsi que leur engagement dans la politique guerrière. Le dossier se termine par un article d’Aglaé Achechova publié dans la section « Champ libre » dans lequel elle étudie le phénomène de « nouveau tamizdat », qui, depuis février 2022, structure une nouvelle chaîne du livre en langue russe hors sol et hors censure.

Ce numéro comporte également un texte hors dossier. Dans la section « Champ libre », Ciryl Prost propose un entretien avec l’historien Adjarbek Kočkunov, citoyen de l’Union soviétique puis de la République du Kirghizstan, qui relate, au travers de sa vie, les transformations postsoviétiques de son pays.

Pour terminer, quatre recensions viennent clore ce dixième numéro de la revue Connexe.

Publié en ligne: 23.12.2024

URL: https://oap.unige.ch/journals/connexe/issue/view/99

Call for papers: 'Scholarly Knowledge in the Context of Epistemic Injustice and Authoritarian Censorship'

 Call for papers: 'Scholarly Knowledge in the Context of Epistemic Injustice and Authoritarian Censorship' King’s College London April 25, 2025, King's Russia Institute, London

The symposium is taking place on 25 April and will cover a range of issues including, among other things; the decolonial approaches to scholarly knowledge production in contemporary autocracies and regions of the Global South, the impact of authoritarian politics on knowledge production; and the past and future of knowledge production and histories of knowledge production under political pressure.

Submissions are now open. Please include the title, a brief description of your paper (up to 400 words), and your short academic biography (up to 100 words). Presentations will be organised in either thematic panels or roundtable discussions.

A link to the submission form is available here (https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=FM9wg_MWFky4PHJAcWVDVg51qPobFPBEvHEhcWwvVWdUNTQ0RTlFR1pWOTdSRjJKQ0FJSUxERUtGNy4u). You can read the full call for submissions here (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/kri/assets/symposiumkri-v3.pdf).

If you have any questions, contact Petr Torkanovskiy at: petr.torkanovskiy@kcl.ac.uk. The deadline for submissions is 25 January.

2025 HSS Interdisciplinary Summer School Applications are Open

 2025 HSS Interdisciplinary Summer School Applications are Open

What

A 4-5 day intensive workshop on the history of science for up to 12 graduate student and early career scholars, whose work intersects with the history of science.*

Featuring:  Masterclasses, professionalization sessions, and the opportunity for each participant to either (a) workshop an article/dissertation chapter; or (b) to give a workshop length presentation/mock job talk. Participating students will be mentored by 4–6 faculty participants.

* Participants must be HSS members, but need not be members at time of application

Where

University of Bologna

When

24-27 June 2025

Eligibility

The Summer School program is open to Graduate Students and Early Career Scholars* at any institution whose work intersects with the history of science.

We encourage applications from participants who hail from historically excluded communities, especially those belonging to underrepresented racial minority (URM) groups - including African American, Latinx, and Native American. We also strongly encourage applications from scholars whose institutions do not otherwise provide them with mentorship opportunities in the history of science.

Applicants who have a dissertation chapter or an article in progress will be given priority. However, applications from graduate students who have not yet advanced to candidacy, who would use the Summer School to workshop their dissertation prospectus will be considered.

The HSS SummerSchool is fully funded. This includes accommodation for four nights, travel to/from Bologna, and most meals.

Deadline to submit an application 6 January 2025.

To apply follow the button below and fill out the form with:

-A 500 word letter with the following:

(1) outline your research,

(2) provide the selection committee with a brief (intellectual) biography,

(3) explain why you think participating in the HSS Summer School will advance your research and/or what you will bring to the program

-Estimated Costs of travel to Bologna

-Proof of eligibility as a PhD student, PhD candidate, or Early Career Scholar

Apply: https://airtable.com/app7DdpYVgdxk8riz/pagiZRFtpe5ZyD1rq/form

*We define an early career scholar as anyone who has received their dissertation within the last five years and is not in a tenure track position. Applicants who received their PhD more than five years prior to the application deadline, but who took leave for caregiving or medical reasons, are eligible to apply if your time active in academia amounts to less than five years. Please address your leave and its duration in your application materials.

CFP: Environment and Society "Knowledge Encounters"

 CFP: Environment and Society "Knowledge Encounters"

Environment and Society: Advances in Research 

Call for Abstracts: Knowledge Encounters 

Guest Edited by Laura Otto and Arno Pascht 

Unprecedented environmental changes—including extreme weather events, ocean warming, biodiversity loss, and rising sea levels—are (re-)shaping the world. Consequently, actors across various regions face major transformations and growing uncertainty about their relationship with, and appropriate responses to, their (changing) environment(s). Communities, researchers, decision-makers and other actors seek appropriate ways to understand, respond to, and manage environmental challenges and (re-)shape relationships to their environment(s). In this complex landscape, a wide array of bodies of knowledge or ways of knowing—ranging from formal scientific research to everyday experiential knowledge—emerge as critical resources. However, the interactions between these different types of knowledge and ways of knowing are often fraught with tensions, misunderstandings, and power imbalances, but being subject to emerging frictions (Tsing 2005), they hold creative potential at the same time. The rationale of this special issue is to explore these intricate and often contentious interactions between diverse knowledges as actors grapple with environmental changes and challenges. We aim to examine how lay people, scientists, policymakers, and members of various institutions and organizations engage with, interpret, and utilize different forms of environmental knowledge or ways of knowing environmental changes. The contributions of the special issue will investigate the processes through which knowledge—or knowing—is co-produced, translated, and negotiated in local contexts and how these processes contribute to create local environmental relations, praxis, decision-making and policy implementation. In so doing, the special issue also critically assesses the power dynamics and epistemological or ontological challenges that arise when different bodies of environmental knowledge converge. 

Our proposed issue highlights the urgent need to address contemporary environmental changes, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental injustice, which are central concerns of Environment & Society. In line with the journal’s interest in interdisciplinary studies that explore the intertwined nature of society and environment, the issue will contribute to scholarly discourse/discussion by exploring how scientific and everyday knowledge coalesce, conflict, and inform each other. Our idea and rationale speak to a series of issues that have been published with Environment & Society. With a focus on knowledge and knowing, our special issue links to the recent issue about “Flood & Fire (2023)”, which emphasizes intensifying effects of climate change by focusing on how knowledge plays a critical role in understanding how different actors engage with these changes in non-linear ways. Our proposed issue takes seriously the call for research that analyzes, much like in the issue on “Measures and Metrics” (2017), how knowledge about environmental changes and challenges is produced, practiced, and maintained or neglected and, thus, clearly speaks to the issue on “Nature and Knowledge” (2014). In a similar vein as the special issue on “Global Black Ecologies” (2022), our proposed issue challenges mainstream environmental discourse, which often overlooks both historical dynamics and (post-)colonial relations in how discourse about environmental change comes about. As argued for in the issue on “Pollution and Toxicity” (2021) our issue invites scholars who include multispecies actors, such as harmful algae, groundwater, or so-called invasive species in perceived ‘native’ landscapes. Our proposed special issue thus builds on and expands these publications with contributions addressing a broad range of topics and geographical areas. 

Including a substant literature review on their main topic, potential contributions might address, but are not limited to, the following main aspects: 

Various ways in which communities utilize different bodies of knowledge to address multiple 

environmental challenges 

• Interactions between scientific knowledge and everyday knowledges/knowing in navigating environmental changes 

• Explorations of the ways different communities construct narratives around environmental changes and concerns 

• How non-human entities (such as animals, plants, and ecosystems) are considered in the construction and validation of knowledge 

• How theoretical developments in post-humanism, multispecies anthropology, and ontological anthropology may be used in conjunction with fields such as Africana/Black, Indigenous, Queer, and/or Feminist Studies to rethink how knowledge is produced and understood in the context of environmental changes 

• Ways in which bodies of knowledge interrelate or contradict in scientific practices, policies, and or media about environmental change 

Research questions include, but are not limited to: How do different bodies of knowledge or ways of knowing inform or contradict each other in times of environmental changes? Which practices exist to produce knowledge about environmental changes? How are policy effectiveness and community acceptance realized, or hindered? What are the methods and tools that can facilitate meaningful dialogue and collaboration across different bodies of knowledge? Which roles do media, cultural heritage, and historical memory play in narrative constructions? How do multispecies perspectives challenge traditional human-centered approaches, and what new insights do they offer? What are the implications of power dynamics for equity, justice, and inclusion in environmental decision-making? 

We believe that our proposed special issue will make a novel and significant contribution to the ongoing scholarly discourse on environmental knowledge by looking at the effects of the interactions between often separated domains of different ways of knowing with a focus on scientific and everyday environmental knowledge. Whereas existing studies that look at such interactions have often focused on associated conflicts (Blaser 2009), the special issue will also look at the creative outcomes of those interactions, being the result of frictions (Tsing 2005), open conflicts, ontological innovation (Salmond 2017; Pascht 2019, 2023) or other options that do not privilege one way of knowing or knowledge tradition (Hastrup 2015, 2016; Verran 2002; 2013) including the possibility that people can utilize multiple ways of knowing the environment, depending on the context (Schnegg 2019; 2021). The issue will provide a platform for dialogue and case studies based on ethnographic fieldwork, drawing on insights from anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, science and technology studies (STS), and beyond. By critically examining how different forms of knowledge interact in practice, the issue aims to offer valuable insights for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners working to address environmental changes and the challenges they entail. 

KEY DATES 

Abstracts Due (abstracts may be up to 250 words): February 15, 2025  

Notifications for Authors: March 1, 2025  

Completed Articles Due for initial review: July 15, 2025  

Final Submission Due: May 1, 2026  

Please submit a 250-word abstract to ares.journal@gmail.com to be considered for this special issue of Environment and Society: Advances in Research. Please send all inquiries to jerry.jacka@colorado.edu or ameliamoore@uri.edu. 

REFERENCES 

Tsing, Anna L. 2005. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press. 

Blaser, Mario. 2009. “The Threat of the Yrmo: The Political Ontology of a Sustainable Hunting Program.” American Anthropologist 111 (1): 10–20. 

Salmond, Amiria. 2017. “Epilogue: Re-Building Ships at Sea: Ontological Innovation in Action.” In Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses: Ontologies, Discourses, and Practices in Oceania, edited by Eveline Dürr and Arno Pascht, 215–26. New York, s.l. Palgrave Macmillan US. 

Pascht, Arno. 2019. “Klaemet Jenj Worlds. Approaching Climate Change and Knowledge Creation in Vanuatu.” jso, no. 149: 235–44. 

Hastrup, Kirsten. 2015. “Comparing Climate Worlds: Theorising Across Ethnographic Fields.” In Grounding Global Climate Change, edited by Heike Greschke and Julia Tischler, 139–54. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. 

Hastrup, Kirsten. 2016. “Climate Knowledge: Assemblage, Anticipation, Action.” In Anthropology and Climate Change: From Actions to Transformations, edited by Susan A. Crate and Mark Nuttall. Second edition, 35–57. New York, London: Routledge. 

Verran, Helen. 2002. “A Postcolonial Moment in Science Studies.” Soc Stud Sci 32 (5-6): 729–62. doi:10.1177/030631270203200506. 

Verran, HR. 2013. “Engagements between Disparate Knowledge Traditions: Toward Doing Difference Generatively and in Good Faith”. In Contested Ecologies: Dialogues in the South on Nature and Knowledge, edited by Green, 1st ed. HSRC Press. 

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, 2024, Issue 4

 Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, 2024, Issue 4 is online. open access, Polish with English abstracts. Open access: https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/kwartalnik-historii-nauki-i-techniki/numer/tom-69-numer-4

Zawartość numeru

Jan Ewangelista Goetz and His Role in the Invention of Modern Lager

Sławomir Dryja

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, Tom 69, Numer 4, 2024, s. 9 - 27

https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.24.032.20682

Glosa do biografii Anny Wyczółkowskiej

Daniel Kiper

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, Tom 69, Numer 4, 2024, s. 29 - 95

https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.24.033.20683

Piotr Lebiedziński (1860–1934). Uzupełnienia do biogramu

Bogusław Kosel

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, Tom 69, Numer 4, 2024, s. 53 - 66

https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.24.034.20684

Jedna do teleskopu, druga do zegara. Udział sióstr Kirch w obserwacjach astronomicznych w 1. poł. XVIII w

Justyna Rogińska

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, Tom 69, Numer 4, 2024, s. 67 - 91

https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.24.035.20685

Obiekt I-2. Budowa warszawskiej Elektrociepłowni Żerań w latach 1950–1958

Andrzej Skalimowski

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, Tom 69, Numer 4, 2024, s. 93 - 107

https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.24.036.20686

Elektryfikacja miast województwa poznańskiego w okresie międzywojennym

Miron Urbaniak

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, Tom 69, Numer 4, 2024, s. 109 - 131

https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.24.037.20687

Koncepcje żeglugowego obejścia Gdańska w okresie międzywojennym

Zbigniew Zyglewski

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, Tom 69, Numer 4, 2024, s. 133 - 168

https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.24.038.2068

KOMUNIKATY I MATERIAŁY

Średniowieczne rękopisy w zbiorach polskich w świetle projektu Manuscripta.pl

Jacek Soszyński

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, Tom 69, Numer 4, 2024, s. 171 - 197

https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.24.039.20689

RECENZJE

KRONIKA

EAHMH 2025 Berlin Health Beyond Medicine

 EAHMH 2025 Berlin: Health Beyond Medicine

 

August 26-29, 2025, Humboldt University

 

In the past years, conceptions of health have been challenged on multiple levels. Medical interventions appear as one among a variety of factors that contribute to priority setting in health and wellbeing, from vaccination to laboratory capacities, and from the small scale of individual experiences to global policies. Within history of medicine, we see an increasing interest in histories on health policies and practices cutting across international, national and local registers, connecting various, hitherto marginalized actors, processes and experiences. Such studies expand our understanding of approaches to health, and raise the awareness for global and local dynamics that contribute to their change.

 

In this context, various analytical pathways in history, philosophy, and social studies of medicine can establish productive approaches to the emergence, circulation and transformation of priorities in health and wellbeing through time and space. The EAHMH 2025 conference Health Beyond Medicine thus aims to bring into conversation methods in and beyond history and fields in and beyond medicine that are often siloed in academic contexts, in healing practices, and in policy making, focusing on topics such as public health, biomedical sciences and patient and health activism.

 

For its biannual meeting, the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health invites submissions on any topic in the history of medicine and health broadly conceived, and welcome a range of disciplinary approaches, time periods and geographical contexts. We especially encourage proposals that address aspects of the conference theme, and proposals from early career scholars, who will have an opportunity to take part in a dedicated skills workshop. 

Confirmed keynote speakers include Projit Mukharji (Ashoka University) and Birgit Nemec (Charité). 

 

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Cosmologies of medicine and health

• Patient activism and health politics

• Environmental and animal histories of health

• Conflict and health

• Transnational networks and health diplomacy

• Health priorities in local, national and international contexts

• Negotiations of disease categories in scientific and policy platforms

• Biomedical validation and regulation

• Health sciences, population health, One Health, and public health

• Disability and chronic states

• Social medicine

• Medical research beyond institutions

• Crossroads between disciplines: medical humanities, history of science and technology, ethnography and STS in the history of medicine

Proposals should not exceed 300 words. The deadline for submitting applications to the conference is March 10, 2025. Please submit your abstract for individual papers or panels here (https://hi.converia.de/frontend/index.php?sub=125). 

Roman Holec, Martin Zückert (eds.) Umweltgeschichte in mitteleuropäischen Kontexten

Roman Holec, Martin Zückert (eds.) Umweltgeschichte in mitteleuropäischen Kontexten. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2024. ISBN 978-3-96023-594-1

ToC: https://www.univerlag-leipzig.de/file/bookstore/document/Umweltgeschichte_in_mitteleurop%C3%A4ischen_Kontexten_-_Inhaltsverzeichnis.pdf

In Zeiten von Umweltkrisen und Klimawandel stellt sich verstärkt die Frage, wie ökologische Kontexte in allgemeine historische Analysen eingebunden werden können.

Im vorliegenden Band werden umwelthistorische Analysen präsentiert, die für die Bereiche Klimaentwicklung und –Deutung, Modernisierungsprozesse und Naturschutzbestrebungen nach übergreifenden Auswirkungen und Zusammenhängen mit anderen historischen Entwicklungen fragen. Der regionale Fokus ist dabei insbesondere auf das östliche Mitteleuropa gerichtet.

Der Band beinhaltet dabei teils vergleichende Studien zu Deutschland, Österreich, Tschechien, der Slowakei und Ungarn.

Borbála Zsuzsanna Török: The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880

Borbála Zsuzsanna Török: The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880. New York: Berghahn 2024. ISBN  978-1-80539-554-6

Description

The formation of modern European states during the long 19th century was a complicated process, challenged by the integration of widely different territories and populations. The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 builds on recent research to investigate the history of statistics as an overlooked part of the sciences of the state in Habsburg legal education as well as within the broader public sphere. By exploring the practices and social spaces of statistics, author Borbála Zsuzsanna Török uncovers its central role in imagining the composite Habsburg Monarchy as a modern and unified administrative space.

Borbala Zsuzsanna Török is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Austrian Historical Studies, University of Vienna. She is the author of Exploring Transylvania: Geographies of Knowledge and Entangled Histories of a Multiethnic Province, 1790–1914 (Brill, 2015). She co-edited Berechnen/Beschreiben: Praktiken statistischen (Nicht-)Wissens 1750–1850 (Duncker & Humblot, 2015) with Gunhild Berg and Marcus Twellmann, as well as Negotiating Knowledge in Early-Modern Empires: A Decentered View (Palgrave, 2014) with László Kontler, Antonella Romano, and Silvia Sebastiani.

Грінченко Г., Венгер А. Архівно-слідчі справи щодо вбивства пацієнтів психіатричних лікарень окупованої Дніпропетровщини: історичне джерело, люди і пам’ять.

 Грінченко Г., Венгер А. Архівно-слідчі справи щодо вбивства пацієнтів психіатричних лікарень окупованої Дніпропетровщини: історичне джерело, люди і пам’ять. – Дніпро: Ліра, 2024. ISBN 978-966-981-849-2// Gelinada Grinchenko, Albert Venger: Archival Case Files Regarding the Killing of Psychiatric Hospital Patients In Occupied Dnipropetrovsk Region: Historical Sources, People, And Memory. Dnipro: Lira 2024. 

Fragments: http://lib.dnu.dp.ua/rep/ist/knygy/avtor/Arhivno_slidchi_spravy.pdf

Review: https://uamoderna.com/notes/nevydymky-suspilstva-ta-banalnist-zla-case-study-z-istoriyi-znyshhennya-pacziyentiv-psyhiatrychnyh-likaren-u-chasy-naczystskoyi-okupacziyi/

Book discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-ooOZTVO5M

У монографії йдеться про масові вбивства пацієнтів психіатричних клінік Дніпропетровщини під час німецької окупації. Видання містить невідомі раніше або маловідомі документи з центрального та обласних архівів Служби безпеки України, що стосуються питання знищення цивільного населення під час нацистської окупації.

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Основна увага авторів приділяється тим, хто зазвичай залишається поза увагою публічної сфери — пацієнтам психіатричних лікарень, цим своєрідним «невидимкам» суспільства та їхнім долям у катастрофічні часи окупації.

(descirption taken from UAModerna, https://www.facebook.com/ukraina.moderna/posts/pfbid02H7yvYMeNAVEWeTqnGHNjaY3R7ZxMQ9LGoY5hSKLAvT7wwceUQBE17xwQLJygQTqSl)

CFP: "Trading Zones: Art and Philosophy in Eastern Europe since 1945"

 📝Call for papers 📝

"Trading Zones: Art and Philosophy in Eastern Europe since 1945"

Transdisciplinary Workshop at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, Florence, 26-27 June 2025

Organized by Hana Gründler (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institut) and Sven Spieker (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Deadline: 17 January, 2025

https://www.khi.fi.it/en/aktuelles/call-for-papers-applications.php

CfP: Polish philosophy - between the classics and epigones

Call for papers: XII Seminarium Historyków Filozofii Polskiej. Instytut Filozofii, Uniwersytet Zielonogórski, 19–20 maja 2025 r.: Filozofia polska – między klasykami i epigonami // Call for papers: XII Seminar of Historians of Polish Philosophy. Institute of Philosophy, University of Zielona Góra, May 19-20, 2025.: Polish philosophy - between the classics and epigones

Seminaria Historyków Filozofii Polskiej (SHFP), organizowane już od 2006 r., stały się wydarzeniem cyklicznym, które skutecznie połączyło badaczy dziejów rodzimej myśli filozoficznej. Aby zaznaczyć trwałe zakorzenienie się tego przedsięwzięcia w polskim życiu filozoficznym, do Komitetu Honorowego XII SHFP zaprosiliśmy inicjatorów i organizatorów pierwszych edycji SHFP, Profesorów: Stanisława Pieroga, Jana Skoczyńskiego oraz ks. Stanisława Janeczka.

Okazją do zorganizowania XII SHFP w Instytucie Filozofii UZ jest II wydanie Klasyków filozofii polskiej (Zielona Góra 2024), książki autorstwa Profesora Ryszarda Palacza (1935–2024), długoletniego pracownika Instytutu Filozofii UZ (a wcześniej WSP im. T. Kotarbińskiego). Z tego powodu obecną edycję SHFP chcielibyśmy zogniskować wokół pojęć „klasyka” i „klasyki” w ich różnych odniesieniach do filozofii w Polsce. Zapraszamy zatem uczestników SHFP do podjęcia następujących, przykładowych zagadnień:

Kto z polskich filozofów może uchodzić za klasyka, a kto za epigona? Kto jest naśladowcą, kto i jak przetwarza twórczo, kto zaś został zepchnięty przez historyków filozofii do drugiego rzędu, a kto wręcz do filozoficznego tła? Kto zapisał się na stałe, a kto i dlaczego okazał się jedynie efemerydą? Ważne dla historyków filozofii jest także pytanie: dlaczego tak się stało i wciąż się dzieje? Dlaczego los poszczególnych filozofów w dziejach historiografii okazuje się zmienny? Czy to tylko sprawa zmian dominujących prądów filozoficznych, przemijających ideologii, odnalezienia nowych tekstów czy przewartościowania tych już znanych?

Filozofia grecka cieszyła się swoim okresem klasycznym, cała starożytna i średniowieczna filozofia europejska bywa też określana mianem „klasycznej”, istniała również seria pod nazwą „Biblioteka Klasyków Marksizmu-Leninizmu”, a w ramach niemożliwej do przecenienia „Biblioteki Klasyków Filozofii” powołano cykl „Pisarze Polscy”. Na ile zatem pojęcie „klasyczności” można odnieść do filozofii polskiej?

Nadanie filozofom miana „klasyków” powinno zachęcać czytelników do zapoznania się z ich dziełami – bo przecież klasyków trzeba znać, ale z drugiej strony może zniechęcać – bo skoro zasłużyli na „klasyczność”, to zapewne pisali dużo i niełatwo. Warto więc też pochylić się nad pytaniem, jak to było i jest ze znajomością klasyków w filozofii polskiej oraz na ile polscy klasycy filozofii są dostępni i znani polskiej publiczności zainteresowanej filozofią. Co można i trzeba zrobić, aby było pod tym względem lepiej?

Wielu historyków filozofii polskiej, zwłaszcza tych o większym doświadczeniu i dorobku, w swojej praktyce badawczej spotykało się z podobnymi problemami, gdyby więc autorefleksyjnie odnieśli się do historii własnych poszukiwań i ich wyników, byłoby to bardzo cenne szczególnie dla młodszych czy początkujących badaczy.

Są to, tradycyjnie, jedynie pewne propozycje tematów lub ujęć zagadnień z obszaru historii filozofii polskiej. Jesteśmy jednak otwarci także na propozycje referatów dotykających innych problemów, w których zechcą Państwo zaprezentować swoje badania i ich rezultaty.

Informacje organizacyjne:

Jak to bywało podczas poprzednich edycji SHFP, czynny udział w spotkaniu nie będzie się wiązał z koniecznością uiszczenia opłaty konferencyjnej, ale przyjazd i noclegi uczestnicy będą organizowali we własnym zakresie, jakkolwiek chętnie służymy w tym względzie radą i pomocą. Co więcej, dla dwójki doktorantów, autorów najlepszych abstraktów przewidujemy zapewnienie wsparcia finansowego, umożliwiającego ich pełne uczestnictwo w XII SHFP. Dwójkę zwycięzców wyłoni Komitet Naukowy konferencji.

Obrady XII SHFP przewidujemy jedynie w formie tradycyjnej, osobiście, na miejscu, by zapobiec atrofii bezpośrednich dyskusji i dezintegracji środowiska w dobie przereklamowanego „onlajnu”.

Szczegóły dotyczące publikacji pokonferencyjnej zostaną podane później.

Komitet naukowy XII Seminarium Historyków Filozofii Polskiej stanowią: prof. dr hab. Jan Hertrich-Woleński (UJ, WSIiZ), prof. dr hab. Tomasz Kupś (UMK), dr hab. Tomasz Mróz – przewodniczący (UZ), dr hab. Marek Rembierz (UŚ), dr hab. Wawrzyniec Rymkiewicz (UW), dr hab. Wiesława Sajdek (UJD), prof. dr hab. Andrzej Wawrzynowicz (UAM).

Pytania prosimy kierować do organizatorów XII SHFP: dra hab. Tomasza Mroza: T.Mroz@ifil.uz.zgora.pl dr Joanny Zegzuły-Nowak: J.Zegzula-Nowak@ifil.uz.zgora.pl mgra Adriana Habury: A.Habura@ifil.uz.zgora.pl

Prosimy o przesyłanie tytułów wystąpień z abstraktami na adresy organizatorów do 15 kwietnia 2025 r. Jeśli abstrakt jest dziełem doktoranta starającego się o finansowe wsparcie swojego udziału w XII SHFP, prosimy o wyraźne zaznaczenie tego w liście.

Dorota Sula: “Medical Care” at the Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp (1940—1945). Muzeum Gross-Rosen 2024.

Dorota Sula: “Medical Care” at the Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp (1940—1945). Muzeum Gross-Rosen 2024. 

First chapter presents the organization of medical service, both those that were part of the camp personnel and those recruited to it from the prisoners. An attempt was also made to describe how the camp hospitals and sick bays were established, how they expanded and how did they look like. Chapter two depicts diseases that spread in the main camp and its sub-camps and the treatment of prisoners. The first topic presented in the chapter describes preventive measures that were being taken in the camp. Other issue presented in the chapter are: fight against epidemics, dental “care”, mental illnesses and disorders and also the “Muselmänner” problem. The main topic of third and last chapter is death and its main causes: diseases, extreme exhaustion, but in many cases it was expedited by members of the camp personnel. The book has been supplemented by documents and photos included both in the text and in the annex. Also a list of prisoners working as doctors in the camp hospitals, sick bays and ambulatories was added as an appendix.

URL: https://ksiegarnia.gross-rosen.eu/produkt/medical-care-at-the-gross-rosen-concentration-camp-1940-1945-dorota-sula/

Maciej Junkiert: The New Greeks. Polish Romantics’ Historicism and the Emergence of Altertumswissenschaft.

Maciej Junkiert: The New Greeks. Polish Romantics’ Historicism and the Emergence of Altertumswissenschaft. Peter Lang 2024. ISBN  9783631906323

Summary

The book discusses the development of Polish studies on Greek antiquity in the first half of the nineteenth century. Junkiert scrutinizes the relationship of Polish intellectuals with their predecessors in this field in France and the German-speaking culture. The book describes scholarly rivalry between nations in search of their own visions of antiquity. Methodologically, the book develops the vein of classical reception studies. The key figures of this study are Adam Mickiewicz, Joachim Lelewel, and Gottfried Ernst Groddeck.

call for papers: Predicting Europe: Histories of the Future in Post-1945 Europe

 call for papers: Predicting Europe: Histories of the Future in Post-1945 Europe

Maastricht University, Brussels Hub, 5-6 June 2025

Convenors: Jacob Ward, Aleksandra Komornicka

Deadline: Friday 17th January

Predicting Europe: Histories of the Future in Post-1945 Europe

In recent years, the future of Europe has acquired new political prominence. In 2019, Ursula von der Leyen announced that she would put “Foresight” at the heart of her Commission, and her Vice-President for Foresight, Maroš Šefčovič, asserted that Europe would “stive for world-class anticipatory governance”. Rising Euroscepticism, on the other hand, has prompted predictions that question the long-term future of the European project.

Prediction has, however, long been an important political, economic, and social technology. By “prediction”, we mean futurological practices such as scenario planning, Delphi surveys, Foresight studies, horizon scanning, as well as prognostics, simulations, projections, forecasts, plans, and timelines. We are inspired by recent histories that have shown the political importance that new prediction tools and techniques acquired during the Cold War, particularly in sustaining liberal capitalism, (attempts to) reform socialism, and facilitating the rise of “neoliberalism” (for example, by Jenny Andersson and Elke Seefried).

But the role of prediction in Europe’s post-1945 transformations – some of which also sought to reinvent liberal capitalism or revise socialism and communism – deserves further study. This workshop thus aims to explore and interrogate the potential intersections between these two parallel, post-war histories – the history of prediction and the history of European transformations after 1945 (including histories of the Cold War, capitalism, socialism, democracy, European integration, etc.). We conceive Europe broadly, including not just European governments, agencies, and nations and regions within Europe, but also Europeans’ relations with the world, as well as organisations and associations within Europe, such as European business associations, trade conferences, professional organisations, and technical committees.

Paper topics might include, but are not restricted to, histories of:

- European futurology, futures studies, and other futures research – scenario planning, Delphi surveys, prognostik / prognostica etc.

- Technoscientific futures – Foresight, technology assessment, innovation studies, etc.

- Business plans, forecasts, models, industrial strategy

- Macroeconomic modelling and forecasting in banking, finance, government, etc.

- Environmental predictions, climate modelling, sustainability goals

- Energy and resource forecasting

- Regional and urban planning and development

- Defence scenarios, simulations, and planning

- Infrastructure planning – media, telecommunications, electricity, transport, etc.

- Organisational planning – transnational agencies, business associations, etc.

- Colonial and decolonial planning and development

- Opinion polling, electoral polling, and market research

- “Anticipatory democracy” in Europe

This workshop is supported by the NWO-funded Veni project “The Prediction Machine” (PI Jacob Ward, Maastricht University).

Practical Information

We plan for a 1.5 day workshop, in person, at Maastricht University’s Brussels Hub on 5-6 June 2025. We welcome proposals from scholars of all ranks, including PhD students.

We seek to publish an edited volume or special issue based on the workshop papers, and so we will ask presenters to pre-circulate a short discussion paper (3,000-4,000 words) ahead of the workshop. The workshop will conclude with a roundtable to discuss publication plans.

Food and accommodation will be provided by the workshop organisers. There is limited funding available to support (partial) travel expenses, and early-career scholars and participants without access to institutional funding will be prioritised. We encourage participants to travel by train where possible.

Please send proposals to predict-europe-fasos@maastrichtuniversity.nl by Friday 17th January. Proposals should be a single PDF file that includes:

- An abstract of no more than 350 words

- An indication of whether travel support is needed and, if so, an estimate of costs

- A short CV (in a single PDF file).

We will notify submitters of the outcome of their proposal by Friday 31 January at the latest. For further information or practical questions, please contact the convenors, Jacob Ward and Aleksandra Komornicka, also at predict-europe-fasos@maastrichtuniversity.nl.

Kontakt

predict-europe-fasos@maastrichtuniversity.nl

j.ward@maastrichtuniversity.nl

online event: George Andrei: "Dreaming of the “English Indies”: Civilizing Missions, Racial Hygiene, and the Origins of Romanian Forestry Institutions"

 More environmental histories from ESEH regions! The last seminar of the year, on December 18, 16.00 CET, will take us on a journey through Romanian forests...

Dr. George Andrei will give a seminar on "Dreaming of the “English Indies”: Civilizing Missions, Racial Hygiene, and the Origins of Romanian Forestry Institutions". Q&A will follow.

Link for the registration: [https://kth-se.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5YsfuisrTorHNzS7ObtMhpFMy0vbkubP9vx](https://kth-se.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5YsfuisrTorHNzS7ObtMhpFMy0vbkubP9vx?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2Vv5dmB6LCD5YLllOTiv2nawP_3GU3WRkF27f5Sp0p6omgnArwvXvFKiI_aem_PySDzfbukwKKCDuQawv6zw)

More about the seminar series: [https://eseh.org/envhistoday-webinars/](http://eseh.org/envhistoday-webinars/environmental-history-today-webinars-2023/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3FEx4YkrL3tAy-Wzu3Xwzsi03y9gJmsBG8JEJI9W_32QcAqFUjWAKFPYg_aem_wF4ni8WFNM1Uf4H_uE1fLw)

Call for articles: Traveling Intellectuals, Transforming Ideas: Histories of Knowledge Transfer in the Twentieth Century

 Call for articles: Traveling Intellectuals, Transforming Ideas: Histories of Knowledge Transfer in the Twentieth Century

The Hungarian Historical Review invites submissions for its first issue in 2026, the theme of which will be

Traveling Intellectuals, Transforming Ideas:

Histories of Knowledge Transfer in the Twentieth Century

The deadline for the submission of abstracts: February 14, 2025.

The deadline for the accepted papers: September 1, 2025.

This Special Issue aims to explore the relationships between the transnational mobility of intellectuals and the transformation of ideas by focusing on the various mechanisms of knowledge transfers in the past century. Thanks to increasing access to transborder and transcontinental travel, the movement of intellectuals and ideas from global centers to peripheries, from peripheries to centers, and between peripheries resulted in multiple creative adaptations as knowledge was transplanted from one institutional and epistemic context to another. The special issue explores how these processes were facilitated and highlighted through the opportunities offered by various INGOs affiliated with UNESCO and other organizations with a global reach, such as the World Bank, ILO, FAO, WHO, etc. It also considers how such transfers were influenced by geopolitics, with intellectuals often contributing to—and occasionally challenging—the prevailing hegemonic projects of global powers, especially those of the United States and the Soviet Union after 1945. Drawing in part on the renewed interest in the spatiality of knowledge production and in the importance of biographical focus, the special issue seeks to highlight the histories of such travels and transformations and asks how concepts, methods, systems of thought, intellectual roles, and cultural products were reinterpreted and repurposed in new environments.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

knowledge transfer from East to West, West to East, South to North, North to South

the transnational mobility of scientists, experts, artists, writers, journalists, etc.

the roles of cultural and scholarly mediators and brokers in knowledge transfers

the roles of professional networks and epistemic communities in knowledge transfers

the roles of states, UNESCO, INGOs, and philanthropic organizations in knowledge transfers

relations between secret police or intelligence agencies and transnational travels

how center-periphery and inter-periphery relations impacted transfers

methodological reflections on the analyses of transfers and their various sources

We welcome submissions from scholars in various disciplines, including history, the history of science, the history of education, art history, literary history, and cultural studies. We especially encourage submissions that offer interdisciplinary perspectives and engage with current historiographical debates.

Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words and a short biographical note with a selected list of the author’s three most important publications (we do not accept full CVs) no later than February 14, 2025.

Proposals should be submitted to the special editor of the issue by email:

laszlo.szabolcs@abtk.hu

The editors will ask the authors of selected papers to submit their final articles (max. 10,000 words) no later than September 1, 2025.

The articles will be published open access after a double-blind peer-review process. We provide proofreading for contributors who are not native speakers of English.

All articles must conform to our submission guidelines.

The Hungarian Historical Review is a peer-reviewed international quarterly of the social sciences and humanities, the geographical focus of which is Hungary and East-Central Europe. For additional information, please visit the journal’s website: www.hunghist.org

Avramchuk Oleksandr: Rzeczpospolita uczonych. Powstanie studiów ukraińskich i polsko-ukraiński dialog historyków w Stanach Zjednoczonych 1939-1991 [The Republic of Scholars. The rise of Ukrainian studies and the Polish-Ukrainian dialogue among historians in the United States 1939-1991]

Avramchuk Oleksandr: Rzeczpospolita uczonych. Powstanie studiów ukraińskich i polsko-ukraiński dialog historyków w Stanach Zjednoczonych 1939-1991 [The Republic of Scholars. The rise of Ukrainian studies and the Polish-Ukrainian dialogue among historians in the United States 1939-1991]. Warszawa: Studium Europy Wschodniej UW 2024. 

Spis treści // Table of contents: https://www.wuw.pl/data/links/452b984fb58d9d2bec701d0d802d274b/19834_14091.pdf

Fragment // Fragments: https://www.wuw.pl/data/links/51f1e6dad93d3be3bf2a7a11ecb5881b/19834_14092.pdf

Streszczenie // Summary: https://www.wuw.pl/data/links/42e5b5133d8ea527078c738825762c97/19834_14093.pdf

[English below]

Niniejsza publikacja stanowi pogłębioną eksplorację dialogu akademickiego pomiędzy polskimi i ukraińskimi intelektualistami na emigracji, prowadzonego w Stanach Zjednoczonych w latach 1939–1991. W tym okresie, ukształtowanym przez napięcia zimnowojenne i dominujące wpływy Związku Radzieckiego, Zachód – zwłaszcza Stany Zjednoczone – postrzegały Ukrainę wyłącznie jako część imperium rosyjskiego. Taka percepcja marginalizowała historię i tożsamość narodową Ukrainy. Autorka podkreśla wysiłek polskich i ukraińskich uczonych na emigracji, mający na celu podważenie tego uproszczonego, rusocentrycznego punktu widzenia i opowiedzenie się za uznaniem Ukrainy jako odrębnego podmiotu w badaniach nad Europą Środkowo-Wschodnią.

Centralnym wątkiem książki jest tytułowa „Rzeczpospolita uczonych” – wspólnota intelektualna, która pomimo różnic narodowościowych i politycznych jednoczyła Polaków i Ukraińców w dążeniu do dialogu i współpracy akademickiej. To nawiązanie do dawnej Rzeczypospolitej symbolizowało ideę solidarności i wspólnego dziedzictwa, które intelektualiści pragnęli wykorzystać do budowy nowej, bardziej otwartej na współpracę rzeczywistości akademickiej, przezwyciężając podziały polityczne i konflikty historyczne. Publikacja rzuca także światło na współczesne próby „dekolonizacji” myślenia o dziejach Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, co stało się szczególnie widoczne po rosyjskiej agresji na Ukrainę w 2022 roku. Książka stanowi krytyczny głos w toczącej się debacie na temat zmiany zachodniego postrzegania Ukrainy, podkreślając potrzebę oderwania się od wieloletniej marginalizacji kraju w badaniach naukowych.

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This publication offers an in-depth exploration of the academic dialogue between Polish and Ukrainian intellectuals in exile, conducted in the United States between 1939 and 1991. During this period, shaped by Cold War tensions and the Soviet Union’s dominant influence, the West – particularly the U.S. – viewed Ukraine solely as part of the Russian Empire. This perception marginalized Ukraine’s history and national identity. The author highlights the efforts of Polish and Ukrainian scholars in exile to challenge this simplistic, Russia-centric viewpoint and advocate for Ukraine’s recognition as a distinct subject in studies of East-Central Europe.

At the heart of the book is the concept of the “Republic of Scholars” – an intellectual community that, despite national and political differences, united Poles and Ukrainians in their pursuit of dialogue and academic collaboration. This reference to the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth symbolizes the shared heritage and solidarity that these scholars sought to harness in order to overcome political divisions and historical conflicts. The publication also sheds light on early attempts to “decolonize” the historical narrative of the region – an effort that has gained increasing relevance following Russia’s war against Ukraine in 2022. It offers a critical voice in the ongoing debate over shifting the Western perception of Ukraine, emphasizing the need to break away from the country’s long-standing marginalization in scholarly research.

Yuriy Shevelov: Solid ground: sketches of Ukrainian self-knowledge

 Юрій Шевельов: Твердий ґрунт: зариси українського себепізнання / передм. Катерини Каруник ; прим. та комент. Сергія Вакуленка. — Харків : Видавець Олександр Савчук, 2024. // Yuriy Shevelov: Solid ground: sketches of Ukrainian self-knowledge / pref. Kateryna Karunyk ; notes and commentary by Serhiy Vakulenko.  Kharkiv: Publisher Oleksandr Savchuk. ISBN: 978-617-8157-33-3

Титульна сторінка та зміст: https://savchook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Gruntzmist.pdf

Сторінки вибірково : https://savchook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Gruntvybrane.pdf

У виданні подано добірку переважно малознаних публіцистичних причинків визначного науковця-гуманітарія Юрія Шевельова (1908–2002), що за спільну тему їм правлять проблеми науки та культури в їхніх зв’язках із політикою.

Оприлюднені в часовому проміжку від 1944 по 1996 рр., ці публікації містять цілісну візію України в новітньому світі й увиразнюють історичне, цивілізаційне, психологічне та світоглядне коріння тих труднощів, як зовнішнього, так і внутрішнього штибу, що їх мусить долати українство, творячи модерну демократичну державу, здатну посісти гідне місце в усепланетному інтелектуальному розмаїтті завдяки усвідомленню та плеканню власного глибинного єства.

Авторові розважання про логіку історичного розвитку набувають особливо актуального звучання в обставинах теперішнього українсько-російського протиборства.

CfP: 32nd Conference of Junior Scholars in the Field of East European Studies (JOE). Dresden 03.07.2025 - 05.07.2025

CfP: 32nd Conference of Junior Scholars in the Field of East European Studies (JOE). Dresden 03.07.2025 - 05.07.2025, deadline 20.01.2025. 

The conference 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.

We look forward to receiving your project outlines from the humanities and the social sciences, from law, economics, and related disciplines.

In addition, proposals for panels consisting of three thematically coherent contributions may be suggested. Contributions can be submitted in German and English. Passive knowledge of the German language is necessary as there will be no simultaneous interpretation.

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 Institute of Slavic Studies along with the Center for Central and Eastern European Studies (ZMOE) at Dresden University of Technology, and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig. The costs for accommodation and catering are covered by the organizers. Travel expenses will not be refunded.

Suggestions for individual projects:

– An abstract of 400 words max. relating the research question, findings, theoretical approach and method;

– Five keywords to summarize the thematic focus along with a designation of the region and period of research;

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

Suggestions for panels:

– A summary of 200 words max. including the title, topic, and target of the panel;

– Abstracts and information on the individual texts (as above);

– Five keywords to summarize the thematic focus along with a designation of the region and period of research;

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

Please send your applications by 20 January 2025 to joe-tagung@dgo-online.org

Selection decisions will be communicated by mid-February 2025.

In case of acceptance, participants will have to submit a German or English-language paper (3.000 words max.) by 15 May 2025. It will be made accessible to the other participants prior to the conference.

Unfortunately, projects that have already been presented cannot be considered.

Kontakt

Ariana Kravchuk, Olha Norba, Timm Schönfelder

joe-tagung@dgo-online.org

 

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, 2024, Issue 3 is online

 Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, 2024, Issue 3 is online. open access, Polish with English abstracts. Open access: https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/kwartalnik-historii-nauki-i-techniki/numer/tom-69-numer-3

👉 Artykuły, komunikaty i materiały:

Marta Ciechowicz, Uczucia i metodologia: idee badania historii w pismach Joachima Lelewela z lat 1815–1824

Maciej Fic, Komisje Archeologiczne Śląskiego Instytutu Naukowego w Katowicach

Marzanna Jagiełło, Zygmunt Łuniewicz, The Silesian Impact of Hero’s Treatise. Salomon de Caus and the Wrocław Garden of Laurentius Scholz

Jolanta Kolbuszewska, Naukowy awans kobiet w XX wieku. Casus docent Anny Rynkowskiej

Łukasz Kubacki, Polska Fabryka Rowerów A. Kamiński

Jarosław Włodarczyk, Jakub Zbądzki, Wcześniej niż Elżbieta Heweliusz: Maria Cunitia i astronomia obserwacyjna XVII stulecia

Bartosz Kozak, Nieznany wykaz lokomotyw leśnych kolei wąskotorowych w Polsce z lat 1956–1970

Andrzej Niewiński, Początki i rozwój technologiczny artylerii ogniowej i jej wykorzystanie w średniowiecznych działaniach wojennych

👉 Recenzje i artykuły recenzyjne:

Mateusz Hübner, Adam Vetulani – nieugięty uczony

Michał Piekarski, recenzja książki: Norman Davies, Galicja. Historia nie narodowa, tłum. Bartłomiej Pietrzyk, Znak Horyzont, Kraków 2023, ss. 848, ilustracje, mapy

Karolina Targosz, recenzja książki: Heveliana. Księżyc i Tarcza Sobieskiego. Heveliana dawne i sztuka współczesna, red. Dorota Folga-Januszewska, oprac. graficzne Lech Majewski, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie, Muzeum Pałacu Króla Jana III w Wilanowie, Warszawa 2022, ss. 239, ilustracje

Jaume Navarro, Kostas Tampakis (eds.) Science, Religion and Nationalism: Local Perceptions and Global Historiographies

Jaume Navarro, Kostas Tampakis (eds.) Science, Religion and Nationalism: Local Perceptions and Global Historiographies. Routledge 2024. ISBN 9781032320618

Description

“Science” and “Religion” have been two major elements in the building of modern nation-states. While contemporary historiography of science has studied the interactions between nation building and the construction of modern scientific and technological institutions, “science-and-religion” is still largely based on a supposed universal historiography in which global notions of “science” and of “religion” are seldom challenged.

This book explores the interface between science, religion and nationalism at a local level, paying attention to the roles religious institutions, specific confessional traditions, or an undefined notion of “religion” played in the construction of modern science in national contexts: the use of anti-clerical rhetoric as scapegoat for a perceived scientific and technological backwardness; the part of religious tropes in the emergence of a sense of belonging in new states; the creation of “invented traditions” that included religious and scientific myths so as to promote new identities; the struggles among different confessional traditions in their claims to pre-eminence within a specific nation-state, etc.

Moreover, the chapters in this book illuminate the processes by which religious myths and institutions were largely substituted by stories of progress in science and technology which often contributed to nationalistic ideologies.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction. Science, Religion and Nationalism, or the Entanglement of Mythical Narratives.

Jaume Navarro and Kostas Tampakis

2. “Ibn Sina the Turk”: Early Twentieth-Century Turkish Nationalism, Islam and the Historiography of Science

M. Alper Yalçınkaya

3. Science in Utopia: Tommaso Campanella’s City of the Sun in the Thought of Luigi Firpo

Neil Tarrant

4. Catholics, Natural Science, and National Belonging in Germany, 1830–1914

Jeffrey T. Zalar

5. John William Draper and "Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America”

James C. Ungureanu

6. Building a Nation. Spanish Engineers in the Science-and-Religion Narratives.

Jaume Navarro

7. The Education of the Argentine Nation. Positivists and Catholics on Science and Religion.

Ignacio Silva

8. Nineteenth-Century Mexican Nationalism, between Liberalism and Conservatism: Positivism as the Force of the Nation.

Juan Manuel Rodríguez Caso

9. Being Orthodox, Greek and Modern: Scientists and Theologians in Nineteenth- and early Twentieth-Century Greece

Kostas Tampakis

10. Between Darwin and Religion. Nation-Building and the Future of Poland.

Michał Wagner

11. “Serving God, Fatherland, and Language”: Alcover, Catalan, and Science.

Agustín Ceba Herrero and Joan March Noguera

12. Scientific Atheism Seen Through the Lens of Historical Museums.

Katarzyna Jarosz

Editor(s) Biography

Jaume Navarro is an Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country. A historian of science, his interests lay in the history of physics and in the historiography of science and religion. He is author of, among others, A History of the Electron: J.J. and G.P. Thomson (2012) and Ether and Modernity (2018).

Kostas Tampakis is a Senior Researcher in the National Hellenic Research Foundation. His research interests include the history of the relations of Orthodox Christianity and the sciences and the history of science in Southeastern Europe. He has coauthored, among others, Science and Orthodox Christianity: An Overview (2016).

Харківський університет (1941–1945 рр.) у спогадах його викладачів та вихованців / Kharkiv University (1941-1945) in the memoirs of its teachers and students

 Харківський університет (1941–1945 рр.) у спогадах його викладачів та вихованців / укл. О.І.Вовк, В.Ю.Іващенко, О.І.Красько, С.М.Куделко, Є.С.Рачков, С.І.Посохов, Л.Ю.Посохова, О.М.Янкул; вступ. стаття С.І.Посохов; наук. ред.: В.Ю.Іващенко, С.І.Посохов. Харків: Майдан, 2023.  // Kharkiv University (1941-1945) in the memoirs of its teachers and students, ed. by O.I.Vovk, V.Y.Ivashchenko, O.I.Krasko, S.M.Kudelko, E.S.Rachkov, S.I.Posokhov, L.Y.Posokhova, O.M.Yankul; introduction by S.I.Posokhov; scientific editors: V.Y.Ivashchenko, S.I.Posokhov. Kharkiv: Maidan, 2023.

More: http://historiography.karazin.ua/resources/files/20240733172433_3fcd0a0720fd8.pdf

Видання містить джерела особового походження (спогади, щоденники, стенограми інтерв’ю, автобіографії, листи), у яких ідеться про Харківський університет у період німецько-радянської війни 1941–1945 рр. Авторами цих текстів стали викладачі й вихованці університету, які повідомляють про історію так званого «студентського батальйону», діяльність університету в евакуації, життя в окупованому місті. Призначено для викладачів, студентів, науковців, усіх, хто цікавиться історією освіти й науки та мемуаристикою.

Hybrid event: 17th-18th century Circulations of science in the Russian empire. December 13 @ 9h00 - 17h00.

Hybrid event: 17th-18th century Circulations of science in the Russian empire. December 13 @ 9h00 - 17h00. Paris & zoom

(org. Smith-Riu and Bayuk)

Dimitri Bayuk (Sphere),

“St. Petersburg in the 18th century: Empire, Academy, Borders”.

Tatiana Kostina (St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

« Philosophy in Russian Universities in the 18th Century: The Social Context of Disciplinary History”.

Justin Smith-Ruiu (Sphere),

“Applied Leibnizianism in the Great Northern Expedition, 1731-1741”.

Andrei Vorobiev (Chalmers University of Technology)

“Visual art in the system of academic knowledge in Russia of the 18th century. Peoples of Russia: from curiosity to political theater”.

Gregory Afinogenov (Georgetown University)

« The Discovery of Backwardness: The Qing Economy as an Object of Russian Knowledge».

For zoom link please contact dmitrii.baiuk@u-paris.fr

Dimitri Bayuk, “St. Petersburg in the 18th century: Empire, Academy, Borders”

The imperial status of the Russian state was declared by the Russian authorities in 1721, following the Northern War. Since then, the term “empire” has changed meaning several times, and it is necessary to clarify exactly what the reforming power was claiming.

Peter the Great, the initiator of this transformation, envisaged an academy of science as an important imperial institution. As he prepared for his new status as imperator, he familiarized himself with the practices of certain European academies, such as those in Berlin-Brandenburg and Paris. In the project he drew up at the very end of his life, his new academy was to integrate research and teaching activities. One of these was to explore the expanding imperial territories.

The transition to imperial status implies conceptual delimitation. What's more, defining geographical boundaries became vital. By the time Peter I ascended the throne, a serious border crisis was developing in the disputed area around the Amur River. The Treaty of Nerchinsk, which marked the beginning of the delimitation of the Sino-Russian border, recognized Peter's imperial dignity before the Russian Senate did so officially. Symbolically, St. Petersburg's first academics, primarily astronomers, were deeply involved in the delimitation process in Western Siberia.

Gregory Afinogenov, "The Discovery of Backwardness: The Qing Economy as an Object of Russian Knowledge”

Tatiana Kostina, “Philosophy in Russian Universities in the 18th Century: The Social Context of Disciplinary History”.

By the 18th century, universities in Europe followed a universal structure across the Republic of Scholars. Typical catalogs of lectures from that period list theology, law, medicine, and finally philosophy, which gradually expanded with more disciplines. Peter the Great’s modernization efforts allowed for the creation of a European-style institution at the end of his life. The Russian court wanted a scientific showcase but was only willing to fund it partially, demanding an academy of renowned scholars, a university, a gymnasium, a museum, and workshops.

This disrupted traditional university concepts and weakened disciplinary fields. Along with a lack of competition, the situation led to unexpected effects: from Leonard Euler’s opportunity to try applying mathematics to physiology to Mikhail Lomonosov’s creation of physical chemistry.

This lecture will discuss how Russian universities responded to court and nobility demands, the challenging transition to Russian as the language of instruction, and how philosophical disciplines reacted to political changes.

Justin Smith-Ruiu, “Applied Leibnizianism in the Great Northern Expedition, 1731-1741”

In this paper I will, first of all, offer an account of the key moments, actors, and aims of the so-called Great Northern Expedition, also known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition, that was carried out across the Russian Empire between 1731 and 1741. This expedition, I will go on to show, may justly be seen as the culmination of the schemes for epistemocratic domination of the territory of the empire that the German philosopher G. W. Leibniz (1646-1716) had begun to lay out to Peter the Great and his councilors as early as the 1690s. The expedition involved over 3000 people, including learned Academicians and manual workers alike. It was perhaps the most comprehensive effort anywhere in the world up until that time to use state power for the systematic collection of what Leibniz would call res singulares, and for the determination of answers to a great number of queries. Many of these queries, and instructions for how to answer them, first took shape decades earlier in the work of Leibniz himself, I will argue, and his instructions continue to animate and shape, often explicitly, the field research of many of the members of the expedition.

Andrei Vorobiev, “Visual art in the system of academic knowledge in Russia of the 18th century. Peoples of Russia: from curiosity to political theater”

The unity of science and art was an important part of the education system in the Russian Academy of Sciences. The artists actively participated in scientific projects, including accompanying ethnographic expeditions. So was collected a huge visual material - drawings with the image of peoples, their costumes and household items. These drawings became the basis of collections of the visual materials of Kunstkamera.

In the era of Catherine II they were used to prepare the first illustrated work on the history of Russian ethnography - the book by the academician Y.G. George "Description of all the peoples living in the Russian state..." and later - to create a series of porcelain figures "People of Russia”.

This project was a unique example of the complicated system of relations between academic science, artistic practice and ideological demands of the imperial court for which ethnic diversity became a symbol of political power.

call for papers: Identity building in 20th century European Academia: How political changes shaped the culture of remembrance of scientific institutions.

call for papers: EARI 2025 annual conference - Identity building in 20th century European Academia: How political changes shaped the culture of remembrance of scientific institutions. 02.06.2025 - 04.06.2025, Prague. Deadline 14.02.2025.

The century that witnessed two World Wars, imperial decline and the growth of national self-consciousness also brought about an intense search for historical traditions on which both university and non-university science and research institutions could establish themselves and defend their position in national and international arenas. This process was particularly intense in the newly established states of Central and Eastern Europe, which sought to consolidate their identity in every way possible. Both old and newly founded institutions were engaged in identity politics. What did this consist of? Which goals were being pursued? And to what extent were they achieved? While some institutions presented themselves as the vanguard of modernity, not based on but instead breaking with the past, most constructed and presented specific histories. The EARI 2025 annual conference will inquire into these processes of identity construction, focusing on academies of sciences and other academic institutions.

All across Europe, the construction of traditions and the establishment of the desired historical memory of scientific institutions became an important tool of self-assertion and public recognition. Inventing traditions could serve to assert Soviet power in its satellite states as well as provide self-assurance for colonial powers overseas or ruling nations or classes in newly formed states.

Popular forms of tradition construction included the celebration of various anniversaries, the commemoration of historical figures, the naming of prizes and awards, and representative editorial undertakings. An important role was assigned to the architecture of academic buildings, symbols such as seals, diplomas and university insignia, various rituals, and special elements of attire. This went hand in hand with the “purification” of the traditions and historical memory of national academies of sciences and other institutions, which entailed the removal of elements considered undesirable. These could be reminders of monarchy, traces of involvement in colonialism and imperialism, and also vestiges of the Nazi period, the Vichy regime or the communist era in post-Socialist Eastern and East Central Europe. Memory competitions, such as those concerning anciennity or historical relevance, were of importance both nationally, in the competition between academies and between academies and other academic institutions, also internationally.

This process of identity building took place against the backdrop of fundamental transformations in the basic definition of academies of sciences in Europe. In this period, natural sciences and engineering were becoming increasingly important while the social sciences and humanities, which had played a key role in the national conflicts of the 19th century, were declining in significance. Science ceased to be seen primarily as part of national culture and its economic and strategic potential began to be emphasized. Therefore, the academies of sciences, which had initially been vital parts of nation building processes and nationalist conflicts, had to change their branding to better compete with other specialized academic societies, such as those focused on agriculture or technology. This led to new narratives of academies as historically pro-industrial or, conversely, as historically pro-environmental organizations. The past was constantly re-interpreted and tailored to a specific public in specific media.

To what extent, then, have political, social, and cultural changes shaped the cultures cultures of remembrance and the understanding of tradition in scientific institutions, especially academies of sciences and humanities? And in what way?

We invite potential contributors to submit case studies and contributions that go beyond individual cases, analyzing historical trends and addressing comparative and transnational issues.

Please submit an abstract of approx. 300 words and a short CV (1 page max.) or alternatively the link to an individual page within an academic institution’s website. Submit by 14 February 2025 by emailing Christiane.Diehl@leopoldina.org.

TRAVEL GRANTS: Support for travel expenses will be available for contributors who do not have recourse to any other institutional funding.

The organizers would be grateful if you could advertise the conference via your own networks.

Organizing committee: Christiane Diehl (Halle/S.), Johannes Feichtinger (Vienna), Martin Franc (Prague), Tomasz Pudłocki (Cracow), Jan Surman (Prague)

hybrid event: Sławomir Łotysz: Natural and Man-Made Epidemics in the Polish Media Discourse on the Korean War

hybrid event: Sławomir Łotysz: Natural and Man-Made Epidemics in the Polish Media Discourse on the Korean War, 2.12.2024, 11:00 CET 

I cordially invite you to attend, in person or remotely, my lecture "Natural and Man-Made Epidemics in the Polish Media Discourse on the Korean War" on 2 December 2024 at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology and the Faculty of Law and Letters of the University of Tokyo. I am grateful to Professor Akihito  Suzuki for this great honour and kind invitation to deliver this lecture as part of the Death & Life Studies and Practical Ethics Lecture Series.

This will be a hybrid event, check the login details. Stay tuned for updates at (see https://dalspe.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/eg241202.html).

The presentation includes my findings from Medep project funded by Narodowe Centrum Nauki within the Chanse - Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe framework.

Working Group on ‘Risk, Health, and State Socialism: Central and Eastern Europe, 1950s-1980s’

 Working Group on ‘Risk, Health, and State Socialism: Central and Eastern Europe, 1950s-1980s’ 

We invite scholars to join a working group exploring risk, health, and medicine under state socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. Through a series of 2-3 collaborative meetings, we aim to investigate risk-related practices, ideas, and technologies in state socialist healthcare, with the goal of preparing a publication, such as a special issue.

Existing scholarship, following the works of Ulrich Beck, Nikolas Rose, or François Ewald, has linked concepts of risk and ‘risk society’ primarily to Western Europe and the United States. Emerging from a shared sense of crisis during the 1970s—intensified by economic recession and growing anxieties about the complexity of modern society—risk became a technique of governance that offered a framework for addressing new social challenges by making them more predictable and calculable. Particularly in the fields of medicine and healthcare, from disease prevention and public health to drug control and biomedical research, the language of risk and risk factors has become increasingly prominent.

While much of this historiography has focused on liberal democracies, less attention has been given to how concepts of risk operated in state socialist contexts. Building on recent studies in the history of medicine and health, we invite scholars to join a working group examining risk, health, and medicine under state socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. To what extent did state socialist regimes recognize certain health and medical issues as ‘governable’ through risk? What kinds of practices and ideas emerged in response? And were there differences or similarities between state socialist and liberal democratic models of risk in healthcare and medicine? Our aim is to take an exploratory approach to discuss whether, and in what contexts, the concept of risk can be applied to state socialism, and to examine the risk-related practices, ideas, and technologies observed in healthcare and medicine in state socialism. The outcome of our collaboration is intended to be a publication, such as a special issue.

The initial one-day, in-person meeting of the working group will be held in May 2025 at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine, Charité Berlin. This meeting will focus on outlining the framework for our collaboration, presenting preliminary research ideas (10–15 minute presentations), and discussing potential outcomes of our work. We anticipate at least one or two additional follow-up meetings in autumn 2025 and spring 2026, either online or in person, based on participants’ preferences, to discuss our draft research papers. The aim is to prepare the final manuscripts for submission by the end of 2026, though this timeline may allow for adjustments as needed.

Potential research topics include prevention and self-prevention practices under state socialism; socialist medical innovation and emerging fields such as medical cybernetics; public health and environmental hazards; quantification, forecasting and computational technology in healthcare planning; risk, crime and control; health insurance and workplace safety. Other perspectives and research questions are warmly encouraged.

If you are interested in participating, please send a brief CV and a short abstract (no more than 300 words) describing your research on risk, health, and medicine in state socialism to jakub.strelec@charite.de by January 31, 2025. You are also welcome to include a note on specific themes or questions you would like to explore within the group.

Travel and accommodation costs for the meetings in Berlin can be covered. The exact meeting date in May will be coordinated with participants. The primary language of the working group will be English. Due to the discussion-based format of the group, the number of participants will be limited to six.

The working group is organized by Dr. Jakub Střelec (ERC Leviathan, Charité Berlin) and supported by the European Research Council (GA No. 854503). Please feel free to reach out with any questions or suggestions you may have.

Contact Information

Jakub Střelec

Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik in der Medizin

Campus Benjamin Franklin

Thielallee 71, 14195 Berlin

Eugeniusz Rybka: Kronika mego życia [Chronicle of my life].

Eugeniusz Rybka: Kronika mego życia [Chronicle of my life]. Warszawa: IHN PAN, ASPRA: 2024.

Spis treści: https://www.aspra.pl/products/files/1040_1725002250_ko44.pdf

Eugeniusz Rybka należał niewątpliwie do wąskiego grona najbardziej rozpoznawalnych i wpływowych astronomów polskich XX wieku. Przez blisko 50 lat w znacznym stopniu od Niego zależało, jak wyglądała i dokąd zmierzała astronomia w Polsce. Kierował kolejno trzema obserwatoriami uniwersyteckimi: we Lwowie, Wrocławiu i Krakowie; był autorem pamiętnych książek, z wielokrotnie wznawianą Astronomią ogólną na czele; piastował wiele ważnych funkcji w organizacjach naukowych i społecznych. Astronomia polska XX wieku nie została jeszcze uwieczniona w monografii. W oczekiwaniu na obiektywną i wyczerpującą prezentację jej dziejów i dorobku, warto zapoznać się z Kroniką Eugeniusza Rybki.

Z Przedmowy

Hroch, Miroslav: Jak jsem to tenkrát viděl. Vzpomínky [The way I saw it then. Memories]. Praha: Academia 2024

 Hroch, Miroslav: Jak jsem to tenkrát viděl. Vzpomínky [The way I saw it then. Memories]. Praha: Academia 2024. ISBN: 978-80-246-5575-8

V knize vzpomínek rekapituluje jeden z nejvýznamnějších českých historiků Miroslav Hroch svou profesní dráhu, zejména působení na Filozofické fakultě Univerzity Karlovy. Kromě badatelské činnosti se ale zamýšlí i nad svým osobním životem v kontextu soudobých politických událostí a reflektuje, jak je tehdy vnímal. Každou kapitolu vzpomínek uzavírají otázky, které autorovi položil o dvě generace mladší kolega Zdeněk Nebřenský.

panel "Medical Socialist Entanglements: Health Connections between Eastern Europe and Africa in the Global Cold War"

We welcome submissions for the panel "Medical Socialist Entanglements: Health Connections between Eastern Europe and Africa in the Global Cold War" (History Stream), at the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), in Prague, June 25-28 2025.

Short description of the Panel: The panel explores medical socialist internationalism and exchanges between Eastern Europe and Africa during the Cold War, focusing on the circulation of public health models and people, ideas, knowledge and materials and the agency of both state- and non-state actors.

Abstract:

A myriad of political, economic and cultural connections and exchanges developed between state-socialist Eastern Europe and the decolonising world from the 1950s. An always growing body of literature has explored various aspects of the East-South interconnections, but health and medicine demand more attention. On the other hand, global health history predominantly focuses on North American and Western European perspectives and there is still a need to recentre the field to peripheries and semi-peripheries. This panel explores socialist medicine and health connections between Eastern Europe and Africa and medical socialist internationalism in the global Cold War. The panel investigates medical socialist entanglements that intertwined geopolitical motivations, anti-colonial solidarity, development aid and business, and involved not only states, but also a multitude of diverse non-state actors. We welcome papers on the flow and exchange of people, ideas, knowledge and materials and on the circulations of public health models and medical technologies. We also invite researchers to present on imaginations and development of socialist medicine and postcolonial public health frameworks in Africa in connection to Eastern Europe and other socialist actors. The papers exploring medical socialist internationalism from the African perspectives are particularly welcome.

Organisers: Alila Brossard Antonielli (Humboldt Universität Berlin) & Jelena Đureinović (University of Vienna)

You can find the guidelines for the submission on this page: https://www.ecasconference.org/2025/call-for-papers/

The deadline for submission is the 15th of december 2024.

Contact Information

Alila Brossard Antonielli, PhD

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Dr. Jelena Đureinović, PhD

University of Vienna

SISS Conference of Early Career Scholars in History of Science

 We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the third SISS Conference of Early Career Scholars in History of Science “Storie di scienza”: Landscapes of Science. Places, Objects, Knowledge, Imaginaries. The conference will be held at the University of Padua (3-5 September 2025: Conference;  6 September 2025: Day trip)

Deadline for submitting proposals: 30 April 2025 

Information and details (both Italian and English) are available on the conference webpage:  https://societastoriadellascienza.it/index.php/it/attivita/convegni-siss/155-convegno-giovani-2025

Many thanks for your kind attention.

Kind regards

Organising Committee: Claudia Addabbo, Tiziana Beltrame, Federica Bonacini, Paola Bernadette Di Lieto, Elena Rizzi, Luca Tonetti, Valentina Vignieri 

CfP: Humanities in translations –translation in humanities

[Call for papers] Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of SciencesFaculty of Arts of Comenius University Bratislava & CEFRES (co-organizers)International colloquium

Humanities in translations –translation in humanities

Exploring transfer and reception

Date and venue: 15 – 16 May 2025, Bratislava, Slovakia

Full cfp: https://usvl.sav.sk/wp/?attachment_id=8979

To what degree can translation of these kinds of works be considered a scholarly activity in its own merit?Science is one of the most important factors in the formation of cultural life. It empowers nations. Due to its immense potential for the development of culture, science has thus become the most moral and sacred of all human endeavors and obligations.Ján Lajčiak: Slovensko a kultúra [Slovakia and culture], 1920

Translation has accompanied European civilization and learning since the times of ancient Rome. Throughout its history, translation has reached many important milestones. It started with the renderings of sacred texts, which at many places throughout Europe helped constitute national literature and establish standard written languages. Translation saw an important boost with the translatio studii movement which transferred and further developed classical learning in many regions of medieval Europe. In modern times translating gradually developed into distinct yet interconnected spheres of literary and specialized translation. Since the mid 20th century, translation became the focus of research in specialized translation theories. These brought forward complex typologies of translated texts and their relations based on translation genres or the nature of translation activities (as evidenced by concepts such as literary, technical, pragmatic, epistemic, or philosophical translation, cf. J.-R. Ladmiral, K. Reiss, M. Lederer, T. Milliaressi, and others). Today translations of humanities texts are understood as part of thought circulation, knowledge transfer, and the constitution of symbolic capital in the still pertinent asymmetries of cultures, languages, and intellectual milieus/fields (cf. P. Bourdieu).

Translated text from the humanities disciplines (incl. philosophy, sociology, arts, linguistics, literary theory and history, theology, etc.) carry contents and knowledge that in the last two centuries have entered into specific cultural and social circumstances and have always been reflected in specific cultural and geopolitical spheres, which themselves have undergone changes instigated by globalization and institutionalization. On these shifting grounds, translation as one of the means of knowledge transfer has unearthed new problems. Notwithstanding its complexities, translation has helped to spread scholarship; it has increased its value as well as established scientific knowledge it its various stages. In this sense, translation can be viewed as a constituent factor of cultural memory. Apart from that, it can be seen as an instrument of knowledge as well as an essential tool in research and academic education. The translations of key authors and texts gradually build up thesauri of knowledge, help canonize prominent thinkers, and constitute corpora of works whose presence in a given target culture is also arguably a matter of prestige.

Translating can also be a scientific and interactive, conversational activity and grow out of translators' research interests or out of pragmatic needs to instigate knowledge growth in the pedagogical sphere (as witnessed by so-called academic translations) and in the target cultures' research practices (in which case it enters a network of influences in knowledge exchange). Translators of science ans scholarship serve as mediators between languages, different thought traditions and intellectual heritages. This liminality impacts their strategies, methods, and decision processes. These translators also help promote scholarship (or, in the case of "classical" learning, high culture) and, unlike of their colleagues working on literary texts (whose main work prerequisite is creativity), what is most expected of them is the proficiency in the discipline from which they are translating. Given the thematic wherewithal it requires, scientific and scholarly translation is extremely sensitive to anything with a detrimental effect on its quality, be it from external sources (institutional and ideological pressures or censorship) or internal ones (professional or linguistic incompetence of translators or insufficient editing).

The colloquium aims to explore the circumstances of these kinds of non-literary transfers and translations, to study the commonalities and differences between Western and Central-Eastern Europe in this respect, and to look for answers to the following series of questions by sparking discussions and exchanges of ideas and experience:

To what degree do translations have the power to constitute thesauri of texts which are in effect the cultural and literary heritage of various humanistic disciplines?

Can translations fully realize their potential in scholarly knowledge transfer given the differences and asymmetries of cultures, intellectual arenas, and scientific establishments and given the strong ties of scholarly works to their source languages and the argumentation styles these encourage vis-à-vis the linguistic and discursive traditions of the target cultures?

In a globalized world dominated by English as its lingua franca, does it even make sense to translate humanities texts? Does it make sense to translate into smaller languages if there are already translations to English, from which quotations are often translated to other language as need arises? Does this signal the re-emergence of second-hand translation and with it a higher risk of shifts of meanings and other translation inaccuracies?

Is the reception of scientific knowledge through translation sufficient, desirable or, on the contrary, redundant given that even though science is said to be multilingual, in reality humanities scholars are basically required to master the languages of the foreign intellectual traditions they focus on?

What future lies ahead for this kind of translation given today's pressures to produce knowledge only in English? What are the consequences of such a trend? Do we risk non-translation, which would limit or effectively bar certain groups of readers (e. g. students or non-professionals) from attaining knowledge? Could such a situation negatively impact the languages and knowledge of target cultures?

And

What potential fault lines does humanities translation find itself at given the historical and geopolitical peculiarities of various political and ideological regimes?

How does humanities translation help disseminate and democratize knowledge on one hand and on the other indoctrinate (promote certain ideologies)?

What is the nature of humanities translations that have come about with ideological motivations (in order to support or supplant certain grand narratives)?

To what degree does the tendency not to translate, manifested through bans or censorship, affect the state of translation given that the texts which have not been translated become missing links in the chain of circulation and mediation of knowledge? What can be learned from belated translations and what impact do they have?

And

Along what paths and in what ways do social science and humanities knowledge, theories, and concepts travel through translation (institutional practices, publishers, editions, edition plans and intents, book publications, the role of anthologies, functions magazines play, etc.)?

How much does the manner of translating change with text type, for instance with philosophical texts or texts with interdisciplinary topics (literary essays, translation studies, art theory and history, spiritual texts)? To what degree can translation of these kinds of works be considered a scholarly activity in its own merit?

How is translation, the knowledge it brings forward, and the discursive practices agents dealing with it employ presented (paratexts such as notes, commentary, peer-review and editing) and contextualized it within the target book culture (editions as instructions for reception and understanding, books visuals as a means of emphasizing, downgrading, or misrepresenting their respective topics)?

We welcome contributions focusing on:

histories of humanities translations

translation and transfer of scholarly knowledge and their institutional contexts

translatability and untranslatability: concepts, terminology, types of scholarly texts and their argumentation, stylistic conventions

translators and key figures of humanities (case studies)

Colloquium languages: French, English

Abstracts + brief bio sketches (max. 1,800 chars.) to be submitted by 30 November 2024, using this application form (https://historyandtranslation.net/?mailpoet_router&endpoint=track&action=click&data=WyIxMTciLCJrNnpjM3RpdXk1Y2tjZzRjc2NrZzQ0ODhna3NnNGNnNCIsIjEwNiIsIjdhMDFhMWU4MTllNiIsZmFsc2Vd)

The abstracts will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee of the Colloquium.Organizational committee: Katarína Bednárová, Silvia Rybárová, Ján Živčák, Igor Tyšš

Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2025.

Please send your abstracts to the following e-mail address: humanintrans@gmail.com

Conference fee: 90 € (45 € for PhD. students).

HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: The Humanities and Social Sciences Perspectives

Call for papers: HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: The Humanities and Social Sciences Perspectives

Konstanz, October 9–10, 2025 | CfP Deadline: December 10, 2024

Organizers:  Katerina Suverina (U of Konstanz), Tatiana Klepikova (U of Regensburg), Nikolay Lunchenkov (TU Munich)

Since its emergence in the late twentieth century, the HIV/AIDS virus has caused one of the longest-lasting and deadliest pandemics in human history.[1] This pandemic has had vastly different fates across the world, shaping the image of whole continents (Africa),[2] animating identitarian movements (gay and lesbian movements in the US, the UK, and Western Europe),[3] or facing silence in the public discourse (socialist and post-socialist countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia).[4]

While primarily situated in the domain of medical science, in Western countries, this pandemic has drawn close attention of researchers focused on the cultural, historical, and anthropological analyses of the phenomenon of HIV/AIDS. They emphasize that the virus has played a central role in challenging not only the healthcare system but also academia, especially the humanities. As Stuart Hall rightly observes, HIV/AIDS “challenges us in its complexity, and in so doing has things to teach us about the future of serious theoretical work.” [5]. American researcher Paula A. Treichler, echoing Hall’s ideas, characterizes HIV/AIDS as an “epidemic of signification”[6] and so does Susan Sontag who famously speaks about “AIDS and its metaphors” in an eponymous essay, where she points out that the question of the new virus is a question of language and representation[7]. In advancing these theorizations of the pandemic, these and other scholars urge us to pause in response to a crisis that creates confusion, panic, and an acceleration of fear, and to diagnose societies, not patients.

Our conference orients this call for building up theoretical work in the humanities and social sciences in relation to the HIV/AIDS pandemic towards Eastern Europe and Central Asia. This region has infamously been a hotspot of the pandemic in Eurasia,[8] with the situation worsening steadily. UNAIDS reports foreground ideological rather than medical reasons behind the growing number of HIV-positive people in Eastern Europe.[9] Since the very arrival of the virus in the region during the socialist era, local governments and religious authorities have played a crucial role in silencing the HIV/AIDS-related discourse, obscuring the situation from the public, or weaponized it.[10]

While biomedical professionals and the NGO-sector have been attuned to the growing numbers and have addressed the situation in professional forums,[11] researchers in the humanities and social sciences with expertise in our region are yet to develop comprehensive theoretical approaches to this virus and its role in the socialist and post-socialist context. To this end, we invite researchers and artists to consider the following questions:

What do we know about HIV/AIDS outside the Western world – in Eastern Europe and Central Asia? What happens when we look at the history, culture, and politics of these regions through their relation to the HIV/AIDS? How have these regions imagined HIV/AIDS, and how have they, in turn, been imagined by others through the virus? What was the role of socialism and the post-socialist condition in the development of the pandemic in our region? What do transnational and transregional solidarities in treating the virus and/or silencing it tell us about global flows of power, ideology, and capital? What stigmas has the pandemic fostered? What are the affective histories of this virus? How does the HIV/AIDS lens contribute to our understanding of histories of violence and vulnerability in Eastern Europe and Central Asia? And how can it shape the advancement of critical theory in our Area Studies?

We invite academic and artistic contributions from Cultural Studies, Anthropology, the History of Law, the History of Sexuality, Gender and Queer Studies, the History of Medicine, Media Studies, and other disciplines that look at cultural, social, and biopolitical aspects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Eastern Europe and Central Asia that align with the questions above and go beyond them.

Please submit an abstract of about 250 words and a short bio by December 10, 2024

to katerina.suverina@uni-konstanz.de AND tatiana.klepikova@ur.de. Following the selection of participants in December 2024, organizers will be applying for third-party funding to cover travel and accommodation costs – in particular, we are endeavoring to offer support to early-career researchers and colleagues from lower-income countries.

Contact Email

tatiana.klepikova@ur.de

URL

https://tatianaklepikova.com/cfps/

New Literary Review, No. 185 (1/2024): FREE UNIVERSITY OF LENINGRAD (1988 - 1991) (Russian with English abstracts)

 Новое литературное обозрение, No. 185 (1/2024): СВОБОДНЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ В ЛЕНИНГРАДЕ (1988 — 1991)//

New Literary Review, No. 185 (1/2024): FREE UNIVERSITY OF LENINGRAD (1988 - 1991) (Russian with English abstracts)

(open access: https://www.nlobooks.ru/magazines/novoe_literaturnoe_obozrenie/185_nlo_1_2024/)

СВОБОДНЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ В ЛЕНИНГРАДЕ (1988 — 1991)

Дмитрий Бреслер. От составителя

Дмитрий Бреслер, Дарья Переплетова. Свободный университет в Ленинграде (1988—1991): институциональная и метапоэтическая форма «новой литературы»

Дарья Переплетова. Как вспахать поле литературы: мастерская критической прозы Ольги Хрусталевой в Свободном университете в Ленинграде

Дмитрий Бреслер. Как вспахать зеркало: поэтическая мастерская Бориса Останина в Свободном университете в Ленинграде

Валерий Артамонов, Глеб Денисов, Дмитрий Голынко. Из неопубликованного номера журнала «Часы» (публикация Руслана Миронова)

H-Diplo | RJISSF Roundtable 16-13 on Rindzevičiūtė, The Will to Predict

H-Diplo | RJISSF Roundtable 16-13 on Rindzevičiūtė, The Will to Predict

15 November 2024 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt16-13 | Website: rjissf.org | Twitter: @HDiplo

Editor: Diane Labrosse

Commissioning Editor: Seth Offenbach

Production Editor: Christopher Ball

Pre-Production Copy Editor: Bethany Keenan

Contents

Introduction by Benjamin Peters, The University of Tulsa. 2

Review by Teresa Ashe, The Open University. 7

Review by Ivan Boldyrev, Radboud University. 14

Review by Ksenia Tatarchenko, Singapore Management University. 20

Response by Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, Kingston University London. 24

Andrzej Brzeziecki, Zmierzyć arszynem. Marek Karp i Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich [Measure with arshins. Marek Karp and the Center for Eastern Studies]

Andrzej Brzeziecki, Zmierzyć arszynem. Marek Karp i Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich [Measure with arshins. Marek Karp and the Center for Eastern Studies], Cracow: Znak 2024. ISBN: 978-83-240-9026-6

„Zmierzyć arszynem. Marek Karp i Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich” - książka Andrzeja Brzezieckiego

Historia instytucji kształtującej polską politykę wschodnią

III Rzeczpospolita rodziła się w rewolucyjnym zamęcie, z bagażem przeszłości i z nadziejami na przyszłość. Historia stworzonego przez Marka Karpia Ośrodka Studiów Wschodnich niczym w soczewce skupia wszystkie dobre i złe cechy tworzonego po 1989 r. państwa oraz jego administracji - począwszy od organizacyjnego chaosu i maszyn do pisania, po profesjonalizm, nowoczesne technologie i międzynarodowe kontakty. Było to możliwe dzięki wizji i odrobinie szaleństwa „ostatniego obywatela Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego”, jak czasami nazywany był Karp. Bo jego wizja przyszłości Polski miała mocne fundamenty w przeszłości.

Karp zebrał wokół siebie niebagatelne grono zapaleńców gotowych służyć państwu. Dla jednych jajogłowi, dla drugich szpiedzy – od ponad 30 lat analitycy OSW obserwują otoczenie Polski, by ostrzec przed niebezpieczeństwem, nim zawiśnie nad naszymi granicami. Robią to w przekonaniu, że wbrew temu, co pisał rosyjski poeta, Rosję można „zmierzyć arszynem”, czyli próbować, bez emocji, zrozumieć politykę Kremla i innych państw na Wschodzie. Od lat też pełnią ważne funkcje państwowe, a ich wiedza oraz doświadczenie cenione są przez kolejne rządy i szanowane za granicą.

Książka Andrzeja Brzezieckiego to pełna ciekawych szczegółów, nie pozbawiona dramatyzmu, ale też odrobiny humoru opowieść o jednej z najbardziej niezwykłych i ważnych instytucji w Polsce..

Online event: book launch A New Organon: Science Studies in Interwar Poland.

Online event: book launch A New Organon: Science Studies in Interwar Poland. (Ed. by Friedrich Cain and Bernhard Kleeberg. Tübingen 2024.). Wednesday, November 20, 16:15 CET/ 10:15 EST; zoom. Organized by Commission on the History of Science of the PAU, Scientific Studies Laboratory of IHN PAN, Committee on Scientific Studies of the PAN.

Polski poniżej

(To receive the link email surman@mua.cas.cz)

The history of science of science has attracted a growing number of researchers in recent years. However, one of the key problems remains the visibility of scholarship that was not originally written in languages such as French, German, or English. The book A New Organon: Science Studies in Interwar Poland (ed. Friedrich Cain and Bernhard Kleeberg. Tübingen 2024), which grew out of a workshop in Konstanz in 2015 and a parallel translation project, takes up the challenge by bringing together primary texts and contributions by historians that contextualize the flourishing Polish naukoznawstwo of the interwar period. At the book launch, translator Tul'si (Tuesday) Bhambry, editor Friedrich Cain, and one of the authors, Jan Surman, will discuss the book and the challenges of translating and writing about this topic for an international audience, reflecting also on the process of book editing as cultural translation.

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Serdecznie zapraszam na internetowe wspólne posiedzenie naukowe Komisji Historii Nauki PAU,  Pracowni Naukoznawstwa IHN PAN i Komitetu Naukoznawstwa PAN, które odbędzie się w środę 20 listopada 2024 r., godz. 16.15 na platformie ZOOM (link poniżej).

Wykład pt.

Prezentacja książki A New Organon: Science Studies in Interwar Poland (2024)

przedstawią

Tul’si (Tuesday) Bhambry (Tłumaczka; Berlin, Niemcy), Friedrich Cain (Universität Wien, Austria), Jan Surman (Masarykův ústav a Archiv Akademie věd ČR, Praga, Czechy).

Historia nauki o nauce przyciąga w ostatnich latach coraz większą liczbę badaczy. Jednak jednym z kluczowych problemów pozostaje widoczność badań, które nie zostały pierwotnie napisane w językach takich jak francuski, niemiecki czy angielski. Niedawno wydana książka A New Organon: Science Studies in Interwar Poland (red. Friedrich Cain i Bernhard Kleeberg. Tybinga 2024), rezultat konferencji w Konstancji w 2015 roku i równoległego projektu tłumaczeniowego, podejmuje to wyzwanie, gromadząc wybrane oryginalne teksty i kontekstualizujące artykuły historyków, którzy przybliżają czytelnikom polskie naukoznawstwo okresu międzywojennego. Podczas prezentacji książki tłumaczka Tul'si (Tuesday) Bhambry, redaktor Friedrich Cain i jeden z autorów, Jan Surman, omówią książkę oraz wyzwania związane z tłumaczeniem i pisaniem o polskim naukoznawstwie dla międzynarodowej publiczności, zastanawiając się również nad procesem edycji książki jako przekładem kulturowym.

prof. dr hab. Michał Kokowski

Przewodniczący Komisji Historii Nauki PAU