Tomasz Pudłocki: Szekspir i Polska. Życie Władysława Tarnawskiego (1885 - 1951) [Shakespeare and Poland. Life of Władysława Tarnawskiego (1885-1951)

Tomasz Pudłocki: Szekspir i Polska. Życie Władysława Tarnawskiego (1885 - 1951) [Shakespeare and Poland. Life of Władysława Tarnawskiego (1885-1951)], Rzeszów–Warszawa: IPN 2023. ISBN: 978-83-822-9782-9

Władysław Tarnawski (1885-1951), profesor filologii angielskiej Uniwersytetów Jana Kazimierza we Lwowie i Jagiellońskiego oraz przywódca lwowskiej endecji pod koniec życia przyznawał, że w swojej działalności naukowej czegokolwiek by nie zgłębiał, zawsze odnosiło się to do Szekspira: "[.] mogę powiedzieć, że Szekspir czasem wplątywał się w moje życia i w tok wypadków, które na nie oddziaływały". Angielski poeta był zatem dla uczonego pewnym stałym punktem odniesienia, z którym nie rozstawał się nawet w stalinowskim więzieniu, w ostatnich miesiącach życia. Po latach został zapamiętany głównie jako tłumacz całej twórczości Szekspira i jedyny polski uczony, który podjął się tego zadania. Wynikało to ze specyficznego paradoksu - najpierw był niewygodny jako jeden z tych, którzy przeciwstawili się ugruntowywaniu systemu komunistycznego, a potem dla piewców II Rzeczpospolitej, jako krytyk systemu sanacyjnego i narodowiec-antysemita. Zatem Tarnawski nie tylko dwukrotnie zapłacił bardzo wysoką cenę za swoje zaangażowanie polityczne, ale i nie pasował do wizji swego narodu kreowanej przez Polaków z pierwszej połowy XX w., którą promowano po 1989 r. Dokonywano na nim swego rodzaju operacji pamięci, a więc wycinano lub przynajmniej gładko obchodzono te elementy jego biografii, które nie pasowały do wzniosłej wizji męczennika nauki - ofiary stalinowskiej walki przeciwko polskim intelektualistom. Tymczasem jego biografia jest dużo bardziej skomplikowana, a przez to interesująca. Z książki wyłania się dziennikarz, teatrolog, popularyzator kultury europejskiej, baczny obserwator życia politycznego i polityki zagranicznej okresu międzywojennego, który łączył pracę na uniwersytecie z szeroką działalnością w życiu publicznym i społecznym, dla którego polski Lwów był swoistego rodzaju "centrum świata".

Call for Papers: The Counter-University. Histories, Movements, and Ambitions

 Call for Papers: The Counter-University. Histories, Movements, and Ambitions

The declaration of “counter-universities” has been part of activists’ repertoires for many decades. The practice became known primarily through the student movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Since the mid-1960s, numerous “free” universities have emerged in the USA in the context of protests for “free speech” and against the Vietnam War. At the latest, the transnational protest events of 1967/1968 made the declaration of “free”, “critical”, “political” or “autonomous” universities common practice in many Western European countries. Since then, the creation of counter-universities has served as an influential tool of developing critique of science and higher education, as well as imagining potentially more satisfactory approaches to higher learning and knowledge formation.

This conference invites scholars interested in the history and present of the counter-university to share their ideas on this significant yet under-researched transnational phenomenon. Despite the wide spread and centrality of the counter-university, research so far has hesitated to approach the phenomenon and its diverse manifestations as spatially as well as temporally connected. Therefore, this conference is dedicated to open a discussion about counter-universities’ pasts and presents and to assess their role in world-wide struggles for social and educational reforms.

In particular, we are looking for case studies as well as broader comparative and analytical papers that situate the phenomenon in the history of protest, counterculture and higher education. Among others, we welcome papers from history, history of education, history of science, art history, cultural studies, sociology, and social movements studies.

We particularly welcome contributions addressing the following topics:

“Political”/”Critical”/”Free”/”Anti”-universities of the 1960s and 70s, and their offshoots

Women’s universities; feminist university projects; gay and queer counter-universities

Counter-universities and learning spaces in art (historical and contemporary)

“Democratic”/”citizens’”/”people’s” universities; counter-universities and trade unions

Ecological and green counter-universities’ past and present

Mobile/Travelling Universities

Populist and right-wing counter-universities

Counter-universities and social struggles of the present

PLEASE NOT: state reform projects in higher education, if there is no direct connection to movement’s / artists’ activities

Analytical angles may be, but are not limited to:

Creating the counter-university: constitution, protest forms, ambitions and aesthetics

Critique of universities, higher learning and science (as it is/was); concepts of improving learning and research; utopias of scientific communities and knowledge formation

Counter-universities’ everyday; content and forms of learning and teaching; didactics, exams and certificates; impact on/interaction with individual disciplines and curriculum development in the regular university

Media usage; media formats; modes of communication

Relations to social movements; relation to reform projects inside academia

Interactions/conflicts with regular universities and politics; relation to state level politics /state reform projects

Impact/consequences, both to individual biographies and science/education at large

The conference will take place at the University of Copenhagen, February 12–14, 2025, and is organized by Susanne Schregel and Detlef Siegfried (both Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen).

If you are interested in participating, please submit your abstract (of no more than 500 words, for a presentation of about 30 minutes) to susanneschregel@hum.ku.dk by May 16, 2024.

Decisions on the acceptance or rejection of proposals will be announced by the end of May 2024.

We intend to publish the outcomes.

The organizers will apply for funding to assist with travel and accommodation costs.

In case of any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the organizers via email.

Deadline for abstracts: 16 May 2024

Decisions by: 31 May 2024

Conference Date: 12–14 February 2025

Conference Venue: University of Copenhagen

Contact: susanneschregel@hum.ku.dk

Contact Information

Susanne Schregel

Contact Email

susanneschregel@hum.ku.dk

Vernacular Medicine in Tashkent/ Space Botany in Art. Online colloquium by Chorus group

Online event by CHORUS: Colloquium for the History of Russian and Soviet Science , Thursday, May 16, at 8 am (Los Angeles) / 11 аm (New York) / 17:00 (CET) / 18:00 (Kyiv) / 19:00 (UTC+03:00)

Maria Pirogovskaya (independent researcher, Berlin), Vernacular bone-setting and Tashkent Institute for Traumatology and Orthopaedic Treatment in the post-war era: Knowledge colonised, appropriated or ‘braided’?

Ilona Jurkonytė (Vilnius University), Configurations of Space Botany in Art

(for link to the meeting please write to jan.surman@gmail.com)

Details:

Maria Pirogovskaya (independent researcher, Berlin), Vernacular bone-setting and Tashkent Institute for Traumatology and Orthopaedic Treatment in the post-war era: Knowledge colonised, appropriated or ‘braided’?

In 1953, an Uzbek military doctor submitted a medical dissertation on the topic of Central Asian vernacular bone-setting. While framed as a quackery and a threat for the Soviet public health, bone-setting practiced by urban healers was nevertheless considered worthy of painstaking inspection both by the aspiring postgraduate surgeon and his supervisors in Tashkent Clinic for Traumatology and Orthopaedic Treatment. In the next decades, vernacular methods, skills, and particularly medicinal matter were carefully explored and tested, which changed the surgeon’s career as well as epistemic and social trajectories of the phenomena under his study. The talk focuses on extractive-cum-cooperative relationships between state-sponsored medical research and vernacular healing and discusses the heuristic potential of frameworks of colonisation, appropriation, and braiding in regard of ethnic knowledge in the long shadow of Soviet medicine.

Maria Pirogovskaya is medical anthropologist and historian of medicine. Her research interests include subjectivity, therapeutic landscapes, knowledge systems, and the senses in late Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. She is the author of Miasmata, Symptoms, and Evidence: Smells in Russian Culture, 1850–1900s (in Russian) (European Univ. Press, 2018), which discusses the social and cultural entanglements of olfactory vigilance, public health, and modernism in the Russian Empire. Her current research projects focus on the legacies of imperial medicine after the Russian Revolution and the history of the interaction of the ethnomedical knowledge of Eastern Siberia and Central Asia with Soviet state medicine.

https://mpiwg-berlin-mpg.academia.edu/MariaPirogovskaya

Ilona Jurkonytė (Vilnius University), Configurations of Space Botany in Art

The first complete plant growth cycle in zero gravity was achieved in the early 1980s by the Soviet scientific institutions that were stretched across the USSR. That period was the peak of Cold War tensions and international campaigning for nuclear disarmament. Collaboration between Soviet and Western scientists took place, yet all international communications went through Moscow and thus the visibility of contributions by non-Russian USSR scientists on a global scale was erased. This condition exemplified the dynamics in both science and cultural productions of the entire USSR. In this talk, I invite us to think together, how can we research the history of space botany today? What are the limitations of the Cold War epistemic framing? What methodological approaches could be useful when investigating the history of space botany from a perspective of a fragment of the space research infrastructure? What could film and media studies, as well as artistic research, bring to this area of exploration?

A link to compilation of excerpts from audiovisual installation Arabidopsis Thaliana, Museum of Modern Art Bogota 2021, co-authored by Ilona Jurkonytė and Santiago Reyes Villaveces https://vimeo.com/542859164

Ilona Jurkonytė is a film and media researcher and a Vilnius University Foundation Scholar. Previously Ilona was a Vanier Scholar at Concordia University (2015-2019), where she defended her PhD in Film and Moving Image program. Her background that merges philosophy (BA), art history and criticism (MA), media and communication studies (MA), and film and moving image studies (PhD). Her research interests span transnational film studies, environmental media studies, artistic research and film curation. Ilona’s work critically examines tensions between notions of the national and transnational in moving image production and circulation, as well as their geo- and hydro- political implications. She engages with environmental media approach to rethink coloniality in the Global Easts and beyond. Ilona is currently preparing a manuscript, based on her doctoral research, entitled “From Temperature of the War to Descending Clouds: US Bomb Archive and the Marshall Islands.” The project reconceptualizes the relationship between nuclear media archives, militarization, and the environment.

https://www.tspmi.vu.lt/en/zmogus/ilona-jurkonyte/

Per Högselius, Achim Klüppelberg: The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism

Per Högselius, Achim Klüppelberg: The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism. Budapest, New York: CEU University Press 2024. ISBN: 978-963-386-647-4

Open access: https://ceupress.com/sites/ceupress.ceu.edu/files/the_soviet_nuclear_archipelago.pdf

The war in Ukraine, with the exposure of nuclear power stations and the danger of atomic warfare, has made the legacy of the Soviet nuclear sector of critical importance.

The two authors map the Soviet nuclear industry in a shifting historical context, making sense of a complex socio-technical and environmental history. Taking an innovative approach, this book explores the history of atomic power in the former Soviet Union using the spatial dimensions of the nuclear industry as a point of departure. The key concept is that of the archipelago – a network of nuclear facilities spread throughout the Soviet territory, but mutually reliant on each other and densely connected.

The story traces the emergence of nuclear science and technology for military and civilian purposes through to the post-Soviet Russian nuclear corporations as providers of resources and technology. The book explains how nuclear developments in the Soviet Union interacted with processes of environmental and landscape change. The spatial lens offers an analytically fruitful and pedagogically stimulating way to comprehend the nuclear histories of the Soviet Union and its successor states.

East Central Europe, Volume 51 (2024): Issue 1 (Mar 2024): Special Issue: Biopolitics, socialism and the democratization of healthcare. Case studies from state-socialist Hungary,

 East Central Europe, Volume 51 (2024): Issue 1 (Mar 2024): Special Issue: Biopolitics, socialism and the democratization of healthcare. Case studies from state-socialist Hungary, edited by Viola Lászlófi

Articles:

Svégel, Fanni. "Feminist Mobilization for Reproductive Rights in State Socialist Hungary: The Abortion Petition Campaign of 1973", East Central Europe 51, 1 (2024): 1-25, doi: https://doi.org/10.30965/18763308-51010006

Lászlófi, Viola. "(Un)disciplined Patients, (Un)controlled Medical Authority?: Governmentality and the Changing Norms of Healthcare in State Socialist Hungary", East Central Europe 51, 1 (2024): 26-52, doi: https://doi.org/10.30965/18763308-51010004

Horváth, Zsolt K. "The Psychopathology of Allusion in the Kádár Era: “Marginality” and the Figure of “Hiding” in the Thought of Ferenc Mérei", East Central Europe 51, 1 (2024): 53-81, doi: https://doi.org/10.30965/18763308-51010001

Individual Submissions

Isański, Jakub. "Liberation, Resettlement, and Looting in Postwar Memoirs from Poland", East Central Europe 51, 1 (2024): 83-107, doi: https://doi.org/10.30965/18763308-51010003

Hoxha, Artan R. "Why Did Albanians Protect Jews during the Holocaust?: Albanian Historiography and New Insights from Oral Histories", East Central Europe 51, 1 (2024): 108-128, doi: https://doi.org/10.30965/18763308-51010002

CfP: Knowledge in Transition: Institutional Development and Reorganization of Eastern European Studies in the Early 20th Century.

 CfP: Knowledge in Transition: Institutional Development and Reorganization of Eastern European Studies in the Early 20th Century. 15.11.2024 - 15.11.2024, deadline: 17.05.2024. 

The Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg and the editors of the Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas will organize a conference on the institutional development and restructuring of Eastern European studies in the early 20th century on 15 November 2024 to mark the journal's 100th anniversary.

The call to engage with Eastern Europe beyond the study of Russia is not new. Immediately before the First World War, the circle of those professionally concerned with the Russian Empire was thrown into disarray. "By and large, our public opinion knows nothing of the nature of the great transformation process of the Russian present. Our judgment of our neighbor must become more secure," Otto Hoetzsch postulated in early 1913 in a memorandum aimed at founding a society for the study of Russia, in which scientific, political and economic interests would merge. Only a few years later, after the end of the war and the collapse of the Russian Empire, Hoetzsch reacted to the reorganization of the state and also focused on the Baltic states and Poland in the newly founded journal Osteuropa in 1925. In the same year, the Jahrbücher für Kultur und Geschichte der Slaven were published for the first time in Breslau under the direction of Erdmann Hanisch – as a continuation of the Jahresberichte für Kultur und Geschichte der Slaven, which had been launched in 1924. Here, historiography and Slavic studies were combined, so that literature from Czechoslovakia and the Ukrainian Soviet Republic was also discussed.

The journals Osteuropa and Jahrbücher für Kultur und Geschichte der Slaven are examples of an intensive phase of institutionalization of the study of Eastern Europe in the run-up to and aftermath of the First World War, which took place at universities, but also in the form of societies and associations – in many European countries as well as in North America. As an exile, Tomáš G. Masaryk inaugurated the multidisciplinary School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at King's College London in 1915 and a year later, together with its founder Robert W. Seton-Watson, initiated the weekly newspaper The New Europe to support the Czech and other national movements of the Habsburg monarchy. In 1922, The Slavonic and East European Review emerged from the SSEES with academic aspirations. In Warsaw, the Instytut Wschodni (Institute for Eastern Affairs), founded in 1926 as a scientific institute for the study of Russia and the Soviet Union, was politically closely linked to the Promethean movement, which sought an alliance with the national independence movements that had been subjugated by the Soviet Union since 1918. It cultivated contacts in the Caucasus and Central Asia through the journal Wschód-Orient and promoted Polish-Ukrainian understanding within the Polish Republic through the popular scientific Biuletyn Polsko-Ukraiński (Polish-Ukrainian Bulletin). Polish historians formulated their own ideas on the scientific and politically oriented study of Eastern Europe at the International Congress of Historical Sciences in Warsaw in 1933.

Some of the individual initiatives and protagonists of this 'founding period' have been well researched, but their European and transatlantic interconnections and their various academic and non-academic motivations have hardly been studied. The planned conference will therefore focus on the socio-political contexts and interrelationships of the various projects, their financial foundations, the biographies and networks of their protagonists, the constitution of bodies of knowledge as well as the role of travel, emigration and exile.

Please send your proposal for a presentation (approx. 300 words) and a short CV to Katharina Kucher (jahrbuecher@ios-regensburg.de) by May 17, 2024. A decision on the acceptance of the presentation will be made by June 17, 2024.

The conference will take place on November 15, 2024 in Regensburg at the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies. Travel expenses and accommodation will be covered for speakers. Conference languages are German and English.

Contact Information

PD Dr. Katharina Kucher

Redaktion der Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas / Editorial Office Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas

Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung / Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies

Landshuter Straße 4

93047 Regensburg, Germany

Contact Email

jahrbuecher@ios-regensburg.de

Hybrid event (Ukrainian): Плагіат і запозичення в українській науці: від ХVII століття до сучасності

Hybrid event (Ukrainian): Плагіат і запозичення в українській науці: від ХVII століття до сучасності // Plagiarism and borrowings in Ukrainian science: from 17th century up to our days. April 27, 14:00 (Kyiv time), Музей Михайла Грушевського, вул. Паньківська, 9 & zoom

URL: https://www.facebook.com/events/7622236741174215/?ref=newsfeed

Запрошуємо на конференцію «Плагіат і запозичення в українській науці: від ХVII століття до сучасності»!

Свої доповіді представлять:

📜 Роман Кисельов. «Чужі тексти у творах давнього українського письменства та ранньоновочасні критерії плагіату».

Чи існувало поняття плагіату в часи, коли не було авторського права? Коли представлення чужого тексту як власного могло (не) вважатися переступом? Доповідач окреслить ранні принципи використання чужого і спробує на їх підставі оцінити деякі давні українські тексти.

📜 Оксана Юркова. «'Темна пляма на світлому фоні': До питання про плагіат у докторській дисертації директора Інституту історії АН УРСР Олександра Касименка та реакцію на нього».

У 1955 р. у докторській дисертації директора Інституту історії АН УРСР Олександра Касименка, яка того ж року була опублікована як монографія, було виявлено плагіат. Доповідачка коротко висвітить історію цього плагіатного скандалу, зверне увагу на реакцію наукової спільноти, партійних органів, ВАК СРСР, а також розкаже, чим все завершилось. Спойлер: Касименко очолював академічний інститут до 1964 року.

📜 Геннадій Єфіменко. «Компілятивний плагіат як вершина айсбергу академічної недоброчесності та інших руйнівних явищ в сфері науки в Україні на прикладі 'казусу Стасюк'».

У грудні 2021 року в докторській дисертації очільниці Музею Голодомору Олесі Стасюк було виявлено плагіат, що не завадило ні її захисту, ні, попри розширене звернення науковців, затвердженню дисертації Атестаційною колегією МОН. Доповідач окреслить історію «казусу Стасюк» та на цьому прикладі проаналізує проблему наукової репутації, видозміну плагіату та причини його перетворення на прийнятне для широкого загалу явище в Україні.

📜 Микола Федяй. «Російський секонд-хенд: Плагіат в українських історико-філософських текстах».

Практика крадіжки чужого тексту без зазначення авторства існувала в історико-філософських дослідженнях ще за радянських часів, проте набула бурхливого поширення саме в період незалежності. Не маючи власних ідей і дослідницьких напрацювань, автори взялися перекладати російські тексти українською, видаючи їх за власні. Доповідач проаналізує процес роботи плагіаторів та зосередиться на таких питаннях: характер запозичень, оригінальні вкраплення, а також рецепція російських наративів українськими авторами.

📍 Регламент: дві доповіді по 25 хв → перерва → дві доповіді по 25 хв → обговорення й дискусія.

● Коли: 27 квітня (субота) 14:00.

● Де: Музей Михайла Грушевського, вул. Паньківська, 9 (вхід через арку з вул. Паньківської).

● Вхід вільний.

● Хто не матиме можливості прийти на зустріч, зможе доєднатися онлайн за Zoom лінком: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88435263571?pwd=gE39JeZQHRnGbhfJP6UbaYmU2yqZdt.1

Про доповідачів:

◢ Роман Кисельов, кандидат філологічних наук, старший науковий співробітник Інституту літератури ім. Т.Г. Шевченка НАН України. До сфери наукових інтересів належить проблема авторства і культура користування джерелами в українській літературі ранньмодерного часу, її мовно-стилістичні риси, а також курси риторики Києво-Могилянської академії XVІI–XVIІI ст. https://ilnan.academia.edu/RomanKyselov

◢ Оксана Юркова, кандидатка історичних наук, провідна наукова співробітниця Інституту історії України НАН України. Сфера наукових інтересів: українська історіографія ХХ ст., іконографія, енциклопедистика, грушевськознавство, електронні інформаційні ресурси, антропологія академічного життя. http://resource.history.org.ua/person/0000512

◢ Геннадій Єфіменко, кандидат історичних наук, старший науковий співробітник Інституту історії України НАН України. Автор публікацій з історії радянської України 1917-1939 років. Предмет наукових зацікавлень – національно-культурна політика в Україні, відносини між УСРР та Кремлем, вчительство, Голодомор. http://resource.history.org.ua/person/0000143

◢ Микола Федяй, науковий співробітник Centre for the History of Renaissance Knowledge Інституту філософії і соціології Польської академії наук; аспірант Інституту філософії ім. Г.С. Сковороди НАН України. Дослідник української ранньомодерної філософії та освіти Києво-Могилянської академії XVII–XVIII століть. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=83x9q3kAAAAJ&hl=en

Kick-Off ERC-STG SCARCE

 Kick-Off ERC-STG SCARCE

April 17, 6 pm, Aula am Campus, Hof 1.11 (Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Vienna)

SCARCE (Sustained Concerns: Administration of Mineral Resource Extraction in Central Europe, 1550-1850) is a new five-year project at the University of Vienna. It aims to provide a history of today's stakeholder conflicts by showing how contradictory principles of resource management – economic development, sustainability, and technological innovation – were forged in protoindustrial settings. Sebastian Felten and his team will analyse thousands of administrative reports from across Central Europe and beyond using handwritten text recognition (HTR) and a method based on historical epistemology.

Join us for our kick-off event with short presentations and refreshments. All are welcome!

No RSVP necessary. The presentations will be streamed online via the following LINK (https://univienna.zoom.us/j/66185747619?pwd=RFR3VnBnM1J4M1dqZEZaczFRRkM5dz09).

18:00 Presentations

Christina Lutter (Dean of Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies): Greeting

Sebastian Felten, Claire Sabel, Sarah Seinitzer, Sebastian Leitner (SCARCE): Research Agenda

Peter Konečný (Slovak Mining Archive, Banská Štiavnica): Preserving Mining Heritage

Tina Asmussen (Ruhr University and German Mining Museum, Bochum): Landscapes as History

19:00 Reception­

[Image: Tubal-Cain in his forge, Johann Sadeler (I), after Maerten de Vos, 1583 (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Public Domain)]

Call for papers: Symposium, Histories of expertise, 19th-20th September 2024

 Call for papers: Symposium, Histories of expertise, 19th-20th September 2024, University of Turku

Historical research on experts and expertise has burgeoned during the past decades. This research has shown the need to consider how expert knowledge is made and given meanings, the polarisation of expertise, the regional and cultural differences in defining expertise, the social statuses of experts, as well as the social and material networks that constitute the making and contestation of experts and expert knowledge.

We take this opportunity to invite abstracts of on-going research addressing the making of experts, expertise and expert knowledge in the history of science, knowledge and technology, intellectual history, and related fields.

The purpose of the symposium is to bring together scholars working on the histories of expertise to share empirical findings and research approaches on this topic, with the possibility of working towards a joint publication.

We invite proposals for 20 minute presentations from researchers in various stages of their careers. The themes addressed can include the following topics in the histories of expertise:

Categories of experts, expertise and expert knowledge

How are experts made? What is the foundation of expertise?

What is expert knowledge? How is it made?

How can we study the different types of expert knowledge?

Regional and temporal differences in the definition of experts, expertise and expert knowledge

Questions of mobility: How are expert knowledge and skills transferred between actors, regions, industries, fields of science?

Reception and contestations of experts, expertise and expert knowledge

ABSTRACT REQUIREMENTS

250 words and a brief bio (250 words) by 15 May 2024 to historiesofexpertise@gmail.com.

Applicants will be notified by 1 June 2024.

For any queries, please contact historiesofexpertise@gmail.com.

Confirmed keynote speakers  are Markku Hokkanen (University of Oulu) and Stephanie Olsen (Tampere University).

Organizers:

Dr. Juha Haavisto, European and World History, University of Turku

Dr. Ranjana Saha, European and World History, University of Turku

Dr. Johanna Skurnik, European and World History, University of Turku

Image: Walter Langley, Expert opinion, Birmingham Museums Trust, Wikimedia Commons.

Happel, Jörn, Hussinger, Melanie, & Raupach, Hajo (Eds.). (2024). Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discovering, Surveying, and Ordering

 Happel, Jörn, Hussinger, Melanie, & Raupach, Hajo (Eds.). (2024). Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discovering, Surveying, and Ordering (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003386643

ABSTRACT

This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical, colonial and violent appropriation during the 19th century.

The 19th century was the century of world travel. The earth was explored, surveyed, described, illustrated, and categorized. Travelogues became world bestsellers. Modern technology accompanied the travelers and adventurers: clocks, a postal and telegraph system, surveying equipment, and cameras. The world grew together faster and faster. Previously unknown places became better known: the highest peaks, the coldest spots, the hottest deserts, and the most remote cities. Knowledge about the white spots of the earth was systematically collected. Those who made a name for themselves in the 19th century are still read today. Alexander von Humboldt or Charles Darwin made the epoch a scientific heyday. Ida Pfeiffer or Isabelle Bird (Bishop) traveled to distant continents and took their readers at home on insightful journeys. Hermann Vámbéry or Sir Richard Burton got to know the most remote languages and regions. There are countless travel reports about a fascinating century, which, with surveying and exploration, also brought colonial conquest and exploitation into the world. In ten individual studies, the authors explore travelers from all over the world and analyze their successes. The unifying element of all the studies is the experience of distance and its communication by means of travelogues to the armchair travelers who have stayed at home.

This volume will be of value to students and scholars both interested in modern history, social and cultural history, and the history of science and technology.

Mrázek, Jan (ed.): Escaping Kakania

Mrázek, Jan (ed.): Escaping Kakania : Eastern European travels in colonial Southeast  Asia. Budapest ; New York : CEU Press 2024. ISBN 978-963-386-665-8

open access: https://ceupress.com/sites/ceupress.ceu.edu/files/escaping_kakania_eastern_european_travels_in_colonial_southeast_asia.pdf .

Escaping Kakania is about fascinating characters-soldiers, doctors, scientists, writers, painters-who traveled from their eastern European homelands to colonial Southeast Asia. Their stories are told by experts on different countries in the two regions, who bring diverse approaches into a conversation that crosses disciplinary and national borders.

The 14 chapters deal with the diverse encounters of eastern Europeans with the many faces of colonial southeast Asia. Some essays directly engage with post-colonial studies, contributing to an ongoing critical re-evaluation of eastern European "semi-peripheral" (non-)involvement in colonialism. Other chapters disclose a range of perspectives and narratives that illuminate the plurality of the travelers' positions while reflecting on the specificity of the eastern European experience.

The travellers moved-as do the chapter authors-between two regions that are off-centre, in-between, shiftingly "Eastern," and disorientingly heterogeneous, thus complicating colonial and postcolonial notions of "Europe," "East," and East-West distinctions. Both at home and overseas, they navigated among a multiplicity of peoples, "races," and empires, Occidents and Orients, fantasies of the Self and the Other, adopting/adapting/mimicking/rejecting colonialist identities and ideologies. They saw both eastern Europe and southeast Asia in a distinctive light, as if through each other-and so will the readers of Escaping Kakania.

CfP Between the Local and the Global: Unpacking Environmental History of Ukraine

 CfP Between the Local and the Global: Unpacking Environmental History of Ukraine (Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia, Bulgaria, 25-26 September 2024)

The EnvHistUA Research Group is pleased to announce the call for papers for the conference “Between the Local and the Global: Unpacking Environmental History of Ukraine” to be held on 25-26 September 2024 at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), Sofia, Bulgaria.

The significant impact of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war on the environment of Ukraine has consequences far beyond the borders of the country which have gained visibility locally and globally. Scholars and practitioners across diverse disciplines have undertaken various projects intended to document environmental destruction and have organized a number of events. The media reports about the devastating impacts of everyday hostilities on flora and fauna, soil and water. NGO and state institutions collect data to recognize Russia’s actions towards nature as an act of ecocide. This unprecedented interest has brought the topic of Ukraine’s environment and ecological crises to the forefront of global media and scholarship. The Kakhovka dam disruption by the Russian military has uncovered deeper historical contexts of ecological issues. Unravelling current and similar historical relationships stand as the primary objective of environmental historians seeking to elucidate the complexity of the engagement of human with the surrounding environment.

EnvHistUA Research Group is organizing this scholarly conference in order to advance and consolidate the environmental history of Ukraine as a research field and address related challenges. The event aims to bring together scholars to discuss epistemological aspects and practical implications of researching and writing environmental histories of Ukraine that go beyond the realm of disasters and catastrophes. An imperative aspect of this endeavour involves writing, rethinking and diversifying the existing historical narratives about Ukraine’s environment. Our starting point is to expose, conceptualize and analyze the multifacetedness of nature–culture, human/society – environment interactions and developments through time and across Ukrainian lands. Secondly, we place great emphasis on transnational, trans-imperial, transborder, and global nexuses Ukraine’s environments were a part of. This epistemological approach holds the potential to unveil hitherto untold narratives, thereby enriching the fabric of history. Finally, the event engages with the question of what environmental history can offer to Ukrainian and European studies, as well as global studies, and vice versa. This knowledge is invaluable in addressing present and future environmental challenges sustainably and responsibly.

The workshop welcomes original papers on Ukraine’s environments across periods, which build on various methodologies and approaches and comprehensively engage with primary historical sources. Possible contributions may include, but are not limited to the following topics:

●      science-politics nexus and historiographical debates;

●      epistemologies, knowledge regimes and technologies;

●      methodological implications of Ukraine’s environmental history;

●      plants and animals;

●      agriculture and food systems;

●      diseases, epidemics, epizooties;

●      deforestation, soil erosion, water pollution;

●      ecology, geography, and climate,

●      landscapes and waterscapes etc;

●      colonial/imperial encounters, extractions, acts of violence and silence;

●      nature, nation and political imagination;

●      environment and culture;

●      transborder entanglements and circulations.

The workshop will bring together 15–20 scholars. To apply, fill in the application form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScu3ygtvWns6WafWvRzwn7erAY3FhpccSDpC9if74MUTQv3UQ/viewform) by 15 May 2024. Organizers will notify authors about the acceptance of their papers by the end of May 2024. Accepted participants will be asked to submit a draft paper of approximately 3000 – 5000 words (not counting footnotes and bibliography) two weeks before the workshop to facilitate more in-depth discussions during the event. An edited volume drawing on workshop papers is planned. The organizers will cover accommodation and meals during the event. Travel expenses will be reimbursed only if participants do not have any other funding. Please, indicate that in the application form.

If you have any questions, please contact us via email envhistua.official@gmail.com.

EnvHistUA Research Group:

Dr Anna Olenenko, Khortytsia National Academy, Ukraine; University of Alberta, Canada

Dr. Julia Malitska, Södertörn University, Sweden

Dr. Oleksii Chebotarov, University of Vienna, Austria

Organizers

EnvHistUA Research Group

Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS)

European Society for Environmental History

The workshop is supported by:

Östersjöstiftelsen (The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, Stockholm, Sweden)

GCE-HSG (Center for Governance and Culture in Europe at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)

Contact Email

envhistua.official@gmail.com

URL

http://eseh.org/call-for-conference-papers-between-the-local-and-the-global-unpacking-environmental-history-of-ukraine-centre-for-advanced-study-sofia-bulgaria-25-26-september-2024/

Grzegorz Konat: The Polish Transformation. Tadeusz Kowalik on the Epigonic Bourgeois Revolution of 1989.

 Grzegorz Konat: The Polish Transformation. Tadeusz Kowalik on the Epigonic Bourgeois Revolution of 1989. Amsterdam: Brill 2024. ISBN: 978-90-04-69424-8

The book takes an in-depth look at a hitherto unexplored part of the oeuvre of prominent Polish economist and historian of economic thought Tadeusz Kowalik: his thesis that the systemic transformation that took place in Poland in the late 1980s was a de facto "epigonic bourgeois revolution". Since Kowalik actually never extended his argument to support this thesis, the aim of the book is to answer the following question: If some important reflections on the revolutionary character of the Polish transformation scattered throughout Kowalik's works were to be found, would they together constitute a convincing justification for the thesis of the "epigonic bourgeois revolution"?

Call for Papers - Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, vol 3:

 Call for Papers - Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, vol 3: https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/journal-of-the-history-of-women-philosophers-and-scientists-brill/call-for-papers-volume-3-journal-of-the-history-of-women-philosophers-and-scientists/ .

Экспэдыцыя Вацлава Ластоўскага 1928 году: захаваная спадчына [Vaclav Lastowski's 1928 expedition: a preserved legacy].

Экспэдыцыя Вацлава Ластоўскага 1928 году: захаваная спадчына [Vaclav Lastowski's 1928 expedition: a preserved legacy]. Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum 2024.

Чытаць падрабязьней на сайце Скарынаўскай бібліятэкі: https://skaryna.org/lastouski/ .

Архіў забытай экспэдыцыі — уступны артыкул Вольгі Лабачэўскай: https://skaryna.org/lastou/ .

Дыхтоўны альбом адкрывае чытацтву ўнікальную калекцыю фотаматэрыялаў, сабраных этнаграфічнай экспэдыцыяй пад кіраўніцтвам Вацлава Ластоўскага на Случчыне і Мазыршчыне. У ёй прадстаўленыя выявы з арыгінальнага альбома экспэдыцыі 1928 г., які захоўваецца ў Бібліятэцы і музэі імя Францішка Скарыны ў Лёндане.

Вечарам меў мажлівасць пазнаёміцца з масіўным альбомам, пераплеценым у чырвоны аксаміт. У ім знаходзіцца каля трохсот фатаграфій, зробленых удзельнікамі этнаграфічнай экспедыцыі на Случчыну ў канцы 20-х гадоў. Дзякуючы гэтым здымкам захаваліся ўзоры народнага адзення, дойлідства. Зафіксаваны творы мастацтва, рэчы хатняга ўжытку. Бясцэнны скарб для гісторыкаў культуры! (Адам Мальдзіс "З літаратуразнаўчых вандраванняў")

Online event: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Andrej Svorenčík: Between the East and the West: The Life and Work of Alfred Zauberman

 Online event: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Andrej Svorenčík: Between the East and the West: The Life and Work of Alfred Zauberman - April 11 2024, 16:00 CET, zoom

On behalf of the organizers, I am pleased to extend an invitation to join us for a seminar exploring the history of Polish Sovietology during the Cold War.

Our upcoming session will be conducted via Zoom on April 11, 2024, at 4 pm Warsaw time.

During this session, Prof. Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Dr. Andrej Svorenčík from the University of Pennsylvania will present a paper titled "Between the East and the West: The Life and Work of Alfred Zauberman." Dr. Damian Bębnowski from the University of Łódź will offer commentary.

Please note that the seminar will be conducted in English. Should you wish to participate, reach out to Oleksandr Avramchuk at avramchukop@gmail.com. Zoom links will be distributed a few days prior to the event.

This seminar series is organized as part of the NCN project entitled "Diffused Experts’ Networks: The Destiny and Accomplishments of Polish Sovietologists in Exile during the Cold War" (no. 2021/41/B/HS3/01944), in collaboration with the "Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre" Centre in Lublin and the Historia BEZ KITU channel.

Best regards,

Oleksandr Avramchuk

online event: Pampered captives: Elephants in Saint Petersburg Imperial Menageries in the Long 19th Century

online event:  Pampered captives: Elephants in Saint Petersburg Imperial Menageries in the Long 19th Century, April 24, 9:00-11:00 CST; 16:00-18:00 CET. Registration: 

Presenters: Marianna Szczygielska (Institute of Ethnology, CAS, Prague) and Anastasia Fedotova (Institute for the History of Science and Technology, St. Petersburg)

Discussant: Nigel Rothfels (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Chair: Maria Pirogovskaya (European University in St Petersburg)

Organizer: Anastasia Fedotova 

Between 1796 and 1896 a total of nine elephants arrived in Saint Petersburg. These extraordinary animals were sent to the tsar and his heir as diplomatic gifts by dignitaries from Iran, Bukhara, Siam, and Abyssinia. The first three arrivals were placed in the so-called Hunting Yard (nowadays Saint Petersburg downtown), but later a special elephant enclosure was built in the gardens of the Tsarskoye Selo imperial residence. A host of dedicated caretakers and veterinarians attended to the needs of each animal. As avatars of power (Pirogovskaya 2024), these elephants were pampered rather than just enslaved (Robbins 2002). Our presentation explores the regimes of keeping and caring for elephants in the capital of the Russian Empire in the long nineteenth century. We start with discussing the logistics of moving the huge inhabitants of the tropics to North-Eastern Europe. Based on archival documents, we follow the lives of these nine elephants, as well as the people who served as their keepers to reconstruct the conditions of caring for these precious animal gifts. By focusing on the elephants’ diets, their veterinary care, and welfare, we analyze the expertise that laid the foundation for keeping elephants in the imperial menagerie. We do so in order to compare this ‘pampered’ elephant captivity with the conditions available for these animals in public zoological gardens and menageries in Russia and abroad. This comparison will highlight the role of political patronage and resources in captive elephant management beyond Western colonialism.  

Konrad Morawski, Toward a Universal Science. Sculpted and Painted Decorations in the Library of King Jan III at the Wilanów Palace

 Konrad Morawski, Toward a Universal Science. Sculpted and Painted Decorations in the Library of King Jan III at the Wilanów Palace, Warszawa 2023, ISBN 978-83-66104-98-3. URL: https://sklep.wilanow-palac.pl/pl/p/Toward-a-Universal-Science.-Sculpted-and-Painted-Decorations-in-the-Library-of-King-Jan-III-at-the-Wilanow-Palace/566 .

This book attempts to decipher the contents of the decorations inside Jan III’s library while partially reconstructing the history of its creation. The analysis of particular works of art and contextual studies enabled the formulation of certain conclusions concerning the original arrangement of the decorations and their ideological significance. One substantial contribution of this study is the identification of graphical sources used by those who furnished the room.

Call for papers: XI World Congress (International Council for Central and East European Studies)

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International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES) (British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies / UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies), WC1H 0AL London (United Kingdom), 21-25 July 2025, Deadline: 31.10.2024. URL: https://www.iccees2025.org/ .

‘Disruption’

The International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES) is proud to announce that its upcoming XI World Congress will be hosted by University College London around the theme of “disruption”. The regions covered by ICCEES are currently navigating a period of profound change and rupture, particularly in the aftermath of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Recent events have shown the need to disrupt conventional approaches to thinking about, studying, and researching these regions – their histories, cultures, languages, politics, economics, infrastructures, and societies.  Place-specific knowledge is as vital as ever in understanding how local and regional processes interact with transregional and global dynamics. At the same time, the need to reassess our methodologies, assumptions, and perspectives has never been more urgent. It is against this backdrop of transformation that we invite scholars, researchers, and practitioners to engage in conversations that push the boundaries of conventional understandings of past events and contemporary developments.

Hosted by University College London (UCL), an institution synonymous with disruptive thinking since its establishment in 1826, and the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), whose mission is to promote multidisciplinary, critical area studies, the ICCEES 2025 World Congress will provide an ideal setting for a conference centring on the idea of disruption. SSEES is the UK's largest institution for research and teaching on Central, Eastern, and South-East Europe, the Baltics, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. The School is home to one of the world’s largest concentrations of academic staff devoted to the study of this broad cluster of regions, with some 80 academics engaging in teaching and research in the fields of politics, sociology, economics, business, history, languages, literature, and culture, all underpinned by a commitment to language-based, critical area studies.

ICCEES welcomes paper, panel, and roundtable proposals with an area-specific focus as well as positioned within disciplinary and interdisciplinary frameworks. These disciplines and areas include, but are not limited to: Politics; History; Sociology; Geography; Film and Media; Languages and Linguistics; Literatures and Cultures; Anthropology; Economics; Baltic Studies; Black Sea Studies; Caucasus Studies; Central Asian Studies; Central and East European Studies; Habsburg Studies; Polish Studies; Russian Studies; Siberian Studies; South-East European Studies; Ukrainian Studies. We particularly encourage proposals that help push forward efforts to decentre and decolonise the study of the region.

The conference especially welcomes the participation of postgraduate research students and early career scholars.

The conference organisers also look forward to proposals for thematic colloquiums that can be held as part of the conference. If you would like to propose a colloquium, please email the conference organisers at academic.organisers@basees.org

Remote attendance:

We are welcoming remote paper presentations. If you wish to attend remotely, please indicate so when submitting your proposal. However, we cannot accept fully remote panels. The Chair of a panel, who can also be one of the presenters, must attend the conference in-person to lead the session and facilitate the discussion. We are operating a limited hybrid model. Delegates registering for remote attendance will be able to present their paper via Zoom and listen into all paper/panels. Full hybrid, i.e. using special 360° camera, mic and speaker equipment, will only be available in a small number of rooms.

The submission platform will open on June 1, 2024. The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2024. Information regarding registration fees and available travel grants/scholarships will be published in June 2024.

Venue:

UCL Institute of Education

20 Bedford Way,

London WC1H 0AL

Pavlíček Tomáš, W., Hyklová Petra, Šolc Martin: Astronomers behind the Iron Curtain. Open access

 Pavlíček Tomáš, W., Hyklová Petra, Šolc Martin: Astronomers behind the Iron Curtain: The First Postwar Generation in Czechoslovakia. Prague: Matfyzpress 2024. ISBN: 978-80-7378-507-9

Open access: https://matfyzpress.cz/data/web/astronomers-behind-iron-curtain2.pdf

The inauguration of the two-metre telescope at Ondřejov observatory and the 13th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Prague in 1967 was an important turning point in astronomy. After the discovery of quasars, new methods of observation were discussed, and the Space Race between two Cold War rivals was culminating. Luboš Perek, father of the mirror reflector and mastermind of the congress, became a leader of the generation of scholars and the Director of the Astronomical Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.

The formation of the generation was specific with regard to the war experience. This book shows how students of astronomy became experts and brought their knowledge into society using public observatories as places for the promotion of modern science.

call for papers: Russia’s Politics of Truth and its quest for alliances in the Global South. Erfurt

call for papers: Russia’s Politics of Truth and its quest for alliances in the Global South. Erfurt, 24.10.2024 - 25.10.2024, Deadline 01.04.2024.

Since 2014, we have been able to observe Russia portraying itself increasingly not just as the only remaining power of the morally good and historically true. In relation to countries of the Global South, Russia has also especially presented itself as an anti-colonial protecting power. This framing is anchored within two broader narratives:

First, under the slogan of “historical truth”, Putin is pushing a specific historical policy, the central reference point of which is the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in the so-called Great Patriotic War. This newly structured and enhanced past is turned into an ever-present prism – through iterative references by the state media, but especially events that allow a large portion of the population to directly participate in the commemoration of this past – by which the present can also be seen and interpreted (McGlynn 2023). At high-profile media events such as the Russia-Africa Summit, the Soviet Union's support of anti-colonial liberation movements has increasingly become part of these historical memory and updating practices, through which the claim of being on the "right side of history" is made.

Second, another anchor point lies in so-called “traditional values”, which primarily conceal an ultra-conservative gender policy that is characterized by homophobia, anti-feminism and anti-queer sentiments. Depictions of Gender Order can function as ‘symbolic border guards’ that allow essentialization and demarcation between communities (Riabova/Riabov 2014). Against this backdrop, comparative perspectives can be fruitful for our analysis: For the Polish case it has already been analyzed how the ultra-conservative gender policy agenda has appropriated an anti-colonial framing, with “gender” being depicted as “Ebola from Brussels” (Korolczuk/Graff 2018). The “traditional family” in this context becomes a signifier for self-determined, autochthonous, or even indigenous ways of life. This agenda is also being pushed and exported through the Russian Orthodox Church, not only within Russia but on a global scale, for example on the African continent.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has sparked intensive discussion within the discipline of East European Studies about decolonizing the subject. In this context, the basic epistemological assumptions of the discipline have been called into question. In relation to present-day Russia, the concept of a Foucauldian regime of truth was suggested to examine the connections between institutional conditions and social systems of norms and values (see Vulpius 2021). This could not only help to analyze the consent to war in parts of Russian society, but also in parts of the Global South.

The aim of the workshop is to analyze these Russian Politics of Truth (Kleeberg/Suter 2014) with a special focus on interconnections with the Global South. With the help of which terms and concepts, but also media and political techniques, is the Putin regime working to restructure the Russian and global past and present? How are new alliances and imagined communities created, especially with countries of the Global South? As an analytical lens we propose methodological approaches such as political epistemology and praxeology.

Contributions may address, but are not limited to:

- Focal points of a shared history / experience between Russian society and societies of the Global South

- Russian media networks and structures in the Global South

- Formations of “historical truth” in Russian society or comparable cases in the Global South

- Moral economies of Good and Evil in relation to the Russian Politics addressing the Global South

- Policies of “traditional values” and gender politics in Russia and / or Global South contexts

- Religious Policies, the role of the Orthodox church especially on the African continent

- Analyses of specific key figures (like Dugin, Medinskiy, …)

- Analyses of specific key scenes of formation/performance of these truth politics (like the Bessmertnyi polk, Immortal Regiment)

- Alliances of the global far right concerning politics of history and gender

- Interconnections between politics, NGOs, thinktanks, and activism

- Differing visions of multipolarity in the Global South

- Adaptations of postcolonial theory

- Theoretical impulses from political epistemology and praxeology

For a 20-minute presentation in English, we kindly invite you to submit your abstract (circa 300-400 words) as well as a short CV (or a link to your profile website) via email forschungsstelle.wahrheit@uni-erfurt.de by April 1st, 2024. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by end of April.

The conference will take place 24th to 25th October 2024 at the University of Erfurt in an in-person format. However, in an effort to ensure a wider debate, we will allow virtual participation for the small number of speakers who may have difficulties attending in person. No fee is required in order to attend. We will try to cover the travel and accommodation costs for all speakers. The publication of the conference proceedings will be considered.

Literature:

McGlynn, Jade: Memory Makers. The Politics of the Past in Putin’s Russia, Bloomsbury 2023.

Riabova, Tatiana; Riabov, Oleg: The Decline of Gayropa? How Russia intends to Save the World, in: Eurozine, 05.02.2014, https://www.eurozine.com/the-decline-of-gayropa/

Edenborg, Emil: Anti-Gender Politics as Discourse Coalitions: Russia’s Domestic and International. Promotion of “Traditional Values”, in: Problems of Post-Communism 70/2 (2023), p. 175-184.

Korolczuk, Elżbieta; Graff, Agnieszka: Gender as “Ebola from Brussels”: The Anticolonial Frame and the Rise of Illiberal Populism. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 43/4 (2018), p. 797–821.

Vulpius, Ricarda: Sollte der Krieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine die Epistemologie der Osteuropäischen Geschichte verändern und wenn ja, wie?, [Should Russia's war against Ukraine change the epistemology of Eastern European history and if so, how?], in: Jahrbücher für Osteuropäische Geschicht 69/4 (2021), p. 588-592.

Kleeberg, Bernhard; Suter, Robert: »Doing truth« Bausteine einer Praxeologie der Wahrheit [Doing Truth. Components of a Praxeology of Truth], in: Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 2 (2014), p. 211-226.

Вопросы истории естествознания и техники//Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki 2023

 All issues 2023 of the journal Вопросы истории естествознания и техники//Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki are online [all articles in Russian with English abstracts]

Issue 1: https://vietmag.org/issue.2023.1.1/ .

Issue 2: https://vietmag.org/issue.2023.2.2/ .

Issue 3: https://vietmag.org/issue.2023.3.3/ .

Issue 4: https://vietmag.org/issue.2023.4.4/ .

Социология науки и технологий / Sociology of Science and Technology

Социология науки и технологий / Sociology of Science and Technology, Том 14, №3, 4, 2023 are online (open access)

№ 3: http://sst.nw.ru/Files/2023/2023_3_%20SNIT.pdf .

№ 4: https://sst.nw.ru/Files/2023/2023_4_%20SNIT.pdf .

online event: Natalia Judzińska (Polish Academy of Sciences), To the left of the lecture theatre. The ghetto benches at Polish universities in the interwar period,

 online event: Natalia Judzińska (Polish Academy of Sciences), To the left of the lecture theatre. The ghetto benches at Polish universities in the interwar period, Tuesday, March 26, 17:00 CET, zoom

The aim of this presentation is to outline the ethno-religious spatial segregation system in Polish universities between the First and Second World Wars. The presentation will focus on the institutional aspect of the introduced regulations, and the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius has been chosen as the case study. The events presented will be set in a socio-cultural context.

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82961863362 .

Event by Modern Jewish History Seminar, Prague and Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, v.v.i.

Hybrid event: March 22, 17:00 CET. The Urban Landscape of Knowledge in the Cold War Soviet Union

 Hybrid event: March 22, 17:00 CET. The Urban Landscape of Knowledge in the Cold War Soviet Union, by Alexey Golubev (University of Houston)

https://a.bikbov.ru/2024/02/zoom-seminar-late-soviet-revisited/ .

Hybrid event: Danuta Ciesielska - Organizacja matematycznych seminariów i biblioteki w Getyndze (1886-1933) a kwestia polska

 Hybrid event: Danuta Ciesielska - Organizacja matematycznych seminariów i biblioteki w Getyndze (1886-1933) a kwestia polska // Organization of mathematical seminars and library in Göttingen (1886-1933) and the Polish question, Monday, March 25, 16:15 CET

Seminarium Pracowni Naukoznawstwa Instytutu Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów PAN - "Naukoznawstwo: historia i współczesność".

25 III 2024 od g. 16:15 za pośrednictwem platformy ZOOM

dr hab. Danuta Ciesielska, prof. PAN (Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów PAN)

Organizacja matematycznych seminariów i biblioteki w Getyndze (1886-1933) a kwestia polska

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

Историко-биологические исследования / Studies in the History of Biology

 Историко-биологические исследования / Studies in the History of Biology, Том 14, №3, 4,  2023 are online (open access)

№ 3: http://shb.nw.ru/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IBI_2023_03-2.pdf .

№ 4: http://shb.nw.ru/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IBI_2023_04_v4.pdf .

Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum

Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum

ABHPS Vol. 11, No. 2 (Autumn 2023)

URL: https://www.bahps.org/acta-baltica/abhps-11-2/ .

Articles

Moreno Paulon. Pseudoscience Charges and the Demarcation Problem.

Kostiantyn K. Vasyliev, Yurii K. Vasyliev, Olena H. Vasylieva. Riga Native Johann Christian Weltzien (1767-1829), Author of a Book on "Medical Police"

Tanel Kerikmäe, Ondrej Hamul'ak, Tomas Gabris. Frontiers in AI Judiciary: A Contribution to Legal Futurology

Vira Gamaliia, Artem Zabuga, Gennadii Zabuga. On the History of Developing Catalysis in Ukraine (1850s-1980s)

Pirimbek Suleimenov, Yktiyar Paltore, Yesker Moldabek, Galymzhan Usenov. An Analysis of Aristotle's Principles in Al-Farabi's Study of Logic in the History and Philosophy of Science

Reviews

Lyubov Sukhoterina, Volodymyr Zharkykh. Mykyta Mandryka's Scientific Legacy in the Field of International Law: Ukrainian Institute of Sociology in Prague in the 1920s.

Saniya Edelbay. Al-Farabi's Philosophy on Education

Marie Bahenská , Libuše Heczková , Dana Musilová: Ženám žádný obor vědecky od přírody není uzavřen: Spletité cesty žen k vědecké kariéře v první polovině 20. století [No field is naturally closed to women scientists: women's tangled paths to scientific careers in the first half of the 20th century].

Marie Bahenská , Libuše Heczková , Dana Musilová: Ženám žádný obor vědecky od přírody není uzavřen: Spletité cesty žen k vědecké kariéře v první polovině 20. století  [No field is naturally closed to women scientists: women's tangled paths to scientific careers in the first half of the 20th century]. Praha: Academia, MUA CAS 2024.

Zapojení žen do vědeckého světa navazuje na zpřístupnění vysokoškolského vzdělání ženám, čímž se významně změnila jejich profesní, rodinná i společenská situace. Tato zásadní změna přichází ve středoevropském prostoru na počátku 20. století a je završena po první světové válce. Cílem autorek je představit komplexní obraz vědkyně v české a československé společnosti první poloviny 20. století; ukázat zastoupení a pracovní výsledky žen v různých vědních oborech, možnosti profesionálního růstu a budování vědecké kariéry, které v případě žen vyžadovalo sladění pracovního a osobního života; představit důvody, které do určitých oborů přiváděly více žen než mužů. Kniha hledá odpovědi na otázky, jaký druh vědění ženy reprezentují a produkují, jaká byla jejich místa ve vědeckých institucích a jak probíhala výměna vědeckých informací. Sleduje jak vzdělávací a vědecké instituce, v nichž se objevovaly ženy, tak osobní i profesní životy vědkyň. Zabývá se také konkrétními příklady, které často svědčí o zvláštních osudech a atypických vědeckých kariérách žen, někdy označovaných pojmem „maverickové“, tedy ty, které překračovaly všechny normy, stereotypy a zažitou praxi a dosahovaly (byť třeba jen částečných) úspěchů.

AUC HISTORIA UNIVERSITATIS CAROLINAE PRAGENSIS, Vol 63 No 1 (2023)

 AUC HISTORIA UNIVERSITATIS CAROLINAE PRAGENSIS, Vol 63 No 1 (2023) is online ! Various languages with English abstracts.

Open access: https://karolinum.cz/en/journal/auc-historia-universitatis-carolinae-pragensis/current .

Editorial

Matthias Asche, Christian Hesse, Martin Holý

Das höhere Bildungswesen der Schweiz in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit: Institutionen und Formen der Peregrinatio academica

Matthias Asche

Herkunft und Wirkungsorte von Besuchern der Universität Basel, 1460–1550. Forschungsperspektiven und Zugänge einer Digital History

Christian Hesse

Süddeutsche Reichsstädter an der Universität Basel (1460–1802)

Wolfgang Mährle

Das Netzwerk der ungarländischen Studenten in Basel im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. Unbekannte Beziehungen in den Hochschulschriften

Ádám Hegyi

Polish and Lithuanian Students at the University of Basel from the Sixteenth to the Seventeenth Century

Robert T. Tomczak

Kulturtransfer zwischen Basel und Polen. Die Universität Basel und die politischen und intellektuellen Eliten in Polen-Litauen in der ersten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts

Maciej Ptaszyński

Die Universität Basel und die böhmischen Länder (1460–1630). Eine Matrikelauswertung

Martin Holý

Studenten aus den Böhmischen Ländern und ihre literarischen Aktivitäten im Umfeld der Universität Basel am Anfang des Dreißigjährigen Krieges

Marta Vaculínová

Gelehrtennetzwerke an der Universität Basel und ihre Verbindungen nach Ostmitteleuropa 1460–1550. Perspektiven zu Forschungsdaten aus dem Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG)

Kaspar Gubler

University Attendance and the Development of a Correspondence Network: The Case of Basel, ca. 1500–1550

Amy Nelson Burnett

Böhmische Studenten in Basel und ihre Kontakte anhand von Stammbüchern

Marie Ryantová

Ladislav Velen of Žerotín and his Study Stay in Switzerland

Ondřej Podavka

Johann Ulrich Surgantʼs Manuale curatorum predicandi as a product of medieval intellectual heritage in Basel libraries

Vojtěch Večeře

On the Importance of Basel Prints for the Czech Lands

Kamil Boldan

Heike Hawicks – Ingo Runde (Hgg.), Universitätsmatrikeln im deutschen Südwesten. Bestände, Erschließung und digitale Präsentation. Beiträge zur Tagung im Universitätsarchiv Heidelberg am 16. und 17. Mai 2019

Marek Brčák

Sean A. Otto, John Wyclif, New Perspectives on an Old Controversy

Martin Dekarli, Luke DeWeese

Heike Hawicks – Harald Berger, Marsilius von Inghen und die Niederrheinlande. Zum 625. Todestag des Gründungsrektors der Heidelberger Universität

Blanka Zilynská

Robert T. Tomczak, Kontakty edukacyjne Polaków z uniwersytetami praskimi w okresie średniowiecza. Studium prozopograficzne

Blanka Zilynská

Robert T. Tomczak, Kontakty edukacyjne Polaków z uniwersytetami praskimi w XVI-XVIII wieku. Studium prozopograficzne

Marek Ďurčanský

Maciej Fic: „Rzecznik historii rewolucyjnej”. Henryka Rechowicza (1929–2004) życie publiczne i naukowe [“Advocate of revolutionary history”. Henryk Rechowicz’s (1929–2004) public and scientific life].

 Maciej Fic: „Rzecznik historii rewolucyjnej”. Henryka Rechowicza (1929–2004) życie publiczne i naukowe [“Advocate of revolutionary history”. Henryk Rechowicz’s (1929–2004) public and scientific life]. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego 2023.

[Polish below] URL: https://monograph.us.edu.pl/index.php/wydawnictwo/catalog/book/PN.4166

SYNOPSIS

The book is one of the links of research on the development of historical research during the period of Polish “people’s Republic” and the careers of representatives of the scientific community and it is a kind of case study of the operation of the “court science" community of supporters and promoters. The course of the career of Henryk Rechowicz, a historian and activist of the PZPR born in Dąbrowa Basin, has been recreated: a brilliant promotion was highlighted first (inclusion of exposed positions in the scientific community of the Katowice Voivodeship), then degradation resulting from his belonging to a group centered around the “Gierek team", and then the return to scientific and academic work, made in reality by the end of the Polish People's Republic and the beginning of the Third Polish Republic.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

MACIEJ FIC, UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA IN KATOWICE

Badacz XX wieku i dydaktyk historii, rzeczoznawca podręcznikowy MEiN, ekspert KAE przy CKE, prezes Górnośląskiego Towarzystwa Historycznego, zastępca redaktora „Śląskiego Almanachu Powstańczego” oraz „Wieków Starych i Nowych”. Autor i współautor m.in. kilkunastu monografii, poświęconych głównie historii Górnego Śląska. Wyróżniony m.in. przez Towarzystwo Popierania i Krzewienia Nauk w Warszawie. [9.02.2023]

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STRESZCZENIE

Książka jest jednym z ogniw dociekań nad uprawianiem badań historycznych w okresie Polski „ludowej” oraz karierami reprezentantów środowiska naukowego i stanowi rodzaj case study funkcjonowania środowiska zwolenników i realizatorów „nauki dworskiej”. Odtworzono w niej przebieg kariery Henryka Rechowicza (urodzonego w Zagłębiu Dąbrowskim historyka i działacza PZPR): uwypuklony został najpierw błyskotliwy awans (m.in. objęcie eksponowanych stanowisk w środowisku naukowym województwa katowickiego), potem degradacja wynikająca z przynależności do grupy skupionej wokół „ekipy Gierka”, a następnie powrót do pracy naukowej i akademickiej, dokonany w rzeczywistości schyłku PRL i początku III RP.

BIOGRAM AUTORA

MACIEJ FIC - UNIWERSYTET ŚLĄSKI W KATOWICACH

Badacz XX wieku i dydaktyk historii, rzeczoznawca podręcznikowy MEiN, ekspert KAE przy CKE, prezes Górnośląskiego Towarzystwa Historycznego, zastępca redaktora „Śląskiego Almanachu Powstańczego” oraz „Wieków Starych i Nowych”. Autor i współautor m.in. kilkunastu monografii, poświęconych głównie historii Górnego Śląska. Wyróżniony m.in. przez Towarzystwo Popierania i Krzewienia Nauk w Warszawie. [9.02.2023]

Dan Healey: The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps.

Dan Healey: The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps. New Haven: Yale University Press 2024. ISBN: 9780300187137

A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag—showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions

 

A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited prisoners, compelling them to work harder for better rations in shocking conditions. From 1930 to 1953, eighteen million people passed through this penal-industrial empire. Many inmates, not reaching their quotas, succumbed to exhaustion, emaciation, and illness.

 

It seems paradoxical that any medical care was available in the camps. But it was in fact ubiquitous. By 1939 the Gulag Sanitary Department employed 10,000 doctors, nurses and paramedics—about 40 percent of whom were prisoners.

 

Dan Healey explores the lives of the medical staff who treated inmates in the Gulag. Doctors and nurses faced extremes of repression, supply shortages, and isolation. Yet they still created hospitals, re-fed prisoners, treated diseases, and “saved” a proportion of their patients. They taught apprentices and conducted research too. This groundbreaking account offers an unprecedented view of Stalin’s forced-labour camps as experienced by its medical staff.

Dan Healey is an expert on the social and cultural history of modern Russia and the Soviet Union. He is the author of Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia, Bolshevik Sexual Forensics, and Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi. He is professor emeritus of modern Russian history at the University of Oxford.

online event: 800-years of locust invasions in the Carpathian Basin and Central Europe

 online event: 800-years of locust invasions in the Carpathian Basin and Central Europe: causes, frequency, intensity and duration, impacts, step changes and the development of prevention strategies, Mar 20 (Wed), 2024, 15:00 CET

Presenter: Andrea Kiss (Technische Universität Wien)

please register to get zoom link (the link will be sent before the meeting): http://tinyurl.com/5n6r6mnh .

Due to their Biblical context, locust invasions played an especially important role among documented natural hazards throughout the last millennium. In the Central European locust invasions of the last over 800 years the Carpathian Basin played a key role: all the invasions crossed and continued to the west through the Carpathian Basin, the main nesting place of the locusts in Central Europe. In the Carpathian Basin up to the 1880s migratory locusts, reportedly coming from the Black Sea area, played a leading role, while after the 1880s migratory locusts were replaced by other locust species (Moroccan, Italian) of possibly more southerly origin. Locust invasions often followed and/or coincided with (multiannual) drought periods; and while several mass outbreaks and invasions occurred in the Carpathian Basin, after the mid-18th century only some of them continued to West-Central Europe. Based on an 800-year long data series, the possible origin(s), frequency, length, spatial extension, potential causes and consequences of locust outbreaks and invasions are discussed in the presentation. Nested for multiple years in the Carpathian Basin during the invasions, locusts caused significant damages. Although to a limited extent early prevention methods are known already from late medieval times, and more and more information is available about fighting locusts in the 16th and 17th centuries, it is only the mid-18th century when prevention activities became more intensive, and state-organised actions became more and more effective. The real break-through only happened in the 20th century with the introduction of mechanized defence and integrated pest management.

Andrea Kiss is an environmental historian, working mostly on historical climate and environment, historical floods and droughts, and social-environmental interaction. She holds MA, MSc and PhD in History, Geography and Medieval Studies, BA level degree in Latin. She published over a hundred scientific studies including coauthorship in Nature and Science papers, book and book edition at Springer and Routledge.

CHORUS & hps.cesee global book talk: The Will to Predict. Thursday, March 14, 11:00 am ET / 16:00 CET / 17:00 Kyiv

 CHORUS & hps.cesee global book talk: The Will to Predict. Thursday, March 14, 11:00 am ET / 16:00 CET / 17:00 Kyiv, Zoom.

ABOUT THIS EVENT

Virtual platforms CHORUS (Colloquium for the History of Russian and Soviet Science) & HPS.CESEE (History of Science in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe) are proud to present their forthcoming book talk on a new publication on history of scientific prediction. Teresa Ashe (Open University, UK) and Ksenia Tatarchenko (Singapore Management University) will join Eglė Rindzevičiūtė (Kingston University, London) to comment on her recent book: The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future through Science (Cornell, 2023) [1], in a discussion moderated by Slava Gerovitch (MIT).

Thursday, March 14, 11:00 am ET / 16:00 CET / 17:00 Kyiv

The meeting is free and open to the public. To receive the Zoom link, please register here: https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrceyorzovEtF6jH6aDdnD8hJIDK5DECMG or write to hps.cesee@gmail.com

[1] Eglė Rindzevičiūtė. The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future through Science, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023

“In The Will to Predict, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė demonstrates how the logic of scientific expertise cannot be properly understood without knowing the conceptual and institutional history of scientific prediction. She notes that predictions of future population, economic growth, environmental change, and scientific and technological innovation have shaped much of twentieth and twenty-first-century politics and social life, as well as government policies. Today, such predictions are more necessary than ever as the world undergoes dramatic environmental, political, and technological change. But, she asks, what does it mean to predict scientifically? What are the limits of scientific prediction and what are its effects on governance, institutions, and society?

Her intellectual and political history of scientific prediction takes as its example twentieth-century USSR. By outlining the role of prediction in a range of governmental contexts, from economic and social planning to military strategy, she shows that the history of scientific prediction is a transnational one, part of the history of modern science and technology as well as governance. Going beyond the Soviet case, Rindzevičiūtė argues that scientific predictions are central for organizing uncertainty through the orchestration of knowledge and action. Bridging the fields of political sociology, organization studies, and history, The Will to Predict considers what makes knowledge scientific and how such knowledge has impacted late modern governance.”

The book introduction may be downloaded from https://www.academia.edu/105950239/The_Will_to_Predict_Orchestrating_the_Future_through_Science

Participants

Teresa Ashe is a Staff Tutor (Lecturer) in Economics at the Open University, UK. She is a co-author of Media and Uncertainty (2021) and a co-editor of Climate Change Discourse in Russia (2019).

Slava Gerovitch is a Lecturer in History of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics (2002), Voices of the Soviet Space Program (2014), and Soviet Space Mythologies (2015).

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology at Kingston University, London. She is the author of The Power of Systems and Constructing Soviet Cultural Policy (2016) and The Will to Predict (2023).

Ksenia Tatarchenko is Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the College of Integrative Studies in the Singapore Management University. She is the author of SCI_BERIA: The Novosibirsk Science Center and the Late Soviet Politics of Expertise (forthcoming, 2024).

Kazimierz Maliszewski, Droga chłopaka z Rudnik na Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika. Wspomnienia [A road of a boy from Rudnik to the Mikołaj Kopernik University. Memoirs],

 Kazimierz Maliszewski, Droga chłopaka z Rudnik na Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika. Wspomnienia [A road of a boy from Rudnik to the Mikołaj Kopernik University. Memoirs], Toruń: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika 2023. ISBN: 978-83-231-5261-3

Droga chłopaka z Rudnik na Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika. Wspomnienia to bardzo osobista relacja prof. Kazimierza Maliszewskiego z jego życia. Przedstawia koleje losu, które zaprowadziły go z małej miejscowości na Pojezierzu Iławskim do grodu Kopernika i na Uniwersytet imienia astronoma. Wspomnienia to opisane z dużym sentymentem różne epizody z okresu dzieciństwa i młodości autora oraz elementy jego autobiografii naukowej, w powiązaniu z życiem rodzinnym. Książka pokazuje także, jak wyglądał Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu za czasów studiów Profesora w latach 1968–1973 i jak zmieniał się podczas jego 46-letniej pracy naukowej i dydaktycznej.

Wojciech Piasek, „Noce i dnie” Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu we wspomnieniach profesora Kazimierza Maliszewskiego / 9

Tempora labuntur tacitisque senescimus annis / Czas upływa, a my starzejemy się wraz z cicho biegnącymi latami (Owidiusz, Fasti) / 13

ROZDZIAŁ 1

The proper study of mankind is Man / Prawdziwym studium o ludzkości jest człowiek (Alexander Pope) / 25

Środowisko rodzinne – moje lata dzieciństwa, Moja Szkoła Podstawowa w Kamieńcu, Nauka w Liceum Ogólnokształcącym w Iławie, Po maturze – i co dalej?, Lata studenckie na UMK 1968–1973

ROZDZIAŁ 2

Rzekła żona do męża: „Co mi mężu po Senece, kiedy mi cukru zabrakło i po masło lecę. Wszystkie Scypiony tudzież Hannibale – niewarte wiązki drzewa, którym piec rozpalę. Daj mi pokój z Kalpurnią, Volumnią i Porcją i lepiej od piekarza przynieś żuru porcję”. „O tempora, o mores”, westchnął biedny klasyk i poszedł do piekarza, bo – takie są czasy (Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna, Żona klasyka) / 65

Pierwsza praca i życie prywatne, Początki mojej pracy na uniwersytecie w Zakładzie Historii Powszechnej i Polski XVI–XVIII w., Praca nad doktoratem, obrona oraz wydanie monografii o Rubinkowskim, Stan wojenny w Polsce, Dalsze etapy awansu zawodowego w mojej pracy naukowej a życie prywatne

ROZDZIAŁ 3

Nulla dies sine linea / Ani dnia bez kreski – to jest bez posunięcia choć odrobinę naprzód pracy twórczej (sentencja łacińska przypisywana rzeźbiarzowi Apellesowi) / 99

Jakie inspiracje do dalszych badań dały mi studia nad Rubinkowskim? Rozprawa habilitacyjna, Moje badania po habilitacji, Opracowania syntetyczne, napisane z pozycji historyka kultury i badacza dziejów Kościoła, Powrót do kultury brytyjskiej i amerykańskiej, Fascynacja Faustem i Johanem Wolfgangiem Goethem, Edycja źródłowa listów Jakuba Kazimierza Rubinkowskiego do Elżbiety Sieniawskiej, Moje najważniejsze wystąpienia na konferencjach naukowych. Podróże do Rzymu i Stanów Zjednoczonych oraz Niemiec (Oldenburg – Rostock), Moje miejsce w strukturze organizacyjnej w Instytucie Historii i Archiwistyki UMK, Praca dydaktyczna – rodzaj zajęć, seminaria magisterskie, wykształceni doktorzy, Działalność społeczna i organizacyjna

ROZDZIAŁ 4

Przeszłość jest to dziś, tylko cokolwiek dalej (Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Przeszłość) / 151

Moje refleksje na temat historii, a w szczególności historii kultury

ROZDZIAŁ 5

Ma się ku wieczorowi i dzień się już nachylił (Ewangelia Łukasza 24, 29) / 169

Rok akademicki 2019/2020 – epidemia, ostatni rok mojej pracy na uniwersytecie

ROZDZIAŁ 6

W emeryturze nie ma nic złego, pod warunkiem że nie dopuścimy, aby nam przeszkadzała w pracy (Benjamin Franklin) / 175

Emerytura i co dalej?

Dni człowieka są jak trawa. Kwitnie jak kwiat na polu: ledwie muśnie go wiatr, a już go nie ma. I miejsce, gdzie był, już go nie poznaje (Psalm 103, 15–16) / 187

FOTOGRAFIE I REPRODUKCJE FOTOGRAFICZNE DOKUMENTÓW / 199

SPIS ODPISÓW LISTÓW, FOTOGRAFII I REPRODUKCJI FOTOGRAFICZNYCH DOKUMENTÓW /219

Medical Authority in East Central Europe

 The Hungarian Historical Review, Volume 12 Issue 3 2023, Special issue Medical Authority in East Central Europe

URL: https://hunghist.org/issue-current .

Contents

Janka Kovács and Viola Lászlófi

Special Editors of the Thematic Issue

ARTICLES

Barbora Rambousková – Darina Martykánová

Social Class in the Czech Physicians’ Quest for Professional Authority and Social Acknowledgement, 1830s–1930s 363

Zsuzsa Bokor

“Separation is Required in Our Special Situation”: Minority Public Health Programs in Interwar Transylvania 395

Šárka Caitlín Rábová

Between Public Health and Propaganda: Tuberculosis in Czechoslovakia in the First Decades of the Communist Regime 433

Annina Gagyiova

Every Child According to Its Pace: School Maturity between Expertise, State Policies, and Parental Eigensinn in Socialist Hungary 461

Judit Sándor – Viola Lászlófi

Women Facing the Committee: Decision-Making on Abortion in Postwar Hungary 493

Aleksandra Kozłowska: Ambulans jedzie na wieś. Śladami objazdowych wyrwizębów [Ambulance goes to the countryside. Following travelling dentists].

Aleksandra Kozłowska: Ambulans jedzie na wieś. Śladami objazdowych wyrwizębów [Ambulance goes to the countryside. Following travelling dentists]. Kraków: Znak 2023. ISBN: 978-83-240-6693-3

Dentobusem przez PRL

Deszcz czy mróz, skwar czy roztopy… nie było wyjścia, ojczyzna w potrzebie. Młodzi dentyści, najczęściej świeżo po studiach, pakowali narzędzia i ruszali w teren.

Plombowali, czym mogli, częściej rwali. Tłumaczyli, jak używać szczoteczki do zębów. Walczyli nie tylko z szalejącą próchnicą, ale z ludzką niewiedzą, bólem i strachem. Zdarzało się, że musieli przyszyć odcięty palec albo odebrać poród.

Niektórzy na ich widok uciekali, choć częściej ustawiały się kolejki. Nic dziwnego, uzębienie obywateli przypominało stolicę w ruinie. Dla wielu pacjentów był to pierwszy w życiu kontakt z lekarzem. Ból zębów leczyło się wódką i okładami z piasku.

Reportaż Aleksandry Kozłowskiej to nie tylko fascynujący, chwilami mrożący krew w żyłach kawałek historii polskiej medycyny. To także barwny portret powojennej wsi, obyczajów, przesądów, warunków, w jakich żyli ludzie. Wreszcie wyjątkowa opowieść drogi, w którą autorka rusza śladami swojej mamy i innych wędrownych stomatologów z czasów PRL.

Aleksandra Kozłowska – dziennikarka, reporterka, dawniej związana z „Gazetą Wyborczą”, jako freelancerka współpracuje m.in. z „Polityką”, „Przekrojem” i „Tygodnikiem Powszechnym”. Współautorka (z Mirellą Wąsiewicz) książki „Islandia i Polacy. Historie tych, którzy nie bali się zaryzykować” (2023).

call for papers: East and Central European Cultures in Exile

 call for papers: East and Central European Cultures in Exile. Archiving, Collecting, and Publishing in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Herder-Institute, Marburg, 28.08.2024 - 30.08.2024, deadline 30.04.2024. URL: https://www.herder-institut.de/event/call-for-papers-east-and-central-european-cultures-in-exile/

The Herder Institute Summer Academy invites Early Career Researchers, including Advanced Master Students, Ph.D. Students, and Early Postdocs, to participate in a workshop dealing with the East and Central European diaspora’s experiences of collecting, archiving, and publishing in exile. Eastern Europe can be characterized by constant flux, with peoples, objects, andinstitutions undergoing continuous movement. From the late nineteenth century through periods of wars, revolutions, and the Cold War, various social, ethnic, religious, and political groups were compelled to migrate and exile due to poverty, catastrophes of the twentieth century, aspirations for better lives, and sometimes escaping prosecution for both trumped-up accusation and actual WWII crimes. Mass migration entails the establishment of cultural institutions in new environments, including archives, libraries, and publishing houses, which serve as mediators between cultures and their bearers, both within and outside their respective countries.

Suppressed under socialism, East European cultures sought avenues to the „free world,“ yet they were influenced by the ideological confrontation between East and West. Along with opposing the unfreedoms of Socialism in their native countries and on the global scale, publishing activities in the diaspora could include the dissemination of far-right and radical nationalist ideas. Furthermore, conflicts, recriminations, suspicions, and financial quarrels were not rare and they occupied a visible place in émigré publications. How can we critically engage with this heritage while paying attention to its diversity and historical significance?

The Summer Academy will delve into the publishing and collecting initiatives that emerged across Europe and the world following World War II, continuing into the late 1980s.

Equally crucial is the issue of preservation and accessibility, which can be facilitated through digitization. However, the challenge lies in how to approach and digitally connect the scattered multicultural and multilingual collections.

Against the backdrop of Russia’s ongoing aggressive war in Ukraine and mounting repressions in Belarus and Russia, East European cultures find themselves once again facing exile and emigration, while the Cold War experience of émigré activities at archiving, collecting, and publishing regain its relevance.

With its extensive archival materials, including the unique Urbańczyk collection of the Polish underground press from the era of Solidarność, the newspaper clippings archive from the Cold War period, and the comprehensive periodicals archive covering Eastern and Central Europe, the Herder Institute provides an exceptional foundation for this thematic focus, which will be explored through various theoretical and practical thematic units.

We invite submissions for 10-15 Minutes Paper presentations on the topics, including, but not limited to:

- Publishing Houses in exile: national and transnational perspectives

- The variety of émigré and publishing and collecting activities and how they affect the production of knowledge on Eastern Europe during the Cold War and after

- (Re)creation of national cultures in exile Intercultural connections and collections in the diasporas

- New and old diasporas’ approaches to publishing and collecting: continuity or rupture?

- The role of digital publishing and archiving techniques for enhancing access to émigré collections and archives

Send your exposé (approx. 300 words) and a short CV to

forum@herder-institut.de

until April 30, 2024.

Accomodation for selected participants will be provided and travel costs up to 250 Euro (EU), 500 Euro (Non-EU), 800 Euro (overseas travels) can be covered upon request.

Call for Papers: Reassembling the Computer Networks of Eastern and Central Europe: From the Collapse of Soviet Bloc to the Russia-Ukraine War

Call for Papers: Reassembling the Computer Networks of Eastern and Central Europe: From the Collapse of Soviet Bloc to the Russia-Ukraine War

Special issue of Internet Histories. Digital Technology, Culture and Society and a conference "Histories and Legacies of the Digital: from Communist Cybernetics to Local Histories of the Internet"Abstracts due by April 2, 2024. URL: https://www.lvivcenter.org/en/conferences/computer-networks-cfp-2/ .

Being neither unified nor static, the Internet has been continuously reassembled under the influence of various direct and indirect factors and agents. It has been affected by decisions of the Internet governing institutions, state and corporate tensions, natural disasters, pandemics, and climate change, as well as by changing political orders at wars and in so-called-peace (Dyer-Witheford & Matviyenko, 2019; Aben, 2022a, 2023). Today's telecom and Internet infrastructures in Eastern and Central Europe (ECE) present one of the most vibrant cases of such reassembling against a historical backdrop of constantly shifting and conflicting ideological, institutional, technological and political realities that still remain understudied.

The disintegration of the Soviet Union that led to the emergence of multiple independent states in the 1990s also intensified the development of today's predominantly private Internet and IT industries. The faster and cheaper Internet has enabled the growing exploitation of platform labour and visible militarization of the Internet by cyberattacks, digital infrastructure hacks, and surveillance. Corporate and state claims to control parts of the Internet infrastructure within and outside state borders have led to ongoing tensions and reconfiguration of the established networks. Moreover, such processes were sped up by conflicts and wars such as the 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia, the 2008 cyberattacks on Georgia during the Russia-Georgia war, or the current Russia-Ukraine war that presents continuous rebooting of the Internet technologies in response to the demands of the war. All these and similar factors and events continue to shape and reshape the Internet infrastructures in ECE entangled in Soviet technological and political legacies.

The computer network projects in the former Soviet Bloc influenced by a series of factors, from cybernetic techno-optimism (Gerovitch, 2004) to the rigorous competition between government bureaucrats and economists in the planned economy (Peters, 2016), from far-reaching decisions on the hardware architecture (Zhabin 2020) to transnational academic networks exchange (Rindzevičiūtė, 2016;  Wasiak 2015; Leslie & Gryczka, 2014). The implications that could be drawn from such projects for multiple network infrastructures after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc remain relatively understudied.

ECE countries have undergone an extensive process of modernisation and, at times, privatisation of their telecommunications infrastructures (Campbell, 1995; Bareikytė, 2022). Over the past thirty years, various IT and telecom companies, start-ups and platforms have emerged in these countries, which extensively developed the IT-outsourcing markets or digitalised their public digital infrastructures, with Estonia being perhaps the most prominent example (Kattel & Mergel, 2019). Simultaneously, the example of Estonia illustrates how the development of the idea of an "information society" was built upon a discourse of "rupture" from Soviet cybernetics while still referring to its legacy (Velmet, 2020). This special issue and the conference focus on deepening the exploration of such projects and their path dependencies (Bijker et al. 1993) for the countries that emerged from the Soviet Union after the so-called transformation period (Förster, 2000).

To date, there is a need for broader historical and critical research on the contemporary histories of the post-Soviet private and public ECE telecommunications and platform industries as a sociotechnical phenomenon (Abbate, 2000; Driscoll & Paloque-Berges, 2017). It is also worth taking into account the multiple temporalities (Koselleck, 2004) that Soviet and post-Soviet in different countries or even localities of the region represent. This is crucial to better understand the historical politics of digitalization in Central and Eastern Europe and to explore political and ethical questions of data privacy, algorithmic accountability or platform labour rights in relation to these histories and their legacies (Aben 2022b).

Furthermore, as the war in Ukraine explicitly indicates, the Internet infrastructures are undergoing key historic transformations entangled with military action and the extensive use of simple to hyper-complex digital systems as part of warfare. The Internet's operational capacity had already been boosted by new demands, initially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine made it necessary to process the industrial volumes of data for military operations. Both civilian and military Internet infrastructures, nearly indistinguishable today, remain vulnerable to the highest-impact disruptive cyberattacks on the largest telecom infrastructures.

We therefore explicitly invite papers that address this gap with research on the contemporary histories and socio-cultural, critical explorations of the post-Soviet telecom, IT, and Internet infrastructures, as well as the related digital technologies and institutions in the ECE countries in times of war.

Topics can include, but are not limited to:

Socio-technical historical accounts of the computer networks and infrastructures in the Soviet Union and Eastern and Central Europe

Cybernetic histories and legacies (Soviet and beyond)

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the privatization or non-privatization of Internet infrastructures

Telecom and Internet infrastructures in ECE and its dis/entanglement with Soviet legacy

War-driven technological changes of the Internet infrastructure

Local histories and precise case studies of the ECE Internet

Methodological approaches to study ECE Internet and telecom infrastructures

Contact Information

For questions, please contact: cfp_internet_histories@lvivcenter.org.ua

Call for Papers: Life and works of Immánuel Löw

 Call for Papers: Life and works of Immánuel Löw. Szeged Jewish Community, Jewish Theological Seminary - University of Jewish Studies, Budapest; Szeged University. 04.09.2024 - 07.09.2024, deadline 01.03.2024

The Jewish Community of Szeged, the Jewish Theological Seminary – University of Jewish Studies, and the University of Szeged are organizing an international scientific conference in Hungarian and English titled "Life and works of Immánuel Löw" in Szeged.

The objective of the international conference discussing the life and work of Immánuel Löw, the Chief Rabbi of Szeged, is to bring together scholars, researchers, and experts from different countries and regions of the world, facilitating collaborative work and the development of new perspectives. The prestigious professional plenary and section presentations provide an opportunity for researchers to showcase their research areas, along with the official unveiling of spaces named after Löw Lipo and Löw Immánuel, as well as the Löw memorial walk, forming an integral part of the program.

The conference is scheduled to take place from September 4th to 6th, 2024, with the venue provided by the University of Szeged. The Sabbath prayer service within the local community will be held in the synagogue designed by Baumhorn Lipót and Löw Immánuel, also constituting a part of the program.

We kindly request that you submit the title and a brief, 200-word abstract of your planned presentation to immanuellowconference@gmail.com by March 1, 2024. The submission of abstracts will be followed by a peer-review process to ensure the conference's high scientific standards. Applicants will be notified of section acceptance by March 11th.

Selected studies presented at the conference will be considered for publication in English by a reputable international publisher. If an author wishes to publish their research in the conference volume, a scholarly article meeting the formal requirements must be submitted to immanuellowconference@gmail.com no later than December 31, 2024. Accepted and peer-reviewed studies will be published in a printed volume. Formal requirements for the study will be announced at a later date. The travel and accommodation costs for presenters from Austria will be covered by the Österreichisches Kulturforum in Budapest.

Programm

Tag 1: 4. September

09:30 Uhr - 10:00 Uhr: Anmeldung und Begrüßungskaffee

10:00 Uhr - 10:30 Uhr: Eröffnungszeremonie

10:30 Uhr - 12:00 Uhr: Vormittagssitzung

12:00 Uhr - 13:00 Uhr: Mittagspause

13:00 Uhr - 14:30 Uhr: Nachmittagssitzung

15:00 Uhr - 17:30 Uhr: Geführte Tour

17:30 Uhr - 19:00 Uhr: Freizeit

19:00 Uhr - 21:00 Uhr: Konferenzdinner

Tag 2: 5. September

09:30 Uhr - 12:00 Uhr: Vormittagssitzung (Englisch)

12:00 Uhr - 13:00 Uhr: Mittagspause

13:00 Uhr - 14:30 Uhr: Nachmittagssitzung (Englisch)

14:30 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr: Kaffeepause

15:00 Uhr - 17:30 Uhr: Einweihung des Immánuel-Löw-Platzes und des Lipót-Löw-Platzes

17:30 Uhr - 19:00 Uhr: Freizeit/Networking

19:00 Uhr - 21:00 Uhr: Konferenzdinner

Tag 3: 6. September

09:00 Uhr - 09:30 Uhr: Anmeldung und Begrüßungskaffee

09:30 Uhr - 11:00 Uhr: Vormittagssitzung

11:00 Uhr - 11:30 Uhr: Kaffeepause

11:30 Uhr - 13:00 Uhr: Mittagssitzung

13:00 Uhr - 14:00 Uhr: Mittagspause

14:00 Uhr - 15:30 Uhr: Nachmittagssitzung

15:30 Uhr - 16:00 Uhr: Schlusswort und Abschied

19:00 Uhr: Kabbalat-Schabbat-Gottesdienst (optional)

Tag 4: 7. September 2024

10:00 Uhr – 13:00 Uhr: Schabbat-Gottesdienst (optional)

Kontakt

immanuellowconference@gmail.com

CFP: Early Modern Private Libraries as Sites of Knowledge Production and Circulation,

CFP: Early Modern Private Libraries as Sites of Knowledge Production and Circulation, Frank Ejby Poulsen, Research Group CINTER (King Juan Carlos University), Madrid (Spain), 07.11.2024 - 08.11.2024, Deadline 14.04.2024

The Research Group CINTER (Courts Images Nobility TERritory) and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of King Juan Carlos University have the pleasure to invite you to submit your paper proposal for the upcoming symposium ‘Early Modern Private Libraries as Sites of Knowledge Production and Circulation’.

This symposium aims to explore the role of private libraries in the production and circulation of knowledge with a focus on the early modern period. Private libraries are defined by the restricted access to their content, typically located inside the home, as opposed to a library with wider access such as in a monastery, university, or royal collection. The library is defined as a dedicated room or space in the house with built shelves for the display of books, accessible to a wider range of people in the household.

Often, the homes containing the libraries were geographically remote from centres of knowledge such as big cities that could provide access to public libraries. They constituted therefore knowledge hubs in otherwise isolated areas. The content of the libraries reflected the interests and needs of their owner and their extended household. These homes can be owned by members of the nobility, the gentry, commoners, or even royalty.

In many ways, the private library contributed to making the world enter the home. This was done not only with books and manuscripts, but also with letters, news, artefacts, objects of art, maps, scientific instruments, taxidermy, or any other foreign objects of curiosity. The library was sometimes combined as a “cabinet of curiosities” or Wunderkammer, which effectively created a microcosm inside the home.

The symposium will bring together early career and established scholars working in various fields of history to discuss the role of private libraries, laboratories, and cabinet of curiosities in connecting the home to the world through the production and circulation of knowledge. This can be ways of learning, ways of reading, ways of writing, ways of representing, ways of experimenting, or ways of teaching and tutoring, while integrating a gender perspective.

Overal theme:

The overall theme this symposium would like the participants to reflect upon concerns the world and the home. The home is understood as the architectural place where the private library is located. The world is understood as a plural concept describing the outside as geographical (other countries, the whole world), historical (antiquity), cultural, economic, political, cosmopolitan (views of a united humankind), scientific, religious (reformation, theological questions, other religions), artistic, etc.

The main question the participant should reflect upon is: How did the world enter and interreact with the home? This includes sub-questions, for instance:

- What world(s) entered the home?

- How did it (they) enter the home?

- Who in the home received the world(s) and what kinds?

- How can the historian trace a connection between the activities in the home and their impact in the world (and vice versa)?

The end scope of this symposium is to publish the papers in an edited volume.

Guide for Authors:

Authors are encouraged to submit their latest research, case studies, or methodological advancements aligned with the conference theme and topics of interest. Please send your proposal (max. 300 words) with a short CV (max. 200 words) before 14 April 2024 (midnight Madrid time) to: frank.poulsen@urjc.es

Practical elements:

The symposium will take place for one and a half day. There are no fees for registration. Lunch and coffee breaks will be provided, but the cost of transport and hotel will be at the charge of the participants.

Important Dates:

Deadline for submission: 14 April 2024

Notification of acceptance: 1 May 2024

For any programme and general enquiries: frank.poulsen@urjc.es