Call for papers: Fighting pandemics in South-East Europe: experts, infrastructure, and technologies in the long 19th century

 Call for papers: Fighting pandemics in South-East Europe: experts, infrastructure, and technologies in the long 19th century - New Europe College, Bucharest, 17.10.2024 - 18.10.2024, deadline 12.05.2024

States mobilised enormous human, material and financial resources in their fight against pandemic diseases such as plague or cholera. Not only medical professionals or public health officials, but also border guards, police and bureaucrats played their part in coordinating states’ pandemic efforts. Quarantine stations were set up on the frontlines of defence, at some of the busiest ports and border crossings, but were challenged by increased mobility, the transport revolution and market integration in an era of rapid globalisation. As quarantine restrictions became increasingly unpopular with both medical professionals and the general public, authorities turned to other preventive measures: from investment in urban sanitation infrastructure (sewers or waste disposal) to public health campaigns aimed at educating the public about the importance of individual and community hygiene practices. Authorities also encouraged a joint transnational effort against pandemic threats, and their collaboration led to international health conferences and conventions that mandated standardised preventive epidemiological measures. Medical cooperation – and competition – led to scientific breakthroughs, such as the germ theory of disease and the emergence of microbiology, which shifted the battle to prevent pandemics to, for example, bacteriological laboratories and the use of all sorts of new chemical technologies to destroy deadly bacteria.

With such general considerations in mind, this workshop aims to look at the people, infrastructures and technologies used by states in South-East Europe to prevent, control and treat disease. Situated at the crossroads of empires and along important transport corridors between East and West and North and South, Balkan states such as Bulgaria, Greece, Romania or Serbia – and their imperial neighbours – provide fascinating case studies for tracing the evolution of pandemic responses and various entanglements across state and imperial borders.

We welcome proposals of around 250 words on the above topics by 12 May 2024, together with a short biography or CV. Proposals should be sent to cardeleanu@nec.ro and ardcons@gmail.com. Decisions on accepted proposals will be announced by 26 May 2024.

Travel costs and accommodation

Travel expenses will be reimbursed, and accommodation and meals will be provided for invited speakers.

This conference is organized within the research project ‘Entangled Histories of the Danubian Quarantine System (1774–1914)’, Exploratory Research PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-1374 funded by UEFISCDI.

Call for papers: Geometry in Society: A historical Perspective. June 12-14, 2024. Brno.

 Call for papers: Geometry in Society: A historical Perspective. June 12-14, 2024. Brno. 

Full cfp: https://0ca5d81399.cbaul-cdnwnd.com/dc7aa7484dcce086160359633836b64e/200000101-7926079262/maths_and_society_2024_CfP.pdf?ph=0ca5d81399 . 

Of all areas of Mathematics, Geometry is the most directly available to everybody. Geometry is hidden in each building, even though we tend to admire only the exquisite ones, like the Dome in Florence or the Notre Dame. Similarly, many paintings may be analysed from the point of view of perspective, and the words "Let no man ignorant of geometry enter here," inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy are a common knowledge. In short, Geometry is all around us.

In his 1935 book Geometry and Art in the Past, the geometer František Kadeřávek explained the subtle connections between Geometry, Architecture, and even human life itself, noting that "the disciple of masonry [...] knew well that the masonry trowel levels the unevenness of the plaster, that the plum line will always end up in the vertical. These tools always reminded him that by his behaviour, he must always be a sincere man with an upright spine, free, who does not bow and scrape to anybody."

On the superficial level, knowledge of Geometry had to be demonstrated by novices to the craft: the ability to perform the complex construction underlying the signature in stone was a sort of an entrance test. Teaching of Geometry at schools have required patience and skilful teachers and it has also involved spatial imagination. It has been taught through Euclid's Elements, but also through less rigid forms in drawing classes.

In the wake of the 19th century, Alexander von Humboldt said that "whatever relates to extent and quantity may be represented by geometrical figures". Soon, the perception of Geometry underwent a major change as a result of the discovery of non-Euclidean geometries, in which Riemann's habilitation lecture also played a role.

Hand in hand with the radical evolution of the understanding of Geometry as a science that is not always intuitive, the use of the well-known intuitive elementary geometry brought wealth and esteem. In Bohemia, the architect Josef Hlávka used his wealth to promote Science and founded the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1890 and acted as its first President. Around the turn of the 20th century, the eminent mathematician David Hilbert began his foundational work in the mathematical sciences by publishing Grundlagen der Geometrie, while other branches of mathematics should have followed.

Choosing a suitable geometric interpretation was also an issue connected with Einstein's relativity theory, where dealing with the curvature of the space time was a major challenge, keeping the differential geometers busy throughout the interbellum and even beyond.

We invite scholars to send abstracts of their proposed talks (between 200 and 500 words) to jan.kotulek@vsb.cz by 15 May 2024. Notification of acceptance by 20 May 2024.

Topics include, but are not limited to the history of:

mutual connections of Geometry and Arts, of Geometry and Physics, etc.

Geometry and spatial imagination (History of Mathematics Education),

Geometry in Engineering, Nomography and other outdated disciplines ,

History of geometric models.

Selected papers may be published in a special issue of the journal History of Sciences and Technology https://dvt-journal.cz/en/ (ISSN 0300-4414 print, 2788-3485 online).

Conference fee: EUR 30 or CZK 600, payable on site or through bank transfer.

Contact e-mail: hdurnova@ped.muni.cz

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.