Christoph Maisch: Polens kritische Theoretiker. Ludwik Fleck und der doppelte Positivismusstreit. Bielefeld: transcript 2024

Christoph Maisch: Polens kritische Theoretiker. Ludwik Fleck und der doppelte Positivismusstreit. Bielefeld: transcript 2024. ISBN: 978-3-8376-7257-2

Gab es »Kritische Theoretiker« in Polen? Christoph Maisch verbindet erkenntnistheoretische Ideen des polnischen Wissenschaftstheoretikers Ludwik Fleck mit Ansätzen des Instituts für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt bis zum Ende der 1930er Jahre. Methodisch innovativ bringt er zwei Debatten über Wertefreiheit, Ideologie und Objektivität zusammen, die im deutschsprachigen Raum von Otto Neurath und Max Horkheimer, in Polen zwischen Fleck und Izydora Dambska geführt wurden. Die transnationale Analyse dieses »doppelten Positivismusstreits« zeigt, welch enge Beziehungen zwischen den ideologie- und erkenntniskritischen Kontexten beider Staaten Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts bestanden und wie sie sich entwickelten.

Leseprobe: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/da/99/d2/ts7257_1.pdf

Kapitel-Übersicht

Frontmatter

Inhalt

Abkürzungsverzeichnis

Prolog: Im Schottischen Café mit Ludwik Fleck und Max Horkheimer

Einleitung

1 Die Vorgeschichte: Vom Methodenstreit zum Werturteilsstreit

I. TEIL Wissenschaftstheoretische Akteure der Zwischenkriegszeit in Polen

2 Die Konstellation der Lemberg-Warschauer Schule

Ludwik Flecks Weg zu einer soziologisierten Erkenntnistheorie

II. TEIL Die Akteure und ihre Konstellationen im deutschsprachigen Raum

Zwischenspiel I: Der Mord an Moritz Schlick

4 Der Wiener Kreis als theoretisches Bindeglied der Akteur_innen der Positivismusstreite

5 Die Frankfurter Schule im Kontext von Horkheimers theoretischer Entwicklung zum »kleinen« Positivismusstreit

III. TEIL Der »deutsche« und der »polnische« Positivismusstreit im Vergleich

Zwischenspiel II: Ein Dialog, den es niemals gab.

6 Die Positivismusstreite zwischen Fiktion und Analytik verfechten und verorten

7 Der »kleine« Positivismusstreit zwischen Otto Neurath und Max Horkheimer

8 Der »polnische« Positivismusstreit zwischen Ludwik Fleck, dem Wiener Kreis und Izydora Dąmbska

9 Vergleich und Verflechtung der Debatten im Kontext der Ideologien

Resümee

Epilog: Kritische Verflechtungen im Schottischen Café

Danksagung

Anhang

Bibliographie

Abbildungsverzeichnis

Personenregister

Stichwortregister

Piotr Gołdyn: Życie codzienne nauczycieli w II RP [Daily life of Teachers in the Polish Second Republic].

Piotr Gołdyn: Życie codzienne nauczycieli w II RP [Daily life of Teachers in the Polish Second Republic]. Warszawa: PIW 2024. ISBN 978-83-8196-818-8

Obecne do dziś w Polsce legendy „przedwojennego nauczyciela” i „przedwojennej matury” są wyrazem przekonania o wysokiej jakości systemu oświatowego w II RP i wyjątkowym statusie tej grupy zawodowej – jakoby cieszącej się wówczas prestiżem, do którego daleko dzisiejszym belfrom. Czy tak rzeczywiście było? Piotr Gołdyn odpowiada na to pytanie, rekonstruując codzienność ówczesnych nauczycieli. Budowany zupełnie od nowa system oświaty stawiał przed nauczycielami trudne zadanie niesienia kaganka oświaty w społeczność odrodzonego państwa. Problemy lokalowe, ubóstwo wyposażenia i podręczników wydają się niczym wobec spustoszeń, jakie poczyniły rusyfikacja i germanizacja. Autor kreśli obraz nauczyciela, który w tej trudnej codzienności miał realizować swoją misję – zaczynając od jego własnej edukacji i przebiegu kariery, przez status materialny i społeczny, a kończąc na mentalności.

Institutional Care in Europe in The 20th Century

Anelia Kassabova, Kristina Popova, Milena Angelova (eds.) Institutional Care in Europe in The 20th Century. Thematic issue of Balkanistic Forum, 33(3). Open Access: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.13500443.

BALTIC WORLDS. September 2024. Vol. XVII:3. Challenging times for academia.

BALTIC  WORLDS. September 2024. Vol. XVII:3. Challenging times for academia. Also in this issue Theme: Nationhood, gender, and classical music education; Moral dilemmas for Russian researchers in Russia; Reflections on online teaching for exile students; Sex education and propaganda in Lithuania. OPEN ACCESS: https://balticworlds.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Baltic_Worlds_2024_vol.17_no.3_pages_1_152.pdf

(Editorial) Ninna Mörner: Academic dilemmas 

There are many considerations to take into account as an editor, especially when publishing in times of war, conflicts, and renewed attacks on democracy — and an overall tendency towards growing polarization. As an editor for Baltic Worlds, since it was launched 2009, I can verify that the considerations and the level on what is at stake are getting more severe. 

ONE OBVIOUS SIGN is the need for contributors to be anonymous to be able to publish without repercussions for themselves or their families and friends. To enable people to give their stories and opinions, and share research findings, we need to protect their identity and safety. Yet we also need quality checks and to avoid compromising too much on the academic processes. 

ANOTHER DELICATE ISSUE is of course publishing in relation to Russian and Belarusian researchers. We will not publish research that generates credit for researchers affiliated with universities that have signed the letter of support for Putin and his war. At the same time, we still see the need to support researchers and students in Russia, Belarus, and in exile under repression, at least to support their anti-war activities that could be undermining the regimes’ violent grips. One might also ask whether it is also crucial to keep up the dialogue, and carefully nourish relations with the democratic and peaceful forces because they might, one day, play an active role in shaping the future of post-Putin Russia and a new Europe? The dilemmas certainly have many layers … Ekaterina Kalinina has collected the voices of five (anonymous) Russian researchers that give different insights into the choices they make while staying and working in Russia under censorship and repressive legislation, and how they reflect on their role and decisions in relation to the moral dilemmas. This we publish.

Baltic Worlds is arranging a roundtable discussion with academic area studies journals in November (see page 150). Several representatives of scholarly journals related to the area are invited to discuss topical issues like the impact of the war in Ukraine on publishing matters. 

LATER IN THIS issue Yulia Gradskova shares her reflections on teaching an online course on gender and Soviet history for students from and in authoritarian Russia. Akvilė Giniotaitė, in a peer-reviewed article, links Russian propaganda with right-wing antigenderist rhetoric and describes how sex education in the case of Lithuania is utilized as tool in the anti-genderist propaganda spreading, above all in Eastern Europe. Many articles in this issue bring up different aspects of teaching, education, and academic work, some, as mentioned, in the context of the war. The theme section however focuses on classical music education, and particularly looks into this in relation to nationhood and the gendered heritage of classical music. Guest editor Ann Werner presents the theme section in her introduction. 

THIS VOLUMINOUS issue starts with an interview with Valentina Izmirlieva by Irina Sandomirskaja. Izmirlieva, among other things, discusses the significant transformations within the Orthodox sphere that facilitate the radical militarization of Russian society. 

IH PAN Institute of History Tadeusz Manteuffel of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw announces competitions for one doctoral and one postdoctoral position in a project on feminist knowledge production

Institute of History Tadeusz Manteuffel of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw announces competitions for one doctoral and one postdoctoral position in a project on feminist knowledge production:

1: Postdoc position on post-war Hungary for the project “Women experts and feminist knowledge production in post-war East Central Europe (1945–1989)" (3-year post-doc position): https://ihpan.edu.pl/en/oferty-pracy/competition-for-the-adjunct-postdoctoral-trainee-position-post-doc-the-contractor-of-a-research-project-2/

2: PhD position at the project “Women experts and feminist knowledge production in post-war East Central Europe (1945-1989)”: https://ihpan.edu.pl/en/phd-position-at-the-project-women-experts-and-feminist-knowledge-production-in-post-war-east-central-europe-1945-1989/

Ab Imperio 2/2024 is online! Full url: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53193/print

Методология и теория / Methodology and Theory

От редакции: ПОЛИТИКА БУДУЩЕГО: МЕЖДУ СОЦИАЛЬНОЙ ИНЖЕНЕРИЕЙ И МОРАЛЬНЫМ СООБЩЕСТВОМ

pp. 8-18

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936952

From the Editors: The Politics of the Future between Social Engineering and a Moral Community

pp. 19-27

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936953

Кто такие "медоеды" и что они строят?

Илья Чедолума

pp. 28-30

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936954

Как формировались нации? Мифы, манипуляции и украденные идеалы

Виктор Коренивский, Михаил Сычев, Илья Чедолума, Александр Чекмарев, Михайло Штейнбок

pp. 31-54

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936955

История / History

Unfulfilled Ambitions for Social Engineering: Polish Social Scientists during the Sanacja Regime

Olga Linkiewicz

pp. 57-82

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936956

Карлаг: и переселение местного населения Центрального Казахстана в 1930-е годы

Арайлым Мусагалиева

pp. 83-118

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936957

Socialist Environmental Holism in the Soviet Arctic and the Plains of Hungary

Andy Bruno, Viktor Pál

pp. 119-146

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936958

АВС / ABC

New Curricula for New Histories of Northern Eurasia / Новые университетские курсы по новой истории Северной Евразии

Reflections on Teaching New Soviet History and Russian Imperial History from a Multiethnic Perspective

Zukhra Kasimova

pp. 149-169

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936959

HIST 248: The Multiethnic Soviet Union

Zukhra Kasimova

pp. 170-179

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936960

Архив / Archive

In Memoriam: Alla Zeide (1941–2024)

pp. 181-183

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936961

From the Diary, January 1990

Alla Zeide

pp. 184-194

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936962

Рецензии / Book Reviews

Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives ed. by Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis (review)

Лилия Бережная

pp. 195-201

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936963

Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives ed. by Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis (review)

Андрей Шпирт

pp. 202-213

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936964

The Soviet-Polish War and Its Legacy: Lenin's Defeat and the Rise of Stalinism by Peter Whitewood (review)

Barbara Allen

pp. 213-218

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936965

Насилие и мол-чание: Красная армия в Вен-грии во Второй Мировой войне / Пер by Андреа Пето (review)

Дина Гусейнова

pp. 219-224

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936966

The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR by Jonathan Brunstedt (review)

Iryna Sklokina

pp. 225-230

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936967

Roy and Zhores Medvedev: Loyal Dissent in the Soviet Union by Barbara Martin (review)

Artur Lakatos

pp. 231-234

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936968

The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines by Marat Grinberg (review)

Виктория Суковатая

pp. 235-243

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936969

"Переставляючи слова у століттях": Інтелектуальна біографія Ілька Борщака by Вадим Ададуров (review)

Олег Журба, Татьяна Литвинова

pp. 243-252

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936970

Ireland and Ukraine: Studies in Comparative Imperial and National History ed. by Stephen Velychenko, Joseph Ruane, and Liudmyla Hrynevych (review)

Ivan (John) Jaworsky

pp. 253-255

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936971

Empires of Eurasia: How Imperial Legacies Shape International Security by Jeffrey Mankoff (review)

Ксения Егорова

pp. 255-259

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936972

List of Contributors

pp. 260-261

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936973

Список авторов

pp. 262-263

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2024.a936974

hps.cesee&hira global book talk: 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱

 hps.cesee&hira global book talk: 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 - 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗲𝘀, 𝟭𝟵𝟰𝟱–𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟲. With Alexej Lochmatow, 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗷 𝗚ó𝗿𝗻𝘆 and 𝗜𝘇𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗮 𝗪𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿. Monday, September 23, 16:00 CET / 10 a.m. EST, zoom 

Alexej Lochmatow (Erfurt University) will present his book "𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 - 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗲𝘀, 𝟭𝟵𝟰𝟱–𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟲" (Routledge 2024).

This book explores the public debates among scholars that took place in Early Cold War Poland. The author challenges the traditional narrative on the ‘Sovietisation’ of Central and Eastern European countries and proposes to see this process not as a spread of Marxist ideology or a Soviet institutional model, but as an attempt to force scholars to rapidly adopt new academic and civic virtues. This book argues that this project failed to succeed in Poland and shows how the struggle against these new virtues united both Marxist and non-Marxist scholars. While covering the arc of Polish scholarly debates, the author invites the reader to go beyond Poland and to use ‘virtues’ as a framework for reflections on both the foundations of scholarly practice and the ‘nature’ of authoritarian regimes with their ambition to teach scholars how to be ‘virtuous.’

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗷 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗼𝘄 (𝗘𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆)

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗷 𝗚ó𝗿𝗻𝘆 (𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲) 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝘇𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗮 𝗪𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿 (𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗖𝗶𝘁é 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆)

𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗛𝗲𝗶𝗱𝗶-𝗛𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 (𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲)

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𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗜𝗥𝗔 (𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆) 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 is an event series launched by the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Institute of the Leibniz Association. We have developed the series to support a vivid academic exchange and discussion at a time when personal contacts remain restricted. The Digital HIRA Book Launch brings together alumni, current HIRA fellows, and interested colleagues offering the newest results of our research to the broader public.

𝗛𝗣𝗦.𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗘 is an online platform about the history of science in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Its aim is to facilitate the exchange of information among HPS scholars in the region stretching from Prague to Perm and from Tallinn to Tirana. You can find it on blogger (https://hpscesee.blogspot.com/), facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/hps.cesee/) and twitter (https://twitter.com/hpscesee).

Luděk Brož: Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris: In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia

 Luděk Brož: Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris: In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia. New York, Oxford: Berghahn 2024. ISBN  978-1-80539-260-6 

Description

The Altai Republic in southern Siberia is renowned for excavations of frozen mummies from high-altitude burial sites. Less well-known is the fact that it hosts fallout zones for the second stages of rockets launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. Local inhabitants blame ‘evil spirits’ released by archaeological work and toxic fuel from rocket debris for their misfortunes. This book explores the divergent fates of such claims when confronted with state-fostered ‘rationalisms’ of science and governance.

Ludek Broz is Head of the Department of Ecological Anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences. He co-edited the volume Suicide and Agency: Anthropological Perspectives on Self-destruction, Personhood and Power (Routledge, 2016) with Daniel Muenster.

Studia Historiae Scientiarum Vol. 23 (2024), is online (as FirstView Articles),

Studia Historiae Scientiarum Vol. 23 (2024), is online (as FirstView Articles), English and Polish (with English abstracts): https://ojs.ejournals.eu/SHS/issue/view/791

• The Evolutionary Transformation of the Journal. Part 11

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.24.001.19574

  Michał Kokowski

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TRANSLATIONS

• On Symmetry in Physical Phenomena, Symmetry of an Electric Field and of a Magnetic Field

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.24.002.19575

  Pierre Curie; Andrzej Ziółkowski

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FOCAL POINT

• Some Remarks on the Ancient Sources and Premises of the Theory of Nicolaus Copernicus

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.24.003.19576

  Konrad Dydak Rycyk, OFM

  •  PDF (Język Polski)

• Copernicus and Copernicans: Galileo, Kepler, Bruno

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.24.004.19577

  Ünsal Çimen

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• An Introduction to the Topic ‘Copernicus and Astrology’. A Commentary on the Theses of Robert S. Westman

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.24.005.19578

  Michał Kokowski

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• Wprowadzenie do tematyki ‘Kopernik a astrologia’. Komentarz do tez Roberta S. Westmana

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.24.006.19579

  Michał Kokowski

  •  PDF (Język Polski)

• Was Copernicus an Astrologer?

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.24.007.19580

  George Borski, Ivan Kolkov

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• Was Copernicus an Astrologer? From the Perspective of a Historian of Astrology

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.24.008.19581

  Sylwia Konarska-Zimnicka

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SCIENCE IN POLAND

• Andrzej Trzciński’s Enlightenment Concept of Science in Uwagi na Rozprawę o krytyce Stanisława Kostki Potockiego [Remarks on Stanisław Kostka Potocki’s Treatise on Critique]

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.24.009.19582

  Milena Cygan

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• Pharmacy in Polish Pharmaceutical Calendars around 1900. Introduction to Research

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.24.010.19583

  Anna Żuk

  •  PDF (Język Polski)

• The Ukrainian Borrowing Kołtun in Polish Medical Terminology

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.24.011.19584

  Lucyna Agnieszka Jankowiak

  •  PDF (Język Polski)

• Kraków Center of Research on Cultural History around 1900

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.24.012.19585

  Maria Stinia

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SCIENCE BEYOND BORDERS

• The Reception of Neptune’s Discovery in British and American Protestant Theology

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.24.013.19586

  Zenon Roskal, Jacek Rodzeń

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PRESENTATIONS AND REVIEWS

• Reflections on the Importance of the Leonhardi Euleri Opera Omnia, Volume IV A (2016) and Volume VIII (2018)

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.24.014.19587

  Stanisław Domoradzki, Mykhailo Zarichnyi

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VARIA

• Geohistorical Structural Design Tables for the Building Stones of the Maltese Archipelago

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.24.015.19588

  Lino Bianco

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• Zwicky as a Pluralist

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.24.016.19589

  Alan Heiblum Robles

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• Academician V. H. Serheiev – Control System Designer, Founder of the Scientific and Design School, Honored Citizen of Kharkiv (on His 110th Birthday)

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.24.017.19590

  Elena Tverytnykova, Olena Voitiuk

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• The Kitchen and the Dacha: Productive Spaces of Soviet Mathematics

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  Slava Gerovitch

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SCIENTIFIC CHRONICLE

• The Activity Report of the PAU Commission on the History of Science in 2023/2024

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  Michał Kokowski

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4-year doctoral position at the Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw

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Roberto Lalli and Jaume Navarro (eds.) Globalizing Physics One Hundred Years of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

 Roberto Lalli and Jaume Navarro (eds.) Globalizing Physics One Hundred Years of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press 2024. 

Open access: https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/openaccess/9780198878681.pdf

Description

Following the centenary of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, this volume features contributions from leading science historians from around the world on the changing roles of the institution in international affairs from its foundation in 1922 to the present. The case studies presented in this volume show the multitude of functions that IUPAP had and how these were related to the changing international political contexts.

The book is divided into three parts. The first discusses the interwar period demonstrating how the exclusion of communities of the Central Powers from international scientific institutions imposed by victorious allied countries made IUPAP ineffective until the end of World War II. The second part analyzes the changing roles assumed by IUPAP starting from its complete renovation after World War II. Case studies covering the role of IUPAP in physics education, in metrology, in joint commissions with other unions and in defining the complex relations between pure and applied physics provide examples of IUPAP's impact on the world of science. Part III squarely addresses the science diplomacy aspects of IUPAP during the Cold War highlighting the importance of IUPAP in furthering diplomatic goals and explaining the origin of the pursuit of the free circulation of scientists as the activity that characterized the main function of international unions during the Cold War.

Highlighting how often scientific agendas and political imperatives were entangled in the activities of IUPAP, the book analyzes the work of the Union as exercises of science diplomacy, thus contributing to the current debate on the use of science and technology in international relations.

Table of Contents

Preface, Monica Pepe-Altarelli and Silvina Ponce Dawson

Introduction, Roberto Lalli and Jaume Navarro

PART I: IUPAP Between the Two World Wars

1:IUPAP and the Interwar World of Science, Danielle Fauque and Robert Fox

2:The "Happy Thirties"? Millikan's Troubled Presidency of IUPAP, Jaume Navarro

PART II: Reshaping IUPAP after World War II

3:From Diplomacy to Physics and Back Again: The Changing Roles of IUPAP in the Second Half of the 20th Century, Roberto Lalli

4:Drawing the Line between Pure and Applied Physics, Joseph D. Martin

5:Under the ICSU Umbrella: The Joint Commission on Radioactivity (1947-1955) Between IUPAP and IUPAC, Danielle Fauque and Brigitte Van Tiggelen

6:Restoring Physics: IUPAP's Commission on Education, Signature Pedagogies, and the Inter-National Politics of Science in the 1960s, Josep Simon

7:The Role of IUPAP in Shaping Metrological Practice: International Negotiation and Collaboration, Connemara Doran

8:Repairing a Scientific Network: The International Conference of Theoretical Physics in 1953 and the Rehabilitation of the Japanese Physics Community, Kenji Ito

Part III: Physics, Diplomacy, and the Cold War

9:Socialist Internationalism and Science Diplomacy Across the Iron Curtain: Geneva, Dubna, IUPAP, Climério Paulo da Silva Neto and Alexei Kojevnikov

10:Particles, Purity, Politics: Expanding International Exchange in High Energy Physics during the Cold War, Barbara Hof

11:China's Tortuous Path to IUPAP: An Enlightening Case of Chinese Science Diplomacy during the Cold War, Danian Hu, Jinyan Liu, and Xiaodong Yin

12:IUPAP, Cooperative Antagonism and the GDR, Doubravka Olšáková

13:Edoardo Amaldi and the Scientific Collaboration with the USSR, Daniele Cozzoli

14:National Individuals and International Unions: Gleb Wataghin's Experience with IUPAP (1951-1959), Luciana Vieira Souza da Silva

15:The Only (Tense) Encounter of a Non-existent Relationship? NATO, IUPAP and the 1963 Travel Ban Controversy, Simone Turchetti

Appendix: National Membership and Fees, 1919-1947, Danielle Fauque and Robert Fox

Open PhD position in History of Science, University of Vienna

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Ekaterina Melnikova and Zinaida Vasilyeva (eds.), Academia across the borders

 Ekaterina Melnikova and Zinaida Vasilyeva (eds.), Academia across the borders. Fürstenberg/Havel: Kulturstiftung Sibirien 2024.

Open access: https://dh-north.org/publikationen/academia-across-the-borders/de

This book documents the voices of scholars working in, with, or about Russia in the context of historical collapse. The brief answers, commentaries, and essays collected here were written in response to the four questions asking how academic lives and practices have changed in the aftermath of 24 February, 2022.

The original project, which was born in Russia at the end of 2022 and intended to be published in Russia and in the Russian language, was never realised. One year later, we are publishing this collection in Germany in the English language. These are no longer snapshots of the current situation, but historical documents that record structural disruptions, ethical and political uncertainties, and individual emotional and analytical reflections from a year ago.

Academia is always both an active subject and a passive object under transformation in any continuing political, social, and economic processes; with this publication we hope to contribute to our understanding of diverse implications of the war and shifts in academic landscapes and public discursive regimes. The book includes 25 responses by young and well-established scholars and two introductions, written by the editors in early 2023 and 2024 respectively.