Belarusian Historical Scholarship in Exile: Current State and Challenges.

 A new series of analytical papers examining the current state and key challenges of Belarusian scholarship in exile has been published following the completion of the project Belarusian Historical Scholarship in Exile: Current State and Challenges.

Online version: https://www.icelds.org/portfolio/new-analytical-paper-series-examines-belarusian-scholarship-in-exile/

Implemented with the financial support of the EU4Belarus: Support to Advanced Learning and Training (SALT II) programme, funded by the European Union, the project sought to strengthen professional dialogue and expert exchange within the Belarusian academic and intellectual community outside the country.

The publication series responds to the profound changes that have affected Belarusian academia since 2020. For many scholars, exile was not a planned or gradual process but the result of political pressure, repression and the destruction of institutional conditions for independent academic work in Belarus. As a consequence, a substantial part of the academic community has continued its work abroad, becoming integrated into different universities, research institutions and academic systems.

These developments have led to increasing fragmentation. Belarusian researchers today work in different institutional, linguistic and disciplinary environments, often within local or international research agendas that leave limited space for sustained reflection on Belarusian issues. Opportunities for regular professional exchange among Belarusian scholars abroad remain limited and frequently depend on informal networks.

At the same time, interest in Belarusian history and historical memory has grown. However, this interest does not always correspond to the logic of academic research and is not always accompanied by the resources necessary to support it. As a result, many researchers find themselves balancing different audiences and expectations without sufficient opportunities to reconcile them.

Against this background, the project aimed to create a space for professional reflection on the conditions under which Belarusian historical scholarship exists in exile today. Rather than proposing institutional solutions or seeking to formulate common positions, it focused on facilitating informed discussion and the exchange of experience among invited experts in a confidential setting.

The analytical paper series is the principal outcome of this work. Drawing on a series of expert seminars, the publications examine the institutional, linguistic and professional conditions in which Belarusian historical scholarship is developing outside the country. They also address the interaction between Belarusian and foreign historical narratives, the structural challenges facing scholars in exile, the opportunities and limitations of different institutional models, and possible approaches to strengthening the long-term resilience of Belarusian scholarship.

Rather than presenting a single perspective or claiming to represent the entire academic community, the papers document the current state of the field at a particular moment. They bring together the principal observations and reflections emerging from the expert discussions and are intended to contribute to continued professional dialogue on the future of Belarusian scholarship in exile.

The analytical paper series was edited by Dr. Hanna Vasilevich, who coordinated the editorial process and worked closely with the authors in developing and preparing the manuscripts for publication.

Here you can access papers prepared during the project:

Interstate dialogue on historical issues between Belarus and Germany: obstacles and failure factors (by Victor Shadurski)

From emergency to institution-building: Belarusian historical scholarship in exile after 2020 (by Nina Skepyan)

Institutional barriers to academic reintegration: the Irish context and Belarusian historical scholarship in exile (by Vadzim Holubeu)

Reactive by condition: why the exile model of Belarusian academia cannot sustain itself (by Hanna Vasilevich)

Competing interpretations of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in contemporary national narratives (by Viktar Yakubau)

Digital authoritarianism and historians in exile: the disappearance of Belarus’s digital archives? (by Aliaksei Bratachkin)

Francysk Skaryna across national narratives: Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and Czechia (by Aliaksandr Parshankou)

Studying resistance across Eastern Europe: toward a new analytical paradigm (by Tatsiana Astrouskaya)

Producing Belarusian history after 2020: how exile reshapes historical knowledge (by Kiryl Kascian)

Policy paper: Belarusian historical scholarship in exile, its current state and challenges (by Hanna Vasilevich and Maxim Karaliou)

New book in open access: 𝙄𝙣 𝙎𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙍𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙖𝙣: 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝘿𝙚𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙍𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙖 by Marius Turda

 New book in open access: 𝙄𝙣 𝙎𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙍𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙖𝙣: 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝘿𝙚𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙍𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙖 by Marius Turda 

Exploring debates on Romanian national character and race from the 1880s to the 1950s, Turda’s study demonstrates how racism and eugenics shaped policies of ethnic purification under the Antonescu regime. It argues that the Holocaust in Romania targeted both Jews and Roma as part of a broader biopolitical nationalism, and that the eugenic ideal of the “perfect” Romanian remained embedded in communist visions of the “new man” and “perfect” society. 

Read more and preorder your copy here: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048573608/in-search-of-the-perfect-romanian

Webinar: Central State Scientific and Technical Archives of Ukraine

  Join us for Webinar next Friday!

Central State Scientific and Technical Archives of Ukraine

Friday 11 September 2026 · 16:00 Kyiv / 15:00 Berlin / 09:00 Bloomington · zoom

In this session, Prof. Dr. Marat Balyshev, Head of the Central State Scientific and Technical Archives of Ukraine (TsDNTA), examines the work of his institution during Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. The session is moderated by Dr. Ewa Sułek.

This lecture traces the changes across the archives’ principal areas of activity, driven by the need to safeguard documents, maintain institutional continuity, and widen access to archival information under wartime conditions. Particular attention is given to the development of digital archival resources: the digitisation of scientific and technical documentation, the creation of electronic catalogues and a collection of digital use copies, and the implementation of the TOPAZ information retrieval system. The lecture also outlines the international dimension of the archives’ work — cooperation with foreign archival, academic, and cultural institutions, participation in international projects and professional events, and the role of international charitable assistance in strengthening the institution’s material and technical capacity, acquiring modern digitisation equipment, and sustaining stable operations throughout the war.

A second focus falls on the archives’ cultural and educational projects. Drawing on two case studies — “Site of Resistance: Infrastructure Projects of the Azovstal Metallurgical Plant” and “Industrial Utopia: The Unrealised Project of the Kharkiv Nuclear Power Plant” — the lecture considers new approaches to using archival documents in exhibition, research, and public-facing work, including thematic web resources, documentary films, 3D models, and works of art created on the basis of archival holdings. It assesses how archival documentation can generate new forms of representing archival heritage: forms that invite a rethinking of Ukraine’s scientific and technical legacy, extend its presence in the public sphere, draw new audiences to the history of science, technology, and industry, and open fresh possibilities for communication between archives and society.

The lecture will be of interest to historians, archivists, researchers in the history of science and technology, students, and all those interested in Ukraine’s scientific, technical, and industrial heritage.

Every session runs with simultaneous Ukrainian–English interpretation — ask questions in either language — and ends with an open Q&A.

 Free · registration required

 Register for Webinar 2: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/C3XqTlTHQ3mV2fu-qdqRpw

The project is a part of the Lysiak-Rudnytsky Ukrainian Studies Programme held by the Ukrainian Institute in cooperation with the Cultural Diplomacy Foundation, with financial support from the International Renaissance Foundation and Mnozhyna Foundation.

See you next Friday, September 11!

Milan Hanyš: Mezi Prahou a Siónem Intelektuální portrét Felixe Weltsche. Centrum pro studium demokracie 2026 [Between Prague and Sion: An Intellectual Portrait of Felix Weltsch].

 Milan Hanyš: Mezi Prahou a Siónem Intelektuální portrét Felixe Weltsche. Centrum pro studium demokracie 2026 [Between Prague and Sion: An Intellectual Portrait of Felix Weltsch]. ISBN 978-80-7325-616-6

Felix Weltsch (1884-1964), filosof, publicista a šéfredaktor pražského sionistického týdeníku Selbstwehr, byl jednou z ústředních postav německo-židovského intelektuálního života v meziválečné Praze a blízkým přítelem Franze Kafky a Maxe Broda. Přes svůj kulturní a myšlenkový dosah zůstal v české recepci dosud stranou pozornosti.

Kniha rekonstruuje Weltschovo myšlení v celé jeho tematické šíři: od filosofických základů pražského sionismu a teorie národního humanismu přes politickou teorii obranyschopné demokracie a analýzu antisemitismu jako symptomu krize liberální společnosti až po reflexi holocaustu. Weltsch si kladl otázky, které neztratily nic ze své naléhavosti: Jak bránit demokracii před jejími nepřáteli? Jak smířit národní identitu s humanistickými hodnotami? Co antisemitismus vypovídá o většinové společnosti? Kniha vychází z rozsáhlého pramenného výzkumu a metod intelektuálních dějin. Součástí svazku je i antologie pěti Weltschových textů, které vycházejí v češtině poprvé.

GLOHRA workshop Mind the gap: engaging Europe’s East in global health debates

GLOHRA workshop Mind the gap: engaging Europe’s East in global health debates

Dates: October 29–30, 2026
Location: Charité, Berlin, Germany
Format: Hybrid (in-person or online participation)
Registration deadline: October 9, 2026

Capacity: Limited to 30 in-person participants; places allocated based on responses below  

Details: https://tinyurl.com/bdzjuf88

Confirmed speakers: Valentyna Mazhbits, Botakoz Kassymbekova, Daniel James, Dora Vargha, Bogdan Cristian Iacob, Petra Ezzeddine, Joanna Talewicz, Lois Orton, Olga Fuseini, and Dominika Pszczółkowska-Mościcka. The full programme will be published closer to the workshop date.

Participation, including catering during the event, is free of charge. Participants are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation.

The workshop is organised by Dr Tereza Hendl (University of Augsburg, the RUTA Association), Dr Joanna Karolina Malinowska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, the RUTA Association), Professor Kerem Böge and Dr Solveig Kemna from the Charité, Berlin. The workshop is funded by the awarded grant from the German Alliance for Global Health research (GLOHRA).

CFP:Fish out of place: how animals shape infrastructure

 

ESEH 2027 Panel Proposal

We invite proposals for a panel to be submitted to the ESEH conference at Salzburg, 7 — 10 September 2027

Deadline for Proposals: 20 September 2026

 Fish out of place: how animals shape infrastructure

Hydraulic infrastructure, fishing vessels, hatcheries and fish ponds are usually studied as expressions of human ambition: to engineer environments and to manage fish populations. Less attention has been paid to the ways fish failed to behave as expected. They did not swim up fishways, did not spawn, avoided fishing gear, or simply failed to appear. As highly mobile animals, fish kept eluding the technical logic of engineers and fishers, of fisheries scientists, aquaculturists and water managers. Their movements limited what infrastructure could do, and prompted new efforts to adapt or redesign it. This panel explores the role of animals in infrastructural change through the lens of fish and other aquatic life. It brings together environmental history and the history of science and technology, and is open to European and non-European cases from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Please send a communication of interest along with a short abstract (200 words) to christian.zumbraegel@uni-bielefeld.de and anna.safronova@zmo.de  by 20 September 2026, so that we can build a coherent panel together.

 

Ruben Zeeman (ed.) Censorship and Self-Censorship in History Education: A Comparative Approach to Backsliding Democracies

Ruben Zeeman (ed.) Censorship and Self-Censorship in History Education: A Comparative Approach to Backsliding Democracies. CEU Press 2026. ISBN: 9789048577118

Censorship of history education takes place around the world. A striking feature of recent examples is that they often coincide with challenges to democratic governance. This book examines this interplay between censorship and self-censorship in history education and so-called democratic backsliding. It does so in two parts. The first brings together an interdisciplinary group of academics, high school teachers and human rights advocates to assess the characteristics of censorship and self-censorship in Brazil, India, Hungary and the United States. Their analyses move between local, national and transnational developments to capture the overlaps and differences between state and non-state censorial practices and strategies of resistance. The second, thematic part explores some of the formal characteristics of contemporary censorship of history education, including the impact of social media, continuities of colonialism and the challenges against gender and sexuality education.

Introduction - Ruben Zeeman - Transnational History Education and Backsliding Democracy

Regional Essays

1. Brazil

a. Paolo Otero dos Santos - The Diffuse Vigilance of History Teaching in Contemporary Brazil

b. Luanna Jales - Historical Visibility for Women, Black and Indigenous Peoples in Brazil and Latin America

c. Juliana Cesario Alvim Gomes - History, Sexuality and Gender Education: Intersections and Interactions in Brazil

2. Hungary

a. Andrea Petö and Flore Higuet - Illiberal History Education: The Case of Hungary

b. Péter Bihari - History Teaching in Hungary

c. Andreas Holtberget - History Teaching under Threat? Recent Cases from East-Central and Southeastern Europe

3. India

a. Aditya Mukherjee and Mridula Mukherjee - Weaponizing History: Threat to Democracy in India

b. Shraddha Kumbhojkar - History Textbooks in Maharashtra: Vernacular Realities

c. Adnaan Farooq - ‘Saffronization’ of the History Curriculum in India under the BJP

4. United States

a. Jeremy Young and Jacqueline Allain - State-Level Educational Censorship Legislation Affecting Colleges and Universities

b. Nelva Williamson - Teaching in the Age of Anti-History: A Teacher's Reflection

c. Mathias Möschel - European Critiques and Actions Against Critical Race Theory

Thematic Essays

1. Robbert-Jan Adriaansen - Teaching on Thin Ice: Social Media, Epistemic Conflict, and the Targeting of History Educators

2. Mariana Prandini Assis - Reimagining Gender and Sex Education as a Political Right

3. Eugenia Ama Breba Anderson and Samuel Adu-Gyamfi - The Hidden History Curriculum: Negotiated Gender History Education in Ghana

4. Antoon de Baets - History Education Moratoria during Transitions to Democracy

Conclusion

Eckhardt Fuchs and Wibke Westermeyer

Censorship in School Education

Index.

“Zero Growth, Socialist Modernity, and the Anti-Environmental Turn in Eastern Europe”

 A new article in the Journal of Modern European History:

“Zero Growth, Socialist Modernity, and the Anti-Environmental Turn in Eastern Europe”

The article examines how socialist Eastern Europe confronted the tension between a vision of modernity based on economic growth and emerging debates about the environmental limits to growth - and why anti-environmental positions ultimately prevailed.

The article was co-authored by Elena Kochetkova, Doubravka Olšáková, Vedran Duančić, Gleb Kazakov, Julia Lajus, Stephen Milder, Vedran Muić, and Olga Trufanova.

Read it here:

https://doi.org/10.1177/16118944261465602

CFP: Utopia(s) in the Arts and Art Spaces from the 1960s to the Present Day. Paris 02/2027, deadline: 20.10.2026

 CFP: Utopia(s) in the Arts and Art Spaces from the 1960s to the Present Day. Paris 02/2027, deadline: 20.10.2026

In his encyclopaedia of hopes, Bloch presents certain arts (painting, opera, literature and music) as “outlines of a better world” (Bloch, 1959). Art thus contributes to the emergence of utopia by preparing consciousness for it. At the heart of the notion of utopia – from manifestations predating the coining of the term to contemporary realizations – lies a constant questioning of the social status quo and a proposal for alternative societies. Utopia has developed around an evocative poetics that cuts across artistic disciplines. The symbolism constructed by utopia, shaped through artistic manifestations, tends to materialize in its realized counterpart. In this regard, the philosopher Roland Schaer points to the porosity between the literary – or more broadly fictional – counterpart and realized utopian projects. Thus, “utopia is, on the one hand, an imaginary projection into the fictional space created by the text of the narrative; on the other hand, the project it sets forth assumes implementation and as such it veers toward the side of history while simultaneously drawing its sustenance from fiction.” (Schaer, 2000).

The aim of this symposium is to examine the extension of the practice of utopia, both as a fictional genre and as a project, within various artistic manifestations and within art spaces themselves. It will also involve examining discourses on the subject. Indeed, utopia is considered in its transdisciplinary dimension, both from a methodological standpoint and in terms of the arts concerned (visual arts, literature, music, performing arts). The idea of contemporaneity is constitutive of this study, since the goal is to understand the evolution and current relevance of the notion. Proposals must focus on works or projects dating from after the 1960s, a decade that marked a significant renewal of utopia in light of its penetration into institutional critique and its echoes in the formation of counterculture. Across various artistic forms, utopia has been reconceptualized to push the limits of bourgeois institutions, reinvent the relationship between art and the public, and contribute to the upheaval of society.

The symposium invites contributions along the following lines of inquiry:

Axis 1 – Naming Utopia: Vocabulary and Interdisciplinary Typology

- epistemology of utopian terminology

- language shared across fields

- disciplinary differences and nuances

- common core underlying recourse to utopia

Axis 2 – Utopia as an Artistic Apparatus Presenting an Alternative to the World of Reference

- forms of the utopian work: literal apparatus / conceptual apparatus

- evolution and persistence of topoi, particularly uses of space

- “war of imaginaries”

- updating of utopian motifs (communities, emotions, identities, individualities, the living world…)

Axis 3 – Utopian Materializations: Spaces and Practices of Art

- art spaces: planned, transitory or realized; spaces of representation/display, dissemination, experimentation, pedagogy, resistance

- spatial practices and “utopian” discourses in the art and architecture of art places

- experimental practices and modes of artistic organization

Submission Guidelines

Proposals from researchers at all career stages (including Ph.D. students) are welcome, as are those from artists and practitioners of utopia.

Paper proposals, written in French or English, should not exceed 400 words (excluding bibliography) and must be accompanied by a short biographical note. They should be sent by 20 October 2026 to the following address: JEUtopieArts@protonmail.com

Applicants will be notified of the outcome, following review of the proposals, by the end of November.

Organizing Committee

Clara Cazaubiel (PhD candidate in Museum Studies, CERLIS, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Camille Lucot (PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, LISAA, Université Gustave Eiffel)

Adrian Wetter (PhD candidate in Film Studies, THALIM, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Universität Kassel, Germany)

Scientific Committee

Antoine de Baecque (Professor of Film Studies, ARTS, Ecole Normale Superieure)

Irène Langlet (Professor of Comparative Literature, LISAA, Université Gustave Eiffel)

François Mairesse (Professor of Museum Studies, CERLIS, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Call for Abstracts | 2026 Graduate Conference "Cusanus Contra Bohemos. Revisiting Nicholas of Cusa,"

  Call for Abstracts | 2026 Graduate Conference

We are pleased to invite submissions for the 2026 Graduate Conference "Cusanus Contra Bohemos. Revisiting Nicholas of Cusa," hosted by students from the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Charles University, Prague, on 19–20 November 2026.

The conference is one of the results of GA UK 334126 and will explore Nicholas of Cusa’s work in its broader historical and intellectual context, with particular emphasis on his political and legal thought and the interconnections between jurisprudence, political authority, ecclesiology, and sovereignty.

Topics of particular interest include:

• Cusanus and his contemporaries

• Law, theology, and political legitimacy

• Cusanus’ contribution to legal philosophy and jurisprudence

• Sovereignty and political authority in De Concordantia Catholica, De Auctoritate Praesidendi, and Epistola ad Bohemos

• Secular and ecclesiastical power in Cusanus’ political thought

• New approaches to his political and legal writings

• Cusanian mereology and the notion of Unity

All Cusanus-related contributions are welcome. We particularly encourage submissions from graduate students, doctoral candidates, and early-career researchers, while scholars at all career stages are warmly invited to apply.

🎓 Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Paul Richard Blum (Loyola University Maryland)

Lenka Karfíková (Charles University)

Andrea Fiamma (Academy of Sciences)

Witalij Morosow (Kues Academy)

📄 Submission Guidelines

Please submit an anonymous abstract of no more than 300 words, together with a short personal bio, to:

📧 cusanus.contra.bohemos@gmail.com

Submission deadline: 1 September 2026

Notification of acceptance: 10 September 2026

The conference will be held in person in Prague, Czech Republic. Please note that the conference is self-funded; travel and accommodation expenses cannot be reimbursed.

For further questions, please contact the organisitators at cusanus.contra.bohemos@gmail.com.

We look forward to receiving your submissions! 

Mateusz Binek: Uniwersalność mesjanizmu. Filozofia polityczna Augusta Cieszkowskiego [The Universality of Messianism: The Political Philosophy of August Cieszkowski].

 Mateusz Binek: Uniwersalność mesjanizmu. Filozofia polityczna Augusta Cieszkowskiego [The Universality of Messianism: The Political Philosophy of August Cieszkowski]. Wydawnictwo UMK 2025. ISBN: 978-83-231-6235-3

Książka stanowi krytyczną analizę filozoficzno-politycznych aspektów myśli jednego z najwybitniejszych przedstawicieli polskiego mesjanizmu – Augusta Cieszkowskiego. W pierwszej części prezentowanej monografii zastosowano metodę rekonstrukcji poglądów filozofa wraz ze wskazaniem na ich ideowe źródła. Badania te obejmują swym zasięgiem związki myśli Cieszkowskiego z filozofią Georga Wilhelma Friedricha Hegla, koncepcjami społecznymi Claude'a Henriego de Saint-Simona i Charles'a Fouriera oraz różnymi nurtami teologii i filozofii chrześcijańskiej.

W drugiej części pracy do analizy filozofii politycznej Cieszkowskiego wykorzystano siatkę pojęciową i metody wypracowane przez Carla Schmitta. Ich zastosowanie pomogło lepiej zrozumieć specyfikę badanych teorii przez ich interpretację w świetle takich ujęć teoretycznych, jak: uwzględnienie opozycji przyjaciel – wróg, pytanie o warunki możliwości ustanowienia globalnej wspólnoty politycznej, podkreślanie antropologicznego zakorzenienia koncepcji filozoficzno-politycznych. Zabieg ten pozwolił na ujawnienie, znajdujących się na marginesie omawianej twórczości, fundamentalnych twierdzeń i milcząco przyjętych przez Cieszkowskiego założeń, mających jednakże doniosłe konsekwencje teoretyczne. Rozprawę można odczytywać jako studium historycznofilozoficzne oraz próbę przeprowadzenia swego rodzaju testu hermeneutycznej mocy kategorii zawartych w dziełach Schmitta.

Tomasz Siewierski, Artur Wójcik: Karol Estreicher

 Tomasz Siewierski, Artur Wójcik: Karol Estreicher. Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy 2026. ISBN 978-83-8196-924-6

Karola Estreichera darzono uwielbieniem bądź szczerze nienawidzono i mimo że od jego śmierci minęło 40 lat, emocje wokół niego wciąż są żywe. Historia człowieka wyjątkowego, wielobarwnego, podejmującego trudne decyzje życiowe, które do dziś wywołują kontrowersje. Nie da się jednak zaprzeczyć jego wielkim zasługom dla polskiej kultury. Estreicher był połączeniem Indiany Jonesa z Franzem Maurerem. Był jedynym w swoim rodzaju obrońcą skarbów i detektywem od sztuki. Nie uznawał półśrodków, brał życie takim, jakim było, a w tych trudnych czasach, w jakich przyszło mu żyć, podejmował decyzje, które przyczyniały się do ratowania naszej historii. Z drugiej jednak strony, przyzwyczajony do pozycji swojej rodziny, uważał, że może więcej od innych. Jest to postać trudna do jednoznacznej oceny. Zupełnie inaczej był i jest postrzegany w swoim macierzystym środowisku krakowskim, a inaczej np. na salonach warszawskich. Opowieść o Estreicherze oparta jest na zróżnicowanym i obfitym materiale źródłowym: zebranych przez autorów relacjach, dokumentach z archiwów i bibliotek krakowskich, wrocławskich, warszawskich, londyńskich i paryskich.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: SUMMER ACADEMY ON "SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE

 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: SUMMER ACADEMY ON "SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE <https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/projects/science-imagines-its-future>"

Organizers: Lorraine Daston (MPIWG/University of Chicago), David Kaiser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Erika Milam (Princeton University)

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) seeks ten Early Career Fellows (graduate students, postdocs, assistant professors or the equivalent) to participate in two summer academies to be held in Berlin on June 14–18, 2027 and June 26–30, 2028, with the support of the Balzan Foundation.

The topic of the summer academies will be how disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities have deliberated about how to invest their always scarce resources of time, talent, and money in projects that will shape research in an always uncertain future, especially the middle- and long-term future, from the next five years to the next century.

(See full description here. <https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/projects/science-imagines-its-future>)

The topic has been broadly construed, and research projects may focus on any discipline, epoch, or locale. Candidates may come from any country or discipline but should be able to present their work and discuss that of others in English.

Early Career Fellows will be given the opportunity to present their own work at the Summer Academies as well as to interview senior scholars and scientists on the topic. They will also play a central role in planning the second Summer Academy in 2028. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered.

Please read the full CALL and the application requirements here. <https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-applications-summer-academy-science-imagines-its-futures>

Applications should be submitted by November 1, 2026.

Pavel Hájek, Jiří Žahour: Věda a technika ve schwarzenberských knižních sbírkách [Science and Technology in the Schwarzenberg Book Collections]

Pavel Hájek, Jiří Žahour: Věda a technika ve schwarzenberských knižních sbírkách [Science and Technology in the Schwarzenberg Book Collections]. České Budějovice: NPÚ, ÚOP v Českých Budějovicích 2026. ISBN: 978-80-88446-14-9

Hradní a zámecké knihovny představují klenotnice uchovávající skutečné skvosty knižní a grafické produkce, šlechtou mnohdy shromažďované od středověku až do moderní doby. Zatímco rozsah knihovních fondů a výzdoba knihovních sálů reprezentovaly společenské postavení původních majitelů, vlastní skladba knižních sbírek zrcadlila kulturní rozhled, jazykové znalosti a individuální zájmy jednotlivých příslušníků šlechtických rodů. Podstatnou část šlechtických biblioték přitom tvoří odborná vědecká literatura, mnohdy zastoupená díly předních odborníků a vědců, jejichž spisy představují nejen klíčový pramen pro poznání vědeckého a technologického pokroku, ale umožňují nám také sledovat měnící se vnímání a chápání okolního světa a jeho zákonitostí.

Publikace Věda a technika ve schwarzenberských knižních sbírkách nabízí jedinečnou příležitost nahlédnout do rozsáhlých encyklopedických fondů schwarzenberských knihoven na zámcích Český Krumlov, Hluboká a Orlík. První část knihy přináší nejen nové poznatky o vývoji a postupném budování biblioték schwarzenberské primogenitury, ale vůbec poprvé představuje knižní sbírky všech generací starší krumlovsko-hlubocké větve rodu. Druhá část knihy, věnující se vývoji knihovních fondů orlické sekundogenitury, přináší detailní rozbor knižní sbírky maršála Karla I. Filipa jakožto zakladatele a hlavního budovatele orlické bibliotéky. Výzkum J. Žahoura a P. Hájka se přitom zaměřil primárně na identifikaci a poznání motivací vedoucích k akvizicím určitého spektra odborné literatury, ale i na poznání zájmu příslušníků rodu Schwarzenbergů o konkrétní vědní disciplíny v širších souvislostech s jejich životními osudy, zvolenými kariérami, podnikatelskými aktivitami, praktickými potřebami či ryze osobními zálibami.

Odborná kniha Věda a technika ve schwarzenberských knižních sbírkách vznikla v rámci výzkumného projektu Kořeny a plody evropské vědy v českých, moravských a slezských historických knihovních fondech (DH23P03OVV058), financovaného z prostředků Ministerstva kultury – Program NAKI III –program na podporu aplikovaného výzkumu v oblasti národní a kulturní identity na léta 2023 až 2030.

 

Obsah:

Úvodem

Schwarzenberské knihovny v literatuře a pramenech (Jiří Žahour – Pavel Hájek)

Schwarzenberský rod v proměnách času (Jiří Žahour)

Bibliotéky schwarzenberské primogenitury (Jiří Žahour)

Historie a vývoj schwarzenberské (primogeniturní) knihovny

Knižní sbírky krumlovsko-hlubockých Schwarzenbergů

Knižní sbírky Jana Adolfa I. & Marie Justiny ze Starhembergu

Knižní sbírky Ferdinanda Viléma & Marie Anny ze Sulzu

Knižní sbírka Marie Ernestiny z Eggenbergu

Knižní sbírky Adama Františka & Eleonory Amálie z Lobkowicz

Knižní sbírky Josefa I. Adama & Marie Terezie z Liechtensteinu

Knižní sbírky Jana Nepomuka I. & Marie Eleonory z Oettingen-Wallersteinu

Knižní sbírky Josefa II. & Pauliny z Arenbergu

Knižní sbírky biskupa Arnošta & kardinála Bedřicha

Knižní sbírky Jana Adolfa II. & Eleonory z Liechtensteinu

Knižní sbírky Adolfa Josefa & Idy Marie z Liechtensteinu

Knižní sbírka Karla Vavřince ze Schwarzenbergu

Knižní sbírky Jana Nepomuka II. & Terezie z Trauttmansdorff-Weinsbergu

Knižní sbírky Adolfa & Hildy z Luxemburgu a Nassau

Vědecká literatura krumlovsko-hlubockých Schwarzenbergů

Bibliotéky schwarzenberské sekundogenitury (Pavel Hájek)

Vývoj orlických zámeckých knihoven

Osobnost a život Karla I. Filipa ze Schwarzenbergu

Mládí a počátky kariéry

Válka s revoluční Francií

Diplomatická služba v Rusku a Francii

Povahové rysy Karla I. Filipa

Knihovna Karla I. Filipa ze Schwarzenbergu

Dějiny válek a vojenství

Vojenská teorie, taktika a výcvik

Dějiny států

Přírodní vědy

Filozofie

Encyklopedie

Závěrem

Seznam pramenů a literatury

Seznam zkratek

Rejstříky

Resumé

Call for chapter proposals: Polish Science Fiction: Literature, Film, and Cultural Legacy

 Call for chapter proposals: Polish Science Fiction: Literature, Film, and Cultural Legacy

deadline for submissions: 

October 15, 2026

full name / name of organization:

Agnieszka Gutthy

contact email: 

agutthy@selu.edu

Despite the international prominence of Stanisław Lem and, more recently, Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher, Polish science fiction and speculative literature remain strikingly underrepresented in English-language scholarship. Existing criticism tends to orbit a small number of canonical figures and a handful of frequently revisited texts, leaving a rich, historically complex tradition, spanning censorship-era political allegory, post-1989 transformation, contemporary literary crossover, and a distinct national cinema largely unexamined outside of Polish-language scholarship.

This edited collection seeks to address that gap. We invite chapter proposals that expand the scope of English-language engagement with Polish speculative fiction and film: introducing under-translated authors, revisiting canonical figures through new critical lenses, and treating Polish science-fiction cinema as a subject rather than solely through the lens of a single adaptation.

We welcome contributions from literary scholars, film scholars, translation studies specialists, and researchers in Slavic and Central European studies. We are especially interested in proposals that

move beyond Lem and Sapkowski as the sole representatives of the tradition.

Bring new theoretical frameworks (postcolonial theory, translation studies, media studies, gender studies, posthumanism) to bear on Polish speculative texts

Address film and other media as legitimate objects of study, not only as adaptations of literary source material

Situate Polish SF within broader Central/Eastern European or global speculative fiction discourse

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Historical Foundations

Science fiction under the Polish People's Republic

Censorship, allegory, and political subtext in Cold War-era SF

Fandom, zines, and early SF publishing culture in Poland

Lem Beyond Solaris

Underexamined works (e.g. The Cyberiad, His Master's Voice, Fiasco, Return from the Stars)

Lem's philosophy of science, epistemology, and technology

Lem as critic and theorist of the genre (Fantastyka i futurologia)

Post-1989 and Contemporary Voices

Jacek Dukaj, Jarosław Grzędowicz, Marek Huberath, and other contemporary authors

Speculative elements in literary/crossover fiction (e.g. Olga Tokarczuk)

Polish fantasy and its relationship to the SF tradition (including Sapkowski)

Translation, Circulation, and Reception

The politics and practice of translating Polish SF into English

Publishing history: which authors and works reach Anglophone readers, and why

Comparative reception of Polish SF in the West versus domestically

Polish Science Fiction on Screen

Polish-made dystopian and speculative cinema (e.g. Piotr Szulkin's tetralogy, Andrzej Żuławski)

Adaptation studies: Lem's Solaris and its cinematic afterlives, approached through fresh angles (production politics, reception history, or contemporary resonance) rather than as a straightforward novel-versus-film comparison

Polish SF's influence on or intersection with games and other media (e.g. CD Projekt Red)

 

Send an abstract of 300-500 words and a short (150-word max) academic biography by October 15, 2026, to Dr. Agnieszka Gutthy at agutthy@selu.edu

When accepted, full chapter (5000-8000 words including notes and bibliography) will be due May 15, 2027.

Lech Maligranda: Juliusz Schauder (1899–1943). Wydawnictwo UMK 2026.

 Lech Maligranda: Juliusz Schauder (1899–1943). Wydawnictwo UMK 2026. ISBN: 978-83-231-6343-5

Monografia jest pierwszą pełną i obszerną biografią jednego z najwybitniejszych polskich matematyków XX wieku – Juliusza Schaudera, wybitnego członka słynnej Lwowskiej Szkoły Matematycznej. Jego nazwisko na trwałe zapisało się w kanonie światowej matematyki. Książka odsłania nie tylko genialną twórczość naukową Schaudera w dziedzinie analizy funkcjonalnej i równań różniczkowych cząstkowych – w tym słynne twierdzenie Schaudera o punkcie stałym, bazy Schaudera, oszacowania Schaudera oraz jego wkład w teorię stopnia Leray–Schaudera – ale przede wszystkim dramatyczny życiorys matematyka.

Autor, prof. Lech Maligranda, przez wiele lat gromadził materiały archiwalne, listy, wspomnienia współpracowników oraz niepublikowane dotąd dokumenty. Monografia w sposób szczególnie dokładny przedstawia losy Schaudera w trakcie II wojny światowej, jego tragiczną śmierć w 1943 roku oraz historię jego córki – Ewy Schauder (1938–1991), która ocalała z Holokaustu.

Ta książka to nie tylko naukowa biografia wybitnego matematyka, lecz także głęboko poruszająca opowieść o geniuszu, pasji badawczej i ludzkim dramacie wpisanych w tragiczną historię Zagłady.

Petr Kadlec and Ivan Puš: Modernisation of Commercial Education in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918. Patterns, Trends, Processes.

Petr Kadlec and Ivan Puš: Modernisation of Commercial Education in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918. Patterns, Trends, Processes. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112242698

About this book

This publication has been peer reviewed. 

Were commercial schools a natural product of the modernising society or rather a precondition for its successful development and the state's well-being? In this monograph, the authors trace the trends, processes and circumstances of the creation of modern vocational schools, specifically of various types of commercial schools.

Lying at the edge of social and business history and history of education, the book leads the reader through Imperial Austria in the years 1848–1918, providing numerous examples of school practice. It explains the social, economic and political circumstances in which the commercial schools were created, and how far this was the initiative of merchants, municipalities, provincial authorities or the state administration. It also describes the opportunities that commercial schools offered to women. The final chapter discusses the impact of the Great War on schools, their pupils and their teachers.

This book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of education and social or business history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Where possible, it draws comparisons with other European countries, opening up reflections on the modernisation of Europe at that time, especially in Germany, Hungary and France.

Author / Editor information

Petr Kadlec, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic; Ivan Puš, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Call for Articles: “The Aesthetics of Contamination ”, 79 (2/2027)

 CFA: “The Aesthetics of Contamination ”, The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 79 (2/2027)

Submission deadline: 31 January 2027; Editors: Mădălina Diaconu (University of Vienna), Miloš Ševčík (Charles University, Prague)

The term contamination typically has negative connotations in biological, medical, and environmental contexts, while linguistics and literary studies employ it as a neutral technical term. While contamination has hitherto only exceptionally been applied to aesthetic contexts (Schneemann, Wolodzko), the planned issue aims to demonstrate that thanks to its ambivalence it can be used for a general aesthetic model that accounts for both the dynamics of complex structures (including aesthetic experience) and the negative effects of interactions. Both these aspects of a potential aesthetic model are highly relevant at the present: the theoretical paradigm of contamination can reveal covert, obscure influences in our age of global interconnectedness, when technology and new media have largely abolished physical distances, and the noxious dimension of contamination corresponds to the recent urge to elaborate a negative aesthetics (Berleant, Brady, Saito). In addition to conceptual clarifications, the issue welcomes analyses of processes of contamination in art and media, environmental experience, everyday life, and sociocultural processes.

Contamination’s ambivalence can be traced to its roots in Latin, where it literally means the neutral act of touching together and by extension came to denote staining, soiling, infecting, or corrupting through contact or mere association. Nowadays, the term contamination evokes physical and chemical processes, from heat induction and infiltration to their results – material alloys, emulsions, suspensions, and amalgams – which can be found both in artistic production and environmental processes. The figurative meaning of contamination is related to influences and by extension implies transfer, interpenetration, entanglement, coalescence, and dissemination, all processes facilitated by contiguity. Also, analysing a process in terms of contamination involves making clarifications regarding the homogeneity/heterogeneity of the interacting units, the degree of fusion, and the intensity of interaction.

The aesthetics of contamination encompasses dynamics and generativity, as well as the outcome of the interpenetration of elements. For example, the concept of contamination can shed new light on the nature of aesthetic experience, especially in relation to contemporary discussions about the atmospheric dimension of this experience. In this respect, the model of contamination revisits an aesthetic theory that endeavoured to locate the aesthetic experience in particular faculties. On the other hand, it is the object of aesthetic experience itself, be it a work of art, a non-artistic artefact, or a natural item, that takes on a dynamic, mutable character in terms of contamination. Last, but not least, a neutral understanding of contamination enables us to highlight the fluid boundaries and transitions between aesthetic and non-aesthetic experiences or art and non-art.

These advantages in applying the concept of contamination to aesthetic issues cannot abstract from the challenges posed by the concept itself: by definition, contamination involves indeterminacy and contingency. Contamination escapes intentionality and full control, both in terms of regulating interactions and anticipating their consequences; contaminations are irreducible to clear influences and deliberate imitations. On the contrary, contamination implies a diffuse spreading, confused alterations, an insidious seeping into the social fabric and creeping “below the radar”, subterranean correspondences, and accidental, even unconscious, borrowings. Processes of contamination are also characterized by accretion: contamination is transformed (often irreversibly) through the accumulation of small, long-unnoticed changes.

In general, contamination challenges analytical approaches; why contamination happens and how it works are less clear than its effects, which include internalized hybridity and transformation, the blurring of boundaries, and, eventually, the fusion (i.e., indiscernibility) of its previous elements. On the whole, the aesthetics of contamination echoes the pervasiveness of the aesthetic in late modernity and the “fluidity” of our age and resonates with contemporary philosophy’s growing interest in processes.

Possible research questions include the following:

Can aesthetic experience be described as a process of contamination and which further conceptual tools seem most appropriate for this description?

Is contamination always mutual or can it also remain unilateral? What is the relationship between contamination and the fusion of elements?

Can synesthesia be characterized as sensory contamination?

What is the relationship between contamination and atmosphere/ambiance? What role does emotional contamination play in the aesthetic experience (e.g., contagious sadness and laughter, attunement as atmospheric contagion in mass popular culture events, etc.)?

What impact does the contamination of values have on the aesthetic experience (e.g., when moral criteria influence environmental appreciation and political values, the assessment of social-aesthetic phenomena)? In particular, how can different values intermingle or collide in the appreciation of literally contaminated landscapes?

How can the model of contamination enrich theories about artistic production? Can collective artistic emulation be subsumed to contamination? What about the empathic identification of writers and actors with their characters?

In which ways can contamination shed new light on the theory of intermediality in art?

How can insights into spatial contamination (e.g., between a work of art and its environment) and temporal contamination (e.g., when authoritarianism, intolerance, and violence gradually “seep” into society) foster new approaches in aesthetics?

Submission deadline: 31 January, 2027.

Author Guidelines: We ask Authors to read our guidelines posted under the tab For Authors, as well as to double-check the completeness of each submission (please do not forget to collectively submit: the abstract, keywords, bibliography, and a biographical note about the author) before submitting.

Only complete submissions sent through the submissions page will be accepted—submission page: https://submissions.pjaesthetics.uj.edu.pl/index.php/PJA

All submitted articles are subject to double-blind reviews. Articles published in The Polish Journal of Aesthetics are assigned DOI numbers.

Robert T. Tomczak: Studenci z Rzeczypospolitej na Uniwersytecie w Bazylei w latach 1500–1800. Studium prozopograficzne [Students from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the University of Basel, 1501–1800. A prosopographical study].

Robert T. Tomczak: Studenci z Rzeczypospolitej na Uniwersytecie w Bazylei w latach 1500–1800. Studium prozopograficzne [Students from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the University of Basel, 1501–1800. A prosopographical study]. Poznań: Adam Mickiewicz University Press 2026. DOI: 10.14746/amup.9788323245278

 

Wprowadzenie (https://press.amu.edu.pl/pub/media/productattach/w/p/wprowadzenie_tomczak_studenci_z_rzeczypospolitej_2026_amup.pdf)

Spis treści (https://press.amu.edu.pl/pub/media/productattach/s/p/spis_tresci_tomczak_studenci_z_rzeczypospolitej_2026_amup.pdf)

Summary (https://press.amu.edu.pl/pub/media/productattach/s/u/summary_tomczak_studenci_z_rzeczypospolitej_2026_amup.pdf)

Zusammenfassung (https://press.amu.edu.pl/pub/media/productattach/z/u/zusammenfassung_tomczak_studenci_z_rzeczypospolitej_2026_amup.pdf)

Książka Studenci z Rzeczypospolitej na Uniwersytecie w Bazylei w latach 1500–1800 stanowi pierwsze kompleksowe opracowanie poświęcone obecności Polaków i Litwinów w jednym z najważniejszych ośrodków intelektualnych Europy nowożytnej. Autor, wykorzystując metody prozopograficzne i ilościowe, rekonstruuje sieć kontaktów akademickich łączących Bazyleę z elitami Rzeczypospolitej oraz analizuje ich motywacje, pochodzenie społeczne, wyznanie, kierunki studiów i dalsze kariery. Praca ukazuje, jak wczesnonowożytna mobilność akademicka kształtowała przepływ idei, wiedzy i książek między Polską a Szwajcarią, a także jak stereotyp „hojnego Polaka” wpłynął na integrację studentów w środowisku reformowanym. To interdyscyplinarne studium łączy historię uniwersytetów, kultury i religii, wpisując dzieje polskich peregrynantów w szerszy kontekst europejskiej res publica litteraria.

Call for Papers: Metals, Minerals, and Material Worlds: Art, Extraction, and Knowledge in Central Europe and Beyond

Call for Papers: Metals, Minerals, and Material Worlds: Art, Extraction, and Knowledge in Central Europe and Beyond

An International Symposium of the Minescapes Research Project

Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague May 19-21, 2027.

We invite proposals for papers for an international symposium, Metals, Minerals, and Material Worlds: Art, Extraction, and Knowledge in Central Europe and Beyond, to be held at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague on May 19–21, 2027. Proposals are due October 1, 2026 (see submission details below).

This symposium, organized by Tina Asmussen (German Mining Museum Bochum: Leibniz Research Museum for Georesources) and Pamela Smith (Center for Science and Society, Columbia University), with Sylva Dobalová and Martin Mádl (both Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences), is part of the ongoing series Minescapes: Socio-Natural Sites of Resource, Extraction, and Knowledge that investigates the complexity and dynamics of human-environmental interactions in mining landscapes using the concept of a “material complex.” Research on a material complex begins in a study of the natural materials and follows them through reciprocal interactions with human bodily practices, techniques, and skills into substances and objects that are given meaning, used, consumed, desired, and studied by human communities. Each of these stages—the materials; the human–material interactions via skilled practice; and the objects and subjects and their meanings in production, use, consumption, and afterlives—can and often do form self-contained sites of study and analysis. In contrast, the Minescapes events aim, through drawing upon the archives of nature (mines, forests, water systems) and society (archives, libraries, art collections), to bring together these often rich separate areas of study into a unified field in order to raise fruitful questions for individual disciplines as well as for the whole.

The Prague symposium brings together scholars from across disciplines to examine the material worlds of metals and minerals—following them from the geological and mineralogical conditions of their formation, through their extraction, smelting, processing, transport, and trade, into the objects, images, and substances they become, and on to their use, consumption, and afterlives. Central Europe—with its long and densely documented history of metal and mineral extraction, its merchant-capitalist enterprises, and its movement of materials across local and global networks—offers a rich setting for these questions, while contributions that extend the perspective beyond the region are equally welcome.

We welcome proposals from scholars in any discipline and at any career stage whose work speaks to the symposium theme. We are especially interested in contributions that bridge the disciplinary boundaries by which the study of metals and minerals has conventionally been divided. Relevant fields and approaches include, but are not limited to:

●       the history of art and art conservation, including technical art history and conservation science, with particular interest in early modern sculpture, metalwork, and the material culture of metals and minerals

●       the history of early modern science, technology, and medicine, including metallurgy, mineralogy, and alchemy

●       environmental, economic, and political-economic history, including the organization of mining, labor, capital, and trade

●       the history of mining and of mining knowledge

●       the natural sciences, including geology, geochemistry, geography, forest science, and materials science

By bringing these conventionally separate fields into conversation, the symposium aims to construct a more integrated history of art and making as human engagement with the materials of the natural environment.

Practical information

This symposium is generously supported by the Getty Foundation's Connecting Art Histories program, through the project The Material Complex of Copper in Central Europe and Beyond. In keeping with the program’s aims, the symposium seeks to bridge the historical geo-political divisions that have long separated research networks across Europe, and therefore especially encourages the participation of scholars based at Central and Eastern European institutions. Scholars from all regions and institutions are warmly invited to apply; please note, however, that the symposium's capacity to provide full financial support for travel and accommodation will be limited.

Proposals should include full name, current affiliation, and email address; a paper title; an abstract of no more than 300 words; a short CV (max. 2 pages with PhD or other terminal degree completion year or expected completion).

Submissions are due October 1, 2026, and should be sent to minescapes2027@gmail.com.

CFP: “Life Cycles under Socialist Regimes: Managing Gender Relations, Aging, and Health”

 The Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, invites paper proposals for the Workshop “Life Cycles under Socialist Regimes: Managing Gender Relations, Aging, and Health,” to be held on February 16, 2027, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

State socialism, as a political and economic system, was one of the major innovations of the twentieth century and became a global phenomenon in its latter half, with socialist regimes emerging across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. State socialism can be understood as a political regime characterized by single-party government, directed modernization under systemic governmentality, and the predominance of state property. From the 1950s onward, socialist governance increasingly embraced the notion that political, economic, and social lives could be organized and governed as closed systems. With the “scientific and technological revolution” integrated into the ideology as a new stage on the path to communism, the accumulation and application of knowledge became a central function of state socialist regimes, while holistic, systemic governmentality turned into a key feature of the ideology. The workshop will explore how socialist states sought to manage human life cycles through scientific knowledge, administrative practices, and institutional interventions. Focusing on gender relations, aging, and health, it will examine these fields as central dimensions of socialist biopolitics and as sites where broader models of governance and technocratic management were developed. Bringing together perspectives from conceptual, institutional, and political history as well as the social sciences, the workshop will investigate how socialist regimes attempted to organize social reproduction, welfare, health, and individual life trajectories between the 1950s and 1991. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the development and implementation of official policies concerning family, gender, demographic change, health, and aging; group and individual responses to official policies; the role of scientific research and expert communities in shaping socialist governance; international cooperation and the circulation of knowledge, expertise, and technologies; and the communication of scientific knowledge to broader publics. We are particularly interested in approaches that examine how scientific and technological visions influenced understandings of the human body, social reproduction, and socialist futures, including the role of techno-optimism, popular science, and the intersections between science fact and science fiction. The workshop will situate these developments within a global and comparative framework, paying particular attention to the circulation of ideas, institutions, and practices beyond national boundaries.

The workshop is part of the project Socialist Management in a Global Context: Technocratic Developments in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, 1955–1991, sponsored by the Slovenian Research Agency (ARIS). It is part of a series of four workshops, the results of which will be published together. The selection of papers will, hence, be based on their quality and coherence. Submissions addressing developments outside the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia are explicitly encouraged.

Please submit a 300-word abstract and a short biography to PD Dr. Ivan Sablin (ivan.sablin@inz.si) by September 15, 2026. Notifications of acceptance are expected by the end of October. Invited participants will be expected to submit drafts of up to 7,000 words by February 1, 2027. The organizers will be able to provide accommodation to the participants but cannot cover their travel costs. See less

Dana Hašková: Ruská bílá emigrace v Československu

 Dana Hašková: Ruská bílá emigrace v Československu: Představitelé technických, přírodních a zemědělských věd [Russian White Emigration in Czechoslovakia: Representatives of Technical, Natural and Agricultural Sciences]. Praha: Academia, Slovanský ústav 2026. ISBN: 978-80-200-3697-1

Po revoluci v roce 1917 a následné občanské válce emigrovaly z území bývalé Ruské říše statisíce lidí. Přibližně třicet tisíc žilo i v meziválečném Československu.

Zvláštní skupinu této emigrace tvořila ruská vědecká a kulturní elita. V Československu tak působily stovky profesorů, pracovníků vysokých škol a vědců z nejrůznějších oborů.

Své odborné práce emigranti vydávali v českém i slovenském jazyce, publikovali v českém a slovenském periodickém tisku a zapojovali se do zdejšího vědeckého života. Badatelé věnující se tématu ruské emigrace se dosud zaměřovali především na představitele humanitních či uměleckých oborů. Činnost představitelů technických, přírodních a zemědělských věd zatím není podrobněji zdokumentována. V populárně-naučných publikacích a odborných článcích jsou zmiňováni pouze jednotlivci v souvislosti s výsledky své práce. Monografie Ruská bílá emigrace v Československu je tak prvním pokusem zmapovat činnost těchto techniků a přírodovědců během jejich pobytu v Československu. Uplatnili se zde jako pedagogové, v praxi i ve výzkumu a ve svých oborech mnohdy patřili ke špičkovým odborníkům. Předkládaná publikace z velké části vychází z dobového tisku, nekrologů, archivních materiálů, rodinných archivů a databáze udělených patentů. Citované dokumenty rovněž podávají svědectví o životě v emigraci a těžkostech, s nimiž se emigranti museli v běžném životě vyrovnávat.

CFP: Beyond Borders: Global Histories of Transboundary Rivers

 Beyond Borders: Global Histories of Transboundary Rivers

International Online Workshop

University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

November 19-20, 2026

 

More than 300 river basins cross international borders, providing freshwater, energy, transportation, food, and ecosystem services for billions of people. Yet transboundary rivers are far more than shared natural resources. They are political, technological, legal, ecological, and diplomatic spaces where states, engineers, scientists, international organizations, and local communities have negotiated competing visions of development, sovereignty, environmental protection, and cooperation.

Although transboundary rivers have attracted growing scholarly attention, research remains fragmented across disciplines. Environmental historians have explored changing human–river relationships; historians of technology have examined hydraulic engineering and infrastructure; historical geographers have analysed river landscapes and territorial change; scholars of Science and Technology Studies (STS) have investigated expertise and knowledge production; political scientists and scholars of international relations have focused on water diplomacy and international institutions; legal scholars have examined international water law; while hydrologists and water-governance researchers have developed sophisticated frameworks for understanding river basin management. Yet these conversations often do not intersect.

This workshop starts from the premise that understanding transboundary rivers requires genuine interdisciplinary dialogue. Rather than treating rivers simply as environmental systems or geopolitical boundaries, we invite participants to explore them as dynamic socio-environmental systems shaped simultaneously by ecology, infrastructure, science, law, diplomacy, economics, and politics.

Building upon the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) project An Environmental History of Transboundary Rivers in Cold War East-Central Europe, the workshop seeks to expand regional scholarship into a broader comparative and global conversation. It aims to establish an international interdisciplinary network dedicated to the historical study of transboundary rivers and to identify new directions for collaborative research at the intersection of environmental history, history of technology, geography, international law, political science, STS, and water governance.

 

We welcome contributions from scholars working in:

Environmental History

History of Technology

History of Science

Historical Geography

Science and Technology Studies (STS)

Water History

Environmental Humanities

Political Ecology

International Relations

International Environmental Law

Environmental Governance

Hydrology and Water Governance

Geography

Anthropology

Sociology

Environmental Planning

 

We welcome proposals on topics including, but not limited to:

Comparative histories of transboundary river basins

International river commissions and basin organizations

Environmental governance across political borders

Water diplomacy and international cooperation

Rivers during the Cold War

Hydraulic engineering, dams, and river regulation

Navigation and inland waterways

Flood protection and disaster management

Pollution, water quality, and environmental monitoring

Fisheries, wetlands, and aquatic ecosystems

Hydrological science, environmental expertise, and knowledge production

International organizations and shared waters

Climate change and the historical governance of river basins

Colonial and postcolonial river governance

Indigenous and local perspectives on transboundary rivers

Comparative and global approaches to river history

Rivers, sovereignty, and international environmental law

Methods and concepts for interdisciplinary river research

Studies covering all world regions and historical periods are welcome.

 

Format:

The workshop will be held in online format.

Rather than focusing exclusively on completed research, we particularly encourage proposals presenting original archival research, conceptual interventions, comparative perspectives, methodological reflections, and work in progress.

The workshop is designed to maximize discussion and exchange across disciplines. Each paper will receive substantial time for discussion, and the programme will conclude with a roundtable on future directions in the interdisciplinary study of transboundary rivers.

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Submission

Please submit:

an abstract of 300–500 words

a short biography (100 words)

to: cesh@osu.cz

Submission deadline: 15 September 2026

Notification of acceptance: 1 October 2026

hybrid event: 10th Anniversary of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

10th Anniversary of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

We warmly invite you to join us in celebrating the Center’s 10th anniversary – a special occasion that marks an impressive success story.

When: Monday 27th of July 2026. Starting at 9.30am (Berlin time zone)

Where: Online via Zoom or in Presence at Paderborn University, L-Builduing Pohlweg 57, 33098 Paderborn

Since its foundation in 2016 by Prof. Dr Ruth E. Hagengruber<https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/ruth_e_hagengruber/> with the support of Svenja Schulze<https://www.svenja-schulze.de/>, then Minister for Science and Innovation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Center has developed into an internationally recognised illuminating exemplar of research.

Through groundbreaking publications, a wide range of high-calibre events, and innovative teaching and research formats, it has had a lasting impact on the visibility of women in the history of philosophy and science and has played a decisive role in reorienting academic discourse.

The anniversary offers an opportunity to look back on this development, to celebrate key milestones and to look ahead together to future projects.

The celebration will take place on July 27, 2026 from 9:30 – 12:00 (CEST) at Paderborn University. The event takes place in hybrid format. To access the zoom link please register at our indico page<https://indico.uni-paderborn.de/event/157/>.

Program:

Monday (July 27)

Room L3 204

9:30 – 12:00

Celebration – 10 Years Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists<https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/10th-anniversary-of-the-center-for-the-history-of-women-philosophers-and-scientists/>

Welcome

President of Paderborn University, Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer

Deputy Mayor of Paderborn, Sabine Kramm

Office Manager for Verena Mertens, Member of the European Parliament for the OWL Constituency, Hartwig Höschen

Managing Director of the Paderborn Economic Development Agency, Jürgen Janke

Birthday Greetings

Dean of Research of Paderborn University, Prof. Dr. Ilka Mindt

Executive Board of the IAPh e.v., Prof. Dr. Ma Theresa Payongayong

Women’s & Gender Research Network NRW, Dr. Corinna Bath

Deutscher Akademikerinnenbund, Prof. Dr. Dorothee Meister

Constitutive Member of ZenMeM, Peter Stadler

10 Years of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber, Director

Honours

Deputy Directors 10 Years Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

Project Digital Humanities Cooperation Partners

Music

Charlotte Michels: Deborah Henson-Conant (*1953)

Baroque Flamenco

Awarding Ceremony of the Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize

Laudatio: Prof. Dr. Kateryna Karpenko

Thanks to the Donator: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Detmers

Music

Charlotte Michels: Henriette Renié (1875-1956) Pièce Symphonique

Official Signing of two Memoranda of Understanding

with the University of the Philippines Diliman represented by Chancellor Prof. Atty. Edgardo Carlo L. Vistan II, Prof. Ma Theresa T. Payongayong, Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy Prof. Ruth Lusterio-Rico, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy Prof. Lilybeth Lumagbas.

with the Islamic University of Science & Technology (IUST), Kashmir, India, represented by Vice Chancellor Prof. Shakil Ahmad Romshoo, Assistant Professor Muzaffar Ali Malla, Dean Academic Affairs Prof. Sheikh Aijaz Bashir, and Dean of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences Prof. Afroz Bisati

Dr. Jil Muller

Assistant Professor, Post-doc Researcher

Philosophy Department, Paderborn University:

https://www.uni-paderborn.de/person/91668

Deputy Head and Researcher at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists:

https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/about/team/

Chair: Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber

Universität Paderborn

Raum TP 8.1.45 // Tel.: 05251 60-5034

Technologie Park 8

33100 Paderborn

Germany

Wojciech Baran: 𝗟𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝘂𝘅 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗶̂𝘁 𝗛𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲 (𝟭𝟰𝟮𝟴–𝟭𝟰𝟯𝟬). 𝗘́𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗲𝘁 𝗲́𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲

 Wojciech Baran: 𝗟𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝘂𝘅 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗶̂𝘁 𝗛𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲 (𝟭𝟰𝟮𝟴–𝟭𝟰𝟯𝟬). 𝗘́𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗲𝘁 𝗲́𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲. Brepols 2026. 

Plus d'Infos: https://bit.ly/4gCFW4K

Cet ouvrage propose un examen approfondi de la pensée théologique à Cracovie au XVe siècle à travers l’étude et l’édition critique des principia aux Sentences de Benoît Hesse de Cracovie (1389–1456), rédigés entre 1428 et 1430 à l’Université de Cracovie. L’analyse s’ouvre sur le rôle central des Sentences de Pierre Lombard dans la formation intellectuelle des facultés de théologie médiévales, avant de retracer la figure et l’œuvre de Benoît Hesse, théologien polonais méconnu. La partie principale de la monographie examine la fonction du principium dans le cadre institutionnel et pédagogique de la faculté de théologie cracovienne, tout en mettant en lumière les orientations doctrinales et les enjeux philosophiques qui se dégagent des textes de Hesse. En complément de cette étude, le volume offre une édition critique des principia, accompagnée d’un apparat des sources, permettant d’accéder à un corpus jusqu’ici difficilement accessible. Ce travail ouvre ainsi une fenêtre sur la culture théologique de Cracovie au XVe siècle, un domaine dont la majorité des recherches demeure encore largement confinée à la langue polonaise.

TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Remerciements

Abréviations

I. Introduction doctrinale

1. Introduction

2. Benoît Hesse de Cracovie – la personne et l’œuvre

2.1. Curriculum vitae

2.2. Les œuvres

Philosophie

Théologie

Œuvres d’attribution incertaine

3. Les principia aux Sentences à l’université de Cracovie

3.1. Rôle du principium à l’université

3.2. Structure du principium de Benoît Hesse

L’invocatio

La recommendatio Sacrae Scripturae

La quaestio et sa structure

La protestatio incluse dans la première question

Le cas exceptionnel du magister concurrens

La gratiarum actio

4. La pensée de Benoît Hesse de Cracovie

4.1. Le statut épistémologique et le rôle de la théologie

Les possibilités de la raison et le rôle de la foi

La vérité de la théologie

La philosophie est-elle utile ?

La valeur scientifique de la théologie

Vision de la théologie dans le creuset du débat

Conclusion : la théologie est science et sagesse

4.2. Création et son commencement

Conception de la création dans le creuset du débat

Conclusion : le monde n’a pas de commencement et n’est pas éternel

4.3. Motif de l’incarnation

Conclusion : propter nostram salutem descendit de coelis et incarnatus est

4.4. Efficacité et nécessité des sacrements

Conclusion : les sacrements portent en eux-mêmes la grâce

5. Les principia aux Sentences de Hesse sont-ils une simple répétition d’opinions déjà connues ?

II. Principes éditoriaux

1. L’attribution des principia

2. Les témoins des textes

3. Les manuscrits

A. Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, 1518

B. Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, 1519

C. Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, 1526

D. Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, 1531

E. Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, 2091

S. Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, 1538

G. Gniezno, Archiwum Archidiecezjalne, 166

H. Gniezno, Archiwum Archidiecezjalne, 165

4. Discussion stemmatique

4.1. Les groupes de manuscrits

4.1.1. Le groupe A–B–D

4.1.2. Le manuscrit S

4.1.3. Le groupe E–G–H

4.1.4. Le manuscrit C

4.2. Stemmata codicum

4.2.1. Premier principium (témoins A, S)

4.2.2. Deuxième principium (témoins B, C, S)

4.2.3. Troisième principium (témoins D, G, S)

4.2.4. Quatrième principium (témoins E, S, H)

5. Passages problématiques

6. Orthographe, ponctuation et apparats

III. Principia in quattuor libros Sententiarum – Édition critique

Abbreviationes

Principium in I librum Sententiarum

Principium in II librum Sententiarum

Principium in III librum Sententiarum

Principium in IV librum Sententiarum

Fontes

Bibliographie

Manuscrits

Tapuscrits

Éditions des œuvres de Benoît Hesse de Cracovie

Sources avant 1800

Sources après 1800

Indices

Iwona Arabas: Thesaurus mundi naturalis. Gabinet Historii Naturalnej księżnej Anny z Sapiehów Jabłonowskiej [Thesaurus mundi naturalis. The Natural History Collection of Princess Anna Sapieha Jabłonowska].

 Iwona Arabas: Thesaurus mundi naturalis. Gabinet Historii Naturalnej księżnej Anny z Sapiehów Jabłonowskiej [Thesaurus mundi naturalis. The Natural History Collection of Princess Anna Sapieha Jabłonowska]. IHN PAN / Aspra 2026. ISBN 978-83-8209-390-2

Spis tresci: https://www.aspra.pl/products/files/1086_1775531378_ysrm.pdf

Bez jakichkolwiek wątpliwości określenie Thesaurus trzeba jednak odnieść nie tylko do zbiorów [księżnej Anny Jabłonowskiej], ale również do samej książki – jest to bowiem prawdziwy skarbiec wiadomości i danych nierzadko wcześniej nieznanych lub mało znanych. […] to niezwyczajna książka o... niezwykłej kobiecie. […] ze wszech miar godna polecenia nie tylko historykom nauki, ale wszystkim miłośnikom dobrej, zajmującej lektury.

prof. dr hab. Ludwik Frey

Upór Autorki w poszukiwaniu dokumentacji transakcji z 1801 i 1802 r. zaowocował odnalezieniem stosownych dokumentów oraz, jak się wydaje, odnalezieniem części kolekcji numizmatów. Dokumenty te zostały, ze stosownym komentarzem, przedstawione w monografii, czyniąc z niej rozprawę o wielkiej wartości z zakresu rodzimego muzealnictwa oraz naukowych relacji [badaczy]. […] Zasadniczy cel monografii to jednoznaczne ustalenie motywacji utworzenia gabinetu historii naturalnej na wzór podobnych na Zachodzie oraz chęć podarowania [zbiorów] Rzeczypospolitej, osiągnięty został w wysokim stopniu precyzji.

prof. dr hab. Zbigniew J. Wójcik

Driburger Kreis - conference for early career historians of science in Prague

 Driburger Kreis

This year’s Driburger Kreis will be hosted in Prague, Czech Republic, from Monday, September 7 to Wednesday, September 9, 2026. We will host a networking event on Monday in the late afternoon and organise some get-togethers in the evenings. You will find the details of the programme below, as well as information on accommodation and financial support.

Participation is free (but only open to guests between a Bachelor’s degree and  pre-habilitation). Please register for participation by filling in the form at this page (https://www.driburgerkreis.de/tagung-2026-prag/) by August 25. This also applies to presenters.

Programm

Montag, 7. September 2026

17:00–18:30 Uhr Netzwerktreffen

Dienstag, 8. September 2026

09:00–09:30 Uhr Einführung

09:30–10:00 Uhr Das leere Fenster: Unsichtbarmachungen und Pestimaginationen in der visuellen Kultur des 16. Jahrhunderts (Jenny Merker)

10:00–10:20 Uhr Kaffeepause

10:20–10:50 Uhr Movement Made Visible. Max Wolf, Carl Pulfrich and the Photographic Observation of Minor Planets (Lena Kasten)

10:50–11:20 Uhr Making Outer Space “cheap”? OTRAG, Satellite Infrastructures and private Enterprise (Florian Fockelmann)

11:20–11:50 Uhr Unsichtbare Physikerinnen und Astronominnen? Übersichtswerke der Physik- und Astronomiegeschichtsschreibung in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts (Colleen Seidel)

11:50–12:20 Uhr Teepause

12:20–12:50 Uhr Parallele Personae: der Wissenschaftler und seine Ehefrau (Pauline Gerards)

12:50–13:20 Uhr Unseen within the Invisible: Women at Physicists’ Kruzhok, Saint Petersburg, 1907–1912 (Anastasia Auman)

13:20–14:40 Uhr Mittagspause

14:40–15:10 Uhr Representation of Spiritism and Metapsychology in Czech Scientific Discourse Around 1920 (Nikola Plíšková)

15:10–15:40 Uhr Strahlenforschung zwischen wissenschaftlicher Medizin und okkulten Wissensräumen in der BRD 1950–1980 (Marcel Philipp Smolinski)

15:40–16:00 Uhr Teepause

16:00–16:30 Uhr Das ‚verhaltensauffällige‘ Kind – (un)sichtbare, interdisziplinäre Praxis zwischen deutscher Pädiatrie und Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie in Kinderkrankenhäusern der 1920er-Jahre (Natalie Rath)

16:30–17:00 Uhr „Für eine freudige Mutterschaft!“ Die Visualisierung von Wehenschmerz als Versuch biopolitischer Kontrolle in der stalinistischen Sowjetunion (Lisa Füchte)

17:00–17:30 Uhr No Vision, no Pain? – A Cultural Study on Endometriosis (Sophie Wagner)

Mittwoch, 9. September 2026

09:00–09:30 Uhr Epistemische Unsichtbarkeit der Depression und klassifikatorische Vereinheitlichungsversuche. Eine kleine Kulturgeschichte der Depressionsdiagnosen in der DDR (Jonas Mileta)

09:30–10:00 Uhr Zur historiographischen Erfassung unsichtbarer Glücksspieler:innen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Sophia Gröschel)

10:00–10:30 Uhr Making Visible the Political Dimension of Knowledge Production: A Case Study of Neuroscientific Knowledge Production in the 1990s Decade of the Brain (Wessel de Cock)

10:30–10:50 Uhr Kaffeepause

10:50–11:20 Uhr Die Sichtbarmachung unsichtbarer Wirbel: Peter G. Taits Beitrag zur Knotenklassifikation im 19. Jahrhundert (Stefan Walberer)

11:20–11:50 Uhr A Culture of Knowledge Consumed on Paper: Natural Philosophy in the Journal des Luxus und der Moden (Jitse Taveirne)

11:50–12:20 Uhr Invisible, stinky, salty. On the History of Knowledge of Fish Consumption (Paula Pessoa Hanitzsch)

12:20–13:50 Uhr Mittagspause

13:50–14:20 Uhr Bringing Hidden Sources to Light: Aloys Sprenger, Translations and Science in Colonial India (Paul Schillinger)

14:20–14:50 Uhr Scientific Practice and Institutional Prestige. Anthropological Studies of Germano Correia in Portuguese India (Szymon Głąb)

14:50–15:20 Uhr Unsichtbare Natur. Tiere und biopolitische Diskurse in völkischen und nationalsozialistischen Raumkonstruktionen zwischen 1918–1938 (Maximilian Preuß)

15:20–15:40 Uhr Teepause

15:40–16:10 Uhr Verdinglichte Entwicklungen (Leonard Damhorst)

16:10–16:40 Uhr The New Man at Work: Socialist Psy-disciplines and Labour in Cuba and Czechoslovakia (Alicia Cabaleiro García)

16:40–17:40 Uhr Abschlussdiskussion und Organisatorisches

Kontakt

info@driburgerkreis.de

Andrii Portnov: Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian "Harvard Miracle"

Andrii Portnov: Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian "Harvard Miracle". Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute 2026. ISBN 9780674304222

Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian “Harvard Miracle” is the first English-language intellectual biography of Omeljan Pritsak, the co-founder of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the first professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard. Andrii Portnov places Pritsak’s life and legacy in the context of Ukrainian and world historiography and illuminates the development of his scholarly interests, which emerged in interwar Poland and developed through the Sovietization of Western Ukraine and the perturbations of World War II. His scholarship ranged from German Oriental Studies in the 1940s and 1950s to North American Slavic studies to the international studies of the origins of Rus´. Pritsak’s trajectory unfolds as he faces the challenges of establishing the field of Ukrainian studies in North America while engaging with influential scholars such as Dmytro Čyževskyj, Roman Jakobson, Ivan Krypiakevych, Oleksandr Ohloblyn, and Natalia Polonska-Vasylenko.

Based on unique materials Portnov uncovered in several German archives, this concise study serves as an invitation to reassess the intellectual history of Ukrainian history. Containing unique, previously unpublished photographs from Pritsak’s personal collection at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, this book sheds light on the life and work of the enigmatic figure of Omeljan Pritsak―one of the most prominent, controversial, and multifaceted historians of Ukraine, Central Europe, and the Turko-Osmanic and Mongol worlds.

Susanne Frank Galina Babak (eds.) Tschižewskij, Чижевський, Чижевский, Chyzhevs’kyi, Čyževskyj. The Multiple Receptions of a Ukrainian Scholar in European Contexts.

 Susanne Frank Galina Babak (eds.) Tschižewskij, Чижевський, Чижевский, Chyzhevs’kyi, Čyževskyj. The Multiple Receptions of a Ukrainian Scholar in European Contexts. Siedlce: Instytut Kultury Regionalnej i Badań Literackich im. Franciszka Karpińskiego 2026. ISBN 9788368206425

More: https://ikribl.com/2026/05/14/z-nowosci-wydawniczych-ikribl-8/

Table of contents: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SeXQiYLa7szoB0sCg_BzNIkLf1cPQjJB/view?usp=sharing ; https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bv_RUqBPNTJm6Wrd8q5EvUmmEghSc7C9/view?usp=sharing

*Second International Conference on Early Women Psychoanalysts*

 *Second International Conference on Early Women Psychoanalysts*

The International Association for Spielrein Studies is pleased to announce

the Second

International Conference on Early Women Psychoanalysts, dedicated to women

who engaged with psychoanalysis before the end of World War II. The

conference will be held online on April 10–11, 2027.

Participation is free for students and only $15 for all other attendees.

Selected contributions from the conference will be considered for inclusion

in a second edited volume associated with the Early Women Psychoanalysts

project, edited by Klara Naszkowska. For further details and the Call for

Papers please visit:

https://www.spielreinassociation.org/conference-early-women-psychoanalysts

History of the The Vienna School of Art History

 📓 The second part of the proceedings from the conference dedicated to the Vienna School of Art History is out!

The latest volume of The Edgar Wind Journal (Volume 10), edited by Tomáš Murár from the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences together with Fabio Tononi, brings a fresh perspective on the thought of the fundamental Viennese art historian Alois Riegl, to whom last year's Prague conference "The Vienna School of Art History IV: für Riegl / gegen Riegl" was dedicated.

🔗 The proceedings are available online: https://www.edgarwindjournal.eu/current-issue/

Call for Papers: 14th Biennial European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference

  Call for Papers: 14th Biennial European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference

"Environmental History Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries"

 Salzburg, Austria | 7-10 September 2027

 The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2026, 23:59 CET.

More: https://eseh.org/cfp-14th-biennial-european-society-for-environmental-history-eseh-conference/

Nodl, Martin: Prague, Jan Hus and Prague University

Nodl, Martin: Prague, Jan Hus and Prague University. Prague: Karolinum 2026. ISBN: 978-80-246-5636-6

The Bohemian Reformation — the reformation before the Reformation — offered a radical solution to the spiritual and institutional crisis of the late medieval church at the end of the fourteenth century. The beginnings of this reform are distinctly connected with Prague University, which drew many educated people to Prague from across Europe. Through Jan Hus — a former Prague University student who became its rector in 1409/1410 — the Bohemian Reformation gave rise to a new, radical ecclesiology. Not only did Hus challenge the hierarchical system of the church, but under his influence, the Bohemian Reformation acquired a specific national shape, and elements of Czech messianism emerged with the university.

The book Prague, Jan Hus and Prague University analyzes these processes within Prague University, as well as its limits and restrictive consequences for the Bohemian Reformation and Czech medieval society. Emphasis is placed on showing how Prague and the university became a world that successfully struggled for its own existence in late medieval Christian Europe.

Sylwia Konarska-Zimnicka: „Kiedy krew puszczać, kiedy bańki stawiać…”. Jatromatematyka (medycyna astrologiczna) w wiekach średnich [“When to perform bloodletting, when to apply cupping…” Jatromathematics (astrological medicine) in the Middle Ages].

 Sylwia Konarska-Zimnicka: „Kiedy krew puszczać, kiedy bańki stawiać…”. Jatromatematyka (medycyna astrologiczna) w wiekach średnich [“When to perform bloodletting, when to apply cupping…” Jatromathematics (astrological medicine) in the Middle Ages]. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach 2025, ISBN 978-83-8377-057-4, e-ISBN 978-83-8377-058-1

Obserwacja ciał niebieskich od zawsze stanowiła istotny element ludzkiej egzystencji. Ciałom niebieskim od zawsze przypisywano moce oddziaływania na wszelkie aspekty ziemskiego życia, także na kwestie zdrowia i choroby. Medycyna astrologiczna zwana jatromatematyką była znaczącą częścią astrologii naturalnej, pod pewnymi względami aprobowanej także przez Kościół. Osadzona była na dwóch fundamentalnych filarach, tj. medycynie humoralnej i tzw. teorii melotezji, która bazowała na korelacji pomiędzy ciałami niebieskimi a poszczególnymi częściami i narządami ciała ludzkiego. Jatromatematyka była nie tylko teoretycznie rozwijana o czym świadczą liczne zachowane dzieła, ale znajdowała także praktyczne zastosowanie w kalendarzach, prognostykach astrologicznych i horoskopach.

Spis treści

Wstęp . . . 7

ROZDZIAŁ I

Narodziny jatromatematyki . . . . . 15

Teoria humoralna . . . . . .. . . . 19

Melotezja i wynikające z niej implikacje (choroby i dolegliwości) . . 34

ROZDZIAŁ II

Jatromatematyka w kręgu uczonych arabsko-muzułmańsko-żydowskich.. 75

Rozwój astrologii . . . . . . .. . . . . 80

Rozwój medycyny . . . . . 92

Rozwój jatromatematyki . . . . . . 99

Jatromatematyka w dziełach astrologicznych . . . . . 115

Medycyna talizmaniczna . . . . . . . 150

W kierunku łacińskiego Zachodu… . . . 155

ROZDZIAŁ III

Jatromatematyka w Europie chrześcijańskiej . . . . . . . . . . 159

Jatromatematyka nieakademicka . . . .. . . 159

Uczelnie, uczeni i ich dzieła . . .. . . . . . 167

Prognostykarstwo . . . . .. . . . 212

Plagi i zarazy . . . . . 223

Jatromatematyka na dworach . . . . . . 234

ROZDZIAŁ IV

Jatromatematyka w Polsce . . . . . . .. . 255

Medycyna i astrologia na uniwersytecie krakowskim . . . . . 255

Noty i traktaty jatromatematyczne . . . . . . . . .. 273

Introductoria astronomiae vel astrologiae . . . . .. . . 289

Prognostyki i kalendarze astrologiczne . . . . . 296

Mór . . . . . . .. . . 317

Zielniki . . . . . . 327

Jatromatematyka – między akademicką teorią a dworską praktyką . . 333

Zakończenie . .. . 343

Bibliografia . . . . . . 357

Źródła rękopiśmienne…..357

Inkunabuły i stare druki………358

Źródła drukowane ….365

Monografie i opracowania….380

Miglė Bareikytė, Svitlana Matviyenko & Taras Nazaruk (eds.) Histories and legacies of digital infrastructures in Eastern and Central Europe: from Soviet cybernetics to regional Internet histories

 Miglė Bareikytė, Svitlana Matviyenko & Taras Nazaruk (eds.) Histories and legacies of digital infrastructures in Eastern and Central Europe: from Soviet cybernetics to regional Internet histories (= Internet Histories, Volume 10, Issue 1-2 (2026))

Bareikytė, Miglė, Svitlana Matviyenko, and Taras Nazaruk. 2026. “Introduction: Histories and Legacies of Digital Infrastructures in Eastern and Central Europe: From Soviet Cybernetics to Regional Internet Histories.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 1–10. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2642542.

Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė. 2026. “De-Centring the History of the Internet in the Soviet Union: Computers, Networks and the Infrastructural Politics of Digitality in Lithuania.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 11–28. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2639224.

Herrmann, Felix. 2026. “No Digital Networks without Computers. The Shortcomings of the Soviet Computer Industry.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 29–44. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2642544.

Velmet, Aro. 2026. “Database Politics: Informational Infrastructure and Network Utopias in Soviet and Post-Soviet Estonia.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 45–64. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2639221.

Da Silva, Erik. 2026. “Networked Isolation: Albania’s Computer Network History during the Cold War and the Transition.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 65–81. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2639223.

Hilstob, Kayla. 2026. “Exporting Obsolescence: Canada’s Nortel Networks in Eastern and Central Europe.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 82–97. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2639244.

Daucé, Françoise. 2026. “The Great Game. How Video Games Servers Map Ukraine in Wartime.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 98–116. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2662716.

Makhortykh, Mykola. 2026. “Constructing the (in)Security: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Cybersecurity in Ukraine before and after Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 117–34. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2639228.

Phan, Vu Thuy Anh. 2026. “Assemblages of Occupation: The Politics of Internet Resource Transfers in Wartime Ukraine.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 135–51. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2639245.

Bareikytė, Miglė, and Johanna Hiebl. 2026. “Hybrid Frontiers: Resilient Investigative Data and Media Practices and Tactical Avoidance in the Baltics.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 152–69. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2639222.

Shumylovych, Bohdan, Taras Nazaruk, Oleksa Baliura, and Maryna Malchenyuk. 2026. “UaNetHistory Project: Documenting the First Decades of Ukraine’s Internet. An Interview with Olexa Baliura and Maryna Malchenyuk.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 170–81. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2663687.

Call for papers: Cartographies of Crises

Call for papers: Cartographies of Crises: Mapping Conflict, Disaster, and Uncertainty (19th–21st Centuries)

The international workshop Cartographies of Crises: Mapping Conflict, Disaster, and Uncertainty (19th–21st Centuries) organised by the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, Czechia) and the University of Erfurt, Centre for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection (Gotha, Germany) will take place on 26th–27th November 2026 at the Centre for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection (CG2 - Pagenhaus, Schlossplatz 1, Gotha).

Call for Papers (https://www.hiu.cas.cz/user_uploads/badatelum_i_verejnosti/udalosti/2026_11_26_27_workshop_cartographies_of_crises/cfp_cartographies_of_crises_workshop_2026.pdf)

Thematic mapping has played a crucial role in visualising, interpreting, and communicating physical and socio-economic phenomena. This has been particularly true in times of crises, when maps have been used to represent wars, forced migrations, epidemics, environmental disasters, social upheavals, political conflicts, and anticipatedthreat scenarios. In such contexts, maps have served not only as instruments of documentation but also as analytical tools, persuasive arguments, and means of intervention.

This workshop focuses on the cartographies of crises from the 19th to the 21st century and seeks to advance research on the thematic mapping of crises. Contributions are invited that engage with a broad range of cartographic practices, from individual and hand-drawn maps to official state mapping, thematic atlases, recent digital mapping projects, and approaches associated with Historical GIS and Digital Humanities.

Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which maps represent experiences of uncertainty, disruption, displacement, and shifting identities, as well as to the role of cartography in shaping public perceptions of crises and historical memory. Proposals are welcome that explore how actors across the political and social spectrum have used cartography in response to different forms of crisis – from state and institutional mapping efforts to grassroots and counter-mapping practices – and how these maps both reflected

and shaped individual and collective understandings of phenomena such as war, displacement, epidemics, and environmental disasters.

The workshop seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on this specific category of cartographic sources and to encourage comparative perspectives across different historical periods and world regions. Contributions focusing on non-Western actors and cartographic traditions are particularly welcome. The study of how crises have been mapped and visualised offers new insights into both individual and collective responses to situations of threat and uncertainty, as well as into the role of maps in shaping processes of governance, intervention, and social transformation. The topic is particularly relevant today, as the study of historical crisis mapping deepens our understanding of the visual languages through which contemporary crises are represented, interpreted, and governed.

Contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following themes are invited:

Maps as analytical tools and instruments of power and governance: crisis management, political argumentation, propaganda, real-time mapping during ongoing crises and disasters, and the role of state and institutional actors;

Visual languages and cartographic conventions: standardisation, symbols, techniques of representation;

Counter-mapping and grassroots practices: non-institutional actors, communities, and individuals as producers of crisis cartographies; maps as tools of resistance, negotiation, and contestation;

Methodological and comparative perspectives: Historical GIS, Digital Humanities, digital mapping projects, transnational approaches, and studies of non-Western cartographic traditions.

The deadline for submitting abstracts (300 words) and a short CV is 10 September 2026. Authors will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of their proposals by 20 September 2026. Each participant will have 20 minutes for their presentation, followed by discussion.

Please submit your proposal using the online form available at: https://forms.gle/Sg1kyeNoSyH5Rukv7

There is no registration fee. To facilitate international participation, the organisers will cover accommodation costs for all accepted speakers. Travel expenses will be covered either partially or in full, depending on available funding.

Organisers:

Jitka Močičková (Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences): mocickova@hiu.cas.cz

Dominic Keyssner (University of Erfurt): dominic.keyssner@uni-erfurt.de

The workshop is organised with the support of the Strategy AV21 research programme Identities in the World of Wars and Crises (Czech Academy of Sciences, 2026) and the University of Erfurt.