Sunday, 19 July 2026

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


Saturday, 18 July 2026

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

Wednesday, 15 July 2026

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

Sunday, 12 July 2026

*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/

Wednesday, 8 July 2026

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.


Sunday, 5 July 2026

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.

Saturday, 4 July 2026

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.


Friday, 3 July 2026

Witold Jan Chmielewski: Łukasz Kurdybacha w Palestynie [Łukasz Kurdybacha in Palestine].

 Witold Jan Chmielewski: Łukasz Kurdybacha w Palestynie [Łukasz Kurdybacha in Palestine]. Aspra/Instytut Historii Nauki im. L. & A. Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk 2025. ISBN 9788382093728

Monografia stanowi pogłębione studium działalności Łukasza Kurdybachy na uchodźstwie w Palestynie w okresie II wojny światowej. Autor, Witold Chmielewski, rekonstruuje jego wielowymiarowe zaangażowanie w organizację polskiego szkolnictwa uchodźczego, proces wydawniczy podręczników i kanonicznych dzieł literatury polskiej oraz publicystykę poświęconą problemom wychowania i kształtowania postaw obywatelskich.

Publikacja ukazuje Kurdybachę jako jedną z kluczowych postaci polskiej myśli pedagogicznej na emigracji, podkreślając jego rolę w podtrzymywaniu edukacji, kultury i tożsamości narodowej w warunkach wojennego uchodźstwa.

Książka adresowana jest do badaczy historii wychowania, dziejów emigracji oraz wszystkich zainteresowanych intelektualnym dziedzictwem polskiej edukacji XX wieku.


Wednesday, 1 July 2026

Sylwia Borowska-Kazimiruk: Modernizacje widzenia. Władysław Heinrich, Wacław Berent a drogi rozwoju polskiej psychologii doświadczalnej [The Modernizations of Perception. Wacław Berent, Władysław Heinrich and the Paths of Development of Polish Experimental Psychology].

 Sylwia Borowska-Kazimiruk: Modernizacje widzenia. Władysław Heinrich, Wacław Berent a drogi rozwoju polskiej psychologii doświadczalnej [The Modernizations of Perception. Wacław Berent, Władysław Heinrich and the Paths of Development of Polish Experimental Psychology]. Warszawa: WUW 2026. ISSN:

978-83-235-7136-0


OA: https://wuw.pl/data/include/cms//Modernizacje_widzenia_Borowska_Kazimiruk_Sylwia_2026.pdf


Praca ma charakter interdyscyplinarny, łącząc perspektywy historii literatury, psychologii, filozofii i nauki. Autorka podejmuje próbę rekonstrukcji kulturowego modelu „widzenia” obecnego w polskiej literaturze modernistycznej, zakorzenionego w psychologii eksperymentalnej i filozofii empiriokrytycznej. Centralnym przedmiotem analizy jest powieść Ozimina autorstwa Wacława Berenta, interpretowana na tle rozwoju psychologii eksperymentalnej zapoczątkowanej przez Wilhelma Wundta. Ważnym kontekstem jest także działalność Władysława Heinricha, który rozwijał te idee na gruncie polskim.



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The Modernizations of Perception. Wacław Berent, Władysław Heinrich and the Paths of Development of Polish Experimental Psychology


The work is interdisciplinary in nature, combining perspectives from the history of literature, psychology, philosophy and science. The author attempts to reconstruct the cultural model of “perception” present in Polish modernist literature, rooted in experimental psychology and empiriocritical philosophy. The central subject of the analysis is the novel Ozimina by Wacław Berent, interpreted against the background of the development of experimental psychology initiated by Wilhelm Wundt. An important context is also the activity of Władysław Heinrich, who developed these ideas in Poland.


Keywords: experimental psychology, Polish modernism, symbolism, modernizations of perception, personal perception.


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