Tatsiana Astrouskaya, : Cultural Dissent in Soviet Belarus (1968–1988). Intelligentsia, Samizdat and Nonconformist Discourses (Rusian language translation)

 Татьяна Островская: Культура и сопротивление. Интеллигенция, инакомыслие и самиздат в советской Беларуси (1968–1988). Перевод с английского Ибатуллин Роберт. Новое литературное обозрение 2025. ISBN 978-5-4448-2682-9 [= Tatsiana Astrouskaya, : Cultural Dissent in Soviet Belarus (1968–1988). Intelligentsia, Samizdat and Nonconformist Discourses]

Аннотация: Книга Татьяны Островской посвящена диссидентским идеям и дискурсам, которые циркулировали в среде беларусской советской интеллигенции — как в самиздате и неподцензурных зарубежных публикациях, так и в официально издаваемой литературе, имевшей не меньшее значение для передачи неконвенциональных образов культуры и идентичности. Охватывая широкий спектр интеллектуальных дискурсов, автор акцентирует внимание прежде всего на феномене и практиках нонконформизма и культурного инакомыслия, а не на собственно политических формах сопротивления. Идейное наследие и деятельность беларусских интеллектуалов впервые в историографии рассматриваются в наднациональной перспективе: Т. Островская прослеживает их связи как с русской и украинской интеллигенцией, так и с беларусским эмигрантским сообществом. Хронологические рамки исследования лежат между событиями, относившимися к Пражской весне и ее насильственному подавлению, изменившими представление советских интеллектуалов о себе и социалистическом строе, и 1988 годом, когда инакомыслие в Беларуси переросло в открытое политическое движение. Татьяна Островская — историк, PhD, научный сотрудник Гердеровского института в Марбурге, Германия.

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

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

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

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

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

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

HOMO HISTORICUS 2022 Гадавік антрапалагічнай гісторыі. Пад рэдакцыяй доктара гістарычных навук Аляксандра Смаленчука. HOMO HISTORICUS 2022 The Annual of Antropological History, OPEN ACCESS

 HOMO HISTORICUS 2022 Гадавік антрапалагічнай гісторыі. Пад рэдакцыяй доктара гістарычных навук Аляксандра Смаленчука. HOMO HISTORICUS 2022 The Annual of Antropological History, OPEN ACCESS

URL: http://kamunikat.org/index.php?q=usie_czasopisy.html&pubid=61314

Замест прадмовы. «Мы закліканыя да свабоды…»............................................................................... 8 In lieu of a preface. «We meant to be free…»....................................................................................... 8 ДАСЛЕДАВАННІ STUDIES 

БІЯГРАФІЯ НАВУКІ І НАВУКОЎЦА BIOGRAPHY OF SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS 

АЛЕГ ЯНОЎСКІ, ВАЛЯНЦІНА ЯНОЎСКАЯ (МЕНСК). Навука пра чалавека або чалавек у навуцы: ля вытокаў антрапалагічнай навукі ў Беларусі • Aleh Yanouski, Valiantsina Yanouskaya (Mensk). The human science or a human in science: at the origins of anthropological science in Belarus ................................................................................................................................................14 ВОЛЬГА ЛАБАЧЭЎСКАЯ (МЕНСК). Матэрыялы да біяграфіі Ісака Абрамавіча Сербава (1871–1943)  • Volha Labacheuskaya (Mensk). Materials for the biography of Isak Abramavich Serbau (1871–1943) ................................................ 38 

НАДІЯ ТЕМІРОВА (ВІННИЦЯ). У лещатах радянскоï парадигми: поміщицтво у дослідженнях Андрія Анфімова (1916–1995). • Nadiya Temirova (Vinnytsia). In the focus of the Soviet paradigm: landlords in Andrew Anfimov’s (1916–1995) studies .............. 56 

ВІТАЛЬ КАРНЯЛЮК (ГРОДНА). Каб напісанае засталося: да гісторыі стварэння кніг Апанаса Цыхуна пра акадэміка Яўхіма Карскага • Vital Karnialiuk (Hrodna). To preserve the written one: the background of Apanas Tsychun’s book creation about academician Auchim Karsky ...................................................... 66 

ВОЛЬГА ЛАБАЧЭЎСКАЯ (МЕНСК). Пад знакам арнаменту: да гісторыі стварэння дзяржаўнага сцяга • Volha Labacheuskaya (Mensk). Under the banner of ornament: the background of the state flag creation ..................................... 78

ВІЛЕНСКІ СШЫТАК VILNA’S NOTES 

ВОЛЬГА ІВАНОВА (МЕНСК). Беларускі музей імя Івана Луцкевіча – шлях да ліквідацыі  • Volha Ivanova (Mensk). Belarusian Museum of Ivan Lutskevich in Vilnia – the way to its liquidation......................................92 АЛЯКСАНДР СМАЛЯНЧУК (ВАРШАВА). Апошні грамадзянін Вялікага Княства Літоўскага, або Уводзіны ў жыццяпіс рэдактара Людвіка Абрамовіча (1879–1939) • Aliaksandr Smalianchuk (Warsaw). The last citizen of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, or Introduction to study of editor’s Ludwik Abramowicz (1879–1939) biography...................................................................................................143 

CASE STUDY 

АНДРЭЙ ЧАРНЯКЕВІЧ (ВАРШАВА). «Быць канфідэнтам»: штодзённае жыцце інфарматара польскай службы бяспекі ў паўночна-ўсходніх ваяводствах ІІ Рэчы Паспалітай (1921–1939) • Andrei Charniakevich (Warsaw). «To be a police agent»: everyday life of the Polish security service informant-agent in Notheastern voivodeships of the second Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1921–1939)..............178 

ЛЕАНІД ЛАЎРЭШ (ЛІДА). Лідскія камуністы ў данясеннях канфідэнта Чорнага (1932–1937)  • Leanid Laurеsh (Lida). Lida communists in reports of the secret agent Chorny (1932–1937) .............................................. 200 

ДЫЯЛОГІ DIALOQUES 

«Мяне цалкам паглынае метадалагічны падыход». Інтэрв’ю з каардынатарам Лятучага ўніверсітэта кандыдатам сацыялагічных навук Таццянай Вадалажскай • «I’m entirely merged in methodological approach» Interview with Flying University coordinator PhD in Psychology Tatsina Vadalazhskaya................ 219

 НАВУКОВАЕ ЖЫЦЦЁ SCIENTIFIC LIFE РЭЦЭНЗІІ REVIEWS СЯРГЕЙ ГРУНТОЎ (МЕНСК). Польска-літоўскай сцежкай па віленскіх Росах Cmentarz Na Rossie w Wilnie – historia, sztuka, przyroda. Pod red. Anny Sylwii Czyż i Bartłomieja Gutowskiego, Warszawa 2019. 606 s., ilustr  • Siarhei Hruntou (Mensk). By Polish-Lithuanian path across Rasos cemetery in Vilnia................................................................ 241

АЛЯКСАНДР ЛАНЕЎСКІ (ВАРШАВА). Гісторыя анархізму ў Беларусі на пачатку XX ст. Глушаков Ю. Э., «Революция умерла! Да здравствует революция!»: Анархизм в Беларуси (1902–1927). СПб., 2015. 176 с., ил • Aliaksandr Laneuski (Warsaw). Anarchy in the BY. The History of anarchism in Belarus in the early 20th century............................ 249 

ЗАХАР ШЫБЕКА (ХАЙФА). На шляху да вялікай навукі Смиловицкий Л., Евреи Белоруссии: до и после Холокоста: Сборник избранных статей. Иерусалим, 5781/2020. 491 с  • Zachar Shybieka (Haifa). In the journey towards significant science .........................................................................................265 

PRO MEMORIAM 

Беражыце свабоду! Барыс Клейн (1928–2020) (АЛЯКСАНДР ФЯДУТА, МЕНСК)  • Preserve freedom! Barys Klein (1928–2020) (Aliksandr Fiaduta, Mensk).......................................274 

Евгений Анищенко (1955–2021): история историка (АНДРЕЙ КИШТЫМОВ, МИНСК)  • Evgeny Anishchenko (1955–2021): historian’s history (Andrei Kishtymov, Minsk)..........................279 

Уладзімір Ляхоўскі (5 лютага 1964 – 7 верасня 2021) (АНДРЭЙ ЧАРНЯКЕВІЧ, ВАРШАВА) • Uladzimir Liachouski (February 5th 1964 – September 7th 2021) (Andrei Charniakevich, Warsaw) .....................................................................................................303 

Памяці Таццяны Маліноўскай (1953–2020) (ЮРЫ ГАРДЗЕЕЎ, КРАКАЎ)  • In memorial of Tatsiana Malinouskaya (1953–2020) (Yury Hardzejeu, Krakow)............................307 

Памяці Настаўніка. Фелікс Налівайка (1938–2016) (АЛЯКСАНДР СМАЛЯНЧУК,  ВІТАЛЬ КАРНЯЛЮК, ВІКТАР РУДНIК, ГРОДНА)  • In memorial of the Teacher Feliks Nalivajka (1938–2016) (Aliaksandr Smalianchuk, Vital Karnialiuk, Viktar Rudnik, Hrodna).......................................... 312 

Звесткі пра аўтараў • About the Authors ............................................................................................................................... 317

Томас М. Бон, Аляксандр Далгоўскі, Маркус Кшоска: Зубрыны неруш і сусветная спадчына [Wisent-Wildnis und Welterbe]. Пераклад з нямецкай Жанны Некрашэвіч-Кароткай. Мінск: Галіяфы 2021.

 

Белавежская пушча, якая раскінулася на польска-беларускім памежжы, з XVIII стагоддзя лічыцца апошнім прытулкам зуброў. У 20-х гадах ХХ стагоддзя ледзь не дайшло да вымірання “валадароў нерушу”, аднак дзякуючы мэтанакіраванай рэінтрадукцыі, якая ажыццяўлялася ў сярэдзіне ХХ стагоддзя, папуляцыя зуброў ізноў пачала павя­лічвацца. Апошні ў Еўропе нізінны неруш набыў міжнароднае значэнне спачатку як зона палявання польскіх каралёў і рускіх цароў, пазней як польска-беларускі нацыянальны парк і нарэшце як аб’ект сусветнай спадчыны ЮНЕСКА. У кнізе прадстаўлены нарыс гісторыі Белавежскага нацыянальнага парку пачынаючы з ранняга Новага часу да нашых дзён.

Асноўныя тэмы гэтай кнігі — стаўленне да прыроды як да вытворчага рэсурсу і як да запаведнай зоны, а таксама паўсядзённае жыццё жыхароў пушчанскага рэгіёна пры розных палітычных уладах і дзяржаўных сістэмах ХХ стагоддзя.

Online event (Polish): Wykład dr Vadzima Anipiarkoua: Między społeczeństwem i władzą: Instytut Historii w Mińsku na tle protestów politycznych na Białorusi w roku 2020, 15.07.2021, 11:15

 

Obecna sytuacja polityczna na Białorusi skłoniła Uniwersytet Europejski Viadrina we Frankfurcie nad Odrą do pomocy białoruskim studentom i wykładowcom oraz do pomnażania wiedzy o tym kraju. Centrum Interdyscyplinarnych Studiów o Polsce zaprosiło w związku z tym historyka dr. Vadzima Anipiarkoua do wygłoszenia wykładu na kolokwium naukowym online. Białoruski naukowiec opowie o wydarzeniach z grudnia 2020 roku, kiedy na tle masowych protestów w Mińsku straciło pracę 15 pracowników Instytutu Historycznego Białoruskiej Akademii Nauk, czyli ok. 20 procent całego zespołu naukowego.

Rejestracja pod adresem klodnicki@europa-uni.de

Online Event: The Chernobyl/Chornobyl Disaster: Presenting the New MAPA Project. Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University Seminar in Ukrainian Studies | MAPA LaunchApril 28, 2021, 18:00 CET/19:00 MSK/12:00 EST

Speakers:

Kostyantyn Bondarenko, IT Professional and MAPA Project Manager, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Nataliia Levchuk, Chief Researcher, Ptoukha Institute of Demography and Social Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Department of History, and Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Abstract

Following the successful completion of numerous modules on contemporary Ukraine, based on polling data, the HURI MAPA program is moving into a new area, the mapping and spatial analysis of the impact of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster on the human life and society. The new module is envisioned as an integrated geography project at the crossroads of human and ecological geography. It has been undertaken with a number of partners in Ukraine, including the National Research Center for Radiation Medicine at the National Academy of Medical Sciences and National Cancer Registry of Ukraine.

This panel is organized in conjunction with the official launch for the new project. Its participants will discuss the future direction of research and mapping, and will share the first results of their work, including the organization of the website, the resettlement of the population from the Chornobyl exclusion zone, and the impact of the disaster on the migration patterns and other demographic processes in Ukraine.

Register for the Zoom webinar (https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4NE1e8kiTfG03g_H9U4DZQ) or watch live on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_LAJNH60EM).

About the Speakers

Kostyantyn Bondarenko is an IT Professional at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University and the Project Manager for the MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine program. During his time at the Institute, he has improved and expanded its IT services by designing and developing websites, databases, and GIS maps and web applications. As the Project Manager for the MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine program, Bondarenko manages all technical and organizational aspects of the program. He has worked on all modules of the MAPA program, has presented MAPA projects at several conferences, and is currently working on joint GIS projects between the Ukrainian Research Institute and its partners in the US and abroad.

Nataliia Levchuk is a Chief Researcher at the Ptoukha Institute of Demography and Social Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She is a demographer whose research interests include a wide range of public health issues, mortality by causes of deaths, and changes in life expectancy, as well as the impact of the 1932-33 Holodomor on Ukraine’s population. In 2013 and 2018, she stayed as a GIS Research Fellow at HURI, working on the MAPA Great Famine project. Her recent publications include Levchuk N. et al. (2020). “Regional variations of the 1932-33 Famine losses: a comparative analysis of Ukraine and Russia,” in Nationalities Papers, 48 (3): 492–512; Levchuk N., and L. Luschik (2019). "Interregional differences in life expectancy within Ukraine: main trends and changes," Demography and Social Economy, 2019, 1(35): 26-40.

Serhii Plokhii is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and the Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. A leading authority on Ukraine and Eastern Europe, he has published extensively on the international history of the Cold War. He is the author of numerous books, including Chernobyl: History of the Nuclear Catastrophe, and most recently, Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

HPS.CESEE and CHORUS global book talk "Białowieża Forest: History and Memory", Friday, April 16, 17:00-19:00 CET / 19:00-21:00 MSK / 11:00-13:00 EST

The virtual platform HPS.CESEE and CHORUS: Colloquium for the History of Russian Science are proud to present the global book talk "Białowieża Forest: History and Memory". Jawad Daheur (Paris) will join with the authors of "Białowieża Primeval Forest: Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century" (Cham 2020) [1], Anastasia Fedotova (St. Petersburg) and Tomasz Samojlik (Białowieża), as well as authors of "Wisent-Wildnis und Welterbe. Geschichte des polnisch-weißrussischen Nationalparks von Bialowieza" (Cologne 2017) [2], Thomas Bohn (Giessen), Aliaksandr Dalhouski (Minsk) and Markus Krzoska (Giessen), to discuss their recently published books, in a discussion moderated by Friedrich Cain (Vienna). It is part of a series of open zoom events aiming to foster the discussion of new books and approaches within the history of science and scholarship (broadly understood) in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

The meeting is free and open to the public. To receive the link, please register here: http://tiny.cc/hpsceseeBialowieza or write to hps.cesee@gmail.com.

[1] Anastasia Fedotova, Piotr Daszkiewicz, Ian D. Rotherham, Tomasz Samojlik: Białowieża Primeval Forest: Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Cham: Springer Nature 2020.

[2] Thomas M. Bohn, Aliaksandr Dalhouski, Markus Krzoska: Wisent-Wildnis und Welterbe. Geschichte des polnisch-weißrussischen Nationalparks von Bialowieza. Köln: Böhlau 2017.

Participants:

Thomas Bohn is Professor for Eastern European History at the Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Giessen. Research interests: history of historiography, urban history, superstition and nonkonformism, Belarusian studies. Current research project are "Russian Scholars in the 'Near East': Archaeological Expeditions and Imperial Cultural Politics" (DFG 2019-2021); and "Territorialisation in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. Shifts of borderlines and measures for area penetration from 1918 to 1941" (DFG 2021-2024).

Jawad Daheur is historian at the Center for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies (EHESS, Paris). He works on the relations between human societies and their environment in Central Europe, with a special focus on German-speaking areas and Poland. His current field of research addresses the ecological impacts of large-scale trade in the southern Baltic hinterland during the modern period.

Aliaksandr Dalhouski is a historian at the Historical Workshop in Minsk, and is responsible for the traveling Belarusian-German exhibition “Extermination site Malyj Trostenec. History and Memory” in Belarus. He studied in Minsk and Aachen, and obtained a PhD from the University of Giessen in 2012. His doctoral thesis appeared in 2015 as „Tschernobyl in Belarus. Ökologische Krise und sozialer Kompromiss (1986–1996)“. His research interests include the history of Belarus during World War II and following the Chernobyl disaster, as well as environmental history.

Anastasia Fedotova is a senior researcher at St. Petersburg’s Branch of Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests incorporate (1) scientific knowledge in the rationalization of agriculture and forestry, (2) environmental history, (3) history of the life and earth sciences: plant ecology, applied botany, agricultural entomology, forest ecology, and soil science in the 19th and first half of the 20th century.

Markus Krzoska is historian and translator, currently Privatdozent at Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen. His thematic focus is the history of Poland, history of religion, history of historiography and urban history. More recently he has also turned to human-animal studies and the broadly understood cultural studies.

Tomasz Samojlik is researcher at the Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences in Białowieża, where he studies the environmental history of Białowieża Primeval Forest.

Środowisko studenckie w krajach bloku sowieckiego 1945–1990 [The Student Milieu in the Soviet Bloc Countries 1945–1990], red. Kamil Dworaczek i Krzysztof Łagojda, Wrocław–Warszawa: IPN 2020, 664 s., ISBN druk 978-83-8098-991-7

URL: https://ipn.gov.pl/pl/publikacje/ksiazki/106841,Srodowisko-studenckie-w-krajach-bloku-sowieckiego-19451990.html

Spis tresci: http://tiny.cc/6f0zsz

Prezentowany tom stanowi pokłosie międzynarodowej konferencji „Środowisko studenckie w krajach bloku sowieckiego 1945–1989” zorganizowanej w dniach 29 XI – 1 XII 2016 r. we Wrocławiu. Powyższa problematyka spotkała się z olbrzymim zainteresowaniem badaczy z całego świata, na konferencję nadesłano blisko 80 zgłoszeń. Ostatecznie wzięło w niej udział 58 naukowców z 19 krajów, m.in. Polski, Rosji, Stanów Zjednoczonych, Białorusi, Albanii, Wielkiej Brytanii, Bułgarii i Serbii. Tak zróżnicowana reprezentacja prelegentów dała sposobność spojrzenia na wiele zagadnień badawczych z perspektywy różnych krajów. W naszym zamyśle było odnalezienie wspólnych zjawisk obecnych w ruchach studenckich w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej, choć w równym stopniu zależało nam na uchwyceniu specyfiki społeczności studenckiej w poszczególnych państwach. Warto podkreślić niedostatek tego rodzaju badań komparatystycznych, i to nie tylko w odniesieniu do środowiska studenckiego. Mamy nadzieję, że konferencja i niniejsza książka choć w niewielkim stopniu przyczynią się do wypełnienia tej luki.

Anastasia Fedotova, Piotr Daszkiewicz, Ian D. Rotherham, Tomasz Samojlik: Białowieża Primeval Forest: Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Cham: Springer Nature 2020. ISBN 978-3-030-33479-6 (e-book), ISBN 978-3-030-33478-9 (hardcover)

• The first comprehensive English-language monograph of the history of one of the most famous ancient forests in Europe
• Bialowieza is perhaps the best renown natural area of Europe, it was considered one of the last really natural forests untouched by the man, the only place in Europe where  the European bison is still freely grazing and reproducing. This until recent research findings showed that the place has been intensively used by the man at least since  the early middle age: cutting, planting, fires, etc. The research, as a paper ,has already been presented in several international conferences, generating interesting debate about  the real naturalness of the European Landscape, a theme already treated by several authors, as Franz Vera and perfectly in line with the series
• The book for itself is basically a research book, but telling a story that can be read and understood by a  wide  audience of scholars from many different disciplines

Understanding the current state and dynamics of any forest is extremely difficult - if not impossible - without recognizing its history. Białowieża Primeval Forest (BPF), located on the border between Poland and Belarus, is one of the best preserved European lowland forests and a subject of myriads of works focusing on countless aspects of its biology, ecology, management. BPF was protected for centuries (15th-18th century) as a game reserve of Polish kings and Lithuanian grand dukes. Being, at that time, a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, BPF was subject to long-lasting traditional, multi-functional utilisation characteristic for this part of Europe, including haymaking on forest meadows, traditional bee-keeping and fishing in rivers flowing through forest. This traditional model of management came to an abrupt end due to political change in 1795, when Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania ceased to exist in effect of partitioning by neighbouring countries, and the territory of BPF was taken over by the Russian Empire. The new Russian administration, influenced by the German trends in forestry, attempted at introducing the new, science-based forestry model in the BPF throughout the 19th century. The entire 19th century in the history of BPF is a story of struggle between new trends and concepts brought and implemented by new rulers of the land, and the traditional perception of the forest and forest uses, culturally rooted in this area and originating from mediaeval (or older) practices.

The book will show the historical background and the outcome of this struggle: the forest’s history in the long 19th century focusing on tracking all cultural imprints, both material (artificial landscapes, introduced alien species, human-induced processes) and immaterial (traditional knowledge of forest and use of forest resources, the political and cultural significance of the forest) that shaped the forest’s current state and picture. Our book will deliver a picture of a crucial moment in forest history, relevant not only to the Central Europe, but to the continent in general. Moment of transition between a royal hunting ground, traditional type of use widespread throughout Europe, to a modern, managed forest. Looking at main obstacles in the management shift, the essential difference in perceptions of the forest and goods it provides in both modes of management, and the implications of the management change for the state of BPF in the long 19th century could help in better understanding the changes that European forests underwent in general.

Tomasz Samojlik is an environmental historian pursuing the goal of retracing the history of anthropogenic and natural forest changes in the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, including Poland’s Białowieża Primeval Forest. He has a MSc in European studies from University of Marie Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin and a PhD in biological sciences from Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His current research topics encompass (1) the history of exploitation and protection of BPF in the 19th century, (2) fire history of BPF, (3) past eco-cultural landscapes in the royal forests of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and their bio-cultural heritage, (4) man-wildlife interactions in the historical context. His work combines archival studies and archaeological excavations (in cooperation with the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw), with the analyses of the human impact on past forest ecosystems.

Anastasia Fedotova is a senior researcher at St. Petersburg’s Branch of Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests incorporate (1) scientific knowledge in the rationalization of agriculture and forestry, (2) environmental history, (3) history of the life and earth sciences: plant ecology, applied botany, agricultural entomology, forest ecology, and soil science in the 19th and first half of the 20th century.

Professor Ian D. Rotherham is the author of over 400 academic papers, popular and professional articles, books and book chapters, as well as 300 consultancy studies and reports, and over 300 newspaper features. He has broadcast on radio and television in Britain, the USA and in Europe, and writes regular columns for local and regional newspapers and has a regular BBC Radio Sheffield phone-in. He works and researches environmental, historical and tourism issues around the world, and chaos national and international meetings and committees. Along with his core ecological research, his pioneering work on the perceptions and history of alien and exotic species has been widely acclaimed. His research on landscape history has led to a ground breaking handbook on ancient woodland heritage, and a series of books on wetland loss and the history of peat and peat cutting.

Prof. Piotr Daszkiewicz, dr habil. in biology and professor in humanities at the Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, for many years connected with the Natural History Museum in Paris, currently working at Agence Française pour la Biodiversité combines his biological and historical background in his research. His studies embrace a wide variety of topics, from the history of natural sciences, through history of research in Białowieża Primeval Forest and studies on European bison, history of natural collections and museums all around the world, to topics focusing on current and past Polish-French scientific collaboration. For many years, he published articles in “Kultura”, the most important Polish emigration journal edited by Jerzy Giedroyc.

URL: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030334789

ИНФОРМАЦИОННОЕ ПИСЬМО: Международная научно-практическая конференция «Женщины-ученые Беларуси и Польши» (26 марта 2020 г.)

Белорусский государственный университет, ОО «Союз женщин БГУ», Кафедра межкультурных исследований Центрально-Восточной Европы Варшавского Университета организуют Международную научно-практическую конференцию «Женщины-ученые Беларуси и Польши». Пленарное заседание состоится 26 марта 2020 года в г. Минске, пр. Независимости, 4.

Цель конференции
• актуализировать проблему вклада и роли женщин в науку, показать значение их трудов в реализации задач социального развития государств, формировании национально-культурной основы образования, ориентации на всемирный уровень развития науки и образования, в изучении и использовании опыта других стран и народов
К участию в конференции приглашаются
Женщины-ученые и специалисты учреждений образования, науки, культуры, а также аспиранты, соискатели, магистры. Планируется проведение секции молодых ученых.
Основные темы и проблематика конференции:
• вопросы вклада женщин в решение задач фундаментальной и прикладной науки, образования и воспитания молодых поколений, преемственности традиций, подготовки молодых научных кадров; связь с общественной практикой, с различными сферами жизнедеятельности
• гуманитарные науки, естественные науки, технические науки
Регламент конференции
Очная форма участия - доклады на пленарном заседании – до 20 минут. Заочная форма участия - секционные доклады (публикация бесплатная).
По итогам конференции планируется проведение круглого стола для обсуждения резолюции конференции в Республике Польша в мае 2020 года.
Требования к оформлению докладов:
• название доклада (сообщения), ФИО (полностью) автора, город, страна;
• название доклада, ключевые слова и резюме на русском и английском языках
• объем доклада вместе с резюме, рисунками, снимками и т.п. не должен превышать 5 страниц текста формата А4, Times New Roman, 14 кегль, одинарный межстрочный интервал, тип файла rtf Microsoft Word;
• список использованной литературы подается после основного текста, в тексте ссылки на литературу пишутся в квадратных скобках [ ];
• нумерация страниц не проставляется
• почтовый адрес автора, факс, адрес электронной почты, телефон.
Срок предоставления заявок с указанием названия доклада (сообщения) и тезисов:
Заявки и тезисы докладов необходимо выслать по электронной почте: irinaolunina201255@gmail.com
не позднее 8 марта 2020 года.

Официальное персональное приглашение для очного участия в конференции высылается по запросу.
Рабочие языки конференции: белорусский, русский, польский, английский.
Получение материалов по электронной почте будет подтверждено Организационным комитетом. Оргкомитет конференции оставляет за собой право отклонять заявки, не соответствующие тематике конференции. В сборник будут включены отобранные Оргкомитетом материалы. Публикация отобранных материалов в электронном сборнике конференции бесплатная. Оргвзнос не вносится. Приобретение сборника на бумажном носителе, за отдельную оплату, будет осуществляться по желанию участников по предварительным заявкам. Оргкомитет не имеет возможности оплатить участникам конференции командировочные расходы. Проживание, питание, транспортные расходы оплачиваются командирующими организациями.
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Call for Papers “Academic Authority and the Politics of Science and History in Eastern Europe,” March 20-21, 2020 (GWZO Leipzig, Germany)

The scholar is dead – long live the scholar? Over the last couple of decades, the epistemological tectonics of contemporary societies have experienced massive changes – and so has the subject of our workshop, the scholar. Within a highly diverse environment, scholarship has become destabilised as an epistemic authority, due to socio-political processes, economic pressure, internal conflicts, new media techniques etc.

The workshop aims to investigate the historical changes and challenges of (academic) scholarship’s role as the paramount producer of knowledge. Concentrating on (the public perception of) STS scholars, historians, sociologists and philosophers of science, as well as their non-academic counterparts, we aim to analyse concepts of scientific self-reflection and their historical trajectory in Eastern and Central Europe from the 1970s (starting with the Helsinki Declaration) via the transformations of 1989 and the ‘science wars’ of the 1990s up to the alleged rising of the ‘post-truth era’ today. Looking at the immanent or perceived boundaries between different rationalities, between science, politics, and the public, we will map changes in the political configuration of knowledge production by discussing if, when and how these boundaries shifted, were strengthened, weakened or removed and how this affected the epistemic figure of the scholar. We will look at epistemological dynamics between universalism and particularism, the fragmentation of epistemic authority, and the tribalisation of truth, and want to discuss whether they can be regarded as an effect of

…political transformations, processes of re-nationalization, conservative and religious turns,

…a shift in media technologies and the unsettling of classic information media,

…social diversification and the consequent emergence of specific group attitudes towards globalization or modernization.

We will, however, ask as well, whether the observable loss of scholarship’s authority has to be regarded as a new phenomenon, or whether this diagnosis itself follows a narrative of decay? Did scholars in Eastern Europe possess an epistemological hegemony at all and if so – how can it be characterized? Can we consider the present state as a slightly more splintered version of conflicts well known from the Cold War and the ‘science wars’, or do we have to take into account a vast variety of different former epistemological camps in the East? What is the relationship between ‘traditional’ modes of propaganda or disinformation and postmodern relativist philosophies? Do politicized epistemologies have to be regarded as a new phenomenon, informed by these philosophies and generated by the emergence of new technical media?

Tackling these issues, we hope to shed light not only on some crucial developments in the Central and Eastern European history of science and humanities itself, but on some of the most pressing and far-reaching questions about the contemporary status of academia.

Papers should address one of the three areas:

(1.) epistemology as a factor of system stabilization and the belief in the objective and trustworthy scientific persona, whose diagnoses and prognoses are of paramount importance for the society / the state, as epitomized in the Science of Science scholar up to 1989;

(2.) the unbalancing of professional/academic and lay/dissident epistemologies, the post-soviet transformation of the figure of the scholar, and the rewriting of its history in the history of science during the 1990s;

(3.) the increasing emergence and approval of non-academic producers of knowledge, and the related transformation of scholarly self-conception and master narratives in the field of history (of science and humanities) from the 1990s until today, when the academic scholar has lost more and more ground as a figure of trust.

The workshop continues a series of events held at Erfurt (2017, 2018), Moscow (2018), and St. Petersburg (2019) in the context of the research initiative (East) European Epistemologies. The upcoming meeting will be organised at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig by

Friedrich Cain (Max Weber Kolleg / University of Erfurt)

Dietlind Hüchtker (GWZO)

Bernhard Kleeberg (Max Weber Kolleg / University of Erfurt)

Karin Reichenbach (University of Leipzig), and

Jan Surman (IGITI, Higher School of Economics Moscow).

Travelling costs and accommodation will be covered in accordance with the travel regulations of Saxony. Please, direct proposals (<500 words) for papers (~ 20 min) and a short cv to dietlind.huechtker@leibniz-gwzo.deby December 13, 2019. We especially welcome proposals by PhD students.

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