Digital HIRA Book Launch on Securitzing Lemberg's 'Polish Character'. Local Politics in a Multi-Ethnic City of the Habsburg Monarchy between 1861/62 and 1914, August 27, 2020

Place: Jitsi Meet Date: August 27, 2020 12 noon — 1 pm (EDT) 6 — 7 pm (CET)

Herder Institute Research Academy in cooperation with the Collaborative Research Center “Dynamics of Security” is pleased to announce a new event series: the Digital HIRA Book Launch in the field of East Central European History.

The series has been developed to support a vivid academic discussion and exchange at a time when personal contacts have been limited. The Digital HIRA Book Launch brings together alumni, current HIRA fellows, and interested colleagues off ering the newest results of our research to the broader public.

The first book launch in the series is LEMBERGS “POLNISCHEN CHARAKTER” SICHERN. Kommunalpolitik in einer multiethnischen Stadt der Habsburgermonarchie zwischen 1861/62 und 1914 [Securitizing Lemberg’s „Polish Character“. Local Government in a Multi-Ethnic City of the Habsburg Monarchy between 1861/62 and 1914]

by Heidi Hein-Kircher, freshly released by the Franz Steiner Publishers.

Including commentaries by Regina Kreide (Justus Liebig University Giessen and Collaborative Research Center “Dynamics of Security”) and Christoph Mick (University of Warwick)

Moderation: Tatsiana Astrouskaya (Herder Institute)

In order to register, please send an e-mail to hira@herder-institut.de.

We will circulate the detailed log in information one day before the event.

Heidi Hein-Kircher is the Head of Academic Forum at the Herder Institute for the Historical Research on East Central Europe, the Institute of the Leibniz Association and the Associate Professor at the Philipps University of Marburg. Her research interests include urban history, security and confl ict policies as well as memory politics in East Central Europe.

For more information on the book, consult the publisher’s website http://www.steiner-verlag.de/titel/61919.htmlv

POLIN's Global Education Outreach Program: New online podcasts series "What’s New? What’s Next? Jewish Studies in the time of pandemic"

Join us for an academic adventure! We invite you to listen to our new GEOP podcast series "What’s New? What’s Next? Jewish Studies in the time of pandemic". Because of the coronavirus pandemic, we have rescheduled our international conference on the future of Jewish studies by a year to October 2021. During the intervening months, we are inviting colleagues to explore the conference themes in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The podcast series will explore the conference themes – methodology, paradigm shifts, new sources, and new approaches to old sources – in relation to the current and earlier epidemics, Jewish responses to them, and how they have been studied from historical and contemporary perspectives. The focus of this series offers a multidisciplinary and transhistorical case study for exploring the conference themes. As a lead-up to the conference, the podcasts will demonstrate the kinds of presentations we would like to encourage. This series is one of the ways that POLIN Museum is responding to the unique situation that all of us are facing. Each panel will consist of a two lectures: a general lecture and the source lecture. Introduction Prof. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett – New Sources: Collecting the Pandemic. Epidemics in the Bible and Talmud Prof. Maciej Münnich - Epidemics in the Bible Prof. Jeremy Brown - Coronavirus and the Talmud. Dr. Marek Tuszewicki and Dr. Francois Guesnet will explore epidemics in Jewish folk medicine. Professor Shaul Stampfer and Prof. Natan Meir will focus on this history of Jewish responses to epidemics in the modern period. Dr. Karolina Szymaniak and Professor Jeffrey Shandler will discuss epidemics in Yiddish literature. Podcasts by Dr. Katarzyna Person dedicated to epidemics in the Warsaw ghetto and to epidemics and antisemitism, from historical and contemporary perspectives. Dr Gerben Zaagsma, Professor Marcin Wodziński, and others, will consider the future of digital research and Jewish studies in light of these uncertain times. The series will conclude with podcasts devoted to what’s next? How will Jewish studies change? Will we turn to new methods? Are we facing a paradigm shift? We will post the podcasts every two weeks on POLIN Museum’s website, Spotify, and other platforms. Don’t miss an update. Subscribe to our newsletter! "What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies", an international conference, will take place at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, in October 2021. Contact: whatsnewconference@polin.pl.

hps.cesee book talk: Travelling Microbes in Central Europe: with Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen (Vienna) and Katrin Steffen (Lüneburg)

The international platform HPS.CESEE and IGITI are proud to invite you to the first hps.cesee global book talk, Travelling Microbes in Central Europe: with Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen (Vienna) and Katrin Steffen (Lüneburg). It is first in a series of open zoom events, aiming at fostering the discussion of new books and approaches in, and about, the broadly understood history of science in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

TIME: 29.05.2020, 9 a.m.-11 a.m (EDT), 15:00-17:00 (CET), 16:00-18:00 (MSK)

The meeting is open to the public. To receive the link, please fill the contact data here: https://forms.gle/9TqX4MXqwBYRd6Td9 or write to Jan Surman jsurman@hse.ru

Knowledge does not travel just by itself. It needs laboratories, but also logistics to be moved. Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen’s monograph [*], published in 2018, looks at the circulation of knowledge from the perspective of the material turn, tracing techniques applied by Polish physicians to mobilize microbes in laboratories, make them moveable, and then finally move them. The book presents a multilayered history of medicalization in Central Europe from the end of the 19th century to 1939: It ranges from a global perspective on the exchange between laboratories in Paris, Tunis or Lwów, through the history of mobilizing medicine for cultural and state nationalism, to the inclusion of bacteriology into the daily practice of physicians. It integrates Central Europe into a global history of knowledge and leads us to rethink the categories center and periphery in the history of knowledge production.

Katharina’s book should serve us as the point of departure for a discussion of the potential of the material turn for the history of science in Central and Eastern Europe, which will be introduced by Katrin Steffen (Lüneburg).

The event is hosted by the platform hps.cesee: History of Science in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe and the Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, Higher School of Economics, Moscow.

[*] Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen: Wie man Mikroben auf Reisen schickt: Zirkulierendes bakteriologisches Wissen und die polnische Medizin 1885–1939 [How to Make Microbes Travel: Circulating bacteriological knowledge and the Polish Medicine 1885-1939] (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2018)

Dr. Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen is a research and teaching fellow in contemporary history at Vienna University. She received her PhD from the University of Giessen (Germany) and held fellowships, among others, with the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin and the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. Her book was awarded the dissertation prize of the German Historical Association as well as the dissertation prize of the German Association of Historians of Science, Medicine and Technology. She is currently pursuing a second book project in the global history of large construction sites.

PD Dr. Katrin Steffen is a historian at the Northeast Institute Lüneburg at the University of Hamburg. She works on the transnational history of Poland in 19th-20th centuries, Jewish history and history of scientific knowledge and mobility. In her current project, she works on the parallel, transnational biographies of Jan Czochralski and Ludwik Hirszfeld spanning the German‐speaking countries and Poland.

Historická korespondence online (HIKO)

While it migt be something quite small, this might interest those of us who work, or intend to work with digital humanities (and read Czech). So far most work discussed is, unsuprisingly, on Comenius (czeck the session on visualisation!), with a project on, unsuprisingly, Masaryk, next in line, and project on - here suprisingly, as this is not the most prominent person - Milada Blekastad (Prague born, Oslo based translator and literary historian). Below a short abstract, and full version here: https://historicka-korespondence.cz/

O nás

Vítejte na stránkách Historická korespondence online (HIKO), vytvořených pracovníky Filosofického ústavu AV ČR, Masarykova ústavu a Archivu AV ČR a Knihovny AV ČR. Cílem HIKO je sloužit jako portál shromažďující informace o projektech věnovaných zpracování historické korespondence spjaté s dějinami českých zemí od středověku po druhou polovinu 20. století, zejména pokud jde o digitální zpracování. Zároveň nabízí badatelským týmům redakční rozhraní pro základní popisy historické korespondence a umožňuje zapojení metadat do databázového systému. HIKO je aktivní projekt v neustálém rozvoji. Budeme vděčni, pokud dostaneme zpětnou vazbu od uživatelů a pokud se podaří rozšířit spolupráci s dalšími projekty zaměřenými na historickou korespondenci. Můžete nás kontaktovat na urbanek@flu.cas.cz

Vznik stránek HIKO byl iniciován pracovníky Oddělení pro komeniologii a intelektuální dějiny raného novověku Filosofického ústavu AV ČR a pracovníky Masarykova ústavu a Archivu AV ČR a realizován pracovníky Knihovny AV ČR. Projekt se stále rozvíjí a rozšiřuje. Koncepčně a z hlediska technologického navazuje na dlouhodobou spolupráci Filosofického ústavu AV ČR s projekty řešenými na University of Oxford – Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO) a Cultures of Knowledge. S oxfordskými kolegy je rozvoj HIKO průběžně konzultován, zejména s ohledem na udržení kompatibility s databází EMLO a na možné budoucí zapojení dat do evropské infrastruktury. S oxfordskými partnery sdílíme přesvědčení, že digitální revoluce posledních desetiletí může poskytnout nástroje, které značně usnadňují studium rozvoje komunikačních a korespondenčních sítí od středověku po moderní dobu. Shromáždění velkého množství metadat a standardizace prostředků popisu a zpracování je předpokladem efektivní spolupráce při vývoji nových digitálních nástrojů, nových vědeckých metod a nových historiografických poznatků v rámci tohoto významného badatelského pole. Věříme, že projekt bude významným příspěvkem k rozvoji sféry digital humanities v ústavech Akademie věd a že se stane platformou ke spolupráci s dalšími pracovišti, týmy a projekty mimo Akademii. Projekt HIKO je financován ze zdrojů Dariah.cz, Strategie AV21 a NAKI.