THE PETRO JACYK VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM invites applications for the 2020-2021 academic year (Deadline 15.02.2020)

Scholars studying Ukraine outside Ontario are invited to apply for funding available through the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES), the University of Toronto for the 2020-2021 academic year. Successful applicants will conduct research and interact with Canadian scholars during their stay at CERES. They will also be invited to give a presentation on the topic of their research and are expected to take part in relevant scholarly events. As a rule, visits are scheduled during the fall and winter sessions of the university, that is between September and April.

In addition, each year the Petro Jacyk Program—in partnership with the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC)—may support one scholar whose research relates to Holodomor. Successful applicants will benefit from interaction with not only scholars in the University of Toronto community but also those who are involved in HREC projects. They will have access to the archives of the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre, where HREC is located (a ten-minute walk from CERES), archives that include unpublished eyewitness accounts of the Holodomor, as well as the extensive Holodomor microfilm collection from the Central State Archive of Popular Organizations (Kyiv) at the University of Toronto Library. HREC is a project of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (University of Alberta).

Eligibility:

We invite applications from scholars at all stages of their careers working in the social sciences and humanities, including recent PhD or kandydat nauk degree recipients. Advanced doctoral students may also be considered.

We especially welcome applicants whose work relates to its thematic focus “Challenges of Independent Ukraine.” This focus includes state- and institution-building in Ukraine; law and governance; problems of democratization; education, culture and identity of the nation and ethnic groups in Ukraine; history and the imperial past; and foreign policy and international relations.

Solid knowledge of English is essential for successful participation in the program. Invitations to successful applicants are conditional upon applicants’ ability to fulfill the requirements for entering Canada as set by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

Funding:

The following cost will be covered by the Petro Jacyk Program: (1) lowest round-trip economy airfare to the maximum of CAD $1,200; (2) visa costs if applicable; (3) medical insurance for the approved stay at the University of Toronto; (4) up to $20 per day for accommodation for up to 56 days upon submission of appropriate receipts; (5) allowance calculated at a rate of CAD $55/full day up to the maximum of CAD$3,080 for 56 full days at CERES. The minimum length of stay will be 28 days. Successful applicants who are advanced doctoral students will spend one term at CERES.

Application Procedure:

Completed applications (Adobe Acrobat PDF version) should be received along with:

• a two-page description of their research proposal (double-spaced);
• a curriculum vitae;
• two confidential letters of reference.

You may identify a CERES faculty member who, in your opinion, could provide guidance for you during your tenure at the University of Toronto (you do not need to contact this faculty member personally). Otherwise, a faculty member will be assigned by the selection committee.

Applications should be sent electronically to jacyk.program@utoronto.ca. The two referees should email their letters directly to the same email address. If sending the letter of reference electronically is not possible, your referee should mail a hard copy of the reference in a sealed and signed envelope to the address indicated below.

All application materials, including the letters of reference, must be in English.  Letters of reference which are not in English must be translated by a qualified translator or agency, and submitted together with the original letter by the referee.

Mailing Address: The Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine c/o Neha Singla Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto 1 Devonshire Place Toronto, ON M5S 3K7 Canada

Deadline: All documents should be received by February 15, 2020

https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/jacyk/project/visiting-scholarships/

Call for Papers: Visions of Sustainability, Universität Siegen, 11.03.2021 - 12.03.2021, Deadline 16.03.2020

“Sustainability” is an omnipresent concept in recent media debates, economic and political plans, infrastructural as well as scientific endeavors. This workshop will deal with how discourses on sustainability emerged and transformed in the modern period: in what ways have these discourses been employed and how did they change as they “travelled” across disciplinary and geographical boundaries? How did utopias and dystopias contribute to their construction? When is sustainability conceived as being part of the project of modernity, when is it conceived as opposing the very idea of modernity? Invented in 18th-century German forestry, “sustainability” has been appropriated, for instance, by economics and politics, e.g. with their idea of “sustainable development”, which has been questioned at its very foundations by the de-growth movements. The aim of this workshop is to gather different perspectives on the development of this concept over time, its changing meanings according to different disciplinary fields, languages and geographic regions, and its being socially and culturally constructed.

The theoretical approaches might range from conceptual history and discourse analysis, to actor-network-theory and science and technology studies. Disciplinary perspectives include cultural studies, cultural history, economic and social history, the history of architecture, literary studies and art history, the history of technology and infrastructure, the history of agriculture, media history and the history of science.
Possible research areas include:
Architecture and Planning: how is sustainability interpreted in the fields of design, planning, and architecture? Is it related to the use of specific materials, to energy sources, or to social and political ideas?
Infrastructure and Transport: how is sustainability interpreted in the fields of infrastructure and transport research, which involve also the areas of urban and economic planning? How is sustainability constructed through infrastructure networks? Are existing structures substantially maintained and redefined as “sustainable”, or are they thoroughly changed and transformed according to (different) concepts of sustainability? How do issues of sustainability and the interpretations thereof relate with (the study of) global movements of people and goods?
Literature and Visual Arts: how has sustainability been interpreted in the fields of literature and the visual arts? What utopian and dystopian visions have been related to the concept?
Politics and Economics: how has sustainability been interpreted in political and economic discourses? How has the concept been used and misused? How was it problematized, contested? How was it negotiated, transferred and adapted to new contexts? In what debates did it play a crucial role? How has “sustainable development” been invented, how has it been questioned and criticized? How does the de-growth movement stand with regard to “sustainability”?
Science and the Military: how has scientific research been shaped by sustainability issues and how did it on its turn shape the production of knowledge on sustainability, thus substantially contributing to its construction? In what ways was scientific research on topics related to sustainability entangled with military endeavors?
Forestry and Natural Resources: how did “sustainability” originate and transform in the field of forestry? Can natural resources be defined as the constant, although sometimes hidden, core of sustainability issues?
If you are interested in presenting and discussing your research on these and related topics, please send your abstract (max. 300 words, English or German) to laura.meneghello@uni-siegen.de by 16 March 2020.
The languages of the conference will be German and English.
Provided sufficient funding is available, travel and accommodation costs will be covered.

KONTAKT

Laura Meneghello

Universität Siegen
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57068 Siegen
+49 (0) 271-740 3047

Laura.Meneghello@geschichte.uni-siegen.de

Call for Papers: 15. Studientag Literatur und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 27.06.2020. Deadline 15.03.2020

Das Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie und die Friedrich-Schlegel-Graduiertenschule der Freien Universität Berlin laden in Kooperation mit dem Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte zu einem Blockseminar für NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen ein, die auf dem Gebiet Literature and Science arbeiten. Der Studientag Literatur und Wissenschaftsgeschichte findet am Samstag, den 27. Juni 2020 von 10:00 bis 19:00 Uhr im Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte statt.

Der Studientag bietet allen am Themenbereich Literatur und Wissenschaftsgeschichte Interessierten ein offenes Forum zur Diskussion eigener Texte. Es werden vorläufige Ergebnisse noch nicht abgeschlossener Arbeiten vorgestellt und kommentiert.

Damit möglichst intensiv diskutiert werden kann, werden die Beiträge (10–20 Seiten, deutsch oder englisch) vorab an alle verschickt, die sich zur Teilnahme angemeldet haben. Die Diskussion der Beiträge wird von einem Kommentar und einer Replik der Autorin/des Autors eingeleitet. Für jeden Beitrag wird etwa eine Stunde zur Verfügung stehen.

Wir bitten bei Interesse um Vorschläge für Beiträge zum 15. März 2020 mit einem Titel, einem kurzen Exposé (ca. eine Seite lang) und einer kurzen Angabe der institutionellen Anbindung. Nach der Zusammenstellung des Programms und der Verteilung der Kommentare müssen die Texte bis spätestens zum 12. Juni 2020 (als PDF-Datei) vorliegen, damit wir sie rechtzeitig verschicken können. Um Anmeldungen zur Teilnahme am Studientag bitten wir bis ebenfalls zum 12. Juni 2020.

Ein Raum für Kinderbetreuung kann gebucht werden; bitte informieren Sie uns über Ihren Bedarf gleich bei der Anmeldung.

Prof. Dr. Jutta Müller-Tamm, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Donatella Germanese, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin
Prof. Dr. Christina Brandt, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Kleeberg, Universität Erfurt
Dr. Johanna Bohley, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Dr. Jenny Willner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Dr. Hansjakob Ziemer, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin

Anmeldungen und Rückfragen bitte an Elisa Weinkötz (weinkoee94@zedat.fu-berlin.de)

Call for Papers: Launching the Atmospheric Humanities, THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE Hermoupolis, Syros Island, Greece 14-16 July 2020

The Atmospheric Humanities is a fast-emerging field of scholarship seeking to understand socio-cultural dimensions of atmospheric experience, knowledge and practice. Examining atmospheric agency in its historical and contemporary manifestations, atmospheric humanities explore the atmosphere as a site of diverse cultural appropriations of air’s modalities and their reproduction in practices of aerial and climatological citizenship. This foundational workshop aims to initiate and foster discussions on how atmospheric themes, memes, and objects emerge, spread and travel across artistic and academic communities. We especially welcome contributions from scholars whose work spans disciplines, including, but not limited to, literary and media studies, history of science, environmental history, aesthetics, visual arts, architecture, phenomenology, and social sciences.

Key themes:

• The changing representation(s) of the atmosphere in art and popular media, both contemporary and historical.
• Interfaces and interactions between scientific understanding(s) of the atmosphere and other ways of knowing or experiencing the atmosphere (e.g. political, indigenous, religious, philosophical, aesthetic).
• Explorations of space and scale in relation to human understanding of the atmosphere and related concepts such as weather and climate.
• The material culture of the atmosphere, including technologies used to measure, assess, represent and manipulate the atmosphere.

The workshop is organized by the International Commission of Science and Literature and the International Commission on History of Meteorology. The Commissions will provide a limited travel support to early career scholars, who should send their application letter, presentation abstract and CV to Dr Alexander Hall at a.f.hall@bham.ac.uk and George N. Vlahakis at gvlahakis@yahoo.com

Organizing committee: Vladimir Jankovic (University of Manchester), George N. Vlahakis (Hellenic Open University), Madalina Diaconu (University of Vienna), Alexander Hall (University of Birmingham), James R. Fleming (Colby College), John Holmes (University of Birmingham), and Kostas Tampakis (National Hellenic Research Foundation).

Please send your abstract before 20 FEBRUARY 2020 to Vladimir Jankovic at vladimir.jankovic@manchester.ac.uk and George Vlahakis at gvlahakis@yahoo.com

The workshop is supported by DHST/IUHPST, National Hellenic Research Foundation and the Hellenic Open University.

CFP (with extended deadline): The PIASA/PSA Polish Studies conference, Chicago, June 12-14, 2020

Please note that the deadline has been extended to February 15.

The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America (PIASA) and the Polish Studies Association (PSA) are pleased to invite proposals for a joint conference to be held at the University of Illinois at Chicago, June 12-14, 2020.

Proposals are solicited for complete sessions or individual papers in any of the disciplines in the liberal arts, sciences, or business/economics. The general theme of the conference is “Migrations,” for which Chicago, the destination of generations of Polish and other migrants from East-Central Europe, is a most appropriate setting. Therefore, we particularly welcome panel and paper proposals which discuss the determinants, processes, and outcomes of human migration in all of its manifestations and from various disciplinary perspectives, including the migration of ideas and material culture. However, papers do not necessarily have to address the conference theme. Since we value comparative sessions that place the Polish and East Central European experience in context, papers need not focus specifically on Poland or the Polish diaspora but could revolve around a central theme of a panel. Similarly, sessions including presenters from more than one country are encouraged.

Each session is scheduled for 90 minutes to accommodate three papers or about 20 minutes per paper, with suitable time left for discussion. The conference language is English. All conference rooms will be equipped with AV for PowerPoint presentations. Presenters are invited to submit their conference papers to be considered for possible publication in The Polish Review subsequent to the conference.

To submit a paper or complete session, please send the name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation, tentative paper title and brief one-paragraph abstract for each presenter to program chair Patrice Dabrowski at pmdabrow[at]fas.harvard.edu. The revised deadline for proposals is February 15, though earlier submissions are welcome since capacity is limited. All participants are expected to pay the conference registration fee of $80, discounted to $40 for graduate students.

The conference banquet will be held on June 13 at the Tuscany restaurant on 1014 West Taylor, Chicago IL 60607. The speaker will be Professor Dariusz Stola of the Polish Academy of Sciences, author of the award-winning book Kraj bez wyjścia? (A Country with No Way Out?) about migrations from Poland during the communist era.

A pre-conference tour featuring Polish historical and cultural sites in Chicago will be offered on June 11 and guided by Professor Dominic Pacyga, acclaimed author of American Warsaw: Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Polish Chicago (2019). Professor Pacyga will also serve as the conference keynote speaker.

Journals: Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal, No 6 (2019): The Ukrainian Intellectual Heritage in a Global Context (OPEN ACCESS)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Volodymyr Morenets, A Word of Welcome From the Editor-in-Chief PDF v-vi

ARTICLES

Myroslav Shkandrij, The Ukrainian “Galicia” Division: From Familiar to Unexplored Avenues of Research PDF 1-23

Leonid Mohylnyi, Pro-Ukrainian Students at the Kyiv Theological Academy From the 1890s to 1907 PDF 25-41

Maryna Tkachuk, Handwritten Candidate Works of Kyiv Theological Academy Students as Sources for Studying the Academy’s Philosophical Heritage PDF 43-67

Tina Peresunko, 100 Years of Ukraine’s Cultural Diplomacy: The European Mission of the Ukrainian Republican Capella (1919–1921) PDF 69-89

Olha Poliukhovych, Heather Fielding, From Old World Syndrome to History: Understanding the Past in Askold Melnyczuk’s Ambassador of the Dead PDF 91-113

Anastasia Melnik, Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva, Hryhorii Poletyka’s Introduction of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Educational Methods in the Russian Empire PDF 115-126

Vitalii Shcherbak, The Logic of Imperial Rule PDF 127-136

Nelia Romaniuk, Art Nouveau Ukrainian Architecture in a Global Context PDF 137-148

Petro Zakharchenko, Ivanna Matseliukh, Oleksandr Lototskyi and Ukrainian Autocephaly PDF 149-160

Olha Bihun, The Reconstruction of Christian Theodicy in Taras Shevchenko’s Poetry PDF 161-176

Khrystyna Semeryn, The Poetry of Bohdan-Ihor Antonych and Zuzanna Ginczanka in the Context of European Modernism PDF177-190

REFLECTIONS

Alla Kurzenkova, Memory Set in Stone: Another Look at the Berezan Runic Inscription PDF 191-201

Olena Zhukova, Historically Informed Performance in Today’s Ukrainian Culture PDF 203-207

DISCUSSIONS

Taras Kuzio, Ideological Zealots Fighting a Non-Existent Ukrainian Nationalist Enemy: A Reply to Tarik Amar’s Review of Red Famine PDF 209-216

REVIEWS

Giovanna Brogi, Horace in the Kyiv Mohylanian Poetics (17th – First Half of the 18th Centuries). Poetic Theory, Metrics, Lyric Poetry by Giovanna Siedina PDF 217-221

Roman Lozynskyi, Along Ukraine’s River: A Social and Environmental History of the Dnipro by Roman Adrian Cybriwsky PDF 223-226

Mariia Shuvalova, Chernobyl: The History of the Nuclear Catastrophe by Plokhy Serhii PDF 227-230

Olha Maksymchuk, Ukraine’s Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011 by Maria G. Rewakowicz PDF 231-233

Olena Chemodanova, Political Orthodoxies: The Unorthodoxies of the Church Coerced by Cyril Hovorun PDF 235-238

Publications: THEORY OF ORGANIC BEINGS / JĘDRZEJ ŚNIADECKI (orig 1838)

THEORY OF ORGANIC BEINGS / JĘDRZEJ ŚNIADECKI; TRANSLATED FROM POLISH BY KRZYSZTOF MAZUREK, SCIENTIFIC EDITOR JAN SURMAN. T. 1–3. VILNIUS : PETRO OFSETAS, 2018. 600 P. ISBN 978-609-420-617-7

For everyone who is interested in the history of chemistry: for the 250th anniversary of Jędrzej Śniadecki, Vilnius colleagues published an English translation of his textbook for what became organic chemistry, Teorya jestestw organicznych (1838), as Theory of Organic Beings (Vilnius 2018), with introductions by Birutė Railienė/ Rimvydas Baranauskas and by Jan Golinski. It can be read in open access here: https://andrewsniadecki.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Theory-of-Organic-Beings-1.pdf

More info: https://andrewsniadecki.org/en/books/