De Gruyter, in partnership with our publishing partners, is opening up a curated collection of titles pertaining to Ukraine and Russia

 De Gruyter, in partnership with our publishing partners, is opening up a curated collection of titles pertaining to Ukraine and Russia. As a publisher, we believe in disseminating knowledge and research to those who seek it in times of peril. True to our mission, we are offering free access to more than 115 eBooks and 13 journal articles in European History, International Relations, Law, Modern History, Political Science, Slavic Literature, and Sociology to ensure that everyone who is looking for background information on the region and the history of the conflict has the opportunity to educate themselves. We also invite you to peruse our titles within the following series: Imperial Encounters in Russian History; NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Russian Research Center Studies; and Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies.

URL: https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/ukrainianstudies .

Journal of the Institute of Croatian History, Vol. 53 No. 3, 2021, on history of knowledge in circulation (open access, English and Croatian)

 Journal of the Institute of Croatian History, Vol. 53 No. 3, 2021, on history of knowledge in circulation (open access, English and Croatian)

URL: https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/broj/21560 .

Poseban broj Proizvodnja i cirkulacija znanja 

Special Issue Production and Circulation of Knowledge 

Vlasta Švoger i Željko Dugac Uvod gostujućih urednika Proizvodnja i cirkulacija znanja na (polu-)periferiji u predmoderno i moderno doba......................................................................................................9 

Jan Surman Circulating Knowledge for the 21st Century: An Interview with Johan Östling // Cirkulacija znanja za 21. stoljeće: intervju s Johanom Östlingom...................15 

Željko Dugac i Branka Grbavac Srednjovjekovni rukopisni primjerak Avicenina medicinskog djela Cantica canticorum cum commento Averrois iz Metropolitanske knjižnice u Zagrebu // Medieval Manuscript Copy of Avicena’s Medical Work Cantica canticorum from Metropolitan Library in Zagreb ...............................................................29 

Zrinka Blažević Knowledge Production in Canones de medicina solidorum (1707) by Georgius Baglivi // Proizvodnja znanja u djelu Canones de medicina solidorum (1707) Đure Baglivija...................................................................................................67 

Gordan Ravančić Dubrovnik’s Invention of the Quarantine and the Transfer of Knowledge about the Spread of Epidemics // Dubrovački izum karantene i prijenos znanja o širenju epidemijskih bolesti.....81

Marijana Borić Marin Getaldić – preteča novovjekovnog pristupa istraživanju prirode // Marin Getaldić – The Forerunner of the Modern Approach to Nature Research............................................................................................................97 

Ivan Majnarić In obsidione Constantinopolitana … mortem oppetisse: Uses of the Past and Reconstruction of Social Knowledge. The Case of the Oršić Family // In obsidione Constantinopolitana… mortem oppetiisse – uporaba prošlosti i rekonstrukcija društvenog znanja: slučaj obitelji Oršić................................ 119

Vlasta Švoger The First Croatian Scientific Journal as a Site of Production and Circulation of Knowledge // Prvi hrvatski znanstveni časopis kao mjesto proizvodnje i cirkulacije znanja ............................................................................................135 

Zrinko Novosel Circulation of Knowledge about Natural Law in the Habsburg Monarchy: the Public Examinations of Zagreb Professors Vinko Kalafatić and Pavao Antun Marković // Cirkulacija prirodno-pravnog znanja u Habsburškoj Monarhiji: javni ispiti zagrebačkih profesora Vinka Kalafatića i Pavla Antuna Markovića .....153 

Tihana Luetić Regional Background of the Student Body at the Faculty of Law of the Francis Joseph I Royal University in Zagreb (1874-1918) and Student Circulation // Regionalno porijeklo studenata Pravnog Fakulteta Kr. sveučilišta Franje Josipa I. u Zagrebu (1874-1918) i studentska cirkulacija ...............................169

Marina Protrka Štimec From Genius to Bohemian. Authorship Figures at the Turn of the 20th Century // Od genija do boema – figure autorstva na prijelomu 20. stoljeća...................193 

Upute autorima i suradnicima Radova Zavoda za hrvatsku povijest..............207 

Author and Contributor Guidelines ................................................................211

Jagoda Wierzejska, Danuta Sosnowska, Magdalena Baran-Szołtys (eds.): Galicja. Niezakończony projekt [Galicia. A neverending project]. Libron: Kraków 2022. ISBN: 978-83-67209-03-8

 

Spis tresci: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PoWjcuK0qFm8in5RIn49GaMWoeOFisch/view?usp=sharing .

Książka zbiorowa o Galicji jest dziełem bardzo ciekawym, napisanym przez kompetentne badaczki i badaczy z kilku krajów, co wpłynęło na wielowymiarowość ujęcia i zachowanie równowagi pomiędzy różnymi punktami widzenia historycznych zdarzeń. W swej mozaikowej strukturze mieści też bardzo dużo wartościowego materiału, celnych spostrzeżeń i  błyskotliwych konkluzji.

Z recenzji prof. dr. hab. Jerzego Jarzębskiego

Galicja stawia nas przed wyzwaniem poznawczym i badawczym, bo, z jednej strony, jest znana i rozpoznana. Ma ogromną literaturę przedmiotu, a po uwolnieniu swobody pisania na jej temat po roku 1989 zaczęła — jako problemat — produkować kanoniczne ujęcia, a często zwykłe klisze. Z drugiej natomiast Galicja nadal pozostaje nierozpoznana, przede wszystkim w tym zakresie, który dotyczyłby konfrontowania różnych narodowych narracji — i tych z odległej przeszłości, i tych z czasów bliższych, na przykład z okresu międzywojnia. […] Galicja — ta istniejąca kiedyś w realności geopolitycznej i ta żyjąca do dziś w  tradycji kulturowej — stanowi nadal otwarte pole badawcze.

Ze Wstępu Danuty Sosnowskiej i Jagody Wierzejskiej

HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD SUMMER SCHOOL, Veliko Tarnovo, 18–22 July 2022, deadline 29 April 2022

We are starting something new and very special.

Join us in Veliko Tarnovo, this summer, between 18–22 July 2022 for the Pilot Edition of the HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD SUMMER SCHOOL

Deadline for submitting an application: 29 April 2022.

There is no registration fee.

Full schedule: https://www.uni-vt.bg/res/14892/SSHistMedSci_Final_Program.pdf

Please address your informal inquiries and your application materials to Dr Divna Manolova at dvmanolova@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.

Summer School Philosophy and Vision

The School studies the wider medieval world of Afro-Eurasia and aims to shed light on Byzantium and the Slavonic world, and their intellectual heritage as agents in the development of medieval science, which, though significant, nevertheless remain largely unknown to the scholarly community. Even though current scholarship is focused on the so-called ‘Global Medieval’, the medieval Slavonic, Byzantine and Black Sea regions remain a blind spot for both the researchers and the general public outside of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Thus, the School aims at positioning Byzantium and the Slavonic world on the map of history of medieval science, thus offering the participants the rare opportunity to get acquainted with their respective heritage.

In its pilot edition, the Summer School will problematize the medieval manuscript and approach it as a space and as a territory. Building upon this conceptual premise, the School will also introduce students to the medieval epistemic fields (sciences) which study the natural world (the kosmos) as a space, namely geography, cosmography and astronomy. Students will acquire fundamental knowledge concerning the place and role of the sciences in the intellectual world of the Middle Ages. They will also develop an understanding of premodern science as a spectrum of disciplines wider than the late antique framework of the four mathematical sciences (arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy) and inclusive of all epistemic domains dedicated to the intellectual exploration of the natural world (the kosmos) and of humanity. The School relies on a discussion-based and experiential / experimental format. That is, the School includes workshops, which will guide the students into the use of medieval instruments and maps as preserved in the surviving manuscripts.

The common discussion language of the School will be English.

If the participants know a medieval scholarly language (for this pilot edition: Latin, Greek and/or Old Church Slavonic, but in the future also Persian, Arabic, Chinese, Classical Armenian, and so forth), this would be an advantage, but it is not an essential requirement for participation.

During the selection process, preference will be given to MA and PhD students, but researchers with interest in the Middle Ages and / or History of Science can also apply.

Available places: The School offers twelve places for in-person participants wishing to attend both the morning (lectures) and afternoon (workshops) sessions.

There is no limit for the number of online participants, but their registration is restricted solely to the morning sessions.

We cannot offer any financial support to cover travel and accommodation expenses.

There is no registration fee.

In order to apply, please send a short bio and description of what motivates your application (maximum one page altogether). Please indicate in your application whether you would like to attend the Summer School in person or online.

Call for papers: Roles of mathematics in education. 8-10 June 2022, Brno

 Since the late 19th century, mathematics as a research discipline functioned as the best model for correct reasoning in the sciences. Since then, mathematization of not only natural, but also social sciences, especially sociology and psychology, served as a way of making these disciplines more scientific, thus contributing to the credibility of the conclusions of the researchers. During the 20th century, mathematics became an integral and undisputed part of (European) education, even if in the first half of 20th century, it was usually called calculations and measurements. Including mathematics in general education became so natural that nowadays, mathematics teachers do not ask themselves the question why teach mathematics at all. It is generally accepted that mathematics lessons train the logical thinking of the pupils and success in mathematics at primary and lower secondary school is often taken as a sign of ability to succeed in academic career. Mathematics has thus partially taken over the role of Latin and Greek classes.

After the so-called Velvet Revolution of 1989, one of the first major changes in mathematics education in Czechoslovakia was abolishing the compulsory exam in mathematics that those who wanted to enter the university had to take. It was a part of "Matura" or "A-levels", and this change resulted in turning the view on mathematics classes at secondary schools from that of a "necessary evil" to an "unnecessary evil". The efforts to re-introduce the compulsory exam in mathematics, led by the community of mathematicians and mathematics teachers have repeatedly failed, thus implicitly questioning the status of mathematics as a compulsory subject at upper secondary schools.

Looking into the history of mathematics in education may help our understanding why mathematics is included in the curricula. Why and when did educators suggest or agree with including mathematics among compulsory subjects? Why and when did professional mathematicians enter the decision-making process as to what parts of mathematics should be taught in upper secondary, lower secondary, and eventually even primary school?

We welcome proposals for papers on

· mathematics education and its place in general education, especially, although not exclusively, focusing on the Modern Era;

· the role of mathematicians in the negotiations as to what mathematics should be taught;

· embracing or refusal of mathematics education (in general or partially) by pedagogues who are not mathematics teachers;

· views held by the general public about the usefulness (or lack thereof) of mathematics education;

· and also other topics relevant to the conference topic.

Please, submit your proposals through EasyChair until 30 April 2022.

Acceptance notification: by 10 May 2022.

Catherine Gibson: Geographies of Nationhood: Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press 2022. ISBN: 9780192844323

 

Offers a new and refined explanation of the history of ethnographic cartography

Traces the geographical imagination of national territories in the Baltic

Provides the first social history of mapmaking in imperial Russia focusing on non-elites and provincial map production

Uses extensive multi-archival research and features over fifty maps

Geographies of Nationhood examines the meteoric rise of ethnographic mapmaking in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a form of visual and material culture that gave expression to territorialised visions of nationhood. In the Russian Empire's Baltic provinces, the development of ethnographic cartography, as part of the broader field of statistical data visualisation, progressively became a tool that lent legitimacy and an experiential dimension to nationalist arguments, as well as a wide range of alternative spatial configurations that rendered the inhabitants of the Baltic as part of local, imperial, and global geographies. Catherine Gibson argues that map production and the spread of cartographic literacy as a mass phenomenon in Baltic society transformed how people made sense of linguistic, ethnic, and religious similarities and differences by imbuing them with an alleged scientific objectivity that was later used to determine the political structuring of the Baltic region and beyond. Geographies of Nationhood treads new ground by expanding the focus beyond elites to include a diverse range of mapmakers, such as local bureaucrats, commercial enterprises, clergymen, family members, teachers, and landowners. It shifts the focus from imperial learned and military institutions to examine the proliferation of mapmaking across diverse sites in the Empire, including the provincial administration, local learned societies, private homes, and schools. Understanding ethnographic maps in the social context of their production, circulation, consumption, and reception is crucial for assessing their impact as powerful shapers of popular geographical conceptions of nationhood, state-building, and border-drawing.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Networks of Cartographic Influence, Patronage, and Reception

2. Provincial Map Production and the Rise of Cartographic Entrepreneurship

3. The Baltic Question in Cartographic Imagination

4. Mapping Latvians in Local and Global Perspectives

5. Post-War Ethnic Boundary Mapping from Above and Below

Epilogue: Afterlives of Maps

Catherine Gibson, Research Fellow, School of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Tartu

Catherine Gibson is a historian of modern Eastern Europe and the Russian Empire. She is currently a Research Fellow in the School of Theology & Religious Studies at the University of Tartu. She received her PhD from the European University Institute in 2019. She is co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Borders, and Identities and her research has appeared in the journals Past & Present, Journal of Social History, Journal of History Geography, and Nationalities Papers.

CALL FOR PAPERS Chernobyl as a Historical Caesura: Environment, Politics, and Science University of Naples Federico II 9-10 December 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS

Chernobyl as a Historical Caesura: Environment, Politics, and Science

University of Naples Federico II

9-10 December 2022

The Departments of Social Sciences and of Humanities of the University of Naples Federico II, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and the Department of History of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy are pleased to announce an open call for papers for the conference Chernobyl as a Historical Caesura: Environment, Politics, and Science to be held in Naples on 9-10 December 2022.

Over the last ten years, scholars have devoted an increased attention to the study of the role the Chernobyl (Ukr. Chornobyl’) disaster played from a political, social, cultural, and environmental point of view. In her seminal book A Manual for Survival, Kate Brown defined the incident and its aftermath as an unprecedented episode in human history with long-term consequences that are not yet fully evident even today. Starting with this insight, our conference aims at analyzing the Chernobyl disaster as a turning point in the late twentieth century not only for political and environmental history, but also for medicine and international cooperation, and for the human perception of nature and science. For our conference we seek papers that can speak (but are not limited) to the following questions:

The ways in which the Chernobyl disaster reshaped political debates locally, nationally, and internationally

The impact it had on political regimes (including the Soviet Union) and on the emergence of environmental and eco-nationalist movements and parties.

The consequences this accident had on debates about science and technology, as well as on debates about risk, health, and hazards.

The ways in which it shaped debates about energy and environmental policies at a local, national, and international level.

The effects the Chernobyl events had on scientists’ political and civic engagement in the context of the late Cold War, and on their research concerning environmental issues and renewable forms of energy.

The social and political consequences the Chernobyl calamity had on local populations and civil societies, in Ukraine and around the world.

How the Chernobyl disaster is remembered locally, regionally, and internationally and how it shaped individual and collective perceptions of nature and science as much in artistic expressions as in popular culture.

The ways in which the incident contributed to the emergence of a global environmental awareness and the need for international research, activity, and cooperation.

Please send a paper proposal of no more than 500 words, along with a 1-page CV, to Simone Attilio Bellezza (sabellezza@gmail.com) and Elisabetta Bini (elisabetta.bini@unina.it) by May 15, 2022. The program committee will notify applicants by June 25, 2022.

The conference language will be English. A selection of the papers will be published in an edited volume / special journal issue. Travel expenses will be covered and accommodation will be provided.

Scientific committee:

Simone Attilio Bellezza (University of Naples Federico II)

Elisabetta Bini (University of Naples Federico II)

Gabriella Corona (ISMED-CNR)

Christof Mauch (Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Serhii Plokhy (Harvard University)

Natalia Shlikhta (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)

The conference is part of the National Research Project (PRIN 2017) Inventing the Global Environment: Science, Politics, Advocacy and the Environment-Development Nexus in the Cold War and Beyond.