International Online Conference, “100th Anniversary of Ukrainian Formalism”, 28-30 April 2022

 

In the 1920s, the “technique of the craft of writing” became one of the main tools for the modernization of Ukrainian national art and literature. This partly explains the tremendous interest of Ukrainian critics, literary historians, and theorists in Formal theory. The “Formal method,” along with the “Marxist method,” were the two main competing approaches to literary analysis in the 1920s. In 1922, the Ukrainian critic Volodymyr Koryak published the article titled “Form and Content” which provoked a subsequent polemics around the problem of the dialectics of “form” and “content.” This was the first significant discussion in Ukrainian literary criticism in the 1920s, and it marked the starting point of the phenomenon which is often called the “Ukrainian formalism.”

The aim of our conference is to examine Ukrainian formalism and to address its legacy in contemporary Ukrainian literary studies. At the same time, the problem of “Ukrainian formalism” also ought to be considered in the wider framework of the development of Formal theory in other East European countries between World War I and World War II (the Polish and Czechoslovak cases). This could help us distinguish the specific national features in the theoretical perspectives and in ways of cultural thinking.

See here for the program and zoom details: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tSiKarUStqfs0i7pF0mnj_yp2UujpYhG/view?usp=sharing .

virtual roundtable on Dr Catherine Gibson's book 'Geographies of Nationhood: Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic' (OUP, 2022).

 On Thursday 12th May at 16:00-17:30 UK time, Durham University is hosting a virtual roundtable to mark the publication of Dr Catherine Gibson's book 'Geographies of Nationhood: Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic' (OUP, 2022).

Dr Gibson (University of Tartu) will provide an overview of her book with responses from Dr Katja Wezel (University of Göttingen), Dr James Koranyi (Durham University), and Professor Steven Seegel (University of Texas at Austin).

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdkL7Yz1lVO2yQzJH7-Ck31c9ke9kmq3PLR7WusE6Km8kEqVw/viewform .

Cahiers du monde Russe 63/1 | 2022, Les vies de la science sous le socialisme tardif, 1945-1991, The lives of late Soviet science, 1945-1991

 Cahiers du monde Russe 63/1 | 2022, Les vies de la science sous le socialisme tardif, 1945-1991, The lives of late Soviet science, 1945-1991, Sous la direction de Grégory Dufaud et Ksenia Tatarchenko & Forum. Les statistiques de la Terreur / The statistics of Terror, Sous la direction de Alessandro Stanziani

URL: https://journals.openedition.org/monderusse/13050 .

online event: Fabian Lüscher “Nuclear Ambiguities: Insights from the History of Science and an NGO Perspective”

 The  Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies (STGS) at FAU  Erlangen-Nürnberg, headed by Prof. Maria Rentetzi, invites you to  participate in its next guest lecture (online):

Dr. Fabian Lüscher

“Nuclear Ambiguities: Insights from the History of Science and an NGO Perspective” 

April 28, 2022, 18:00 (CEST)

Using  nuclear energy has always been ambiguous. This technology was one of  the defining aspects of the Cold War and remains crucial to political  decision making until today – from science to warfare, from energy  politics to geopolitics. In his talk, Dr. Lüscher will reflect on  nuclear internationalism in the Soviet Union and make the case for an  integrated nuclear history. In particular, he will shed light on the  role of experts, who displayed at least a dual loyalty: towards the  science-enabling state and towards an international scientific community  that appealed to universal values. In the second part of his  presentation, he will provide an NGO perspective on these nuclear  ambiguities, focusing on recent nuclear policy developments and debates.  What are the lessons nuclear history teaches us for the future of  atomic energy use?

Fabian  Lüscher was a member of the research project “Nuclear Technopolitics in  the Soviet Union” (DFG/SNF 2017–20) and is now head of the nuclear  energy department at the Swiss Energy Foundation (SES) in Zürich.

To join via Zoom please register here: https://tinyurl.com/2p882aet.

Call for papers: Histories of Race Graduate Workshop

 

The Histories of Race Graduate Workshop is a bi-weekly forum for the exploration of the impact of race and the construction of race and racial hierarchies across regional and temporal boundaries.

Complementing the wonderful array of workshops within the Faculty of History, this workshop endeavours to bring together a rich community of scholars working on questions related to race, ethnicity, and the process of racialisation. It grants us the opportunity to hear exciting research by generous scholars willing to share their work with us. It allows us to collectively think with and think through the work presented as well as granting the presenter the chance to gain valuable feedback on their work.

We provide a platform for scholars at various points of their career- be they MPhils, PhD students or early career researchers.The goal of this workshop is to provide an environment for the interchange of ideas and a forum for discussion on the theme of race.

It aims to:

provide a platform for scholars at Cambridge and selected academics outside of the institution to present papers on race, broadly defined.

disrupt the “national” by welcoming proposals which explore the impact of race and the construction of race and racial hierarchies across geographical and chronological boundaries.

breakdown boundaries between disciplines and sub-fields; the theoretical and the empirical; and the transnational, national and the local.

We welcome papers from MPhils, PhD students, and early career researchers across disciplines. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary scholarship. The papers should be approximately 35-40 minutes long. Each paper is followed by questions, feedback and discussion. If you are interested in presenting, please send a title, an abstract of approximately 250 words and a brief bio.

The workshop meets on Wednesdays at 5PM via Zoom. To be added to the mailing list, please contact Yasmin Dualeh (yd293@cam.ac.uk), Jasmin Bath (jtb43@cam.ac.uk) and Shuvatri Dasgupta (sd781@cam.ac.uk).

Maria Ciesielska: The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto. Translated by: Agata Krzychylkiewicz, Edited by: Tali Nates, Jeanette Friedman and Luc Albinski, Preface by: Michael Berenbaum. Academic Studies Press 2022. ISBN: 9781644697276

Maria Ciesielska: The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto. Translated by: Agata Krzychylkiewicz, Edited by: Tali Nates, Jeanette Friedman and Luc Albinski, Preface by: Michael Berenbaum. Academic Studies Press 2022. ISBN: 9781644697276

ABOUT THIS BOOK

An in-depth study based on personal narratives, diaries, and scientific research that engagingly captures history of doctors who performed their work in the Warsaw ghetto.

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Ciesielska Maria:

Maria Ciesielska, MD, PhD, is head of the UNESCO Unit at the Faculty of Medicine at the University in Haifa and a renowned specialist in the history of medicine.NatesTali:

Tali Nates, founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (a member of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation), is a historian who has lectured internationally on Holocaust education, genocide prevention, reconciliation and human rights.AlbinskiLuc:

Luc Albinski is the co-founder of Vantage Capital’s mezzanine business which offers long-term, growth capital to mid-size businesses across Africa. Brought up in a Polish-Catholic home, Luc learnt about his Jewish origins in his early twenties. His interest in Holocaust and genocide history springs from his personal story as a son of a Holocaust survivor as well as from his on-the-ground involvement with a non-profit during the Bosnian conflict.Maria Ciesielska, MD, PhD, is head of the UNESCO Unit at the Faculty of Medicine at the University in Haifa and a renowned specialist in the history of medicine.

REVIEWS

“The Warsaw Ghetto is one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, ending with the Great Deportation to Treblinka’s gas chambers; at the same time, the Ghetto offers an empowering story of a new and resourceful system of medical care which was a form of sustained resistance to the Nazi occupation. Maria Ciesielska tells this story vividly: she offers many new insights into the Jewish physicians and nurses confined to the Ghetto. It is a narrative of hope in efforts to create a new system of healthcare, and of dark violence from the Nazi authorities in their determination to destroy the Ghetto. The culmination is the heroic resistance of the Ghetto Uprising. We are offered a vivid and authoritative narrative with many new and often touching insights in the efforts to overcome epidemics and starvation. Dr. Ciesielska has created a lucidly written and inspiring book.”

—Paul Weindling, Research Professor in the History of Medicine,Oxford Brookes University

“This remarkable book depicts the heroic efforts which the Warsaw Ghetto doctors deployed to protect the inhabitants from epidemics and treat them if they were sick. Weakened by starvation, overcrowding, catastrophic hygienic conditions and diseases, most Ghetto residents did not survive. Many also perished in death camps. The Ghetto medical community was also almost completely wiped out. The author studied accounts by surviving physicians and provides a chronological history of the Ghetto medical organization, interspersed with portraits of Ghetto doctors. The book offers many examples of doctors’ altruism and self-sacrifice. Their exact number is unknown, but Dr. Ciesielska lists the names of over 700 of them. Their tragic and often heroic stories will now be available to English readers, both in the medical community and in the general population interested in the history of the Warsaw Ghetto.”

—Claude Romney, Professor Emerita, University of Calgary

“Dr. Maria Ciesielska’s account of the Jewish doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto adds an important dimension to the existing material, but this is not just another historical account. Dr Ciesielska’s meticulous, detailed, and comprehensive use of many personal memoirs and testimonies to document their lives, and their deaths, provides a special lens through we which we can learn and understand more about the personal stories of those doctors, nurses, and pharmacists who worked and lived under those dire and extreme circumstances in the Ghetto. Through her unique way of storytelling, Dr. Ciesielska provides us with a humanistic glimpse into the complexities of the daily lives of these Jewish victims, and the ethical and moral complexities that they faced as healthcare professionals. This is a work of devotion to the memory of these individuals.”

—Dr. Tessa Chelouche, M.D.

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 .