Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, 2024, Issue 1 is online

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, 2024, Issue 1 is online. open access, Polish with English abstracts. Open access: https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/kwartalnik-historii-nauki-i-techniki/numer/issue-1-84 .

Spis treści 

ARTYKUŁY 

Andrzej Cichy, Zbigniew Tucholski, Leśniczówka Kaczew (Szwedówka) – dawny dwór myśliwski Radziwiłłów oraz rys historyczny leśnictwa dóbr nieborowskich . . . . . .9 

Piotr Daszkiewicz, Marcin Jan Kamiński, Dariusz Iwan, Steller’s Sea Cow – Benedykt Dybowski’s Little-Known Contributions to European Zoological Museography. . . . . . .67 

Hubert Wilk, Samochód dla Kowalskiego. Polaków drogi do masowej motoryzacji i codzienność motoryzacyjna w okresie 1971–1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77 

KOMUNIKATY I MATERIAŁY 

Iwona Arabas, Mineralogiczna kolekcja w Gabinecie Historii Naturalnej księżnej Anny z Sapiehów Jabłonowskiej . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109 

Monika Paś, Kilka słów o parze ochronnych okularów w zbiorach Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

BIOGRAFIE

Joanna Schiller-Walicka, Andrzeja Walickiego biografi a intelektualna. Ostatnie dziesięciolecie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153 

KRONIKA Elżbieta Orman, Résumé z konferencji „Od informacji do inspiracji. Słowniki biografi czne uczonych i studentów w nauce i historiografi i”, Polska Akademia Umiejętności w Krakowie, 17–18 maja 2023 r. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187 

Karolina Karpińska, Jan Koroński, Profesor Krzysztof Maślanka – profesor emeritus IHN PAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193 

Joanna Zwierzyńska, Sprawozdanie z międzynarodowych warsztatów „Felix Klein’s Foreign Students: Opening up the Way for Transnational Mathematics” w Oberwolfach (15–20 października 2023 r.). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197 

Paulina Żelazko, Jubileusz 90. urodzin prof. Andrzeja Kajetana Wróblewskiego na posiedzeniu Rady Naukowej IHN PAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201 

Karolina Piszczałka, Sprawozdanie z warsztatów „Neue Forschungen zu Klöstern und Orden im Ostseeraum”, Bordesholm, 2–3 listopada 2023 r. . . . . . . .203 

LISTY DO REDAKCJI 

Jolanta Żyndul, Wyjaśnienie w sprawie edycji dziennika Bronisława Piłsudskiego wydanej przez Narodowy Instytut Polskiego Dziedzictwa Kulturowego za Granicą POLONIKA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209

online event: Ticks, Viruses, and Soviet Medical Biology

online event: Ticks, Viruses, and Soviet Medical Biology: Revisiting the Narrative, May 21, 16:00 CET / 10:00 EDT, 

Presenter: Anna Mazanik (Max Weber Foundation and the University of Munich)

Discussant: Ann Kelly (King's College London; Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study)

Organizer & chair: Anastasia Fedotova (Institute for the History of Science and Technology, St. Petersburg)

Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cNNAvSsEnNfo2eVSAlTrmwwQfA0G75I56jywK8Mgvng/viewform .

The presentation focuses on the history of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), a potentially deadly infection of the brain endemic in non-tropical Eurasian forests. The disease, the virus and the vector were first identified in 1937 in the Soviet Far East by the expedition of Lev Zilber. As TBE was the first big discovery of Soviet virology and the first major viral tick-borne infection to be identified globally, it attracted huge state and international attention and resources to that still relatively new discipline; it propelled the careers of many scientists and laid the paths for international cooperation that would shape the field for decades to come. At the same time, largely on the basis of TBE research, parasitologist Evgeny Pavlovsky developed his famous natural nidality theory of infectious disease that became an important framework of Soviet public health and today is viewed as one of the precursors of the One Health agenda, which integrates the study of human and animal health and the environment.

The story of the Soviet TBE expeditions is well known but, as I will show in my presentation, that story was in fact misrepresented in the scientific literature and obscured by Soviet (self-)censorship. I will argue that understanding the early history of TBE is impossible without acknowledging the distinct socio-political circumstances of the Stalinist colonization of the Far East, based on the involuntary resettlement and forced labor, and the specific disease ecologies they produced—the factors that had not only historical and ethical relevance but also empirical and theoretical implications. In my talk, I will discuss how those expeditions fit into the broader Soviet scientific, environmental, and socio-political context and what it means for the interpretation of Soviet research and the history of TBE.

Anna Mazanik is a research fellow at the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe and an academic coordinator of the research project “Russia’s North Pacific” at the Max Weber Foundation and the University of Munich. She is a medical and environmental historian of Russia. Her first book studied public health and environment in imperial Moscow. At the moment she is working on the new book “Nature’s Infections: Disease, Environment and Soviet Medicine in the Pacific Borderlands” which studies tick-borne encephalitis and Japanese encephalitis in the Soviet Far East, Manchuria and North Korea.

Ann H. Kelly is Professor of Anthropology and Global Health at King's College London. Her ethnographic work focuses on the socio-material conditions that structure the production of global health knowledge, and the local ecologies of labour that circumscribe its circulation and use. She explores these themes in a forthcoming book with Duke University Press on pasts and futures of mosquito control, with Javier Lezaun. She serves as a member of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) for Ebola Vaccines and Vaccination and as currently a Fellow at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study for the year.

Miller, Michael L. and Szapor, Judith. Quotas: The 'Jewish Question' and Higher Education in Central Europe, 1880-1945

Miller, Michael L. and Szapor, Judith. Quotas: The 'Jewish Question' and Higher Education in Central Europe, 1880-1945, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781805395294

ABOUT THIS BOOK

In 1920, the Hungarian parliament introduced a Jewish quota for university admissions, making Hungary the first country in Europe to pass antisemitic legislation following World War I. Quotas explores the ideologies and practices of quota regimes and the ways quotas have been justified, implemented, challenged, and remembered from the late nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century. In particular, the volume focuses on Central and Eastern Europe, with chapters covering the origins of quotas, the moral, legal, and political arguments developed by their supporters and opponents, and the social and personal impact of these attempts to limit access to higher education.

AUTHOR / EDITOR INFORMATION

Michael L. Miller is head of the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University in Vienna, Austria. He is the author of Rabbis and Revolution: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation (2011) and other works on Habsburg and Habsburg-Jewish history. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled “Manovill: A Tale of Two Hungarys.”

Judith Szapor is associate professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her latest monograph, Hungarian Women’s Activism in the Wake of the First World War: From Rights to Revanche was published in 2018. In her current project, she explores the intended and unintended impact of the numerus clausus on Hungarian Jewish women and families.

Michael L. Miller is head of the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University in Vienna, Austria. He is the author of Rabbis and Revolution: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation (2011) and other works on Habsburg and Habsburg-Jewish history. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled “Manovill: A Tale of Two Hungarys.”

Historia Medicinae Slovaca VIII (2023).

 Historia Medicinae Slovaca VIII (2023). Teoretické koncepty  a prax medicíny v dejinách [Theoretical concepts and the practice of medicine in history]. Editori: Matej Gogola, Adam Mesiarkin. Bratislava 2023

open access: https://www.fmed.uniba.sk/fileadmin/lf/sucasti/Teoreticke_ustavy/Ustav_socialneho_lekarstva_a_lekarskej_etiky/historia/Historia_Medicinae_Slovaca_VIII_n.pdf .

CfP: Displaced, Exiled: Thinking and Making Europe through the Experience of Exile and Displacement (20th–21st century)

 Displaced, Exiled: Thinking and Making Europe through the Experience of Exile and Displacement (20th–21st century)

Call for papers, deadline 15 June 2024

Clermont-Ferrand (France), 25-27 November 2024

The conference “Displaced, Exiled: Thinking and making Europe through the experience of exile and displacement” will explore the role of displaced and exiled populations in the construction of Europe, whether they came from European countries or other regions of the world. Taking a resolutely multi-disciplinary approach, it will especially focus on the period that began with the Spanish Civil War and the outbreak of the Second World War, although it will not exclude looking at earlier periods. The central question will be to examine how these populations conceived of and made Europe — how they contributed to its construction, or on the contrary to its failure.

Displaced, Exiled: Thinking and Making Europe through the Experience of Exile and Displacement (20th–21st century)

At the end of the Second World War, Europe faced the twofold challenge of restoring peace and rebuilding, as well as confronting the displacement and exile of millions of people as a result of the war and the Holocaust. In the ensuing decades, decolonization and the violent conflicts connected to it induced further movements that came on top of and intertwined with previous displacements, including those whom historian Andrea Smith has referred to as “invisible migrants”. Since then, Europe has never ceased to be “on the move”, to use the phrase coined by sociologist Eugen Kulischer, himself a Jewish refugee of Russian origin who arrived in the United States in 1941. This also brings to mind the boat people of the 1970s, those displaced by the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s, and more recently Ukrainian refugees. Europe continues to be confronted with population displacements in the twenty-first century, contending with a major challenge over the last decade: in 2015 alone, one million people crossed the Mediterranean on their way to what Aleida Assmann has called the “European dream”.

The conference “Displaced, Exiled: Thinking and making Europe through the experience of exile and displacement”, to be held in Clermont-Ferrand from 25-27 November 2024, will explore the role of displaced and exiled populations in the construction of Europe, whether they came from European countries or other regions of the world. Taking a resolutely multi-disciplinary approach, the conference will especially focus on the period that began with the Spanish Civil War and the outbreak of the Second World War, although it will not exclude looking at earlier periods. The central question will be to examine how these actors conceived of and made Europe — how they contributed to its construction, or on the contrary to its failure. We will explore how these populations experienced European conflicts, violence, and control mechanisms, in other words the resources, uses, representations, and statements that have shaped this Europe on the move.

We notably seek to question not only what Europe is and wants to be, but also its transnational dynamic and ability to respect the norms and values it affirms, human rights in particular, as demonstrated by the recent pantheonization of Missak and Mélinée Manouchian in France. We thereby hope to confront Europe with its history and memory. The conference ties in with research that approaches Europe through the prism of its multiple movements, such as Eugen Kulischer's Europe on the Move, Klaus Bade's Europa in Bewegung, and more recently Aleida Assmann's Der Europäische Traum, in addition to Peter Gatrell's The Great Migration. Special emphasis will be given to three topics: spatial reconfigurations, the experience of regulatory frameworks, and representations of Europe in the face of exile and population displacement.

The conference is part of the commemorations held each year by the University of Clermont Auvergne to honour victims of the raid that occurred in Clermont-Ferrand on 25 November 1943. The topic of this year’s conference is highly symbolic, as it marks the 85th anniversary of the University of Strasbourg’s arrival in Clermont-Ferrand, as well as the 80th anniversary of the return of Strasbourg’s exiles from Clermont-Ferrand to Alsace.

Proposals for papers (maximum 500 words), accompanied by a brief CV (maximum 1 page), should be sent before 15 June 2024 to the following address:

colloque-exiles-deplaces.msh@uca.fr

Participants' travel and accommodation costs will be covered. The working languages of the conference will be French and English.

Scientific Committee:

Laura CALABRESE (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique), Dorota DAKOWSKA (Science Po, Aix en Provence), Corine DEFRANCE (CNRS, Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne), Karim FERTIKH (Science Po Strasbourg), Oscar FREÁN-HERNANÁNDEZ (Université de Lyon 2), Ségolène PLYER (Université de Strasbourg), Brian SHAEV (Leiden University), Lina VENTURAS (Panteion University, Athènes)

Contact

colloque-exiles-deplaces.msh@uca.fr

Journal of the Russian National Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

 Журнал Российского национального комитета по истории и философии науки и техники - Journal of the Russian National Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

ТОМ 1, №1, ТОМ 2, №1: HTTPS://RNCHPST.RU/JOURNAL/ENG .

Call for papers: Fighting pandemics in South-East Europe: experts, infrastructure, and technologies in the long 19th century

 Call for papers: Fighting pandemics in South-East Europe: experts, infrastructure, and technologies in the long 19th century - New Europe College, Bucharest, 17.10.2024 - 18.10.2024, deadline 12.05.2024

States mobilised enormous human, material and financial resources in their fight against pandemic diseases such as plague or cholera. Not only medical professionals or public health officials, but also border guards, police and bureaucrats played their part in coordinating states’ pandemic efforts. Quarantine stations were set up on the frontlines of defence, at some of the busiest ports and border crossings, but were challenged by increased mobility, the transport revolution and market integration in an era of rapid globalisation. As quarantine restrictions became increasingly unpopular with both medical professionals and the general public, authorities turned to other preventive measures: from investment in urban sanitation infrastructure (sewers or waste disposal) to public health campaigns aimed at educating the public about the importance of individual and community hygiene practices. Authorities also encouraged a joint transnational effort against pandemic threats, and their collaboration led to international health conferences and conventions that mandated standardised preventive epidemiological measures. Medical cooperation – and competition – led to scientific breakthroughs, such as the germ theory of disease and the emergence of microbiology, which shifted the battle to prevent pandemics to, for example, bacteriological laboratories and the use of all sorts of new chemical technologies to destroy deadly bacteria.

With such general considerations in mind, this workshop aims to look at the people, infrastructures and technologies used by states in South-East Europe to prevent, control and treat disease. Situated at the crossroads of empires and along important transport corridors between East and West and North and South, Balkan states such as Bulgaria, Greece, Romania or Serbia – and their imperial neighbours – provide fascinating case studies for tracing the evolution of pandemic responses and various entanglements across state and imperial borders.

We welcome proposals of around 250 words on the above topics by 12 May 2024, together with a short biography or CV. Proposals should be sent to cardeleanu@nec.ro and ardcons@gmail.com. Decisions on accepted proposals will be announced by 26 May 2024.

Travel costs and accommodation

Travel expenses will be reimbursed, and accommodation and meals will be provided for invited speakers.

This conference is organized within the research project ‘Entangled Histories of the Danubian Quarantine System (1774–1914)’, Exploratory Research PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-1374 funded by UEFISCDI.