Acta Poloniae Historica, Volume 130: Time and the Modern World. Standardisation, Globalisation, Privacy

New issue of Acta Poloniae Historica, devoted to the issue of time standardisation/globalisation/management in the 19th century, is out. All contributions are English, Open acess.

URL: https://www.aph-ihpan.edu.pl/en/volume-130

Contents

Table of contents

Małgorzata Litwinowicz-Droździel, Introduction: Time and the Modern World. Standardisation, Globalisation, Privacy

Błażej Brzostek, Personal Watches in Warsaw, 1890–1914: Social Meanings

Alicja Maślak-Maciejewska, Sabbath and Sunday, Passover and Easter, Judaism in the Afternoon: Jewish Time in the Galician Public School

Augusto Petter, The Imperial Meteor: Time and Velocity in Pedro II’s Journey of 1876–7

Agata Łuksza, Time in Service of Orientalism: The Case of Polish Japanomania at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Katarzyna Ryszewska, Time in Polish Prehistoric Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Małgorzata Litwinowicz-Droździel, Colonisation of the Future, the Time of the Émigré, the History of the Earth: Ignacy Domeyko’s Moje Podróże [My Travels]

Reviews

Reviews

Serhiy Bilenky, Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine between Empire and Nation, 1772–1914 – Fabian Baumann;

Frank Rochow, Architektur und Staatsbildung. Festungsbauten als Instrument habsburgischer Herrschaft in Krakau und Lemberg – Aleksander Łupienko;

Raluca Goleşteanu-Jacobs, Habsburg Galicia and the Romanian Kingdom. Sociocultural Development, 1866–1914 – Konrad Meus;

Natasha Wheatley, The Life & Death of States: Central Europe & the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty – Piotr Kuligowski

Jędrzej Garnek, Adrianna Smolińska (eds.): Matematyka dawnych matur [Mathematics in Historical Final Exams].

Jędrzej Garnek, Adrianna Smolińska (eds.): Matematyka dawnych matur [Mathematics in Historical Final Exams]. Poznań: Archiwum Państwowe w Poznaniu 2024. ISBN: 978-83-963138-8-1

Open access: https://poznan.ap.gov.pl/matematyka-dawnych-matur-nowa-publikacja/

W 2023 r. dr Marek Szczepaniak, ówczesny kierownik Oddziału w Gnieźnie wyszedł z pomysłem zwrócenia uwagi na wartość dokumentacji archiwalnej dla grupy odbiorców niekoniecznie związanej z archiwami – dla matematyków. Postanowił on zaprezentować znajdujące się w zasobie archiwum materiały dotyczące maturalnych zadań matematycznych, z którymi zmagali się uczniowie liceum w Gnieźnie i Trzemesznie pod zaborami – w XIX i na początku XX wieku.

Początkowo dr Szczepaniak zwrócił się do nauczycieli matematyki z wielkopolskich szkół, którzy zredagowali oryginalne prace uczniów i ich rozwiązania. Następnie studenci zrzeszeni w Kole Naukowym Matematyków UAM, pod kierunkiem merytorycznym pracowników Wydziału Matematyki oraz Uniwersytetu WSB Merito w Poznaniu, opracowali zadania i ich rozwiązania w nowoczesnym języku matematycznym. Redakcją zajęli się Adrianna Smolińska oraz dr Jędrzej Garnek. Efektem ich pracy jest publikacja “Matematyka dawnych matur”, wydana przez Archiwum Państwowe w Poznaniu.

Oprócz formy książkowej, jest ona dostępna elektronicznie w otwartym dostępie. Książka przeznaczona jest dla nauczycieli matematyki, uczniów zainteresowanych Królową Nauk, a także dla wszystkich osób, które zastanawiają się, czy zdałyby maturę z dawnych czasów. Oprócz zadań znaleźć w niej można również ciekawostki historyczne o abiturientach, którzy później odegrali ważne role w historii regionu, a także omówienie ówczesnego systemu maturalnego.

History of science and technology (Kyiv) Volume 14 No. 2 (2024) is online

 History of science and technology (Kyiv) Volume 14 No. 2 (2024) is online (open access). English with Ukrainian abstracts.

URL: https://www.hst-journal.com/index.php/hst/issue/view/24

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Oleh Strelko, Oleh Pylypchuk, Yuliia Berdnychenko

PREFACE......................................................................................301

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Anton Ivashchuk: French  language  instruction  in  Galicia  (1867–1939):  Analysis  of  curricula, programs, and methodologies............................................................305

Olha Kravchenko, Olga Shkurenko, Svitlana Bonіar, Svitlana Shuliarenko: Planning paradigms throughout economic history....................................332

Zhanar Mukhangaliyeva, Akkaiyn Balykova, Zhanna Mazhitova: Ukrainian scientists at the Tselinograd State Medical Institute: Contribution to education and science (1960s)............................................................. 350

Natalya Pasichnyk, Renat Rizhniak, Нanna Deforzh: Natural  and  mathematical  publications  of  the  Dnipro  region  at  the  end  of  the 19th–beginning of the 20th century: Establishment of educational technology as a science.................................................................................374

Marina Petrushko, Volodymyr Piniaiev, Taisiia Yurchuk: The history of cryotechnologies in reproductive medicine: From randomness to stability .......................................................................................401

Oksana Pylypchuk, Oleh Strelko: Karl Popper's "Critical Rationalism": The way to freedom and democracy......419

Vivi Sandra Sari, Mayca Sita Nurdiana: Foundations of ophthalmology  in  Dutch  East  Indies:  A  look  at distribution of early ophthalmology medical facilities (1900‒1942) .................................436

HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY

Ihor Annienkov: Work  at  the  Kharkiv  Electromechanical  and  Turbo-Generator  Plant  on  the project of electromagnetic torpedo tubes (1936–1938) ...............................465

Artemii  Bernatskyi,  Volodymyr  Lukashenko,  Oleksandr  Siora,  Mykola Sokolovskyi: Analysis of the application of lasers for counter-UAV purposes....................487

Liudmyla  Vaniuha,  Mariia  Kyreia,  Natalia  Lemishka, Olena  Spolska, Iryna Patron: History  of  the  evolution of  cinema  in  the  context  of  considering  the  stages  of development of science and technology. The first steps to the birth of cinema.....513

Volodymyr Yanin, Oleksiy Petruchenko: Academician of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Petro Mykhaylovych Suprunenko: Life and activity............................................................539

CHORUS & hps.cesee global book talk: Pictures from the exhibition. Science and technology in the early USSR

CHORUS & hps.cesee global book talk: Pictures from the exhibition. Science and technology in the early USSR. Thursday, March 13, 12:00 pm ET / 17:00 CET / 18:00 Kyiv, Zoom.

Virtual platforms CHORUS (Colloquium for the History of Russian and Soviet Science) & HPS.CESEE (History of Science in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe) are proud to present their forthcoming book talk on a new publication on history of science exhibitions. Douglas Weiner and Nikolai Krementsov will join Olga Elina to comment on her recent book: Kartinki s vystavki. Nauka i tekhnologii v rannem SSSR (po materialam Vserossiiskoi vystavki 1923 goda) [Pictures from the exhibition. Science and technology in the early USSR (based on the materials of the All-Russian Exhibition of 1923)] (2024) [1], in a discussion moderated by Eglė Rindzevičiūtė.

Thursday, March 13, 12:00 pm ET / 17:00 CET / 18:00 Kyiv, Zoom.

The meeting is free and open to the public. To receive the Zoom link, please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Gi8_j7tsTBaKXOaK024MyQ or write to hps.cesee@gmail.com

[1] Ольга Елина, Картинки с выставки. Наука и технологии в раннем СССР (по материалам Всероссийской выставки 1923 года) (Рутения, 2024)

“The book is devoted to the history of the First All-Russian (All-Union) Agricultural and Craft-Industrial Exhibition with a Foreign Section, which took place in Moscow in 1923 and became the prototype of the All-Russian Exhibition of Economic Achievements (VDNKh).

Elina focuses on the scientific-educational and technical-technological components of the exhibition. Using a wide range of sources, she studies various subjects of the show - the tasks set by its organizers; the role of scientists as experts and exhibitors of the exhibition; the purpose, content and appearance of the expositions themselves; ‘workdays’ and holidays of the exhibition. At the same time, the exhibition is presented as an instrument of ‘scientific diplomacy,’ an as an agitation and propaganda campaign aimed at the peasantry.”

Participants

Olga Elina is doctor of Historical Sciences, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Chief Researcher of the Department of Historiography and Source Study of the History of Science and Technology, IIET RAS. She recently coedited The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early-Twentieth-Century Russia (with N. Krementsov and Y. Howell, 2021) and The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon (with W. DeJong-Lambert and N. Krementsov, 2017)

Nikolai Krementsov is a professor at the University of Toronto's Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, specializing in the history of science, medicine, and technology, with a focus on Russian history. Among his notable works are Stalinist Science (1997), and With and Without Galton: Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in Russia (2018)

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė is an Associate Professor of Criminology and Sociology, the Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology, Kingston University London, the UK. She is the author of The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World (Cornell University Press, 2016) and The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future through Science (Cornell University Press, 2023).

Douglas R. Weiner is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Arizona, specializing in Russian and Soviet environmental history. Among his significant works are Models of Nature: Ecology, Conservation, and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia (1988), which examines early Soviet conservation efforts, and A Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature Protection from Stalin to Gorbachev (1999), exploring environmental activism during the Soviet era.

Marie Bahenská, Lydia Petráňová et. al: Horizonty bádání. Etnografie a folkloristika v českých zemích v letech 1945–1989 [Horizons of research. Ethnography and Folklore Studies in the Czech Lands, 1945-1989].

Marie Bahenská, Lydia Petráňová et. al: Horizonty bádání. Etnografie a folkloristika v českých zemích v letech 1945–1989 [Horizons of research. Ethnography and Folklore Studies in the Czech Lands, 1945-1989]. Praha: Academia 2025. ISBN: 978-80-200-3540-0

Monografie je zaměřena na institucionální, personální, teoreticko-metodologický i obecně epistemologický vývoj etnologie (národopisu, etnografie a folkloristiky, sociokulturní antropologie) v českých zemích ve 2. polovině 20. století s přihlédnutím k evropskému a světovému vývoji těchto oborů. Jedná se o vůbec první moderní popis a analýzu vývoje etnologie jako svébytného vědeckého oboru s vlastní vnitřní dynamikou, který se v Československu vyvíjel po roce 1945 ve zcela specifických kulturních, sociálních i politických podmínkách totalitární společnosti a ideologie. Vývoj oboru je pojednán jako komplexní proces, kde vedle sebe existovaly oficiální proudy vědy a sféra tzv. badatelských nik vyznačujících se značnou mírou kreativity a vědecké svobody. Dynamika jejich vzájemného střetávání a ovlivňování pak definovala vývoj české etnologie ve 2. polovině 20. století na úrovni akademického sboru (vysoké školy, Československá akademie věd) i v podobě aplikované disciplíny (muzea a skanzeny, lidová umělecká výroba, folklorní festivaly).

Pre-prints: Beyond Anthropocentrism in Ukrainian Studies: Proposals from the Environmental Humanities, from East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies

(from Tanya Richardson) Amidst accumulating bad news, a small positive thing: At long last my brilliant co-editor Darya Tsymbalyuk and I are able to make available pre-print versions of articles that make up a two-part special issue of the East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies called “Beyond Anthropocentrism in Ukrainian Studies: Proposals from the Environmental Humanities.” 

The special issue’s main goal is to gather scholars doing ground-breaking work at the interface between Ukrainian studies and environmental humanities and to contribute to challenging multiple colonialities of knowledge in which the study of Ukraine’s environments are embedded. 

We began working on this special issue in 2022 and are tremendously grateful to our amazing authors Anastassiya Andrianova Kateryna Iakovlenko Iryna Skubii Iryna Zamuruieva Julia Malitska Jonathan Turnbull Adrian Ivakhiv who wrote their papers at the beginning of the russian full-scale invasion in incredibly stressful conditions and to Anna Olenenko for allowing us to translate her article about the construction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station. 

When we began, the relatively few artists and researchers doing this kind of work often did not know of each other’s existence. More and more artists, writers, and researchers are making ecology and the natural world the focus of their work following devastating impacts of russia’s full-scale invasion. Our hope is to facilitate greater communication among them and the formation of an intellectual community. The main work on this special issue was completed in fall 2023, and reflects the situation at that time.  

We are grateful to our authors for their inspiring work and patience during the long journey to publication and to East/West for providing a venue in which to publish this work. 

Please read the table of contents to see the whole issue and for how to cite the articles. We include the table of contents in the post; the link to the GoogleDrive containing the articles is listed below. The attached image is the wonderful collage that Darya made for the blog post we wrote for Niche in fall 2023.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jLnL1VfF15JNZLA1KauP4R4A5qBayEB3

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Table of contents

Volume 11, number 1, spring 2024

Introduction

Richardson, Tanya, and Darya Tsymbalyuk. “Beyond Anthropocentrism in Ukrainian Studies: Proposals from the Environmental Humanities.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. 

Articles

Andrianova, Anastassiya. “Sunflowers in the Ruins: A Multimodal Analysis of the Environmental Aspects of Ukrainian War Songs from March to May 2022.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming.

Iakovlenko, Kateryna. “A Systematic Robbery: Transforming the Memory, Culture, and Landscape of the Ukrainian Steppe.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. 

Essays

Zamuruieva, Iryna. “Gathering Ecofeminist Stories with Kateryna Hrushevs'ka.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming.

Ivakhiv, Adrian. “Becoming Tuteishyi: Ukraine in the New Global Climatic Regime.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming.  

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Volume 11, number 2, fall 2024 

Articles

Richardson, Tanya and Darya Tsymbalyuk. “Constellations of Ukrainian Thought and the Environmental Humanities.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming.

Malitska, Julia. “Polycentring Vegetarianism in the Russian Empire: Human-Animal Relationships in the Pages of Vegetarianskoe obozrěnie, 1909–15.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming.

Skubii, Iryna. “Toward an Animal-Sensitive History of Famines: Animals, the Environment, and Soviet Famines in Ukraine.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming.

Essay

Turnbull, Jonathon. “Chornobyl as Laboratory? The Curious Case of CTVT.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming.

Article in Translation

Olenenko, Anna. “‘Our New Sea Is Our New Grief’: The Conflict between the Ukrainian and the Soviet in the Struggle to Construct the Landscape of the Lower Dnipro.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming.

International Summer School DISABILITY HISTORIES 21–27 SEPTEMBER 2025 KRAKÓW, POLAND

Diverse and written from different perspectives, disability histories are a fundamental and integral part of disability studies. To support young scholars - MA and PhD students - we are organising the DISABILITY HISTORIES SUMMER SCHOOL in cooperation with Wydział Historyczny Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego and Wydział Zarządzania i Komunikacji Społecznej UJ. We invite students working on the social and cultural history of disability to join us in Krakow, Poland from 21-27 September 2025, together with an amazing line-up of tutors: Radu Harald Dinu, Katerina Kolarova, Robert Stock and Jaipreet Virdi. 

All the details can be found on our website: https://disability-in-easteurope.project.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/summer-school

Deadline for applications: 31st March 2025

The Summer School is possible thanks to generous support of Inicjatywa Doskonałości - Uczelnia Badawcza, Uniwersytet Jagielloński