Hybrid Seminar: Scholars between Science and Practice Histories of Science, Natural Resources & Power

Scholars between Science and Practice Histories of Science, Natural Resources & Power 

Hybrid Seminar

  

25–26 September, 2025

Anastasia Fedotova & Natalia Nikiforova

25 September, 14:30–16:15 (MSK, UTC+2)

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88924324864?pwd=FsGWnSUCfneEId1x5jbTEgYqg3KHKa.1

Short intro: Natalia Nikiforova & Anastasia Fedotova

Chair: Anastasia Fedotova, SPbB IHST RAS

Andrey Vinogradov  “The White Birch Grew, and the White Tsar Came”: Economy, Power, and Climate Change in the Greater Altai, 1950–2020

Elena Kochetkova Rationality, Planning, and Natural Resources in the Soviet Political Economy

 

25 September, 16:30–18:00 (MSK, UTC+2)

Chair: Tatiana Borisova, HSE University St Petersburg

Anna Graber, University of Minnesota

Making Mineralogy Russian: Bashkirs, Mining Administrators, and Earth Knowledges of the Urals, 1700-1819

Marina Loskutova, HSE University St Petersburg 

“No King Can Master God’s Own Elements”: the Flood of 1824 and the 19th Century Anti-Flood Protection Projects for St. Petersburg

26 September, 14:30–16:00 (MSK, UTC+2)

Zoom link: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81476792707?pwd=vZ8HN7H2LzKO2Maoy3AyXgNyLpNAPh.1

Chair: Grigorii Isachenko, St Petersburg State University

Paul Josephson, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, USA 

What are Radioactive Brown Fields? Nuclear Legacies of the American West

Natalia Nikiforova, SPbB IHST RAS 

“Useless Fossils”, Precious Waste and Streams of Energy. Soviet Electrification and Natural Resources for the Socialist Future (1920s–1930s)  

 

26 September, 16:15–17:45 (MSK, UTC+2)

Chair: Natalia Nikiforova, SPbB IHST RAS 

Anastasia Fedotova, S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology

Useful Entomology: a Case of Imperial Court Estates in the Early 20th Century

Alejandro Martinez, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Bacilli, Locusts, and Scientific Controversies: Félix d’Herelle (1873–1949) and the First Attempts at Biological Control of Insect Pests in Argentina

Bader Award for the History of Science and Technology

 Call for Applications: Bader Award for the History of Science and Technology

 

The award is given for an excellent scientific work (master's thesis, dissertation, publication) on research questions in the field of the history of science and technology that was completed or published no more than two years before the submission deadline.

Researchers (pre- and post-doc, max. five years after completion of the doctorate/PhD) are invited to apply who have been continuously active in research in one of the following countries during the last three years prior to the application (deadline: submission deadline):

Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ukraine or Austria.

 

The application deadline for the award is October 1, 2025.

 

Please find all Information here:

https://stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/awards/interdisciplinary-awards/bader-award-for-the-history-of-science-and-technology

Alma Mater Leopoliensis. History of the Lviv humanities 1661─1946

Alma Mater Leopoliensis : dzieje humanistyki lwowskiej 1661-1946 (z dwoma interaktywnymi inwentarzami), t. 1─3 [Alma Mater Leopoliensis. History of the Lviv humanities 1661─1946 (with two interactive inventories), v. 1─3]. ed. by Anna Dąbrowska and Helena Sojka-Masztalerz, Wroclaw 2025. OPEN ACCESS

OA: https://kolekcjalwowska.uwr.edu.pl/materialy/monografia/

Introductions in English: https://kolekcjalwowska.uwr.edu.pl/en/virtual-library/introductions-to-the-individual-volumes-of-the-monograph/

ВСТУПИ ДО ОКРЕМИХ РОЗДІЛІВ МОНОГРАФІЇ: https://kolekcjalwowska.uwr.edu.pl/uk/віртуальна-бібліотека/вступи-до-окремих-розділів-монографі/

Balkan Historiographical Wars: The Middle Ages, eds. Diana Mishkova, Roumen Daskalov

Balkan Historiographical Wars: The Middle Ages, eds. Diana Mishkova, Roumen Daskalov  (Palgrave Macmillan, August 2025)

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-90113-3

The studies in this volume present some of the major “historiographical wars” over the medieval Balkan past fought by the historians of competing nation states in the region. Еthnic origins and “national” makeup of medieval states and disputed regions; ownership of the historical heritage located in or associated with that territory; provenance or “national” consciousness of important historical personalities; the boundaries of a certain medieval state and its political, religious, and cultural influence on others – these are some of the issues around which major clashes between the modern Balkan historiographies recurred. The book is valuable to all those interested in how the medieval past becomes instrumentalized by the “national historians” in the service of constructing the national canons of history.

CONTENTS:

Legacy, Tradition, Heritage and the History Writing in the Balkans -- Diana Mishkova

Controversies Over Samuеl’s State -- Roumen Daskalov

Skanderbeg: Figures of Paper, Figures of Stone -- Nathalie Clayer

Art Wars: The Creation of Bulgarian Art History and the Balkan Controversies Over the Medieval Heritage of Macedonia -- Tchavdar Marinov

Defending Our Lands in Ancient and Medieval Studies: The Albanian Case -- Alexander Vezenkov

In Search of an Acceptable Past: The Bosnian Middle Ages and National Ideologies -- Nedim Rabić

Jan Boháček (ed.) Blahoslav Šeplavý: Vzpomínky prezidiálního ředitele a pěstitele mecenášů České akademie věd a umění

Jan Boháček  (ed.) Blahoslav Šeplavý: Vzpomínky prezidiálního ředitele a pěstitele mecenášů České akademie věd a umění [Blahoslav Šeplavý: Memoirs of the Presidium Director and Patron of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts.]. Praha:  NLN, s.r.o. a Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR v.v.i. 2025. ISBN : 978-80-7422-875-9

Blahoslav Šeplavý (1897–1960), dlouholetý ředitel kanceláře České akademie věd a umění, zanechal ve svých zápiscích cenný a jedinečný pramen k dějinám této instituce. Nejde o souvislý text. Jednotlivé části vznikaly postupně, převážně v padesátých letech, po vzniku Československé akademie věd. Šeplavý v nich líčí některé události z dějin „staré akademie“, věnuje se jednotlivým vedoucím funkcionářům ČAVU a problematice sídla akademie. Popisuje činnost administrativního aparátu, zajímavé informace přináší k obtížím spojeným s realizací některých fondů odkázaných akademii, na nelehkých počátcích Archivu ČSAV přibližuje, jak neslavně zanikaly v letech 1952/1953 starší vědecké společnosti. Hodnota textu spočívá v dobré informovanosti pisatele, v trefné charakteristice aktérů popisovaných událostí a v řadě detailů a souvislostí, které jsou z pramenů jiného druhu jen obtížně vysledovatelné.

Błażej Kaucz (ed.) Polish Contributions to Criminology.

 Błażej Kaucz (ed.) Polish Contributions to Criminology. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2025. ISBN 978-3-031-94141-2

About this book

This collection brings together academics and practitioners currently researching topics relevant to Polish criminology. It showcases the breadth and depth of criminological research in Poland. Furthermore, it places the volume within its post-Soviet past and global context, alongside the international literature, outlining its many contributions to the field. It encompasses a broad range of criminological interests, such as critical criminology and social control, policing, penitentiary and post-penitentiary systems, restorative justice, crimes of the powerful, white-collar crime etc. The edited collection serves as an invaluable resource for scholars, students, policymakers, and practitioners seeking a comprehensive understanding of crime and justice in Poland, as well as those interested in comparative criminology and the broader European context.

Seminar Series: Global Knowledge Production and Academic (Semi)Peripheries

 Seminar Series by Scholarly Communication Research Group, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan: Global Knowledge Production and Academic (Semi)Peripheries

Our seminar series examines the changing role of science in the semi-peripheries—spaces historically mediating between scientific centers and peripheries—whose bridging function is waning in a networked, globalized world. We resist narrowing semi-peripheries to mere conduits for others’ agendas. Instead, we foreground their creative capacity to generate alternative pathways of modernization in and through science (“alter-modernization”). Because both pathways have long histories in semi-peripheral contexts, we ask how their potential can be renewed today. Across sessions we will address: alternative routes to modernization via science; the politics and practices of measuring science; and lived experiences of doing science at the margins. Emphasizing the materiality of semi-peripheral scientific enterprise—its institutions, infrastructures, and everyday epistemic projects—we invite participants and speakers to move beyond reductive neither/nor dichotomies and to engage the alter-modern character of semi-peripheral science as a source of positive, tangible transformation.

4 September 2025 (Thursday) 04:00 PM (CET)

George Steinmetz - Marginality, Domination, and Strangeness in Social Science 

Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/d3orLrjhS9Kejn0kHgxSmg

18 September 2025 (Thursday) 12:00 PM (CET)

Raewyn Connell - The global economy of knowledge and its dynamics

Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/GgjdO3tZRk-WxDwNCYPlAg

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