Call for Papers: The Counter-University. Histories, Movements, and Ambitions The declaration of “counter-universities” has been part of activists’ repertoires for many decades. The practice became known primarily through the student movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Since the mid-1960s, numerous “free” universities have emerged in the USA in the context of protests for “free speech” and against the Vietnam War. At the latest, the transnational protest events of 1967/1968 made the declaration of “free”, “critical”, “political” or “autonomous” universities common practice in many Western E ..read more

Tomasz Pudłocki: Szekspir i Polska. Życie Władysława Tarnawskiego (1885 - 1951) [Shakespeare and Poland. Life of Władysława Tarnawskiego (1885-1951)], Rzeszów–Warszawa: IPN 2023. ISBN: 978-83-822-9782-9 Władysław Tarnawski (1885-1951), profesor filologii angielskiej Uniwersytetów Jana Kazimierza we Lwowie i Jagiellońskiego oraz przywódca lwowskiej endecji pod koniec życia przyznawał, że w swojej działalności naukowej czegokolwiek by nie zgłębiał, zawsze odnosiło się to do Szekspira: "[.] mogę powiedzieć, że Szekspir czasem wplątywał się w moje życia i w tok wypadków, które na nie oddziaływały ..read more

Online event by CHORUS: Colloquium for the History of Russian and Soviet Science , Thursday, May 16, at 8 am (Los Angeles) / 11 аm (New York) / 17:00 (CET) / 18:00 (Kyiv) / 19:00 (UTC+03:00) Maria Pirogovskaya (independent researcher, Berlin), Vernacular bone-setting and Tashkent Institute for Traumatology and Orthopaedic Treatment in the post-war era: Knowledge colonised, appropriated or ‘braided’? Ilona Jurkonytė (Vilnius University), Configurations of Space Botany in Art (for link to the meeting please write to jan.surman@gmail.com) Details: Maria Pirogovskaya (independent researcher, Berli ..read more

Per Högselius, Achim Klüppelberg: The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism. Budapest, New York: CEU University Press 2024. ISBN: 978-963-386-647-4 Open access: https://ceupress.com/sites/ceupress.ceu.edu/files/the_soviet_nuclear_archipelago.pdf The war in Ukraine, with the exposure of nuclear power stations and the danger of atomic warfare, has made the legacy of the Soviet nuclear sector of critical importance. The two authors map the Soviet nuclear industry in a shifting historical context, making sense of a complex socio-technical and environmental ..read more

 East Central Europe, Volume 51 (2024): Issue 1 (Mar 2024): Special Issue: Biopolitics, socialism and the democratization of healthcare. Case studies from state-socialist Hungary, edited by Viola Lászlófi Articles: Svégel, Fanni. "Feminist Mobilization for Reproductive Rights in State Socialist Hungary: The Abortion Petition Campaign of 1973", East Central Europe 51, 1 (2024): 1-25, doi: https://doi.org/10.30965/18763308-51010006 Lászlófi, Viola. "(Un)disciplined Patients, (Un)controlled Medical Authority?: Governmentality and the Changing Norms of Healthcare in State Socialist Hungary ..read more

 CfP: Knowledge in Transition: Institutional Development and Reorganization of Eastern European Studies in the Early 20th Century. 15.11.2024 - 15.11.2024, deadline: 17.05.2024.  The Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg and the editors of the Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas will organize a conference on the institutional development and restructuring of Eastern European studies in the early 20th century on 15 November 2024 to mark the journal's 100th anniversary. The call to engage with Eastern Europe beyond the study of Russia is not ne ..read more

Hybrid event (Ukrainian): Плагіат і запозичення в українській науці: від ХVII століття до сучасності // Plagiarism and borrowings in Ukrainian science: from 17th century up to our days. April 27, 14:00 (Kyiv time), Музей Михайла Грушевського, вул. Паньківська, 9 & zoom URL: https://www.facebook.com/events/7622236741174215/?ref=newsfeed Запрошуємо на конференцію «Плагіат і запозичення в українській науці: від ХVII ..read more

 Happel, Jörn, Hussinger, Melanie, & Raupach, Hajo (Eds.). (2024). Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discovering, Surveying, and Ordering (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003386643 ABSTRACT This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical, colonial and violent appropriation during the 19th century. The 19th century was the century of world travel. The earth was explored, surveyed, described, illustrated, and categorized. Travelogues became world bestsellers. Modern technology accompanied the travelers and adventurers: clocks, a ..read more

 Call for papers: Symposium, Histories of expertise, 19th-20th September 2024, University of Turku Historical research on experts and expertise has burgeoned during the past decades. This research has shown the need to consider how expert knowledge is made and given meanings, the polarisation of expertise, the regional and cultural differences in defining expertise, the social statuses of experts, as well as the social and material networks that constitute the making and contestation of experts and expert knowledge. We take this opportunity to invite abstracts of on-going research addres ..read more

 Kick-Off ERC-STG SCARCE April 17, 6 pm, Aula am Campus, Hof 1.11 (Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Vienna) SCARCE (Sustained Concerns: Administration of Mineral Resource Extraction in Central Europe, 1550-1850) is a new five-year project at the University of Vienna. It aims to provide a history of today's stakeholder conflicts by showing how contradictory principles of resource management – economic development, sustainability, and technological innovation – were forged in protoindustrial settings. Sebastian Felten and his team will analyse thousands of administrative reports from across Central Euro ..read more