Vladimír Karpenko, Ivo Purš: The Alchemical Laboratory in Visual and Written Sources. Prague: Academia 2024. ISBN 978-80-200-3547-9 Alchemy was an experimental laboratory activity that involved numerous disciplines. It was practised over time and among various strata of society, ranging from artisans and burghers, physicians and clergy, to nobility and rulers. It was part of the natural sciences, but also included medicine, religion and the fine arts, which is why the study of its history requires an interdisciplinary approach. This book analyses images of alchemical laboratories, and their t ..read more

 Piotr Biliński: Adam Vetulani (1901–1976). Historyk prawa polskiego i kanonicznego [Adam Vetulani (1901–1976): Historian of Polish and Canonical Law]. Cracow: Wydawnictwo UJ 2023. ISBN: 978-83-233-5265-5 Adam Vetulani (1901–1976), profesor Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego i sekretarz generalny Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności, zajmował poczesne miejsce w krakowskim środowisku naukowym już przed II wojną światową. Miał opinię godnego następcy Oswalda Balzera i Stanisława Kutrzeby. Jako wybitny historyk prawa polskiego i kanonicznego cieszył się autorytetem wśród uczonych europejskich i ameryka ..read more

Call for articles, Authoritarian Geographies in the Former Soviet Bloc and Eastern Europe, Journal of Historical Geography. The journal of Historical Geography is pleased to announce a call for a special issue section dedicated to exploring the historical particularities of how geographic information was produced, memorialized, and represented within authoritarian states, with a particular focus on the countries of the former Soviet Bloc, Balkans, and Eastern Europe. This special issue seeks to unravel the intricate layers of political influence and spatial narratives embedded in the cartograp ..read more

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 ..read more

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 infec ..read more

 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 ..read more

 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 Ci ..read more

 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 ..read more

 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 ..read more

 Call for papers: Geometry in Society: A historical Perspective. June 12-14, 2024. Brno.  Full cfp: https://0ca5d81399.cbaul-cdnwnd.com/dc7aa7484dcce086160359633836b64e/200000101-7926079262/maths_and_society_2024_CfP.pdf?ph=0ca5d81399 .  Of all areas of Mathematics, Geometry is the most directly available to everybody. Geometry is hidden in each building, even though we tend to admire only the exquisite ones, like the Dome in Florence or the Notre Dame. Similarly, many paintings may be analysed from the point of view of perspective, and the words "Let no man ignorant of geometry ..read more