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Friday, 14. October 2022


All day	Výstava: Československo v Orientu, Orient v Československu, 1918–1938 Conference: Gendering Epistemologies – Gender and Situated Knowledge Perspectives from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Prague/Liblice 13–15 October 2022


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Aktuality

10. 10. 2022
Výzkumné semináře MÚA AV ČR – podzim 2022
Výzkumné semináře MÚA AV ČR – podzim 2022

Výzkumné semináře MÚA AV ČR – podzim 2022

Datum konání:
10. 10. 2022, 15:00
31. 10. 2022, 15:00
14. 11. 2022, 15:00
28. 11. 2022, 15:00
12. 12. 2022, 15:00
Místo konání: Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, Gabčíkova 2362/10, Praha 8: budova B, konfereční sál (B -110)

Program

10. 10. 2022, 15:00, též online

Jan Jakub Surman (Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR): ‘Images of science’ in Interwar Czechoslovakia: State, Language, Politics

31. 10. 2022, 15:00

Jiří Flaišman, Michal Kosák (Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR): Možnosti Kritické hybridní edice

14. 11. 2022, 15:00

Robert Luft (Collegium Carolinum): Staatsmänner, Beamte, Honoratioren, Intellektuelle und Berufspolitiker. Zu Lebenswegen und zu politischen Karrieren im Wiener Parlament vor 1914

28. 11. 2022, 15:00

Michal Kšiňan (Historický ústav SAV): Rozmanitosť ukrytá v uniformách. Vplyv vojenských kultúrnych krížení na vytváranie vojenskej kultúry v Európe (1914–1918)

12. 12. 2022, 15:00

Luboš Velek, Martin Klečacký, Ondřej Matějka, Jiří Fialka (Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů): Vývoj moderní parlamentní kultury v českých zemích a Československu

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11. 10. 2022

Modern Jewish History Seminar by Verena Kasper-Marienberg: Half Profit, Half Loss. Negotiating Jewish Economic Law in Non-Jewish Courtrooms

Modern Jewish History Seminar by Verena Kasper-Marienberg: Half Profit, Half Loss. Negotiating Jewish Economic Law in Non-Jewish Courtrooms

Modern Jewish History Seminar by Verena Kasper-Marienberg: Half Profit, Half Loss. Negotiating Jewish Economic Law in Non-Jewish Courtrooms

Datum konání:
11. 10. 2022, 17:00
Verena Kasper-Marienberg (North Carolina State University)

The seminar will be held in virtual form only

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13. 10. 2022 to 14. 10. 2022
Call for Papers: Researching (in) the Carpathians. Science and Politics in the Carpathians, ca. 1848–1939
Call for Papers: Researching (in) the Carpathians. Science and Politics in the Carpathians, ca. 1848–1939

Call for Papers: Researching (in) the Carpathians. Science and Politics in the Carpathians, ca. 1848–1939

Datum konání:
13. 10. 2022, 0:00 to 14. 10. 2022, 0:00
Prague, Czech Academy of Sciences, October 13–14, 2022

The Carpathians form a long-stretched mountain arc that historically separated different regions and states in Eastern and Central Europe. As a peripheral border region, distinctive by its multi-ethnic character, the Carpathians presented a challenging area both for the imperial Austria-Hungary and its interwar successor states. Already since the early 19th century, individual parts of the mountain range and its populations had been put onto mental maps of different, often competing agents, claiming the region part of their imagined national territories. The Carpathians thus rightly turned out to be a stimulating space to research East-Central-European nationalisms in the last decades. Our workshop aims at continuing these discussions, while opening new research questions and avenues for scientific collaboration.

We want to address two issues in particular:

Even though in the last years, the research on Carpathians went by and large transnational, there is still little discussion between scholars working on the history of the Galician/Polish-Ukrainian side and the Hungarian/Czechoslovak Carpathians. The first goal of the workshop hence is to start discussions between respective scholars and encourage more comparative, transnational and transregional research in the field.

Secondly, we are suggesting histories of knowledge production in the region as an approach which is suitable to inspire transdisciplinary discussions and as a convenient meeting point for scholars working on different subregions of the Carpathians. Science presents a quintessentially transnational endeavour, which was, nevertheless, marked also by political struggles and contest, esp. in border regions claimed by different states and/or nation movements. At the same time, the fields of science and knowledge-production open the way to connect / confront the issue of nationalism with that of governance and modernization and thus enrich the existing literature on the region.

In line with these considerations, we are welcoming contributions that would focus on knowledge-production in/about the Carpathians while addressing its political dimensions, esp. links to different nation- and state-building projects, resp. modernization projects/civilizing missions undertaken in the region. We are particularly interested in papers that consider transnational connections and/or attempt at cross-regional comparisons. The workshop also aims at interdisciplinary discussions. Scholars of all disciplinary backgrounds are kindly welcomed.

Presentations may address following issues:

Institutions and infrastructures of science and knowledge-production in the region

Individual scientific projects, expeditions, publications

Scientific collaborations across the region (transnational and transregional research projects, international congresses)

Knowledge production as part of governance

Popular science (local scholarly societies, reading halls)

Presentation of science to the public (exhibitions, museums)

Science and development of modern industries (tourism, exploitation of natural resources)

Other transdisciplinary approaches to knowledge on the Carpathians

Abstract submission:

Submit a max. 300 words abstract and a short bio note by May 15 to both herza@eu.cas.cz and rohde@hiu.cas.cz.

Notification about accepted papers by the end of May.

Participants will be provided with accommodation in Prague during the workshop. The travel costs of international participants can be reimbursed up to 120 €. There is no conference fee.

The workshop is jointly organized by the Institute of Ethnology, the Institute of History and the Institute of the Slavonic Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Lumina quaeruntur project “Images of science” in Czechoslovakia 1918–1945–1968, Masaryk Institute
and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Conference venue: Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR).

Filip Herza, Martin Rohde, Michal Vašíček

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13. 10. 2022 to 15. 10. 2022
Conference: Gendering Epistemologies – Gender and Situated Knowledge Perspectives from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Prague/Liblice 13–15 October 2022
Conference: Gendering Epistemologies – Gender and Situated Knowledge Perspectives from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Prague/Liblice 13–15 October 2022

Conference: Gendering Epistemologies – Gender and Situated Knowledge Perspectives from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Prague/Liblice 13–15 October 2022

Datum konání:
13. 10. 2022, 0:00 to 15. 10. 2022, 0:00

Venue

13 October 2022

Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Gabčíkova 2362/10, 182 00 Prague 8 (limited capacity, to participate please contact Jan Surman surman@mua.cas.cz)

Or via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ldeqopz4tE9ZZOD25hpuKbOcPhta5Sblc

14-15 October 2022

Liblice Castle - Conference Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Liblice 61, 277 32 Byšice

More than 30 years ago, Donna Haraway published her iconic essay “Situated Knowledge. The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective”, where she discusses the issue of objectivity in feminism. She understands “objective knowledge” as bound to a specific historical point in time and space – precisely as “situated knowledge”. We seek to reflect its current pertinence, considering the differentiation of gender related debates from feminism to queer theories, to trans activism and beyond, but also in the face of current social challenges like hate speech and fake news, conspiracy theories and public questioning of established scientific values. Thus, the conference “Gendering Epistemologies” looks at how gender-shaped (especially scientific) knowledge and truth claims are tied to gender (politics) in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Concept and Organization

PECEE

The research initiative Political Epistemologies of Central and Eastern Europe (PECEE) investigates modes of (self-)reflexivity in the history of the sciences and the humanities. Eastern, Central, and South-Eastern Europe have served as starting points to gain a perspective on the interconnectedness of historical theories, practices and figures of knowledge production – “epistemologies” – within their political environments. Thus, we aim to strengthen research in Historical Epistemology with a special focus on political implications, to radically situate historical theories of knowledge.

The conference is organised by the research initiative Political Epistemologies of Central and Eastern Europe (PECEE, for details see www.uni-erfurt.de/to/5HZUPwGJ1oXN3cO). It is sponsored by the research programme “Resilient Society for 21st Century: Crisis Potentials and Effective Transformation” within the basic programme framework of the Strategy AV21 of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) and by the Chair of Historical Transregional Studies, Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna.

Programme

Thursday, 13.10.2022, PragueLiblice

18:00-18:30 Welcome and Introduction

18:30-20:00 Keynote

Aleksandra Derra: The Role of Feminist Theory in Building Complementary Knowledge

Moderation: Dietlind Hüchtker

Small reception

Friday, 14.10.2022, Liblice

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:15-13:30 Short introduction

13:30-15:30

Activism and Objectivity

Moderation: Jan Surman

Duygu Altınoluk: Feminist Standpoint Theory Strengthens Feminist Academic Activism

Anna Eroshenko: Knowing Transgender Experience through the Indirectness: Narrative Psychology as a Collective Oral History

Eszter Kováts: Paradoxes of Situated and Universal Truth Claims in Central Eastern Europe

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-18:00

Gendered Politics

Moderation: Karin Reichenbach

Adela Hîncu: Women’s Invisible Labor in Socialist Romania: Feminist Methodology and Theories on Rural Transformation under State Socialism

Ella Rossman: How to Be a Soviet Girl? Constructing Knowledge on Women's Puberty in the Postwar USSR (1946-1991)

Izabela Kowalczyk: Feminism Meets Catastrophes

19:00-21:00 Dinner

Saturday 15.10.2022, Liblice

9:00-12:00

Scientific Authority and Gender

Moderation: Aleksei Lokhmatov

Evangelia Chordaki: Locating Science to Silence: Discussing Gender and Knowledge through the Politics of Silence

Katharina Kowalski: Between Intersectionality and “Authenticity” – On Developments and Epistemic Distinctions in the Feminist “Thought Style” during the Transformation Era in Poland

Short coffee break

Darya Litvina/Anastasia Novkunskaya/Anna Temkina: “Sociologists in White”: Feminist Epistemologies in Medical Field

Berna Zengin Arslan: Claiming Epistemic Authority of Women in Science and Technology: Case Studies of Women Engineers in Turkey

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-15:00

Gendering Institutions

Moderation: Bernhard Kleeberg

Martyna Miernecka: “Work in Peace”. Gendered Practices in the Literary Institutions of Polish People’s Republic

Suzana Milevska: Do Archives Have a Gender?

Barbara Schnalzger: “Haunting the Ruler’s house” – Women's and Lesbian Libraries and Archives as an Interface between Academia and Social Movement

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:30

Media of Truth

Moderation: Friedrich Cain

Ksenia Shmydkaya: Woman’s Metaphors and Universal Truths: On one Episode in Poland’s Interwar Intellectual Life

Juliane Tomann: Doing Gender in Historical Reenactment

Lisa Füchte: Who Put the Object in Objectivity? Gender and Visual History of Care Work in the Soviet Union

17:30-18:00 Conclusions

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20. 10. 2022 to 22. 10. 2022

Call for Papers: From Welfare Capitalism to Welfare State. Transformation of Welfare Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, 1780–1948

Call for Papers: From Welfare Capitalism to Welfare State. Transformation of Welfare Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, 1780–1948

Call for Papers: From Welfare Capitalism to Welfare State. Transformation of Welfare Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, 1780–1948

Datum konání:
20. 10. 2022, 0:00 to 22. 10. 2022, 0:00

Welfare capitalism refers to a complex of social, housing, health, safety, and leisure policies and institutions which were connected to the workplace and established by the private companies. In contrast to individual policies, welfare capitalism is considered to be a system-forming phenomenon. It points to a socio-economic order that existed at a certain place and time. Welfare capitalism emerged along with the boom of industrial enterprises, construction of factories and influx of labor forces. It could be a corporate strategy for heading off the demands of organized working-class movements. Through it, entrepreneurs sought to eliminate strike actions, subdue the power of trade unions, ensure social reconciliation, and effectively manage the working population. Welfare capitalism is also interpreted as an attempt to assume the responsibility for employees’ well-being before the welfare state massively took over these obligations.

While American and West European historians have been studying welfare capitalism and welfare institutions for many years, they have not been systematically researched in the Central and Eastern Europe. Yet the development of welfare institutions was not only the result of moral, religious and pragmatic decisions by entrepreneurs, but was often backed by state support and pressure - an aspect that has not been not been discussed so far. Welfare institutions not only transformed society, but also contributed to a fundamental change in spatial and place relations. Early-modern cities changed, many villages became industrial centers, and on the flat countryside, where once there were only fields, meadows and forests, factories sprang up around which housing, schools, hospitals, churches and an entire infrastructure developed.

Nevertheless, the mentioned institutions were very particular and targeted at selected groups. They did not contain the principle of equality and did not include a number of characteristics usually associated with the welfare state, such as unemployment compensation, pension and disability insurance, free education etc. Local municipalities could provide minimal welfare provision, but it was determined for persons with legal or long-term residence status. In many cases, social care was limited to the establishment of communal kitchens, workhouses, and labor exchanges. Its minimal nature and scope exacerbated permanent tensions. Thus, the term “welfare states” should be used very carefully. A certain differentiation between welfare capitalism and the welfare state, vis-à-vis to the fact that both terms are sometimes understood as synonymous, could be fruitful for historical research.

The intersection of private, state and public interest in the establishment and operation of welfare institutions is the starting point of the conference. It seeks to answer the question under what historical conditions company welfare institutions were constructed and operated? What role did state and public authorities play in the changes of welfare institutions? Were they merely a catalyst, as the classical definitions suggest that welfare capitalism emerged when authorities began to intervene in labor and social issues? How have the authorities tried to regulate the company welfare institutions and interfere in places of everyday life? How did they have been transformed into state-sponsored services?

Papers that exploring welfare institutions and focusing on (micro)history of kitchens, houses, schools, hospitals, churches, health and pension cash offices in the long-term span of time are encouraged.

Please send your abstract of no more than 350 words and a short biographical note by 15 September 2022 to both Zdeněk Nebřenský (nebrensky@dhi-prag.cz) and Jakub Štofaník (stofanik@mua.cas.cz).

The conference will take place 20-22 October 2022, in Prague, Czech Republic. In case of travel restrictions due to the pandemic, the conference will be held in a hybrid or online format. Conference languages are English and German. Travel and accommodation costs are covered by the organizers.

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