Showing posts with label Herder Institute. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Herder Institute. Show all posts
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
CfP:THE KNOWLEDGE FACTOR : Refugees in Central and Eastern Europe, 1912-2001
The 2016
Annual Convention of the Leibniz Graduate School at the
Herder
Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe.
Deadline:
20 June 2016
Date:
8-9 December 2016
Location:
Gisonenweg 5-7, 35037 Marburg, Germany.
In
arguments about the current refugee crisis, East European heads of state have
repeatedly claimed that their countries have never been perceived as desirable destinations;
therefore, they shall never be such. We would like to take the occasion of the
2016 Annual Convention of the Leibniz Graduate School at the Herder Institute
for Historical Research on East Central Europe to investigate this claim.
“The
Knowledge Factor” offers an opportunity to discuss the history of refugees in, not
from, Eastern Europe and the role knowledge inherent to or associated with refugees
has played in the interaction with host societies. The focus lies on the twentieth
century from the Balkan Wars of 1912 until its ultimate end in 2001.
For the
purpose of this convention, we consider a refugee a person who
involuntarily
had to leave home due to political persecution, war, violence,
breakdown
of a political and social order as well as natural catastrophes. We are interested
in the region that was once considered the Eastern bloc, i.e. East Central Europe
and the successor states of the Soviet Union. Papers should interrogate the perception,
integration, and adaptation of professional, scholarly, scientific, artistic and
cultural knowledge and skills. They are not limited to but should seek answers
to such questions as:
• When
and why is knowledge specific to refugees appreciated, adapted or
dismissed?
Under which circumstances are refugees recognized – formally and informally –
as professionals and experts? Which policies are enacted to deal with such
recognition? In how far do these policies reflect geopolitical, ilogical and
cultural concept
• How do
relations and interactions with the majority society impact the
knowledge
of refugees? How did the understanding of knowledge of and by refugees change
between their departure and arrival in the host country? To what extent, for
instance, were intellectuals seen as ‘native informants’ about their countries
and regions of origin, disregarding the professional knowledge and expertise
they had brought with them?
• What
strategies do refugees pursue to integrate their knowledge into, adopt practices
from or guard it against the majority society? How does knowledge allow
refugees to maintain or advance their social status? And, by the same token,
when does their refugee status disadvantage them regardless of level of skills
and knowledge?
• What
are the trajectories of interaction of the refugee knowledge with the knowledge
of different groups in the host countries? Does this interaction take place in
preexisting spaces or produce new ones?
• Under
which circumstances does the refugee knowledge challenge accepted norms,
stereotypes and prejudices in their host society? What does the interaction
between the majority and refugees say about preexisting knowledge and its
norms?
Critical
analyzes should emphasize the historical dimension of this topic; the conference
aspires to contribute to the history of science, post-colonial studies, and the
socio-political as well as cultural history of the twentieth century. Whereas
case studies should focus on Eastern Europe as destination and host country, we
explicitly welcome papers on the global entanglements of the region and the
inherent interdependence of its composing parts.
PhD
students and Post-doctoral scholars are encouraged to apply.
Please submit
an abstract of no more than 350 words and a one-page-CV by 20 June
2016to jan.surman@herder-institut.de
and victoria.harms@herder-institut.de
The
Herder Institute provides accommodation; travel expenses will be partially
or fully reimbursed. Participants, particularly from North America, are encouraged
to seek additional funding.
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Sunday, March 6, 2016
Historical Cartography. A joint workshop of the Central European University & the Herder Institute
The Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in
cooperation with the CEU History Department cordially invites you to a
three-day-workshop on “history and cartography” in Marburg, Germany,
from March 14 to 16, 2016. The Herder Institute houses a collection of
over 40,000 topographic and thematic maps from the 16th to the 21st
century, the majority of which depict today’s Poland, the Czech
Republic, Slovakia, the Baltic States and Western Russia.
Sunday, February 28, 2016
New fellowships
The support of
scientific projects and the academic communication and exchange are among the
central concerns of the Herder Institute. Therefore, we provide senior and
junior researchers fellowships for a stay of up to three months in Marburg. Our
newly designed fellowship program enables both for early career researchers as for
established scholars the intensive research closely linked to
the Collections of the Herder Institute.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
CfP: “Urban Peripheries?” Emerging Cities in Europe’s South and East, 1850-1945
“Science and the city” has become a
trending topic in recent historiography, both in history of science, technology
and medicine (STM) as well as in Urban Studies. So far there has been a strong
focus on the metropolis and their multifaceted scientific culture. Yet what
about “peripheral cities” in Eastern and Southern Europe? Are they only smaller
copies of London, Paris and Berlin? What is to be gained from studying the
scientific culture of “non-metropolitan” cities? So far these cities have been
described as being on the receiving end. Knowledge in STM, blue prints for
scientific institutions, urban models and other practices were created and
tested in the metropolis and then passed on. This postulates a transfer from
the center to the periphery and hence a clear epistemological hierarchy.
The double workshop, organised in Germany
by the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe
(Germany) and in Spain by the Institució Milà i Fontanals (CSIC), and the Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona, would like to question this assumption. Our
methodological point of departure is that cities in Southern and Eastern Europe
(our specific geographic focus) were part of an “inter-urban matrix” (N. Wood).
Through the daily press, but also through other channels such as scholarly
networks and professional contacts people were quite conscious of what was
happening elsewhere in Europe. There are virtually no studies on the
connections between peripheral cities, the exchange of knowledge and expertise
and the formation of networks and collaborations. This workshop intends to open
new perspectives on the exchanges in the areas of science, technology, medicine
and urban planning between “urban peripheries” such as Athens, Barcelona,
Budapest, Lemberg, Lisbon or Tallinn? In what follows we sketch three possible
research agendas:
Nationalism
As highly multiethnic and multireligious
contact and cultural transfer zones, the East European and Southern Borderlands
are located on the peripheries of the Empires, between Germany and
Austria-Hungary, Russia, Great Britain and the Ottomans. In these borderlands,
the imposing of homogenizing structures by the Empires before World War I and
the emerging local nationalisms generated a dynamic in the urbanization and
modernization processes. This workshop will focus on the assumed specificities
of the urbanization in the South and East of Europe which is characterised by
different forms and modes of knowledge transfer.
Comparing modernities
The inhabitants of allegedly “peripheral”
of “backward” cities felt that they had to “catch up” with London and Paris (or
less frequently with Berlin and Vienna). This “yearning for metropolitanism”
(J. Morrell) was both a rhetorical exercise and a practical struggle. Many of
these “peripheral” cities tried to present themselves as “progressive”, that is
to say as promoting science, technology, medicine (hygiene) and rational city
planning. Yet the meaning of modernity was highly context-dependent and
historically contingent. The challenge of the comparative research agenda of
the workshop lies in teasing out the differences between these modernities.
“Best practices”
Peripheral – or emerging – cities
understood that the experience of similar cities was much more helpful in
solving their concrete problems than much of the metropolitan model. Therefore
this workshop will try to reconstruct the mechanisms and strategies behind of
choosing certain “best practices”, i.e. urban models that serve smaller cities.
Therefore special attention might be paid to fields such as urban planning,
sewage systems and infrastructure of supply, which played a crucial role in the
modernisation of many “peripheral” cities in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. This search for practical models will thus help to elucidate the
networks between these urban spaces.
This workshop will try and unveil the
directions and channels through which knowledge was created and disseminated in
these interurban networks. Conferences, research trips, lectures, private
visits and correspondence would have to be investigated. The aim would be to
render these transnational communities visible again, not least by bringing
their practices and networks back to a tangible space: the city. To enable a
thorough discussion we plan a double workshop (ca. one and half days long).
Precirculated papers will be presented at the first workshop and revised
versions of these papers at the second workshop. In the end we plan to publish
these papers as a book a special issue of a journal. The first workshop will
take place on 26-27 September 2016 at the Institució Milà i Fontanals in
Barcelona (Spain), the second part at the Herder Institute in Marburg (Germany)
in March 2017. The organisers will cover travel and accommodation costs of the
invited speakers.
Please submit your proposal of ca. 250
words and a short CV as well as contact details by February 15, 2016 to:
forum@herder-institut.de
ORGANISERS
Heidi Hein-Kircher/Eszter
Gantner: Herder Institute for Historical Research on
East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association
Oliver Hochadel: Institució Milà i Fontanals – Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Científi cas
Agustí Nieto-Galan: Centre d’Història de la Ciència (Cehic), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
VENUE/DATE
26-27 September 2016 • Institució Milà i
Fontanals, Barcelona, Spain (first part)
March 2017 • Herder Institute or Historical
Research on East Central Europe, Marburg, Germany (second part)
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Reminder:CFP:The Authenticity of Collections – an international and interdisciplinary symposium on authenticity, recording and digitization
Herder Institute for Historical Research on Eastern Europe, Marburg, Germany
March 7-11, 2016
As a result of the “material turn” of the last decade, collections in and of themselves have become objects of research. The materiality of collected objects, questions regarding their authenticity, selection and recording are subjects of transdiciplinary and conceptual debates.
In order to investigate these complexes, connections, and interdependencies, scholars have combined methodological and theoretical approaches from various disciplines such as history, art history, archeology, and museology. In a world going ever more digital, immaterial ideas, images, and practices of preservation, necessitate a rethinking and reconceptualization of existing orders.
Combining theoretical approaches with everyday practices of collecting and in collections, this symposium will provide a forum for discussion for graduate and post-graduate students.
The host institute of the symposium, the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg, is not only a place for research, but belongs to the few German institutions, where theoretical knowledge on Eastern Europe interacts directly with objects from the region (e.g. books, manuscripts, journals, images). Therefore, the symposium pursues two goals: on the one hand, it off ers a theoretical approach into areas such as Material Cultural Studies and Cultural Heritage Studies; on the other hand, it seeks to illustrate the practices of capturing, recording, and digitizing objects.
To that end, participants have the opportunity to conduct concrete projects in the institute’s three collections, the image, map, and document collection. The symposium aspires to provide an unusual insight into the work in, on, and with collections that diff ers markedly from the experience of “users” and visitors. Thus, following a two-day introduction, the Herder Institute off ers 12 researchers the unique possibility to realize their own projects with the support of the experts working in our collections. Passive knowledge of German and listening comprehension are required.
Please submit your letter of motivation and a short CV as well as contact details
by December 15, 2015 to:
Dr. Eszter Gantner
Email: eszter.gantner@herder-institut.de
March 7-11, 2016
As a result of the “material turn” of the last decade, collections in and of themselves have become objects of research. The materiality of collected objects, questions regarding their authenticity, selection and recording are subjects of transdiciplinary and conceptual debates.
In order to investigate these complexes, connections, and interdependencies, scholars have combined methodological and theoretical approaches from various disciplines such as history, art history, archeology, and museology. In a world going ever more digital, immaterial ideas, images, and practices of preservation, necessitate a rethinking and reconceptualization of existing orders.
Combining theoretical approaches with everyday practices of collecting and in collections, this symposium will provide a forum for discussion for graduate and post-graduate students.
The host institute of the symposium, the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg, is not only a place for research, but belongs to the few German institutions, where theoretical knowledge on Eastern Europe interacts directly with objects from the region (e.g. books, manuscripts, journals, images). Therefore, the symposium pursues two goals: on the one hand, it off ers a theoretical approach into areas such as Material Cultural Studies and Cultural Heritage Studies; on the other hand, it seeks to illustrate the practices of capturing, recording, and digitizing objects.
To that end, participants have the opportunity to conduct concrete projects in the institute’s three collections, the image, map, and document collection. The symposium aspires to provide an unusual insight into the work in, on, and with collections that diff ers markedly from the experience of “users” and visitors. Thus, following a two-day introduction, the Herder Institute off ers 12 researchers the unique possibility to realize their own projects with the support of the experts working in our collections. Passive knowledge of German and listening comprehension are required.
Please submit your letter of motivation and a short CV as well as contact details
by December 15, 2015 to:
Dr. Eszter Gantner
Email: eszter.gantner@herder-institut.de
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