Dear Colleagues,
Is there a specific tradition in the history of HPS in Poland? Does a
Central European perspective on academic networks help us to reformulate
the concept of counter universities?
We cordially invite you to celebrate a new volume about the tradition of
Science Studies in Eastern and Central Europe with us and two of the
main authors:
*“Organising, Optimising and Concealing Science: On Political
Epistemologies in Central and Eastern Europe”*
with Jan Surman (Prague Academy of Science
<https://www.mua.cas.cz/en/lide/detail-surman>, in person), Friedrich
Cain (University of Vienna
<https://fakzen-thks.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/cain-friedrich/>,
in person)
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 11:30-13:00 Uhr CET
Währinger Straße 29, 1.OG, Seminarraum 6
Zoom:
https://univienna.zoom.us/j/66194391940?pwd=c4orxC2pd8jnI5MP5uriEA9hLy86HH.1
Meeting-ID: 661 9439 1940
Kenncode: 871687
After a short introduction of the guests we will disuss two foundational
texts from Polish history of science and knowledge ("science of
science"). For your preparation we would kindly ask you to download the
texts directly from the publishers website, since the whole volume is
available in open access:
Friedrich Cain, Bernhard Kleeberg (Hg.): A New Organon. Science Studies
in Interwar Poland, Mohr Siebeck 2024. (= Historische Wissensforschung 18)
https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/a-new-organon-9783161543159/
We will read the translated texts by:
Ossowska/Ossowski
<https://viewer.content-select.com/pdf/viewer?id=1&id_type=isbn&identifiers=9783161549892&signature=0199fd7198822b431ed10e8b1c40a97da7215f64&session=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000>(1935):
The Science of Science
Bujak
<https://viewer.content-select.com/pdf/viewer?id=1&id_type=isbn&identifiers=9783161549892&signature=0199fd7198822b431ed10e8b1c40a97da7215f64&session=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000>(1929):
The Man of Action and the Student
We would also like to draw your attention to two past conferences:
*"(Re)Thinking the University from, in, and beyond (Post-)Socialist
Europe" (2023) *
https://fakzen-thks.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/z_fakzen_thks/Histor…
*The Counter-University. Histories, Movements, and Ambitions (2025)
*https://engerom.ku.dk/english/calendar/2024/the-counter-university/
For those of you interested in these topics, why not subscribe to the
newsletter of HPS.CESEE, the online platform about the *
History and Philosophy of Science in Central, Eastern, and Southestern
Europe*
https://hpscesee.blogspot.com/
This session of the Research Colloqium History of Science and Knowledge
is addressed to the larger public, please feel free to circulate this
invitation.
Kind regards
Sebastian Felten, Nils Güttler and Anna Echterhölter