Online seminar series: Academic authority and the politics of science and history in Eastern Europe

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During June and July 2020, several online seminars will be held on the topic of academic authority and the scholar as the central figure of knowledge production. The online seminar is a fifth event organized by the Erfurt/Leipzig/Moscow working group on Political Epistemologies of (Eastern) Europe.

Observing a basic diversity and continuous transformation of epistemologies along with the emergence as well as destabilization or decline of epistemic authorities, the seminar discusses the history of epistemological shifts in Central and Eastern Europe over the past fifty years. While directing its gaze at a recently contested expert of knowledge production – the scholar, it aims to investigate historical challenges of (academic) scholarship’s role as the paramount producer of scientific truth.

To participate in the seminar please contact Dr. Friedrich Cain.

Organizers: Friedrich Cain, Bernhard Kleeberg (Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt), Dietlind Hüchtker (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, Leipzig), Karin Reichenbach (University of Leipzig), Jan Surman (Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow)

 

16.6.2020, 19:00-21:00 Moscow time

Friedrich Cain/Dietlind Hüchtker/Bernhard Kleeberg/Karin Reichenbach/Jan Surman: “Academic Authority and the Politics of Science and His­to­ry in Eastern Europe – Introduction”

Michał Pawleta (Poznań): In the Shadow of the Omnipresent Past: The New Approach of the Contemporary Poles to the Past

 

30.6.2020, 19:00-21:00 Moscow time

Miglena Nikolchina (Sofia): Is Literary Theory Dead?

Andrea Pető (Budapest): Making Illiberal Memory Politics via Creating Alternative Systems and In­sti­tutions of Academic Authority

 

7.7.2020, 19:00-21:00 Moscow time

Anne Kluger (Münster): “Honecker’s Vassal” or a Prehistorian in Service of Science? The Concept of “the Scholar” in the Debate on Joachim Herrmann and the Evaluation of Former East-German Re­searchers in Reunified Germany

Ionuț Mircea Marcu (Bucharest): The Historiographical Field in Post-Socialist Romania: Institutions, Ca­reers and Epistemic Innovations

14.7.2020, 19:00-21:00 Moscow time

Ella Rossman (Moscow): Gender and Gender History in Post-Soviet Russia: Depoliticization of Ter­mi­nology and Disciplinary Marginalization

Andreas Langenohl (Gießen): History and the Memory Wars of the Wild 1990s: The Case of Russia

 

The online seminar is part of the Kolloquium “Wissenschaftsgeschichte”, University of Erfurt. 

Organized in cooperation with: 

  • Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt
  • Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, Leipzig
  • Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow