Political Epistemologies of Eastern Europe

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Political Epistemologies of Eastern Europe

Veranstalter
Friedrich Cain (University of Erfurt, Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies), Dietlind Hüchtker (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, GWZO, Leipzig), Bernhard Kleeberg (University of Erfurt, Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies), and Jan Surman (IGITI Higher School of Economics, Moscow / IFK Vienna, Kunstuniversität Linz)
Veranstaltungsort
Kleine Synagoge Erfurt, An der Stadtmünze 4-5 / Max-Weber-Kolleg / University of Erfurt, Steinplatz 2
Ort
Erfurt
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
24.11.2017 - 25.11.2017
Website
https://www.uni-erfurt.de/va/max-weber-kolleg/personen/bernhard-kleeberg/forschung/laufende-forschungsprojekte/east-european-epistemologies/international-workshop/
Von
Friedrich Cain

The first half of the 20th century was an age of global accelerated social and political transformation, at the time and afterwards conceived as either evolution, revolution, or reform. While the entity of Eastern, Middle-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe was heterogeneous, it was home to a number of parallel processes inducing what seem to be similar epistemologies, varying only in local forms. To localize these variations, our workshop focuses on reflections on science, scholarship and higher education done in this region from the end of WWI until the 1960s.

The scholars we want to focus on were not only “scientists of science”, but often analyzed and even heavily influenced political and social change from their specific standpoints, ranging from philosophy, history, sociology, psychology to especially pedagogy. However, most of them positioned their projects at transdisciplinary junctures. They were eager to introduce brand new sciences or at least to fundamentally reshape existing disciplines. Many politically engaged scholars suggested and helped to implement programs to investigate science, thought or creativity in order to foster individual, social or national progress. We understand such projects as political epistemologies – theories of knowledge, that are preconditioned by political convictions. In times of national and cultural plurality – either multiplication or fragmentation – these theories often emphasized a plurality of knowledge.

Our workshop aims to investigate such political epistemologies in their respective academic, regional or national embedding. The workshop has two main interests: First, to uncover the panorama of contributors that goes beyond such prominent figures like Alfred Tarski or Ludwik Fleck in Warsaw and Lviv, Jan Patočka and Emmanuel Rádl in Prague, Boris Hessen and Aleksander Bogdanov in Moscow and St. Petersburg or Karl Mannheim and Michael Polanyi, both born and socialized in Budapest. For this we particularly encourage contributions on persons and places hitherto marginalized in recent research. Second, we want to investigate different theoretical concepts and practical methods that originated in the region and uncover biographies of these concepts and methods, whether local or transnational.

The workshop is envisioned as a first of a series of meetings on (Eastern) European Epistemologies and is meant to open up the discussion on the shape of the respective workshops as well as their possible geographical, topical and personal scope. We plan to publish the workshop papers in an international journal.

Programm

Friday, 24. November 2017
Kleine Synagoge Erfurt, An der Stadtmünze 4-5

1:00 – 1:45
Political Epistemologies of Eastern Europe Introduction
Friedrich Cain, Bernhard Kleeberg (University of Erfurt, Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies)

1:45 – 3:15
PANEL 1 SITUATING KNOWLEDGE: EARLY APPROACHES FROM LAW AND BIOLOGY
Chair: Dietlind Hüchtker (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, GWZO, Leipzig)
Commentary: Bernhard Kleeberg

Political Epistemology of Law: Emancipation Through Disciplinary Transgression. Eugen Ehrlich and the Emergence of Empirical Sociology of Law
Marta Bucholc (University of Bonn)

Emmanuel Rádl (1873-1942) as a Historian of Biology
Tomáš Hermann (Charles University, Prague)

3:15 – 3:45
Coffee break

3:45 – 6:00
PANEL 2 THINKING SCIENCE IN THE INTERWAR I: WESTERN-EASTERN EUROPE
Chair: Jan Surman (IGITI Higher School of Economics, Moscow / IFK Vienna, Kunstuniversität Linz)
Commentary: Peter Haslinger (Herder Institute, Marburg)

Karl Mannheim’s (1893-1947) Structural Analysis in Epistemology and Its Early Reception in Germany
Gábor Gángó (University of Erfurt)

The Relation of Space, Time and Science: Case Studies from Interwar Poland
Katrin Steffen (Nordost-Institut, Lüneburg)

The Nomadic Trajectory of “Social Parallelism”: A Local Example of Political Epistemology (Romania)
Emilia Plosceanu (EHESS Paris)

7:00
Dinner, tba

Saturday, 25. November 2017
Max-Weber-Kolleg / University of Erfurt, Steinplatz 2

9:00 – 10:30
PANEL 3 THINKING SCIENCE IN THE INTERWAR II: COMMUNIST APPROACHES
Chair: Friedrich Cain
Commentary: Jan Surman

Beyond Boris Hessen: New History and Philosophy of Science in Early Soviet Union
Alexander N. Dmitriev (IGITI, Higher School of Economics, Moscow)

The Forgotten Knowledge: Yugoslav Communists and the Epistemology of Natural Sciences, 1930-1950
Vedran Duančić (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb)

10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30
PANEL 4 TRAVELLING REFLEXIVITY I: TRANSNATIONAL ENRICHMENTS
Chair: Jan Surman
Commentary: Kornelia Kończal (Technical University of Dresden)

Alternative Sites of Education. Brussels, Illinois, Warsaw
Friedrich Cain

Looking to the Promised Land: Transatlantic Social Science between Poland and the United States, 1914-1950
Katherine Lebow (Oxford University)

12:30 – 2:00
Lunch

2:00 – 3:30
PANEL 5 TRAVELLING REFLEXIVITY II: COMPARISONS AND COSMOPOLITISMS
Chair: Bernhard Kleeberg
Commentary: Dietlind Hüchtker

Western Africa in Eastern Europe: On a Comparative Approach in Polish Sociology
Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw)

From Geneva to Dubna: How Cosmopolitan Was East Bloc Scientific Cooperation?
Karl Hall (CEU Budapest)

3:30 – 4:00
Coffee break

4:00 – 5:00
ROUNDTABLE: POLITICAL EPISTEMOLOGY AND BEYOND: HISTORICIZING SCIENCE IN CENTRAL, EASTERN AND SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE
Chair: Jan Surman

Discussants:
Claudia Kraft (University of Siegen)
Riccardo Nicolosi (University of Munich)
Monika Wulz (ETH Zürich)
Dietlind Hüchtker

Funded by:
Forum for the Study of the Global Condition
Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt

Kontakt

Friedrich Cain

Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies
University of Erfurt

Friedrich.cain@uni-erfurt.de

https://www.uni-erfurt.de/va/max-weber-kolleg/personen/bernhard-kleeberg/forschung/laufende-forschungsprojekte/east-european-epistemologies/international-workshop/
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02.11.2017
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