The conference aims at re-thinking the challenges of “non-simultaneity” (Ungleichzeitigkeit) when applied to the history of science in Eastern and Central Europe. It would like to reflect on dynamic appropriation/rejection of “old/new” and “East/West” dichotomies, on the ways “western” scholarship was perceived and “theories from the East” were proposed.
Date: 01.-03.12..2021
Time: 14:00 - 19:30 CET
Title: History of Science and the Challenges of “Non-simultaneity” in Eastern and Central Europe
Eventtype: Conference
Eventcategory: Funded project
Organisor: Project "Europäische Zeiten"
Placce: Online
The annual conference of the research network project “European Times” (EUTIM) will take place from 1 to 3 December 2021. Under the theme “History of Science and the Challenges of 'Non-simultaneity' in Eastern and Central Europe”, scholars from various disciplines will discuss complex interconnections of knowledge production in “East” and “West”, focusing in particular on manifestations of non-simultaneity. The discussions will concentrate on the category of “theories from the East” and the ways in which “Western” conceptual frameworks have been domesticated in Central and Eastern Europe.
The three panels of the conference will focus on the development of the history of ideas with regard to phenomena of non-simultaneity, literary criticism in Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s and early 1930s, and the complexity of scholarly interactions during the Cold War Period.
The conference will be held online in English and will start on 1 December, 14.00 h, with the opening lecture by Annette Werberger on “Asynchronicities in Cultural and Literary Studies”.
We would like to invite you to participate in the conference and discuss the above mentioned issues.
To participate, please register at ukraine(at)europa-uni.de.
Alternatively, you can follow the conference on Youtube.
The conference is conceived, chaired and organised by Prof. Dr. Andrii Portnov, who holds the Chair of Entangled History of Ukraine at the European University Viadrina and represents the research field History of Science within the EUTIM project.
Europäische Zeiten/European Times – A Transregional Approach to the Societies of Central and Eastern Europe (EUTIM) is a joint project of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), the University of Potsdam and the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin. The research project has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) since April 1, 2021, within the framework of the guideline for the promotion of regional studies (area studies) for an initial period of three years.
