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