“Мемуарна наука”: німецькі колоніальні студії наприкінці ХІХ – на початку ХХ століть

Author(s): Bogdan Storokha / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 92/2015

By making both actual and discursive exploration of exotic lands, in a variety of genres German colonial literature, along with fictional entertaining products, has formed two lines of codified scientific literature. Retaining the ethnographic, geographic and biological (in the context of general anthropology) approaches, it is developing two methods of the discovery verification: with a help of descriptive tools of positivist science and through fusion of a scientific fact with a memoir. It is in the context of the second technique that a body of works of educational and popular character was formed, focused on the cognition of the colonized territories not only by demonstration, but also through the introduction of an autobiographical fictionalized figure of a scientific researcher, an eyewitness. Aimed at the process of learning and discovery, these scientific-journalistic books borrow their technique from the genre literary fiction that allows us to speak about specific modality of “scientifically oriented unverifiable memoir” in German literature of the late nineteenth - early twentieth centuries.

Книги, издадени от Македонски научен институт - София 2013-2014 г.

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2014

Един голям български родолюбец в Канада навърши 80 години

Author(s): Trendafil Atanasov Mitev,Stoyan Germanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2011

Юбилейно за ст.н.с. д-р Димитър Тюлеков

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2010

Вклад ученых Петербургского-Петроградского-Ленинградского университета в разработку кирилло-мефодиевской проблематики

Author(s): Konstantin Logachev / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/1985

Peasant Women in Public Life and in Politics in the Rakosi Era.

Author(s): Ágota Lídia Ispán / Language(s): English Issue: 8/2017

‘Woman questions’ were emphasized in common speech during the time of the party-state in Hungary. In the 1950s this was symbolized by women tractor drivers, Stakhanovites in construction industry, or women who were present in public life and in politics. Mrs Mihály Berki, née Magdolna Szakács was one of the first emblematic female politicians who was appointed the first peasant woman főispán [honorary prefect] from a village at the end of 1948. The central elements of her life story were the social and geographical mobility: how could she adapt to the new roles and environments? What kind of competences did she need? How did she acquire them? Did the image of a peasant woman politician with a kerchief change during her career? I intend to outline a wider social context in connection with the determining features of her career such as her being a female, her peasant background and her institutional socialization.

Шаламанов, Бл. Съдържание на „Македонски преглед“ (списание за наука, литература и обществен живот), год. XIV-XXIII (1991-2000)

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2001

Проф. Добрин Дечев Мичев (1929-2001)

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2001

Krezowie herbu Przeginia – genealogia rodu

Author(s): Zbigniew Anusik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

The subject of the research undertaken by the Author is the history of the Krezas family Przeginia coat of arms from the end of the 14th to the 17th century. It was the middle noble family of Minor Poland, which gained the greatest importance in the first half of the 16th century. The fate of the Krezas family attracted the attention of researchers mainly because one of its representatives – Mikołaj, married Anna Szafraniec of Pieskowa Skała, the natural granddaughter of King Sigismund I the Old. So in the veins of the descendants of this pair, royal blood flowed. Despite of this interest, little has been known about the history of this family. The Author focused his attention on the source search, which enabled him to elaborate the full genealogy of the studied family. In the text presented here, almost all issues that remained unknown until now have been resolved. The Author determined who were the wives of the two most active in the public forum of the great-grandchildren of Sigismund I the Old, i.e. Jan and Marcin Kreza. He proved that Urszula, who had been attributed to Jan as his own daughter so far, was in fact his niece. He found sources from which result that the other of the said brothers – Marcin, left five sons and five daughters. He finally corrected a number of his own mistakes, introduced to the scientific circuit in his text dedicated to the Polish descendants of Sigismund I the Old and Katarzyna Telniczanka.

200 Years from the Establishment of the Superior School of Land Surveying Engineering in the National Language from Wallachia (1818-2018). Remember: Gheorghe Lazăr

Author(s): Gheorghe Nistor,Cristian Onu,Gabriel Săndulache / Language(s): English Issue: 25/2018

The Superior School of Land Surveying Engineering, the first superior education program in Wallachia, was inaugurated two hundred years ago (1818-2018). This memorable event occurred owe to the arduous efforts of a great patriot, Gheorghe Lazăr, who carved a path for Romanians to pursue science and engineering in their maternal language.

Crizele Războiului Rece: o perspectivă americană

Author(s): Octavian Roske / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2019

This is a review of the book "Cold War Through Documents. A Global History", Third Edition, Edited by Edward H. Judge and John W. Langdon, Lanham, Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018, 366 p.

THE IMARET ОF SOFU MEHMED PAŞA IN SOFIA, 1548 – BEGINNING ОF THE 19TH CENTURY (COMPARATIVE NOTES BETWEEN THE FOUNDER’S WILL AND THE REALITIES)

Author(s): Paulina Andonova / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2019

Like any other imaret in the Ottoman Empire that of Sofu Mehmed Paşa located in Sofia and designed by the great architect Mimar Sinan provided shelter, help and free food for the waqf staff, the guests and travelers, the poor and the needy. The paper presents the menu and the recipes of the dishes, the beneficiaries and their portions provided by the soup kitchen whose capacity of work allowed approximately 250 people to be fed. However, the main purpose is not only to introduce data about the services of the imaret according to the founder’s will, but also to establish the functioning of the imaret as revealed in contemporary sources both during the periods of financial stability and during the economic crisis or damages which interrupted and caused changes in the charitable practice of the foundation.

Școala Română din Paris (Fontenay-aux-Roses) – file semnificative din istoria unei instituții românești dispărute în negura timpului

Author(s): Vasile-George Ursu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2019

The beginning of the twentieth century was strongly marked by the FirstWorld War. Among the unexpected results of this conflagration, we can observe an exponential growth of cultural relations between the states involved in the conflict on the same side. If we explicitly look at the Romanian-French cultural relations from this perspective, it becomes obvious that we are dealing with an exceptional example of cultural collaboration on the European continent. The first concrete step of this process was the signing in Bucharest, on June 15, 1919, of The Poincaré-Angelescu Educational Convention, a document according to which the French state provided its support for the consolidation of Romanianeducation, especially in the new provinces that entered the Romanian state. Thus, in Bucharest, the French university mission was created as a separate entity, as a result of this convention. Later, in 1924, it was reorganized into theFrench Institute of Higher Studies. Through these two concrete actions, theFrench state took the initiative and offered its promised support for its ”Latin sister in Eastern Europe”. In the same period, the actions of the Kingdom of Romania in this sense were much slower and more indecisive, requiring a private initiative of the historian N. Iorga. This initiative led to discussions held in Bucharest concerning the establishment of two Romanian Schools in France and Italy. In the case of the Romanian School in France, historian N. Iorga took care of all the organizational efforts aimed at establishing this institution, e.g.: choosing a building in the picturesque suburb of Paris – Fontenay-aux-Roses, which he bought on behalf of the Romanian state, proposing a special law for creating these schools in the Romanian Parliament, lobbying and negotiating in the French political milieu, seeking all the available ways to make sure the project was fulfilled and supervising the entire educational process for the rest of his life.

ROMANIAN COMMUNISTS AND THE INFRINGEMENT OF DIGNITY OF FOREIGN DIPLOMATS IN BUCHAREST (1950-1952). A COLLECTIVE US REACTION

Author(s): Veronica Turcuş / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The present research is focused on two classified American and Italian diplomatic documents that point out the injunctions on the activity of the foreign diplomatic missions in Bucharest exercised by the Romanian Government (Securitate) and to the infringement of the diplomatic immunities and privileges by the same Government. There are described the spying techniques through wiretaps (45 microphones) and environmental recordings. The documents focuses on the direct pressures on the American diplomats and on the service passport staff in order to cooperate with the Securitate and the disappearance of 30 Romanian citizens who worked for the foreign diplomatic missions in Bucharest. The abuses were so great that the head of the Italian Legation in Bucharest asked the change of the whole staff and officials.

A FORGOTTEN CASE OF VIOLATION OF HUMAN DIGNITY (1951-1955): ERALDO PINTORI, ITALIAN DIPLOMATIC OFFICER ON BUCHAREST

Author(s): Şerban Turcuş / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The study refers to a case still little known in Romania’s contemporary history: the arrest of foreign diplomats in Bucharest in order to ensure the economic and commercial advantages for the Communist regime. It’s about Eraldo Pintori, an official at the Italian Legation in Bucharest, kidnapped, arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned by the Bucharest regime in order to negotiate with Italy the ownership of the largest Romanian building abroad - the Accademia di Romania in Rome and obtaining financial and commercial facilities based on the blackmail made with delaying the release of Pintori. It is a serious and obvious case of harm to human dignity in which the political unites with the religious, Pintori being condemned in the „Process against Vatican Spies”.

Historiografski duh, vrijeme i rad u sjeni: Odgovorna misija bosanskohercegovačkih osmanistica

Author(s): Ramiza Smajić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1/2018

The focus of this paper is on female Ottoman scientists, whose results of the research work were embedded in today’s osmanistics. The aim of the paper is not of a bibliographic character, but rather the tendency to define the circumstances that the work of female Ottoman scientists was limited or left in the shadow. The circumstances have been changed largely in accordance to major social-political changes, but it was no longer just a matter of more female scientists in the field of osmanistics. There was a disagreement with regard to the methodology and level of research, changes in the education system of the Ottoman scientists, and problem has remained in the definition itself of what this term covers.

Krátký exkurz do historie konferenčního tlumočení v bývalém Československu a dnešním Česku aneb zamyšlení nad některými paradoxy na trhu tlumočení a v přípravě budoucích profesionálních tlumočníků

Author(s): Ivana Čeňková / Language(s): Czech Issue: 4/2019

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IMAGINING YUGOSLAVIA A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT OR/AND AN IDEA WITH THE PURPOSE

Author(s): Vesko Garčević / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

Given its length and other similar works in this field, this essay has a rather limited ambition. It focuses on a particular argument often used in the nationalistic narrative – the argument that Yugoslavia was an artificial state. The work primarily discusses how the Yugoslav idea was born and argues that the process of “imagining Yugoslavia” captured the zeitgeist of the late 18th and 19th century when modern European nations were born. The Yugoslav idea was a reflection of the epoch of national awakening. Yugoslavia was the embodiment of south Slavs’ dreams and interests to live in one country. It was a social construct much like every other state, and it constructed its identity, myths and collective memory as every other state had done before. The paper argues that Yugoslavia had difficulty to maintain “mass support” because it was a civic nation organized as a multinational state. Its major challenge throughout its short existence was to keep “national and political unity” in congruence, which is, according to Ernest Gellner, a precondition for a nation to exist.

CZŁOWIEKO-ZWIERZĘCE HYBRYDY I CHIMERY W NAUCE. HISTORIA I WSPÓŁCZESNOŚĆ

Author(s): Magdalena Kozhevnikova / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

This article reviews the history and present state of research on the creation of human-animal hybrids and chimeras. The idea has been present in culture since ancient times and was picked up by scientists a long time before breakthroughs in DNA were made. Scientific experiments in the field of chimerization and hybridization are a continuation of thought experiments expressed in a variety of cultural texts and artefacts throughout the history of mankind. The author reviews the scientific implementation of this ancient idea – from simple transplants between different species and different sexes to xenotransplantation and further on to genetic engineering. Today’s development of individual stem cells therapies and the production of new medicines and healthcare products are claimed to be the goal of such research, yet in the future, “upgrades” (enhancement) of people with animal genes and the transfer of selected biological characteristics to the human species will become realistic possibilities. Due to the unpredictable consequences of such research, both concerning individuals and humankind, such a prospect raises serious concern among scientists. As a result, questions appear regarding the potential threat to humankind, which in turn calls for the revision of the concept and development of a new vision of who “man” is in this age of biotechnology.

Przegląd tematyczny opracowań kandydackich i doktorskich bizantynologii rosyjskiej. Część I (rok MMXVI)

Author(s): Błażej Cecota / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

The article is an effect of observing the phenomenon of omission of Byzantinescientific literature in Russian language in the works of Polish researchers, especiallythe younger generation. Due to the need for sharing the basic findingsof Russian Byzantine scientists to a wider group of Polish readers I decided tocommit this text, which was planned as part of the cycle including the analysisof Russian candidate and doctoral dissertations available in free access, owingto a well-developed database of such studies in Russia. Subjects of papers included in my article relate primarily to literary and philosophical issues, historyof art, as well as historical and political issues of the Byzantine Empire.