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Ukrainians and Poles Timothy Snyder
8 Ukrainians and Poles timothy snyder Europe’s road to Muscovy passed through Warsaw and Kyiv (Kiev). Despite what one reads in books, the Renaissance and Reformation did reach Muscovy, if by this most indirect route. In the middle of the seventeenth century,Ortho- dox clerics trained in the rhetoric and languages of the Polish Renaissance and Reformation settled in Moscow.As Muscovy’s political power extended across eastern Ukraine and Kiev with Hetman Bohdan Khmelnyts’kyi’s rebellion against Poland ( 1648–54 ) and the Treaty of Eternal Peace between Muscovy and Poland ( 1686), Orthodox clerics came to terms with their new position in a highly backward Orthodox state. Alexis Mikhailovich (r. 1645–76 ) saw them as people capable of improving Muscovite administration, and encouraged the emigration of learned Ukrainians. Iepifanii Slavynets’kyi was an early arrival, in 1649. Symeon Polots’kyi taught Alexis’s children Latin and Polish. The occa- sional Polish Jesuit was allowed to dispute with the Orthodox, as did Andrzej Kwieczynski before he was sent to break rocks in Siberia in 1660. Disputa- tion itself was an import from Poland, and at this time Polish and Latin were understood to be the languages of reason. Latin itself was learned from Polish translations, for example of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’. Ukrainian clerics such as Stepan Iavors’kyi and Teofan Prokopovych were indeed engaged in some fundamental transformations: of themselves as they reoriented Ruthenian Orthodoxy to Moscow, and of Moscow as they reori- ented public life and political thought to the West. Such men introduced the baroque, not only in rhetoric, but in architecture, ceremonial and secu- lar public displays. -
Pdf Aleksander Czekanowski – Odkrywca Trapów Syberyjskich
Przegl¹d Geologiczny, vol. 67, nr 10, 2019 Z MINIONYCH CZASÓW Aleksander Czekanowski – odkrywca trapów syberyjskich Grzegorz Racki1 Aleksander Czekanowski – discoverer of Siberian traps. Prz. Geol., 67: 791–798. A b s t r a c t. Flood basalts (traps) and large igneous provinces (LIPs) belong to the hot topics of modern geology, especially due to their causal links with major evolutionary crises and global catastrophes. However, the history of views on volcanic cataclysms, as well as the recognition stages of particular LIPs are still little known. Surpris- ingly, Polish contribution to this expanding topic may be larger than expected, as exemplified by the issue of field exploration of the largest continental LIP in Siberia. The first exhaustive data were provided in 1873 by Aleksander Czekanowski (1833–1876), a Polish geologist, educated at the universities of Kiev and Dorpat (Tartu),who was exiled by the Russian authorities to Siberia for participation in organizing the Polish January Uprising in 1863. He G. Racki led several large expeditions to distant parts of Siberia, also in the Ni¿nyja (Lower) Tunguska basin. In the summer of 1873, he discovered numerous exposures of basalt lava floods in the tableland along this river, starting from the area between Preobrazhenka and Jerbogachyan. The observations were announced by letters systematically pub- lished in “Izvestiya Imperatorskogo Russkogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva”. As the most important result of the expedition, he quoted in 1876: “the discovery of previously unknown area of igneous rocks of so large extent that it exceeds the size of any other of its kind”. In his diaries, published posthumously in 1896, Czekanowski described the trap locations in detail, documented in many sketches and cross-sections. -
International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences
ISSN 1028-1533 International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences INHIGEO ANNUAL RECORD I No. 46 Covering activitiesI generally in 2013 Issued in 2014 INHIGEO is A Commission of the International Union of Geological Sciences & An affiliate of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Compiled and Edited by Wolf Mayer INHIGEO Editor Printed in Canberra on request Available at www.inhigeo.org 1 | P a g e INSIDE COVER (Please scroll down) 2 | P a g e CONTENTS INHIGEO Annual Record No. 46 (Published in May 2014 covering events generally in 2013) INHIGEO BOARD 7 MESSAGES TO MEMBERS President‘s Message: Kenneth L. Taylor 8 Secretary-General‘s Report: Barry Cooper 9 Editor’s Message: Wolf Mayer 10 INHIGEO 2014 – Asilomar, California, United States 12 INHIGEO 2015 – Beijing 13 INHIGEO 2016 – Cape Town 13 LATER INHIGEO CONFERENCES 14 OTHER INHIGEO BUSINESS NOTICES Liaison with other IUGS Commissions and Task Groups 14 INHIGEO Affiliated Association category 15 INHIGEO Virtual Bibliography 16 A message encouraging INHIGEO members to join HESS 18 INHIGEO CONFERENCE AND EXCURSION REPORTS Report on the INHIGEO Meeting, Manchester, United Kingdom, 22-27 July 2013 19 Pre-congress Field Trip: The Silurian of ‘Siluria’ and the Idea of a Palaeozoic Era 24 Intra-congress trip: Buxton Spar and Buxton Spa 28 Post-congress fieldtrip: Ruskin’s Geology 30 International Congress of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine – Manchester 2013 34 MANCHESTER MANIFESTO 36 3 | P a g e OTHER CONFERENCE REPORTS Past, present and future of human connections to the Antarctic 37 CONFERENCES OF INTEREST The BSHS Annual Conference, 6 July 2014, at the University of St Andrews. -
CONTENTS INHIGEO Newsletter No. 43
1 CONTENTS INHIGEO Newsletter No. 43 (Published in May 2011 covering events generally in 2010) INHIGEO BOARD 4 REPORTS President‟s Message: Silvia Figueirôa 5 Secretary-General‟s Report: Barry Cooper 5 INHIGEO 2011, TOYOHASHI, JAPAN 7 INHIGEO BUSINESS NOTICES Minutes of 2010 INHIGEO Business Meeting, Almadén, Spain 9 Agenda INHIGEO Business Meeting, Toyohashi, Japan, August 2011 13 CONFERENCE REPORTS INHIGEO 2010, Spain 13 IUGS 50th Anniversary Event, Paris 2011 22 “History of polar exploration, co-operation, research and logistics”, Oslo, 2010 23 “History of Antarctica and scientific research”, Buenos Aires, 2010 24 First Symposium: History of Geology of Chile 25 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, Australia 2012 (37th INHIGEO conference) 26 24th International Congress for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Manchester, England 2013 (38th INHIGEO conference) 28 OTHER FORTHCOMING ACTIVITIES 28 AWARDS GSA History of Geology Award (2010) to Gabriel Gohau 30 Reinhard Süring Medal to Cornelia Lüdecke 33 Prix Jubilé 2010 Award to Andrea Westermann 33 OBITUARIES Evgeny Alekseyevich Baskov (1925–2010) 33 Masae Omori (1919- 2011) 35 Alexander Meier Ospovat (1923–2010) 36 Manuel Carlos Serrano Pinto (1936 –2011) 39 Wang Hongzhen (1916- 2010) 40 2 INTERVIEW Interview with Yusheng Zhai, Beijing, China, 21 December 2010, Jiuchen Zhang and Yufeng Zhou 42 ARTICLES IUGS 50th Anniversary History Project, Susan Turner 46 Investigations by the German geologist, H. von Abich, in Armenia, Hayk H. Melik-Adamyan & Christophor V. Khachanov 49 Staszic Fascicules, Andrzej J. Wójcik & Wojciech Narębski 52 Early Geological Maps from Central Europe, Alena Čejchanová 54 Mexican geologic cartography: an exhibition marking the centennial of the UNAM, Lucero Morelos Rodríguez 57 NOTES A special historical gem from Hungary 59 International Year of Crystallography – 2013 60 BOOK REVIEWS Stephen K. -
Siberia, Land of Polish Martyrdom – (Re)Visions of the Myth. Literature, History, Geopoetics, Politics, Cultural Anthropology
Юбилейна научна конференция с международно участие - 2016 SIBERIA, LAND OF POLISH MARTYRDOM – (RE)VISIONS OF THE MYTH. LITERATURE, HISTORY, GEOPOETICS, POLITICS, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Natalia Lemann, PhD (assistant professor) Chair of Theory of Literature, Institute of Contemporary Culture Faculty of Philology, University of Łódź, Poland [email protected]) Abstract: In Polish historical and cultural consciousness, Siberia is the land of Polish martyrdom. From deportations after downfall of November and January Uprisings (XIXth Century) toGUŁag`s hell, it has been the land of suffering and despair for Poles. The aim of the paper is analysing changes in depictions of Siberia in literature, journalism, historiography, memoirs, movies, and public discourse. By using terms derived from varied human sciences, such as philology, anthropology of cultures, cultural studies, including postcolonial studies and imagology, I try to answer why a martyrological, Romantic myth of Siberia is still vivid in Polish public discourse, whereas contemporary literature and reportage are trying to undermine it. The depiction and imagology of Siberia in Polish literature, movies, journalism, and public discourse could be understood as an example of “cultural wars” (L. Koczanowicz) and a postcolonial example of thinking about “Others”, especially Eastern, based on orientalism (E. Said) I will be analysing among others: literature- Anhelli, by J. Słowacki; Dwanaście lat w kraju Jakutów [Twelve years in the Jakut`s country] by W. Sieroszewski, Lód [An Ice] by J. Dukaj, Jakuck. Słownik miejsca [Jakuck. Lexicon of the Location] by M. Książek, Przez dziki Wschód [Through Wild East] ; Długi marsz do wolności [The Long March to Freedom]; Droga umarłych [The Road of the Dead] by Tomasz Grzywaczewski; movies - Long Walk Expedition Plus; The Way Back (Dir. -
Political Exiles As Colonial Agents * : the Russian Geographical Society and Its Exile-Explorers in Siberia, 1860S-1890S
Political Exiles as Colonial Agents * : The Russian Geographical Society and Its Exile-Explorers in Siberia, 1860s-1890s Lynda Yoon-Sun Park** 1. Myths of Siberian Exile In Russian history, Siberia has often been placed in the realm of the mythical. From the time when the first Cossack brigands led by Ermak Timofeevich crossed the Urals in 1581/82 to defeat the khanate of Sibir, Siberia has been seen both as Russia's II gold mine[zolotoe dno]"l} as well as a "vast prison house for the exiles."2) The conventionally accepted narrative of the conquest states that in less than 100 years, Russians conquered Siberia--excluding Kamchatka, the Amur regIOn and Sakhalin--with relative ease and managed to force the indigenous populations to become tribute[yasald-paying subjects of the Russian tsar. * The research for this paper was made possible by the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) and the Social Science Research Council and the Sawyer Fellowship from the University of Michigan. A version of this paper was written for the Sawyer Seminar at the Advanced Study Center of the International Institute, University of Michigan. ** Assistant Director, Russian and East European Center, University of Illinois. 1) James Gibson(l993) "Paradoxical Perceptions of Siberia: Patrician and Plebeian Images up to the Mid-1800s," Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture, eds. Galya Diment and Yuri Slezkine, New York: St. Martin's Press, pp.67-93. 2) K. F. Ryleev(1971) "Voinarskii," Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, Leningrad, p.l92. Quoted in Marc Bassin(l991) "Inventing Siberia: Visions of the Russian Far East in the Early Nineteenth Century," The American Historical Review, 96:3(june), p.774. -
Jaroslaw Kapinski - Touristic CV
Jaroslaw Kapinski - touristic CV I live in Gdańsk, city in Poland at the Baltic Sea and work as a physical oceanographer and coastal engineer. My hobbies and interests are focused on travel and wildlife photography, bushcraft, survival school in wilderness and particularly on active tourism which is aimed at backpacking and extreme expeditions. Therefore, as a destination I usually choose uninhabited or underpopulated areas which are located very far from the madding crowd like extensive mountain ranges, impassable marshes, sun-burned deserts, endless steppes or untouched by human hand primeval forests. I am the immense enthusiast for lowland and mountain trekking, kayaking and cycling throughout the year, cross-country skiing as well as winter swimming at sea. Additionally, I tried my hand at cave exploration, mountain climbing, rafting, horse riding and off-road rally. Many years ago I have been fascinated by the countries of the former Soviet Union. Up to now I travelled across Belarus (trekking across Belovezhskaya Primeval Forest, kayaking on Neman, Yaselda and Shchara rivers), Latvia (kayaking on Salcia, Ula, Merkys and Nemunas rivers in Dzukija), Lithuania, Ukraine (trekking across Charnokhora and Gorganian ranges of Carpathian Mountains as well across Black Sea region) and Russia (Kaliningrad District, Ural Mountains, Caucasus Mountains, Siberia and Russian Far East). Especially I have been bewitched by Siberia, which stretches in the Asiatic part of Russia, because of the beauty and biodiversity of the nature and hospitality of its inhabitants. I visited there many spots and corners as well as discovered a few its secrets like old and contemporary labour camps and Tunguska event (place of big meteorite explosion). -
TOURISM CLUSTER in the Village of Oymyakon, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
OPEN NATIONWIDE COMPETITION WITH INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION FOR THE CONCEPT FOR A TOURISM CLUSTER in the village of Oymyakon, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) https://oymyakon.world CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 1 ABOUT THE COMPETITION 2 NATIONWIDE competition with international participation Prize fund Winner and runners-up The winner will receive up to 500,000 rubles, including all applicable taxes and fees. RUB 2,200,000 The runner-up will receive Total prize fund 300,000 rubles, including all https://oymyakon.world applicable taxes and fees. The 2nd runner-up will receive 200,000 rubles, including all RUB 400,000 applicable taxes and fees. Guaranteed prizes for each finalist, including all applicable taxes and fees Each participant recognized by the judging panel as a finalist will be offered an agreement for the development of a concept for a tourism cluster. COMPETITION SCHEDULE* Final meeting of the Judges. Competition results are Competition begins. Submission deadline Webinar for competition announced. Press Conference Press Conference finalists June 14, 2019 August 29, 2019 May 15, 2019 July 9, 2019 May 30, 2019 June 24, 2019 August 19, 2019 Webinar for competition Judges meet and Submission of competition participants select the finalists proposals *The Organizer retains the right to change the Competition schedule. Information on any changes will be published on the competition website at: https://oymyakon.world 3 Initiated by LETO Competence Center for Issues of the Urban Environment of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) http://letoyakutia.ru The goal of the project is to assist the municipalities of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) as they work on the regional Formation of a Comfortable Urban Environment project. -
2020 Do You Know Poland
DO YOU KNOW POLAND? BOOKS AND INFORMATION ON POLISH HISTORY AND CULTURE General History of Poland Patrice Dabrowski, Poland: The First Thousand Years (2014) Avoiding academic prose yet precise, this sweeping overview of the history of Poland into the 21st century is engagingly written but geared toward more scholarly audiences. Excellent source of knowledge about outstanding individuals, major turning points, and origins of such memorable mottos as " for our freedom and yours" which reverberated through the long history of struggles for Poland's independence and freedom during the 19th and 20th centuries. Norman Davies, God’s Playground: A History of Poland (several editions between 1981 and 2005) The first of the “modern” studies of Poland, this detailed history in two volumes (Volume 1: The origins to 1795 and Volume 2: 1795 to the present) is also widely viewed as one of the best English-language works on the subject. Davies is widely known as a prolific writer and an expert on Polish and European history. Norman Davies, Europe: A History (1995) A highly innovative work that gives proper attention to Poland’s place in European history. From the review section of Good Reads website: "....histories should neither be told as stories or as simply a collection of facts, but something in between: Davies does it to near perfection. The writing is smooth and easily understandable for all." John Radzilowski, A Traveller’s History of Poland (2007, 2nd edition in 2014) Not a travelogue but an outstanding account of Poland's complex history and Poles' invincible spirit. Designed for general audiences, this clearly written and well- organized book includes numerous illustrations, maps, timelines, lists of historical figures, and a gazetteer. -
Polish Geographical Society (1918–2014)
Antoni Jackowski Polish Geographical Society (1918–2014) Warsaw 2014 Antoni Jackowski Polish Geographical Society (1918–2014) Warsaw 2014 Typesetting: Krzysztof Łoboda Printed by: Alf-Graf, Lublin © Copyright by Antoni Jackowski © Copyright by Polish Geographical Society, Warsaw 2014 ISBN 978-83-62089-32-1 1. Introduction The establishment of geographic societies followed a period of geographic discovery, global expeditions, fieldwork in newly discovered territories, and a general spread of work and knowledge in the field of geography. Newly established geographic societies in Europe began to coordinate work in the fast emerging field of geography. The oldest geographic society was founded in 1684 in Venice – Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti. The Venetian society’s patrons included King Jan Sobieski III of Poland. The 19th century saw a marked increase in the number of geographic societies in Europe: Société de Géographie (Paris, 1821), Gesellschaft für Erdkunde (Berlin, 1828), Royal Geographical Society (London, 1830). The countries that had partitioned Poland in the late 18th century also began to establish geographic societies: Russkoje Geografičeskoje Obščestvo (Sankt Petersburg, 1845), Österreichische Geographische Gesellschaft (Vienna, 1856). A number of citizens of occupied Poland also became involved in geographic research throughout the world and many were accepted into leading European geographic societies in the 19th century. The largest number of Polish research successes were achieved as part of the work of the Russian Geographic Society. This was especially true of Poles exiled to Siberia for their work on behalf of Poland’s independence. Those who chose to work with the Society received better living conditions in Siberia and permission to travel. -
Professor Benedykt Dybowski an Outstanding Researcher of Common Natural Heritage of Poland, Belarus and Ukraine
European Neighbourhood Instrument Cross-border Cooperation Programme Poland-Belarus-Ukraine 2014-2020 Publication of the International Scientific Conference PROFESSOR BENEDYKT DYBOWSKI AN OUTSTANDING RESEARCHER OF COMMON NATURAL HERITAGE OF POLAND, BELARUS AND UKRAINE devoted to the 185th anniversary of the birth Lviv 2018 European Neighbourhood Instrument Cross-border Cooperation Programme Poland-Belarus-Ukraine 2014-2020 Publication of the International Scientific Conference Professor Benedykt Dybowski an outstanding researcher of common natural heritage of Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Profesor Benedykt Dybowski – czołowy badacz wspólnego dziedzictwa przyrodniczego Polski, Białorusi i Ukrainy Профессор Бенедикт Дыбовский – выдающийся исследователь современного природного наследия Польши, Беларуси и Украины Професор Бенедикт Дибовський – визначний дослідник спільної природної спадщини Польщі, Білорусі та України УДК 59-051-057.4Дибовський(438+477+476)(092)(082) П84 Збірник статей "Професор Бенедикт Дибовський – визначний дослідник спільної природної спадщини Польщі, Білорусі та України". "Компанія "Імперіал", Львів, 2018. – 180 с. У збірнику вміщено наукові розвідки польських, білоруських та українських дослідників про професійну діяльність Бенедикта Дибовського (1833 – 1930 рр.) – видатного природодослідника, директора Зоологічного музею, завідувача кафедри зоології та порівняльної анатомії, декана філософського факультету Львівського Університету з нагоди 185-річного ювілею з дня його народження та проведення Міжнародної конференції -
INHIGEO Newsletter No 41 (April 2009 Regarding Events in 2008)
ISSN 1028-1533 International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences INHIGEO NEWSLETTER No. 41 for 2008 I Issued in 2009 I INHIGEO is A Commission of the International Union of Geological Sciences & An affiliate of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Sciences Compiled and Edited by Barry J. Cooper INHIGEO Secretary-General Edited in Adelaide and Printed in Sydney, Australia www.inhigeo.org 1 CONTENTS INHIGEO Newsletter No 41 (April 2009 regarding events in 2008) INHIGEO BOARD 3 REPORTS President’s Message: Silvia Figueirôa 3 Secretary-General’s Report: Barry Cooper 4 INHIGEO Annual Meeting for 2009 – Calgary, Canada 5 INHIGEO BUSINESS MEETINGS Minutes of 2008 INHIGEO Business Meeting, Oslo, Norway 7 Agenda INHIGEO Business Meeting Calgary, Canada, 13 August 2009 11 CONFERENCE REPORTS INHIGEO 2008 Oslo, Norway 12 SCAR History of Antarctic Research Action Group Conference, St Petersburg 2008 17 ARTICLE “On Granite, according to Johann W. Goethe” 18 AWARDS Prix Eugène Wegmann” to Martin Rudwick 19 OBITUARY Wolf von Engelhardt (1910-2008): Bernhard Fritscher 21 Goulven Laurent (1925–2008): Gabriel Gohau 21 Kenzo Yagi (1914-2008): Kanenori Suwa 23 INTERVIEW Interview with David Oldroyd, Oslo, Norway, 7–8 August 2008: Jiuchen Zhang 25 FORTHCOMING MEETINGS 37 BOOK REVIEWS Gian Battista Vai and William Cavazza (eds), Four Centuries of the Word Geology: Ulisse Aldrovandi 1603 in Bologna/Quadricentenario della parola geologia: Ulisse Aldrovandi 1603 Bologna , Minerva Edizioni, Bologna, 2004: David Oldroyd 40 Gian Battista Vai and W. Glen E. Caldwell, The Origins of Geology in Italy , The Geological Society of America, Special Paper 411, Boulder, 2006: David Oldroyd 40 Pietro Corsi, Fossils and Reputations .