November 20. & 21., 2025 | Interdisciplinary Workshop | Universities of Erfurt & Jena

“It is no easy matter […] to arrange the several varieties of work into ‘orders’, and to group the manifold species of arts under few comprehensive genera, so that the mind may grasp the whole at one effort – it is a task of most perplexing character”, Henry Mayhew wrote in his London Labor and the London poor (1849–1851). Mayhew’s early London social research is well known, while it is less well known that he lived in Paris at the end of the 1830s, when the new medium of illustrated journals and collective publications was at its peak, bringing together images and texts, artistic-literary and (popular) scientific circles in a new, creative way. Back in London, Mayhew also worked between journalism and social statistics and deliberately drew on pictorial representations of social types for the latter, shaping imaginations of the social.

We look forward to abstracts (max. 400 words, in pdf format) with proposals for approx. 25- minute presentations together with a short CV by May 2, 2025, to adriana.markantonatos@uni-jena.de. The presentations will be in English, the discussions bilingual English/German. The workshop will take place in Erfurt. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the organizers.

Full Call for Papers

12. February 2025 | 10:00 - 18:00 Uhr | Small Synagogue Erfurt

In February, the Chair for the History of Sciences is hosting another Research Workshop to discuss current research- and publication projects of it's attached and associated researchers.

Among others, contributions from Alexej Lochmatov, Anna Möller, Dirk Schuck, Erik Kaiser, Johanna Hügel, Karin Reichenbach, Nadija Kiss, Sascha R. Harnisch, Sebastian Ripl and Tania Arcimovich will be presented.

The PECEE Research Centre invites its members to the workshop Same Old or New Turn? Political Epistemology Revisited on 10 February 2025 at the International Meeting Centre of the University of Erfurt (IBZ). The event will provide an opportunity to discuss the latest developments and approaches in the field of Political Epistemology. Contributions will be presented by Friedrich Cain (Vienna), Dietlind Huechtker (Vienna), Johanna Hügel (Erfurt), Bernhard Kleeberg (Erfurt), Alexej Lochmatow (Erfurt), Karin Reichenbach (Leipzig), Katrin Steffen (Sussex), Jan Surman (Prague), and Meike Katzek (Erfurt).

More about this event on the website of the PECEE Research Centre

On the 5th of February 2025, two events on the topic of ethnographic collections will take place as part of the cooperation project ‘Cultural Techniques of Collecting’.

From 14:00 to 17:00, Prof. Dr. Anja Laukötter (FSU Jena) is organising a text workshop on ‘Politics of Collecting and Displaying in the museum. On the musealisation of ethnographic artefacts and gender-informed collecting practices in the Museum of Technology’, in which texts by Johanna Hügel and Sophie Kühnlenz will be discussed. The workshop will take place in C03 R110.

To register for the text workshop, please send an e-mail to sophie.kuehnlenz@uni-erfurt.de

Afterwards Prof. Laukötter will open the lecture series ENT-SAMMELN at 18:00 with her evening lecture ‘On the (dis)order of things in the colonial ethnological museum’. The lecture series is open to the public and will take place in C03 Hörsaal 3.