{"id":55870,"date":"2026-10-16T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55870"},"modified":"2026-10-15T23:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T21:56:03","slug":"cfp-war-virtues-in-science-and-scholarship-historical-perspectives-on-cultivating-the-images-of-combat-ready-scholars-and-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55870","title":{"rendered":"CfP: War Virtues in Science and Scholarship: Historical perspectives on cultivating the images of combat-ready scholars and scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The concept of virtue has become an important analytical tool within the History of Science. Scholars employing this concept have shifted their focus from scientific ideas themselves to the practices involved in cultivating the \u201cepistemic virtues\u201d that made the emergence of these ideas possible. By \u201cvirtue,\u201d this scholarship understands cultivated traits required to be considered a \u201cgood scholar\u201d or a \u201cgood scientist\u201d in different historical periods. Developing this approach further, recent historiography has proposed extending the application of \u201cvirtue\u201d as an analytical tool beyond the study of purely epistemic aspects of knowledge production and using it to analyse the influence of large-scale rapid political and social transformations on internal processes within science and scholarship. Building on recent developments in political epistemology, our conference aims to advance this line of inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We propose to examine how military and, more broadly, combat-mobilisation discourses have been linked to the promotion of visions of science and scholarship shaped by the logic of war. We ask how, in various historical, regional, political, and social contexts, scientists and scholars have been compelled or encouraged to make \u201cdefeating the enemy\u201d and \u201cdefending sovereignty\u201d central elements of their academic practice, as well as which \u201cvirtues\u201d they were expected to cultivate in order to meet these demands. We are especially interested in how \u201cwar virtues\u201d transformed both the sciences and the humanities; in what ways these \u201cvirtues\u201d reshaped academic institutions; what influence they had on the drawing of boundaries between science and political power; and what forms of resistance to the promotion of \u201cwar virtues\u201d emerged in different academic contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We warmly welcome papers addressing various aspects of this topic, as well as those proposing new perspectives on \u201cwar virtues\u201d as an analytical tool. The conference will focus primarily on modern contexts, but we also welcome papers dealing with early modern, medieval, and ancient topics. Alongside European and US-American subjects, we encourage contributions addressing non-\u201cWestern\u201d contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please send your abstract (max. 300 words) and a short CV or a link to your online profile by 20.12.2026 to wissenschaftsgeschichte@uni-erfurt.de<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conference is organised by the research centre Political Epistemologies of Central and Eastern Europe (PECEE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For questions, please contact Dr. Alexej Lochmatow: alexej.lochmatow@uni-erfurt.de<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>War Virtues in Science and Scholarship: Historical perspectives on cultivating the images of combat-ready scholars and scientists<\/em>, in: H-Soz-Kult, 05.10.2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsozkult.de\/event\/id\/event-164874\">https:\/\/www.hsozkult.de\/event\/id\/event-164874<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti","category-skupovi"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":"\"We propose to examine how military and, more broadly, combat-mobilisation discourses have been linked to the promotion of visions of science and scholarship shaped by the logic of war. 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