[9] March 6 - Where was Ukrainian science?
Section outline
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Nineteenth-century national discourses by and about Ukrainian scientists are particularly difficult to trace properly, not only due to bilingualism and the obvious division of constituencies across imperial boundaries, but also because in the Romanov Empire it has been almost exclusively Russianness that has been interrogated vis-à-vis the natural sciences. With reference to both the Shevchenko Society and the eventual founding of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev, we will attempt to assess both the substance as well as the frequent question-begging in early imputations of Ukrainian science.
Presentation: Kateryna
Assigned reading:
Oleksandr Ianata, "Prospects for the development of natural science in Ukraine," Вісник природознавства [Herald of natural science] no. 1 (Kyiv, 1921): 7-13. (Original Ukrainian text; go to page 135.)
Jan Surman, “Science and Terminology In-between Empires: Ukrainian Science in a Search for Its Language in the Nineteenth Century,” History of Science 57 (2018): 260–87.Ukrainian options: E. M. Alyk, "Перша нарада природників України,"Літературно-науковий вісник 71 no. 7-8 (1918): 149-152.
Iv. Krevets'kyi, "Українська Академія Наук у Київі," Літературно-науковий вісник 77 no. 5 (1922): 139-149. Part 2 (no. 6, 251-257). Part 3 (78, no. 7, 63-71).
M. Ivaneiko, "Вартість науки," Літературно-науковий вісник 91 no. 12 (1926): 357-367.
O. Gol'dman, "[Physics in Ukraine on the 10th anniversary of Soviet Ukraine]," Вісник природознавства no. 5-6 (Kharkiv, 1927): 257-272.
Cherntsov, "[October and science in Ukraine]," Prapor marksizmu no. 5 (1929): 127-143.
Bonus material on Belarusian regional studies: M. Kas'piarovich, "Білоруське краєзнавство," Червоний шлях №7 (1.07.1928): 160-.
Russian options: История Харьковского Общества наук (1817).
M. A. Maksimovich, "О степенях сродства между наречиями" (1848).
V. I. Vernadskii, Дневники, 1917-1921, vol. 1 (1997). (Various reflections on Ukrainian politics and the creation of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.)Polish option: "Towarzystwo imienia Szewczenki," Kuryer Lwowski (18 March 1892), 2-3.
German option: Johann Heinrich Blasius, "Reise durch die Ukraine," Reise im europäischen Russland in den Jahren 1840 und 1841, vol. 2 (Braunschweig: George Westermann, 1844), 286-306. [pp. 305-306 are the main passage of interest for present purposes.]
Suggested reading:
Kazimierz Twardowski, Die Universität Lemberg: Materialien zur Beurteilung der Universitätsfrage (Vienna, 1907).
Founding Statute of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Державний вістник no. 75 (1918).
Anton Kotenko, The Ukrainian Project in Search of National Space, 1861-1914, PhD dissertation, CEU (2014).
T. Shcherban' and V. Onoprienko, Джерела з історії Українського наукового товариства в Києві (2008).
G. A. Doronina et al., "Створення Української академії наук у Києві в 1918 р.: хронологія подій," Наука та наукознавство no. 1 (2018): 92-113.
Volodymyr Gnatiuk, Наукове товариство імені Шевченка: З нагоди 50-ліття його засновання (1923).
Anhelina Korobchenko, "The value of the Naturalists Society at Kharkiv University (1869-1930) in the development of scientific research and the popularization of scientific knowledge in Ukraine," History of Science and Technology 9 (Kiev, 2019): 211-224.
Martin Rohde, “Local Knowledge and Amateur Participation. Shevchenko Scientific Society, 1892–1914,” Studia Historiae Scientiarum 18 (2019): 165–218.Martin Rohde, Nationale Wissenschaft zwischen zwei Imperien: die Ševčenko-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 1892-1918 (2022).V. A. Kuchmarenko and V. G. Shmelov, "Українська Академіа наук у 1918-1927 рр.," Архіви України no. 4 (1992): 40-47. [available at www.libraria.ua] -