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Untypical for a Transylvanian Lady? Gender and Nationalism in Modern Science

University of British Columbia. Centre for European Studies

Modern Transylvania, the “Eastern periphery of the Habsburg Empire” has been regarded as a locus classicus of entangled nationalisms. This talk engages with nationalism’s gendered face in the context of nineteenth’ century science and its legacies in the following ones. The starting point is the archaeological practices and vision of the Transylvanian scholar Zsófia Torma (1832-1897) and the reception of her work. Known today as a pioneer of the history of the Neolithic, the Hungarian baroness without formal education developed scientific visions of past civilizations with a political edge that went against the nationalizing grain of her time. In the second part, the talk reflects on the possibilities and limitations of female authorship and authority in East-Central European science, mediated by space, inter-imperial frameworks, social belonging and by gendered traditions of education, practices and language

eng

2023-04-06

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84153

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/