20 July 2020 - Publication Announcement: Special Issue of History of Intellectual Culture

Publication Announcement: Special Issue of History of Intellectual Culture Focusing on Central European Émigré Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Cognitive Scientists

By Anzo Nguyen (http://emigreucalgary.blogspot.ca)

This update is part of the regular U of C Émigré Project Updates: (http://emigreucalgary.blogspot.ca/2020/)

            Earlier this month, the latest issue of the open-access journal History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) was released online (editor-in-chief: Dr. Paul J. Stortz, University of Calgary). HIC, which focuses on the historical and cultural context behind the dissemination of scientific ideas throughout history via an interdisciplinary lens, has migrated to a new OJS platform via Drupal following changes to the University of Calgary website. This special issue focuses on the topic of the forced emigration of German-speaking psychiatrists, psychologists, and cognitive scientists from Central Europe resulting from the rise of Nazism. The time period of this special issue ranges from the rise to power of the Nazi Party in Germany in 1933, up to the dissolution of the communist Eastern Bloc in 1989. Furthermore, this issue covers a wide range of topics, including individual biographies of select German-speaking émigrés (e.g. From German Youth to British Soldier to Canadian Psychologist: The Journey of German Émigré Dr. Hugh Lytton [1921-2002] by Erna Kurbegović) and broader investigations on how this large-scale emigration influenced the development of fields such as cognitive science, as explored in Vincent von Hoeckendorf’s “On the Influence of German-Speaking Émigrés on the Emergence of Cognitive Science as a New Interdisciplinary Field”. As a result, this new issue provides new insights from multiple disciplines and perspectives regarding the impact of this understudied period of academic history. As Dr. Frank W. Stahnisch writes in his Introduction to the issue, “Altogether, this special issue of History of Intellectual Culture clearly shows that the long-term migration of scientists and physicians affected both the migrants themselves and their receiving environments.” Indeed, the breadth of this issue adds significantly to the growing body of literature on the forced migration of German-speaking psychologists, cognitive scientists, and related academics.

The full issue can be read on the HIC website via the following link:

https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/hic/issue/view/5140