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• 30 sep 2018

  Guelph

  Call for papers - History

  Prisons, Prisoners and Prison Records in Historical Perspective

  The rise of the prison as an institution of mass incarceration for offenders has for long fascinated researchers. In part, this is due to the unusually detailed nature of most prison records. The wide availability of somewhat similar sources across diverse European and European-derived societies provides criminologists, social and economic historians, demographers and other social scientists with rich collections of personal information that have been analysed intensively since the 1970s. The increasing power of software and hardware and the accumulation of very large quantities of prison data, some of it linked to other sources, offers challenges and opportunities for researchers today. The workshop responds to the challenge of harnessing criminal justice records by bringing together scholars in different disciplines and countries to share information about their sources, methodologies of classification and analysis, and to reconceptualize research paradigms.

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• 15 jui 2018

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - History

  Alimentação, saúde e ambiente: sustentabilidade e desafios

  Este seminário marca o início da agenda científica do Grupo de Trabalho Transições Tecnológicas: Memórias, Saberes e Práticas, constituído no âmbito do Colégio F3.​ A articulação entre alimentação, saúde e ambiente expressa, de forma inequívoca, a base em que assenta a relação milenar homem / natureza. Privilegiando uma abordagem multidisciplinar, este encontro pretende ser um fórum de discussão em torno das questões básicas do quotidiano das comunidades humanas, em especial as que respeitam à alimentação e à saúde e bem-estar na sua relação com o ambiente, considerando, por um lado, uma perspetiva de análise histórica que contemple diversidades geográficas, culturais e tecnológicas e, por outro, os desafios atuais face à globalização, à escassez de recursos, à sua sobre-exploração e às inovações tecnológicas para superar as dificuldades e / ou as consequências negativas dessa exploração.

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• 22 jan 2018

  Casablanca

  Call for papers - Economy

  The logic and scope of economic models

  La faculté des sciences juridiques, économiques et sociales AïnChock de l’université Hassan II - Casablanca, organise un colloque en vue de nourrir le débat public au Maroc et de contribuer à la compréhension des questions soulevées plus loin, voire à alimenter les décideurs en repères utiles pour les stratégies qu’ils établissent. Le colloque est ouvert à des contributions relatives à l’expérience de divers pays et notamment la Malaisie,la Corée, le Brésil, la Chine…

   

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• 15 avr 2016

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Private figures, public figures

  Calculation, accountancy and statistics (17th-21st centuries)

  Depuis 2014, le séminaire « Chiffres privés, chiffres publics » (voir chiffres.hypotheses.org) a été l’occasion d’entreprendre une réflexion sur l’histoire de l’élaboration, de la construction et des usages des chiffres privés et publics dans leurs interrelations de l’époque moderne à la période contemporaine. L'approche est résolument interdisciplinaire à la croisée des sciences de gestion, de la sociologie, des sciences politiques, de l’économie, de la statistique, du droit et de l’histoire. La journée d’études prévue a vocation à prolonger ce cycle de séminaires.

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• 07 oct 2012

  Catania

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Visible and invisible: perceiving the city between descriptions and omissions

  VI AISU Congress – Macro-Session II - Numbers

  The conference will focus on the many ways in which the city has been described, narrated, portrayed and quantified in words, numbers and images over the centuries. Description and representation techniques from ancient and medieval times onwards provide an opportunity to initiate a comparison between different cities and contexts, seeking different ways of perceiving the urban whole in its full complexity.

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