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• 15 déc 2019

  Call for papers - Thought

  What of truth can be taught?

  Ce projet d’ouvrage collectif est porté par Emmanuel Nal (Mulhouse, LISEC, EA 2310, équipe Normes et Valeurs) et Sylvain Roux (Poitiers, MAPP, EA 2626). Il s’inscrit dans le domaine de la philosophie pratique, commun aux axes de recherche des deux laboratoires et s’adresse à un public d’enseignants, mais aussi de soignants et de manière générale à un public citoyen ; son objet consiste à interroger l’état de l’art des recherches menées sur la vérité dans une finalité d’épistémologie de l’action : que peut-on faire et que peut-on enseigner de la vérité ?

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• 30 sep 2019

  Porto Alegre

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Quantum Social Theory: The Future of Sociology?

  In sociology, without explicit basis on quantum theory, numerous streams established strong similarities with it, setting at the forefront of their paradigm: the subjectivity of the observer, the continuous adjustment between the object and the observer, the impossibility to be fully deterministic or discussions about an objective reality. In this session, we invite panellists to discuss the links that can be drawn between quantum theory and sociology. We welcome both empirical (qualitative or quantitative) as well as theoretical papers. Depending on the variety and the quality of the papers, a publication will be considered to set the basis of this emerging theoretical stream.

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• 25 jui 2019

  Lille

  Call for papers - Thought

  Enhancing human in Europe: dream and nightmare of the interwar period

  Number of historians and philosophers consider in general that transhumanism and its aim at enhancing the human through applied science and technology have their roots in the inter-war period: Julian Huxley, Jean Coutrot, John B.S. Haldane or John D. Bernal are indeed massively considered as the precursors of such ideas. But are they the sole references to mention when considering the inter-war origins of transhumanism, or are they just the tip of the iceberg of a broader current of thought emerging at that time? Such question immediately raises another one, which requires clarification : can current transhumanism(s) really be linked to the ideas emerging in the inter-war period ? The aim of the workshop will be first to check whether and how the idea of an enhanced human through technology intervention may have circulated in Europe during that time. Secondly, space will be given to look for pertinent criteria for the identification of a « transhumanism » of the inter-war period, by evaluating the nature of the indices which may be studied: mobilizing ideas, currents of thoughts, schools of thoughts, sociotechnical imaginaries, etc. Within these perspectives, the workshop will make possible comparisons between the different European contexts (England, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, etc.), and the several papers will help us to better understand the circulation of ideas, networks and human exchanges which contributed to forge the cradle of transhumanist ideas. Communications will be in French or in English.

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• 15 nov 2018

  Paris

  Call for papers - Thought

  The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin: Science, Fiction and Ethics for the Anthropocene

  Planetary ethics and aesthetics, interspecies communities, post-gender and anarchist societies, indigenous knowledge, vegetal sentience... The paths Ursula K. Le Guin has opened for our imagination to travel are numerous, subtle itineraries through which we might find ways to better inhabit the XXI^st century. The international bilingual conference "Le Guin's Legacies" will engage with her work from a multiplicity of perspectives, tracing its literary, ecological, philosophical, socio-economical and anthropological ramifications: its potential for re-engineering the world we live in.

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• 18 jui 2017

  Call for papers - Modern

  J.-H. Rosny senior - from origins to the end of time

  For a global history of humanity

  Nous proposons de revisiter l’œuvre romanesque de Rosny aîné en écartant les questions de généricité pour nous pencher sur une dimension prépondérante de son œuvre pourtant presque ignorée : la temporalité. Trois périodes sont envisagées par l’auteur de La Guerre du feu : la préhistoire et l’antiquité, l’écriture et l’étude du présent et l’anticipation de la destinée des sociétés humaines. Ce colloque se propose d’interroger ces temporalités et de chercher chez Rosny aîné la trace d’un projet romanesque et poétique qui consisterait en une tentative – interrompue par sa mort – de produire une histoire « globale » de l’humanité

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• 30 sep 2015

  Vienna

  Call for papers - Sociology

  How Are Science and Technology Engaged in Eco-Innovations?

  3rd ISA Forum of Sociology: joint Session RC23 and RC24

  The aim of this joint session organized during the 3rd ISA Forum is to explore the various ways in which eco-innovations are studied at the intersection of environmental sociology with the sociology of science and technology. The session invites scholars who improve our understanding about the technical resolution of environmental issues. By so doing, we would like to open new paths for analysing the production, the adoption and the institutionalisation of ecoinnovations, but also the mobilization of skills and knowledge.

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