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Oxford

Conference, symposium - Science studies

Sites of Chemistry in the 18th Century

Conference organised by the Maison Française d'Oxford, on the July 4th and 5th, 2011.

Puducherry

Study days - Science studies

Low-Tech / High-Tech

We intend in this workshop to reconsider how new technologies flow and circulate around the globe. One cannot ignore the obvious fact that we are seeing the emergence of new technological and industrial centres which accompany the rapid redistribution of economic power around the world; but one should also take into account the fact that technology is – and has always been – flowing and circulating in much more unexpected ways than predicted by the old-fashioned diffusionist models which are still prevalent, even in these times of globalisation. By privileging in this workshop (and in our collective project) a comparative approach between three very different geographical regions – South Asia, the Middle East and Europe – we hope to be able to propose an approach to technological flow, which will be sufficiently global and comparative, for going beyond the specificities of any particular culture or society, and which may really better help us understand the dynamics of technological circulations and the processes by which technologies are reinvented in different locations.

Paris

Conference, symposium - Science studies

How to make the peripheral "mainstream"

Recent develpments in the historiography of science

Ces dernières années, le développement des études sur l’histoire des sciences dans les régions du monde dont on a longtemps considéré qu’elles n’avaient pas contribué de manière significative au développement historique des sciences s’est accompagné d’une réflexion historiographique approfondie. Ce colloque vise à formuler et discuter des propositions pour placer ces travaux et problématiques de recherche vus comme périphériques au centre de l'histoire des sciences.

London

Call for papers - Science studies

Science, Space, and the Environment

Although the sciences have provided critical resources in environmental debates, their own role in environmental change has been little studied. This conference will explore how the sciences have affected the physical environment.

Tours

Call for papers - Urban studies

Self-managed Co-Housing: born out of need or new ways of life?

In the 21st century, self-organized co-housing is re-appearing in many European countries, in new forms and larger numbers. Cohousing, cooperatives de logement, Genossenschaften or Samenhuizen are types of collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighbourhoods. This "Le Studium® Conference" aims to look at co-housing initiatives in the perspective of sustainable spatial development. Its purpose is both to take stock of ongoing research and practices, as well as to set a research agenda and establish future collaborations.

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Oxford

Seminar - Science studies

Environmental History Seminar Programme 2011-2012

Maison Française d'Oxford seminar cycle

The aims of this seminar are to help bring together British and French researchers working on the same topics or problematics, and to discuss recent research on environmental history. Therefore, the principle is to invite a French and a British colleague to each seminar, to present their own research and then discuss it.

Lisbon

Call for papers - Africa

São Tomé and Príncipe from an interdisciplinary, diachronic and synchronic perspective

International Conference

The International Conference São Tomé and Príncipe from an interdisciplinary, diachronic and synchronic perspective is the result of a partnership between researchers at the Centre of African Studies (CEA) at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) and the Global Development Programme at the Tropical Research Institute (IICT) in Lisbon. As part of on-going research projects, the conference aims to present and share studies and project results from research conducted on São Tomé and Príncipe in various areas of scientific knowledge.

Paris

Conference, symposium - Science studies

Time and Emergence

Le département de philosophie de l’École normale supérieure, le Centre de recherche sur la littérature et la cognition de l’Université de Paris VIII et l’International Society for the Study of Time organisent, les vendredi 14 et samedi 15 octobre 2011, Salle Dussane à L’École normale supérieure de Paris, un symposium sur le thème : temps et émergence. Le symposium, dont le programme suit, favorisera une approche franchement transdiciplinaire du sujet. La participation est libre, dans la mesure des places disponibles.

Gennevilliers

Semiotics as Philosophy for Education

Le séminaire « Semiosis and education », financé conjointement par la PESGB (Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain) et l’Université de Cergy-Pontoise, est organisé dans le cadre des travaux d’un réseau international ayant pour objet les liens entre sémiotique et éducation. Le séminaire qui aura lieu le 3 octobre 2011 fait suite à une première rencontre, organisée en octobre 2008 à Gand, et s’appuie sur un ensemble de travaux de recherche produits depuis plusieurs années.

London

Call for papers - History

Court Medicine: Healthcare Personnel and Sanitary Politics in European Courts, late 15c-18c

Court medical practitioners changed in numbers, occupations and functions during the Renaissance and early modern period (15c-18c) practitioners focused on different specialities within body-care, and took on different roles in the government of Europe’s states. Building on recent work that has concentrated on the history of body care at courts, this workshop will explores changes in court medical politics, practices and practitioners and the consequences they had for, firstly, medical thought, regulation and practice and, secondly, the activities, management and evolution of early modern states.

Oxford

Conference, symposium - Science studies

New Perspectives on Visuality in the History of Science

The workshop will feature four sessions dedicated to some of the most important or well developed areas of visual studies of science: 1 “The making and materiality of visual objects”, includes the materials, techniques, tools and practices involved in the making of visual objects and their conservation; 2 “The circulation of images and of visual cultures” for instance among scientific practitioners, printers, engravers, draughtsmen, and different publics, but also across different publications; 3 “The uses and politics of the image” focuses on the intended functions of images e.g. in science popularization or teaching but also on their less intended uses in other realms and by other publics; and 4 "Images as epistemic objects” asks what roles images and visual objects play in scientific epistemology, e.g. as visual evidence.

Montpellier

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Political studies

Grant for a PhD thesis: International Governance of Emerging Animal Diseases

Cirad is a French research centre working with developing countries to tackle international agricultural and development issue. Cirad proposes a three years grant for a PhD thesis, in political sciences, based in Montpellier France. The thesis will be part of a global pluridisciplinary research project on emerging animal diseases (including virologists, epidemiologists, vets and social scientists. The thesis will address the question of the evolution of the international governance in this field. / Le CIRAD propose une bourse de 3 ans pour une thèse en sociologie politique, sciences politiques, basée à Montpellier, France. Cet travail de thèse s'inscrit dans un projet pluridisciplinaire sur les maladies émergentes animales (réunissant des virologues, épidémiologistes, vétérinaires, sociologues et politistes). La thèse portera sur l'analyse de la gouvernance internationale des émergences zoosanitaires.

Paris

Conference, symposium - Sociology

Ideological competition in economic discipline

Economists and economic discourse in Germany and France, 1980-2007

This "colloque junior" attempts to explore economic expert discourses in their relation to politics and the public in comparative perspective. In view of the most recent economic and financial crisis we intend to bring together young and more advanced scholars in economic history, sociology, and economy to discuss the role of economic knowledge at the interface of sciences and the state. In particular, we are interested in the foundations of its particular scientific and political authority in both countries, and how best it might be described and analysed in a wider transnational context.

Call for papers - Law

Rhetoric and Law

La revue Prima Facie est une revue internationale publiée deux fois par an par le programme de post-graduation en droit de la Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB, Brésil). La revue recherche des articles jusqu'à la fin du mois de juin 2011, concernant le sujet « réthorique et droit ». Ce numéro spécial est dirigé par le professeur Narbal de Marsillac.

Paris

Conference, symposium - Science studies

Reading against the grain

National Historiographies in the Human Sciences seen from an Outsider Perspective.

Ce colloque international veut interroger la situation paradoxale des sciences de l'homme, marquées d'une part par un fort ancrage national et par la lecture, la traduction et l'importation de productions scientifiques étrangères.

Basel

Conference, symposium - Representation

Images of Animate Movement. Representations of Life

The fascinating paradox that we can see life in abstract images is the starting point of this conference. In a drawing of just a few lines, we can immediately recognize a human figure walking. A moving quadrangle can be seen as a crawling caterpillar. And some well-placed moving points are directly joined together in the form of a dancing couple. Again and again, we are astonished that we can actually see a creature moving in the image – even when the image is of such a reduced and simple nature or when it is not even a temporal moving image. How this impression of animate movement can be explained is what is explored at this conference: how can a simple line or form suddenly transform into something so specifically meaningful? How is this transition – this coming to life – to be described? How can it be constructed in the first place? The conference "Images of Animate Movement. Representations of Life" brings together different domains of knowledge in order to approach the phenomenon of animate movement and its images in its complexity in a new way.

Paris

Seminar - Science studies

Machines and imaginations

Nous organisons un séminaire sur le thème "machines et imagination", visant à étudier les différents sens, historiques et contemporains, que peut prendre l'image de la machine.

Oxford

Study days - Science studies

The Past, Present, and Future of Nuclear Power in Great Britain

The Maison française d'Oxford will host this workshop, beginning at 1.30 pm on Thursday 5 May and ending on Friday 6 May at 3 pm. The workshop has been made possible by the support of the Comité d'histoire of the Fondation EDF in collaboration with the Maison française and the history of science, medicine, and technology group in the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. For further details, please contact Robert Fox (robert.fox@history.ox.ac.uk) or Muriel Le Roux (muriel.leroux@history.ox.ac.uk).

Oxford

Conference, symposium - History

Catholic Intellectuals in France in the mid-20th Century

Following the success of the journée d’étude ‘Engaging with Engagement: French Catholic Thought 1930-50’, held at Magdalen College in May 2010, this conference will continue and extend exploration of different types of French Catholic intellectual engagement during the mid-twentieth century, against the backdrop of the ‘crises’ of civilization of the interwar period through to the war years and beyond. The formation of Catholic identities, in their artistic, philosophical, theological and political manifestations, and the shifting norms and values of political and social commitments in relation to their cultural and theological fault lines, are central to our concerns.

Madrid

Call for papers - Thought

Reflections for a pluralistic world

First Bajo Palabra International Philosophy Conference

During the last few years, Bajo Palabra Philosophy Association has been engaged in the task of spreading philosophical research within and beyond the academic world. As a way of continuing these efforts, it is launched the "1st Bajo Palabra International Philosophy Conference: Reflections for a Pluralistic World".

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