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• 15 sep 2012

  Oxford

  Call for papers - History

  Climate and Weather: Science as Public Culture

  Scientific Communication and its History – III

  Climate and weather provide a particularly rich and challenging case study to complete the conference series. The climate sciences are characterised by complexity: in their professional networks; their conceptual models; and the logistics of their large-scale data and computing needs. Yet few modern scientific disciplines attract the same level of public engagement, in both everyday life and passionate debate on the future of the planet. Moreover, their status at the intersection of policy, scientific controversy and the public sphere is not a recent development: the same issues and fault lines ran through meteorology from the 18th-century onwards.

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• 18 jui 2012

  Oxford

  Study days - History

  For a comparative history of industrial risks regulation, 18th-19th c.

  If comparison between national or regional contexts has been a driving force for the historiography of the « industrial revolution », and if environmental history has been immediately written on a global scale, the evolution of environmental and risk regulation is often studied according to the national, regional or local scales of the institutions producing the regulations. The aim of this workshop is to invite historians to consider how comparison could advance our understanding of the different ways of regulating risk and environment.

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• 23 avr 2012

  Birmingham

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Complaining about Medicine

  In recent years, studies into experiences of health care have led historians to engage with the issue of the medical complaint. As expressions of dissatisfaction, disquiet and failings in service provision, the complaint is both a vital antidote to progressive histories of health care and, in generating contemporary investigation and debate, has also left a fertile seam for historical research. Often it is only when things go wrong that we begin to understand thecomplexity at work in past events. This two-day international conference will explore what has happened historically when medicine generated complaints.

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• 15 fév 2012

  Oxford

  Call for papers - History

  For a comparative history of industrial risks regulation, 18th – 19th c.

  Le programme de recherche « Histoire des risques et des accidents industriels, France, Grande-Bretagne, fin XVIIe – fin XIXe siècle » propose de réfléchir à la question des risques industriels sur le long terme. Cette journée d'étude a pour but de réfléchir à la question des douleurs de l'industrie dans une perspective comparative.

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