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• 15 sep 2012

  Oxford

  Convocatoria de ponencias - Historia

  Climat et temps : la science comme culture publique

  Communication scientifique et son histoire - 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

  Jornada de estudio - Historia

  Pour une histoire comparative de la régulation des risques industriels, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles

  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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• 08 jui 2012

  Cambridge

  Coloquio - Historia

  Imagined Civities

  Cities and Alternatives in the 19th Century

  Imagined Civities is an interdisciplinary conference examining the changes in the Victorian city. Stemming from The Guild, the 19th century seminar held at Cambridge University, the conference aims to explore any aspect of cultural and intellectual responses to urbanisation in the 19th century. The keynote address will be delivered by Prof. Peter Mandler.For more information and registration, please see http://theguild.posterous.com/

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• 15 fév 2012

  Oxford

  Convocatoria de ponencias - Historia

  Pour une histoire comparée des régulations du risque industriel, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles

  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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