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Call for papers - Science studies
Biocosmos - Our sense of place, our sense of life in the universe
Planet scientists and exoplanet astronomers are re-shaping our understanding of the universe, presenting a fascinating cosmos filled with places and destinations, not an empty void. At the same time, Earth physicists and biologists design models of self-sustainable ecosystems such as Biosphere 2 and the Mars/Lunar Greenhouse, with the goal of engineering bio-regenerative mini-worlds that can function on their own. As these scientific revolutions unfold, with distant spaces and global life systems as objects of “field work”, what counts as the “human environment”? How do we, as individuals and societies, relate to spaces, things, and processes we do not or cannot experience directly and which we see as “extreme” or “beyond” human?
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Corporate authority in the shaping of public policy
The power of corporate business has been a subject of intense debate and many social science studies since the 19th century. This conference is based on the idea that, not only has this power varied among industries, countries and different periods, but also that the way in which it is wielded has evolved over time. By bringing together scholars from various backgrounds within the fields of history, sociology, and political science, we intend to provide new insights on the multiplicity, depth and limits of the forms of influence that corporations, or the organizations furthering their interests – business associations, think tanks, communication or public relations agencies, foundations, etc. –, have on public policy.
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Padua
European Space Agency's Space History Conference
There is more to space than rocket science. Historians, diplomats, economists, law students, political scientists and sociologists have all contributed to our understanding of the space age and its impact on our societies over the past decades. Sixty years on from the placing of the first human-made object in orbit around Earth, space is now an integral part of our daily lives. Space science and technology are projects for the whole of humankind, reaching not only outside Earth’s atmosphere, but also beyond our Solar System. While the technological and scientific challenges of working, living and travelling in space motivate students to pursue such studies, the impact of space activities on our lives on Earth, on relations between nations and organisations, and our collective recent history, provides fertile ground for students and scholars in the humanities to take up space-related subjects.
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Villeurbanne
Scholarship, prize and job offer - History
History of the Saint-Gobain construction platform - an illustration of creative rationality
Doctoral thesis proposal
Proposition de thèse (avec contrat doctoral) dans le cadre de la Chaire Ingénieurs ingénieux (Sciences, Société, Historicité, Éducation et Pratiques, S2HEP/Institut Gaston Berger/Institut national des sciences appliquées, Insa Lyon) financée par Saint-Gobain. Le S2HEP est un laboratoire interdisciplinaire regroupant didacticiens, historiens, philosophes, sociologues, anthropologues des sciences et spécialistes des sciences de l'information et de la communication.
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Paris
The world markets of technosciences - IFRIS study day
Journée d’étude IFRIS
Cette journée a pour objectif de faire le point sur les différentes approches qui ont dominé et dominent aujourd'hui les études sociales sur les sciences et les techniques dans des contextes emergents et en développement. Elle vise aussi à faire partager un intérêt pour des courants de recherche plus vastes qui permettraient d'informer les débats, notamment les études culturelles, les approches postcoloniales, l'écologie politique, les études de genre. Un tel passage en revue permettra de mieux dessiner les grandes lignes d'une discussion collective autour des travaux à venir. La proposition d'une recherche collective sur "les marchés mondiaux des technosciences" sera mise à l'épreuve au cours de cette journée.
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Paris
By all measures, Germany played an overwhelming role in the development of philology and linguistics during the 19th century. This ascendancy rests on the transmission to other national academies of theoretical constructs and views, methods and institutional practices. On the other hand, German philological and linguistic ideas, methods and institutions were not constituted in isolation from the rest of the world : Transfers to the German-speaking world must also be taken into account.
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Zurich
Miscellaneous information - Education
Teaching Gender. Theory and society in the classroom
Now more than ever, gender as an analytical concept is being heavily contested from diverse quarters inside as well as outside academia. The panel discussion addresses key questions of how to teach gender as critical theory in the light of current societal and political tensions on the one hand and institutional constraints inside the university on the other hand. How can we teach “critique”? What does teaching gender mean in terms of methods and topics? And how can we engage in critical research and teaching while responding to societal expectations as to relevant output and knowledge transfer?
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Paris
Conference, symposium - Science studies
Interventions on genomes - what does ethics have to say?
Comment parler des manipulations génétiques entre le mythe, le bénéfice attendu et l’éthique ? Certaines techniques suscitent le débat. N’est-ce pas l’occasion de faire le point sur les avancées de la génétique et de s’interroger sur une certaine vision qui consisterait à réduire la personnalité d'un individu à son génome ?
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Paris
Business, regulation and health and environmental dangers
L’objectif de ce séminaire est de réunir et faire dialoguer ces deux réflexions autour de travaux qui se situent à l’intersection de la sociologie économique, de la sociologie de l’action publique et des science studies. Le projet du séminaire est d’examiner la thématique de la régulation des risques sanitaires et environnementaux en centrant le regard sur le rôle joué par les entreprises, qu’il s’agisse d’actions de lobbying dans les espaces de normalisation, de modélisation des risques, de planification de la vigilance, ou encore de gestion des catastrophes.
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Montreal
Call for papers - Science studies
What if academic research wasn't neutral?
Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS) conference 2017
Ce colloque propose de poser à nouveau la question de la neutralité en science (neutralité des artisans, de la démarche, des méthodes, du langage, des résultats, des publications) : est-elle possible ? Souhaitable ? Indispensable ? Est-ce un leurre ? Une fiction ? Un artifice ? Le colloque abordera ces questions dans quatre axes : épistémologique, politique, éthique et sociétal.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - Sociology
The institutionalization and the internationalization of the social sciences and humanities
Final conference of the European Project Interco-SSH
The program, lead by the CNRS (France) and funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/20072013) under grant agreement n° 319974 (Interco-SSH) is coordinated by Gisèle Sapiro (CNRS, EHESS, Cessp). It gathers seven partner institutions: CNRS, France; Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Italy; Cambridge University, UK; Erasmus University Rotterdam, Pays Bas; University of Graz, Austria; John Wesley Theological College, Hungary; National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina.
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Strasbourg | Lyon | Paris
Bodies and prostheses - lived experience, practices and contexts
La démarche de ce séminaire est de réinterroger la complexité du rapport organique / technologique au travers l'étude et l'analyse des expériences singulières liées à l'utilisation de différentes techniques d'assistance au corps telles que les prothèses, fauteuils, assistances robotiques et informatiques. L'enjeu principal de ce séminaire est d'ouvrir des fenêtres de discussions sur les diverses expériences avec ces différentes technologies à partir de la notion de terrain, de vécus subjectifs et dans une approche transdisciplinaire aux croisements de la sociologie, l'anthropologie, la philosophie, l'éthique, l'ingénierie robotique, la médecine et les sciences de la santé.
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Aix-en-Provence
Call for papers - Science studies
25th Modern Greek Studies Conference of French-speaking universities
The biennial Congress of French-speaking Modern Greek Studies scholars will take place from October 12th to October 14th, 2017 in Aix-en-Provence. Its aim is to bring together researchers from every domain of the humanities and social sciences. The issue at the heart of this 15th Congress is the historical progress of certain areas of study towards the status of full-fledged disciplines of the humanities and social sciences in Greece from the moment of the establishment of the Greek state (1830) and within a context allowing the study of this phenomenon in both its regional and its international dimensions.
The works of the Congress will be organized around the following themes:
1. The emergence, institutionalization, reproduction and diffusion of disciplinary bodies of knowledge.
2. The way each discipline positions itself with relation to other fields of knowledge and implements its theoretical foundations
3. The processes of establishing legitimacy for the new disciplines and for the groups framing them
4. Disciplinarization and the field of Modern Greek Studies
Abstracts must be submitted before February 28th, 2017, in either French or English.
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Call for papers - Science studies
Musicologies / ethnomusicologies : évolutions, problèmes, alternatives
NEMO-Online, volume 4, n°6 et 7
These issues continue the debate initiated in NEMO-Online n°5 concerning the usefulness of the science, the problems raised due to powerful and contradictory non-scientific characteristics, and the alternatives which may be proposed.
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Paris
Norbert Elias - sociologist of knowledge and sciences
L’objectif de cette journée d’études sera double. Il s’agira, d’abord, de retracer l’histoire de cet investissement, inséparable, chez Elias, d’une réflexion plus générale sur la spécificité de la sociologie par rapport à la philosophie et à l’histoire. Il s’agira, ensuite, de profiter de sa position « dominée » et du caractère décalé de ses propositions pour éclairer l’émergence et le développement de la sociologie de la connaissance et des sciences entre les années 1920 et 1980.
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