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• 01 nov 2017

  London

  Call for papers - Information

  Broadcasting health and disease

  Bodies, markets and television, 1950s-1980s

  The three-day conference aims to investigate how television programmes in their multiplicity approached issues like medical progress and its limits, healthy behaviour or new forms of exercise by adapting them to TV formats and programming...The conference seeks to analyse how television and its evolving formats expressed and staged bodies, health and fitness from local, regional, national and international perspectives. How spectators were invited not only to be TV consuming audiences, but how shows and TV set-ups integrated and sometimes pretended to transform the viewer into a participant of the show. TV programmes spread the conviction that subjects had the ability to shape their own body.

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• 23 sep 2017

  Paris

  Study days - Sociology

  Technologies of the self - normativity and subjectivity in self-evaluation

  Study day by the "Body, Technology and Society" group of the Association française de sociologie (AFS)

  Cette journée d’étude se propose de questionner le processus technico-social par lequel les capteurs d’activité produisent des normes. C’est justement afin d’ouvrir la boîte noire, tant technique que sociale, de la « normativité » des instruments d’auto-mesure, que la journée d’étude convie à dialoguer des intervenants qui s’intéressent à des aspects complémentaire de la « norme ».

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• 20 mai 2017

  Strasbourg

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  PhD positions – The healthy self as body capital

  Individuals, market-based societies and body politics in visual twentieth century Europe (BodyCapital)

  The European Research Council advanced grant programme “The healthy self as body capital: individuals, market-based societies and body politics in visual twentieth century Europe (BodyCapital)” led by Christian Bonah (université de Strasbourg) and Anja Laukötter (MPIHD, Berlin) on the understanding of body capital and its history, through the twentieth century history of visual mass media (film, TV, Internet) and inédits (amateur, family and private visuals) is now accepting applications for up to 3 three-year PhD positions.

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