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• 05 déc 2019

  06 déc 2019

  Paris 05 Panthéon

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  What is the human body worth?

  Le corps humain est le lieu privilégié de l’action du médecin. Qu’il soit sain ou plus encore malade, le corps est pris dans le dilemme impossible entre valeur marchande et valeur inestimable. Le coût de notre médecine accentue le risque de faire passer le souci de soi avant le souci de l’autre. À parler de « valeurs », ne risque-t-on pas de suggérer que la vie de l’homme actif, jeune et performant « vaudrait » plus que celle de celui qui est malade, âgé ou handicapé ? La question des « valeurs » est une question dangereuse, car la marchandisation n’est jamais loin, d’autant plus qu’aujourd’hui le corps humain tend à être compris comme un capital. Ne serait-il pas mieux que le corps reste « hors valeur » ? Car si la médecine a un coût, le corps, lui, n’a pas de prix puisque son sort est indissolublement lié à celui de la personne.

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• 04 déc 2019

  05 déc 2019

  06 déc 2019

  Clermont-Ferrand

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  Paradigms, models, scenarios and practices in terms of strong sustainability

  While the notion of sustainability continues to be associated with the Brundtland Report (1987) and the concept of sustainable development, a community of sustainability researchers and practitioners increasingly seeks to emancipate the concept to be consistent with the knowledge and aspirations of the moment. The enthusiasm and expectations for more sustainability go beyond mere environmental issues. They touch on crucial social issues as well. The symposium papers intends to question the paradigms, models, scenarios and practices that embody sustainability. One may wonder what meaning should be given to the very idea of sustainability and the representations it conveys. 

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• 14 nov 2019	12 déc 2019	16 jan 2020
  06 fév 2020	05 mar 2020	...

  Paris

  Seminar - Science studies

  History of Science, History of Text

  The seminar examines the various types of documents produced in the context of scholarly practices in order to understand how the shaping of textual forms and inscriptions is part of the scientific activity. The seminar also aims to understand how these works make it possible to better interpret the sources on which historians of science draw to conduct their research.

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• 07 jui 2019

  Paris

  Study days - Representation

  Biological Perspectives in 21st century Literature and Performance

  New Scales

  In 2019 and 2020, the Sorbonne Nouvelle “science and literature” group will continue to explore the biological imagination in contemporary arts. We are delighted to invite you to two symposiums on Biological Perspectives in 21st-century Literature and Performance : “New Scales”, on June 7th 2019 “New Images”, on June 12th 2020.

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• 25 jui 2019

  Lille

  Call for papers - Thought

  Enhancing human in Europe: dream and nightmare of the interwar period

  Number of historians and philosophers consider in general that transhumanism and its aim at enhancing the human through applied science and technology have their roots in the inter-war period: Julian Huxley, Jean Coutrot, John B.S. Haldane or John D. Bernal are indeed massively considered as the precursors of such ideas. But are they the sole references to mention when considering the inter-war origins of transhumanism, or are they just the tip of the iceberg of a broader current of thought emerging at that time? Such question immediately raises another one, which requires clarification : can current transhumanism(s) really be linked to the ideas emerging in the inter-war period ? The aim of the workshop will be first to check whether and how the idea of an enhanced human through technology intervention may have circulated in Europe during that time. Secondly, space will be given to look for pertinent criteria for the identification of a « transhumanism » of the inter-war period, by evaluating the nature of the indices which may be studied: mobilizing ideas, currents of thoughts, schools of thoughts, sociotechnical imaginaries, etc. Within these perspectives, the workshop will make possible comparisons between the different European contexts (England, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, etc.), and the several papers will help us to better understand the circulation of ideas, networks and human exchanges which contributed to forge the cradle of transhumanist ideas. Communications will be in French or in English.

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• 04 oct 2018	15 nov 2018	06 déc 2018
  17 jan 2019	07 fév 2019	...

  Paris

  Seminar - Europe

  What vivacity - 4th seminar in emersiology

  4ème séminaire d'émersiologie

  La matière de notre corps vivant ne cesse de se modifier. Sous l’apparence de la forme qui paraît rester la, même, notre matière vivante est modifiée par les effets de l’environnement, par l’action des autres. Faire preuve de vivacité est cette énergie créatrice, dont Bergson soulignait déjà sa puissance, qui pulse en nous sans jamais se satisfaire. Réagir avec vivacité, ne pas se laisser faire, avoir du caractère, la vivacité se distingue de la viralité par son caractère non colonisateur, elle répond à l’invasion. La vivacité d’esprit n’est pas la vitesse mais la production rapide de solutions adaptées à l’action in situ.

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