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• 08 aoû 2020

  Embrun

  Study days - Early modern

  Pierre Jartoux (1169-1720), the original Jesuit of Embrun and scientist in China4

  Le samedi 8 août 2020, à Embrun (Hautes-Alpes), se tiendra une journée d’étude sur l'activité des jésuites scientifiques en Chine aux XVII^e et XVIII^e siècles, à partir du cas particulier du père Pierre Jartoux (Embrun, 1669 - Pékin, 1720), avec la participation d’universitaires, historiens et archivistes, est organisée par le diocèse de Gap et Embrun, en partenariat notamment avec la ville et le Pays S.U.D.

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• 20 sep 2020

  Leuven

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  PhD Position: Languages making History

  KU Leuven, Belgium

  KU Leuven is advertising a four-year PhD position at the Faculty of Arts as part of the FWO-funded project “Languages writing history: the impact of language studies beyond linguistics (1700-1860)”. The aim of this project is to study the history of the language sciences and the formation of linguistics as a discipline from a ‘post-disciplinary’ point of view.

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• 01 mai 2020

  Lyon

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Denunciation or dissimulation? Medical error in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

  Greece, Rome, Egypt, Near-East

  Mediator, Depakine, Thalidomides, contaminated blood, breast implants... health scandals over the past fifty years have regularly focused general attention on the problem of medical risk. They have raised many questions, abundantly relayed by the different media, showing us how crucial and complex the question of medical error is: where did the error come from? But before becoming a scandal, medical error has also been an inherent risk in the practice of medicine, since its very beginning. A mistake in diagnosis, prognosis or therapy, no matter how small, can have disastrous consequences for the doctor and the patient if not detected and corrected. Far from the huge media coverage of current health scandals, what is the status of medical error in ancient medicines and what are its issues?

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• 20 aoû 2020

  Call for papers - Geography

  The politics and geopolitics of translation

  The multilingual circulation of knowledge and transnational histories of geography

  In the last fifty years, the field of the history of geography has moved from an approach dominated by National Schools to an attention to the circulation of knowledge in its multiple scales. The history of science and of geography have in the last decades incorporated concepts such as transit, networks, mobilities, the transnational, circulation, centre of calculation, spaces of knowledge, geographies of science, spatial mobility of knowledge, geographies of reading and geographies of the book. More recently, a turn has emerged towards considering the dynamics and necessities of decolonizing the history of geography. This work is turning the field of the history of geography into one of the most dynamic areas of the discipline. Yet we suggest that questions of language and translation have remained under-determined in this new field. Translation and writing have not received the same attention as, for instance, departmental histories, sites of museums, laboratories, botanic gardens, and scientific societies, for example. We suggest, therefore, that new perspectives opened up by translation studies can open new windows on the history of geography.

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• 01 fév 2020

  Montreal

  Call for papers - History

  Interdiscursive migrations: thinking the circulation of ideas

  Au cours de cette journée d'étude, nous aimerions vous inviter à vous pencher sur ce phénomène largement répandu dans la pensée ancienne et moderne, et que l’on pourrait nommer migration interdiscursive. Il s'agira donc de réfléchir à la perméabilité des frontières qui séparent les différents domaines du savoir en pensant les champ de provenance et les champ d’appartenance d’une idée, en se demandant quand finit le transfert, quand s’achève le voyage. Par ailleurs, il faut comprendre ce qui permet et motive le transfert, puis analyser en retour comment cela affecte le discours d'accueil et comment cette migration est susceptible de transformer l’objet même de ce discours. Il s’agit en somme de penser la circulation des idées.

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