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• 19 sep 2013

  20 sep 2013

  21 sep 2013

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  Democracy and Technology. Europe in Tension from the 19th to the 21st century

  Public debate, social media demonstrations, participative assessment, technocracy and transparency: these are just some of the issues on the growing list of multiple and evolving interactions between technology and democracy in Europe since the middle of the 19^th Century. The sixth Tensions of Europe conference aims historicizing and exploring these complicated links in long-term perspective. It will address key contemporary issues such as the democratization of technology and the vulnerabilities of technological democracies. The conference will close the ANR funded project « Large technical networks and democracy: innovations, practices and interested parties in long-term perspective, from 1880 to the present day ». The conference will also feature the official presentation of the Making Europe book series, more than 40 panels, and of course the traditional untraditional Tensions events – this time in Parisian style!

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• 15 mai 2013

  16 mai 2013

  17 mai 2013

  Dijon

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Strikes and social conflicts

  Combined approaches to conflicts (18th century to present)

  After Lisbon 2011, the second International Conference Strikes and Social Conflicts will be held at the Maison des sciences de l’homme in Dijon (15-17 May 2013). The conference aims to open new avenues for thinking about social conflicts in a multidisciplinary and global perspective. The proliferation of conflicts all over the world today and the profound redefinition of practices in the era of globalization calls for changing perspectives, for an international opening of our horizons and for precise examination of the diversity of practices and imaginaries mobilized by the protagonists.

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