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• 16 jui 2013

  Carouge

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Economy

  Assistant HES (Doctoral student) at Geneva School of Business Administration

  The Geneva School of Business Administration (HEG-Geneva) offers a Research Assistant (Doctoral student) position for three years starting from 1^st September 2013.The doctoral student will participate to the project « Organizing, Communicating, and Costing in Risk Governance: Learning Lessons from the H1N1 Pandemic », financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He or she will be in charge of the research components dedicated to costing around H1N1. This comparative study will involve qualitative fieldwork in three countries, namely Switzerland, the United States and Japan. He or she will collaborate with a post-doctoral fellow focusing on issues related to organization and communication. He or she will have to write a PhD thesis on H1N1 costing issues and will be supervised by Prof. Nathalie Brender. The project is funded for three years.

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• 31 mai 2013

  Geneva

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  A three year post-doc position in the Department of Sociology, University of Geneva (80%)

  Le/la post-doc que nous recrutons sur un poste à 80% participera durant 3 ans au projet financé par le fonds national Suisse de la recherche scientifique (dirigé par la prof. Mathilde Bourrier): « Organizing, Communicating, and Costing in Risk Governance: Learning Lessons from the H1N1 Pandemic ». Il/Elle travaillera plus particulièrement sur les deux composantes du projet portant sur les facteurs organisationnels et communicationnels de la gestion de la pandémie, en Suisse, aux États-Unis et au Japon. La personne recherchée a obtenu son doctorat en sociologie ou en anthropologie depuis moins de 3 ans, d'excellentes capacités à mener des terrains de recherche dans plusieurs pays, et d'un intérêt marqué pour les questions de santé globale (global health).

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• 07 mai 2013	14 mai 2013	18 mai 2013
  21 mai 2013	28 mai 2013

  Neuchâtel

  Lecture series - History

  Manufacturers and merchants : making and exporting clocks and other luxury goods in the 18th century

  Roger Smith is an independent historian who was educated at the University of London. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2006. He is chiefly interested in the organisation of the manufacture and sale of clocks, watches and related luxury articles in the eighteenth century, including international aspects like the migration of craftsmen. He has done much research into the Anglo-Swiss watchmaking firm of Vulliamy of London, and is currently working on a major study of James Cox and his competitors in the trade in clocks and watches from Western Europe to Asia. As well as publishing extensively on such topics, he has acted as historical adviser to museums and auction houses, including the loan exhibition SingSong, Treasures from the Forbidden City at the Museum Speelklok, Utrecht in 2010-11.

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• 08 mar 2013

  Angers

  Study days - Representation

  Waiting bodies / Expected bodies

  Après avoir exploré les écritures de l’attente, les questions du temps (« Le compte à rebours »), de l’espace (« Cartographies de l’attente »), lesdimensions linguistiques (« Approches linguistiques ») et religieuses (« Attentesmessianiques ») cette dernière journée se propose de réfléchir sur l’attente à la lumière d’une question omniprésente ces dernières décennies dans le domaine des sciences humaines et sociales, à savoir celle du corps. À travers ce titre « Corps attendants / corps attendus » nous souhaitons menerune réflexion sur la place du désir de l’autre dans l’attente, sur la tensionet l’attention portée à cet autre, sur le corps comme lieu de concrétisationsymbolique de l’attente.

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• 01 fév 2013

  Fribourg

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Lecturer position in contemporary history

  La Faculté des lettres de l'Université de Fribourg (Suisse) met au concours un poste de Professeur-e ordinaire en histoire contemporaine à temps plein.

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