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Conference, symposium - History
Industrial hazards and accidents (late 17th – late 19th century)
Technological accidents question our industrial society; they are an inherent part of the “risk society” concept that scientists, sociologists, geographers and anthropologists have popularised since the eighties. However, in order to step back and take a longer term view, historicization of the concept is necessary. Although historians have also begun to examine this question, they have focused primarily on the most contemporary period during which spectacular accidents have occurred and have sometimes led to disasters. But industrial (or artisanal or mining) accidents occurred throughout the earlier economic development process in Europe. They went hand in hand with the emergence of the industrial society that they helped to create.
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The progress of perfected industry
Workshops and manufactures in the years between the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire (France 1789 – 1815)
Up until now the revolutionary period has mainly been considered as a period of disruption, especially in the field of luxury industries, which were considered to be at odds with the values of the new emerging social system. It is now possible to show that contrary to this general assumption, continuity can be found in this pivotal period between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The quick re-awakening of the production of luxury goods followed the establishment of the Directoire and its flowering during the Napoleonic years is proof of great flexibility and adjustment to social change and the new paradigms of labor. A number of questions emerge from these observations: what events and changes confronted former royal and later national manufacturers, famous workshops and regional producers in the years between the Ancien Régime and the Bourbon Restoration? In what ways were artists and artisans able to adapt or resign themselves to the new challenges? But also – to what extent did these events stimulate new modes of creativity and production which would have an impact on the development of industrialization in France?
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Neuchâtel
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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Quebec City
Call for papers - Early modern
Les enjeux prioritaires, une évaluation critique de l’archéologie historique au XXIe siècle
Quarante-septième colloque sur l’archéologie historique et subaquatique
L’archéologie historique a évolué autant mondialement que localement. De nouvelles technologies et méthodes d’analyse ainsi que de nouveaux médias ont été utilisés. De plus, de nouveaux participants se sont joints à la communauté. Au cours du dernier quart de siècle, l’expérience des pratiques archéologiques, les programmes d’archéologie communautaire et publique ainsi que les programmes favorisant la participation de descendants ont évolué. Les archéologues de terrain comme on disait anciennement, font face à une gamme vertigineuse de possibilités tout en devant maintenir la qualité des pratiques dans une ère où pullulent les sources et les supports. D’autres archéologues se concentrent exclusivement sur les méthodes analytiques. Cela étant, comment pouvons-nous favoriser de meilleures pratiques pour tous en présence d’autant d’enjeux variés prioritaires ?
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Bordeaux
Supply and European port cities, 16th century to the present day
Ce colloque se propose de tenter de dresser une typologie des dynamiques propres aux villes portuaires en France et en Europe, grâce à la rencontre entre spécialistes du fait portuaire et spécialistes des questions d’approvisionnement. Les villes portuaires sont des lieux d’interactions et d'attraction qui associent le monde du commerce, de la marine, de la pêche et une population de plus en plus nombreuse et cosmopolite du XVIe siècle à nos jours.
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Paris
Industrial hazards and accidents (late 17th – late 19th century)
Technological accidents question our industrial society; they are an inherent part of the “risk society” concept that scientists, sociologists, geographers and anthropologists have popularised since the eighties. However, in order to step back and take a longer term view, historicization of the concept is necessary. Although historians have also begun to examine this question, they have focused primarily on the most contemporary period during which spectacular accidents have occurred and have sometimes led to disasters. But industrial (or artisanal or mining) accidents occurred throughout the earlier economic development process in Europe. They went hand in hand with the emergence of the industrial society that they helped to create.
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Paris
Pour la troisième année, ce séminaire propose d’étudier l’émergence des risques et accidents industriels en Europe de la fin du XVIIe à la fin du XIXe siècle (principalement en France et en Angleterre). Il s’agit de rassembler des problématiques souvent disjointes (techniques, économiques, juridiques, médicales, urbaines, etc.) dans une compréhension globale de leur leur incidence sur nos sociétés. En tant qu’objet d’étude à part entière, ils sont étudiées dans toutes leurs dimensions : prévention, action, réparation… Il s’agit de suivre la chaîne chronologique, philosophique et logique du risque et de l’accident, pour mieux éclairer la mise en place de notre civilisation industrielle. Le séminaire privilégie ainsi la question de l’économie de l’accident industriel, entendu dans un sens très large, où peuvent être analysés les dialectiques prévention / réparation, régulation par la loi / par le marché, savoirs et expertise / décisions politiques, économie / écologie, ou encore techniques et organisations / responsabilités humaines. -
Lyon
Firms and markets (16th-21th centuries)
Seminar 2012-2013, LARHRA, Lyon
La troisième saison du séminaire « Entreprises » du LARHRA est consacrée au thème des relations des entreprises avec les marchés sous toutes leurs formes (marchés du crédit, marchés financiers, marché des biens de consommation, marché du luxe, marchés techniques, marchés du travail). Le marché n’est donc pas abordé seulement à travers la définition abstraite qu’en donne la science économique, mais également dans ses dimensions politique, sociale et culturelle. Ceci justifie d’associer l’histoire moderne à l’histoire contemporaine afin d’interroger la pertinence de la notion pour les périodes antérieures à la Révolution industrielle. La crise actuelle montre la nécessité d’intégrer l’étude des réalités économiques pour comprendre le devenir des sociétés dans la longue durée.
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