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• 14 nov 2017	12 déc 2017	13 fév 2018
  13 mar 2018	10 avr 2018	...

  Paris

  Seminar - History

  Imaginary techniques and society - research seminar 2017/2018

  Séminaire de recherche 2017/2018

  Ce séminaire de recherche s'adresse aux chercheurs intéressés par les études sur la technique et la technologie en sciences humaines. Il se donne pour objectif l'étude historique des relations entre la technique et les imaginaires et l'impact de cette relation sur la conception des techniques par les diverses sociétés.

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• 22 mai 2017

  Susa

  Summer School - History

  Work organization in Medieval and Modern periods

  6th summer school of economic history

  The topic of the the sixth economic history summer school will enable us to continue and deepen the themes developed over the past few years (the value of things, poverty, common goods, means of payment and quality). While work involves acting on material things, its organization implies a reflection on the property of things, the relationships with time, discipline, control and know-how. On the part of governments, it also requires information that makes it possible to reflect on the state of economic life as well as on all the conflicts endemic to society, to be able to work out legal and practical devices that are necessary for the constitution of a particular knowledge. It also finally questions issues around technical training and the command of various forms of know-how, in contexts that sometimes place some rival systems in a competing situation.

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• 27 mar 2017

  28 mar 2017

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Engineers and society in India

  From c. 1850 to present times

  More than any other, the profession of engineer appears to encapsulate many of the transformations affecting contemporary India today. Engineers symbolise the rise of the so-called middle classes, and the manner in which India has positioned itself as an emerging power in the international labour market, as it has become one of the favourite destinations for major technology firms.

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