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• 01 déc 2018

  Oxford

  Call for papers - Modern

  Race, Gender and Technology in Science-Fiction

  The Maison Française conference committee invites proposals that examine the themes of race, gender and technology in science-fiction from the classical period to the present, in all media (print, film, television…) and from any continent.

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• 22 nov 2018

  23 nov 2018

  Lyon

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Biologising social facts

  "Biology" as a justification of discourses and practices

  La notion de biologisation du social renvoie à une forme croissante de justifications individuelles ou collectives des pratiques sociales : il s’agit de faire référence à une biologie réelle ou fantasmée pour légitimer les manières de dire, de penser et d’agir. Cette biologisation traduit une forme d’importation du vocabulaire et des résultats des sciences biologiques dans les discours et les pratiques, scientifiques comme ordinaires . 

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• 20 avr 2018

  21 avr 2018

  Geneva

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  Gendering Humanitarian Knowledge

  Global Histories of Compassion from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present

  The conference invites scholars to think about the notion of "humanitarian knowledge" in a multidisciplinary way, by combining perspectives such as gender history, the histories ofemotions and the body, literary and visual culture studies, global health history, as well as the history of institutions and their agents. All of them are useful to explore the transnational networks through which humanitarian practices and ideas have been promoted, disseminated and standardised.The conference brings together scholars interested in working on the history of humanitarian knowledge from a gender perspective. The interventions deal with stories of flesh and blood, which put women’s and men’s humanitarian experiences at their centre, in order to inscribe their local practices within a global history of compassion from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

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• 01 jui 2018

  Lausanne

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Minimising Risks, Selling Promises?

  Reproductive Health, Techno-Scientific Innovations and the Production of Ignorance

  Over the last decades, medical techno-scientific innovations have radically transformed reproductive processes at every level by putting the reproductive body under strict biomedical surveillance and submitting it to significant technological manipulation. Most of these innovations, often promoted as miracles and even revolutions, were generalised very rapidly thanks to ever-growing national and global markets. Their side effects on health were, however, insufficiently studied, or even ignored, until scandals (diethylstilbestrol, thalidomide, primodos, Dalkon Shield) or controversies (contraceptive pill, hormonal replacement therapy) unavoidably made them public. At the crossroads of STS, sociology of risk, medical anthropology, gender studies and ignorance studies, the aim of this international conference is to analyse the dynamics of ignorance production prior to, during but also after the rapid expansion of reproductive technologies, innovations and products.

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