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• 01 nov 2017

  London

  Call for papers - Information

  Broadcasting health and disease

  Bodies, markets and television, 1950s-1980s

  The three-day conference aims to investigate how television programmes in their multiplicity approached issues like medical progress and its limits, healthy behaviour or new forms of exercise by adapting them to TV formats and programming...The conference seeks to analyse how television and its evolving formats expressed and staged bodies, health and fitness from local, regional, national and international perspectives. How spectators were invited not only to be TV consuming audiences, but how shows and TV set-ups integrated and sometimes pretended to transform the viewer into a participant of the show. TV programmes spread the conviction that subjects had the ability to shape their own body.

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• 04 déc 2017

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Digital platform-based employment and jobs

  A number of digital platforms (Airbnb, Deliveroo, Uber, etc.) have expanded in recent years by presenting themselves as new types of intermediaries linking end users and the suppliers of labour. The success of these new kinds of companies has intrigued the press, causing polarised debates between advocates of “the sharing economy” and critics of how “uber-isation” damages work and employment. Some of these new economic actors have become multinational enterprises within a very short period of time, generating colossal revenues, whereupon they become quickly and widely lauded as the harbingers of a new digital economy. Yet behind this supposedly innovative business model, one particularity characterising this new type of economic transaction is the fact that the suppliers or labour are often private individuals who neither earn wages nor qualify as bona fide professionals. The correct way of viewing them is as the owners of the means of labour (i.e. labour force) that they - acting in their capacity as independent contractors - either sell directly to consumers or else to other intermediaries.

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• 20 mai 2017

  Strasbourg

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Post-doctoral researcher position – The healthy self as body capital

  Individuals, market-based societies and body politics in visual twentieth century Europe (BodyCapital)

  The European Research Council advanced grant programme “The healthy self as body capital: individuals, market-based societies and body politics in visual twentieth century Europe (BodyCapital)” led by Christian Bonah (université de Strasbourg) and Anja Laukötter (MPIHD, Berlin) on the understanding of body capital and its history, through the twentieth century history of visual mass media (film, TV, Internet) and inédits (amateur, family and private visuals) is now accepting applications for a post-doctoral researcher position for a project related to post-1945 Great Britain.

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• 20 mai 2017

  Strasbourg

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  PhD positions – The healthy self as body capital

  Individuals, market-based societies and body politics in visual twentieth century Europe (BodyCapital)

  The European Research Council advanced grant programme “The healthy self as body capital: individuals, market-based societies and body politics in visual twentieth century Europe (BodyCapital)” led by Christian Bonah (université de Strasbourg) and Anja Laukötter (MPIHD, Berlin) on the understanding of body capital and its history, through the twentieth century history of visual mass media (film, TV, Internet) and inédits (amateur, family and private visuals) is now accepting applications for up to 3 three-year PhD positions.

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• 28 mar 2017

  Paris

  Study days - Sociology

  Investigations into money and consumption in the 20th century

  L'objectif de cette journée d'études est de rassembler des chercheuses et chercheurs étudiant des enquêtes portant sur les modes de vie, le rapport à l’argent et les pratiques de consommation. Nous privilégions de nouveaux travaux revisitant des enquêtes diverses, menées dans un cadre universitaire ou non. Il s’agit de nous interroger d’une part sur l’histoire précise de pratiques d’enquêtes – et des discours normatifs qui peuvent les accompagner – et sur les éléments qu’ils permettent de mettre au jour sur les pratiques quotidiennes de consommation. Le dialogue entre historiens et autres chercheurs en sciences sociales sera privilégié.

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• 24 mar 2017

  25 mar 2017

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Psyche

  Addictions and psychic troubles

  Pour cette quatrième année consécutive de rencontres entre enseignants-chercheurs et cliniciens, nous voudrions nous interroger sur les relations qui existent entre les addictions et les troubles psychiques : est- ce les premières qui conduisent aux seconds, ou est-ce l’inverse, ou les deux sont-ils indépendants ? Et comment la prise en charge des addictions avec commorbidités peut-elle s'effectuer ?

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