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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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• 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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• 30 nov 2009

  Paris

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Fitting for Health

  the Economy of Medical Technology in Europe and its Colonies, 1600–1850

  L’histoire de la médecine est-elle celle de ses instruments (Henri Sigerist) ? En dépit de l’importance des techniques pour le diagnostic et les pratiques thérapeutiques depuis l’Antiquité, nous avons une connaissance insuffisante de l’équipement médicale, ses usages et sa production pour la période moderne. Pourtant, des études récentes ont souligné l’importance des forceps dans la prise en charge des naissances difficiles, le rôle de la céramique dans le stockage et la commercialisation des drogues dans l’Europe moderne, le développement parallèle de la petite métallurgie (toyware) et des bandages en métal largement commercialisés dans les colonies, ou encore les techniques visuelles ont associé les cadavres anatomisés, les images imprimées, les cires et les instruments du diagnostic visuel, pour donner quelques exemples.Le colloque vise à présenter des recherches neuves sur la culture matérielle et les pratiques médicales de l'Europe moderne, au carrefour de l’histoire de la médecine, l’histoire des techniques et l’histoire économique.

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