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• 07 jan 2013

  08 jan 2013

  09 jan 2013

  Oxford

  Conference, symposium - History

  Climate and Weather: Science as Public Culture

  Scientific Communication and its History – III

  This conference is the third in a series devoted to historical and contemporary perspectives on the communication of science and technology. Climate and weather provide a particularly rich and challenging case study to complete the conference series. As with other disciplines studied during the previous conferences, the climate sciences are characterised by complexity: in their professional networks; their conceptual models; and the logistics of their large-scale data and computing needs. Yet few modern scientific disciplines attract the same level of public engagement, in both everyday life and passionate debate on the future of the planet. Moreover, their status at the intersection of policy, scientific controversy and the public sphere is not a recent development: the same issues and fault lines ran through meteorology from the 18th-century onwards. Shifting interests within the history of science and the development of environmental history have greatly expanded the field in recent years. The conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on these historiographical developments via a specific focus on the communication of weather and climate from the 18th to the 21st centuries. The conference will address three themes in particular: Commodification of meteorological knowledge, Media, and Historicizing climate history.

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• 30 jui 2010

  Poitiers

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Listening to film?

  Film soundtracks and cultural memory

  Dans une perspective résolument transversale, l’enjeu de cette journée d’étude est de croiser réflexion poétique et étude anthropologique pour repenser l’écoute filmique en inscrivant l’analyse de la bande son d'un film dans le contexte social, culturel et esthétique contemporain de son élaboration.

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• 28 fév 2010

  Paris

  Call for papers - Modern

  "There is no such thing as nature!" Redefining the Concept & Future of Nature in Contemporary Art

  Cette journée tentera de proposer une définition complétée/nouvelle de l’idée de nature en ciblant les interventions sur la production artistique contemporaine. Elle s’intéressera dans un premier temps à penser le paysage contemporain en évoquant les notions de paysage culturel et de paysage comme métaphores des problèmes de société. Dans un second temps, nous nous interrogerons sur la relation qu’entretiennent les hommes à la nature alors que les manipulations génétiques vont bon train, confondant régulièrement les limites entre l’homme et l’animal.

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• 01 avr 2010

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Plague, resource, outlet: visions and uses of urban rivers (18th-20th centuries)

  Theme issue of Geocarrefour (vol. 85, 2010)

  L’objet de ce numéro est d’introduire un croisement entre l’histoire et la géographie au sujet du rapport sociétés/environnement, qui permette de revisiter les profondes mutations des usages et des représentations des rivières urbaines, depuis l’aube de l’industrialisation jusqu'aux temps présents.

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