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• 14 avr 2019

  Berlin

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Working on Digital Scholarly Editions and Research Software Development in Berlin

  Full-time position (Digital Humanities) at Centro Humboldt – Center for Digital Cultural Heritage Research

  For the launch of an international digitization and digital edition project, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of sciences and humanities (BBAW) invites applications for the position of a Research Assistant (male/female/divers) in the field of Digital Humanities (Digital Scholarly Editions and Research Software Development).The position is based in Berlin, Germany, but includes regular work assignments and team meetings in Havana. The focus of the project is on cultural and scientific historical sources of the 18th and 19th centuries in the context of Alexander von Humboldt's American journey.

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• 29 sep 2017

  Call for papers - History

  Archives, the Digital Turn and Governance in Africa

  “History in Africa” Journal

  This featured section of History in Africa will address the wave of digitisation of archives in Africa over the last fifteen years. With the rise of information technologies, an increasing part of public – and to some extent private - African archives are being digitised and made accessible on the internet. This wave of digitisation is usually seen as a progress with the help of ambitious initiatives applying new technologies to cultural heritage of humanity such as the rescue of the manuscripts of Timbuktu or the Endangered Archives programme at the British Library. Yet as much as these new technologies raise enthusiasm, they also prompt discussions amongst researchers and archivists, which go from intellectual property to sovereignty and governance.

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• 15 oct 2017

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Arpanet (1969-2019)

  “Internet histories. Digital Technology, Culture and Society” journal

  This call aims at revisiting the history and historiography of the Arpanet, at the occasion of the 50^th anniversary of the ancestor of the Internet.

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• 12 mai 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Science studies

  Living Circuits

  Contemporary Cybernetic Performativity in the Life Sciences

  This workshop will be devoted to the relations that currently link cybernetics to the life sciences. There is ample evidence of the existence of these links in the historiographical literature, from the inception of cybernetics in Northern America (Heims) as well as in Europe (Pickering). It is not our purpose to dwell on this here, but only to remember that several doctors in medicine and biologists participated in the first meetings of the cyberneticians funded between 1943 and 1951 by the Macy Foundation, a foundation whose work was mainly concerned with the health sciences...

   

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• 10 déc 2014

  Call for papers - History

  Archive Futures: Operations, Time Objects, Collectives

  Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies

  The Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies – a collaboration between the Bauhaus- Universität Weimar (Internationales Kolleg fürKulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, IKKM) and Princeton University (German Department) – returns to Weimar in 2015 for its fifth installment. The topic will be “Archive Futures: Operations, Time Objects, Collectives”.

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• 09 mar 2012

  10 mar 2012

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Science studies

  Communicating Science and Technology II

  From the 15th century to the present

  Colloque organisé par la Maison française d'Oxford, les 9 et 10 mars 2012.

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