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Is the concept of sustainability misleading?
Mixed Perspectives
The Symposium will thus offer an excellent opportunity to question the concept of sustainability at the crossroads of our various disciplines and practices, in order to better understand and master the way it affects environmental research lato sensu. The ambition of this symposium will be to contribute to the emergence of a “new innovative sustainability science discipline” by questioning the misuse that may have been made of the concept over the last forty years, by reflecting on the means of ruling out such abuses, by rigorously drawing the contours of “environmental sustainability” and by trying to understand how it still makes sense.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - Representation
Contemporary American Fiction in the Face of Technical Innovation
Cette conférence se propose d'interroger les relations de la fiction américaine aux innovations qui ont marqué les premières décennies du XXIe siècle : internet, médias sociaux, objets et environnements intelligents, intelligence artificielle, nanotechnologies, ingénierie génétique et autres biotechnologies, transhumanisme. Ces innovations techniques redéfinissent la manière dont nous habitons notre monde, interagissons les uns avec les autres et appréhendons l'humain dans son rapport de plus en plus étroit à la machine, non plus, comme autrefois, soigné ou réparé, mais désormais augmenté ou remplacé. Qu'en est-il alors de nos pratiques artistiques et culturelles ? Ces avancées récentes modifient-ils la langue et la littérature ?
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Clermont-Ferrand
Conference, symposium - Europe
Paradigms, models, scenarios and practices in terms of strong sustainability
While the notion of sustainability continues to be associated with the Brundtland Report (1987) and the concept of sustainable development, a community of sustainability researchers and practitioners increasingly seeks to emancipate the concept to be consistent with the knowledge and aspirations of the moment. The enthusiasm and expectations for more sustainability go beyond mere environmental issues. They touch on crucial social issues as well. The symposium papers intends to question the paradigms, models, scenarios and practices that embody sustainability. One may wonder what meaning should be given to the very idea of sustainability and the representations it conveys.
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Tervuren
The Brussels Map Circle invites you to a whole day of conferences on the cartography of Africa from the 16th to the 19th century. Three renowned speakers, Prof. Em. Elri Liebenberg, Prof. Dr. Imre Demhardt and Wulf Bodenstein will share their knowledge in the prestigious frame of the completely renovated AfricaMuseum in Tervuren (close to Brussels).
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Paris
Artistic theories and practices in the academic context - polarisation and contaminations
La multiplication de cours de pós-graduação (Master, Doctorat et Post-doctorat) dans le champ de l’art au Brésil ces dernières dix années interroge davantage l’interaction entre théories et pratiques dans le contexte académique. La présence de disciplines dans lesquelles s’inscrivent une pratique artistique – arts visuels, musique, danse, théâtre, cinéma, littérature, entre autres – interpelle le binarisme entre art et science et propose des nouvelles formes de perceptions de l’objet d’étude, ainsi que des nouveaux critères d’argumentation et d’évaluation de recherche académique. Comment une pratique artistique peut devenir un objet de recherche académique ? Comment gérer la particularité de ces recherches e de ses résultats ? Quelles sont les stratégies utilisées pour outrepasser les binarismes imposés par les modèles scientifiques tout en emphatisant le pouvoir réflexif de l’art et l’imminente nécessité de créativité pour la formulation théorique ?
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Paris
Conference, symposium - Middle Ages
15th annual conference of the International Medieval Society
The 15th annual conference of the International Medieval Society (IMS-Paris) is organised in collaboration with the Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (LAMOP) and the Centre d’Étude et de Recherches Antiques et Médiévales (CERAM). This year on the theme of “Truth and Fiction.”
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Berlin
Visual History in the Twentieth Century: Bodies, Practices and Emotions
The spring school Visual History in the Twentieth Century: Bodies, Practices, and Emotions invites participants to engage in five days of intensive discussion on the relation between the history of the body, body politics, and film and television in the twentieth century. The spring school will take a transnational perspective and focus particular on developments in Germany, France and Great Britain.
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London
Conference, symposium - History
Broadcasting health and disease
Bodies, markets and television, 1950s-1980s
In the television age, health and the body have been broadcasted in many ways: in short health education films, school television, professional training materials, TV ads, documentaries, reality TV shows and news, as well as stand-alone videos distributed to specific audiences. This three-day conference proposes an exploration of how television formats have influenced and staged bodies, health and healthy practices from local, regional, national and international perspectives, and how these TV programmes spread the conviction that viewers could and should invest in their health and shape their own body.
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Paris
By all measures, Germany played an overwhelming role in the development of philology and linguistics during the 19th century. This ascendancy rests on the transmission to other national academies of theoretical constructs and views, methods and institutional practices. On the other hand, German philological and linguistic ideas, methods and institutions were not constituted in isolation from the rest of the world : Transfers to the German-speaking world must also be taken into account.
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Call for papers - Science studies
Musicologies / ethnomusicologies : évolutions, problèmes, alternatives
NEMO-Online, volume 4, n°6 et 7
These issues continue the debate initiated in NEMO-Online n°5 concerning the usefulness of the science, the problems raised due to powerful and contradictory non-scientific characteristics, and the alternatives which may be proposed.
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Paris
Scales of the Alimentation: an Asian Perspective
The international conference “Scales of the Alimentation: an Asian Perspective” aims at bringing together the French and international scholars of Asia in order to promote a global approach to Asia and to bring together different research institutions based in Europe, therefore to develop the exchanges between different international scholars of Asian societies and experts related to the themes of the food. Our objective is to deliver in-depth analysis and innovative methods arising from research in social and human sciences. We aim to better understand economic, political, institutional, cultural, technological and organizational dynamics of past and present dietary practices in Asia. In particular, we will focus on how the state of food practices and their knowledge is interwoven with other social and technological developments, that are the legacies of expanding and shrinking empires and the mass industrialization.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - Science studies
Engaging Society in Innovation and Creativity
Perspectives from Social Sciences and Humanities
The trend of change from science and technology policy to science, technology and innovation (STI) policy becomes remarkable in Japan but also in Europe. Policymakers intend to break down the sense of economic and social stagnation by creating innovation driven by science and technology. In order to solve complex social issues, innovation is definitely essential. However, it is also obvious that creating “real” innovation needs some other elements than just the development of hard science and technology. Innovation needs integration of knowledge beyond disciplines. Recently the role of social science and humanities (SSH) in the innovation process is being highlighted and science, technology and innovation policy of many countries now expects SSH to play important role in conceiving, realizing and adjusting the policy.
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The social before the sociological rereading 19th-century social thinking
Thematic issue of L'Année sociologique. Guest editor : François Vatin. Volume 67 / 2017, issue 2
It is customary to locate the birth of sociology in the final years of the 19th century. In this respect, the case of France is particularly significant, with the publication of Émile Durkheim’s The Rules of Sociological Method in 1895. Rightly or wrongly, Durkheim’s founding act, more or less transposed into the other intellectual traditions, nevertheless led the variously named schools of social thought that had preceded it - social science, social physiology, social philosophy, social physics, etc. – to be relegated to the dark ages of “prehistory”. It is not the goal of this call for papers to rehabilitate forgotten social traditions, to deny the break that occurred at the end of the 19th century or to diminish the importance of the survey in sociological inquiry. It is to reflect on the pertinence for contemporary sociology of reading the works that preceded the moment conventionally accepted as the birth of sociology.
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Braga
Conference, symposium - Europe
Verba Volant? Oralidade, escrita e memória
Congresso internacional
Na sequência de iniciativas anteriores, e produto do mesmo desejo de aprofundar uma reflexão crítica estimulante sobre a permanência e repercussão da herança da Antiguidade Clássica na Cultura Ocidental de todos os tempos, o Centro de Estudos Filosóficos e Humanísticos da Faculdade de Filosofia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, em Braga, está a organizar, no âmbito da Linha de Investigação de Estudos de Literatura e Cultura, o Congresso Internacional «Verba Volant? Oralidade, Escrita e Memória».
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London
Call for papers - Early modern
Healthy Living in Pre-Modern Europe. The Theory and Practice of the Six Non-Naturals (c.1400-1700)
Vivre sainement dans l'Europe moderne. Théorie et pratique des six choses non-naturelles (1400-1700)
This conference seeks to bring together scholars working on topics related to the role played by the six Non-Naturals in health maintenance in the late-medieval and early modern period. It is well-known that health was thought to depend on the regulation of the six key factors affecting body functions: the air one breathes, sleep, food and drink, evacuations, movement and emotions. In pre-modern medicine careful management of these spheres of life was regarded as crucial if one wished to prevent disease.
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Mexico City
Conference, symposium - America
Circulation internationale des connaissances
Enjeux académiques et scientifiques dans les pays en développement
Este Coloquio Internacional pretende reunir en México, lugar emblemático de encuentros de ideas y situado en el cruce de las Américas, a investigadores de todas las disciplinas y los invita a que presenten trabajos sobre la circulación internacional de saberes entre los países del norte (industrializados) y los del sur (en desarrollo). Con esos propósitos, busca abrir un espacio de diálogo para dar cuenta de cómo se tejen las colaboraciones internacionales entre lugares distantes y distintos, por su posición geográfica, su lengua, su historia y sus ubicaciones en un universo de producción científica globalizado. Entre las temáticas atendidas, sobresaldrá en particular la manera en que estas relaciones se inscriben en las tradiciones de cooperación disciplinaria, algunas consolidadas desde hace más de un siglo, o rompen con ellas. Asimismo, nos interesará establecer las formas en que las prioridades de la cooperación internacional en investigación han sido influenciadas por los procedimientos de garantía de calidad, aplicados desde hace casi dos décadas, y por la homogeneización creciente de los valores y parametros científicos, auspiciada desde hace unos quince años, por los organismos rectores en los campos científicos nacionales. En esta perspectiva, analizaremos las continuidades y las fracturas que en diversas disciplinas han caracterizado las cooperaciones intelectuales, cuyas modalidades de ejercicio oscilan entre la reciprocidad y la dependencia. -
Strasbourg
Call for papers - Science studies
II Simposio de Becarios y Ex Becarios CONACyT en Europa
La Maison Universitaire Franco-Mexicaine (MUFM), en collaboration avec le Conseil National de Science et Technologie (CONACyT) et le Bureau du Parlement Européen, convoquent toute la communauté étudiante mexicaine en Europe pour participer au Il Symposium de Boursiers et ex Boursiers du CONACyT en Europe, qui aura lieu au siège du Parlement Européen á Strasbourg, le 29 et 30 novembre 2012. Grâce au succès du premier Symposium organisé en octobre 2011, ayant réunit une partie des étudiants mexicains en France et en Grande Bretagne, ces institutions ont décidé de reconduire l’expérience en mettant d’avantage l’accent sur la dimension européenne de la manifestation en convoquant toute Ia communauté mexicaine étudiante en Europe. Ce Symposium cherche à construire un espace de réflexion sur les avancées des projets de recherche des étudiants mexicains qui se trouvent actuellement en Europe. Il veille aussi à fortifier les liens au sien de la communauté scientifique du CONACyT, et à encourager l’échange d'expériences dans diverses disciplines. De plus, c’est l’occasion d’établir des relations avec les différents réseaux et associations mexicains en Europe ainsi qu’avec des personnalités et autorités mexicaines et internationales présentes pour cette rencontre. -
Paris
Conference, symposium - Science studies
How did individuals' geographical mobility contributed the circutation of knowledge in East Asia (16th-20th centuries)? In China, Korea and Vietnam, the bureaucratic systems dictated a specific mode of mobility of the elites. But the ways in which individual itineraries shaped the circulation of knowledge need to be studied not only for civil servants, but also for various socio-professional groups, such as the scholars privately employed by high officials, craftsmen, medical doctors, traders, Buddhist monks, and emperors themselves. To these groups should be added the actors of the globalisation of knowledge during this period. -
Grenoble
Conference, symposium - Thought
Debates, Polemics and Controversies in Early Modern Philosophy
Third International Conference of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy
The general objective of the conference is to take an overview of the present historiographical situation regarding the study of controversies and to contribute to a reappraisal of the study of controversies in the history of early modern philosophy. It will aim not only at mapping the many philosophical controversies of the early modern period, but as well at making explicit the different methodological approaches that can be used to analyse controversies and at evaluating the different explanatory merits of those methodological approaches.
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