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• 01 mai 2020

  Lyon

  Call for papers - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Denunciation or dissimulation? Medical error in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

  Greece, Rome, Egypt, Near-East

  Mediator, Depakine, Thalidomides, contaminated blood, breast implants... health scandals over the past fifty years have regularly focused general attention on the problem of medical risk. They have raised many questions, abundantly relayed by the different media, showing us how crucial and complex the question of medical error is: where did the error come from? But before becoming a scandal, medical error has also been an inherent risk in the practice of medicine, since its very beginning. A mistake in diagnosis, prognosis or therapy, no matter how small, can have disastrous consequences for the doctor and the patient if not detected and corrected. Far from the huge media coverage of current health scandals, what is the status of medical error in ancient medicines and what are its issues?

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• 02 mar 2020

  Frankfurt

  Call for papers - History

  Research and innovation practices in non-academic settings in Europe (17th-21th Centuries)

  The aim of this conference is to examine the production of scientific, medical, technical and artistic knowledge in non-academic settings in Europe between the 17^th and 21^st centuries. The point is to understand who these non-academic social actors were, and to study the interactions between their research conditions, the knowledge produced and its reception. No presupposition on the marginality of or indeed centrality of said social actors should be deduced from the wording of the question. On the contrary, it calls for a study of the complex interactions between social and scholarly social spheres.

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• 07 jan 2020

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Natural, synthetic, and digital: socio-material connections

  Numéro Spécial « Tsantsa » 26

  Ce numéro spécial de la revue Tsantsa souhaite initier une réflexion anthropologique autour des questions suivantes : Com­ment et dans quelle mesure le synthétique et le digital peuvent-ils aussi être biologiques, et qu’y a-t-il de naturel dans des produits et processus artificiels ? Quelles sont les frontières et les formes de contamination entre intelligence humaine et artificielle, entre production digitale et matérielle, ceci aussi bien dans les espaces économiques que dans les sphères intimes de la vie ? Quels questions et enjeux l’émergence de cultures digitales et synthétiques posent-elles à la condition humaine et post-humaine ? Comment le travail, la santé et les pratiques sociales sont-elles transformées par la digitalisation et le synthétisation croissantes des processus de production ? Comment la valeur est-elle créée et définie au travers de ces différents ordres épistémologiques, matériels et sociaux ? Quelles sont les conditions politiques, épistémologiques, écologiques et sociales qui sous-tendent un futur où propriétés digitales et synthétiques sont toujours plus imbriquées ?

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• 04 nov 2019

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Ethnology, prehistory and politics from the late 19th century to the interwar period

  Ce projet de colloque s’inscrit dans le cadre du programme ANR/DFG ANTHROPOS 2 (2018-2020), Une histoire croisée de l’ethnologie et de la préhistoire en Allemagne et en France jusqu’aux années 1960 porté par l’Institut Frobenius et Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle. Il a pour objectif d’étudier les outils conceptuels forgés par la préhistoire et l’ethnologie, en particulier dans le cadre du tournant organiciste depuis le début du XIXe siècle et de l’émergence de la déclinaison de l’idée d’aires culturelles, de montrer les transferts théoriques s’opérant entre ces deux disciplines, tout en analysant leurs origines et implications politiques dans leurs contextes nationaux.

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• 15 avr 2019

  Trier

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Diffusion of zoological knowledge in late Antiquity and The Byzantine period

  The 2019 conference in Trier will focus on this process of diffusion and transformation of zoological data in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Period by selected case studies. We welcome studies on single authors or texts in Greek, Latin and Arabic, studies on visual images and monuments, or – in a wider perspective – on literary genres, different media in the visual arts or specific cultural contexts in view of their influence on literature and art. 

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• 15 jan 2018

  Frankfurt

  Call for papers - History

  The university and politics

  Professors, students and public powers in Europe (1848-1945)

  Cette journée d’études souhaite, sur la période d’un siècle allant des révolutions de 1848 à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, interroger la relation entre l’université et le politique. Il s’agira de réfléchir aux liens multiples entre acteurs du champ universitaire, qu’ils enseignent, étudient ou administrent, et acteurs du champ politique, dans l’espace européen. Une problématique centrale que cette journée d’études propose de questionner est celle de l’autonomie du champ universitaire, de sa constitution et de son éventuelle limitation, par rapport au champ politique, dans une période où l’institution universitaire est en pleine expansion et transformée par la formation de nouvelles disciplines, liée professionnalisation et la spécialisation des métiers scientifiques et intellectuels.

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• 15 sep 2017

  Paris

  Call for papers - Language

  The circulation of linguistic and philological knowledge between Germany and the world, 16th to 20th century

  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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• 15 sep 2014

  Luxembourg City

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Ageing: Between Science and Politics

  An international and pluridisciplinary conference of FRAMAG

  Since the mid-twentieth century, the ageing population has gradually become a major challenge in the industrialised countries for both politics and research. For long, interest in these topics has been sustained by the evolution of the age pyramid, ‘alarmist demography’ (Katz, 1992) along with the fear of a ‘decline’ in population. We invite scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and law to develop local as well as international and comparative approaches to issues related to ageing.

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• 31 mar 2013

  Berne

  Call for papers - History

  Medical expertise in the 20th and 21st centuries

  Medical expertise in the 20th and 21st century / Medizinische Expertise im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert / L'expertise médicale aux XXe et XXIe siècles. Annual conference of the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Sciences, September 5 – 7, 2013, Bern, Switzerland. The conference would like to address the issue from various perspectives and ask e.g. the following questions: To which levels of medical knowledge and activity (skill, professional knowledge, experience, relationship with patients) did and does the claim of expertise refer to? Which strategies, rhetorics and kinds of self-fashioning were and are used in order to achieve, retain or reject the status of expertise? Which was and is the relationship between expertise, profession(nalism), institutionalization and specialization? In what respect is there a difference between a physician's claim of expertise and that of other health professionals?

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