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• 20 fév 2018

  Chicoutimi

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Technological and scientific mythologies and their incursion into the modern imagination

  Group #307, 86th ACFAS congress

  Ce colloque s’intéresse aux techniques et aux sciences dans la mesure où celles-ci jouent un rôle structurant dans les systèmes symboliques de l’Occident moderne. Sous les termes « mythologies techniques et scientifiques », il cherche à interroger des types de rapport au monde en tant qu’ils sont affectés par des objets, des savoirs et des pratiques associées au dispositif technoscientifique.

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• 15 mar 2017

  Havana

  Call for papers - History

  The politics and poetics of museology

  40th annual ICOFOM symposium

  It has become rather banal to speak of the museum as a place of power. Whether one refers to it as media, as medium, or as device, we must understand that this institution, emblematic of occidental civilization, has always aroused the interests of local political régimes, whatever they may be. The creation of the British Museum and the birth of the Louvre illustrate the many different ways the public has of seeing the links between knowledge and collections. Furthermore the advent of each new political régime (from democracy in America to the Marxist-Leninist system in the Soviet Union, passing by fascist Italy and national-socialist Germany) marks museums with its imprint, as well as its system of communication, preservation and research.

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