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• 01 aoû 2018

  Ottawa

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Thinking the (de)naturalisation of race and sex: Colette Guillaumin

  Un colloque international et multidisciplinaire aura lieu à l'université d'Ottawa à l'été 2019 sur le thème de l'actualité de la pensée de Colette Guillaumin. Décédée en 2017, la sociologue française nous lègue un travail pionnier de dénaturalisation des catégories de race et de sexe. L'objectif du colloque est de revenir sur ses analyses et d'ouvrir sur leur prolongements pour penser le monde d'aujourd'hui.

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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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• 20 déc 2017

  Oracle

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Biocosmos - Our sense of place, our sense of life in the universe

  Planet scientists and exoplanet astronomers are re-shaping our understanding of the universe, presenting a fascinating cosmos filled with places and destinations, not an empty void. At the same time, Earth physicists and biologists design models of self-sustainable ecosystems such as Biosphere 2 and the Mars/Lunar Greenhouse, with the goal of engineering bio-regenerative mini-worlds that can function on their own. As these scientific revolutions unfold, with distant spaces and global life systems as objects of “field work”, what counts as the “human environment”? How do we, as individuals and societies, relate to spaces, things, and processes we do not or cannot experience directly and which we see as “extreme” or “beyond” human?

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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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