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The televisual spaces of medicine and health in the 20th Century
Medical television programmes, across their history, have had specific relationships to places and spaces. On the one level, they have represented medical and health places: consulting rooms, hospitals, the home, community spaces, public health infrastructures and the rest. As television-producers have represented these places, there has been an interaction with the developing capabilities of television technologies and grammars. Moreover, producers have borrowed their imaginaries of medical and health places from other media (film, photographs, museum displays etc.) and integrated, adjusted and reformulated them into their work.
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Oxford
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Thought
Research residencies at the Maison française d'Oxford
La Maison française d’Oxford (MFO, USR 3129, UMIFRE 11) accueille des chercheurs CNRS et/ou des enseignants-chercheurs en provenance des établissements supérieurs d’enseignement et de recherche français pour une durée de deux années consécutives. Ces chercheurs ou enseignants-chercheurs doivent présenter des projets de recherche s’inscrivant dans une perspective interdisciplinaire (si possible sciences humaines/sciences exactes ou humanités numériques) et privilégiant une approche franco-britannique. Ces projets de recherche devront, de préférence, être en synergie avec les disciplines et thématiques prioritaires définies pour l’année en cours, et/ou avec les axes de recherche existants de la MFO présentés sur le site internet.
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London
Conference, symposium - History
Tele(visualising) health: TV, public health, its enthusiasts and its publics
Televisions began to appear in the homes of large numbers of the public in Europe and North America after World War II. This coincided with a period in which ideas about the public’s health, the problems that it faced and the solutions that could be offered, were changing. The threat posed by infectious diseases was receding, to be replaced by chronic conditions linked to lifestyle and individual behaviour. Public health professionals were enthusiastic about how this new technology. TV offered a way to reach large numbers of people with public health messages; it symbolised the post war optimism about new directions in public health. But it could also act as a contributory factor to those new public health problems.
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London
Tele(visualising) health: TV, public health, its enthusiasts and its publics
The conference aims to bring together scholars from different fields (such as, but not limited to, history, history of science, history of medicine, communication, media and film studies, television studies) working on the history of television in Great Britain, France and Germany (West and East) (the focus of the ERC BodyCapital project), but also other European countries, North and South America, Russia, Asia or other countries and areas. Papers might focus on one national, regional or even local framework. Considering the history of health-related (audio-) visuals as a history of transfer, as entangled history or with a comparative perspective are welcome. The organizers welcome contributions with a strong historical impetus from all social and cultural sciences.
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Oxford
Race, Gender and Technology in Science-Fiction
The Maison Française conference committee invites proposals that examine the themes of race, gender and technology in science-fiction from the classical period to the present, in all media (print, film, television…) and from any continent.
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Oxford
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Europe
History of Science, Technology and Medicine – Visiting Senior Research Fellowship
La Maison Française d’Oxford souhaite accueillir annuellement des chercheurs invités dans le domaine de l’histoire des sciences et des techniques pendant Hilary term, traditionnellement entre janvier et mars du calendrier universitaire de l’université d’Oxford.
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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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London
Call for papers - Representation
Sacred science: Learning from the tree
Symposium for the European Society for the History of Science's conference
“Unity and Disunity” has been chosen as the main theme for the European Society for the History of Science's conference that will take place in London on September 2018. Within this framework, Trames Arborescentes has decided to participate by proposing a commented panel that will gather four speakers around the subject “Sacred science: Learning from the tree”. This panel traces the arboreal motif through time, using it as a means to reflect on unity and disunity of interaction between science, art and the sacred.
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Oxford
Conference, symposium - Europe
Colloque en l'honneur de Laurence Brockliss et Colin Jones
In 1997, Laurence Brockliss (Magdalen College, Oxford) and Colin Jones (QMUL) published The Medical World of Early Modern France, a landmark in the history of medicine because of its integration of social and institutional history with intellectual history. It established a vibrant new approach to the history of medicine and knowledge of the early modern period while also encouraging Anglo-French intellectual exchange. As 2017 is the twentieth anniversary of this work’s publication and the year of Laurence Brockliss’s retirement, colleagues and former pupils have organized a colloquium in their honour. Scholars from a range of historical disciplines (classical scholarship/antiquarianism, philosophy, and the natural sciences) will discuss the ways in which knowledge is contextualized in early modern Europe and Britain.
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Oxford
Conference, symposium - History
Genealogical rationality and social status in the Enlightenment
La généalogie est un puissant idiome de hiérarchisation sociale dans l'Europe d'Ancien Régime et garde son efficace bien au delà des transformations sociales portées par l'âge des Lumières. On s'interrogera dès lors sur les transformations qu'a subies, dans l’espace temporel qui va de Fénelon à Kant, cette forme particulière de connaissance qu’est la raison généalogique, ainsi que les usages qu’en faisaient les différents acteurs sociaux.
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Oxford
Genealogical rationality and social status in the Enlightenment
La généalogie est un puissant idiome de hiérarchisation sociale dans l'Europe d'Ancien Régime et garde son efficace bien au delà des transformations sociales portées par l'âge des Lumières. On s'interrogera dès lors sur les transformations qu'a subies, dans l’espace temporel qui va de Fénelon à Kant, cette forme particulière de connaissance qu’est la raison généalogique, ainsi que les usages qu’en faisaient les différents acteurs sociaux.
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Oxford
The century of lightness: emergences of a paradigm from the 18th century in France
Au dix-huitième siècle, le concept de légèreté semble envahir tous les domaines des connaissances humaines, de la morale à la physique, des inventions aérostatiques aux créations artistiques. Perpétuant cette image d’un âge léger, depuis le dix-neuvième siècle bourgeois, industrieux mais aussi nostalgique du temps des fêtes galantes, jusqu’à notre époque célébrant la frivolité (et la commercialité) des années de Marie-Antoinette et de Fragonard, le dix-huitième siècle français en sa légèreté n’a jamais cessé de séduire. Ainsi, qu’elle soit l’objet d’une conquête (scientifique, morale, esthétique, etc.) ou de constructions historiques, la légèreté du dix-huitième siècle s’impose comme un paradigme dont il s’agira de soulever les enjeux, dans une perspective critique et historiographique.
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Edinburgh
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Science studies
Three postdoctoral research fellowships: Making Genomic Medicine
The University of Edinburgh seeks to appoint three postdoctoral Research Fellows to work in the Science, Technology and Innovation Studies subject group, on a four-year Wellcome Trust-funded project entitled "Making Genomic Medicine".
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Reading
Conference, symposium - History
Academic Culture and the Culture of Academic Competitions in Early Modern Europe
Academic Culture and the Culture of Academic Competitions in early Modern Europe. Annual Symposium of the Early Modern Research Centre, University of Reading, 26 April 2013.
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London
Call for papers - Science studies
Ideas in movement: the role of conflict and commerce in the history of navigation
Following successful meetings in 2010 and 2012, Royal Museums Greenwich and the Royal Institute of Navigation are planning a third symposium to bring together current research in the history of navigation. 2014 sees the centenary of the beginning of the First World War. While this conflict provided a powerful stimulus for research and development in navigation, technological developments have also sprung from users and from commercial imperatives.
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London
Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology
Human Evolution : Past, Present and Future
Anthropological, Medical and Nutritional Considerations
An International Conference to review the current knowledge about Human Evolution. Special reference is made to consider how Man's evolution has possibly been influenced by a period of adaptation to an aquatic environment.
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Greenwich
Scholarship, prize and job offer - History
Student research intern programme: History of science and technology
National Maritime Museum UK 2013-2014
The Museum created this intern programme to further develop its research activity in the vital fields of time, navigation, astronomy, cartography and nautical technology. Our collections in this area are world-class and we need to ensure they are well researched so that the Museum can make them accessible to a wide range of audiences.
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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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Edinburgh
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Science studies
Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
University of Edinburgh: Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies as applied to the challenges of environmental sustainability.
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Oxford
Conference, symposium - History
Climate and Weather: Science as Public Culture
Scientific Communication and its History – III
This conference is the third in a series devoted to historical and contemporary perspectives on the communication of science and technology. Climate and weather provide a particularly rich and challenging case study to complete the conference series. As with other disciplines studied during the previous conferences, the climate sciences are characterised by complexity: in their professional networks; their conceptual models; and the logistics of their large-scale data and computing needs. Yet few modern scientific disciplines attract the same level of public engagement, in both everyday life and passionate debate on the future of the planet. Moreover, their status at the intersection of policy, scientific controversy and the public sphere is not a recent development: the same issues and fault lines ran through meteorology from the 18th-century onwards. Shifting interests within the history of science and the development of environmental history have greatly expanded the field in recent years. The conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on these historiographical developments via a specific focus on the communication of weather and climate from the 18th to the 21st centuries. The conference will address three themes in particular: Commodification of meteorological knowledge, Media, and Historicizing climate history.
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