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• 25 mar 2016

  Lausanne

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Music in Switzerland

  Through the prism of social sciences

  Cette jounrnée d'étude a pour but de réunir, pour la première fois, les chercheurs en sciences sociales s'intéressant à la production, la diffusion et la consommation de musique en Suisse.

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• 05 nov 2015

  06 nov 2015

  Lausanne | Geneva

  Conference, symposium - History

  In the image of the world: museums and collections of visual and sound documentation around 1900

  La diffusion de la photographie, l’invention du cinéma et le développement d'appareils à enregistrer le son ont généré à la fin du XIX^e siècle un nombre considérable d'images fixes, d'images animées et d'enregistrements sonores. Ce colloque a pour but de retracer l'histoire d'institutions alors fondées pour collecter ces matériaux afin de documenter l'histoire, la géographie et les phénomènes sociaux observés à l'échelle locale, nationale ou universelle. Nous nous interrogerons sur leurs acteurs, leurs objectifs, leurs pensées du monde, mais aussi leur devenir. En évoquant le cas de musées, d'archives, de bibliothèques et de collections créés dans le monde entier, des États-Unis à la Russie en passant par différents pays d'Europe, nous mettrons en perspective l'histoire de la « collection iconographique vaudoise » actuellement au centre d'une grande exposition au musée de l'Élysée de Lausanne.

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• 15 jan 2015

  Lausanne | Geneva

  Call for papers - History

  Reflecting the World

  Museums and collections of visual and sound documentation around 1900

  The spread of photography, the invention of cinema, and the development of sound recording devices around the end of the 19^th century engendered the creation of a large volume of still and moving images, as well as sounds registered from across the world. At the time, various institutions were established in order to collect, archive, and highlight these materials, so as to preserve visual and auditory traces of history, geography, and all the social phenomena stemming from particular regions or states, or even the entire world.  It concerns, for example, documentary photography museums which arose from local projects in France, Swiss and Belgium; the Archives de la Planète, created by the banker Albert Kahn; the project of Boleslas Matuszewski for a repository of historical cinematography; or the earliest, globally-directed sound archives, set up in Vienna and Berlin.

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• 31 mar 2014

  Lausanne

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Geography

  Evaluation of a region’s renewable natural capital

  EPFL is offering a high-profile post-doc position

  The purpose of the post-doc research is to test and possibly validate the feasibility and relevance of ecosystem capital accounts (SCEEA-CEC) or, said differently, the contribution of natural capital to productive systems, in a regional context (the Rhone river basin). The approach should cover the following aspects: availability, collection and processing of geographic and monitoring data and statistics, relevance of the assessments in natural and social sciences, relevance of the information tools ability to support the regulatory and economic instruments of environmental governance of institutional and territorial spaces.

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