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The politics and geopolitics of translation
The multilingual circulation of knowledge and transnational histories of geography
In the last fifty years, the field of the history of geography has moved from an approach dominated by National Schools to an attention to the circulation of knowledge in its multiple scales. The history of science and of geography have in the last decades incorporated concepts such as transit, networks, mobilities, the transnational, circulation, centre of calculation, spaces of knowledge, geographies of science, spatial mobility of knowledge, geographies of reading and geographies of the book. More recently, a turn has emerged towards considering the dynamics and necessities of decolonizing the history of geography. This work is turning the field of the history of geography into one of the most dynamic areas of the discipline. Yet we suggest that questions of language and translation have remained under-determined in this new field. Translation and writing have not received the same attention as, for instance, departmental histories, sites of museums, laboratories, botanic gardens, and scientific societies, for example. We suggest, therefore, that new perspectives opened up by translation studies can open new windows on the history of geography.
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Berlin Mitte
Scholarship, prize and job offer - America
For the launch of an international digitization and digital edition project, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) invites applications for the position of a Research Assistant (male/female/divers) in the field of Digital Scholarly Editions and Project Coordination. 100% full-time position for an initial duration of 36 months. The position should ideally begin as soon as possible.
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Reims
Comparative perspectives on transformations in the networks and actors of vines and vineyards
Ce colloque interroge les mutations profondes, en cours depuis la fin des années 50, du monde viti-vinicole. Il tentera de saisir ces transformations à partir de trois dimensions qui sont l’action collective, les pratiques des acteurs et les innovations. À travers ces axes de travail, les contributions pourront montrer comment les évolutions du secteur affectent et se diffusent dans le monde de la vigne et du vin, comment les différents niveaux d’acteurs s’en emparent et quelles en sont les conséquences sur le plan économique et/ou social.
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Paris
Rumours and fake new in environmental issues
Incertitudes, rumeurs et fausses vérités ont parfois accompagné les discours sur tel événement ou tel enjeu environnemental que ce séminaire viendra mettre en lumière. Les interventions pourront analyser des discours présents (une géographie culturelle des rumeurs environnementales) ou passés (une géohistoire), afin de montrer aussi ce qui fait la spécificité de chaque époque et/ou de chaque rumeur dans sa diffusion et mobilisation spatiale. Comparer les temporalités de différentes rumeurs permettra aussi de voir comment chaque époque construit sa définition de la rumeur. Avec des interrogations spatiales et environnementales, les intervenants viennent de différentes disciplines.
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Meudon
Conference, symposium - Science studies
New Perspectives on Global Environmental Images
The international conference proposes to mobilise a broad variety of perspectives from a large disciplinary spectrum in order to analyse the strategies and imaginaries that are connected to the production, the circulation and the power of global environmental images. From icons of the environmental movement over expert graphics mobilised by the IPCC to satellite imagery, global environmental images form the sensory basis of our understanding of the planetary processes that govern the “Anthropocene”. The images all actively participate, at very different scales, in our interpretation and understanding of the changes of the Earth system as well as the consequences we closely associate to global climate change. As true mediators between different publics and cultures, between global processes and local impacts, new critical enquiries into global environmental images propose a highly fruitful discussion of the complex relationship between science, society, politics and nature.
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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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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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