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Lyon

"Biology" as a justification of discourses and practices

La notion de biologisation du social renvoie à une forme croissante de justifications individuelles ou collectives des pratiques sociales : il s’agit de faire référence à une biologie réelle ou fantasmée pour légitimer les manières de dire, de penser et d’agir. Cette biologisation traduit une forme d’importation du vocabulaire et des résultats des sciences biologiques dans les discours et les pratiques, scientifiques comme ordinaires .

Geneva

Conference, symposium - Europe

Gendering Humanitarian Knowledge

Global Histories of Compassion from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present

The conference invites scholars to think about the notion of "humanitarian knowledge" in a multidisciplinary way, by combining perspectives such as gender history, the histories ofemotions and the body, literary and visual culture studies, global health history, as well as the history of institutions and their agents. All of them are useful to explore the transnational networks through which humanitarian practices and ideas have been promoted, disseminated and standardised.The conference brings together scholars interested in working on the history of humanitarian knowledge from a gender perspective. The interventions deal with stories of flesh and blood, which put women’s and men’s humanitarian experiences at their centre, in order to inscribe their local practices within a global history of compassion from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

Lausanne

Call for papers - Sociology

Minimising Risks, Selling Promises?

Reproductive Health, Techno-Scientific Innovations and the Production of Ignorance

Over the last decades, medical techno-scientific innovations have radically transformed reproductive processes at every level by putting the reproductive body under strict biomedical surveillance and submitting it to significant technological manipulation. Most of these innovations, often promoted as miracles and even revolutions, were generalised very rapidly thanks to ever-growing national and global markets. Their side effects on health were, however, insufficiently studied, or even ignored, until scandals (diethylstilbestrol, thalidomide, primodos, Dalkon Shield) or controversies (contraceptive pill, hormonal replacement therapy) unavoidably made them public. At the crossroads of STS, sociology of risk, medical anthropology, gender studies and ignorance studies, the aim of this international conference is to analyse the dynamics of ignorance production prior to, during but also after the rapid expansion of reproductive technologies, innovations and products.

Paris

Conference, symposium - Sociology

Gender and contraception: what kind of (r)evolutions?

This event aims to explore the “(r)evolutions” that the diffusion of contraception in the world has generated. It also intends to acknowledge the renewal of research on contraception and abortion through the integration of a gender perspective. The material and legal access to methods and knowledge on fertility control might have led to changes in power relations in different social spheres. Considering contraception today leads us to, among other things, questioning representations of procreative autonomy and gender equality.

Paris

Conference, symposium - Sociology

“Medicalized” Childbirth as a Public Problem

Risk Culture(s), Gender Politics, Techno-Reflexivities

Obstetrical knowledge, technologies and practices have dramatically transformed women’s reproductive experiences worldwide. Medicalization of childbirth was accelerated in the XX^th century by the displacement of childbirth from home to the hospital, and by the generalization of surgical techniques and pharmaceutical products. Medical interventionism took multiple, situated forms. Relying on cross-cultural investigations and field data from diverse national contexts (France, USA, Italy, Brazil, Senegal, Turkey, Switzerland, Canada…), this international workshop investigates how “technological” birth came into being, and how it is produced, problematized, framed, and negotiated in the XXI^st century.

Lyon

Call for papers - History

Defining and defying the concept of deviance and degeneration in the British Isles and North America in the 19th century

This one-day conference aims at exploring the definition(s) and contours of deviance and degeneration as it was conceived in the British Isles and North America in the 19^th century. PhD students, postgraduate students and junior scholars whose research pertains to the study of deviant groups, whether self-defined or not, are particularly welcome to participate. Speakers will be invited to focus on the processes of definition of the standards of normality – whether religious, social, political, legal, medicalor sexual – as well as what those processes entailed for those who were labelled ‘deviants’. The role of scientists, doctors but also political authorities is of considerable interest in this respect, as are the ways in which normative standards were circumvented and challenged.

Saint-Martin-d'Hères

Commitment in the protection of nature and of the environment. Women

L'AHPNE et le LARHRA organisent une série de séminaires consacrés aux acteurs et artisans de la protection de la nature et de l'environnement. Le premier volet concerne les femmes.

Call for papers - Sociology

Violence towards women - scientific, political and institutional issues

A l'occasion du 8 mars, Journée internationale des femmes, le Relais de Sénart, association féministe qui accueille, accompagne, et héberge les femmes victimes de violences conjugales, associé à l'Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux Sociaux (Iris), organise une journée d'étude sur les enjeux scientifiques, politiques et institutionnels soulevés par les violences envers les femmes depuis les années 1970, en particulier dans le contexte français. Nous invitons des chercheurs/euses, en particulier jeunes chercheurs/euses, doctorant-e-s et non-titulaires, à proposer des contributions en sciences sociales avant le 31 octobre 2012.

Grenoble

Call for papers - History

Commitment in the protection of nature and the environment

Women

L'AHPNE, le LARHRA et Irstea organisent une série de séminaires consacrés aux acteurs et artisans de la protection de la nature et de l'environnement. Le premier volet concerne les femmes.

Paris

Conference, symposium - History

Mobilities and the circulation of knowledge

Le colloque organisé les 17, 18 et 19 novembre 2011 par le laboratoire ICT (Paris Diderot) se propose d’examiner la diversité des formes collectives et des rapports sociaux par lesquels se fait la mise en circulation des savoirs, ainsi que leur articulation avec de nouvelles constructions institutionnelles et de nouveaux rapports de pouvoir du Moyen Âge à nos jours, dans le cadre de cinq thématiques : circulation des corps et savoirs sexués ; l’acclimatation métropolitaine des savoirs sur le lointain ; mobilités et circulation des savoirs techniques ; circulation des savoirs et pouvoirs ; transferts et médiations : traductions et échanges scientifiques et épistolaires dans la circulation des savoirs.

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