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• 30 sep 2018

  Guelph

  Call for papers - History

  Prisons, Prisoners and Prison Records in Historical Perspective

  The rise of the prison as an institution of mass incarceration for offenders has for long fascinated researchers. In part, this is due to the unusually detailed nature of most prison records. The wide availability of somewhat similar sources across diverse European and European-derived societies provides criminologists, social and economic historians, demographers and other social scientists with rich collections of personal information that have been analysed intensively since the 1970s. The increasing power of software and hardware and the accumulation of very large quantities of prison data, some of it linked to other sources, offers challenges and opportunities for researchers today. The workshop responds to the challenge of harnessing criminal justice records by bringing together scholars in different disciplines and countries to share information about their sources, methodologies of classification and analysis, and to reconceptualize research paradigms.

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• 15 avr 2016

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Private figures, public figures

  Calculation, accountancy and statistics (17th-21st centuries)

  Depuis 2014, le séminaire « Chiffres privés, chiffres publics » (voir chiffres.hypotheses.org) a été l’occasion d’entreprendre une réflexion sur l’histoire de l’élaboration, de la construction et des usages des chiffres privés et publics dans leurs interrelations de l’époque moderne à la période contemporaine. L'approche est résolument interdisciplinaire à la croisée des sciences de gestion, de la sociologie, des sciences politiques, de l’économie, de la statistique, du droit et de l’histoire. La journée d’études prévue a vocation à prolonger ce cycle de séminaires.

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