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• 07 jan 2013

  08 jan 2013

  09 jan 2013

  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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• 15 sep 2012

  Oxford

  Call for papers - History

  Climate and Weather: Science as Public Culture

  Scientific Communication and its History – III

  Climate and weather provide a particularly rich and challenging case study to complete the conference series. 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.

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• 10 déc 2009

  12 déc 2009

  11 déc 2009

  Paris | Versailles

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Comparatism as a discursive strategy in 17th-century writings on music

  Parallels, quarrels, confrontations

  Ce projet s’inscrit dans la thématique des mécanismes de constitution du discours sur la musique. L’entrée retenue pour aborder cette vaste problématique sera celle du comparatisme comme stratégie discursive, telle qu’elle fut mise en place par les théoriciens de la musique au XVIIe siècle. Grâce au concours de musicologues, philosophes, historiens de l’art, de la littérature et des sciences, ce colloque entend interroger le corpus des écrits sur la musique (traités, méthodes, correspondances, essais, etc.) du point de vue de l’historicité du contenu, au delà de la littéralité. Quelles sont les raisons et les processus du discours, de l’expression théorique ? quel rapport avec le contenu ? Le discours théorique sera ainsi interrogé pour ce qu’il est système de représentation, confronté donc également à ses propres modèles

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• 31 jan 2009

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Archéologie et médias : quelles représentations, quels enjeux ?

  Ce colloque sera l’occasion de faire le point sur les représentations de l’archéologue et de l’archéologie dans les médias. L’analyse de la presse écrite et audiovisuelle (radio, cinéma, documentaire) et de la littérature (roman, bande dessinée, etc.) seront autant d’axes pour comprendre la perception de l’archéologue dans notre société, dans les supports médiatiques en eux-mêmes ou auprès des publics qui reçoivent ces discours. Deux perspectives sont principalement envisagées : les fictions et les médias vulgarisateurs, même si des ponts peuvent évidemment être établis entre les deux.

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