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Conference, symposium - History
Locating Medical Television. The Televisual Spaces of Medicine and Health in the 20th Century
Following Broadcasting health and disease in 2017 and Tele(visualing) Health 2018, this third conference on medical television in the framework of the ERC funded BodyCapital project and in a joint venture with the Science Museum London intends to locate medical television more precisely – it intends to engage (medical) TV history with recent questions concerning the relevance of space within and beyond national borders.
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London
The televisual spaces of medicine and health in the 20th Century
Medical television programmes, across their history, have had specific relationships to places and spaces. On the one level, they have represented medical and health places: consulting rooms, hospitals, the home, community spaces, public health infrastructures and the rest. As television-producers have represented these places, there has been an interaction with the developing capabilities of television technologies and grammars. Moreover, producers have borrowed their imaginaries of medical and health places from other media (film, photographs, museum displays etc.) and integrated, adjusted and reformulated them into their work.
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London
Conference, symposium - History
Tele(visualising) health: TV, public health, its enthusiasts and its publics
Televisions began to appear in the homes of large numbers of the public in Europe and North America after World War II. This coincided with a period in which ideas about the public’s health, the problems that it faced and the solutions that could be offered, were changing. The threat posed by infectious diseases was receding, to be replaced by chronic conditions linked to lifestyle and individual behaviour. Public health professionals were enthusiastic about how this new technology. TV offered a way to reach large numbers of people with public health messages; it symbolised the post war optimism about new directions in public health. But it could also act as a contributory factor to those new public health problems.
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London
Tele(visualising) health: TV, public health, its enthusiasts and its publics
The conference aims to bring together scholars from different fields (such as, but not limited to, history, history of science, history of medicine, communication, media and film studies, television studies) working on the history of television in Great Britain, France and Germany (West and East) (the focus of the ERC BodyCapital project), but also other European countries, North and South America, Russia, Asia or other countries and areas. Papers might focus on one national, regional or even local framework. Considering the history of health-related (audio-) visuals as a history of transfer, as entangled history or with a comparative perspective are welcome. The organizers welcome contributions with a strong historical impetus from all social and cultural sciences.
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Berlin
Excess? Images of body, health, morality and emotions across the media
A central goal of the workshop is to open up an international exchange and to connect perspectives from the history of science, the history of emotions, the history of the body and media history in order to shed new light on a history of health as a cultural history. The event is part of the research project “The Healthy Self as Body Capital: Individuals, Market-Based Societies, and Body Politics in Visual Twentieth Century Europe” funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Advanced Grant agreement No 694817) led by Christian Bonah (University of Strasbourg) and Anja Laukötter (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin).
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Berlin
Visual History in the Twentieth Century: Bodies, Practices and Emotions
The spring school Visual History in the Twentieth Century: Bodies, Practices, and Emotions invites participants to engage in five days of intensive discussion on the relation between the history of the body, body politics, and film and television in the twentieth century. The spring school will take a transnational perspective and focus particular on developments in Germany, France and Great Britain.
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London
Conference, symposium - History
Broadcasting health and disease
Bodies, markets and television, 1950s-1980s
In the television age, health and the body have been broadcasted in many ways: in short health education films, school television, professional training materials, TV ads, documentaries, reality TV shows and news, as well as stand-alone videos distributed to specific audiences. This three-day conference proposes an exploration of how television formats have influenced and staged bodies, health and healthy practices from local, regional, national and international perspectives, and how these TV programmes spread the conviction that viewers could and should invest in their health and shape their own body.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - Language
L’Oulipo a investi les savoirs de manière remarquable. Les contraintes, pratiques les mieux connues du groupe, n’ont-elles pas été définies, le plus souvent, autant grâce aux mathématiques qu’à l’érudition (via le plagiat par anticipation) ? On peut encore évoquer la « curiosité », et l’expertise, scientifiques des deux fondateurs du groupe, François Le Lionnais et Raymond Queneau. Le colloque envisagera cette dimension historique. Il tentera de déterminer également la manière dont les savoirs nourrissent les œuvres des oulipiens, avec un accent sur la pseudo-érudition, définie par Georges Perec. Il cherchera à montrer, encore, comment ces œuvres interrogent ou nourrissent les scientifiques institutionnels eux-mêmes.
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Strasbourg
Scholarship, prize and job offer - History
Post-doctoral researcher position – The healthy self as body capital
Individuals, market-based societies and body politics in visual twentieth century Europe (BodyCapital)
The European Research Council advanced grant programme “The healthy self as body capital: individuals, market-based societies and body politics in visual twentieth century Europe (BodyCapital)” led by Christian Bonah (université de Strasbourg) and Anja Laukötter (MPIHD, Berlin) on the understanding of body capital and its history, through the twentieth century history of visual mass media (film, TV, Internet) and inédits (amateur, family and private visuals) is now accepting applications for a post-doctoral researcher position for a project related to post-1945 Great Britain.
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Strasbourg
Scholarship, prize and job offer - History
PhD positions – The healthy self as body capital
Individuals, market-based societies and body politics in visual twentieth century Europe (BodyCapital)
The European Research Council advanced grant programme “The healthy self as body capital: individuals, market-based societies and body politics in visual twentieth century Europe (BodyCapital)” led by Christian Bonah (université de Strasbourg) and Anja Laukötter (MPIHD, Berlin) on the understanding of body capital and its history, through the twentieth century history of visual mass media (film, TV, Internet) and inédits (amateur, family and private visuals) is now accepting applications for up to 3 three-year PhD positions.
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Sciences and publishing, from 1780 to the interwar period
Ce numéro spécial de la revue Philosophia Scientiae vise à faire dialoguer, même de manière exploratoire, l'histoire des sciences et celle de l'édition afin d’apporter un éclairage sur la manière dont les sciences se sont élaborées de 1780 à l’entre-deux-guerres, depuis la diffusion de l’Encyclopédie jusqu’à l’émergence d’un marché de masse de l’édition scientifique, qui naît entre autres avec l’édition scolaire dans le dernier tiers du XIXe siècle.
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Marseille
Border objects - cross-perspectives
Forgé par la sociologie des sciences, l’objet-frontière désigne des artefacts qui véhiculent tout à la fois infrastructures et modèles de connaissances, en permettant la coordination entre acteurs issus de mondes sociaux différents. À partir de ce concept et de sa discussion, la journée d’études propose de croiser les réflexions menées au sein de deux séminaires menées respectives à l’université de Montpellier et à l’EHESS-Marseille : « Penser l’objet » portant attention à l’épistémologie matérielle des sciences expérimentales, et, « Questionner le monde », analysant l’histoire des sciences humaines et sociales à partir de leurs outils.
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Canadian Journal of Communication
Sur le thème « Marges de la cybernétique », ce numéro spécial du Canadian Journal of Communication invite à revisiter et à étendre la généalogie commune de la cybernétique et des études en communication, notamment à travers l’exploration de projets intellectuels mineurs, oubliés, rejetés, ou expérimentaux qui se sont développés aux « marges » de la cybernétique ou qui n’ont pas eu le même rayonnement.
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Paris
Miscellaneous information - Information
À l'occasion de la sortie du numéro 73 de la revue Hermès, « Controverses et communication », nous organisons une table ronde sur l'état du débat public en France sur le changement climatique, à partir des contributions de trois auteurs du dossier. Elle se déroulera le mercredi 9 décembre à l'IMI en présence des auteurs et des coordinateurs du numéro.
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Boulogne-Billancourt
Study days - Epistemology and methodology
L'Institut de psychologie et l'héritage d'Henri Piéron
Henri Piéron (1881-1964) est le fondateur de la psychologie scientifique en France. Agrégé de philosophie, docteur en médecine, il a également été professeur au Collège de France. À l’occasion du cinquantenaire de sa disparition, l’Institut de psychologie et la bibliothèque Henri Piéron de l’université Paris Descartes lui consacrent une journée d’étude le 11 décembre 2014, centrée sur l’héritage scientifique et documentaire qu’ils ont reçu de lui.
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Paris
Women, Gender and Information and Communication Technologies
Europe, 19th-21st centuries
These two days will compare European perspectives on the historical relations that women have maintained with information and communication technologies, since the telegraph. The study days invite transnational and interdisciplinary analyses across the long term, drawing as much upon the history of computer science and ICT as upon the history of work, organisations, consumption, education, media, and gender studies.
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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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Paris
Contemporary editorial policies and practices (2012-2013)
From the academic bookstore of the 19th century to digital knowledge
L’accélération de la circulation des textes et la mutation des relations auteur / éditeur consécutives au développement d’Interne remettent en cause les modèles établis de production et de diffusion de l’écrit scientifique. Le séminaire poursuit l’étude de l’organisation du travail intellectuel (métiers et formes éditoriales) au cours des deux derniers siècles et se concentre dans cette session sur la revue (enquête portant sur un millier de titres français). Sera également questionnée l’évolution des formes éditoriales dérivant de la revue : résumés, sets de données. L’enquête mobilise l’expérience d’historiens du livre, d’historiens des sciences et de professionnels de la documentation, des bibliothèques et de l’édition, impliqués dans les mutations du numérique.
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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. -
Oxford
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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