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• 01 jui 2018

  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.

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• 07 avr 2017

  Zurich

  Miscellaneous information - Education

  Teaching Gender. Theory and society in the classroom

  Now more than ever, gender as an analytical concept is being heavily contested from diverse quarters inside as well as outside academia. The panel discussion addresses key questions of how to teach gender as  critical theory in the light of current societal and political tensions on the one hand and institutional constraints inside the university on the other hand. How can we teach “critique”? What does teaching gender mean in terms of methods and topics? And how can we engage in critical research and teaching while responding to societal expectations as to relevant output and knowledge transfer?

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• 25 mar 2015

  26 mar 2015

  27 mar 2015

  Paris | Villetaneuse

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Femmes dans le monde académique

  Ce colloque transdisciplinaire a pour ambition d’identifier les obstacles persistants aux carrières des femmes dans le monde académique. Il s'appuie sur une approche comparative à l’échelle internationale en prenant en compte les différents programmes mis en place en faveur de l’égalité pour évaluer leur efficacité.

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• 16 jui 2011

  17 jui 2011

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Centre de Recherche en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques

  Depuis sa création, il y a 25 ans, le Centre de recherche en histoire des sciences et des techniques (CRHST) a accueilli, avec le soutien du CNRS, de nombreux chercheurs français et étrangers dont la collaboration a contribué au développement de l’histoire des sciences et des techniques, tant en France qu’au niveau international. Cette aventure commune a marqué l’affirmation de cette discipline et sa présence au sein d’un public élargi. Ce colloque sera l’occasion d’un bilan historiographique autour des principales thématiques qui ont été celles du CRHST : science, industrie et techniques ; vulgarisation et diffusion des sciences ; science studies ; big science ; histoire des sciences de la nature ; sources et outils pour l’histoire des sciences : archives,outils numériques, patrimoine scientifique et technique.

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