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  • Toulouse

    Conference, symposium - History

    Science and culture in the age of war, 19th-20th centuries

    Le colloque croisera les acquis des sciences studies et de l'histoire culturelle de la captivité. Il s'organisera autour de plusieurs axes : la mobilisation opérationnelle, la préparation de la guerre, la science et la culture en situation d'enfermement et la science et la guerre : opportunités ou contraintes.

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  • Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

    Postdoctoral Position in History of Sciences

    Le projet PrehisTropic (Préhistoire sous les tropiques. Peuplements, adaptations, comportements en milieu tropical et subtropical sur le temps long) propose un contrat post-doctoral 2019 en histoire des sciences. Les recherches sur la préhistoire des zones tropicales et subtropicales se développent considérablement depuis quelques décennies, mais elles restent en France relativement isolées les unes des autres, s’attachant principalement à des problématiques régionales.

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  • Paris

    Study days - History

    The inventary of empires

    The use of categories in History and their use by historians

    La deuxième Journée d'études des jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses du CHAC - Centre d'Histoire de l'Asie contemporaine de l'université Paris 1 - réunira les masterant·e·s, doctorant·e·s et jeunes docteurs du centre autour du thème des processus de catégorisation dans les empires et de l'usage de ces catégories par les historiennes et historiens. Les catégories de races, genres mais aussi tribus ou castes, jouent en effet un rôle majeur dans la construction de rapports de domination dans les empires.

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  • Lisbon

    Call for papers - History

    The sea in the 20th century - globalisation, science, networks and heritage

    Globalisation, science, réseaux et patrimoine

    Les organisateurs de cette conférence invitent la communauté scientifique à présenter des travaux de recherche et à débattre sur le rôle de la science, de la technologie et du patrimoine dans le monde maritime dans des contextes de « déglobalisation » / globalisation du XXe siècle. Il s’agira de comprendre la fonction des principaux espaces et des acteurs, et d’analyser les politiques publiques nationales et internationales à différentes échelles (du local à l’international), dans un contexte de guerres, de crises, de croissance économique et de colonisation/décolonisation.

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  • Lyon

    Conference, symposium - Modern

    Policing port cities during the colonial era : Tianjin and Shanghai interaction between Western and Oriental police forces, 1860-1945

    Limits of the western police model in China

    In the past 20 years, the Research Center on Shanghai History (ECNU) and the Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies (IAO) have established close cooperative relations : joint projects, joint publications, joints conferences, as well as the co-training of graduate students have become significant and regular markers of increasingly close relationships. On this basis we hope to further co-promote Shanghai and Tianjin as centers of new urban history and social order. This project will avail new archival materials (municipalities archives), memoirs of policemen, photography, illustrated journals, correspondances, police reports etc…

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  • 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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  • Rome

    Call for papers - History

    In partibus fidelium - missions in the Levant and knowledge of the Christian East

    19th-21st centuries

    Ce colloque international se penchera sur l’assimilation en Europe de connaissances relatives aux cultures chrétiennes-orientales, à partir surtout du dernier tiers du XIXe siècle, et sur le rôle que les missions ont joué dans ce processus. Ces connaissances nouvelles sont fondées en grande partie sur les travaux menés sur le terrain, au Moyen-Orient, en particulier sur les manuscrits conservés dans les monastères et les patriarcats, et plus généralement sur le patrimoine littéraire, linguistique, archéologique, cartographique et musicologique, des communautés chrétiennes installées.

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  • Paris

    Seminar - Science studies

    Writing histories of ancient mathematics, reflecting on past practices and opening the future, 18th-21st centuries

    As for the other two phases of the project, this conclusion will take the form of a workshop, this time for a two-month, and organized by the whole team gathered around the project: "Writing Workshop stories of ancient mathematics - Reflecting on past practices and the future opening, 18th-20th-centuries".

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  • Berlin

    Conference, symposium - Representation

    Art History for Artists: Interactions Between Scholarly Discourse and Artistic Practice in the 19th Century

    The development of art history as a discipline during the 19th century has been variously associated with the politics of national identity, the needs of a growing bourgeois public in search of cultural capital, or of an expanding art market. However, the role of art training, and art practitioners themselves in the shaping of the discipline remains unexamined. Courses in art history had been systematically introduced in the curricula of art and architecture academies since the late 18th century, and spaces of art education count among the first institutional homes of the discipline, well before the establishment of autonomous university chairs. This conference aims to explore the interactions and productive tensions between art practice and art scholarship in the 19th century. 

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  • Rio de Janeiro

    Call for papers - History

    Circulation and Scientific Institutions

    The Americas, Western Europe, South Asia (1750s-1914)

    While historians should take into account the movements in space that constantly transform sciences, they should not lose sight of the specific locations dedicated to the daily work of scientists. In scientific facilities (museums, laboratories, hospitals, etc.), modern scientists use their research instruments, meet with members of their networks, teach, and interact with various actors from outside of their scientific community. Participants in this symposium will seek how to write the history of this dynamic between circulation and institutions of science.

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  • Paris

    Study days - Sociology

    Scales of the Alimentation: an Asian Perspective

    The international conference “Scales of the Alimentation: an Asian Perspective” aims at bringing together the French and international scholars of Asia in order to promote a global approach to Asia and to bring together different research institutions based in Europe, therefore to develop the exchanges between different international scholars of Asian societies and experts related to the themes of the food. Our objective is to deliver in-depth analysis and innovative methods arising from research in social and human sciences. We aim to better understand economic, political, institutional, cultural, technological and organizational dynamics of past and present dietary practices in Asia. In particular, we will focus on how the state of food practices and their knowledge is interwoven with other social and technological developments, that are the legacies of expanding and shrinking empires and the mass industrialization.

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  • Paris

    Seminar - Science studies

    History and Philosophy of Mathematics

    The seminar is the meeting point between different SPHERE teams that are interested in mathematics. It fosters dialogue between philosophers and historians of mathematics while focusing on textual sources. Speakers are encouraged to make their sources available to the participants.

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  • Paris

    Conference, symposium - History

    Modernizers: Changing science and society in the Middle East and North Africa (1870s-1930s)

    Re-constructing a local genealogy of the scientific modernization in North Africa and the Middle East is still a pending task. Research on modern Arab-Islamic scientists, physicians and engineers will help expand the collective memory of modernization in those countries by adding new, often badly-known or forgotten actors to its ranks. Biographies will also help illuminate the intrinsic connection existing between science and society, showing how science has always been a necessary element in plans for national independence, social change and democratic rule. This conference will focus on the biographies of some late 19th-early 20th century scientists from Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria

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  • Paris

    Conference, symposium - Science studies

    Engaging Society in Innovation and Creativity

    Perspectives from Social Sciences and Humanities

    The trend of change from science and technology policy to science, technology and innovation (STI) policy becomes remarkable in Japan but also in Europe. Policymakers intend to break down the sense of economic and social stagnation by creating innovation driven by science and technology. In order to solve complex social issues, innovation is definitely essential. However, it is also obvious that creating “real” innovation needs some other elements than just the development of hard science and technology. Innovation needs integration of knowledge beyond disciplines. Recently the role of social science and humanities (SSH) in the innovation process is being highlighted and science, technology and innovation policy of many countries now expects SSH to play important role in conceiving, realizing and adjusting the policy.

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  • Vincennes

    Study days - History

    Military health and colonial health

    Wars, illnesses and empires throughout the 19th century

    Organisée par le Centre d’histoire de sciences po et le Service historique de la Défense, la journée d’études examinera – à partir d’études de cas concernant des colonies françaises, allemandes et néerlandaises en Afrique, en Asie sud-orientale et aux Antilles – les liens entre expansion militaire, la gestion des colonies, les services sanitaires des forces armées, ainsi que la production et circulation de savoirs médicaux.

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  • Paris

    Conference, symposium - Sociology

    Material transfer, transplantation and manufacturing of the living

    From bacteria or stem cells through to blood or animal organs, or even unusual parts of the body such as the face, the ambition of this conference is to provide an overview of material transfers that are enacted in the context of research or in the hospital, in order to identify their diversity and socio-technical complexity.

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  • Paris

    Study days - History

    Museum collections as historical sources

    Naturalist knowledge and environmental dynamics

    Les collections des musées d’histoire naturelle représentent des sources nouvelles en histoire environnementale comme en histoire des sciences. Elles permettent d'éclairer les pratiques de terrain des scientifiques, de leurs « collaborateurs » et de collecteurs plus anonymes. Mais il est nécessaire de contextualiser les indications livrées par les métadonnées accompagnant les objets des collections à partir des écrits des différents acteurs impliqués dans les collectes d’objets et d’espèces végétales ou animales. Comment ces collections et les écrits associés peuvent-ils servir à reconstituer l’élaboration des savoirs naturalistes et leur évolution du XVIIe au XXe siècle ? Comment peuvent-ils aider à saisir la dynamique des écosystèmes ?

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  • Paris

    Call for papers - History

    Experts and Expertise in the League of Nations Mandates

    Figures, Fields and Tools

    Our vantage point is to consider the growing in importance of expertise during the twentieth century within the management of the colonial world and hence to study the emergence of the international sphere as a level of decision making. The purpose of this conference is to investigate the influence of early international agendas, advanced across the colonial world by experts operating in the orbit of international organizations. The investigation should also focus on the procedures and framework of international recognition of expertise at the intersection of the colonial and the international spheres. A first line of enquiry tackles the relations between the epistemologies that underpinned scientific knowledge in the colony and the metropolis. Another one looks into the sites of production of Mandatory expertise. Finally, we want to investigate the explicitly evolutionary conceptual framework for the mandates and its influence on the work of experts. We invite contributions dealing with the figure of the expert, whether official or not, and the various fields and tools of Mandatory expertise. Part and parcel of our reflexion is also a study of the limits and scope of expertise.

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  • Schœlcher

    Call for papers - Economy

    Economists and colonies

    Charles Gide association study days

    Depuis les conseillers du Prince qui s’intéressaient déjà, au XVIe siècle, aux relations entre une métropole et ses colonies, jusqu’aux spécialistes contemporains des petits territoires dépendants, insulaires ou autre, la question coloniale n’a cessé d’intéresser et de diviser. Certaines des questions débattues sont purement économiques, d’autres se rattachent également à la politique (exclusif, navigation…) ou à la morale (esclavage, réparation des crimes éventuels de la colonisation). Le champ est donc très vaste pour une recension critique des positions en présence et de leur évolution au cours des cinq derniers siècles, qui sont aussi ceux de l’émergence et du développement de l’économie politique.  

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  • Paris

    Conference, symposium - Science studies

    Individual itineraries and the circulation of scientific and technical knowledge in East Asia (16th-20th centuries)

    How did individuals' geographical mobility contributed the circutation of  knowledge in East Asia (16th-20th centuries)? In China, Korea and Vietnam, the bureaucratic systems dictated a specific mode of mobility of the elites. But the ways in which individual itineraries shaped the circulation of knowledge need to be studied not only for civil servants, but also for various socio-professional groups, such as the scholars privately employed by high officials, craftsmen, medical doctors, traders, Buddhist monks, and emperors themselves. To these groups should be added the actors of the globalisation of knowledge during this period.

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