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Conference, symposium - Europe
Sciences humaines et sociales et les enjeux de l’eau
Savoirs et expertises dans les débats sur les questions hydrauliques, les projets et leur mise en œuvre
Un premier séminaire du réseau « Sciences humaines et sociales pour les questions de l’eau » (octobre 2018) avait abordé les questions de gouvernance de l’eau en situation de tension sur la ressource, de gestion humaine du risque inondation, et d’intégration des sciences sociales dans les études de projets hydrauliques. Le séminaire de novembre 2019 est revenu de manière plus ouverte sur les liens entre tensions sur l’eau et gouvernance. Ce nouveau séminaire, concerne la place des savoirs, des expertises et des experts dans les projets hydrauliques. Un enjeu important pour les projets hydrauliques est la capacité de construire des co-décisions participatives, à l’échelle territoriale adaptée. L’actualité montre par ailleurs à quel point la place des experts dans la prise de décision publique mérite d’être discutée.
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Berne
Steering Innovation in Communication Infrastructures
The interaction between technological innovation and governance of communication infrastructures — the essence of the “guiding star”, as suggested by the title — constitutes the theme of the conference in February 2020. We wish to explore how innovation was steered by postal and telecommunication companies, as well as by other public and private players in the field of communication infrastructures: enterprises, governments, professional and state organizations, the users.
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London
Broadcasting health and disease
Bodies, markets and television, 1950s-1980s
The three-day conference aims to investigate how television programmes in their multiplicity approached issues like medical progress and its limits, healthy behaviour or new forms of exercise by adapting them to TV formats and programming...The conference seeks to analyse how television and its evolving formats expressed and staged bodies, health and fitness from local, regional, national and international perspectives. How spectators were invited not only to be TV consuming audiences, but how shows and TV set-ups integrated and sometimes pretended to transform the viewer into a participant of the show. TV programmes spread the conviction that subjects had the ability to shape their own body.
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Call for papers - Early modern
Victorians like us – Domesticity and worldliness
Issue of “Open Cultural Studies”
From novels to government reports, the Victorians attached unprecedented significance to domesticity. The household was a central institution, and their occupants played out their different roles according to custom and circumstance. Within its sphere, gender, class, economic and political conflicts were played out as the household provided the background for important social practices. These practices ranged from the kitchen to the parlour, from the street to the Houses of Parliament, from the colonial metropole to the British colonial outposts in Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific.
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Digital platform-based employment and jobs
A number of digital platforms (Airbnb, Deliveroo, Uber, etc.) have expanded in recent years by presenting themselves as new types of intermediaries linking end users and the suppliers of labour. The success of these new kinds of companies has intrigued the press, causing polarised debates between advocates of “the sharing economy” and critics of how “uber-isation” damages work and employment. Some of these new economic actors have become multinational enterprises within a very short period of time, generating colossal revenues, whereupon they become quickly and widely lauded as the harbingers of a new digital economy. Yet behind this supposedly innovative business model, one particularity characterising this new type of economic transaction is the fact that the suppliers or labour are often private individuals who neither earn wages nor qualify as bona fide professionals. The correct way of viewing them is as the owners of the means of labour (i.e. labour force) that they - acting in their capacity as independent contractors - either sell directly to consumers or else to other intermediaries.
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Naples
Conference, symposium - Language
The lexicalisation of commercial onomastics. Creation, diffusion and integration
Ce colloque se propose de s’interroger sur les processus de lexicalisation des noms de marque et de produit, sur leurs motivations, ainsi que sur la complexité de leur encadrement sémantique. Dans cette perspective, il entend proposer une réflexion sur la morphologie et sur la sémantique des noms de marques et de produit en tenant compte du système morphosémantique de la langue française, forcément en relation avec d’autres langues, tout aussi bien que d’autres éléments structuraux préexistants.
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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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Paris
Investigations into money and consumption in the 20th century
L'objectif de cette journée d'études est de rassembler des chercheuses et chercheurs étudiant des enquêtes portant sur les modes de vie, le rapport à l’argent et les pratiques de consommation. Nous privilégions de nouveaux travaux revisitant des enquêtes diverses, menées dans un cadre universitaire ou non. Il s’agit de nous interroger d’une part sur l’histoire précise de pratiques d’enquêtes – et des discours normatifs qui peuvent les accompagner – et sur les éléments qu’ils permettent de mettre au jour sur les pratiques quotidiennes de consommation. Le dialogue entre historiens et autres chercheurs en sciences sociales sera privilégié.
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Antwerp
Food at the heart of nineteenth-century art
This symposium intends to study the various and complex relations between food, the experience of eating, and nineteenth-century art. For this conference, we welcome papers that discuss how the development of the food industry and the changing notion of “taste” and social mores are reflected in nineteenth-century art in the broadest sense. Papers may concern visual arts including graphic arts in the form of illustrated advertisements and culinary literature, as well as nouveautés (objects which were designed to reflect the evolution of eating and table manners).
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Naples
The lexicalisation of commercial onomastics - creation, diffusion and integration
Ce colloque se propose de s’interroger sur les processus de lexicalisation des noms de marque et de produit, sur leurs motivations, ainsi que sur la complexité de leur encadrement sémantique. Dans cette perspective, il entend proposer une réflexion sur la morphologie et sur la sémantique des noms de marques et de produit en tenant compte du système morphosémantique de la langue française, forcément en relation avec d’autres langues, tout aussi bien que d’autres éléments structuraux préexistants.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - Europe
Clothing in the Middle Ages - from the workshop to the closet
Le vêtement dans la société médiévale est un bien coûteux. La qualité des étoffes de laine ou de soie est ce qui garantit, en premier lieu, la tenue et la beauté d'un habit. Les grandes foires sont des relais entre les centres de production d'étoffes et les détaillants présents dans chaque ville. Chacun, selon ses moyens, son état et ses envies, fait appel aux drapiers pour lui fournir des étoffes de laine, dont les plus onéreuses viennent de Flandre, et aux merciers et marchands de soie, qui lui propose des soieries communes de premier prix ou des tissages complexes mettant à profit les nouvelles techniques.
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Consuming differently; the history, meaning and practical logic
Terrains et travaux journal
Un certain nombre de pratiques, en expansion aujourd’hui, visent à contourner ou contester les circuits économiques traditionnels pour l’acquisition et l’usage de biens et de services. Qu’elles remettent en question la logique maximisatrice du consommateur en promouvant d’autres valeurs éthiques ou écologiques, qu’elles requalifient symboliquement ou distinctivement d’anciennes pratiques (faire du vélo, jardiner) ou qu’elles se situent aux marges des comportements caractéristiques de la société de consommation, ces pratiques ont un statut qui reste encore mal documenté. Ce dossier vise à réunir des contributions empiriques éclairant les logiques économiques, sociales et politiques des pratiques de consommation alternatives, actuelles et passées.
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Paris
Cette université d’été réunira à l’Institut d'études avancées une cinquantaine de doctorants et de professeurs ainsi que des intervenants invités. Le thème choisi est celui des « Politiques du goût », sujet à la convergence des questions d’ordre esthétique, économique, sociologique, anthropologique et artistique, susceptible d’apporter aux doctorants participants une approche critique élargie de leur travail de recherche.
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Valence-sur-Baïse
Scholarship, prize and job offer - History
Bourses pour les XXXVIes journées internationales d’histoire de l’abbaye de Flaran
Le nécessaire et le superflu. Le paysan consommateur dans l'Europe médiévale et moderne (XIe-XVIIIe siècle)
Des bourses sont disponibles pour les doctorants / post-doctorants qui souhaiteraient assister aux XXXVIe journées internationales d’histoire de l’abbaye de Flaran (17-18 oct. 2014) dont le thème est « Le nécessaire et le superflu. Le paysan consommateur dans l’Europe médiévale et moderne (XIe-XVIIIe siècle) ».
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Milan
A Matter of Design. Making Society through Science and Technology
5th Conference of Italian Society of Science
The 5th STS Italia Conference will be held in Milan, Italy, June 12 through 14, 2014, by the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies, in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano Doctoral School in Design. The conference is an opportunity to present empirical and theoretical work from a variety of disciplines and fields (sociology, anthropology, law, philosophy, design, psychology, semiotics, history, and economics, etc.). It focuses on diverse aspects of the social study of innovation processes, technology, science and design. The 5th STS Italia Conference theme is design processes.
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Food Security and the Contemporary World
In view of the interpretations suggested by all these studies, the special issue of Contemporanea aims to engage in a reflection on food security in the widest sense of the term, which includes the political and economic choices made by institutions, relations between states, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, the connection between the availability of food and international stability. We also intend to look at the circulation of cultures and practices within the transnational space that historically defines the relationship between food, health, individual and collective well-being.
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Neuchâtel
Organizational change and emerging markets in the luxury industry since the 1970s
The objective of this conference is to bring a better understanding of the transformation of the luxury industry into a global business since the 1970s. This industry experienced in the last four decades a major mutation which the three main trends can be stressed as follows: shift from independent small businesses to multinational enterprises, globalization of brands, democratization of consumption. This conference will tackle topics and cases from various industries, countries and disciplines (business history, marketing, applied economics, etc.). In particular, the following issues are welcomed.
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Tours
The history of railway restoration in the world
Technology and logistics, systems of the exploitation of services, the sociability of food and cultural representations, 19th-21st century
Dès lors que des voyageurs ont entrepris de parcourir des distances longues, le problème de leur alimentation s'est posé. L'avènement du chemin de fer a prolongé cette demande alimentaire mais l'a également modifiée. L'objet de ce colloque (Tours, 16 et 17 décembre 2014) est d'en étudier les modalités spécifiques et les innovations qui en ont résulté (groupes de restauration, voiture-restaurant, buffetiers de gare, vendeurs à quais, transformation culturelle des pratiques alimentaires).
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Numéro spécial de French Cultural Studies
This special issue, titled “Food and the French Empire,” encompasses the production, consumption and circulation of specific foodstuffs, cuisines, and recipes across the French colonial empire, from early colonization to post-immigration through multidisciplinary approaches, and with an emphasis on various geographical locales.
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