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• 15 mar 2019

  Paris

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Craftsmen and metalworking in medieval cities: 35 years later

  In honour of Professor Paul Benoit

  The symposium addresses themetallurgies of iron, copper, tin, lead and precious metals, which produced a wide variety of objects necessary for urban life at the end of the Middle Ages. The nature, volume and possible standardization of production may be studied, as well as the needs of the city, the practices and techniques of craftsmen, their knowledge and know-how. The relationships between the crafts and between the craftsmen themselves might be examined, including dependency links, pluriactivity, networks of sociability or local relationships in urban areas. The identity and regulation of these crafts, their integration into urban society, their relationship with the surrounding rural areas and with other cities may also be revisited. The symposium will be interdisciplinary in nature, promoting dialogue between historians, archaeologists and archaeometry, without excluding anthropological approaches to learning and knowledge

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• 25 aoû 2015

  Lausanne

  Call for papers - History

  The power of algorithms

  Digital technologies and power relations in the 20th-21st centuries

  À la différence des acteurs individuels et collectifs, les développements technologiques sont souvent considérés comme neutres dans leurs intentions comme dans leurs effets. Ce panel questionne ce parti pris, en s’appuyant sur l'histoire récente des technologies numériques et de l'internet. Ce panel prend pour objet le pouvoir des algorithmes, à savoir le rôle des technologies numériques dans les rapports de pouvoir de la seconde moitié du XX^e siècle jusqu'à aujourd'hui. En particulier, ce panel recherche des cas d'étude concrets qui montrent comment le développement ou la mise en application de technologies numériques ont modifié les rapports de force établis.

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