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• 20 aoû 2020

  Call for papers - Geography

  The politics and geopolitics of translation

  The multilingual circulation of knowledge and transnational histories of geography

  In the last fifty years, the field of the history of geography has moved from an approach dominated by National Schools to an attention to the circulation of knowledge in its multiple scales. The history of science and of geography have in the last decades incorporated concepts such as transit, networks, mobilities, the transnational, circulation, centre of calculation, spaces of knowledge, geographies of science, spatial mobility of knowledge, geographies of reading and geographies of the book. More recently, a turn has emerged towards considering the dynamics and necessities of decolonizing the history of geography. This work is turning the field of the history of geography into one of the most dynamic areas of the discipline. Yet we suggest that questions of language and translation have remained under-determined in this new field. Translation and writing have not received the same attention as, for instance, departmental histories, sites of museums, laboratories, botanic gardens, and scientific societies, for example. We suggest, therefore, that new perspectives opened up by translation studies can open new windows on the history of geography.

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• 23 sep 2019

  24 sep 2019

  25 sep 2019

  Lausanne

  Conference, symposium - Prehistory and Antiquity

  Writing, rewriting or quotation: the processes of composition of ancient medical texts

  Les vastes sommes médicales antiques qui rassemblent et transmettent les savoirs de leur temps comportent de nombreux textes « parallèles », qui posent des questions intéressant tous les chercheurs de l'Antiquité : diversité des sources, place de la transmission orale, modes de réappropriation des textes, rôle et statut de l'auteur d'une encyclopédie. À l’heure où se multiplient encyclopédies en ligne et réflexions sur la propriété intellectuelle, le statut de l’auteur ou encore le plagiat, la réflexion sur les procédés de composition des ancêtres les plus lointains de Wikipédia permettra de s’interroger sur l’élaboration du savoir médical et les différents canaux de sa transmission.

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