Calenda

Following Broadcasting health and disease in 2017 and Tele(visualing) Health 2018, this third conference on medical television in the framework of the ERC funded BodyCapital project and in a joint venture with the Science Museum London intends to locate medical television more precisely – it intends to engage (medical) TV history with recent questions concerning the relevance of space within and beyond national borders.

London

Conference, symposium - History

Tele(visualising) health: TV, public health, its enthusiasts and its publics

Televisions began to appear in the homes of large numbers of the public in Europe and North America after World War II. This coincided with a period in which ideas about the public’s health, the problems that it faced and the solutions that could be offered, were changing. The threat posed by infectious diseases was receding, to be replaced by chronic conditions linked to lifestyle and individual behaviour. Public health professionals were enthusiastic about how this new technology. TV offered a way to reach large numbers of people with public health messages; it symbolised the post war optimism about new directions in public health. But it could also act as a contributory factor to those new public health problems.

Berlin

Summer School - History

Visual History in the Twentieth Century: Bodies, Practices and Emotions

The spring school Visual History in the Twentieth Century: Bodies, Practices, and Emotions invites participants to engage in five days of intensive discussion on the relation between the history of the body, body politics, and film and television in the twentieth century. The spring school will take a transnational perspective and focus particular on developments in Germany, France and Great Britain.

Lugano

Call for papers - History

Computer networks histories: Local, national and transnational perspectives

Recently several works in the fields of Internet Studies, Science and Technology studies, and Media studies have stressed the importance of early local, national and transnational computer networks histories for a deeper understanding of technological and social change in contemporary societies.

Call for papers - Information

The margins of the cybernetic

Canadian Journal of Communication

Sur le thème « Marges de la cybernétique », ce numéro spécial du Canadian Journal of Communication invite à revisiter et à étendre la généalogie commune de la cybernétique et des études en communication, notamment à travers l’exploration de projets intellectuels mineurs, oubliés, rejetés, ou expérimentaux qui se sont développés aux « marges » de la cybernétique ou qui n’ont pas eu le même rayonnement.

Saint-Martin-d'Hères

History, memory and heritage

Comparative approaches and unpublished objects

Dans la continuité des séminaires précédents, les historiens grenoblois proposent une nouvelle session pluridisciplinaire autour des thèmes de la mémoire et du patrimoine dans leurs rapports à l'histoire et à l'écriture des temps, un domaine où les usages recouvrent des enjeux forts et parfois contradictoires. La session 2013 met l'accent sur le patrimoine sonore, musical et scénarisé en lien avec le Pôle Images, sons du LARHRA ; un patrimoine vécu autant que pratiqué, une histoire mise en acte et en spectacle. Une entrée originale sera proposée avec un objet inédit dès lors qu'il est envisagé sous cet angle : l'histoire de la Nationale 7. L'autre entrée originale est l'intervention des écologues qui depuis quelques années structurent une réflexion riche sur d'autres formes de patrimoine et de patrimonialisation. L'occasion d'un croisement pluridsiciplinaire fécond dans les méthodes et les démarches au-delà des seules SHS.

Oxford

Conference, symposium - History

Climate and Weather: Science as Public Culture

Scientific Communication and its History – III

This conference is the third in a series devoted to historical and contemporary perspectives on the communication of science and technology. Climate and weather provide a particularly rich and challenging case study to complete the conference series. As with other disciplines studied during the previous conferences, the climate sciences are characterised by complexity: in their professional networks; their conceptual models; and the logistics of their large-scale data and computing needs. Yet few modern scientific disciplines attract the same level of public engagement, in both everyday life and passionate debate on the future of the planet. Moreover, their status at the intersection of policy, scientific controversy and the public sphere is not a recent development: the same issues and fault lines ran through meteorology from the 18th-century onwards. Shifting interests within the history of science and the development of environmental history have greatly expanded the field in recent years. The conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on these historiographical developments via a specific focus on the communication of weather and climate from the 18th to the 21st centuries. The conference will address three themes in particular: Commodification of meteorological knowledge, Media, and Historicizing climate history.

Oxford

Call for papers - History

Climate and Weather: Science as Public Culture

Scientific Communication and its History – III

Climate and weather provide a particularly rich and challenging case study to complete the conference series. The climate sciences are characterised by complexity: in their professional networks; their conceptual models; and the logistics of their large-scale data and computing needs. Yet few modern scientific disciplines attract the same level of public engagement, in both everyday life and passionate debate on the future of the planet. Moreover, their status at the intersection of policy, scientific controversy and the public sphere is not a recent development: the same issues and fault lines ran through meteorology from the 18th-century onwards.

Paris | Versailles

Conference, symposium - Representation

Comparatism as a discursive strategy in 17th-century writings on music

Parallels, quarrels, confrontations

Ce projet s’inscrit dans la thématique des mécanismes de constitution du discours sur la musique. L’entrée retenue pour aborder cette vaste problématique sera celle du comparatisme comme stratégie discursive, telle qu’elle fut mise en place par les théoriciens de la musique au XVIIe siècle. Grâce au concours de musicologues, philosophes, historiens de l’art, de la littérature et des sciences, ce colloque entend interroger le corpus des écrits sur la musique (traités, méthodes, correspondances, essais, etc.) du point de vue de l’historicité du contenu, au delà de la littéralité. Quelles sont les raisons et les processus du discours, de l’expression théorique ? quel rapport avec le contenu ? Le discours théorique sera ainsi interrogé pour ce qu’il est système de représentation, confronté donc également à ses propres modèles

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