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• 01 jui 2018

  Lausana

  Convocatoria de ponencias - Sociología

  Minimising Risks, Selling Promises?

  Reproductive Health, Techno-Scientific Innovations and the Production of Ignorance

  Over the last decades, medical techno-scientific innovations have radically transformed reproductive processes at every level by putting the reproductive body under strict biomedical surveillance and submitting it to significant technological manipulation. Most of these innovations, often promoted as miracles and even revolutions, were generalised very rapidly thanks to ever-growing national and global markets. Their side effects on health were, however, insufficiently studied, or even ignored, until scandals (diethylstilbestrol, thalidomide, primodos, Dalkon Shield) or controversies (contraceptive pill, hormonal replacement therapy) unavoidably made them public. At the crossroads of STS, sociology of risk, medical anthropology, gender studies and ignorance studies, the aim of this international conference is to analyse the dynamics of ignorance production prior to, during but also after the rapid expansion of reproductive technologies, innovations and products.

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• 31 oct 2017

  Convocatoria de ponencias - Sociología

  Pervasive powers

  Corporate authority in the shaping of public policy

  The power of corporate business has been a subject of intense debate and many social science studies since the 19^th century. This conference is based on the idea that, not only has this power varied among industries, countries and different periods, but also that the way in which it is wielded has evolved over time. By bringing together scholars from various backgrounds within the fields of history, sociology, and political science, we intend to provide new insights on the multiplicity, depth and limits of the forms of influence that corporations, or the organizations furthering their interests – business associations, think tanks, communication or public relations agencies, foundations, etc. –, have on public policy.

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• 30 aoû 2017

  Padua

  Convocatoria de ponencias - Historia

  European Space Agency's Space History Conference

  There is more to space than rocket science. Historians, diplomats, economists, law students, political scientists and sociologists have all contributed to our understanding of the space age and its impact on our societies over the past decades. Sixty years on from the placing of the first human-made object in orbit around Earth, space is now an integral part of our daily lives. Space science and technology are projects for the whole of humankind, reaching not only outside Earth’s atmosphere, but also beyond our Solar System. While the technological and scientific challenges of working, living and travelling in space motivate students to pursue such studies, the impact of space activities on our lives on Earth, on relations between nations and organisations, and our collective recent history, provides fertile ground for students and scholars in the humanities to take up space-related subjects. 

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• 17 nov 2015	15 déc 2015	19 jan 2016
  16 fév 2016

  París

  Seminario - Estudios de las ciencias

  Les nouvelles technologies entre utopie et dystopie

  La science et les nouvelles technologies sont-elles toujours au service du progrès ? Ou peuvent-elles également, lorsqu’elles sont utilisées sans limites, contribuer
 à l’avènement d’une société plus totalitaire, moins respectueuse de la personne humaine ? Plusieurs romans de la littérature dystopique imaginent 
des sociétés qui utilisent
 des technologies sophistiquées pour asseoir leur pouvoir en contrôlant la vie des individus. Ces ouvrages d’anticipation sociale nous aident à réfléchir à l’utilisation parfois abusive de certaines
 technologies qui sont progressivement entrés dans notre vie quotidienne et, en se banalisant, sont en train de profondément modifier nos comportements.

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• 06 mar 2015

  Portorož

  Convocatoria de ponencias - Época contemporánea

  Politicizing the Future of the (Semantic) Web

  Philoweb 2015

  The relationship between the Web and philosophy is now at a crucial turning point. While a group of philosophers and philosophically-influenced scholars are increasingly interested in the Web, we are facing unprecedented challenges around its future that requires concerted efforts between researcher and disciplines to be properly addressed. With both Internet governance and the very architecture of the Web undergoing rapid change, now is the time for a philosophy of the Web to help to fulfill the Web’s full potential, expanding upon its fundamental principles in new terrains ranging from mass surveillance to the impact of the Internet of things.

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• 15 mar 2012

  Lyon

  Coloquio - Sociología

  Quand l’air est mis à l’épreuve : mesurer, percevoir et délibérer sur la qualité de l’air aux XXe et XXIe siècles

  Appel à contribution pour un colloque interdisciplinaire autour du thème de la concertation sur la question de la pollution de l'air, qui se tiendra à Lyon les 22 et 23 novembre 2012.

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• 28 nov 2011

  Ivry sobre Sena

  Seminario - Sociología

  Pesticides et santé des travailleurs agricoles

  Construire et déconstruire les normes

  Cette journée est la première d’une série dont l’objectif est de réunir et faire interagir des chercheurs et des professionnels de différents horizons travaillant sur les effets sur la santé des travailleurs agricoles des pesticides auxquels ils peuvent être exposés. Cette première journée est construite autour de la thématique des « normes ». Nous proposons d’interroger les normes juridiques, les normes techniques et les normes sociales à l’œuvre dans la gestion des effets des pesticides sur la santé des travailleurs agricoles. Il s’agit tout à la fois de regarder comment ces normes sont construites et mises œuvre et de déconstruire les discours et les logiques qui les portent.

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