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• 08 oct 2018

  Le Mans

  Study days - History

  What is democracy in health?

  Qu’est-ce-que la démocratie sanitaire ? À travers un ensemble de dispositifs récents, prévus notamment dans les lois de 1991 et de 2002, les usagers et les associations qui les représentent sont désormais officiellement investis d’une fonction dans le système de santé (conseils territoriaux, commission des usagers des établissements, actions de groupe). L’aspiration démocratique dans le champ de la santé ne se limite cependant pas à ces aspects. Elle relève aussi d’une volonté plus ancienne de rééquilibrage de la relation soignant/soigné et de valorisation du savoir du patient. Elle prend aujourd’hui des formes différentes, depuis l’intervention des lanceurs d’alertes jusqu’aux demandes liées à la nouvelle médecine des désirs en passant par l’organisation de débats citoyens sur les questions de santé et la mise en place de nouveaux outils pour contrer la désertification médicale.

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• 04 oct 2018	18 oct 2018	08 nov 2018
  15 nov 2018	29 nov 2018	...

  Paris

  Seminar - History

  For a global history of military nuclear abilities

  Inauguré cette année, ce séminaire de recherche vient s’insérer dans le dispositif d’enseignement du Centre interdisciplinaire d’études sur le nucléaire et la stratégie (CIENS) éprouvé depuis déjà deux ans et articulant approches historiques, politiques et éthiques du nucléaire militaire. S’inscrivant dans une démarche décloisonnée d’histoire globale, ce séminaire invite à s’interroger sur les principaux phénomènes de circulations des idées et pratiques relatives au nucléaire militaire à toutes échelles, et à opérer un décentrement en observant les « autres » mondes nucléaires (Asie, Amérique latine, Afrique, Moyen-Orient), au-delà du seul prisme atlantique et russe hérité de la Guerre froide. 

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• 01 jui 2018

  Lausanne

  Call for papers - Sociology

  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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• 30 aoû 2017

  Padua

  Call for papers - History

  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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• 29 sep 2016

  30 sep 2016

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  “Medicalized” Childbirth as a Public Problem

  Risk Culture(s), Gender Politics, Techno-Reflexivities

  Obstetrical knowledge, technologies and practices have dramatically transformed women’s reproductive experiences worldwide. Medicalization of childbirth was accelerated in the XX^th century by the displacement of childbirth from home to the hospital, and by the generalization of surgical techniques and pharmaceutical products. Medical interventionism took multiple, situated forms. Relying on cross-cultural investigations and field data from diverse national contexts (France, USA, Italy, Brazil, Senegal, Turkey, Switzerland, Canada…), this international workshop investigates how “technological” birth came into being, and how it is produced, problematized, framed, and negotiated in the XXI^st century.

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