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• 26 nov 2012

  27 nov 2012

  28 nov 2012

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Science studies

  Individual itineraries and the circulation of scientific and technical knowledge in East Asia (16th-20th centuries)

  How did individuals' geographical mobility contributed the circutation of  knowledge in East Asia (16th-20th centuries)? In China, Korea and Vietnam, the bureaucratic systems dictated a specific mode of mobility of the elites. But the ways in which individual itineraries shaped the circulation of knowledge need to be studied not only for civil servants, but also for various socio-professional groups, such as the scholars privately employed by high officials, craftsmen, medical doctors, traders, Buddhist monks, and emperors themselves. To these groups should be added the actors of the globalisation of knowledge during this period.

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• 30 jan 2013

  31 jan 2013

  01 fév 2013

  Grenoble

  Conference, symposium - Thought

  Debates, Polemics and Controversies in Early Modern Philosophy

  Third International Conference of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy

  The general objective of the conference is to take an overview of the present historiographical situation regarding the study of controversies and to contribute to a reappraisal of the study of controversies in the history of early modern philosophy. It will aim not only at mapping the many philosophical controversies of the early modern period, but as well at making explicit the different methodological approaches that can be used to analyse controversies and at evaluating the different explanatory merits of those methodological approaches.

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• 01 fév 2013

  Nancy

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  Standards of rigor in mathematical practice

  Philosophy of Mathematics

  Special issue of Philosophia Scientiae focusing on standards of mathematical rigor concerning the varieties of methodological, ontological, proof-theoretical questions. It is intend to tackle the questions in the framework of the philosophy of mathematical practice.

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• 15 sep 2012

  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.

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• 15 déc 2012

  Lyon

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Producing knowledge, governing populations

  Anthropology, science studies and health policies

  Le colloque « produire du savoir, gouverner des populations » propose d’ouvrir, ou plutôt d’élargir un espace d’échanges entre tenants de ces deux courants que sont l’anthropologie de la santé et les science studies autour de l’evidence based-medicine : quels sont ses apports, ses limites, mais aussi ses contraintes ? Comment vient-elle chaque jour produire, imposer ou recomposer les normes et les standards de soins, redéfinir nos représentations de la santé, du corps, des maux qui nous affligent ou changer nos systèmes de valeur ou les politiques qui définissent les actions mises en place par nos systèmes de santé ?

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• 21 jui 2012

  22 jui 2012

  City of London

  Study days - History

  Court Medicine Healthcare Personnel and Sanitary Politics in Europe, 15c-18c

  Court medical practitioners changed in numbers, occupations and functions during the Renaissance and early modern period (15c-18c) practitioners focused on different specialities within body-care, and took on different roles in the government of Europe’s states. Building on recent work that has concentrated on the history of body care at courts, this workshop will explores changes in court medical politics, practices and practitioners and the consequences they had for, firstly, medical thought, regulation and practice and, secondly, the activities, management and evolution of early modern states.

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• 30 sep 2012

  Lucerne

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Visibility Matters: Rendering Human Origins and Diversity in Space and Time

  The conference aims at bringing together scholars from various disciplines who work on the visualization of human origins and diversity. A particular focus will be on the diagrammatic forms of representation. Strategies of diagrammatic representation typically employ a series of textual, symbolic, and pictorial elements. Such strategies may include, among others, specific ways of subjectification; the serialization, spatialization, and temporalization of data; the storage of standardized data sets; and staging techniques of protagonists, events, and processes, notably in the architecture of exhibitions, parks and museums, and through the medium of film and animation.

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• 27 jui 2012

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Science studies

  Visiting Fellows in Centre for History and Philosophy of Science (Leeds)

  History and Philosophy of Science at Leeds announces Visiting Fellows Programme.

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• 21 jui 2012

  22 jui 2012

  23 jui 2012

  Paris | Paris

  Conference, symposium - Science studies

  Spaces, Knots and Bonds: at the crossroads between early modern "magic" and "science"

  Nous avons pour objectif principal une exploration de l’influence des auteurs, des idées et des domaines de connaissance dits « occultes » ou « hétérodoxes » sur le développement des conceptions de l’espace à la Renaissance et à l’âge classique. Ainsi, nous tiendrons à réévaluer l’histoire des définitions canoniques de l’espace, particulièrement celles du XVIIe siècle. Nos intervenants traiteront des manières dont l’espace est impliqué dans diverses discussions concernant les liens entre lieux et choses, entre ce qui est en haut et ce qui est en bas, entre ce qui est éloigné et ce qui est proche, entre ce qui est théologique ou métaphysique et ce qui est physique. Nous explorerons également les représentations visuelles, géométriques et causales des espaces cosmologiques, géographiques, matériaux, imaginatifs, et mentaux.

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• 12 jui 2012

  Paris

  Study days - Representation

  Insectes, sociétés et cultures

  De la Renaissance au XIXe siècle

  La journée d'études « Insectes, sociétés et cultures. De la Renaissance au XIXe siècle » aura lieu le 12 juin 2012. Elle est organisée par Brian Ogilvie, avec l’Institut d’études avancées de Paris et le soutien de l’University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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• 18 jui 2012

  Call for papers - History

  Medical research, development, and memory in colonial and postcolonial Nigeria

  We are pleased to announce a second research training and proposal development seminar on the history of medical research in Nigeria, to be held at the Dean’s Seminar Room, Faculty of General Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka from 17th to 21st September 2012. This seminar is open to twelve doctoral postgraduate students and recent postdoctoral scholars (PhD awarded after 1st January 2008) from Nigerian universities. It will provide training in the theory and methodology of history of medicine, together with an opportunity to discuss and develop a research proposal for submission to a peer-reviewed competition for four grants of to cover a four-month period of field and archival research in early 2013.

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• 07 jui 2012

  Paris

  Study days - Sociology

  A political history of techno-scientific governance: the shaping of transnational networks of Cold-War elites

  Le programme ERC Futurepol « A political history of the future » coordonné par Jenny Andersson (CNRS, Sciences Po) organise le 7 juin 2012 de 14h30 à 16h30 à Sciences Po (salle du conseil - 13, rue de l'Université - 75007 Paris) un séminaire intitulé « A political history of techno-scientific governance: the shaping of transnational networks of Cold War elites ».À cette occasion, Egle Rindzeviciute (Sciences Po) et Leena Riska-Campbell (Université d'Helsinky) viendront présenter leurs recherches sur l'International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) et son rôle pendant la Guerre Froide. Elles seront discutées par Marie-Laure Djelic (ESSEC Business School).

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• 18 jui 2012

  Oxford

  Study days - History

  For a comparative history of industrial risks regulation, 18th-19th c.

  If comparison between national or regional contexts has been a driving force for the historiography of the « industrial revolution », and if environmental history has been immediately written on a global scale, the evolution of environmental and risk regulation is often studied according to the national, regional or local scales of the institutions producing the regulations. The aim of this workshop is to invite historians to consider how comparison could advance our understanding of the different ways of regulating risk and environment.

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• 30 mai 2012

  London

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Science studies

  Board of Longitude project

  Digital resources engagement officer

  Royal Museums Greenwich in partnership with Cambridge University is developing a JISC-funded project, "Navigating 18th-Century Science and Technology: The Board of Longitude", which will create an online resource based on the extraordinary archives of the British Board of Longitude (1714-1828). The proposed resource will draw on and make links between important collections held at Cambridge University Library (CUL) and Royal Museum's Greenwich (RMG). A key role in the development and delivery of the project will be the one-year, full-time position of Digital Resources Engagement Officer, who will forge the links between the partner collections and create engaging digital learning resources for a broad audience base.

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• 03 jui 2012	07 jui 2012	04 jui 2012
  05 jui 2012	06 jui 2012

  Paris | Versailles

  Conference, symposium - History

  4th International Congress on Construction History

  Après Madrid (2003), Cambridge (2006), Cottbus (2009), Paris a été choisie pour accueillir le quatrième congrès international d'histoire de la construction. Trois écoles d'architecture (Paris-Malaquais, Paris-La Villette et Versailles) ainsi que le Conservatoire des arts et métiers pilotent cet évènement. L'histoire de la construction apparaît par définition hybride, associant aussi bien la conception que la réalisation, comme la préservation, la technique que la culture, et se trouve de fait interdisciplinaire. Y participent aussi bien des historiens de toutes disciplines (archéologues, juristes, économistes, historiens de l'art, etc.) que des praticiens (ingénieurs, architectes, entrepreneurs, artisans). Plus de 350 chercheurs, enseignants et praticiens, vont présenter le dernier état de leur recherche dans ce champ et en débattre sur quatre sites parisiens et versaillais. 6 conférences plénières seront délivrées par des personnalités reconnues par leurs pairs. Les actes paraîtront chez Picard en 3 volumes le jour du congrès. Le programme ainsi que les modalités d'inscription sont en ligne sur le site: www.icch-paris2012.fr

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• 04 jui 2011

  05 jui 2011

  Oxford

  Conference, symposium - Science studies

  Sites of Chemistry in the 18th Century

  Conference organised by the Maison Française d'Oxford, on the July 4th and 5th, 2011.

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• 20 avr 2012

  Oxford

  Study days - Science studies

  Puericulture, Biotypology and "Latin" Eugenics in Comparative Context

  This One-day Workshop is organised by the History of Race and Eugenics (HRE) Research Group Oxford Brookes University. The study of eugenics and race is currently undergoing a remarkable transformation - one defined by society's need to engage with scientific advances and the ethical dilemmas they raise on the one hand, and the investigation of hitherto neglected case studies on the other. The inclusion and juxtaposition of national and international histories of race and eugenics lies at the heart of this international collaboration that strives to not only yield original and timely research on these neglected national case studies, but to redefine and diversify the overarching debates on these particularly turbulent periods of modern history.

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• 09 mar 2012

  10 mar 2012

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Science studies

  Communicating Science and Technology II

  From the 15th century to the present

  Colloque organisé par la Maison française d'Oxford, les 9 et 10 mars 2012.

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• 08 avr 2012

  Lyon

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Nuclear questions

  How can social sciences help us understand the nuclear world ?

  Le colloque interdisciplinaire, « Les chantiers du nucléaire », se propose d’ouvrir un chantier, celui des relations entre le nucléaire et les SHS. Il s’agira de faire un bilan des recherches existantes et de capitaliser sur cet acquis conséquent, en examinant les approches choisies, les méthodes mises en œuvre, les difficultés rencontrées et in fine les aspects non retenus ou non analysés de cet objet à multiples facettes. Dans un second temps, nous souhaiterions interroger la pertinence des apports des SHS aux débats contemporains sur l'industrie nucléaire.

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• 07 jui 2012

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  European Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme (2012)

  EURIAS propose trente-deux résidences de recherche de dix mois dans quatorze instituts d'études avancées (IEA) en Europe. Les IEA offrent à des chercheurs de haut niveau, junior ou senior, la possibilité de travailler en toute indépendance en bénéficiant des meilleures conditions de recherche et de l'environnement stimulant d'une communauté scientifique internationale et pluridisciplinaire. Les résidences sont principalement allouées aux candidats issus des sciences de l'homme et de la société, mais sont également ouvertes aux sciences exactes et aux sciences du vivant.

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