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• 25 mar 2012

  Berlin

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Science studies

  Ways of Writing: How Physicians Know, 1550-1950

  Doctoral and post-doctoral positions

  Observation in the clinic, testing in the laboratory, curve-tracing machines: we may think we know how physicians know. We don’t. That is because we have, until recently, ignored the primary medium in which medical knowledge occurs, namely, writing and its organisation andreorganisation on paper. Written patient records are almost as old as medicine itself and still central to its practice. Remarkably unexamined is how these have generated knowledge. The project aims to address a question of interest for understanding science, technology and medicine in the broadest sense: How are generalizations drawn from particulars? Keytechniques appear to be those of mastering on paper. These are shared across clinical, natural historical, pedagogical, forensic, accounting, administrative and other activity. To learn how paper technology works and how this has shaped knowledge over time, to show how human beings know and deal with the physical world through operations of pen and paper: theproject aims to contribute to this wider goal through its focus on medicine.

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• 06 mar 2012

  20 mar 2012

  03 avr 2012

  Paris

  Lecture series - Political studies

  Conferences on Innovation Policies By Charles Edquist

  L’IFRIS a le plaisir de vous convier au cycle de trois conférences que donnera Charles Edquist sur le thème des politiques d’innovation. Ces conférences sont conçues de façon à intéresser un large public, parmi les membres de l’IFRIS et au-delà. Charles Edquist, spécialiste de l’analyse des systèmes d’innovation, discutera des politiques d’innovation en faisant référence à la fois aux STS et aux études de l’innovation.

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• 26 avr 2013

  27 avr 2013

  Brussels

  Call for papers - History

  Food and Hospitals

  An Historical Perspective

  While contemporary grumblings about hospital food have become the quintessential hospital complaint, it is undeniable that a clean, warm bed, rest and the provision of food and drink, rather than medicines and therapies have always greatly increased hospital patients’ chances of recovery. Indeed diet has from the time of Galen been a central part of medical therapy. However, even if central to the day-to-day routine of hospitals, workhouses and asylums, food and drink continue to be overlooked in historical accounts of hospitalisation. This conference aims to foreground the role of food and drink in health care institutions in the past.

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• 31 mar 2012

  30 sep 2012

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Fernand Braudel – IFER Fellowships

  International Fellowships for Experienced Researchers

  La Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme offre des bourses de recherche postdoctorale en sciences humaines et sociales d’une durée de 9 mois dans le cadre de son programme « Fernand Braudel-IFER » (International Fellowships for Experienced Researchers).

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• 23 avr 2012

  Birmingham

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Complaining about Medicine

  In recent years, studies into experiences of health care have led historians to engage with the issue of the medical complaint. As expressions of dissatisfaction, disquiet and failings in service provision, the complaint is both a vital antidote to progressive histories of health care and, in generating contemporary investigation and debate, has also left a fertile seam for historical research. Often it is only when things go wrong that we begin to understand thecomplexity at work in past events. This two-day international conference will explore what has happened historically when medicine generated complaints.

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• 24 avr 2002

  Berlin

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Science studies

  Postdoctoral Fellowship Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

  The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Max Planck Research Group (Sabine Arnaud), announces one Postdoctoral Fellowship for a scholar in classics with a specialization in Early Modern Latin.

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• 01 mar 2012

  Paris

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  Position : Director of the IEA de Paris

  The International Search Committee invites applications for the position of Director of the IEA de Paris.

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• 20 jan 2012

  Lisbon

  Study days - Sociology

  Area studies revisited the many faces of an interdisciplinary field

  Launching conference of the comparative and transnational studies research line

  O Fórum Pesquisas do CIES-IUL 2011, coincidente com o lançamento da linha 6 - Comparative and Transnational Studies (COTRANS), terá lugar no no dia 20 de janeiro de 2012, no ISCTE-IUL, Edifício 2, Auditório B 203, em Lisboa (Portugal). Inscrições através de gcp.cies@iscte.pt

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• 10 fév 2012

  Cambridge

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Science studies

  Two post doc positions in History and Philosophy of Social Science

  The History and Philosophy Department (University of Cambridge) is seeking to appoint two post-doctoral research associates for the ERC-funded project 'A Science of Human Nature: Philosophical Disputes at the Interface of Natural and Social Science', recently awarded to Dr Tim Lewens.

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• 15 déc 2011

  16 déc 2011

  17 déc 2011

  Puducherry

  Study days - Science studies

  Low-Tech / High-Tech

  We intend in this workshop to reconsider how new technologies flow and circulate around the globe. One cannot ignore the obvious fact that we are seeing the emergence of new technological and industrial centres which accompany the rapid redistribution of economic power around the world; but one should also take into account the fact that technology is – and has always been – flowing and circulating in much more unexpected ways than predicted by the old-fashioned diffusionist models which are still prevalent, even in these times of globalisation. By privileging in this workshop (and in our collective project) a comparative approach between three very different geographical regions – South Asia, the Middle East and Europe – we hope to be able to propose an approach to technological flow, which will be sufficiently global and comparative, for going beyond the specificities of any particular culture or society, and which may really better help us understand the dynamics of technological circulations and the processes by which technologies are reinvented in different locations.

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• 31 jan 2012

  01 fév 2012

  Paris

  Study days - Sociology

  Paul Willis, Learning to labor. 35 years after

  Retour sur l'enquête menée par le sociologue Paul Willis dans les années 1970 auprès de jeunes ouvriers anglais. Journée d'études en présence de l'auteur à l'occasion de la traduction de Learning to labor en français.

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• 15 mar 2012

  Copenhagen

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  First European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences Conference

  First European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences ConferenceUniversity of Copenhagen, September 21-23, 2012. The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites contributions to its inaugural conference. Contributions from all areas within the philosophy of the social sciences are encouraged. Moreover, contributions from both philosophers and social scientists are welcome.

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• 12 déc 2011

  13 déc 2011

  14 déc 2011

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Science studies

  How to make the peripheral "mainstream"

  Recent develpments in the historiography of science

  Ces dernières années, le développement des études sur l’histoire des sciences dans les régions du monde dont on a longtemps considéré qu’elles n’avaient pas contribué de manière significative au développement historique des sciences s’est accompagné d’une réflexion historiographique approfondie. Ce colloque vise à formuler et discuter des propositions pour placer ces travaux et problématiques de recherche vus comme périphériques au centre de l'histoire des sciences.

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• 31 déc 2011

  London

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Science, Space, and the Environment

  Although the sciences have provided critical resources in environmental debates, their own role in environmental change has been little studied. This conference will explore how the sciences have affected the physical environment.

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• 15 déc 2011

  Tours

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Self-managed Co-Housing: born out of need or new ways of life?

  In the 21st century, self-organized co-housing is re-appearing in many European countries, in new forms and larger numbers. Cohousing, cooperatives de logement, Genossenschaften or Samenhuizen are types of collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighbourhoods. This "Le Studium® Conference" aims to look at co-housing initiatives in the perspective of sustainable spatial development. Its purpose is both to take stock of ongoing research and practices, as well as to set a research agenda and establish future collaborations.

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• 15 jan 2012

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Power, Resistances and Tensions. History of Electric Mobilities, 19th-20th Centuries

  L'électricité est aujourd'hui employée pour de nombreuses formes de mobilité et nombreux sont les projets allant dans le sens d'un usage plus massif de cette énergie pour se déplacer. L'appel à communications de ce colloque se propose d'envisager sur le temps long cette relation entre électricité et mobilité, en interrogeant les pratiques et imaginaires d'une énergie qui, si elle a trouvé des applications concrètes dans le domaine des transports, s'est également bien souvent confrontée à des désillusions. Colloque organisé par l'Université Paris I (laboratoire IRICE UMR 8138) et l'Université Paris Diderot (laboratoire ICT EA 337) avec le soutien de l'ISCC-CNRS.

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  Oxford

  Seminar - Science studies

  Environmental History Seminar Programme 2011-2012

  Maison Française d'Oxford seminar cycle

  The aims of this seminar are to help bring together British and French researchers working on the same topics or problematics, and to discuss recent research on environmental history. Therefore, the principle is to invite a French and a British colleague to each seminar, to present their own research and then discuss it.

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• 15 déc 2011

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Africa

  São Tomé and Príncipe from an interdisciplinary, diachronic and synchronic perspective

  International Conference

  The International Conference São Tomé and Príncipe from an interdisciplinary, diachronic and synchronic perspective is the result of a partnership between researchers at the Centre of African Studies (CEA) at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) and the Global Development Programme at the Tropical Research Institute (IICT) in Lisbon. As part of on-going research projects, the conference aims to present and share studies and project results from research conducted on São Tomé and Príncipe in various areas of scientific knowledge.

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• 14 oct 2011

  15 oct 2011

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Science studies

  Time and Emergence

  Le département de philosophie de l’École normale supérieure, le Centre de recherche sur la littérature et la cognition de l’Université de Paris VIII et l’International Society for the Study of Time organisent, les vendredi 14 et samedi 15 octobre 2011, Salle Dussane à L’École normale supérieure de Paris, un symposium sur le thème : temps et émergence. Le symposium, dont le programme suit, favorisera une approche franchement transdiciplinaire du sujet. La participation est libre, dans la mesure des places disponibles.

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• 03 oct 2011

  Gennevilliers

  Seminar - Education

  Semiotics as Philosophy for Education

  Le séminaire « Semiosis and education », financé conjointement par la PESGB (Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain) et l’Université de Cergy-Pontoise, est organisé dans le cadre des travaux d’un réseau international ayant pour objet les liens entre sémiotique et éducation. Le séminaire qui aura lieu le 3 octobre 2011 fait suite à une première rencontre, organisée en octobre 2008 à Gand, et s’appuie sur un ensemble de travaux de recherche produits depuis plusieurs années.

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