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• 28 fév 2017

  Aix-en-Provence

  Call for papers - Science studies

  The disciplinary constitution of the humanities and social sciences in 19th and 20th century Greece: National traditions and transnational movements

  25th Modern Greek Studies Conference of French-speaking universities

  The biennial Congress of French-speaking Modern Greek Studies scholars will take place from October 12^th to October 14^th, 2017 in Aix-en-Provence. Its aim is to bring together researchers from every domain of the humanities and social sciences. The issue at the heart of this 15^th Congress is the historical progress of certain areas of study towards the status of full-fledged disciplines of the humanities and social sciences in Greece from the moment of the establishment of the Greek state (1830) and within a context allowing the study of this phenomenon in both its regional and its international dimensions.

   

  The works of the Congress will be organized around the following themes:

  1. The emergence, institutionalization, reproduction and diffusion of disciplinary bodies of knowledge.

  2. The way each discipline positions itself with relation to other fields of knowledge and implements its theoretical foundations

  3. The processes of establishing legitimacy for the new disciplines and for the groups framing them

  4. Disciplinarization and the field of Modern Greek Studies

   

  Abstracts must be submitted before February 28^th, 2017, in either French or English.

   

   

   

   

   

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• 30 jui 2017

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Musicologies / ethnomusicologies : évolutions, problèmes, alternatives

  NEMO-Online, volume 4, n°6 et 7

  These issues continue the debate initiated in NEMO-Online n°5 concerning the usefulness of the science, the problems raised due to powerful and contradictory non-scientific characteristics, and the alternatives which may be proposed.

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• 19 jan 2017

  21 jan 2017

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Science studies

  The oriental fable - perspectives on the Middle East in the classical age (1630-1780)

  Regards sur le Moyen-Orient à l’âge classique (1630-1780)

  « On attribue ordinairement l’origine des fables à l’imagination vive des orientaux », affirme Fontenelle dans De l’origine des fables (1724), faisant écho à une idée formulée avec éclat dès 1670 par Huet dans son Traité de l’Origine des romans, publié en tête de la mauresque Zayde de Mme de Lafayette. Orient et fabulation sont indissolublement liés pour la conscience occidentale à l’âge classique. C’est ce rapport du Moyen-Orient et de la fable, entendue en son sens le plus large, qu’il s’agit ici d’explorer : on se propose non seulement d’examiner pourquoi la pensée occidentale s’est alors plu à imputer aux orientaux l’invention des mythes et des fables originaires, mais aussi et surtout de s’interroger sur les mille et une manières dont l’imaginaire de l’Occident classique (singulièrement en France) n’a cessé de fabuler autour du Moyen-Orient.

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• 13 jan 2017	10 fév 2017	17 mar 2017
  28 avr 2017	09 jui 2017	...

  Paris

  Seminar - Representation

  The genealogies of globalisation

  En partant d’une lecture des discours qui se sont mis en réseau discursif sous l’appellation lâche de Global Studies, le séminaire veut mettre en regard les propositions des disciplines qui construisent ou reconstruisent actuellement des concepts du mondial avec leurs conditions discursives dans l’université en cours de mondialisation ; c’est-à-dire aussi sur l’horizon, géopolitiquement et linguistiquement différencié, de la société de la connaissance.

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• 03 nov 2016	30 nov 2016	13 jan 2017
  10 fév 2017	10 mar 2017	...

  Paris

  Seminar - Science studies

  History Review of the technical modernity in France (the twentieth century to the present)

  Critical thinking of modernity has never been more relevant. She also has a history, especially since the late eighteenth century. Its players may have been either movements (1810 Luddites to the Surrealists in the late 1950s, and other movements today) or relatively isolated thinkers, and more involved in writing (sometimes the pamphlet) than in transformative political action. The proposed program focuses on this second category, most misunderstood, but also addresses the first category – in both cases over a period extending from the early twentieth century to today. It puts them into perspective with some excitement speeches of the dominant technical modernity that often they criticize, especially in the period of the 1930s and that of the years 1960-1980.

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• 27 jan 2017	24 fév 2017	24 fév 2017
  12 mai 2017

  Paris

  Seminar - Thought

  Powers of Imagination. Historical Approach

  The concept of imagination is today seen as as a legitimate object of study, having long been discredited by scientific research. However, in modern and contemporary literature, imagination is generally considered in a negative way, as a mental faculty that can cause disease, error, illusion or sin. By cons, its role was very important, because the imagination formed the necessary link between body and soul. So that was the preferred place to act to perform bodily healing as well as spiritual. We would go against this idea of imagination by studying intellectual tradition and alternative and misunderstood practice. Since the XII^th and XIII^th centuries until the early XIX^th century, thinkers and practitioners from a diverse set of disciplines, expressing themselves from different institutional positions, supported the idea that imagination has great powers on the body and on the body and mind of others.

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• 23 déc 2016

  Yaoundé

  Study days - Sociology

  Social sciences, subversion and marginality

  Study day - tribute to Jean-Marc Ela

  Le 26 décembre 2008, à la Culumbian Royal Hospital de Vancouver au Canada, Jean-Marc Ela quittait ce monde. Ainsi, s’éteignait à 72 ans, la voix de celui qui, très vite et durant de très longues décennies, s’imposa comme le sociologue le plus lucide et le plus fécond de sa génération.

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• 01 mar 2017

  Kraków

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  The sixth conference of the european network for the philosophy of the social sciences (ENPOSS)

  The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites contributions to its 6^th Conference to be held in Krakow in September of 2017 and organized by the Department of Philosophy of the Cracow University of Economics and the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. 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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• 03 oct 2016	14 nov 2016	05 déc 2016
  20 fév 2017	13 mar 2017	...

  Paris

  Seminar - Science studies

  The history and philosophy of mathematics

  The seminar is the meeting point between different SPHERE (Science, philosophie, histoire) teams that are interested in mathematics. It fosters dialogue between philosophers and historians of mathematics while focusing on textual sources. Speakers are encouraged to make their sources available to the participants.

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• 19 déc 2016

  Ottawa

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Schismo-geneses - ethnography in movement

  La « schismogénèse », terme définit par Gregory Bateson, désigne un mouvement de différenciation progressive : symétrique (par exemple rivalité) ou complémentaire (par exemple dominant-dominé). Il s'agira d'observer ces mouvements de près dans la matière de différentes disciplines, une ethnographie du milieu.

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• 10 jan 2017

  Lausanne

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Ecology, religions and spiritualities: from socio-environmental conflicts to cosmopolitics

  This session aims to discuss, from a socio-anthropology and a political philosophy of religion, the link between ecology and religion as they have already been addressed in Religion et écologie (Hervieu-Leger, 1993) and Nature et religions (Bertina, Carnac, Fauches et Gervais, 2013). It aims at analysing the relationship between ecology and religion, emphasizing the political dimension, and more specifically the conflictual one, of this encounter guided by divergent interests or representations.

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• 13 déc 2016	25 jan 2017	15 fév 2017
  21 mar 2017	25 avr 2017	...

  Lille

  Seminar - Thought

  Transhumanisms in question

  Ce séminaire pluri-disicplinaire porte sur les questions philosophiques et éthiques portées par le courant transhumaniste. Le séminaire, composé d'un groupe pluridisciplinaire d'universitaires se concentre sur trois axes de recherche. En premier lieu, il s'agit de penser les questions liées à la subjectivité (philosophie de l'esprit, conscience, intelligence articifielle). En second lieu, les enjeux sociaux et politiques (biopolitique, démocratie, droits de l'homme, démocratie, progressisme/conservatisme, libertarianisme, néo-libéralisme). Enfin, la généalogie du courant transhumaniste est étudiée sous ses différents aspects historiques, économiques, sociologiques et philosophiques.

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• 13 oct 2016	01 déc 2016	15 déc 2016
  19 jan 2017	02 fév 2017	...

  Paris

  Seminar - Epistemology and methodology

  History and Philosophy of Chemistry

  The philosophy of chemistry is a little known reflection domain, expanding, opening up new opportunities for reflection on science and technology, often different and complementary of the perspectives opened by the philosophy of physics, biology and mathematics. This seminar will, in particular, be a place for exchanges between historians, philosophers, chemists, scientists from diverse backgrounds, students and anyone interested in the subject. It aims to promote dialogue between philosophers and historians and give voice to different historical and philosophical approaches in respect of their singularities.

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• 18 nov 2016	16 déc 2016	20 jan 2017
  24 fév 2017	24 mar 2017	...

  Paris

  Seminar - Science studies

  “Arabic” Mathematics

  This monthly seminar will aim to invite researchers to come and present their work in progress or recently published that address the “Arab mathematics”, understood in a broad sense to be studied not only mathematics itself, but science “mathematized” of the era, such as astronomy, optics and static; Furthermore, we do not restrict themselves to only written in Arabic mathematics, but we can address their writings in other languages extensions, like Latin, Hebrew and Farsi.

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• 14 déc 2016

  15 déc 2016

  09 déc 2016

  Lyon

  Conference, symposium - History

  Monsters and Christianity - monsters of Christianity (16th-18th centuries)

  Ce colloque, organisé à Lyon par Étienne Couriol (Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes-LARHRA) et Teresa Hiergeist (université d'Erlangen), avec le soutien de l'université Lyon III, du LARHRA et de la fondation allemande ALH, étudiera comment la figure du monstre est utilisée dans un cadre religieux dans l'Europe de l'époque moderne. Les intervenants seront français, suisses, allemands et argentins, en histoire, littérature et histoire de l'art.

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• 14 oct 2016	18 nov 2016	09 déc 2016
  20 jan 2017	10 fév 2017	...

  Paris

  Seminar - Epistemology and methodology

  The experience of techniques: collections, reconstructions, knowledge and know-how

  This seminar aims to reflect on the place of history of technical knowledge through the study of technical collections in their most concrete aspects (construction, classification, display devices, catering) while incorporating these artifacts to wider prospects, on the role of materiality and gesture in research and in the transmission of knowledge. The central theme of the seminar is the arts of making and sensory experience, designed as a participant of intellection process and the construction of subjectivity, in the past as today.

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• 23 mar 2017	24 mar 2017	20 avr 2017
  21 avr 2017

  Marseille

  Seminar - Science studies

  A different way of telling tales III

  Ce séminaire interroge différentes formes de narration scientifique en se focalisant sur l’usage des images dans l’analyse des interactions sociales mais également des objets et des techniques. En s'appuyant sur l’expérience menée depuis quelques années à la revue Techniques & Culture, les intervenants s'essaieront à différents exercices de style et à différentes façons d’objectiver le terrain, dès lors que l’ils visent à être entendu d’un public étendu.

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• 15 déc 2016

  16 déc 2016

  Champs-sur-Marne

  Conference, symposium - Language

  Literature and sciences

  Ce colloque sera organisé par l’équipe LISAA (Littératures savoirs et arts) de l’université Paris-Est Marne la Vallée les 15-16 décembre 2016 dans le cadre d’un programme avec l’université d’Ewha de Séoul. Il se veut un lieu d’échange entre les chercheurs français et coréens autour des questions qui relient la littérature et les sciences.

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• 16 jan 2017

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Data and networks - gender and sciences

  Le 16 janvier 2016, est organisée une rencontre invitant tout·e chercheur·se·s dont les travaux nécessitent la création d’une base de données, et/ou la mobilisation de notions relevant de l’analyse de réseaux, à présenter leurs recherches passées ou en cours. L’accent sera particulièrement - mais pas exclusivement - porté sur les recherches portant sur les études de genre et/ou l’histoire des sciences.

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• 05 jan 2017

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Human work - measure and excess in bodily activity (19th-20th centuries)

  Conference of the Société française d’histoire des sciences et des techniques (SFHST)

  Dans le cadre du congrès 2017 de la Société française d'histoire des sciences et des techniques (Strasbourg 19-20-21 avril 2017) un symposium est consacré à l'histoire des mesures de l'activité corporelle. De manière spécifique le symposium s'intéressera au « travail » du corps et à sa metrologie.

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