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Workshop : Medicine, Science and Technology in Argentina. Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Universidad Maimónides
1 June 2011

This workshop is co-organised by Universidad Maimónides (Argentina) and Oxford Brookes University (UK) and aims to bring together a range of researchers working in the intersections of science, technology and medicine from a range of disciplines (history, sociology, health professionals, and communication sciences) and different areas of research (social studies of science and technology, history of medicine, and health and population studies). It is our intention that the workshop will be an occasion to discuss research problems, innovative perspectives and a variety of methodological approaches between senior and early career researchers. With a main focus in Argentina, the workshop will also encourage comparative studies or scientific exchanges in South America, especially between Argentina and Brazil.

Topics for discussion include: – Science, medicine and the state: Public and private initiatives (The state as scientific entrepreneur; Public policies, sanitary campaigns, and healthcare institutions; Private institutes, national and international philanthropy) – Configurations of the biomedical field in Argentina (Experimental medicine, clinical medicine, and social medicine; Scientific and medical specialization; Government, universities, foundations and industry)

Organisers:
Dr Yolanda Eraso, Oxford Brookes University <yolandaeraso@brookes.ac.uk>
Dr Pablo Kreimer, CONICET/Universidad Nacional de Quilmes/Universidad Maimónides <pkreimer@fibertel.com.ar>
Dr José Buschini, Universidad Nacional de La Plata jbuschini@unq.edu.ar

Full programme, and further information for attendants will be available at the following link:

http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/event/medicine_science_and_technology_in_argentina_interdisciplinary_perspectives/

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Appel à contribution – The Royal Body

Centre for the Study of Bodies and Material Culture, Royal Holloway, University of London
2-5 April 2012

‘For the King has in him two bodies . a Body natural and a Body politic.’ The idea of the king’s two bodies, the body natural and the body politic, founded on the distinction between the personal and mortal king and the perpetual and corporate crown, has long been of interest to scholars of medieval and early modern kingship. In later centuries the natural body of the monarch remained a contested site, with the life, health, sexuality, fertility and death of the king or queen continuing to be an important part of politics. Now royal sex and scandal is the very stuff that sells newspapers, and royal christening, weddings and funerals continue to capture the popular imagination. Indeed the ‘royal touch’ of Aids victims or sick children remains a potent image. So what is the significance of the natural body of the monarch to their subjects now and the importance of it for the concept, and survival, of monarchy?

This conference will explore the bodies of monarchs across Europe ranging from the medieval period to the present. By considering how the monarch’s body has been washed, dressed, used, anointed, hidden, attacked and put on display, it will investigate how ideas of king/queenship have developed over time.

Abstracts of 300 words, for papers of approximately 20 minutes, should be submitted by 15 September 2011 to Dr Anna Whitelock, Department of History, RHUL, anna.whitelock@rhul.ac.uk<mailto:anna.whitelock@rhul.ac.uk>
The conference will take place at Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey, on 2-5 April 2012.

Topics might include:
. Body service – dining, dressing, washing
. Rituals and ceremony
. Bodyservants and bodyguards
. Royal sleep -dreams and nightmares
. Assassination attempts
. Age, health and pregnancy
. Deformity and disability
. Royal births and deaths
. Regicide
. Royal touch
. Divine bodies
. Christenings, coronations, weddings and funerals
. Sexuality
. Fertility, chastity, virility
. Royal doctors
. Effigies and monuments
. Royal Dress
. Sex and Scandal
. Historiography
. Iconography and representation
. Drama and literature
. Political theory

http://progressivegeographies.com/2011/05/07/call-for-papers-the-royal-body/

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Appel à contribution – Public Hygiene in Central and Eastern Europe, 1800 – 1940


Public hygiene can be broadly understood as concepts and practices aiming at strengthening or reconstituting the health of individuals as parts of a collective. It has been described as a tool of power applied upon subaltern bodies and as biopolitics, disciplining individuals to subdue themselves to certain medical and hygienic practices. The history of public hygiene has also been closely intertwined with the construction of a social, national or racial ‘other’, (violently) excluded from a hygienically ‘clean’ inner circle. Hygienic rule (in a Foucauldian sense), however, next to disciplining elements, also implies techniques of stimulating individuals to hygienic technologies of the self.
Cultural history has shown an increasing interest in the entanglement of ruling techniques and medical knowledge and practices, yet empirical studies on the subject concentrate mostly on ‘Western’ cases or on the overseas colonies. The history of medicine and public health in the regions of Central and Eastern Europe has so far gained only little scholarly attention. For this reason we would like to bring together, for the first time, scholars working on various aspects of hygiene in Eastern/Central Europe in the 19th and early 20th century for an international workshop. The workshop is supposed to be a forum for the discussion of work in progress on related subjects; the aim is to enhance academic contact within and beyond Eastern/Central Europe.
Doctoral and post-doctoral students of hygiene are particularly encouraged to apply. Participants will be asked to give a short presentation (c. 15-20 minutes) at the conference and to circulate their papers in advance. To apply for the workshop, please send an abstract of your paper (1 page) and a CV to Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen (Katharina.Kreuder-Sonnen@gcsc.uni-giessen.de) or Andreas Renner (Andreas.Renner@ifog.uni-tuebingen.de) by 30 June 2011 at the latest.
Travel expenses may be reimbursed.

Papers on discourses, institutions, organisations and opponents of public hygiene, political and scientific practices as well as hygienic technologies of the self are welcome. However, the following points seem of special interest to us.

1. The role of hygiene in the rule of empires
What kind of hygienic knowledge was produced and used in order to rule an empire? Who were the carriers and propagators of such hygienic knowledge? Of further interest is also the question of how the multiethnic character of the Habsburg, Ottoman and Tsarist Empires influenced imperial hygienic rule: In what way did metropolitan hygienic knowledge interact with local (ethnically or religiously based) knowledge and practices on health and medicine and what were the practices of resistance against hygienic governing? Can differences to hygienic rule be observed in supposedly homogeneous nation states? What does the comparison of hygienic rule in different empires tell us about the role of medical knowledge in imperial governance?

2. Hygiene as travelling knowledge
Knowledge on public hygiene in Central and Eastern Europe has been produced in exchange with ‘Western’ ideas on medicine and health. In what forms did this exchange take place in the period of time under consideration and who were the carriers of travelling hygienic knowledge? How did ‘Western’ and local knowledge interact in this transnational setting of knowledge production? In the 20th century international organizations like the Office International d’Hygiène Publique, the League of Nations and the Rockefeller Foundations played an important role in the international transfer of knowledge. Furthermore, the workshop would also like to follow the paths of travelling knowledge within the region of Central and Eastern Europe.

3. War and hygiene
Wars threaten to destroy both military and civilian regimes of hygiene. How have the challenges of war been met, what kind of medical rules for physical and mental conduct were set up and by whom? How did physicians and other experts of hygiene experience times of war and revolution in East/Central Europe? In which respects did military hygiene influence civilian hygiene – and vice versa? Did wars boost the international discourse on hygiene (like the Russo-Japanese war) or rather lead to nationally fragmented discourses?

4. Building socialism or nation states after 1918
How was public hygiene involved in the processes of building up ‘modern’ states in the post-Habsburg and post-Ottoman region after World War One? What were the institutions of public or – in this case – state hygiene in these young states? What role did public hygiene play in the ‘inner colonization’ of the Soviet Union? Were there any continuities with pre-Soviet forms of imperial hygienic rule? How was hygiene involved in Soviet social engineering and the construction of “new men”?

The workshop will take place from 13 – 15 January 2012 in Gießen, at the Justus Liebig University, Institute for the History of Medicine, Jheringstr. 6.

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Appel à contribution – The Study of Eugenics – Past, Present and Future

Uppsala University, Sweden 10 Nov 2011 – 11 Nov 2011
Deadline: 31 May 2011

The study of eugenics has been extensive in recent years and has yielded a detailed understanding of the origins, evolution and impact of eugenic beliefs and practices. This research has received much attention also outside of academic circles, not least because of the growing awareness of the widespread eugenic practices (like sterilization) in emerging welfare states like the Nordic countries. Here, historical scholarship has contributed to the ongoing reinterpretation of the « modern project ». Much light has been shed on the relationship between eugenics and genetics before 1945, but the continuing relationship between these areas up to the present has not received enough attention, even though eugenic themes have been present in discussions about « ethical » issues in connection with various biomedical practices. This conference aims to bring together scholars in a variety of disciplines – history, the social sciences and philosophy among them – in order to discuss what the study of eugenics has achieved so far and what lies ahead, in ongoing and future research, including the relatively under-developed study of post-war eugenics.
The conference is open to contributions from various fields of research that may treat specific eugenic topics as well as historiographical questions. Accepted contributions will be arranged in thematic sessions by the organizers. The conference will last for two days and will open with keynote lectures by Professor Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University) on The Historiography of the History of Eugenics, and Dr. Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University) on Eugenics and Society – The Path for Future Research.
The conference is organized by Living History Forum, Stockholm, and the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University. Living History Forum is a government organisation that has been set up in order to spread knowledge and encourage research about issues associated with crimes against humanity (foremost the Holocaust). The Department of History of Science and Ideas is a major centre in Sweden for research in the history of medicine, including eugenics and related areas.

The organizers will cover the costs for meals and accommodation, and reimburse some travel expenses for participants who present papers. The number of papers that can be accepted is limited. If you want only to listen and participate in discussions you are heartily welcome but must still apply. More details regarding practical arrangements including a preliminary program will be sent out in mid June.
The deadline for applying to the conference is May 31.
Applications should include information about academic or other affiliation and research area. Those wishing to present a paper should include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Please note that the conference language is English.

Applications and questions should be directed to:
Annelie Drakman,
annelie.drakman@idehist.uu.se<mailto:annelie.drakman@idehist.uu.se>

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Appel à contribution – Literature and Chemistry : Elective Affinities

 

Interdisciplinary conference organized by the research group Literature and Science

The University of Bergen, Norway 27-28 October 2011

Invited speakers include:

Luigi Dei, Professor of Chemistry, Università di Firenze, on Primo Levi’s bridging of chemistry and literature

Robert Gordon, Reader in Modern Italian Culture, Cambridge University, on Primo Levi

Bernard Joly, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, Université de Lille 3, on the figure of the alchemist in 19th and 20th century fiction

Marek Krawczyk, Rector of Medical University of Warsaw, on the life and scientific achievements of Marie Sklodowska-Curie, the winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

George Rousseau, Professor of History, Oxford University, on science-politics, nostalgia and Ludwig Boltzmann

Sharon Ruston, Professor of English Literature, University of Salford, on Humphry Davy and British Romanticism

Leiv K. Sydnes, Professor of Chemistry, Universitetet i Bergen, on Oxygen

Conference topic

Chemistry is the art of separating, weighing, and distinguishing: these are three useful exercises also for the person who sets out to describe events or give body to his own imagination. Moreover, there is an immense treasure of metaphors that the writer can take from the chemistry of today and yesterday, which those who have not frequented the laboratory and factory know only approximately. […] Even a layman knows what to filter, crystallize, and distil means, but he knows it only at second hand: he does not know “the passion infused by them”, he does not know the emotions that are tied to these gestures, has not perceived the symbolic shadow they cast. These are the words of the Italian novelist and essayist Primo Levi (1919-1987), chemist and survivor of Auschwitz, who wrote extensively on chemistry.

Designated the UNESCO International Year of Chemistry, 2011 also commemorates the 100th anniversary of Marie Curie’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded for her ground-breaking studies in radium and polonium. The relationship between literature and chemistry has a long history, reaching back to the time before the existence of chemistry as a scientific discipline, to alchemy and natural philosophy, and to philosophers and poets like Epicurus and Lucretius. Goethe’s novel Elective Affinities (1809) represents one of the most notable metaphoric explorations of chemistry; with its suggestion of human connections as originating at a biochemical level. The chemist Humphry Davy had a direct influence on Wordsworth and Coleridge. In his 1880 essay “The Experimental Novel”, Emile Zola stated that his great source of inspiration as a novelist was the physiologist Claude Bernard, who studied the chemistry of the body. Other authors who have treated and explored alchemy and chemistry are E.T.A. Hoffmann, Mary Shelley, Poe, Dickens, Turgenev, Yeats, Joyce, Strindberg, Proust, Balzac, Zola, Asimov, Pynchon, Updike, not to mention philosophers as different as Comte, Jung and Bachelard. Chemistry also plays an important role in crime and detective fiction, in apocalyptic literature and in SF literature.

Together with its ancestor alchemy, chemistry has always had a darker and troubling side, infected with the guilt of hubris, of artifice and contamination, faults that, since Plato, have also been associated with literature. A hybrid science, posed between the technological and the theoretical, between observation and experiment, chemistry can be said to share with literature many of its fundamental processes of creation and epistemological problems of representation. The French chemist Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907) stated that, like literature and art, chemistry creates its object, and that the creative faculty forms an essential distinction between chemistry and the other natural or historical sciences.

Call for papers:

For this conference we welcome a range of approaches – historical, theoretical, ethical and aesthetical – to the encounters and affinities between literature and chemistry. Proposed topics might address:

Literary representations of the chemical sciences
The nomenclature of chemistry; tools and languages of representation
(chemical terms as literary metaphors)
The cultural and intellectual history of chemistry
The philosophy of chemistry
The symbolism of the elements
SF and chemistry
The chemical mind and body in literature
Chemistry and hubris – the ethics of chemistry
Artificiality and naturalness
Contamination, pollution, radiation

The organizers invite proposals for twenty-minute research papers on these or other aspects of the conference topic.

The organizers will consider publishing the proceedings of the workshop.

Please e-mail your proposed topic and preliminary paper title by 30 June, followed by a 250-word abstract by 1 September, to the following address:
margareth.hagen@if.uib.no

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us:

Randi.koppen@if.uib.no
Margareth.hagen@if.uib.no
Margery.skagen@if.uib.no

http://www.uib.no/fg/litt_vit/nyheter/2011/04/literature-and-chemistry

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Atelier – Les archives du corps

What are the archives of the body? Can the body serve as an archive itself? What sources tell us the most about the body? This workshop, to be held at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge and sponsored by the Académie Nationale de Médecine, Paris, aims to bring together sholars to explore multiple types of evidence about human bodies in the medieval and early modern periods, in Europe, the New World and the Muslim and Jewish worlds. The sources examined might include: the archives of hospitals, universities and medical academies; civic, monastic, ecclesiastical and judicial records; iconographic sources, medical treatises and archaeological data.

An International Workshop to be held at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, 8–9 September 2011

What are the archives of the body? Can the body serve as an archive itself? What sources tell us the most about the body? This workshop, sponsored by the Académie Nationale de Médecine, Paris, aims to bring together historians, literary scholars, art historians and archaeologists to explore multiple types of evidence about human bodies in the medieval and early modern periods, in Europe, the New World and the Muslim and Jewish worlds.

The sources examined might include: the archives of hospitals, universities and medical academies; civic, monastic, ecclesiastical and judicial records; iconographic sources, medical treatises and archaeological data.

A keynote paper, ‘The Body in Pain and Tales of Election and Damnation during the French Wars of Religion’, will be presented by Dr Luc Racaut (School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle).

Possible topics may include:

The holy body
Iconoclasm, corporal mortification
Medicine and diseased bodies
Anatomical knowledge and pathology
Gender, nudity and sexuality
Bodily difference and disability
The body as a commodity
Beauty and the ideal body
Senses, sensitivity and emotions
How to apply ?

Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited from

advanced scholars,
early career researchers and
doctoral students.
Paper abstracts no longer than 300 words, with a brief CV and full contact details, should be emailed to both

Dr Elma Brenner (ehob2@cam.ac.uk) and
Dr Elena Taddia (elena@earlymodernhistory.com)
by 31 May 2011.

The language of the workshop will be English.

Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their submission by 15 June 2011.

Comité scientifique :

Elma Brenner – Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Elena Taddia – Docteur ès Lettres ENS –Lyon, Trinity College Research Fellow, Dublin
Luc Racaut, School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle
Laurence Camous, directrice de la Bibliothèque de l’Académie Nationale de Médecine, Paris
Jérôme Van Wjiland, conservateur de la Bibliothèque de l’Académie Nationale de Médecine, Paris

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Appel à contribution – Médicament (s). XII – XVIIIe siècle

 

les vendredi 21 et samedi 22 octobre 2011.

Vendredi 21 à l’Académie nationale de médecine (16, rue Bonaparte – Paris 6e).

Samedi 22 à l’ Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (200, av. de la République – Nanterre).

 

Pour soumettre une proposition de participation (450 mots max.), ou obtenir davantage d’informations, contactez les organisateurs :

François Zanetti (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, CHiSCO) : francois.zanetti@gmail.com

Philip Rieder (Institut d’éthique biomédicale, Université de Genève ) : philip.rieder@unige.ch.

 

La date-limite pour la soumission de propositions est fixée au 26 juin 2011

Ces journées sont organisées avec le soutien du CHiSCO (EA 1587) et de l’Académie de Médecine.

 

Médicament(s)

XIIe-XVIIIe siècles

Longtemps négligée, l’histoire de la thérapeutique des époques médiévale et moderne s’impose aujourd’hui par sa capacité à relancer des problématiques d’histoire sociale et culturelle. La thérapeutique articule savoirs et pratiques, se pose au cœur de la relation de soins et alimente alternativement rivalité et cohésion professionnelles. Autant de manières de relire le statut et les fonctions du médicament, comme élément important de la thérapeutique entre les xiie et xviiie siècles. Son étude permet d’articuler des analyses portant sur le corps, les représentations médicales, l’économie ou les acteurs de la santé :

Comment le médicament s’inscrit-il dans les nomenclatures thérapeutiques ? Quelles sont les catégories du médicament reconnues à différents moments historiques ? Les composantes du remède et le mode d’explication de son action sur le corps sont des éléments importants. La construction du médicament peut aussi être interrogée en fonction de sa toxicité reconnue : le médicament le plus dangereux est-il pensé comme le plus efficace ? Comment penser la relation du médicament avec les autres pratiques thérapeutiques, médicales ou non ? Toujours concret, le médicament s’impose dans sa matérialité.  Objet d’une fabrication, d’un conditionnement et d’une administration, il matérialise les enjeux géographiques et économiques du soin. Composé d’ingrédients chers ou bon marchés, d’origine locale ou exotique, traditionnels ou nouveaux, il constitue un produit original, parfois clairement adressé à une clientèle particulière. Qu’en est-il de sa réception? Comment les nouvelles substances s’intègrent-elles dans la prescription, la fabrication et la consommation ? Comment compenser les substances manquantes ? Comment assure-t-on la qualité d’un remède ? Qui contrôle les prix et la production ? La boutique de l’apothicaire s’impose comme l’espace où étudier l’arsenal médicamenteux. Le voisinage physique des substances, leur classement et leur étiquetage participent à l’organisation du savoir-faire pharmaceutique. Mais le monopole de l’apothicaire est à la fois limité et précaire. Non seulement médecins et chirurgiens préparent-ils et vendent-ils bien souvent des remèdes, mais de nombreux particuliers, épiciers, vendeurs itinérants et ecclésiastiques font de même. Comment s’organise cette offre multiple ? L’acheteur a l’embarras du choix. Pourtant, la consommation de médicaments a des conséquences, parfois douloureuses, entraînant des handicaps et des désagréments. Comment le recours aux médicaments s’inscrit-il dans la vie des malades ? Le malade négocie-t-il la prise d’un remède ? Est-il un acteur de la prescription ? Peut-on connaître le poids des médicaments dans l’économie domestique ? Qu’en est-il de la distribution charitable de remèdes et du rôle des communautés religieuses dans la production ? Les réflexions et les pratiques relatives au médicament se nourrissent d’analogies dans les domaines religieux, politiques et littéraires. Ces représentations culturelles font partie intégrante du champ du médicament et participent à sa constante redéfinition.

En signalant ces quelques pistes de réflexion, nous entendons susciter des contributions qui permettent à la fois de placer le médicament au centre du champ et d’illustrer différentes facettes de son histoire. Nous encourageons les propositions qui interrogeraient les caractéristiques et les évolutions des catégories ou des pratiques qui gouvernent l’utilisation de substances destinées à soigner à partir de l’étude de cas.

 

Éléments bibliographiques :

 

Ackerknecht Erwin H., « Aspects of the History of Therapeutics », Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1962, 36, p. 389-419.

Bénezet Jean-Pierre, La Pharmacie dans les pays du bassin occidental de la Méditerranée (xiiie-xvie), Paris, Champion, 1998.

Bonah Christian et Rasmussen Anne (dir.) Histoire et médicament aux xixe et xxe siècles, Paris, Glyphe, 2005.

Brockliss Laurence et Jones Colin, The Medical World of Early Modern France, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997.

Chandelier Joël, « Théorie et définition des poisons à la fin du Moyen Âge », Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes, 17, 2009, p. 23-38.

Collard Franck et Samama Évelyne (dir.), Pharmacopoles et apothicaires. Les pharmaciens de l’Antiquité au Grand siècle, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2006.

Collard Franck et Samama Évelyne (dir.), Le Corps à l’épreuve. Poisons, remèdes et chirurgie : aspects des pratiques médicales dans l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge, Langres, Dominique Guéniot, 2002.

Goubert Jean-Pierre (dir.), La Médicalisation de la société française 1770-1830, Waterloo, Ontario, Historical Reflections Press, 1982, p. 249-262.

Fainzang Sylvie, Médicaments et société, Paris, PUF, 2001.

Faure Olivier (dir.), Les Thérapeutiques : savoirs et usages, Lyon, Fondation Marcel Mérieux, 1999.

Gentilcore David (dir.), ‘The World of the Italian Apothecary. Apothecaries, « Charlatans », and the Medical Marketplace in Italy, 1400-1750′, Pharmacy in History, 45, 2003.

Gentilcore David, Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006.

Gramain-Kibleur Pascale, « Le rôle des prescriptions médicamenteuses dans la Société française du xviiie siècle », Histoire, Economie et Société, 2001, 20, p. 321-337.

Jacquart Danielle, La Médecine médiévale dans le cadre parisien, Paris, Fayard, 1998.

Lafont Olivier (dir.), Dictionnaire d’histoire de la pharmacie des origines à la fin du xixe siècle, Paris, Pharmathèmes, 2003.

Lafont Olivier, Des médicaments pour les pauvres. Ouvrages charitables et santé publique au xviie et xviiie siècles, Paris, Pharmathèmes, 2010.

Lanoë Catherine, La poudre et le fard. Une histoire des cosmétiques de la Renaissance aux Lumières, Paris, Champ Vallon, 2008.

Leong Elaine, « Making Medicines in the Early Modern Household », Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2008, 82, p. 145-168.

Leong Elaine et Pennell Sara, « Recipe Collections and the Currency of Medical Knowledge in the Early Modern « Medical Marketplace » », in Jenner Marc et Wallis Patrick (dir.), The Medical Marketplace in England and Its Colonies c. 1450-c. 1850, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillian, 2007, p. 133-152.

Préat Véronique, Roland-Marcelle Nicole et Van den Abeele Baudoin (dir.), Histoire de la Pharmacie galénique. L’art de préparer les médicaments de Galien à nos jours, Louvain, Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2006.

Rosenberg Charles E. et Vogel Morris J., The Therapeutic Revolution. Essays in the Social History of American Medicine, Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979.

Urfalino Philippe, « Médicaments et société : enjeux contemporains – Introduction », Annales HSS, 62-2, 2007, p. 269-272.

Wallis Patrick, « Consumption, retailing, and medicine in early-modern London », Economic History Review, 61, 2008, p. 26–53.

Warner John Harley, The Therapeutic Perspective, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1997 (1ère éd. 1986).

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Appel à articles – Genre, sexualité et société, n°7

Banlieues. La sexualité au coeur du « problème » ?
 

Depuis une dizaine d’années, la sexualité est devenue un thème privilégié pour raconter « les banlieues », pour nommer leurs innombrables problèmes et surtout « le problème » qu’elles ne cesseraient de poser au reste de la société. La déferlante médiatique des « tournantes » entre 2000 et 2003, le nom même du célèbre mouvement « Ni putes ni soumises » (2003), et une série infinie d’événements depuis lors (jusqu’au film La cité du mâle en 2010) ont nourri un récit quasi-constant, en arrière-fond des faits divers et des débats publics, « sexualisant » certains quartiers, c’est-à-dire en réalité certaines populations – appartenant aux classes populaires et majoritairement issues de l’immigration post-coloniale. La sexualisation du discours sur ces populations est à la croisée de répertoires idéologiques anciens : mobilisée de façon cyclique contre les hommes des « classes dangereuses » (Mucchielli, 2007), elle s’inscrit aussi dans l’histoire coloniale de la France (Taraud, 2003, 2008). Cette thématisation sexuelle résonne avec le contexte international qui fait des pays d’origine, réels ou imaginés, de ces populations, des ennemis dont le rapport supposé à la sexualité et à l’égalité entre les sexes est érigé comme l’indicateur par excellence d’un éternel « retard » civilisationnel par rapport à « l’Occident » (Abu Lughod, 2002).

 

Le fait que, depuis une dizaine d’années, la sexualité soit ainsi au centre d’un récit récurrent sur les « banlieues » constituera un des objets du numéro 7 de Genre, sexualité & société. Il aura aussi pour ambition de montrer en quoi l’entrée par la sexualité et le genre est une entrée théorique et empirique pertinente pour analyser les relations sociales, dans le cas spécifique des banlieues populaires mais aussi dans d’autres quartiers péri-urbains : de plus en plus présente dans les recherches de terrain, elle révèle des réalités sociales et des explications longtemps ignorées par des recherches largement androcentrées.

 

Son articulation avec d’autres problématiques anciennes (comme la dimension spatiale des classes sociales) ou plus récentes (comme la « race ») sera privilégiée : la problématisation de la sexualité sera utilisée comme un outil pour une meilleure compréhension du monde social, non comme un écho de son utilisation politique à des fins d’effacement des rapports sociaux. Plus généralement, ce numéro doit permettre de mettre au jour tout ce que la mise en problème sexuel des « banlieues » plonge dans l’ombre : les pratiques sexuelles réelles au-delà des représentations, les homosexualités que la confusion entre sexualité et domination masculine occulte presque totalement, la place de la sexualité dans d’autres types de lieux, ainsi que dans d’autres contextes nationaux que la France où les termes de l’opposition « banlieues »/reste-de-la-société se déclinent autrement.

 

 

En définitive, ce numéro de Genre, sexualité & société visera à rendre compte de travaux fondés empiriquement et à déconstruire la catégorie commune des « banlieues » associant, comme une évidence, un espace géographique à certaines populations, au moyen notamment de leur sexualisation. Il s’agira de sortir des représentations communes réduisant la sexualité à la domination masculine, les sexualités à l’hétérosexualité, les espaces des « banlieues » aux populations migrantes ou issues de migrations, les spécificités et les inégalités sociales à des différences culturelles et naturelles, les problématiques à des problèmes, le monde à la France…

 

Toute approche inédite de ces questions au travers du prisme de la sexualité et/ou du genre sera la bienvenue.

La date limite de rendu des déclarations d’intention est fixée au 15 juin 2011 (3 000 signes), un retour sera fait début juillet pour un attendu des textes au 31 octobre 2011 (cf. règles de publications sur le site de la revue – http://gss.revues.org). Sortie prévue : printemps 2012.

 

Les propositions de contribution sont à adresser à la coordinatrice du numéro : isabelle.clair@yahoofr et en copie à gss@revues.org

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History of Medicine and History of Science-Related Calls for Papers for Selected Sessions of the Medieval Academy of America Meeting Annual Meeting 2012

Saint Louis 2012.

The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy will be held 22-24 March 2012, on the campus of Saint Louis University (Saint Louis, Missouri) and hosted by the Saint Louis University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal, except that those who presented papers at the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy in 2010 and 2011 are not eligible to speak in 2012. Please do not submit more than one proposal.

Sessions usually consist of three thirty-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length. A different format for some sessions may be chosen by the Program Committee after the proposals have been reviewed.
Session organizers may wish to propose different formats for their sessions, subject to Program Committee approval.

Themes. The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy brings together medievalists from all disciplines and time periods. The Program Committee will capitalize on this strength by encouraging sessions that (1) address subjects of interest to a wide range of medievalists, and (2) put scholars from different disciplines and time periods in dialogue with each other.
We are seeking innovative proposals for papers and sessions and hope to see cross-disciplinary participation wherever possible. For both the commissioned and the open sessions, we are looking for the broadest possible range of proposals of topics and of time periods, within and across all disciplines.

Selection procedure. Papers will be evaluated for promise of quality and significance of topic. Session organizers make an initial selection of papers and submit a plan to the Program Committee, which makes final decisions by 15 September 2011. Notification of acceptance or rejection will take place shortly thereafter.

Submissions. Proposals should be submitted to Thomas F. Madden, preferably by e-mail to maddentf@slu.edu, or, on paper to Thomas F. Madden, Director,
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University, 3800 Lindell Blvd. Saint Louis, MO 63108.

The deadline is 1 August 2011. Please do not send proposals to session organizers or to the Academy office.

The proposal must have two parts: (1) a cover sheet containing the proposer’s name, statement of Academy membership (or statement that the individual’s specialty would not normally involve membership in the Academy), professional status, postal address, home and office telephone numbers, fax number (if available), e-mail address, and paper title; (2) a second sheet containing the proposer’s name, session for which the paper should be considered (if applicable), paper title, 250-word abstract, and audio-visual equipment requirements. If the proposer will be at a different address when decisions are announced in September, that address should also be included.

Topics on Science and Medicine. The Program Committee solicits papers for the sessions listed below. For information about a specific session, contact the session organizer.

History of Science and Medicine
Organizer: Philip Gavitt (Saint Louis Univ.)

Science, Religion, and the Body
Organizer: Daniel Bornstein (Washington Univ.)

Cognition and Sensation
Organizer: Julie Singer (Washington Univ.)

Books, Bodies, and Gender
Organizer: Anne Stanton (Univ. of Missouri, Columbia)

Other topics. The Program Committee welcomes submissions on other topics
and will organize additional sessions to accommodate the best submissions.

Session proposals. The Program Committee will consider proposals for entire sessions if their subject matter does not conflict with that of other sessions. Please consult with the Program Committee chair before preparing a proposal. Session proposals require the same information as individual paper proposals; abstracts for the papers in the proposed session will be evaluated by the Program Committee.

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Appel à contribution – Bodies of Knowledge, Knowledge of Bodies

Southern Humanities Council Conference

The Seelbach Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky February 2-5, 2012

The 2012 Southern Humanities Council Conference invites proposals for papers/presentations/panels on the theme « Bodies of Knowledge, Knowledge of Bodies. » The play on the term « body » is intentional and reflects not only body as collection, gathering, canon, community in terms of both animate and inanimate reference but also the physical body in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, dis/ability, and so on. The topic is interdisciplinary and invites proposals from all disciplines and areas of study.

Send proposals to Mark Ledbetter at shcouncil@gmail.com or if sending by U.S. Postal Service, Mark Ledbetter, Executive Director, SHC, P.O. Box 2546, The College of St. Rose, 432 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12203. If possible, send all proposals by email.

Topics are not limited to but may address any of the following areas:

Language and Body
Literature and Body
Bodies of Literature
Body Art
Poetry and Body
Poetry of Body
Body and Art
Philosophies and/of Bodies
Religion and the Body
Religious Bodies
Physicality
Emotion and Body
Mind and Body
What Bodies Know
Bodies and Borders
Known Bodies
Body and Discipline(s)
Body and Virtue
Body and Race
Body and Gender
Body and Sex
Body and Sexuality
The Challenged Body
The Whole Body
Transgender Body
Geographical Body
Body as Metaphor
Body and/of Knowledge
The Psychology of Body
The Education of Body
Transitional Bodies
Linguistic Bodies
The Socialization of Body
Body Image/Type
Heavenly Bodies
The Athletic Body
Body History
The History of Body
Body and Violence
Sociology and Body
Embody/Embodiment

If possible, please submit proposals by email. Proposals are due by January 1, 2012. Earlier submissions are appreciated, as are proposals for complete panels. For further information, write Mark Ledbetter at shcouncil@gmail.com.

Mark Ledbetter, Executive Director, SHC, P.O. Box 2546, The College of St.
Rose, 432 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12203
Phone: 478 960 0140
Email: shcouncil@gmail.com

Visit the website at http://southernhumanities.ning.com

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