Travail, santé et environnement

Lutter contre la nocivité : Travail, santé et environnement entre savoirs et pouvoirs (XIXème – XXIème siècles)

 

Colloque

14 - 16 octobre 2026

- 14 et 15 octobre : Amphithéâtre de la Maison du doctorat Jean Kuntzmann, 110 Rue de la Chimie, 38400 Saint-Martin-d'Hères (Tramway Bibliothèques universitaires)
- 16 octobre : Salle Jacques Cartier, Maison des Langues et des Cultures, 1141 Avenue Centrale, 38400 Saint Martin d'Hères (Tramway Bibliothèques universitaires)

L’entrée est libre, sans inscription préalable

MERCREDI 14 OCTOBRE

12:30 Buffet d’accueil

14: 00 Ouverture du colloque

SESSION – Enquêtes ouvrières et expertises syndicales 

Présidence : Mikaël Chambru (GRESEC, Université Grenoble Alpes)

14:10 David Hamelin (CRIHAM, Université de Poitiers) – « Le sabotage de la santé ouvrière » : CGT et bourses du travail comme dispositifs de contre-expertise sur la nocivité (1892–1914)

14:30 Kyriane Petit (Triangle, CNRS - Sciences Po Lyon) – Faire preuve d’une exposition professionnelle aux PFAS par l’enquête ouvrière dans la Vallée de la chimie : contexte d’alliance et luttes définitionnelles

14:50 Clément Marquez (HARTIS, Université de Lille) – Comment la byssinose est-elle devenue une maladie professionnelle en France ? Le rôle de l’épidémiologie, du  syndicalisme et de la médecine du travail (1982-1989)

15:10 Discussion
15:30 Pause

SESSION – Les répertoires des communautés I

Présidence : Anne Dalmasso (Lahra, Université Grenoble Alpes) 

15:50 Rosalba Altopiedi, Eleonora Bechis, Vittorio Martone, Andrea Ravenda (Laboratoire « Contaminazioni » , Università degli studi di Torino) – Recherche communautaire contre la violence environnementale. Un parcours community-based autour de l’industrie chimique des PFAS sur le site Solvay de Spinetta Marengo, Piémont

16:10 Fridolin Omgba Owono (Université de Yaoundé 1) – Contre-expertises locales : savoirs endogènes et mobilisations écologiques face à l'extractivisme en Afrique
subsaharienne (1972-2025)

16:30 Discussion 

16:45Pause

SESSION – Les répertoires des communautés II

 Présidence : Refugio Chávez Ramirez (LIDILEM, Université Grenoble Alpes)

17:00 Olusegun Stephen Titus (Obafemi Awolowo University) – Musicking the health and work challenges of fishermen and peasant farmers in the oil-polluted environment of the Niger delta

17:20 Roberto Tesei (Pontificia Università Antonianum) – La mobilitazione antinucleare di
Gorleben, tra salute e democrazia ecologica (1977-2020) 

17:40 Discussion

JEUDI 15 OCTOBRE

08:45 Accueil des participants

SESSION – La convergence des luttes contre la nocivité

Présidence : Julien Caranton (Larhra, Université Grenoble-Alpes)

09:00 Arthur Delacquis (UMR SIRICE, Sorbonne-Université) – Lutter contre la nocivité dans les « vallées de la mort » : la difficile convergence des enjeux sanitaires et environnementaux dans les mobilisations contre les pollutions fluorées des usines d’aluminium (Alpes françaises, années 1970-1980)

09:20 Eleonora Bechis, Stefano Avanzi, Giovanni Lorenzi (Laboratoire « Contaminazioni », Università degli studi di Torino) – Travail, territoire, santé : perspectives comparées sur trois cas de contamination aux PFAS entre France et Italie

09:40 Timon de Groot (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam) – When Smell Defies Models: Embodied Knowledge and Counter-Expertise in the Netherlands, 1970–1985

10:00 Discussion

10:20 Discussion

SESSION – Réglementer la nocivité

Présidence : Marie Thirion (LUHCIE, Université Grenoble Alpes)

10:20 Virginia Mellado (CONICET, IRES, Université de Tours) – L'ambiguïté du contrat de
travail comme impensé juridique : justice du travail et travailleurs ruraux en Argentine (1930–1976)

10:50 Giulia Actis Alesina (Università degli studi di Torino) – Periferie interne, zone di sacrificio e ambivalenza del diritto nella Terra dei Fuochi10:30

11:10 Discussion

11:30 Pause

SESSION – Droit et justice du travail

Présidence : Estelle Amilien (ILCEA4, Université Grenoble Alpes)

11:40 Côme Mathey (IFG-Lab, Paris 8) – Une lutte qui ne dit pas son nom: justice du
travail et silicose en Italie fasciste (Milan, 1936-1943)

12:00 Federico Del Giudice (Università degli studi di Torino) – Les maladies professionnelles en Argentine : les savoirs médicaux dans les batailles juridiques et syndicales (1915-1946)

 12:20 Discussion

12h40 Buffet 

SESSION – Noxious Deindustrialization I

Présidence : Christophe Roncato (ILCEA4, Université Grenoble Alpes)

14:00 Jennifer Deram (IRES, Centre Pierre Naville, Université Paris-Saclay) – Mobiliser pour
verdir ou pour démanteler les plateformes chimiques ? La question de la reconversion écologique des plateformes chimiques

14h20 Ouria Belaziz (CGT, groupe Seb), Jean-Baptiste Devaux (Pacte, Grenoble INP-UGA),
Nils Hammerli (IRISSO, Université Paris-Dauphine) – Préserver santé au travail, santé
environnementale et sauvegarde de l’emploi dans les combats syndicaux sur les PFAS. Témoignages et réflexions à partir du cas de Tefal Rumilly

14:40 Discussion

15:00 Pause

SESSION – Noxious Deindustrialization II

Présidence : Verónica Vallejo Flores (ILCEA4, Université Grenoble Alpes)

15:10 Anaël Marrec (Triangle, Sciences Po Lyon), Séverine Misset (CENS, Université de Nantes) – L'amiante dans les centrales thermiques d'EDF : négligence organisée et mobilisations autour d'un risque majeur de santé au travail (1977-2025)

15:30 Mody Diaw (IRISSO, Université Paris Dauphine–PSL) – Des boues rouges à la nocivité ouvrière : conflits de savoirs, santé au travail et toxicité environnementale à Gardanne des années 1960 aux années 2020

15:50 Discussion

16h10 Pause

SESSION – La nocivité à la croisée des archives

Présidence : à confirmer
 

16:30 Anaël Marrec (Triangle, Sciences Po Lyon) et François Duchêne (Ecole nationale des travaux publics de l'Etat) pour le collectif OPAL – Enquêter sur la santé au travail dans les industries des PFAS. Les archives syndicales, une ressource précieuse et sensible

16:50 Julia Merino Muñoz (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) – Framing Punitive Labor: Tracing Emotional Resistances within the ‘Perpetrator Archive’ in the Francoist Weekly Redención (1939–1945)

17:10 Discussion

VENDREDI 16 OCTOBRE

08:45 Accueil des participants

SESSION – De la médecine d’usine à la médecine militante

Présidence : à confirmer 

09:00 Alessandro Brizzi (Università di Pisa) – Santé totale, santé globale. La médecine d’usine chez Fiat dans les années 1960

09:20 Lili Soussoko (Pragmapolis, Université de Liège) – Indexer la défense de l’environnement aux intérêts de la « classe travailleuse » ? Médecine pour le Peuple et les luttes locales contre la pollution industrielle en Belgique depuis les années 1970

09:40 Discussion

10:00 Pause

SESSION – Le genre de l’expertise

Présidence : Emilie Counil (INED) 

10:10 Lorenza Moretti (Sapienza Università di Roma) – « Seveso è dappertutto ». Feminisms, environmental hazards and work in Italy

10:30 Andrea Marino (Università degli studi di Salerno) – Corpi invisibili, lavoro nocivo. Donne, tessile sommerso e militanza sociale nella Napoli degli anni Settanta

10:50 Bharti Chhibber (University of Delhi) – Industrial Harmfulness and Grassroots Counter-Expertise: Workers, Survivors, and Environmental Health Mobilisations after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy

11:10 Discussion

11:30 Pause

SESSION – Savoirs tacites

Présidence : à confirmer

11:40 Sofiya Kamalova Rogova (Instituto Interuniversitario López Piñero, Universidad de Valencia) – Workers’ Embodied Knowledge, and the Politics of Toxic Ignorance in the Ardystil Syndrome Outbreak (Spain, 1987–2003)

12:00 Khadim Mbow (CERMES3, Universite Paris Cité) – Récupérer le ciment pour « soigner » les fissures : travail de survie et mobilisation à bas bruit contre la nocivité à Bargny (Sénégal)

12:20 Elif İrem Az (Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies) – Becoming Accidented: Coal Miners, Embodied Difference, and the Three-Year Strike for Compensation in Western Turkey

12:40 Discussion

13:00 Buffet de clôture
 

Comité d’organisation
Estelle Amilien (ILCEA4)
Renaud Bécot (Pacte)
Marie Thirion (LUHCIE)
 

Comité scientifique
Mikaël Chambru (Sociologue, Université Grenoble Alpes, GRESEC)
Emilie Counil (Epidémiologiste, INED)
Marie Ghis Malfilatre (Sociologue, CNRS, Pacte)
Emanuele Leonardi (Sociologue, Università di Bologna)
Judith Rainhorn (Historienne, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, CHS)
Nicolas Renahy (Sociologue, CESAER, INRAE-Institut Agro Dijon)
Amalia Rossi (Anthropologue, Center for Environmental Humanities, NICHE)
Borhane Slama (Onco-Hématologue, Centre hospitalier Henri Duffaut d’Avignon)
Bruno Strasser (Historien, Université de Genève)
Gilda Zazzara (Historienne, Università Ca’ Foscari

Le Mal mystérieux de la Baie-Saint-Paul

Le Mal mystérieux de la Baie-Saint-Paul : retour historique sur une épidémie du XVIIIe siècle au Bas-Canada

Conférence du Dr Réjean Dion



Jeudi 15 octobre 2026, de 12 h 00 à 13 h 00, sur Zoom
Unité de développement professionnel de l’École de santé publique de l’Université de Montréal

À l’occasion de ce séminaire, le Dr Réjean Dion, de l’INSPQ, nous fera découvrir le mystérieux « Mal de la Baie-Saint-Paul », une maladie épidémique qui a marqué le Québec à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. En adoptant une perspective épidémiologique, il examinera ses caractéristiques cliniques, les hypothèses entourant son origine et sa transmission, et tentera d’en estimer l’incidence dans la population de l’époque.

Pour information et inscription : https://catalogue.espum.umontreal.ca/Web/MyCatalog/ViewP?pid=1gYiv8GUNBaZPidUlupNGw%3d%3d&id=MjnkhhJQqrh0HFGTShucUQ%3d%3d

La démonstration et l'expérience chez Galien

Proof and experiment in Galen


Talk by Matyas Hravda (Czech Academy of Sciences)


on October 7, the Research Seminar of UTN's Early Modern Lab features a entitled:


Galen is well known both for his extensive use of experimental procedures and for his commitment to a largely Aristotelian conception of scientific proof as deductive reasoning. This combination raises a puzzle: if scientific knowledge is established through deduction from evident principles, what role can experiment play in its acquisition? Drawing on examples from Galen’s experimental practice and his reflections on scientific proof, I will argue that this puzzle can be resolved by considering the role of experiment in the search for premises appropriate to a given scientific problem and, more generally, in the process by which scientific proofs are constructed.


The Early Modern Lab's Research Seminar is organized by Dana Jalobeanu, Rodolfo Garau, and Andrei Bunaciu. This meeting will take place at the University of Technology Nuremberg (Ulmenstraße 52i) , and online (zoom link below) on Wednesday, October 7, at 5 pm CET. More info on the Seminar can be found here: https://www.utn.de/en/departments/department-liberal-arts-and-social-sciences/early-modern-lab/the-research-seminar-of-the-early-modern-lab/


Zoom link:

https://utn-de.zoom.us/j/63489126627?pwd=yDamnnbZTu0lfNauqurO3OEalHIKO1.1
Meeting-ID: 634 8912 6627
Kenncode: 6520524599 

Prochaine séance de la Société Française d’Histoire de la Médecine

Prochaine séance de la Société Française d’Histoire de la Médecine 

Vendredi 16 OCTOBRE 2026 à 14 heures
à l’Académie Nationale de Médecine, 16 rue Bonaparte 75006 Paris. Salle Simone Veil.

PROGRAMME
Informations générales, présentation et élection des candidats.

Conférence invitée (60min) :
Raphaële ANDRAULT
Anatomie et clinique de la douleur au 17e siècle
 

Communications (20min) :
Serge ROSOLEN
Les chats ratiers d’Adrien Loir, neveu de Louis Pasteur

Viridiana PETITJEAN
Penser la fièvre aux XVIᵉ et XVIIᵉ siècles : entre héritage galénique et naissance de l’observation clinique

Patrick BERCHE
Julius Wagner-Jauregg et le traitement de la paralysie générale par la malaria
 

Les résumés de ces communications sont disponibles sur notre site internet : https://numerabilis.u-paris.fr/partenaires/sfhm/1523-2/
 

Secrétariat général : Dr Élise ANDRÉ, 15, rue du Vieux Château 37190 RIVARENNES, secretariat.sfhm@gmail.com
 

Propositions de communications et organisation des séances :
Dr Jean-François HUTIN, 2, rue de Neufchâtel, 51100 REIMS jef.hutin@gmail.com ou comite.de.lecture.sfhm@gmail.com

Postdoctorats au NIH

NIH History Post-Doc Opportunities

Call for applications

Deadline for applications: January 11, 2027

Under its newly relaunched Stetten Scholars program, the Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum (ONHM) seeks candidates for two 12-month post-doctoral positions.

These opportunities to research significant aspects of the history of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are open to US Citizens and Legal Permanent Residents who have earned a doctorate within the last five years. Although ABD applicants are welcome to apply, all requirements for the degree must be completed before the selectee can take up the position. Scholars selected in this round are expected to begin their tenure in the summer of 2027.

The position carries a stipend of approximately $70,000 per year plus health, dental, and vision insurance. Reimbursement for training-related travel and conference attendance may be provided if program funding allows.

Project scope: One of the opportunities will support a project that addresses any aspect of NIH history. The second, sponsored by NIH’s Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) in celebration of its 35th anniversary, must focus on the history of research on women’s health. Both positions will be administered through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), a program of the Department of Energy.

You can find the ORISE opportunity posting and application portal here.

The core of the application is a brief research proposal (up to 1200 words, not counting citations) that includes an outline of NIH’s role as an essential component of the research. The proposal must demonstrate mastery of standard historical methods as well as readiness to expand and deepen your expertise. Each application will be assessed by a panel of historians and subject-matter experts drawn from relevant NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices, using standard NIH review criteria: 

• Importance of the Research (in this case, of both the proposed historical work and its scientific subject)
• Rigor and Feasibility
• Expertise and Resources

Scholars selected for this opportunity will likewise receive mentorship from at least one biomedical researcher in a relevant NIH Institute, Center, or Office as well as from ONHM’s professional historians. Your project should be designed to take full advantage of this dual learning opportunity.

For questions: Our downloadable FAQ sheet is here.

You are welcome to email us at history@nih.gov with questions about our holdings. You can explore our archives and other historical resources via this website. However, since we are always getting new donations, we may also have relevant material that has not yet been catalogued and posted.

You are also strongly encouraged to contact ONHM’s Dr. Kristin Heitman, Deputy Director and Senior Historian, to discuss other resources that might strengthen your application.

We will be delighted to help you pursue your research about NIH and its history, even if you decide not apply for one of the Stetten Scholar positions.

Une histoire du corps en erreur

Cultural Techniques of Biosensing. A History of the Body in Error 

Christopher O’Neill
 

Stanford University Press
September 2026
178 Pages
Hardcover ISBN: 9781503647503

Against the emergence of "the Internet of Bodies," Christopher O'Neill presents an incisive long history of biosensing technologies from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. As O'Neill shows, sensor technologies work by failing—if their mode of measure never quite captures the body, this is a feature and not a bug. Nobody and no body really fits into the Internet of Bodies, but the endless correction of biosensor errors works to endlessly extend the reach of the sensor society.

O'Neill's book traces the emergence and transformation of the cultural techniques of biosensing which "work through" these errors, examining how the early pulse-writing sensors of the sphygmograph produced a newly educated touch in the medical clinic; the way work measurement technologies not only optimized but introduced a new intimacy into the post-Fordist workplace; and how the sensors in nineteenth-century burglar alarms enabled a new choreography of servants' movements in the American home. These histories, as O'Neill demonstrates, presage contemporary anxieties surrounding the Quantified Self movement, the management of affective intensities in digitally surveilled workplaces, and the integration of the gig economy within the smart home.

Just as O'Neill demonstrates that technologists' claims to objectivity, transcendence, and omniscience remain frustrated by the messy reality of the body, the book also shows that we must go beyond the typical critical gesture of pointing out errors, biases, and false assumptions about the body, and instead show what precisely these errors do.

Quantification et mesure dans les conseils de santé britanniques

Quantification and Measurement in British Health Advice, c. 1670–1830. Diet, Exercise, and Body Weight in Iatromechanics

Marsha Wubbels

Palgrave MacMillan

Open Access
© 2026

This open access book explores how medical advice on diet, exercise, and body weight evolved in Britain between 1670 and 1830. Focusing on the growing use of measurement and quantification, it shows how ideas of a ‘healthy’ body were defined and debated in medical literature. Bringing together three topics rarely examined in combination, the study offers a fresh perspective on eighteenth-century health practices. Drawing primarily on printed health guides, alongside letters and diaries, it argues that the period from 1680 to 1780 marked a formative moment in the development of modern health advice.

Le nu médical dans le long XIXe siècle

The Medical Nude in the Long Nineteenth Century

Call for papers

Association for Art History Conference, University of Exeter, 7–9 April 2027
Deadline: 25 October 2026

Dr Hannah Halliwell and Dr Rebecca Whiteley invite proposals for their AAH panel 'The Medical Nude in the Long Nineteenth Century'.

The nude is an art-historical stress test. As Lynda Nead tells us, it stands at the pinnacle of fine art and yet is always in danger of slipping into the unacceptable, the obscene. This dual identity has made it of central importance to the methodological development of aesthetics and connoisseurship in the nineteenth century, and feminist art history in the late twentieth. This panel proposes that the nude is once again needed as art historians test the capacities of a new methodological approach: the medical humanities.

The nineteenth century saw science and medicine radically reshape understandings of the body and its relation to identity. The nude, science and medicine were deeply entangled in fine art, in epistemic images, and in print cultures. But only recently have art historians and historians of science and medicine considered these interactions. How can the medical humanities reframe our understanding of the age-old art-historical concept of the nude? In what ways did science and medicine make use of the nude in constructing notions of race, class, gender, sexuality, morality and beauty?

This session will explore the extent and importance of the overdue conversation between the idealised body in fine art and the scientised body in medicine. We welcome papers on any aspect of the medical nude in the long nineteenth century. We are especially interested in constructing an interdisciplinary and global narrative, exploring all kinds of visual material of the medical nude from a range of perspectives.

For information on how to apply, see here: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forarthistory.org.uk/93-the-medical-nude-in-the-long-nineteenth-century/__;!!CF15FET90Tp8!HyrALrW0rh3QTMK72A-pDgDYZqD-o50DgZkFl7x6pW3h1HJrkUDE7hJWiRPtrROyVvnvJbRBEqTqhL0P0DGRXxY$

If you have any questions please contact Rebecca at r.k.whiteley@bham.ac.uk