Allégories de l'estomac

Allégories de l'estomac au XIXe siècle. Littérature, art, philosophie

Édité par Bertrand Marquer



Éditeur Presses universitaires de Strasbourg
Support Livre broché
Nb de pages 300 p. Index . Bibliographie . Notes .

Mars 2020
ISBN-13 9791034400614

Proposer un panorama des virtualités allégoriques de l'estomac au XIXe siècle: tel est l’objectif de cet ouvrage collectif qui, à l’opposé d’une exhaustivité potentiellement redondante, fait le pari de l’ouverture suscitée par des approches différenciées. Les contributions de chercheurs en littérature, philosophie, histoire et histoire de l’art mettent en lumière ce que l’estomac pouvait incarner et pourquoi il pouvait constituer un trope privilégié pour dire le XIXe siècle. De cette enquête ressort la profonde ambivalence axiologique de l’estomac, mais aussi sa « plasticité argumentative », caractéristique, selon Judith Schlanger, des représentations organicistes. Emblème de la caricature et support de la satire, l’estomac est également une figure clé dans la formulation d’un système de pensée ou dans l’élaboration d’une poétique, au point d’apparaître comme une figure caractéristique d’un siècle que l’on qualifie volontiers de matérialiste.

La psychologie à partir des marges

Psychology from the Margins

Volume 2 (2020) 

https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/psychologyfromthemargins/


A Historical Analysis of the Vocational Guidance of Women
Nuha Alshabani, Alejandra Gonzalez Lopez, Erika L. Graham, and Samsara Soto

Towards an Eternity: Celebrating The Association of Black Psychologists’ 50th Anniversary
Evan Auguste and Brittany M. Griffin

Understanding the Work Experiences of Gender and Sexual Minorities: Advances, Issues, and New Directions in Research
Marc Cubrich

The History of Lobotomies: Examining its Impacts on Marginalized Groups and the Development of Psychosurgery
Simon Godin and Brett LeBlanc

Black Psychology: A Forerunner of Positive Psychology
Aaron Bethea

Science et culture en temps de guerre

Science et culture en temps de guerre. XIX-XXe siècle

Colloque international

Organisé par Caroline Barrera et Jacques Cantier

27-28 Mars 2020
Bibliothèque d’études méridionales 

56 rue du Taur

Toulouse 

Vendredi 27 mars 2020

8h30 Accueil des participants

SESSION 1 : INTRODUCTION ET PANORAMA GÉNÉRAL.

8h45 Introduction du colloque, Caroline Barrera (INU Champollion) & Jacques Cantier (Université Toulouse -
Jean Jaurès)

9h La guerre et les universitaires toulousains. Mobilisations et opportunités scientifiques (XIXe-XXe siècle), Caroline Barrera (INU Champollion)

SESSION 2 : LA MOBILISATION OPÉRATIONNELLE
Présidence de séance : Pr Didier Foucault

9h30 Des médecins incompétents ? La crise de légitimité des experts médicaux du recrutement en Grande-Bretagne, 1914-1918, Aude-Marie Lalanne Berdouticq (Université de Paris-Nanterre)

10h La médecine tropicale italienne dans l’organisation du conflit italo-éthiopien (1935-1936), Costanza Bonelli (Université de Rome La Sapienza)

10h30 Pause

10h45 Sur le terrain : les difficultés et stratégies des chercheurs en sciences sociales face aux officiers américains (1941-1953), Hélène Solot (EHESS)

11h15 Sur le tournage d’Ivan le terrible (S. Eisenstein, 1943-1944) : le cinéma soviétique mobilisé au service de la victoire, Natacha Laurent (Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès)

11h45 Questions

12h Déjeuner

SESSION 3 : PRÉPARER LA GUERRE
Présidence : Pr Jack Thomas

14h L’invention et le renouvellement de la géographie militaire française depuis le XIXe siècle. Comment la science géographique permet-elle d’anticiper et de conduire la guerre ? Philippe Boulanger (Sorbonne Université Lettres)

14h30 Les enjeux de la cartographie face aux guerres napoléoniennes : les ingénieurs-géographes et la réalisation de la Carte Militaire du Royaume d’Italie, Valentina De Santi (Université de la Suisse italienne/Archivo del Moderno)

15h Pause

15h15 Contested Nuclear Visions: Civil-Military Relations, Atomic Weapons, and the Cold War Mobilisation of the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, John William Sutcliffe IV (Université de Leeds)

15h45 Questions

16h15 Science et culture en temps de guerre, éclairages sur les collections du Musée de la Résistance & de la Déportation de la Haute-Garonne, Catherine Monnot-Berranger et Deborah Savio (MDR&D-Conseil départemental de la Haute-Garonne)

17h Questions

17h30 Fin de la première journée

Samedi 28 mars 2020 

SESSION 4 : SCIENCE ET CULTURE EN SITUATION D’ENFERMEMENT
Présidence de séance : Pierre-Frédéric Charpentier

9h « Persévérer dans son être ». Culture et sciences dans les camps d’internement civil français (1914-1920), Ronan Richard (Université de Rennes)

9h30 L’âme des camps : une mise en scène de la vie culturelle des prisonniers français en Allemagne de 1940 à 1944. Les ambiguïtés d’une exposition, Jacques Cantier (Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès)

10h (S’)exposer pour se « ré-orienter » : les pratiques culturelles des prisonniers de guerre, entre productions allemandes et programme français (1944-1948), Fabien Théofilakis (Université de Paris I)

10h30 Pause

10h45 L’École de la Croix jaune et l’Université de Neuengamme, Marie-Thérèse Duffau (CNRS)

11h15 Entre science et reconnaissance : quand les anciens d’Indochine se font historiens, Julien Mary (MSH SUD, Université Montpellier 3)

11h45 Questions

12h15 Déjeuner

SESSION 5 : LA SCIENCE ET LA GUERRE. OPPORTUNITÉ OU CONTRAINTE ?
Présidence : Caroline Barrera

14h Choisir son camp : L’Axe ou les Alliés ? Les universités roumaines pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale,
Ana-Maria Stan (Université Babes-Bolyai de Cluj-Napoca)

14h30 Guerre et circulations transnationales du modernisme agronomique : de quelques origines allemandes et vichystes de la modernisation agricole française d’après 1945, Margot Lyautey (EHESS-Université
de Tübingen) et Christophe Bonneuil (CNRS-EHESS)

15h La mécanique des fluides à Toulouse durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale : entre opportunités et concurrences
disciplinaires, François Charru (Toulouse, IMFT) et Antonietta Demuro (ESPE, Université de Lille).

15h30 Pause

15h45 Le Pic du Midi de Bigorre durant les deux guerres mondiales, Jean-Christophe Sanchez (Framespa)

16h15 Une expédition ethnographique au Paraguay au temps de la Guerre du Chaco, Verushka Alvizuri, (Université
Toulouse - Jean Jaurès)

16h45 Contributions et controverses des ethnologues chinois formés en France au sein des "Etudes politiques de la frontière" en Chine entre 1920s et 1940s", Xu Lufeng (INALCO)

17h15 Questions

18h Conclusions, Caroline Barrera (INU Champollion) & Jacques Cantier (Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès)

Histoire de l’épidémiologie

Histoire de l’épidémiologie. Enjeux passés, présents et futurs

Les Cahiers du Comité pour l’histoire de l’Inserm, N° 1, janvier 2020 

en libre accès en ligne sur iPubli

http://www.ipubli.inserm.fr/handle/10608/10030

Pascal Griset Éditorial

Philippe Lazar L’épidémiologie, la connaissance et l’action en santé publique

Corinne Alberti L’Inserm, l’épidémiologie et l’orientation de la santé publique

Anne Hardy Epidemiology, statistics, and public health in the victorian britain, 1837-1902

Patrick Berche Mort et résurrection du virus de la grippe espagnole

Pierre Ducimetière Le développement de l’épidémiologie analytique dans la seconde moitié du xxe siècle

Joël Coste La réflexion épistémologique en épidémiologie dans la seconde moitié du xxe siècle

Élodie Giroux L’étude de Framingham. Quel rôle dans l'histoire de l'épidémiologie des facteurs de risque ?

Gaëtan Thomas Un monde moderne. L'épidémiologie des maladies infectieuses avant sa réinvention des années 1980-1990

Grégoire Rey Données massives et médico-administratives. Nouveaux enjeux pour l'épidémiologie

Grégoire Lurton Santé globale et mesure. Un nouveau paradigme pour de nouveaux acteurs

Marcel Goldberg Quelques considérations personnelles. Sur l'évolution de l'épidémiologie ces dernières années en France

Médecins et expéditions coloniales françaises en Afrique au XIXe siècle

Médecins et expéditions coloniales françaises au XIXe siècle (Afrique noire et Madagascar)

Pierre Aubry

Avec la collaboration de Bernard-Alex Gaüzère

L'Harmattan 

Collection : Médecine à travers les siècles 

DATE DE PUBLICATION : 13 FÉVRIER 2020

Ce livre traite des missions et des expéditions en Afrique noire et à Madagascar, pacifiques ou guerrières, menées par la France au cours des trente dernières années du XIXe siècle, en mettant en exergue les médecins qui les ont accompagnées, médecins de la Marine, puis médecins des Colonies. Plusieurs de ces médecins y ont laissé leur vie, soit au cours des combats, soit victimes des épidémies.

Les états extatiques du corps dans la pop culture

Pop Cultures and Ecstatic States of the Body, 1950s-1980s

Call for papers

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

September 30 – October 2, 2021

In September 1967, the British weekly New Society published an article entitled “Pot, pop and acid.” As the title indicates, the author closely related pop music to the use of intoxicating substances: “Everyone knows that almost everyone in pop music smokes pot: has done, and will do.”1Also, Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser, a German music producer and the main organizer of the Internationale Essener Songtage 1968, construed a close relation between pop culture and states of ecstasy. For him, the use of psychedelics, on the one hand, constituted a driving force for the creation and the spread of certain types of music. On the other hand, he attributed to pop music and pop cultural settings (for instance, concerts and festivals) the potential to create ecstatic states of the body.2

These are only two examples out of a variety of contemporaries, who related pop culture to ecstatic experiences. Since the rise of pop during the 1950s, the use of substances, ecstatic sexuality, enthusiastic dancing, experiences of mass ecstasies, religious and spiritual trances, adrenaline kicks caused by sport activities such as surfing have played an important role in pop cultures. Consequently, ecstasies, on the one hand, contributed to the shaping and the development of pop cultures. On the other hand, pop cultures acted as driving forces in the creation and spread of new kinds of ecstasies and new practices of getting ecstatic. Against this backdrop, pop cultures and states of ecstasy have been related to each other reciprocally. 

Different actors looked at the linkages between pop and ecstasy from various angles and conceived them in sometimes fundamental different ways. Some, as Kaiser, enthusiastically celebrated the alleged social and cultural potentials of pop-induced ecstasies. For others, pop cultures and the different kinds of highs constituted a way of pleasurable leisure activities. Yet others conceived pop cultures and its ecstasies as a fundamental threat for the social order and, consequently, tried to control their spread. 

It is the aim of the conference to shed light on the historical entanglements between pop cultures and states of ecstasy, focusing on the period from the 1950s until the 1980s. 

Possible topics of papers presented at the conference are, amongst others:

- Entangled developments: How have states of ecstasy contributed to the rise and spread of pop cultures? And how have pop cultures created and shaped (new) forms of ecstasy?

- Media representations of pop-related ecstasies: Newspapers, (youth) magazines and television frequently reported on different kinds of ecstasy of pop stars and of consumers of pop cultural products. Furthermore, movies such as The Trip popularized specific notions of ecstatic states of the body. How have different medias constructed the linkages between pop culture and ecstasies? How have the media representations effected social practices between pop cultures and ecstasies?

- Technologies and objects: Amplifier, light shows, electronic sounds or the invention of new ‘drugs’ have played an important role in pop cultures in general and in processes of getting ecstatic in particular. In which way have specific technologies and objects contributed to the creation and experience of ecstasies in pop cultural settings?

- Pop cultural spaces of ecstasy: Socio-material contexts are an important factor in processes of creating and shaping states of ecstasy.3 Against this backdrop, it is worthy to examine the impact of the spatial arrangements at festivals, concerts and discos on ecstatic states of the body. How did different pop cultural settings create and shape ecstatic experiences?

- Problematization and regulation: Pop cultures in general and states of ecstasy have caused notions of social and cultural crisis. Consequently, people from different social and cultural backgrounds have aimed at regulating and censoring pop cultural products. How have these debates affected the history of pop cultures? 

- Gender, race, class, age, sexuality: Categories such as gender, race, class and age have significantly influenced and shaped pop cultures, the experiencing of ecstatic states of the body and their media representations. How did experiences and media representations contribute to the stabilization of the gender, race or class order or undermine them? 

The organizers of the conference, Dr. Kristoff Kerl (University of Edinburgh), Prof. Dr. Detlef Siegfried (University of Copenhagen), PD Dr. Olaf Stieglitz (University of Leipzig), and Prof. Dr. Robert Stephens (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) invite interested scholar to send proposals (max. one page) and a short biographical note to the following e-mail address: ecstatic_pop_cultures@gmx.de. The deadline for applications is March 31, 2020. The workshop will take place at the University of Copenhagen from September 30 until October 2, 2021. The organizers will apply for funding and, thus, will hopefully be able to reimburse the travel costs of the participants and to pay for accommodation. 

1Frank Gannon, “Pot, Pop and Acid.” in: New Society, September 21, 1967, [no paging]. 

2Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser, Rock-Zeit. Stars, Geschäft und Geschichte der neuen Pop-Musik. Düsseldorf, Wien 1972, pp. 54-55, 69, 88-89, 109-110, 120-121, 166.

3Florian Schleking, “Psychedelic Fears. Drug Use as an Emotional Practice in West Germany around 1970.” in: Storicamente Jg. 11 (2015), Nr. 24, DOI: 10.12977/stor607.

Contrôle de la population et santé reproductive dans le Canada des années 1970

Poor Body Politics: Population Control and Reproductive Health in 1970s Canada

Lecture by Erika Dyck

Wednesday, March 18 2020

4:30

3647 Peel Street

Din Bates Seminar Room 101

This presentation is based on a book that I am writing with Maureen Lux, called Challenging Choices. It is an historical examination of how reproductive politics in 1970s Canada were shaped by competing discourses on global population control, poverty, personal autonomy, race, and gender. We suggest that during this period Canadians joined an international conversation about population control and revisited older ideas about eugenics, heredity and degeneration. Birth control had always been part of these conversations, but by the 1960s its relationship to ideas of progress, elitism, and feminism changed. New medical technologies introduced during this period, namely the birth control pill, alongside new expectations for healthcare access after the introduction of medicare, altered the playing field for discussions about medical interventions in reproductive health. The projections about global food shortages not only put the spotlight on birth control as a viable response, but also directed attention to Canada, as a major food producing nation, poised to contribute to global solutions. For nearly a century birth control had been prohibited; its use was reserved for population groups who were designated as suffering due to poverty, mental illness, or both. This patronizing approach to birth control gradually changed over the course of the 20th century, but we argue that the same principles applied in 1969 as Canadian authorities discussed the merits of decriminalizing contraception. The early debates about eugenics in the 1910s and 1920s shared a common theme with the birth control discussions in the 1960s and 1970s: economics mattered more than moral, cultural, or social evaluations of the sanctity of some lives over others. Birth control was not truly a debate about choice as much as it was a debate about cost.

Les armes et les blessures

Weapons, Wounds, Warfare 

Call for papers

Interdisciplinary Workshop

December 10, 2020 to December 11, 2020

New Zealand

If death and injury are central to warfare, so are the tools that cause bodily harm. This inter-disciplinary workshop, hosted by the University of Auckland’s ‘War in Context’ research hub on 10-11 December 2020, explores the cultures of violence and control that form around military weaponry by focusing on the wounds they inflict and the (at least perceived) pain and suffering they provoke. It investigates the ways in which individuals, communities, states, and militaries imagine, represent, adapt, and receive military technologies in the context of their wounding capacity. 

We invite proposals for papers (30min, followed by 10min for questions and discussion) that focus on particular weapons (or types of weapons), the context in which they are used, and the ‘wounds’ they cause. We welcome papers from any historical period, including today, and hope to attract scholars from a wide range of disciplines and cultural perspectives. As such, ‘wounds’ can, and indeed should, be interpreted in a broad way and can encompass not only physical, but psychological, social, cultural, and political damage. 

It is planned that the workshop will form the core of a publication - either an edited collection or special edition of an academic journal. 

Proposals should include a title, an abstract (no more than 250 words), and a brief biography (no more than 250 words). We welcome proposals from scholars at all stages of their careers, including graduate students and early career scholars. 

Proposals should be submitted through this submission portal (https://forms.gle/oRZDmdmffK2LAy4XA) by 1 June 2019. 

There may be a small registration fee to help cover catering and other costs. If you would like to attend, even if not offering a paper, please also note your interest here (https://forms.gle/2eEZpVr4xg6rbmE27) by 1 June 2019 and you will be sent registration information once that is available. 

Contact Info: 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact one of the conference organizers: Maartje Abbenhuis (m.abbenhuis@auckland.ac.nz), Jeremy Armstrong (js.armstrong@auckland.ac.nz), and Thomas Gregory (t.gregory@auckland.ac.nz).

Névroses et névrosés fin de siècle

Névroses et névrosés fin de siècle (1880-1900)

Louis Crocq 

Imago - Février 2020

Histoire sociale et psychiatrie Dans les décennies 1880 1900 au coeur d'un paysage bouleversé par le progrès industriel, un pessimisme qualifié de « fin de siècle » domine les esprits Cette tendance dépressive mêle amertume de la défaite de 1870 abandon des idéaux, impression d'être frappé par la dégénérescence C'est à cette même époque que la psychiatrie avec Charcot et Janet étudie l'hystérie et la neurasthénie, tandis que des ouvrages de vulgarisation et la grande presse offrent ces dérèglements en miroir à un public avide de s'y reconnaître Bref, la névrose est à la mode... Des écrivains comme Huysmans, Maupassant, Mallarmé projettent leur propre mal être dans leurs oeuvres D'autres réagissent par la contestation ( Rachilde) ou le saphisme (Nathalie Barney), et d'autres encore par la pratique de l'occultisme (Rémy de Gourmont). Les grands de ce monde telles les impératrices d'Autriche et de Russie ne sont pas à l'abri de la fragilité nerveuse, imités en cela par une partie de l'aristocratie française (Robert de Montesquiou), les courtisanes du demi monde (Liane de Pougy et Emilienne d'Alençon), les comédiennes (Sarah Bernhardt) et les chansonniers des cabarets (« Le Chat noir »). Dans cet ouvrage, Louis Crocq, portant un regard de psychiatre sur cette mentalité crépusculaire, relie ainsi, de façon inédite, la peinture sociale à l'histoire des névroses, à la veille de la Belle Epoque.

Louis CROCQ est psychiatre et professeur honoraire en psychologie pathologique. Il a publié de nombreux ouvrages sur le stress et le traumatisme psychique (chez Odile Jacob) et a fondé les CUMP (Cellules d'Urgence Médico Psychologique).

Poste à University of King's College

Limited Term Appointment - History of Science and Technology Program

Call for Applications 

The History of Science and Technology (HOST) Program at the University of King's College invites applications for a one-year, Limited Term Appointment in History and Philosophy of Science and/or Science and Technology Studies commencing 1 July 2020.

The appointment will be at the rank of (visiting) Assistant Professor (full time or, at minimum, a 2/3rd appointment, with the possibility of renewal for one more year, subject to review and budgetary approval). The successful candidate will teach in an interdisciplinary, combined honours program offered jointly by the University of King's College and Dalhousie University. Our program is devoted to the history, philosophy, sociology and cultural place of science and technology. Preference will be given to those whose teaching interests focus on the history and philosophy of modern science and technology, which can include engineering, medicine, life sciences, physics, ecology, etc. The successful candidate will teach a number of the classes already offered by the program (which may include "Technology and Engineering: From the Industrial Age to the Cybernetic Age”, "Introduction to the History Science," “Science and Nature in the Modern Period", "Human Experiments", “Science and Culture”, “Biopolitics”, etc. see link below) as well as construct one or two new classes.

The HOST Program is especially interested in candidates who could help enhance its ongoing curricular diversity initiatives.

The University of King’s College is a small, teaching-intensive, liberal arts university with a lively and accomplished scholarly community, offering joint programs and degrees with Dalhousie University, Canada’s largest research university east of Montreal.

The University of King’s College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We encourage and welcome those who would contribute to the diversification of our staff and faculty including, but not limited to women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, visible minorities and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity. Although in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, priority of consideration will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, non-Canadians are encouraged to apply.

A complete application must include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, brief teaching dossier, one sample of scholarly work, and three letters of reference.

Application should be sent in printed or electronic form to:

Dr. Gordon McOuat, Director

c/o Sharon Brown

History of Science and Technology Program

University of King’s College

6350 Coburg Road

Halifax, NS B3H 2A1

Email: sharon.brown@ukings.ca

Phone: 902-422-1271 ext. 204

Application Deadline: Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Program website:

https://ukings.ca/area-of-study/history-of-science-and-technology/

For further information please contact the Director of the History of Science Program:

Dr. Gordon McOuat

email: gmcouat@dal.ca

office phone: 902 422-1271, ex. 216

Histoire des savoirs infirmiers

Histoire des savoirs infirmiers 

Recherche en soins infirmiers 2019/4 (N° 139)




Éditorial
Le sens et la puissance des symboles révélés par l’histoire
Ljiljana Jovic, Emmanuelle Cartron et Didier Lecordier





Histoire des savoirs infirmiers
Avant-propos


La création de nouvelles sections du Conseil national des universités
Isabelle Richard et Stéphane Le Bouler

L’émergence des garde-malades dans le marché de la santé à Paris au XVIIIème siècle
Isabelle Coquillard

Pistes pour une histoire de la qualification des infirmières françaises
Christian Chevandier

L’École internationale d’enseignement infirmier supérieur (1965-1995). Un lieu de production, de diffusion et de développement des savoirs des soins infirmiers en France dans la seconde moitié du XXème siècle
Michel Poisson

Eléments pour l’ébauche d’une socio-histoire du groupe professionnel infirmier. Un fil conducteur : la formation des infirmières et de leurs cheffes
Sophie Divay et Lucile Girard

Éducation et santé : des pratiques aux savoirs
Séverine Parayre et Alicia Garcia


Les infirmières psychiatriques témoins d’un mouvement d’humanisation au cours des premières et deuxièmes vagues de la désinstitutionnalisation au Québec (1960-1990)
Marie-Claude Thifault et Laurie Kirouac


Un aperçu de l’évolution de la formation d’apprenti à une formation professionnelle en Amérique du Nord
Clémence Dallaire


La construction d’une problématique de recherche : de l’histoire d’une femme atteinte de sclérose en plaques à une recherche en sciences infirmières dans le domaine de la santé sexuelle
Sandrine Lefebvre et Ljiljana Jovic

Bourses de la Edward Worth Library

Fellowships at the Edward Worth Library, Dublin 

Call for applications


The Edward Worth Library, Dublin, is offering tworesearch fellowships (duration on month) to be held in 2020, to encourage research relevant to its collections. The Worth Library is a collection of 4,300 books, left to Dr Steevens’ Hospital by Edward Worth (1676-1733), an early eighteenth-century Dublin physician. The collection is particularly strong in three areas: early modern medicine, early modern history of science and, given that Worth was a connoisseur book collector interested in fine bindings and rare printing, the History of the Book. Research does not, however, have to be restricted to these three key areas. Further information about the collection and our catalogues may be found on our website: www.edwardworthlibrary.ie

The stipend is to the value of €2000 per month, during a period preferably between June and November. Please note that the Worth Library is usually closed during the month of August.

Fellows will be expected to reside in Dublin and to attend the Library during opening hours. Fellows are required to publish within a reasonable timescale (for example, 18 months to 2 years) their findings at the Worth Library either in the form of an article or a book, or part of a book; if appropriate the fellow may be asked to give a seminar or lecture on his or her chosen topic.


Applications to include:

– CV of the applicant.

_ References from two referees.

– Summary of proposed research (approx. 250–300 words)

– Preferred dates

In addition applicants must specify whether they are salaried or in receipt of any scholarship or stipend. They must also specify whether they have applied for any other travel or research scholarship to work in Irish libraries or archives. Fellowships are non-renewable.


Applications to be sent via e-mail, with a formal covering letter, to:


Dr Elizabethanne Boran,
Librarian,
The Edward Worth Library,
Dr Steevens’ Hospital,
Dublin 8,
Ireland.

E-mail: elizabethanne.boran@hse.ie


Please note that candidates must arrange for two references to be submitted by Tuesday 7 April 2020. Referees may submit their references via e-mail to the same address.


The closing date for applications is Tuesday 7 April 2020.

Hippolyte Taine et les sciences de l'homme

Hippolyte Taine et les sciences de l'homme et de la société 

Appel à contributions

Revue « Études Sociales »


Un quart de siècle après le colloque « Taine au carrefour des cultures du XIXè siècle » (1993), où en est-on de la réévaluation de son oeuvre ? Plus précisément, que peut-on dire aujourd’hui de la place que Taine a occupée et occupe encore au sein des sciences de l’Homme et de la Société ?

Se voulant un point d’étape sur la revisite toujours actuelle de l’oeuvre de Taine, le dossier « Hippolyte Taine et les sciences de l’Homme et de la Société » des Etudes Sociales voudrait aussi contribuer à la nécessaire réflexion de ces sciences sur elles-mêmes, leur histoire comme leur actualité. En effet, bien qu’ayant vieilli, l’œuvre de Taine reste une pierre de touche des apories des sciences de l’Homme et de la Société.

Le dossier envisagé comportera deux volets.

Premier volet

L’apport de Taine, en son temps, à la constitution d’une science de l’homme et de la société. En quoi le paradigme de Taine a-t-il affecté les savoirs sur les sociétés en cours de constitution, et en quoi ceux-ci, en retour, ont-ils pu l’inspirer ?

Axes de recherche suggérés

• L’apport de Taine pourrait être également abordé à travers les institutions auxquelles il a collaboré : l’Ecole des beaux-arts et l’Ecole des sciences politiques où il a enseigné ou exercé un magistère intellectuel. Quelle conception d’une science de l’homme et de la société y a-t-il instillée ? Une étude consacrée à Taine et l’Ecole libre des sciences politiques est particulièrement attendue.
• Un retour sur les relations que Taine entretient avec les institutions qui légitiment alors les sciences de l’homme et de la société (académies, sociétés savantes, maisons d’édition, périodiques) -où l’on constate plutôt son absence- serait instructif de son positionnement.
• L’entrée par les auteurs pourra être retenue en partant de ceux qui ont reconnu une dette à l’égard de Taine. Dans cette perspective, une contribution sur Taine et Le Play serait appréciée. Elle permettrait d’aborder la question de la « méthode » de Taine (recherche des faits positifs, raisonnement inductif) et de ses sources (observation directe, archives). Le rôle des voyages d’enquête et d’observation pratiqués et théorisés par les deux auteurs pourrait être mis en lumière.

Second volet

La transmission et le devenir de l’oeuvre de Taine au sein des sciences humaines et sociales. Ce volet concernera l’intégration de la pensée de Taine dans/par les sciences humaines et sociales, les réappropriations et les occultations, les controverses et les réticences auxquelles elle a donné lieu.

Axes de recherche suggérés

• Quelles traces de Taine trouve-t-on chez les auteurs contemporains en SHS ?
• Dans quelles disciplines enseigne-t-on encore sa pensée et son œuvre ?
• Par quel enchaînement, de Taine à nos jours, cette transmission s’est-elle opérée ? Rôle de l’édition ?
• A l’inverse, quelles ruptures, définitives ou temporaires, constate-t-on dans cette transmission?
• Dans une perspective réflexive, un bilan critique des « études tainiennes » contemporaines centrées sur le Taine initiateur d’une science de la société serait le bienvenu.

Conditions de soumission

Les propositions de contributions, précisant le thème et les sources, de 1 000 signes max., doivent être adressées
avant le 1er mai 2020

à Marine Dhermy-Mairal, secrétaire de rédaction de la revue marine.dhermy@gmail.com.

Nota bene : un dossier simple des Etudes sociales se compose de 6 articles de 50 000 signes, précédés d’une introduction de même importance par le/la ou les responsables du dossier.

(parution 2021)

Coordination
Antoine Savoye, Professeur émérite à l'Université de Vincennes Paris 8
Matthieu Béra, Maître de conférences HDR à l'Université de Bordeaux

Et l'ensemble du comité de rédaction de la revue Les Etudes sociales

Bourses de l'AAHN

American Association for the History of Nursing Research Grants 

Call for Applications


The American Association for the History of Nursing is currently accepting research grant proposals for its H-15 Grant, designed for faculty members and independent researchers, its H-21 Grant, designed for senior scholars undertaking a new historical research study, and its H-31 Grant, designed to encourage and support graduate training and historical research at the Masters and Doctoral levels. Grant materials must be submitted to grants@aahn.org by April 1, 2020. Proposals are reviewed by the AAHN Research Review Committee. Please visit www.aahn.org/research-grants for full details.


H-15 Grant
The H-15 Grant is awarded to faculty members or independent researchers for proposals outlining a historical research study. The grant provides $3,000 in funding. For faculty members affiliated with an academic institution, indirect costs for Facilities and Administration (F & A) of 8% are also available. Applicants must be AAHN members and hold the research doctorate. It is expected that the research and new materials produced by the grant recipient will help ensure the growth of scholarly work focused on the history of nursing.


H-21 Grant
The H-21 Grant is awarded to senior scholars (faculty members or independent researchers) for proposals outlining a new historical research study. The grant provides $3,000 in funding. For faculty members affiliated with an academic institution, indirect costs for Facilities and Administration (F & A) of 8% are also available. Applicants must be AAHN members, hold a research doctorate, and be the author of a published book in the field of history that is based on original research. It is expected that the research and new materials produced by the grant recipient will help ensure the growth of scholarly work focused on the history of nursing.


H-31 Grant
The H-31 Grant is designed to encourage and support graduate training and historical research at the Masters and research Doctoral levels. The grant awards $2,000. Proposals will focus on a significant question in the history of nursing. Students applying for this grant must be enrolled in an accredited Masters or research Doctoral program and a member of the AAHN. The research advisor will be doctorally prepared with scholarly activity in the field of nursing and health care history, with prior experience in guidance of research training.

Loisirs et santé

Loisirs et santé. Invitation à prendre de l'altitude pour danser et respirer

25 février
12h15

Musée Historique de Lausanne
Place de la Cathédrale 4
1005 Lausanne 

Dès la fin du 19e siècle, les localités touristiques ont utilisé les affiches pour attirer les curistes. La mise en scène du corps dans le paysage caractérise souvent ce moyen de promotion. Réalisée en 1928 par l’artiste bâlois Jacomo, l’affiche de Leysin, “haut lieu” de la médecine vaudoise de l’époque, est conçue pour mettre en valeur les atouts climatiques du site. Son succès perdurera longtemps car cette silhouette s’envolant vers la lumière évoque un élan kinesthésique salutaire. Ainsi cette affiche hautement symbolique se prêtera à des usages multiples grâce à la variation de son slogan qui glissera de l’usage médical « Traitement de la tuberculose sous toutes ses formes » à celui des loisirs « Vacances ensoleillées ».

Par Daniela Vaj, historienne, responsable de la plateforme Viaticalpes & Viatimages, chercheuse à l’UNIL (Centre des sciences historiques de la culture) et au CHUV (Institut des humanités en médecine)

Le vieillissement dans les textes de Goethe et de ses contemporains

Age and Aging in Texts by Goethe and His Contemporaries

Call for Papers


Panel sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America

Annual Conference of the Modern Language Association

January 7-10, 2021, Toronto, ON

Organizers: Christine Lehleiter and Elisa Leonzio

Goethe was one of the relatively few of his generation who enjoyed an extended life span and it comes as no surprise that reflections on age and the aging process are frequent in his work. Goethe's Wilhelm Meister undoubtedly had significant impact on the establishment of an ideological context in which the young bourgeois individual was expected to leave the parents' house in order to become an autonomous being and, at the same time, a productive member of society (cf. Franco Moretti, Andrea Charise). Considering this framework, the elderly person that might suffer diminished economic productivity and lose autonomy when returning to the family or other support networks might seem a failure. However, while the Meister novel follows a young hero, in Goethe's Elective Affinities the narrator takes a more critical position vis-a-vis Eduard's enthusiasm for everything that is young and new while older individuals like the gardener highlight the values of maturity and duration. In other texts by Goethe, old age offers alternative perspectives from which modernity can be challenged. At the end of Faust II, Philemon and Baucis in their old age are strong reminders of the victims of the colonizing project driven by an ideology of progress. Even in those places where aging is depicted explicitly as a burden and obstacle (The Man of Fifty Years) new happiness is found once age is accepted and endorsed.

Against the backdrop of recent scholarship in historical and literary studies on old age in Western Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries (cf. Andrea Charise, Karen Chase, Susannah Ottaway), this panel seeks to explore presentations and conceptualizations of age and aging in texts by Goethe and his contemporaries. We welcome proposals from a wide range of texts and we are particularly interested in contributions that explore the topic at the intersection of literature and medicine. Beyond our overarching question of how age and aging were experienced, represented, and conceptualized in texts by Goethe and his contemporaries, topics may include (but are not limited to): What kind of values are associated with old age? How do these values inform social (in particular intergenerational) interactions (respect, stigmatization, care)? How are the categories of age, class, and gender connected (the widow, the alms receiver, the old sage)? What kind of strategies are employed in order to deal with old age or to postpone its onset (cosmetics, diet, exercise)? Is there an aesthetics of old age? What ideal of health, and what "welfare system," emerges from the texts, and what kind of power and power discourses are implied? How do the authors deal with the pain and deterioration usually associated with aging? What are the connections between medical and literary texts regarding the conceptualization of old age?

This panel is sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America.

Please send an abstract of no more than 350 words to Christine Lehleiter (christine.lehleiter@utoronto.ca) and Elisa Leonzio (elisa.leonzio@unito.it) by March 15th, 2020.

Histoire transculturelle de la santé

Making Sense of Health, Disease, and the Environment in Cross-Cultural History: The Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe, and North America

Florence Bretelle-Establet, Marie Gaille & Mehrnaz Katouzian-Safadi (Editors)





Springer

ISBN 978-3-030-19081-1

This book has been defined around three important issues: the first sheds light on how people, in various philosophical, religious, and political contexts, understand the natural environment, and how the relationship between the environment and the body is perceived; the second focuses on the perceptions that a particular natural environment is good or bad for human health and examines the reasons behind such characterizations ; the third examines the promotion, in history, of specific practices to take advantage of the health benefits, or avoid the harm, caused by certain environments and also efforts made to change environments supposed to be harmful to human health. The feeling and/or the observation that the natural environment can have effects on human health have been, and are still commonly shared throughout the world. This led us to raise the issue of the links observed and believed to exist between human beings and the natural environment in a broad chronological and geographical framework. In this investigation, we bring the reader from ancient and late imperial China to the medieval Arab world up to medieval, modern, and contemporary Europe. This book does not examine these relationships through the prism of the knowledge of our modern contemporary European experience, which, still too often, leads to the feeling of totally different worlds. Rather, it questions protagonists who, in different times and in different places, have reflected, on their own terms, on the links between environment and health and tries to obtain a better understanding of why these links took the form they did in these precise contexts. This book targets an academic readership as well as an “informed audience”, for whom present issues of environment and health can be nourished by the reflections of the past.

Les spectres de la colonialité

Spectrums of Coloniality: Decolonizing Knowledge, Reconfiguring Practices, Recasting the history of the Sciences

Call for papers

"Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is, obviously, a program of complete disorder. But it cannot come as a result of magical practices, nor of a natural shock, nor of a friendly understanding. Decolonization, as we know, is a historical process: that is to say it cannot be understood, it cannot become intelligible nor clear to itself except in the exact measure that we can discern the movements which give it historical form and content."

-Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1963, p. 36

Over the past decades, calls to decolonize academia have risen both in frequency and tenor. Such appeals strike at the heart of every domain of scholarly pursuit. From the university and museums, to teaching curricula, methodologies, knowledge production, epistemologies, and disciplinary formations, the reach of decolonial critiques is both wide-reaching and multifaceted. While the call has resulted in numerous responses, they are largely disconnected across the board. This symposium aims to organize a series of panels in which both the theory and praxis of decolonization are taken up in the context of the history of medicine and of the sciences. Doing so, entails engaging in discussions bound by a common decolonial commitment, rather than by the structuring schemas imposed by disciplinary, thematic, chronological, and geographic fields of specialization. Because the decolonization of the sciences requires a denaturalizing of the present, this call for papers is extended to scholars working on both colonial and postcolonial sites, modern and early modern, medieval, classical and non-Western knowledge-making practices and categories. Beyond these confines, we also invite papers that confront, historicize, and challenge the tacit ubiquity of white, male, patriarchal, ableist, and heteronormative “normality” that was central to the colonial project. The variety of domains – both quotidian and institutional – onto which the colonial was inscribed, the Spectrums of Coloniality, demands that we engage with a broad range of moments and geographies as well as a vast scope of themes. Ultimately, the aim of the symposium is to turn decolonization into more than a metaphor (Tuck and Yang, 2012) by facilitating conversations that cut across institutionally imposed boundaries. 

We are planning to organize a symposium for ICHST 2021 (https://www.ichst2021.org/) in Prague from July 25-31 2021. Following the symposium, the goal will be to submit a proposal for Osiris (https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/current).

We encourage proposals on a wide range of topics that engage in a multitude of geographies, knowledge, methodological approaches, and disciplinary backgrounds. Topics include (but are not limited to) 

- Indigenous knowledges and sciences

- Early modern knowledge categories and sciences

- The political stakes of studying the past

- Logocentric knowledge systems and archival fictions

- The contingency of knowledge categories and disciplinary formations

- Material culture, visuality, and museum practices

- Global history methods and practices

- Science beyond Western contexts

- Geographies of knowledge production, travels, circulation, syncretism, and interaction of different epistemic systems.

- Contending with the legacy of imperial ideologies and colonial violence.

- Teaching curricula for the history of medicine and of the sciences

- Questioning the centrality of national historiographies

- The role of translations and translators in the history of science

Please submit abstracts to spectrums.of.coloniality@gmail.com by no later than February 28, 2020. Please let us know if you have any questions, comments or concerns.

L'innovation dans la médecine byzantine

Innovation in Byzantine Medicine. The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275-c.1330)

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos

Oxford University Press

Published: 05 February 2020
368 Pages | 8 colour and 5 black-and-white illustrations
234x156mm
ISBN: 9780198850687

Byzantine medicine remains a little known and misrepresented field not only in the context of debates on medieval medicine, but also among Byzantinists themselves. It is often viewed as 'stagnant' and mainly preserving ancient ideas, and our knowledge of it continues to be based to a great extent on the comments of earlier authorities, which are often repeated uncritically.

This volume presents the first comprehensive examination of the medical corpus of, arguably, the most important Late Byzantine physician: John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275-c.1330). Its main thesis is that John's medical works show an astonishing degree of openness to knowledge from outside Byzantium combined with a significant degree of originality, in particular, in the fields of uroscopy and human physiology. The analysis of John's edited (On Urines and On Psychic Pneuma) and unedited (Medical Epitome) treatises is supported for the first time by the consultation of a large number of manuscripts, and is also informed by evidence from a wide range of medical sources, including those previously unpublished, and texts from other genres, such as epistolography and merchants' accounts. The contextualization of John's corpus sheds new light on the development of Byzantine medical thought and practice, and enhances our understanding of the Late Byzantine social and intellectual landscape. Through examination of his medical observations in the light of examples from the medieval Latin and Islamic worlds, his theories are also placed within the wider Mediterranean milieu, highlighting the cultural exchange between Byzantium and its neighbours.

Les materia medica byzantines

Le Pseudo-Paracelse

Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy

Early Science and Medicine, Volume 24 (2020): Issue 5-6 (Feb 2020)

Introduction Pseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy
Didier Kahn and Hiro Hirai

The Authenticity of Paracelsus’ Astronomia Magna and Brief an die Wittenberger Theologen: Towards a Diagnostic Rubric Clarifying Authentic and Spurious Elements in Paracelsus’ Oeuvre on the Basis of Theological Motifs
Dane T. Daniel

The Philosophia ad Athenienses in the Light of Genuine Paracelsian Cosmology
Didier Kahn

Genealogy of Knowledge and Delegitimization of Universities: The Pseudo-Paracelsian Aurora Philosophorum
Tobias Bulang

Into the Forger’s Library: The Genesis of De natura rerum in Publication History
Hiro Hirai

Paracelsus, the Plague, and De Pestilitate
Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr.

The Astronomia Olympi novi and the Theologia Cabalistica: Two Pseudo-Paracelsian Works of the Philosophia Mystica (1618)
Martin Žemla

The Development of the Basil Valentine Corpus and Biography: Pseudepigraphic Corpora and Paracelsian Ideas
Lawrence M. Principe

Prix 2020 du Comité d'histoire de la sécurité sociale

Prix 2020 du Comité d'histoire de la sécurité sociale

Appel à candidatures

Créé en 1973 au sein du ministère des Affaires sociales, le Comité d'histoire de la Sécurité sociale a pour mission de contribuer à une meilleure connaissance de l'histoire de la Sécurité sociale et plus largement de la protection sociale de l'Ancien Régime à nos jours, de susciter des travaux scientifiques et d'en assurer ou d'en aider la diffusion.



Présentation

En 2020, quatre prix pourront être décernés par le Comité d'histoire de la sécurité d'un montant de :
2500 € et 2000 € pour des thèses consacrées à des travaux de recherches historiques inédits,
1500 € et 1000 € pour encourager à la réalisation des travaux de recherches de niveau master.

Il serait agréable que la plus large diffusion possible de cette information soit assurée auprès des divers départements universitaires s'intéressant à l'histoire de la sécurité sociale (histoire, démographie, droit, sociologie, économie) ou auprès des centres de recherches intéressés.
Modalités de candidature

Les personnes souhaitant concourir doivent transmettre leur dossier
au plus tard le 30 avril 2020

Pièces à fournir :

• une lettre de candidature rédigée sur papier libre,
• deux exemplaires papier de leurs travaux, qui ne seront pas retournés,
• la version numérique du document en format PDF,
• une copie du rapport de soutenance pour les thèses
• un résumé (environ 8000 signes pour les travaux en français et 20 à 30000 signes pour des travaux en anglais),
• un curriculum vitae complet.

L'ensemble devra être adressé au secrétariat du Comité d'histoire de la sécurité sociale, ministère des Solidarités et de la Santé, 14 avenue Duquesne, 75350 Paris 07 SP. En cas de dépôt au 18 place des 5 martyrs du lycée Buffon 75014 Paris à l'attention de Mme De Smet, pièce 1173. 

Conseil scientifique

Un conseil scientifique est adjoint au Comité, il est chargé de la publication de la Revue d'histoire de la protection sociale (RHPS) et se constitue en jury pour l'attribution du prix du Comité d'histoire.

Il est présidé par :
Judith Rainhorn (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Les autres membres sont :
Axelle Brodiez-Dolino (CNRS-Centre Norbert Elias)
Anne Sophie Bruno (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Christophe Capuano (Université Lumière-Lyon II)
Fabrice Cahen (Institut national d'études démographiques)
Virginie Deluca Barrusse (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Patrick Fridenson (EHESS)
Nicolas Hatzfeld (Université d'Evry)
Isabelle Lespinet-Moret (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Yannick Marec (Université de Rouen)
Olvier Vernier (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis)
Bruno Valat (Université de Toulouse, Institut Champollion, Albi)
Vincent Viet (CNRS-CERMES 3)

Psychonévroses et psychothérapie selon Jules Dejerine

Psychonévroses et psychothérapie selon Jules Dejerine : 1849-1917

Jacques Poirier 

Editeur(s) Fiacre
Date de parution : 17/06/2019

Jules Dejerine (1849-1917), professeur de clinique des maladies du système nerveux de la Salpêtrière, est mondialement connu pour ses travaux en neurologie et en neuro-anatomie, notamment pour ces deux monuments que représentent La sémiologie des affections du système nerveux et L'anatomie des centres nerveux rédigé en collaboration avec sa femme Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke (1859-1927), première femme nommée à l'Internat des hôpitaux de Paris. Son intérêt pour les psychonévroses - c'est-à-dire l'hystérie et la neurasthénie - et pour leur traitement par la psychothérapie est par contre très peu connu. Pourtant Dejerine y a consacré de longues années de sa carrière et a publié, seul ou avec ses élèves, de nombreux travaux les concernant. L'objectif de cet ouvrage est de mettre en lumière et de situer dans le contexte de l'époque le rôle de Dejerine dans ce domaine.

Nouvelles directions dans l'historiographie de la génétique

New Directions in the Historiography of Genetics

Call for Abstracts

The historiography of genetics has radically changed in the past few decades. Gregor Mendel’s Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden is no longer simply regarded as a study of the problem of heredity (e.g., Olby 1979; Gliboff 1999; Müller-Wille and Orel 2007). The so-called “great rediscovery” story has been greatly reshaped (e.g., Meijer 1985; Rheinberger 1995; Simunek, Hoßfeld, and Breidbach 2011). The Mendelian-Biometrician controversy has been and is being re-examined (e.g., Sloan 2000; Radick 2005; Pence 2011; Radick forthcoming). The gene-centric narrative of the history of genetics has been seriously challenged (e.g., Keller 2000; Oyama 2000; Harman 2004; Waters 2006). The significance and role of women in the history of genetics is being reassessed (e.g., Dietrich and Tambasco 2007, Richmond 2007, 2010, 2017). The history of developmental biology has been retold (e.g., Crowe et al 2015). The role of non-Western geneticists and the networks they created is being established (e.g., Dietrich 2016). And there is an increasing interest in the role of the genome in the historiography of genetics (e.g., Lamm 2014, 2015). This special issue aims to explore and examine new approaches in the historiography of genetics by integrating the role of women, national and international peripheries and networks, development, genomics, and new frontiers in the methodologies now available to historians of biology. We invite contributions that address the relevant topics and questions. The submissions from early career scholars and underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged.

Guest Editors

Yafeng Shan (Department of Philosophy, University of Kent, UK)

Ehud Lamm (The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Oren Harman (Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Submission Guidelines

Please submit an abstract of max. 500 words until February 29th, 2020 to y.shan@kent.ac.uk, ehud.lamm@gmail.com and oren.harman@gmail.com. We will invite full papers by April 15, 2020, and the deadline for full papers is December 31st, 2020. Full papers will have to follow the general Guide for Authors of Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences.

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/studies-in-history-and-philosophy-of-science-part-c-studies-in-history-and-philosophy-of-biological-and-biomedical-sciences/call-for-papers/new-directions-in-the-historiography-of-genetics

La médecine chinoise dans le premier âge global

Translation at Work. Chinese Medicine in the First Global Age

Editor: Harold J. Cook

Brill

Series: Clio Medica Online, Volume: 100

Publication Date: 20 Jan 2020

ISBN: 978-90-04-38773-7

During the first period of globalization medical ideas and practices originating in China became entangled in the medical activities of other places, sometimes at long distances. They produced effects through processes of alteration once known as translatio, meaning movements in place, status, and meaning. The contributors to this volume examine occasions when intermediaries responded creatively to aspects of Chinese medicine, whether by trying to pass them on or to draw on them in furtherance of their own interests. Practitioners in Japan, at the imperial court, and in early and late Enlightenment Europe therefore responded to translations creatively, sometimes attempting to build bridges of understanding that often collapsed but left innovation in their wake. 

Contributors are Marta Hanson, Gianna Pomata, Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros, Wei Yu Wayne Tan, Margaret Garber, Daniel Trambaiolo, and Motoichi Terada.

Les régimes dans les anciennes traditions juives

“An apple a day? – diet and regimen in ancient Jewish and related traditions” 

Call for Papers

European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS), 2020 Annual Meeting

Wuppertal (Germany), 3­­­–6 August 2020

Wellness and a healthy lifestyle have become major topics in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, mostly in the Western globalized world. However, works about regimen – proper nutrition, care of the body and physical exercise – formed a distinct genre (diaita/ δῐ́αιτᾰ) in the corpus of Greek medical writings from as early as the fifth century BCE. This knowledge was appropriated and re-organized during Hellenistic, later Roman, early Byzantine and Islamicate time. Spreading in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, such ideas and practices affected many different cultures and religious communities. Besides the emphasis on dietary laws, discussions on food and concerns about a healthy way of life figure in many Jewish, early Christian and Islamic traditions.

This year’s topic aims at examining how pertaining Graeco-Roman and other cultures’ concepts or practices regarding a regimen of health were appropriated, transformed or rejected in ancient to early medieval Jewish and related traditions (Egyptian; Babylonian-Persian; Greek, Syriac, Latin and Coptic Christian; Muslim; Manichean; Mandean and others). Given the close connection to everyday routines, we can assume the familiarity of ancient Jews and their contemporaries with relevant (transmitted) knowledge and practices.

Topics to be discussed may include: diet or nutrition; exercises and physical manipulations; care of the body such as toilet habits, bathing, massages etc.; and purging practices such as sweating or the use of emetics or bloodletting. Contributions may explore the relationship between religious laws (e.g. dietary laws/ kashrut, Halakhic rules, monastic rules), certain rituals or practices (e.g. prayer, meals, offerings) and concepts of health regimen. Alternatively, the papers may focus on narrative and other (visual, embodied, performative) forms of representation of pertaining ideas or the symbolic impact of certain foodstuff or specific places (springs, rivers, gardens etc.) to health and healing. The discussion can also address the specific role of a healthy way of life for certain groups (priests, rabbis, scribes, monks etc.; women, children, elderly, a sick person) and how this regimen interfered with or complemented a life of learning and religious duties. We are especially interested in papers that combine research into ancient medicine, discussions of bodily practice and religious or cultural 

Ideally, papers should focus on one or two traditions or one broader regional context with its cultural specifics, while paying attention to and highlighting processes of transmission and other comparative aspects. 

The “Medicine in Bible and Talmud” invites paper proposals from scholars of diverse disciplinary backgrounds from different institutions and at different stages of their respective career. We would be particularly interested in co-sponsoring a session with the new group on “Food Symbolism”.

Alongside the thematic focus in 2020 on diet and regimen or related bodily and medical practices, we invite also contributions that fall into the general scope of our group as outlined on our website.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Please submit your proposal until 20 February 2020 via the electronic application system: 

https://www.eabs.net/EABS/Abstract_system/Call_for_papers_Wuppertal.aspx

Please, send it also to the chairs of this research unit:

Markham J. Geller m.geller@ucl.ac.uk

Lennart Lehmhaus lennart.lehmhaus@fu-berlin.de

Histoire de la lèpre

Histoire de la lèpre 

 
Jean Vitaux


Broché : 126 pages
Editeur : Presses Universitaires de France - PUF (15 janvier 2020)
Collection : Que sais-je ?
Langue : Français
ISBN-13 : 978-2715401815 

Maladie infectieuse chronique, la lèpre est due à une simple bactérie : Mycobacterium leprae. Affectant les nerfs périphériques, la peau et les muqueuses, elle est pourtant à l'origine de lourds handicaps. Si elle n'a pas été l'un des grands tueurs en série de l'humanité, comme la variole ou la peste, elle a néanmoins durablement marqué l'histoire des hommes, tant par l'horreur qu'elle suscite que par ses conséquences sociales, religieuses et eschatologiques. C'est sur cette histoire de souffrance et d'exclusion que revient le docteur Jean Vitaux, qui n'en oublie pas pour autant que la lèpre touche encore 200 000 personnes dans le monde.

Bourse Margaret M. Allemang

CAHN Margaret M. Allemang Scholarship/ ACHN la bourse Margaret M. Allemang

Call for applications/ Appel à candidatures 

The Canadian Association for the History of Nursing (CAHN-ACHN) invites applications for the Margaret M. Allemang Scholarship for graduate students (Masters or PhD level) studying in the field of nursing history. Preference will be given to candidates studying Canadian nursing history. Students must be enrolled at a recognized centre for the study of the history of nursing in Canada or the United States, or in a university department of history or women's studies, or study with a recognized Canadian nurse historian. Application forms and instructions are available online at http://cahn-achn.ca/awards/, and must be accompanied by proof of current enrollment and a proposal outlining the study to be completed. 

Applications must be submitted electronically by March 31, 2020. Questions and completed applications can be sent to Dr. Geertje Boschma, University of British Columbia at geertje.boschma@ubc.ca

L’Association canadienne de l’histoire du nursing (CAHN/ ACHN) invite les étudiants gradués à soumettre leur dossier pour la bourse Margaret M. Allemang (niveau maîtrise ou doctorat). Les candidat(e)s doivent travailler dans le domaine de l’histoire du nursing; la priorité sera donnée à ceux et celles qui étudient l’histoire du nursing canadien. Les candidat(e)s doivent être inscrits à un programme qui étudie l’histoire du nursing au Canada ou aux Etats-Unis ou dans un département d’histoire, d’études féminines ou encore dirigés par un(e) spécialiste canadien reconnu dans le domaine. Les formulaires et les instructions sont disponibles en ligne à l’adresse suivante : http://cahn-achn.ca/awards/. Le dossier de candidature doit être accompagné d’une preuve d’inscription et d’un projet évoquant précisément la nature de l’étude proposée. 

Les dossiers de demande doivent parvenir, par voie électronique, avant le 31 Mars 2020, au Dr. Geertje Boschma, University of British Columbia par courriel à geertje.boschma@ubc.ca Pour toute question ou demande d’information supplémentaire veuillez également contacter le Dr. Boschma.

See also information about Vera Roberts Research Awards/Voir aussi information sur la Prix de Recherche Vera Roberts: http://cahn-achn.ca/