La fabrication de la connaissance dans le monde prémoderne

Cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of knowledge-making in the early modern world (1450-1800)


Call for Papers


With the support of the London Arts & Humanities Partnership (LAHP), the Dr Williams Library will host a student-led interdisciplinary conference on the overlap, cross-fertilisation, and collaborative potential between the Humanities and Social Sciences across studies on the history of knowledge-making in the early modern world (1450-1800), 14th October 2017, London (United Kingdom).

The call for papers is open to all PhD candidates from any department within Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences at King's College London, University College London, School of Advanced Study, Queen Mary University and the London School of Economics.

We welcome submissions with studies about knowledge-making in the early modern world (1450-1800) from a wide range of fields, such as Legal, Political, Social, Cultural, Environmental and Economic History; Global, Imperial and World History; History of Science, Medicine and Technology; Literary Theory; Historical Anthropology; Cultural Geography; Historical Geography; Gender and Queer Studies.

We particularly encourage topics that highlight the circulation and transmission of knowledge in the period, including but not limited to:
● Visual knowledge, represented in world maps, globes, portolans, charts
● Natural science (botany, natural history, mathematical sciences)
● Languages (maths, dictionaries, grammars)
● Ethnography (travel accounts, treatises)
● Gender
● Religion
● Colonialism and imperialism, political and economic thought, Jurisprudence

The aims of the conference are to deepen the understanding of how a certain type of cross-disciplinarity already characterised knowledge-making along cultural encounters in an expanding world from c.1415 onwards; to highlight how London-based PhD students use cross-disciplinary approaches to better understand their primary sources and the contemporary intellectual framework within which their research is situated; and to promote similar events and future collaborations among the panelists and the audience.

How to submit your proposal
Proposals for papers should be submitted using the online form by 7th July 2017 and include a maximum 300-word abstract, in English, for a 20-minute paper. Link to the online form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSexdfz8T02GPww7zu06KGZMvbrzrJZi...
All candidates will be notified by 31st July 2017.

Contact Info:
Joseph da Costa

Contact Email:
joseph.da_costa@kcl.ac.uk

Le médecin hippocratique

Le médecin hippocratique. Aux sources de la médecine moderne

Mame Sow Diouf

Les Belles Lettres

Études anciennes

N° dans la collection : 155

Parution : 30/05/2017

EAN13 : 9782251447018

Hippocrate n’est pas l’inventeur de la médecine mais son promoteur au rang d’art. Héritier d’une discipline qui se pratiquait depuis la nuit des temps dans la routine, il s’interroge sur ses pratiques et ses usages, comme Socrate le fit dans d’autres domaines auprès de ses concitoyens. Il nous est resté de celui que la postérité a baptisé le Père de la médecine, une image : celle du médecin qui rêvait de sauver les hommes de la maladie et de la mort. 

L’auteur retrace cette image, en guidant le lecteur avec sûreté et clarté et en lui faisant découvrir tout d’abord les réalités du milieu médical, puis les ambitions intellectuelles des médecins, qui ne se contentent pas d’exercer leur métier mais réfléchissent sur la finalité et les procédures de leur art, et enfin les exigences éthiques qu’ils respectent dans leur relation avec le malade et la maladie. Dans cet ouvrage, le lecteur est mis directement en contact avec les textes eux-mêmes des médecins anciens et les témoignages fondamentaux qui les éclairent. Le lecteur pourra ainsi faire entière confiance à un guide sûr qui met à profit toutes les ressources de la recherche moderne internationale sur Hippocrate et qui apporte sa marque personnelle dans des analyses judicieuses, en dehors de toute simplification ou de toute apologie.

Mame Sow Diouf, est professeur titulaire de grec et chef du Département des Langues et Civilisations anciennes de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar. Ses travaux portent principalement sur Hippocrate et sur sa place dans l’histoire de la médecine. Elle enseigne, dans les Facultés de médecine, l’histoire de la médecine et la terminologie médicale. Elle mène en parallèle des recherches sur la rencontre des civilisations et la circulation des savoirs et des pratiques à partir de la Méditerranée, au carrefour des cultures africaine, arabe et occidentale.

Les espaces et le corps dans l'Europe moderne

(Im)possible Bodies: Spaces and the Body in Early Modern Europe


Call for Papers for the 2018 NEMLA conference

Pittsburgh, PA

This panel explores the spatial limits of bodies in early modern Europe. The spatial limits of bodies, broadly conceived, refer to the determinant role that real or abstract boundaries play on the physical and/or imagined body. These limits can take many forms, including aesthetic conventions, battlefields, domestic confines, geographic boundaries, and religious sites. Notions of the body may be equally diverse, extending to animals, communities, environments, and genders. Panel discussion will provide a rich examination of intersections between spatial perspectives and studies of early modern bodies.

Possible questions for panelists to consider include: How does the suffering or fragmented body impact the space that the body inhabits? How does the experience of one’s own body affect a perception of space? Where did changing theories of anatomy and cartography overlap in the Renaissance? In what ways did early modern men and women navigate tensions between physical and spiritual bodies? To what extent did sexuality influence social mobility in early modern cultures?

Papers from a broad range of disciplines are welcome, including literature, art history, European history, religious studies, and women and gender studies.

Please submit abstracts through the following link by Sept. 29, 2017: Call for Papers

500 ans d’histoire de la médecine

La leçon d'Anatomie - 500 ans d’histoire de la médecine

Exposition

Musée « La Boverie » de Liège

21/06/2017 > 17/09/2017

À l’occasion de ses trente ans d’existence, le CHU de Liège s’invite du 21 juin au 17 septembre 2017 au musée La Boverie pour une grande exposition événement.

Intitulée « La Leçon d'Anatomie. 500 ans d'histoire de la médecine », l’exposition est articulée autour de quatre grands axes et présente un ensemble unique de plus de 120 œuvres où Art ancien et Art contemporain, mêlés, montrent bien la variété de nos attitudes devant les fragilités de notre condition.

Cabinet de curiosités, installations d’artactuel, oeuvres anciennes, art abstrait et imageries médicales s’entrecroisent pour former un tout cohérent et surprenant qui offre une réflexion sur la pratique médicale.

Le CHU de Liège célèbre son 30e anniversaire et le 200e anniversaire de l’université pour éditer, chez Now Future, maison d’édition liégeoise, un ouvrage qui manquait dans les bibliothèques. Préface de Julien Compère et du Pr. Vincent D’Orio.

L’ouvrage sera disponible en versions à couverture cartonnée (50 €) ou à couverture souple (35 €).

Seule la version à couverture cartonnée est disponible par souscription.

Télécharger le formulaire de commande par souscription (au prix de 40€ au lieu de 50€, à partir du 21 juin 2017)

Bourses de séjour au Max Planck

Visiting Scholarships (3-9 months) at The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Call for applications

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Department III, Artefacts, Action, and Knowledge, Director: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Schäfer, offers Visiting Scholarships (3-9 months) to take place in the period 1 January 2018 to 31 August 2019. Outstanding scholars beyond the postdoc phase of their careers are invited to apply for participation in the working groups:

-„The Art of Judgement“, in particular projects that connect the history of judgments in planning with current concerns about the different dimensions of global change.

- “The Body of Animals”, in particular projects that focus on animals' bodies and materiality, or consider animals in relation to commodification, technology, or the environment. 

Applications from candidates in every field involved with issues relevant to the history of science and technology are welcome, with some preference for projects looking at cases from Asia, Africa, or Latin America, or adopting a global perspective. The MPIWG hosts many academic activities: conferences, workshops, brown bag seminars and colloquia. Visiting scholars are encouraged to combine their research stay with active participation in such events. 

Applications may be submitted in German, English, Chinese or French. Candidates of all nationalities are encouraged to apply; applications from women are especially welcome. The Max Planck Society is committed to promoting handicapped individuals and encourages them to apply.

Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Candidates are requested to submit, via our online application portal (https://recruitment.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/position/6651907):

- a cover letter

- curriculum vitae (including list of publications)

- a research proposal on a topic related to the project (1000 words maximum)

- one sample of writing (i.e. article or book chapter)

- names and email addresses of two referees

Deadline for submission: 15 July 2017

Please note that only successful candidates will be notified.

For questions about the working groups and Department III, please contact Wilko Graf von Hardenberg (whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de); for technical questions regarding the application portal, for administrative questions concerning the position and the Institute, please first contact the Department secretary (schaeferoffice@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstr. 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany

Léproserie et colonialisme

Leprosy and colonialism. Suriname under Dutch rule, 1750–1950

Stephen Snelders 


Publisher: Manchester University Press
Pages: 288
Published Date: May 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1299-6

Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to the modern colonial state. It explores the relationship between the modern stigmatization and exclusion of people affected with leprosy, and the political tensions and racial fears originating in colonial slave society, exerting their influence until after the decolonization up to the present day. In the book colonial sources are read from shifting perspectives, of the colonial rulers and, 'from below', the ruled. Though leprosy is today a neglected tropical disease, recognizing influences of our colonial heritage in our global management of health and disease, and exploring the perspectives of other cultures are essential in a time in which migration movements make the permeability of boundaries, and transmission of diseases, more common then perhaps ever before.

Médecine et soin à l'âge de l'esclavage

Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery

Call for papers

The History Department at Rice University invites proposals for a two-day symposium on the history of Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery. In the last three decades, scholars have increasingly identified connections between slavery and medicine. They have uncovered how medical theories and practices helped to reinforce the institution of slavery, just as enslaved people used their knowledge of healing to gain autonomy and power. Increasingly, these studies have left the narrow confines of Western biomedical ideas of health behind and expanded their scopes to consider enslaved healing traditions such as herbalism, Obeah, and conjuring. However, these narratives have remained confined by artificial temporal and national boundaries. This conference will bring together scholars of medicine, health, and slavery to explore its transnational dimensions. It seeks to breakdown temporal and geographical borders normally imposed upon these studies by including researchers examining the health histories of enslavement through various temporal and geographic prisms, including comparative slavery, the Atlantic World, and Second Slavery. This conference conceives of the Atlantic World as a singular geographic unit as well as a set of forces and exchanges that shaped local medical knowledge and disease environments in the Americas. In this sense, the conference will examine the localities as well as the channels of transmission that made up the Atlantic World and how these connections created creolized, local healing cultures.

We invite proposals that examine the histories of health in the Americas, Africa, and beyond as shaped by the connections created by the Atlantic slave trade from the sixteenth century through the abolition of slavery in Cuba and Brazil at the end of the nineteenth century. Thus, we encourage proposals from across this longue durée and urge presenters to think deeply about these temporalities.

Proposals may consider the ways in which health, medicine, and healing shaped much of the culture of Atlantic slavery, and we hope to attract papers that consider the diversity of slave experiences in the Atlantic World. Possible topics include:

• History of the Body
• Drugs and Pharmacopeia
• The Rise of Professions
• Formation of Racial Ideologies
• Environmental Health
• Native American Slavery
• The New History of Capitalism
• Knowledge Production
• Abolition and Emancipation

We will convene on Friday, February 23, 2018 at Rice University in Houston, TX, with a keynote address from Sharla Fett, Professor of History at Occidental College, and conclude on Saturday, February 24 with a keynote address from Pablo Gómez, Assistant Professor of Medical History and History of Science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Proposals should be in English and no more than 300 words. Please also include a CV. Additionally, papers presented will be considered for inclusion in a planned anthology to be published by a university press.

Proposals must be received by September 15, 2017 and should be sent via email to MedicineandSlavery@gmail.com or mailed to:

Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery

c/o Sean Morey Smith

Department of History-MS 42

Rice University

PO Box 1892

Houston, TX 77251-1892

Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery will take place on the campus of Rice University and has been made possible thanks to the generosity of the Rice University Humanities Research Center and Department of History.

For more information, go to http://medicineandhealingintheageofslavery.blogs.rice.edu/

Cognition humaine et animale dans la médecine prémoderne

Human and Animal Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy and Medicine 

Stefanie Buchenau & Roberto Lo Presti (Editors)


Hardcover: 408 pages
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press; 1 edition (June 19, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0822944720

From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, new anatomical investigations of the brain and the nervous system, together with a renewed interest in comparative anatomy, allowed doctors and philosophers to ground their theories on sense perception, the emergence of human intelligence, and the soul/body relationship in modern science. They investigated the anatomical structures and the physiological processes underlying the rise, differentiation, and articulation of human cognitive activities, and looked for the “anatomical roots” of the specificity of human intelligence when compared to other forms of animal sensibility.

This edited volume focuses on medical and philosophical debates on human intelligence and animal perception in the early modern age, providing fresh insights into the influence of medical discourse on the rise of modern philosophical anthropology. Contributions from distinguished historians of philosophy and medicine focus on sixteenth-century zoological, psychological, and embryological discourses on man; the impact of mechanism and comparative anatomy on philosophical conceptions of body and soul; and the key status of sensibility in the medical and philosophical enlightenment.