mardi 19 mars 2024

Proust traducteur de l’inconscient

Saisis-moi si tu peux. Proust traducteur de l’inconscient 

Edward Bizub 

Nombre de pages : 196
Parution : 06/03/2024
Collection : Bibliothèque proustienne, n° 53


Selon Proust, la vocation littéraire implique la traduction de l’inconscient constitué d’un mariage entre une réalité transcendante et les sensations corporelles. Ce livre s’attache à analyser l’influence des traductions de Ruskin et le vécu psychothérapeutique, peu étudié, de l’auteur de la Recherche.

lundi 18 mars 2024

Une histoire sociale de l’avortement en France à l’époque moderne

Défaire son fruit. Une histoire sociale de l’avortement en France à l’époque moderne


Laura Tatoueix


Éditeur: Éditions de l’EHESS
Collection: En temps & lieux
Date de parution: mars, 2024


L’avortement existe-t-il dans la France d’Ancien Régime ? C’est par cette question, rarement posée en ces termes, que Laura Tatoueix aborde les sources de la période, principalement religieuses et judiciaires. Et c’est d’une manière inédite qu’elle y répond. Elle retrace d’abord le parcours qui conduit de la fabrication canonique d’un péché mortel à l’élaboration d’une catégorie criminelle laïque. Ensuite, elle s’intéresse aux dispositifs de répression et à leurs évolutions, qui sont souvent le reflet de changements dans les représentations de l’acte lui- même, mais aussi des femmes et des enfants. Surtout, elle tente de redonner corps aux actrices et acteurs de l’avortement, à travers l’étude des conditions matérielles d’une pratique qui se médicalise, des modes de transmission de ces savoirs clandestins, et des raisons qui ont poussé ces femmes à « défaire leur fruit ».

Confrontée au secret qui recouvre un acte transgressif, souvent lié à la sexualité illégitime, l’historienne s’efforce ici de faire parler les silences des archives et d’éclairer l’ambiguïté des discours. Tout l’enjeu de ce livre est donc de dévoiler ce qui a été dissimulé pour reconstituer une histoire longue de l’avortement, entre normes et pratiques. Laura Tatoueix fait de l’avortement un phénomène social global, encadré par le secret, la rumeur et la dénonciation, et soumis à des mécanismes de classe et de genre qu’elle démonte avec finesse.

Séminaire de l'Edward Worth Library

The Edward Worth Library 2024 Seminar Series


Unless otherwise stated, all lectures take place at  3.00pm in the Worth Library.



Spaces in the Edward Worth Library are limited: to book a place for lectures taking place in the Library itself please e-mail info@edwardworthlibrary.ie


27 March: Dr Elizabethanne Boran (Librarian of the Edward Worth Library, Dublin): ‘Writing medieval Irish history in early modern Ireland: aims, annals and antiquities’. This is the Griselda Steevens’ Memorial Lecture.

11 April: Dr Iona McCleery (University of Leeds): ‘Turtles, oysters and quails: health and natural history in fifteenth-century west Africa'. This is the joint Trinity College Dublin–Worth Library lecture in Medieval and Renaissance Medicine and Science. Please note that it will be a hybrid lecture, taking place at 4.15 pm in the Trinity Medieval History Research Centre Seminar Room (Room PX2.1), 5‒7 South Leinster St. Those wishing to register for the online lecture, please contact the seminar coordinator, Dr David Ditchburn: e-mail: ditchbud@tcd.ie

8 May: Dr Cathy Scuffil (Dublin City Historian in Residence): ‘The South Circular Road on the eve of the First World War: All quiet on the Southern Front’. This is the local history lecture in the Worth Library 2024 series.

4 July: Dr Giles Mandelbrote (Warburg Librarian and Director of Collections): ‘Exploring the London book trade in the seventeenth century’. This is the Charles Benson Memorial Lecture in Book History.

3 October: Dr Elaine Leong (University College London): ‘Book Cultures and Surgical Training in Early Modern London’. This is the Davis Coakley Memorial Lecture in Medical History.

10 October: Dr Paul G. Smith (Independent Scholar and former Bríd McGrath Research Fellows): 'Forfeited estates of 1688 in Ireland: an account of the late proprietors and the purchasers; 1702-1703.' This is the Brendan Prendiville Memorial Lecture.

dimanche 17 mars 2024

Le traumatisme et ses mécontentements

Trauma and its discontents: from the age of testimony to the age of trigger warnings


Talk by Shaul Bar-Heim (University of Essex) 


UCL Health Humanities/Institute of Advanced Studies Seminar 21 March 6.15-7.15pm


The coining of PTSD in the DSM-III of 1980 brought a major paradigm shift in the way doctors, and society more generally, perceived trauma and the traumatic event itself. Rather than trauma being something that characterizes particular individuals and is attributable to their external circumstances, their psychosocial background and their inborn vulnerabilities, it was now attributed almost solely to traumatic events, which at times happened years or even decades before a full mental health crisis materialized; hence, all people that had been exposed to traumatic circumstances regardless of their mental health had the merit to claim that they too could be suffering from Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder. However, I argue, we have some evidence to think that another shift in the discourse of trauma occurred in the last two decades, namely the focus is now not necessarily on the event itself but on the “traumatic triggers” of the event and with an effort to create “safe spaces” from such triggers.

First, I will identify the preconditions of this ‘shift to triggers’ and the historical process through which it came about and to examine its epistemic implications. Then, in light of all those changes, I will revise an already relatively old article (1991) by literary scholar Shosana Felman, ‘Education and Crisis, or the Vicissitudes of Teaching’. This piece is dedicated to describe and reflect on an experimental graduate module, entitled ‘Literature, Psychoanalysis and History’, that she convened at Yale University in 1984. In this seminar she used some testimonies from the then new established Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. The horrifying testimonies that she showed to her students created a pedagogical crisis in the class which crucially affected the students wellbeing in some unexpected ways. However, rather than backing down and ‘protecting’ her students from those testimonies, Felman somehow ‘celebrated’ this crisis as the inevitable route for learning on historical traumatic events in class. Thus, this paper provides us with an opportunity to examine a very specific historical moment in the early 1980s, in which PTSD didn’t have yet its full effect on culture and society, and the re-enactment of traumatic event was perceived as a pedagogical opportunity rather than a treat.


Registration page: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2024/mar/trauma-and-its-discontents-age-testimony-age-trigger-warnings

samedi 16 mars 2024

Doctorat au Medical Museion

PhD Course at Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen

Call for applications 

From the 10th to the 12th of April we will be running our popular PhD course on the subject of anatomical representation at the Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen. The course brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from history, anthropology, philosophy and anatomy to consider the ways that the medical body is constructed through representations. Students will participate in a variety of activities including a drawing workshop and getting hands-on with our museum collections. It's an intensive and fun three days for any student interested in the history, anthropology and philosophy of the body, health and medicine. If you could please share the below course information with any potentially interested PhD students we would be grateful. Places are prioritized for Danish students but international students will be added to a wait list and allocated any remaining spots.

PhD Course at Medical Museion: Anatomies: Representing the Medical Body

When we look at an anatomical image, what do we see? The body as it is? Or the body as someone imagines it to be? In this interdisciplinary course we will explore representations of the medical body in the past and today. Bringing together anthropologists, philosophers, historians, anatomists, and artists, this three-day course will blend talks and discussions with creative methodologies and a chance to get hands-on with Medical Museion’s historic collections. This course may be of interest to researchers working on the body, representation and technology. We have a limited number of places available, so sign up today!

Details:
Dates: 10- 12 April 2024
Registration deadline: 21 March 2024
Location: Appendix, Medical Museion, Copenhagen
Further details and registration: https://phdcourses.dk/Course/112582

Best wishes,

Kristin Hussey, Karin Tybjerg, and Simone Grytter
Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen

vendredi 15 mars 2024

Penser la douleur après Descartes

Le Fer ou le Feu. Penser la douleur après Descartes
 

Raphaële Andrault


Classiques Garnier
Nombre de pages : 389
Parution : 21/02/2024
Collection : Les Anciens et les Modernes - Études de philosophie, n° 58


Fondé sur un vaste ensemble de textes du xviie siècle, cet ouvrage s’attache à un moment important et méconnu dans l’histoire de la douleur. Il renouvelle l’analyse du « dualisme cartésien » et contribue à la réflexion contemporaine sur la nature de notre sensibilité et de nos émotions.

jeudi 14 mars 2024

La photographie médicale dans les Amériques

Medical Photography in the Americas: Gendered Perspectives

Call for papers

 

SSHA Conference 2024

-sponsored by the Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS) Network of the Social Science History Association (SSHA)

The conference will take place from October 31 to November 3, 2024, at the Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Please send questions, comments, and your paper proposals to jadwiga@arizona.edu.

Our submission deadline is March 22, 2024.


We seek to bring together studies about medical photography of different time periods and different settings in the Americas, prioritizing gender as a category of analysis. Themes include, but are not limited to, the impact of medical photography on medical education, diagnosis, and histories of changing visual cultures that have informed medical treatments. How did medical photography change professional attention to the body, and the uses of the body as “evidence”? What were new revelations, or distinctions, between male and female bodies that professionals claimed? How did photography inform the link between seeing and knowing about health and illness by medical doctors or patients, how was this gendered, and how did it change over time? What effect have medical images had on professional and personal responses to illness? Under what circumstances was photography used to monitor or control patients?

Contact Information
Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney
Department of History
University of Arizona
jadwiga@arizona.edu

Contact Email
jadwiga@arizona.edu

mercredi 13 mars 2024

La fabrique des "corps noirs" dans les sciences médicales françaises

Race, genre et sexualité: la fabrique des "corps noirs" dans les sciences médicales françaises (19e-20e s.)
 

Conférence de Delphine Peiretti-Courtis

Mercredi 27 mars 2024, 16 h - UQAM, local A-6290


La conférence sera aussi diffusée par Zoom (inscription à petit.kim@uqam.ca)