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Welcome to our site !

Dear Visitors,

You will find 8 main pages on this site :

Introduction
A brief description of our activities (this page, the only one in English)

Seminar
SFHSH organize each year a seminary. Here is the program of the current year.

Publications
The references of the collective publications and members. Some abstracts available.

News
A bilingual page which contains calls for papers, conference announcements etc.

Archives
A second project : to publish here some rare original articles or illustrations in our field.

Links
An internationl links page with short descriptions in French.

Any useful information will be added in these pages.
If you find this site useful, please provide a link to it on your site. Thanks !

Please send information or suggestions to the webmaster

Webmaster :
Jacques GANA
Scientific director :
Dominique OTTAVI

Introduction to the Society

Promoting the history of human sciences

In 1986, the French Society for the History of Human Sciences (SFHSH) was created with the purpose of fostering, coordinating, and promoting all studies relating to the history and epistemology of anthropology, medicine, human and social sciences.

The range of disciplines concerned covers the entire spectrum of knowledge and skills concerning the human race, the logic of its historical evolution, and its integration in past and present culture. Confronting the tradition of an established cleavage between present day schools of thought, the SFHSH promotes rigorous documentation and the necessary dialogue between disciplines.

The orientation of the SFHSH remains generalist. Since its founding, this society has organized national and international conferences emphasizing the common cognitive, methodological, and sociological factors which have gone into the making of the human sciences. Convinced that safeguarding and accessing national archival material is one of the goals of historical research, the society has begun work promoting the value of this endeavor with administrative authorities and libraries.

In accordance with its objectives, the society intends to act as a liaison and resource among scholars. It has a network of foreign correspondents and publishes a biannual bulletin among its members communicating current events in all basic areas of the history of social and human sciences such as recent publications and doctoral theses, course offerings, conferences, professional organizations, exhibitions, and research chronicles.

Membership

Membership in the French Society for the History of Human Sciences is open to anyone.

Members receive :

  • La Lettre (2 or 3 per year)
  • the Yearbook of the Society
  • the biannual bibliographical Bulletin d'information de la SFHSH.

Dues are assessed on a calender year basis, with the new membership year beginning January 1.

Annual Membership Dues
  • ordinary members, 200 Fr.
  • students, 100 Fr. (include a copy of your student identification card)
  • institutions, 300 Fr.

Please send a check or international money order (in French Franc) made out to the SFHSH. If you do not have a bank account in France, you can transfer the correct amount to the SFHSH bank account. include your full name and address with payment.

For more details, please contact our Treasurer at the following adress :

Société Française pour l'Histoire
des Sciences de l'Homme
Centre Alexandre Koyré
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
Pavillon Chevreul
57 rue Cuvier
75 231 Paris cedex 05
France

To be in our Yearbook, please fill in an identification sheet. You have two possibilities :

A change of address notice can be sent by e-mail to the Dominique OTTAVI.

A French-American page by the New York University
Can I learn French on web ? Answers are on the site of the Academic Computing Facility...

A catalogue of dictionary
You will find here some links to French or bilingual dictionnary

Any information pertaining to the SFHSH can be added here. Please send information or suggestions to the webmaster