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[ATHENA] Symposium ICOHTEC - Session "Wine in History "


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  • From: Liliane Pérez (liliane.perez AT wanadoo.fr via athena Mailing List) <athena AT services.cnrs.fr>
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  • Cc: "'Irina Gouzevitch'" <irina.gouzevitch AT ens.fr>
  • Subject: [ATHENA] Symposium ICOHTEC - Session "Wine in History "
  • Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 01:15:00 +0100

Chers collègues
Ci-joint une proposition de participation à une session organisée par Irina
et Dmitri Gouzévitch pour le 43e Symposium ICOHTEC, Porto (26-30 juillet
2016) : " Wine in History : between Technology, Science and Transfert of
Knowledge (XVIIth-XIXth centuries)".
Date limite de soumission : 8 février 2016
http://www.icohtec.org/annual-meeting-2016.html
Wine in History : between Technology, Science and Transfer of Knowledge
(XVIIth-XIXth centuries)

Wine is inextricably linked to the human civilization. A highly symbolic
cultural phenomenon which made the delight of poets and artists, it is
associated both with the pleasures of life and conviviality and with their
excesses. However, the social historical function of wine goes well beyond
this symbolic representation. Indeed, without wine, many antic and medieval
societies simply would not have survived, especially after the rise of the
cities and the concomitant process of massive water pollution. The wine is
also an economic phenomenon because its production and trade made the wealth
of many cities, regions and countries.
Biggest beneficiary of Christian religious practices, the wine in the 17th
century Europe suffered from the competition with the imported exotic drinks
(tea, coffee, chocolate) before finding a new impetus in the technological
innovations of the Enlightenment (bottles, corks and so on). During the 19th
century, science and technology interferred actively in this traditional
field, changing progressively the technical conditions of the production of
wine and of its related accessories required for packaging, preservation,
storage and transportation. The improved communications and the promotion of
national legislations greatly contributed to transform the wine production
into a world-wide spread industry having gained a foothold even in those
geographical areas that had never experienced this culture before.
This session aims to explore some new aspects of this problematics linked, in
particular, with engineering innovations in the field of wine production and
with the role played in this process by the transfer of knowledge.





















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