Dear All,
Some of you may be interested in this notice.
Karen John-Pierre
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From: Dr Jane Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 11 January 2000 11:51
To: International Network on Public Communication of Science and
Technology
Subject: London seminar group
Dear PCST-L
The London Public Understanding of Science Seminar Group has a new home
at Birkbeck College, University of London. We are an open
multidisciplinary group of researchers who meet to present and discuss
ideas, methodology and results concerned with any aspect of science in
public. Details of two forthcoming meetings are given below.
Future postings will be to a dedicated list. If you would like to join
that list, or would like more information, please email me at
[log in to unmask]
Jane Gregory
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4pm Wednesday 26 January
Science and Society by Mass Observation
Martin Roiser, Psychology Group, Thames Valley University
Mass Observation was an organisation that collected the ideas and
opinions
of the British public during the 1930s and 1940s, under the slogan
'speak
for yourselves.' Martin Roiser's research on the Mass Observation
archive
has revealed a wealth of information on people's ideas about and
attitudes
to science during the 1930s and WWII, and on the association of
scientists
such as Bernal and Haldane with the Mass Observation organisation.
4pm Wednesday 23 February
Popular Science and Visual Culture
Adam Nieman, School of Interdisciplinary Sciences, University of the
West
of England
Adam Nieman is working on physics in popular culture, looking
particularly
at how popularisations act as a forum for boundary negotiations between
science and non-science. In this talk he'll be looking at visual
representations in science and scientific images in popular culture.
The seminars will be held in room B51 of the Faculty of Continuing
Education, Birkbeck College, 26 Russell Square, and will be followed by
some conviviality in a less academic environment.
If you plan to attend, it would be useful for domestic arrangements if
you could tell us - please email [log in to unmask] Thanks.
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