Dear all,
These meetings might be of interest..
Please send any enquiries to Jane Gregory at mailto:[log in to unmask]
Best
Karen
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From: Dr Jane Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 25 January 2000 14:25
The PUS seminars start tomorrow, with Martin Roiser's talk on Mass
Observation - details below.
The meeting will be held at 4pm in room B51 of the Faculty of Continuing
Education, Birkbeck College, 26 Russell Square (in the north-west
corner, between Senate House and SOAS - go through the big blue door and
the reception staff will direct you). If you're planning to come and
haven't let me know, a quick email from you would help with domestic
arrangements. ([log in to unmask])
The full programme is given below. There are a couple of new seminars on
the list, but still some gaps - suggestions welcome.
Jane
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.
4pm Wednesday 22 March
The public awareness of technologies or 'If you have never heard of the
Internet, please tell me.'
Chris Stokes, Science & Technology Studies, UCL
On the one hand, things have changed. Scientists can no longer make
their wonted appeals for raised public understanding of science safe in
the knowledge that all who hear them will automatically think them
worthy. A motley of critical scholars has seen to that in recent years.
On the other hand, technologists and public policy makers continue to
appeal for raised public awareness of certain technologies with
impunity. On the public awareness of technologies (PAT), the critical
PUS scholars are curiously silent. In this talk, I'll appeal for raised
scholarly awareness of this deplorable deficit and for a firm purpose of
amendment. I'll do so with particular reference to recent public
initiatives to raise - not to mention measure - public awareness of
information and communications technologies.
24 May Dr Simon Locke (Kingston)
27 September
25 October Dr Frank Burnet (UWE)
22 November
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