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I've pasted an overview of the programme at the bottom of this email.
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http://www.imperial.ac.uk/humanities/sciencecommunicationgroup/researchconference
Alice
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Alice Bell BSc MA
Research Postgraduate, Science Communication Group
Imperial College, London
college homepage: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/alice.bell/research
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Science & Public: 2007 Conference
19th May 2007, Humanities Programme, Imperial College, London
General conference fee: £25 (Unwaged/ Student: £15) - includes lunch
and refreshments.
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Science studies research tends to focus on "the lab", being chiefly
concerned with the internal workings of the scientific community. This
interdisciplinary conference brings together the diverse strands of
academia that consider science as it intersects with non-scientific
cultures, in both contemporary and historical settings.
Programme Overview
9:00 - 10:00 Registration & introduction over coffee.
10 – 11:30 Session One Parallel Sessions:
Adventures in PEST
Images and Imagining
Medical meanings: Co-construction, Dispute and Debate
11:45 – 1:15 Session Two Parallel Sessions:
Scientists and Artists
Constructing pasts and futures
Framing the Gene
1:15 – 2:45 Lunch & (optional) trips to the local science museums.
2:45 – 4:15 Session Three Parallel Sessions:
'Objects' of the human body: diverse uses
Case Studies in Science and Politics
Seeing Nature
4:30 – 6:00 Session Four Parallel Sessions:
Dealing with Deficits and Difference.
Images of Science in Popular Literature.
Technology and Consciousness.
6:00 – 7:00 Plenary over drinks.
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