As part of See Further: The Festival of Science + Arts, we are running a series of free cafe scientifique events at Southbank Centre, London.
Tonight there's one that will be of particular interest to psci-com members:
From coffee houses to conferences - the history of science conversation
Monday, June 28, 2010 – 17:45-19:15, in the Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London.
Host: Professor Rosemary Ashton OBE FRSL FBA, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature, University College London
with Dr Joe Cain, Department of Science and Technology Studies, UCL
Mr Keith Moore, Librarian, Royal Society
Dr Richard P Grant, Business Development Manager, Faculty of 1000
Full details are here - but you can just turn up, grab a seat and a drink and join in the conversation:
http://seefurtherfestival.org/events/view/coffee-houses-conferences-history-science-conversation
Full details of all the other cafes scientifique, which cover subjects from whether we should take fish off the menu to whether forgetting is fortuitous are available at:
http://seefurtherfestival.org/events/view/cafe-scientifique
See Further: The Festival of Science + Arts is a unique ten-day festival filling every corner of Southbank Centre this summer. The festival explores links between the sciences and arts and features a host of cross-disciplinary collaborations, scientific and artistic events. Celebrating 350 years of the Royal Society - find out more at http://seefurtherfestival.org or follow http://twitter.com/seefurtherfest
Looking forward to seeing you there,
Scott
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