Dear all
Call for Papers: Communicating Science and Technology II: From the
15th century to the present, Paris, 9th & 10th March 2012
The Second annual Anglo-French Conference on Scientific
Communication and its History will take place in Paris at the Ecole
Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm, on 9th & 10th March 2012.
Technological developments—from the invention of printing with
movable type to the postal network, from the railway timetable to the
electric telegraph, from the telephone to e-mail—have profoundly
influenced the nature of scientific communication and the structure
and practice of science. This conference will bring together
scientists, historians, social scientists and science communicators
to explore the role of technologies, both physical and social, in the
history and present practice of communication within and around
scientific communities and between science and its various publics.
The conference will be organised around four themes: print and text;
correspondence; networks and gatherings; non-print media. In each of
these we will explore the interaction between technical change and
communicative practice by considering examples taken from across a
wide range of historical conjunctures and disciplines. Examples of
issues that could be discussed are:
Print and Text
The transition from manuscript to print-based communities and
practices; popular press and the scientific journalist; printing
technology, scientific journals and the emergence of disciplines;
electronic texts, authorship and new modes of publication;
translation and transmission.
Correspondence
The role of the corresponding secretary in early scientific
societies; centre and periphery; 18th-century postal networks and the
transmission of knowledge; email and accountability.
Networks and gatherings
Science and sociability—courts and salons, cabinets of curiosity and
coffee houses; organising the first international conferences; the
advancement of science movement, leisure and the railway; network
formation and the structuring of research.
Non-print media
Surveying, observing and telegraphic communication; science in film,
film in science; radio and television science journalism; social
media and the anti-science movement.
The organising committee invites proposals for papers, which should
be 30 minutes in length, and should fall within one of the four
themes. Doctoral students are invited to give shorter (15 minute)
papers. Papers can focus on a detailed case study or adopt a broader
and more synthetic approach. Proposals, of up to 300 words, should
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Deadline: 15 January 2012. ENGLISH AND FRENCH ARE THE LANGUAGES
CONFERENCE
Funding for travel and accommodation will be available, in
particular for doctoral students.
Concerning the first conference see: (http://www.mfo.ac.uk/en/node/1360)
Organising Committee: Muriel Le Roux, ENS/IHMC, Paris - Maison
Française d’Oxford ,Serge Plattard, French Embassy, London, Jeanne
Peiffer, Centre Koyré, Paris, Luc Borot, Maison Française d’Oxford,
Pietro Corsi, Oxford University, Perkins, Oxford Brookes University,
Robert Fox, Oxford University, Viviane Quirke Oxford Brookes
University, Chrisotphe Charle, ENS/IHMC, Paris
With my wishes for the New year.
Muriel Le Roux
Chargee de recherche au CNRS
Senior Research Fellow at the CNRS,
History of Science & Technology
IHMC - Institut d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, CNRS/ENS
ENS, 45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
+33 1 44 32 31 52
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