SCIENCE IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PERIODICAL:
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
ORGANIZED BY THE SciPer PROJECT
10-12 APRIL 2000
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
The collaborative project 'Science in the nineteenth-century
periodical' (SciPer), recently launched at the Universities of
Sheffield (Centre for Nineteenth-century Studies) and Leeds (Division
of History and Philosophy of Science), is designed to identify and
analyse representations of science, technology and medicine in the
general periodical literature of nineteenth-century Britain. The
specific objectives are to publish several volumes of analytical
essays on the portayal of science and scientists, and to publish a
printed descriptive catalogue and searchable electronic index to the
science content of selected periodicals. In addition, it is intended
that the project should serve to draw together an interdisciplinary
community of scholars with interests in this area, and to this end a
series of international conferences is planned.
The project's inaugural conference, to be held at Oxley Hall in the
University of Leeds, will explore all aspects of the subject. Papers
of wide interest and broad scope are invited. Possible themes
include:
Public images of scientific and medical practitioners
Representations of key scientific ideas (eg. evolution, energy)
The construction of scientific orthodoxies/heterodoxies
Gender and science
Interactions of literary, political and scientific discourses
Editors, contributors and proprietors
Science and the politics of the press
Science and the development of periodical audiences
Scientific journalism
The positioning of science within journals
Periodicals of empire / science and imperialism
Science in the literary marketplace
Reviewing science - books and meetings
Science education
Science as entertainment
Illustrations and caricatures
Moral and religious representations of science
We welcome proposals for individual papers or complete sessions of
two or three papers. Approximately thirty minutes will be allowed
for each paper. We plan to publish a selection of the papers from
the conference, for which we have a publisher interested.
Abstracts of 200 words should be sent by 1 June 1999 to:
Dr. J. R. Topham
School of Philosophy
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
email: [log in to unmask] (no file attachments please)
tel: 0114-2228484
0113-2333280
fax: 0114-2228481
0113-2333265
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