Dear Stephen
Thank you for your speedy response. Whilst my personal admiration for Mary 
Goldring is considerable, I think that the term "jargon" is a bit rich 
coming from the representative of any professional body but particularly a 
scientific one. We all have our terminology and technical languages so to 
clarify.
Cultural Theorist  -  somebody who theorises the issues affecting culture
Materiality of DNA  -  DNA as a material presence
Cultural Role  -  the impact of the existence of DNA on culture and the way 
in which the discourses around genetics has affected our perception of 
human culture.
High public profile  -  the work I am investigating will link into a number 
of national and internation festivals and is contentious enough to generate 
public response.
I hope this clarifies.
Matt 

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In response to Matt Hawthorn's posting below......
Some years ago Mary Goldring interviewed an economist on BBC Radio
4...after a particularly jargon filled few sentences Goldring interjected
with the immortal phrase: "in English please".
So perhaps Matt could help some of us out with some definitions of:
cultural theorist
materiality of DNA, and its cultural role.
Also perhaps Matt could help us out by telling us how he can predict that
the event will have 'a high public profile'.
I really thought that CP Snow was dead....but I fear not.
Help.
Stephen White
Director of Information
The British Psychological Society
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This is just a way of introducing myself to the list and outline a project
which I'm working towards, to see if anyone would be interested in
collaborating.

I'm an artist and cultural theorist. I am currently interested in creating
an
event which looks at the materiality of DNA, and it's cultural role. I
think

this might be of some interest to the subscribers of this list. I'm looking
for somebody who works with DNA, possibly somebody in an academic
department,
who would be interested in a collaboration. This would be quite a small
project but with a high public profile.

If anybody is interested in this or in collaborations between artists and
scientists generally please reply and we can open some discussions.

Matt Hawthorn
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