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Dears, just few lines to let you know a Faraday Lecture by Frank A.J.L. James: 27 September 2012Special event: Evening Plenary "Faraday Lecture" at XXXII SISFA Congress 2012, Roma, Italy Frank A.J.L. James (The Royal Institutution of Great Britain and Chair of the National Organising Committee for the XXIVth International Congress for the History of Science and Technology to be held in Manchester in July 2013). The "Faraday Lecture" is an important lecture in UK. Its objective is to present science and correlated technologies in an exciting manner (like Michael Faraday used to do) talking to large audience and exploring the fascinating world of pure and applied sciences. (Several Faraday Memorial Lectures were presented in the past: see here)Thank you Raffale Pisano _________________________________________________________________________ General Information concerning SISFA CONGRESS 2012 are in the following: Status Early registration-submission and Discounted Payment Congress Fees best before 31st May 2012: OPENStatus Late registration-submission and Full Payment Congress Fees from 1st June to 21st August: OPEN PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY AND ENGINEERING 27-29 September 2012 XXXII Congress of The Italian Society of the Historians of Physics and Astronomy (SISFA) which is being held in Roma in collaboration with the Research Centre For Theory and History of Science (RCTHS) and Faculty of Engineering, University of Roma La Sapienza. Venue: Faculty of Engineering, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy International Plenary Speakers Marco Ceccarelli (University of Cassino, Italy)Jean Dhombres (Centre Alexandre Koyré/CNRS/EHESS, France)Peter Heering (University of Flensburg, Germany)Frank A.J.L. James (The Royal Institutution of Great Britain, United Kingdom) Radim Kocandrle (University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic)Walter Noll (Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America)Partecipants and main areas of researches Individual contributions are free (not for plenary speakers) but correlated with scientific topics and within the following areas: Anthropology, Archives, Epistemology of science, Foundations of science, Historical epistemology of science, History and epistemology of chemistry, History and epistemology of cosmology, History and epistemology of physics, History and epistemology of science, History epistemology of mathematics, History of architecture, History of astronomy, History of biology, History of chemistry, History of cosmology, History of engineering, History of foundations of science, History of medicine, History of physics, History of science, History of science and science education, History of physics and science education, History of mathematics and science education, History of science and logics, History of science and technique, History of science and technology, History of science, society and industry, History of scientific ideas, History of scientific institutions, History of scientific instruments, History of technology, History of scientific drawing, Museum, Philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy of physics, Philosophy of science, Philosophy of science and science education, Theory of science. Please viist up above cited areas in Register & Submit abstract Please online submissions (preferred) and general page: http://www.rcths.eu/ (See link "SISFA 2012"). Please download SISFA 2012 .pdf posters with different templates and colors here. My apologize if this email reached you twice (or forwarded twice), or if it is irrelevant. Best Regards PS: The content of this mail has web links (HTML). Further spreading of XXXII SISFA 2012 Congress in your Mlists is very much appreciated. Thank you. Raffaele Pisano, Ph.D. Research Associate «Cirphles», Department of Philosophy, École Normale Supérieure Paris France Head of the «Research Centre for the Theory and History of Science» Department of Philosophy University of West Bohemia in Pilsen Czech Republic European Society for the History of Science http://www.eshs.org Inter-divisional Teaching Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science http://www.idtc-iuhps.org/officers Italian Mobile Phone +39 339-31.64.592 French Mobile Phone +33 06-706.43.207 Homepage: http://www.historyofscience.it E-mail: [log in to unmask] "Thought does not respect national frontiers. Yet scientific ideas are far from stateless citizens". (Thackray, A. (1970). Atoms and Powers. An Essay on Newtonian Matter and the development of Chemistry. 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