Science & Popular Culture Area
Papers, panels, and round tables are now invited for the Science & Popular Culture area of the PCA/ACA Conference in San Diego, California April 12th-15th 2017.
Submissions should be 100-250 words in length and can address any aspect of the complex interrelation of science and popular culture, including (but not limited to):
- Representations of science/scientists in television, film, art, print (newspapers, magazines, novels, comics, etc.), and other media
- Use of science in popular culture
- The cultural influence of science
- Influences of popular culture on science and scientists
- Internet culture and science
- Science-related cultural artifacts
- Scientists as celebrities, and celebrity advocates of science
- Popular science and public understandings of science
- Science communication and education
- Non-Western cultures and science
- Translations of science into the public domain
- Science of the everyday
- Molecular gastronomy and other food science
- Science as art/the artistic dimensions of science
- Science and science fiction
- The public and popular dimensions of scientific debates
- Science and music
- History and philosophy of science
- Reconciling primary science with public perceptions
- Moments of conflict between scientific discoveries/knowledge/work and cultural beliefs
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