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Dear All,

Here is a call for contributions for a symposium on scientific museum and collections at the ESHS in Bologna, 31 August-3 September 2020.

Organizers: Eugenio Bertozzi and Sébastien Soubiran

Title: Visual, Material and Sensory Cultures of Science as a crossroad between histories of displays and displays of histories 

The ESHS Bologna 2020 meeting theme, “Visual, Material and Sensory Cultures of Science”, is particularly appropriate to enrich the set of research on scientific museums and collections on the basis of a joint collaboration between historian of science communities and science museum and collections communities.

Three directions are suggested:

1/ How do visual, material and Sensory cultures of Science contribute to renew the way museums display scientific knowledge to the public. To what extent museums can express the different cultures developed within the history of science field? 

2/ How the history of the way scientific knowledge was displayed in museum and collections contribute to visual, material and Sensory cultures of Science. What kind of new historical researches can be fostered by looking at the museum as an “historical object in itself”, with a multilayered, stratified and inner evolution?

3/ How did museums mobilized visual, material and sensory cultures of science as to deal  with social and political issues. How global histories of progress, race, political and religious beliefs have entered and shaped museum exhibitions?

Please send your abstract to [log in to unmask] AND [log in to unmask]

by 10 Decembre at the latest.

Please include the following:

1. Title

2. Author(s) (full name(s), academic title, institution, address, email and a short biographical note of max.150 words). In case of multiple authors the first author should be the presenting and corresponding author.

3. Abstract (max. 300 words, including possible references)

4. Keywords (3)

Find more information about the ESHS conference on https://sites.google.com/view/eshsbologna2020/home?authuser=0

Best wishes,

Eugenio Bertozzi and Sébastien Soubiran

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