Hi Simon,
Could you put my name down for the PUS seminar please - sounds interesting.
Thanks
Donna Brown, PhD
Education Officer
The Physiological Society
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Subject: [PSCI-COM] 25 May PUS Seminar - John Durant
List members may be interested in the following:
The next London PUS Seminar will be on Wednesday 25th May, at the London
School of Economics and Political Science, at 4.15pm.
We are pleased to welcome Professor John Durant (@Bristol), who will be
reflecting on his many years working in the field of public understanding of
science.
In July he is leaving the UK to take up a new joint appointment as Director
of the MIT Museum and Adjunct Professor in the Science, Technology and
Society Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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"What's in a name? 'Public Understanding of Science' then and now"
Over the past 25 years concern about the public dimensions of science and
technology in the UK has moved from the margins to the mainstream of science
and science policy. What was originally an evangelical crusade led by a
relatively small number of enthusiasts has become firmly embedded both in
Government policy and in the practice of the UK's leading scientific
institutions.
In the course of its incorporation, the field formerly known as 'public
understanding of science' has undergone a number of significant changes. It
has diversified as it has expanded; and it has become a significant area of
research and teaching as well as of practice. Strikingly, the field has also
undergone a marked rhetorical shift away from an earlier concern with
"public understanding of science" to its current near total preoccupation
with "public engagement with science".
Drawing on the speaker's personal involvement in the field over many years,
the lecture will characterise and critique key developments since 1980.
Overall, the field has been marked by a continuously uncomfortable dialectic
between natural scientists and social scientists; and its gradual
transformation has reflected underlying structural changes in the
relationship between science and society.
However, the recent preoccupation with public engagement with science is not
quite all it seems; and there are reasons for thinking that the current
consensus in the field formerly known as "public understanding of science"
may not remain stable for very long.
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The location will be at LSE, Room S75, St Clements Building, Ground floor.
See map:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.htm
It would be useful to hear from you if you intend to come as places are
likely to be limited. So to give us a sense of numbers - please email me.
All are welcome and please feel free to forward to any interested groups.
Simon
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Simon Lock
Department of Science and Technology Studies
University College London
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
020 7679 2959
07940 532457
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