I can't make this date but is the talk being written up or broadcast on the
web etc? Cheers - Sallie
Sallie Robins
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al-conference-on-evolution-and-society-14-16-november
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Whoops!
Sorry for sending that to the whole list!
On Nov 19 2009, C.A. Stockford wrote:
>Hey
>
>If I don't get hold of you before demonstrating, I will be in the teaching
>lab. I think it is actually the part 2 lab even thou it's 1b. On Nov 18
>2009, Chris Adriaanse wrote:
>
>> List members may be interested in this talk next week hosted by BlueSci,
>> the Cambridge University science communications society:
>>
>>Communicating science: easy but impossible
>>
>> Despite a growing interest among scientists in engaging with the public
>> and the media, we still lacks a genuine science communication culture.
>> While communication of every kind is on everyone's lips, we are still
>> far from the genuinely 'intelligent' communication promised by the
>> advent of the 'knowledge society'. Technologies may be partly
>> responsible for this paradox. Having pervasive 'means' of accessing and
>> exchanging information creates the feeling that we are communicating
>> better. While this is no doubt true in so far as society is
>> spontaneously generating new and creative initiatives, much remains to
>> be done when it comes to the various levels in established institutions
>> and organizations. We will discuss other challenges science
>> communication is facing today such as:
>>
>>- Do we need science journalists?
>>- New technologies: friends or foes?
>>- Turning science into "mediascience"
>>- Promoting the science-society dialogue
>>
>>About the speaker:
>>
>> Michel Claessens is currently Deputy Head of the Communication Unit in
>> the Research Directorate-General at the European Commission. He is also
>> the editor-in-chief of the research*eu magazine of the European
>> Commission. A scientific journalist and writer, Michel Claessens has
>> published 250 articles and 8 books on several aspects of modern science
>> and technology. He is also professor of science communication at the
>> Free University of Brussels.
>>
>>http://ec.europa.eu/research/research-eu/index_en.html
>>www.michelclaessens.net
>>
>> The talk will be at 7pm, Thursday 26th November at the Leverhulme Centre
>> for Human Evolutionary Studies, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.
>>
>>Free to BlueSci members otherwise £2.
>>
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