Popular Science Conference 2010
Symposium on Science Communication in the 20th Century: The “Booms” of Popular Science Publishing
Imperial College, London. 31st March 2010Registration now open. For details, please download the registration form. Please note spaces are strictly limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis. If you want to come, you are advised to apply as soon as possible.
This event should help foster connections between the wide range of people who study and think about popular science: historians, science communication researchers, professional scientists, science writers and literary critics.
DRAFT PROGRAMME
11:00 – 11:30 Opening Remarks, Peter Bowler, Queen’s University, Belfast.
11:30 – 13:00 Session One
- Demyan Belyaev, Lusophone University, Lisbon
Heterodox Science: Popular Science or Pseudoscience? The Three Corners of a “Bermuda Triangle” - Brandon Smith, University of Cambridge
Indeterminate Metaphors in Late Twentieth Century Popular Physics - John Preston, University of Reading
Wittgenstein, Mach, and Popular Science Writing
14:00 – 15:30 Session Two
- Maggie Jack, University of Cambridge
A Scientific Toy for Red-Blooded Boys: The Gilbert Chemistry Set and Non-Journalistic Popularization of Science - Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Cambridge
Nature Teaching on the Blackboard: How Early-Twentieth-Century Teaching Manuals Addressed a New ‘Public’ in England - Charlotte Sleigh, University of Kent
Atomic bodies: From children’s cartoons to Don DeLillo
16:00 – 17:30 Session Three
- Tom Lean, British Library
“Mastering Your Home Computer in 24 Weeks:” Computer Magazines and the Birth of Everyday Computing - Tom Aechtner, University of Oxford
Science for Persuasion: Propaganda and Counterpropaganda in the Evolution Wars - Oliver Hochadel, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Atapuerca – the Making of a Magic Mountain. Popular Science Books and Human-Origins-Research in Contemporary Spain
Draft Programme [pdf]
Registration form [pdf]
Queries to alice.bell@imperial.ac.uk
Symposium on Science Communication in the 20th Century: The “Booms” of Popular Science Publishing
Imperial College, London.
31st March 2010
Registration now open. For details, please download the registration form. Please note spaces are strictly limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis. If you want to come, we advise you apply as soon as possible.
We are keen that this event should help foster connections between the wide range of people who study and think about popular science: historians, science communication researchers, professional scientists, science writers and literary critics.
DRAFT PROGRAMME
11:00 – 11:30 Opening Remarks, Peter Bowler, Queen’s University, Belfast.
11:30 – 13:00 Session One
· Demyan Belyaev, Lusophone University, Lisbon
Heterodox Science: Popular Science or Pseudoscience? The Three Corners of a “Bermuda Triangle”
· Brandon Smith, University of Cambridge
Indeterminate Metaphors in Late Twentieth Century Popular Physics
· John Preston, University of Reading
Wittgenstein, Mach, and Popular Science Writing
14:00 – 15:30 Session Two
· Maggie Jack, University of Cambridge
A Scientific Toy for Red-Blooded Boys: The Gilbert Chemistry Set and Non-Journalistic Popularization of Science
· Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Cambridge
Nature Teaching on the Blackboard: How Early-Twentieth-Century Teaching Manuals Addressed a New ‘Public’ in England
· Charlotte Sleigh, University of Kent
Atomic bodies: From children’s cartoons to Don DeLillo
16:00 – 17:30 Session Three
· Tom Lean, British Library
“Mastering Your Home Computer in 24 Weeks:” Computer Magazines and the Birth of Everyday Computing
· Tom Aechtner, University of Oxford
Science for Persuasion: Propaganda and Counterpropaganda in the Evolution Wars
· Oliver Hochadel, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Atapuerca – the Making of a Magic Mountain. Popular Science Books and Human-Origins-Research in Contemporary Spain
Draft Programme [pdf]
Registration form [pdf]
Queries to alice.bell@imperial.ac.uk
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