Call for Papers - REVEALING LIVES: WOMEN IN SCIENCE 1830-2000
International Conference 2014: Call for
Papers
REVEALING LIVES: WOMEN IN SCIENCE 1830-2000
Thursday 22 May – Friday 23 May 2014 The Royal Society, London
How are we to recover, interpret and understand women’s
experiences in science? Popular history delivers stories of a few ‘heroines’ of
science, but perhaps these narratives do more to conceal than reveal? Where
were the workaday women scientists – now largely invisible - whose
contributions have helped shape science today?
This conference aims to locate and examine women’s
participation in science, to identify areas for further research and to reflect
on how historical interpretations can inform the role of women in science
today. The programme will include contemporary science-led panels to provide
context and help build connections between the past and the present.
‘Science’ and ‘participation’ will be defined to
encourage maximum inclusivity and we welcome contributions from a broad,
multidisciplinary perspective. Themes may include (but are not limited to):
Women and learned societies
Scientific collaboration
Women and spaces of scientific production
Women within familial & social networks of science
Women and scientific education and learning
Historiography, archives and hidden women of science
Representations of women scientists: media, fiction,
film, art
Science today: issues & challenges
Gendered roles in science
The ‘leaky pipeline’: women leaving science
Selected papers from the conference will appear in a
special issue of the Royal Society’s history journal Notes and Records
(final papers to be submitted by end of September 2014).
Proposals for panels and for individual papers are
encouraged. Please send abstracts for papers (max 20 minutes) of no more than
200 words, and for panels of no more than 400 words, along with brief
biographical details, to Dr Claire Jones: C.G.Jones2@liverpool.ac.uk and Dr
Sue Hawkins: S.E.Hawkins@kingston.ac.uk
by the deadline of Friday 1 November 2013. For more information, please visit
the project website: www.womeninscience.net
Best wishes,
The WISRNet Project Team