Call for Papers: Science in Public (13-15 July 2016, University of Kent)
Call for Papers and Panels: Science in Public 2016
University of Kent, Canterbury, 13-15 July 2016
The annual Science in Public
conference is an occasion for cross-disciplinary debate and discussion
and a forum for sharing all work considering the relationships between
science, technology, medicine and their multiple
publics. We welcome submissions from scholars of, for example, science
communication, history of science, science policy, geography,
psychology, literature, social or cultural studies and practitioners of
communication, engagement or the arts in relation to
science. Papers may relate to science in mass media, museums or online
spaces; public engagement and participation; popular science and its
histories; science, publics and policy; and science in fictions, art and
cinema.
The theme for this year’s conference, hosted by the
Centre for the History of the Sciences at the University of Kent, is
Science in Public: Past, Present and Future. We therefore
particularly welcome papers, panels, projects and sessions that can draw
on and speak to questions about science and the public across different
time periods or that consider how historical
studies might influence current thinking, or vice versa. Opening and
closing plenary sessions supporting this theme are from the
interdisciplinary projects
Constructing Scientific Communities (with Professors Sally Shuttleworth and Chris Lintott) and
Unsettling Scientific Stories.
We will also, on the Thursday, have a strand focusing on comedy and
science communication, including: a panel session looking at its
history, role and pitfalls; a workshop
for those who would like to use comedy in their own communication
activities; and a SiP-themed comedy gig.
We welcome traditional papers and panel sessions and innovative
formats, including discussion, performance or practice-based workshops.
We aim to minimise registration costs as far as possible.
Our thanks go to the British Society for the History of Science for
supporting this conference, allowing us to subsidise student costs and
include our plenary sessions. Historians of science unable to travel to
Canada for the Three Societies Meeting this
June are very much encouraged to join us and other BSHS members in
Canterbury instead (or as well!).
Abstracts: send abstracts of about 250 words, enquiries and queries to Rebekah Higgitt (r.higgitt@kent.ac.uk).
Deadline: 11 April 2016
Please share this call for papers widely across your networks. The hashtag is #SiP2016 and details can be found online at
http://scienceinpublic.org/