CfP: 150 years of the Periodic System
Organizers: Gisela Boeck, Rostock; Isabel
Malaquias, Aveiro; Luis
Moreno Martínez, Valencia;
Annette Lykknes, Trondheim
The United Nations General Assembly has
proclaimed 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic
Table of Chemical
Elements. We will take this
opportunity to organize a special
panel on the Periodic System, dedicated to its use in teaching
and popular
culture.
The session shall be a platform for
discussing how the Periodic System has
been used and accommodated in teaching during the last 150
years. Questions of
classroom practice, of several ways to integrate the Periodic
System in
textbooks and of the use of different presentations in
dependence of the
context and the time will be discussed.
The second focus of the session will be
how the System of Elements appears
in popular culture. The session shall try to answer the
question in which
context it is used and if it is an icon of chemistry and
science or if there are
other reasons.
We invite potential contributors to submit
their abstracts to Gisela
Boeck (gisela.boeck@uni-rostock.de) no later than 7 January,
2019. The
organizers will review the abstracts and set up a panel to be
submitted to the
programme committee by 15 January. Please use the following
template: https://www.dropbox.com/s/