Conference: REVEALING LIVES: WOMEN IN SCIENCE 1830-2000
REVEALING LIVES: WOMEN IN SCIENCE 1830-2000
Thursday 22 May to Friday 23 May 2014: The Royal Society, London
Registration
now open at http://revealinglives.eventbrite.co.uk
We
invite anyone with an interest in women and science to attend.
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
international 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
- Women and spaces of scientific production
- Women and scientific education and learning
- Representations of women scientists: media, fiction, film, art
- Scientific collaboration
- Women within familial and social networks of science
- Gendered roles in science
- Science today: issues and challenges
- The ‘leaky pipeline’: women leaving science
For
more information see http://womeninscience.net/?page_id=438
or http://royalsociety.org/events/2014/revealing-lives/
or contact Dr Claire Jones: C.G.Jones2@liverpool.ac.uk
and Dr Sue Hawkins: S.E.Hawkins@kingston.ac.uk