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Dear colleagues, please note that the deadline (June 15) for our conference call is approaching soon. Here is the invitation to submit a proposal: International Conference on Science, Research and Popular Culture, Klagenfurt, Austria, September 17-18, 2015 Research on public engagement with science has strongly focused on science content in journalistic news media and so far only a few studies seriously examined other products of media and popular culture. Science is also often part of wider popular and entertainment culture and these other popular images of science and research are also likely to have an influence on public imaginations of science, research and scientific work. However, some scholars have stressed that entertainment media also influence public perceptions of science, research and technology, such as genetic risks and beliefs and prejudices about biotechnology, and should therefore be studied accordingly. What members of the public know about s...

Dear Colleagues, I would like to remind you that the early registration ends on 15 June 2015. Please view the details on the conference website: http://icohtec-histelcon.tau.ac.il/index.php/icohtec/2015 All the best Yoel Bergman

Call for Papers: Architecture and Experience in the Nineteenth Century 17-18 March 2016 - St John’s College, Oxford Submission deadline: 5 November 2015 Victorians constructed their buildings to be more than just seen; they were made to be inhabited. This seemingly obvious statement raises an important but often overlooked question: how was architecture experienced in the nineteenth century? This period witnessed unprecedented urban growth, radical new materials, invented building types and sometimes dangerous technologies. Now more than ever buildings embodied the cultural values of their patrons, architects, and builders. The aesthetics of churches were shaped by desires to secure particular responses from congregations. The architecture of scientific laboratories could be intended to guide specific approaches to knowledge production. Of course once complete, the meanings of such works were unstable and subject to an audience’s interpretation. Architectur...

Acaba de abrirse el plazo de inscripción al Máster interuniversitario en Historia de la Ciencia y Comunicación Científica , impartido de manera conjunta por las Universidades de Valencia, Alicante y Miguel Hernández de Elche. Su objetivo es la formación de investigadores en historia de la ciencia con habilidades en la comunicación científica y de comunicadores e investigadores en comunicación de la ciencia con sólidos conocimientos en los temas, métodos y técnicas de la investigación histórica. El proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje se sustenta en la integración de diferentes metodologías docentes , tales como las clases y los seminarios, el trabajo autónomo, la colaboración y el debate, las tutorías y la orientación personalizada o el uso de una amplia variedad de recursos documentales y bibliográficos. Todas las actividades programadas podrán ser seguidas a distancia , mediante el uso de las nuevas tecnologías de la información. Toda la información sobre el programa de ...

CFP: 2 sessions:  The circulation of plant sources: manuscripts, print and dried herbaria in Modern Europe (XV-XVII c.) Boston, MA, March 31 - April 2, 2016 Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 31 March-2  April 2016 Deadline: June 7, 2015 Session organizers: Dominic Olariu (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin; Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel); Raffaella Bruzzone (University Park, University of Nottingham) Plants have always been represented in different ways, through manuscripts, woodcuts, engravings and the actual dried specimens in herbaria. The circulation of these kinds of sources involved a wide range of people (physicians, apothecaries, herbalists, charlatans, botanists, women) as the producers or consumers of these products, and the actual objects themselves: herbal manuscripts, herbaria (printed or dried, with actual specimens), notebooks, letters, plants, seeds and s...