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Tuesday 22 May 2007
Malet Place Engineering Building, room 1.20
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Programme:
Welcome coffee/tea (10.30-11.00)
SESSION 1: History of Science (11am-12pm)
Catherine Jackson
“Making Substances Speak: the public and private voices of Justus Liebig's organic chemistry"”
Christine Aicardi
"Experimentalism at the Paris Institution for the Deaf-Mutes, 1760-1830"
SESSION 2: Science Studies Across Boundaries (12pm-1pm)
Chiara Ambrosio
“Iconicity as Homomorphism: The Case of Picasso's Guernica”
Sophia Efstathiou
"Found Science: Installing an Ordinary Entity in the Context of Science"
BREAK
SESSION 3: Science communication (3-4pm)
Allan Jones
“Science on the BBC: A Historical Battleground”
Declan Fahy
"ESCW ––A Model for Science Communication Training for Scientists"
BREAK
SESSION 4: Philosophy of Science (4.30-6pm)
Grant Fisher
"Why taking account of all (or even more) evidence isn't always better for scientific practice"
Donald Gillies
“Causality and Linking Mechanisms”
Hasok Chang
"Pluralism: epistemic and political"
Drinks and dinner
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