Appel à communication: Communiquer la science‏

[Cécile W]

La Maison Française d'Oxford, l'université d'Oxford, Oxford Brookes University ont organisé l'an passé, à Oxford, la première conférence d'une série de trois soutenues e par le Service pour la Science et la Technologie de l'Ambassade de France au Royaume-Uni (http://www.mfo.ac.uk/en/node/1360)
Les 9 et 10 mars 2012 les même institutions associées au centre Alexandre Koyré - CNRS et à l'IHMC-CNRS organiseront à Paris la seconde conférence, tandis que la troisième sera organisée par Oxford Brookes et la MFO e 2013.
Je vous prie de trouver joint l'appel à communication. Les propositions de jeunes chercheurs sont encouragées.

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Communicating Science and Technology II:
From the 15th century to the present
Paris, 9th & 10th March 2012
The Second annual Anglo-French Conference on Scientific Communication and its History will take place in
Paris at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm, on 9th & 10th March 2012.
Call for Papers
Technological developments—from the invention of printing with movable type to the postal network, from the
railway timetable to the electric telegraph, from the telephone to e-mail—have profoundly influenced the nature
of scientific communication and the structure and practice of science. This conference will bring together
scientists, historians, social scientists and science communicators to explore the role of technologies, both
physical and social, in the history and present practice of communication within and around scientific
communities and between science and its various publics.
The conference will be organised around four themes: print and text; correspondence; networks and gatherings;
non-print media. In each of these we will explore the interaction between technical change and communicative
practice by considering examples taken from across a wide range of historical conjunctures and disciplines.
Examples of issues that could be discussed are:
Print and Text
The transition from manuscript to print-based communities and practices; popular press and the scientific
journalist; printing technology, scientific journals and the emergence of disciplines; electronic texts, authorship
and new modes of publication; translation and transmission.
Correspondence
The role of the corresponding secretary in early scientific societies; centre and periphery; 18th-century postal
networks and the transmission of knowledge; email and accountability.
Networks and gatherings
Science and sociability—courts and salons, cabinets of curiosity and coffee houses; organising the first
international conferences; the advancement of science movement, leisure and the railway; network formation
and the structuring of research.
Non-print media
Surveying, observing and telegraphic communication; science in film, film in science; radio and television
science journalism; social media and the anti-science movement.
The organising committee invites proposals for papers, which should be 30 minutes in length, and should fall
within one of the four themes. Doctoral students are invited to give shorter (15 minute) papers. Papers can
focus on a detailed case study or adopt a broader and more synthetic approach. Proposals, of up to 300 words,
should be sent to :
muriel.le.roux@ens.fr
Deadline: 15 January 2012
Funding for travel and accommodation will be available, in particular for doctoral students.
Organising Committee
Muriel Le Roux, ENS/IHMC, Paris - Maison Française d’Oxford Serge Plattard, French Embassy, London
Jeanne Peiffer, Centre Koyré, Paris Luc Borot, Maison Française d’Oxford
Pietro Corsi, Oxford University John Perkins, Oxford Brookes University
Robert Fox, Oxford University Viviane Quirke Oxford Brookes University
Chrisotphe Charle, ENS/IHMC, Paris