Thursday, 1 June 2006
Museu de Menorca
9:00. a.m. Opening session
9:30 - 10:30. a.m. Introductory lecture: Paola Govoni (Bologna)
10:30-11:30. Spaces of popularisation (teatres, museums, exhibitions,
etc.)
Chair and commentator: Geert Vanpaemel
Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard, "Electric
Adventures and Natural Wonders -Exhibitions, Museums and Gardens
in Nineteenth-Century Denmark"
Alfons Zarzoso, "Popularising medicine, disciplining people:
spectacle at the Roca Museum in 1930s Barcelona"
Maria Paula Diogo and Ana Cardoso de Matos, "Showing
the vitality and the work of Portuguese engineers. The I National
Engineering Meeting and the Popularisation of Technical Knowledge"
11:30-12:00: Break
12:00-13:00: Spaces of popularisation (teatres, museums, exhibitions,
etc.)
Chair and commentator: Enrique Perdiguero
Gabor Pallo, "Genres of Popular
Science: Scientific Theatre"
Reis Fontanals,
"Instruments for popularising scientific and technical culture
in the periphery: a study of the Public Libraries' network in Catalonia
(1915-1936)""
Teresa Huguet-Termes, "Reading
in the war: Catalan 'Library Services of the Front' as a means for
the Popularisation of Science and Technology (1937-1939)"
Lunch
15:00-16:30. Spaces of popularisation (periodicals and the media)
Chair and commentator: Ana Carneiro
Fernando Egídio Reis, "From
centre to periphery: the role of Portuguese periodicals published
by Portuguese émigrés in London and Paris in the early
nineteenth century"
Rosa Espada, "Popularizing Technology
in the Western Edge of the Iberian
Peninsula: An exploratory study about two Portuguese newspapers
of the middle of the the 19th century
Peter C. Kjaergaard, "Science
and Satire. Representations of Science in Danish Popular Media 1875-1925"
Enrique Perdiguero, José Pardo-Tomás, Àlvar
Martínez-Vidal,
"Doctors as a public of the popularization of medicine in interwar
Catalonia: the Monografes Mèdiques series"
Matiana Gonzalez Silva, "With
or without scientists. Popularizing human genetics in Spanish El
País"
16:30-17:00: Coffee Break
17:00-18:00: Popular science and gender
Chair and commentator: Faidra Papanelopoulou
Palmira Fontes da Costa, "Women
and the Popularisation of Botany in Early Nineteenth Century Portugal:
The Marquesa de Alorna's Botanical Recreations"
Tiina Männistö, "Popularisation
of Medicine in young women's guidebooks published in Finland 1890-1923"
Riikka Terho, "The Social Reception
of Female Drivers in Finland between 1950 and 1970"
Friday, 2 June 2006
Museu de Menorca
9:00-10:00: Spaces of popularisation (books)
Chair and commentator: José R. Bertomeu Sánchez
Anders Lundgren, "Science,
popular books, and the spread of Monism"
Isabel Malaquias and Emília Vaz Gomes, "Some
professor's contributions to science popularisation in 19th century
Portugal"
Isabel Malaquias and Joaquim de Almeida, "Teaching
and Popularising acoustics in 19th century Portugal"
10:00-10:30: Break
10:30-11:30: Spaces of popularisation (books)
Chair and commentator: Antonio García-Belmar
Josep Simón Castel, "‘Circumventing
the “elusive quarries” of Popular Science: the Communication and
Appropriation of Ganot’s Physics in Nineteenth-century Britain’:
José R. Bertomeu Sánchez, "Popularising
a controversial knowledge.A popular treatise on poisons by Mateu
Orfila (1787-1853) "
Ernst Homburg, "From
Popular Chemistry to Technology:
The Popularization of Chemistry in Nineteenth-Century the Netherlands"
11:30 - 12:00: Break
12:00-13:00: Popularisation, local contexts and national identities
Chair and commentator: Anders Lundgren
Berna Kilinc, "The
Authority of Science in an Authoritarian Society"
José Alberto Silva, "The
case of Teodoro de Almeida: Agendas, Publics and Newtonianism" "
Irina Gouzevitch and Dimitri Gouzevitch, "The
popularisation of science in the 18th century Russia as a State
action"
Lunch
15:30-16:30: Popularisation, local contexts and national identities
Chair and commentator: Berna Kilinc
Stefan Pohl Valero, "The
thermodynamic evolution of the universe: the construction of a national
Weltanschaung. Spain 1868-1880. "
Geert Vanpaemel, Brigitte Van Tiggelen, "Science
for the people. The
Belgian Encyclopédie populaire and the constitution of a
national science movement"
Timo Myllyntaus, "
'Soon Electricity Takes Care of Everything
Alleviates Even
Hangover'. Familiarizing the Finns with Electricity, 1870 - 1960".
16:30-17:00: Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:00: Popularisation, local contexts and national identities
Chair and commentator: Peter Kjaergaard
David Nofre, "Popularisers, Reformers
and Healers: Phrenologists in mid-19th century Catalonia"
Juliana Adelman, 'Science,
progress and national ideals in Nineteenth-Century Ireland'
Lissa Roberts, "Peripheral
popularization and technological diffusion: introducing
steam technology in the Netherlands"
Saturday, 3 June 2006
Museu de Menorca
9:00-10:15: Popular physics
Chair and commentator: Ana Simões
Pedro Ruiz Castell, "Total
Solar eclipses and the growth of popular astronomy in Restoration
Spain"
Agustí Nieto-Galan, "Professionals,
Amateurs and the public: Popular astronomy in Barcelona, 1884-1923"
Johan Kärnfelt, "Popularisation
of astronomy in early 20th century Sweden: Aims and motives"
Néstor Herran, "Radium
and Radioactivity in the Catalan Press: the Case of Ibérica, 1914-1936"
10:15 - 10-45: Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:15: Comparative session: Science and technology in the
press. Some impressions at the beginning of the 20th century
Chair and commentator: Kostas Gavroglu
Conceição Tavares, Ana Carneiro, Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Simões
“Public
image of science and technology in the Portuguese press at the dawn
of a new century”
Hans Henrik Hjermitslev, Casper Andersen,
"Directing public interest - Popular Science in three Danish
Newspapers 1900-1903 "
Matiana González, Néstor Herrán, Enric Piriz,
Núria Perez, Agustí Nieto-Galan,"Science
at the fin de siècle in Barcelona"
Eirini Mergoupi-Savaidou, Spyros Tzokas, Faidra Papanelopoulou,Kostas
Gavroglu, Manolis Patiniotis, "National
identity and progress in the popular accounts of science and technology
in the Greek press 1900-1914
"
12:15 - 12:45: Break
12:45: 13:30
Concluding remarks: Jonathan Topham (Leeds)
Lunch
16:00 - 17:30: STEP general meeting
20:30: Final dinner
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