Maó (Menorca), 16-18 May 2013

Institut Menorquí d’Estudis (IME)
Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT)
Centre d’Història de la Ciència (CEHIC – UAB)
Institut d’Història de la Medicina i de la Ciència López Piñero (IHMC – UV/CSIC)
Institució Milà i Fontanals (CSIC)
European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) (CSIC)

Scientific Committe
Carlos Tabernero, Centre d’Història de la Ciència (CEHIC-UAB)
Oliver Hochadel, Institució Milà i Fontanals (CSIC)
Clara Forensa, Centre d’Història de la Ciència (CEHIC-UAB)

Web de l’escola

Mass media and science play a key role in the construction of contemporary societies. Their discourses and practices are best understood as forms of everyday interaction between people, collectives and institutions. They are also crucial forms of representation and interpretation of values, concerns and expectations of human communities.

The 7th European Spring School of History of Science and Popularization: Science on Television

 aims to contribute to the analysis of television as a particular space where the complex relationship between science and its publics unfolds. It is an invitation to explore and experience television as a major constituent of the social and cultural processes of production, circulation and appropriation of scientific, medial and technological knowledge.

At the Spring School a host of interrelated questions will be addressed: In which ways do information, advertising, entertainment and even criticism or social commentary influence the portrayals of science, medicine and technology on television? Which are the relations between these representations and people’s everyday patterns of appropriation of television? To what extend can communication practices related to television and science be understood as learning activities and spaces? What do science depictions in news programs, documentaries and/or fiction pieces have to do with people’s ways of communicating, consuming, working, studying, collaborating and solving problems?

This Spring School is open for scholars, researchers, professionals and students. Its main goal is to encourage debate and interaction among all the participants. It will be structured in three thematic sessions that attempt to cover a host of analytical perspectives through the contribution of scholars as well as television professionals. Each session will have two parts: ‘workshop/lecture’ (speakers’ papers will be pre-circulated) and ‘film forum’ (including projections), where the views of scholars and television professionals will be contrasted and discussed. Furthermore, participants will be asked to respond to the circulated papers for the three thematic sessions and/or to submit a short video for the closing session (see details below).  In short, theory meets practice.