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New Perspectives on Visuality in the History of Science

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Published on Friday, June 17, 2011

Abstract

The workshop will feature four sessions dedicated to some of the most important or well developed areas of visual studies of science: 1 “The making and materiality of visual objects”, includes the materials, techniques, tools and practices involved in the making of visual objects and their conservation; 2 “The circulation of images and of visual cultures” for instance among scientific practitioners, printers, engravers, draughtsmen, and different publics, but also across different publications; 3 “The uses and politics of the image” focuses on the intended functions of images e.g. in science popularization or teaching but also on their less intended uses in other realms and by other publics; and 4 "Images as epistemic objects” asks what roles images and visual objects play in scientific epistemology, e.g. as visual evidence.

Announcement

The Maison Française d’Oxford and the Centre Alexandre Koyré are pleased to announce the following workshop: “New Perspectives on Visuality in the History of Science”

Wednesday 15 June

14:30 - 17:30  Session 1: The making and materiality of visual objects

 Lecture: Sachiko Kusukawa (University of Cambridge): "The pictorial practices of the early Royal Society"

Short talks: Jim Bennett (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford), Sebastian Grevsmühl (Centre Alexandre Koyré)

Thursday 16 June

9:30 - 12:30  Session 2: Uses and politics of the image

Short talks: Pietro Corsi (University of Oxford), Andrée Bergeron (Centre Alexandre Koyré), Pascal Dubourg Glatigny (Centre Alexandre Koyré), Kelley Wilder (De Montfort University, Leicester)

14:30 - 17:30  Session 3: The circulation of images and of visual cultures

Lecture: Ilana Löwy (INSERM): “Le partage du regard:  La circulation des préparations microscopiques et la construction des communautés scientifiques”

Short talks: Annemieke Verboon (Centre Alexandre Koyré), Rafael Mandressi (Centre Alexandre Koyré)

18:00 Evening lecture: Steve Woolgar (University of Oxford): “Visualography”

Friday 17 June

9:00 - 12:00  Session 4: Images as epistemic objects

Short talks: Sigrid Leyssen (NCCR Iconic Criticism, University of Basel), Volny Fages (Centre Alexandre Koyré), Christian Jacob (CNRS-EHESS), Monique Sicard (ITEM-CNRS)

Conveners: Charlotte Bigg and Jeanne Peiffer (CNRS-Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris), Muriel Le Roux (CNRS-MFO)

Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford, OX2 6SE
Email: reception@mfo.ac.uk, Website: http://www.mfo.ac.uk

Places

  • 2-10 Norham Road (Maison Française d'Oxford)
    Oxford, Britain

Date(s)

  • Wednesday, June 15, 2011
  • Thursday, June 16, 2011
  • Friday, June 17, 2011

Keywords

  • visuality, materials, techniques, tools, images, culture, objects, scientific epistemology, history of science, perspectives

Contact(s)

  • Florence Yvrard-Coquaz
    courriel : reception [at] mfo [dot] ac [dot] uk

Information source

  • Florence Yvrard-Coquaz
    courriel : reception [at] mfo [dot] ac [dot] uk

License

CC0-1.0 This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.

To cite this announcement

« New Perspectives on Visuality in the History of Science », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Friday, June 17, 2011, https://doi.org/10.58079/iod

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