Workshop: 2nd Spring School on History of Science (Minorca, Spain, 17-19 May 2003)
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 06:58:59 -0500
From: "Carsten Timmermann, H-SCI-MED-TECH" [smtedit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU]
Subject: Event Announcement: 2nd Spring School on History of Science,
Minorca, Spain, April, 2003
Sender: "H-NET List on the History of Science, Medicine, and
Technology" [H-SCI-MED-TECH@H-NET.MSU.EDU]
From: Alfons Zarzoso Museu Història Medicina Catalunya
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1st Spring School on
"History of Science and Technology and Scientific Popularisation: the
Museums"
Maó, 17 - 19th of May 2001
Scientific museums, from its different private origins to its transformation
into public places of research and teaching, have played a very important
role in the building of modern science and by shaping the public image of
science. Yet, this outstanding role has not been openly admitted. Moreover,
scientific collections and museums have played a notable part in the
preservation of scientific and historical heritage.
The new directions of the historiography of science have contributed to
re-evaluate the importance of museums by studying all aspects of science as
culture and of science in construction. This new approaching raises the
problem of the existing gap between two communities of professionals:
curators and historians of science.
This school seeks to study in depth questions such as:
- To pay attention to scientific collections and museums as objects of study
and also to report on its origins, stories, and classes, or on the different
functions they had and have played.
- To go deeply into the historical relationship between museums and the
development of scientific activities. We want also to assess the part of the
history of science in the preliminaries and presentation of collections and
exhibitions in order to give an account of the complexity and dimension that
scientific knowledge and activities entail.
- To highlight the importance of museums for the preservation of cultural
and scientific heritage. Here we would like to discuss those problems and
challenges that come from the own collections: preservation, inventories,
classification and cataloguing, restoration, purchase and gathering, both
private or public, of natural and artificial objects.
- To think about the role that collections and museums can and must to play
in the field of didactic of sciences.
Programme
Thursday, 17th of May 2001
Morning
11-14: Participants reception and delivery of documentation
Evening
17-19: "History of museums and scientific collections", by Giuseppe Olmi
(University of Bolonia)
19-20: Discussion
Friday, 18th of May 2001
Morning
9-11: "History of science and technology and Museums of science and
technology I", by John Pickstone (University of Manchester)
11-12: Discussion
12-17: Visit to the Lazaret of Maó and lunch offered by the organisation.
Evening
17-19: "History of science and technology and Museums of science and
technology II", by Jim Bennett (University of Oxford)
19-20: Discussion
Saturday, 19th of May 2001
Morning
9,30-11,30: "Scientific and technological heritage; collections and
instruments: what to do?", by Paolo Brenni (Institute and Museum of
History
of Science, Firenze)
11,30-12,30: Discussion
13-15: Lunch offered by the organisation.
15,30-18: Round table on "The history of science and technology in our
museums of science and technology: models and possibilities"
18,30-19: General discussion and conclusion with all participants.
Place of the event: Museum of Maó
This school is devoted both to students and professionals, historians,
educators, journalists and curators.
I Spring School
"History of Science and Technology and Scientific Popularisation: the
Museums"
Maó, 17-19th of May 2001
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