Seminar and Conference: "Science on Screen" - Berlin Summer Academy for the History of Science (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 17-26 August 2004)
Seminar and Conference: "Science on Screen" - Berlin Summer Academy for the History of Science (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 17-26 August 2004) Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L from H-SCI-MED-TECH. >From the website: "The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin requests applications for student participants in the 2003 Summer Academy, to be held in Berlin, August 17-26, 2004 on the topic "Science on Screen." The Summer academy consists of a one-week intensive preparatory seminar, followed by a week-long international conference (conducted in English), which brings together prominent researchers with student participants. Topics will include: screen science before cinema from the 17th to the early 19th century (interactions between projection techniques and the natural sciences; the cult of demonstration and showmanship in the Enlightenment; the impact of projection techniques on conceptions of demonstration and evidence); the art and science of panoramas in the 19th century (optical technologies of panoramic presentation; science, especially popular science, presented through panoramas; spatio-temporal effects of panoramic presentation); minds, brains, and spectators (relations between cinema and the brain and mind sciences in the 1920s; how psychophysiological and psychiatric theories were transferred into film); how documentary film might adva! nce the ways in which the practices of contemporary science are pictured and conceptualized." --RJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Suzanne Moon , H-SCI-MED-TECH" [smtedit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU] Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 2:49 pm From: Jochen Schneider [jsr@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de] Subject: Summer Academy: Reminder The application deadline for the Berlin Summer Academy for the History of Science is ** March 1, 2004 ** The full announcement can be found at http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/SUMMER.HTM