Friday 5th June

Plenary conferences will be in French or in English, with simultaneous translation. The sessions will take place in French or English, depending on the choice of speakers, and will not be translated simultaneously.

8.30AM
10AM

SESSIONS

The Uninitiated and the Experts: Sharing and Building Knowledge Together 1/2

Pascale Frey-KlettSURVIVORS, a participative research project involving junior high school students

François MilletLiving Lab: a New Approach in Support of Cultural Communication

Ricardo MutuberriaGenspace, a biomaker space open to the community

Harold VasselinParticipatory research and the Issue of Depiction. Example: producing "Blé/chanson de geste"

Science Communication, Territoriality and Local Development 2/2

Azzedine BouderbaneAlgerian Public Libraries: a Territory Searching for Science Culture

Afaf MikouThe Path Taken by a Researcher in Science and Technology Culture

Samuel CordierSTIC Territories

Dominique Mer, Bertrand TinocoThe Cigéo Project (deep disposal centre for radioactive waste), Communication Centred around its Host Territory

Researchers’ Involvement in Science Communication 2/3

Rosalba NamihiraPublic communication of science among members of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) in Mexico.

John BesleyScientists' views about public engagement goals

Ilse ZeelandScience, live in a museum

Amandine DuluardResearchers' involvement in the ATOUTS (A Taste of University for Teens) program

Science Communication and Formal Education 4/5

Philippe LeclèreThe “Maison pour la Science” in Lorraine: Teacher Training Sessions Linked to Research

Constance HammondHow can you Forge Closer Links between Secondary Education and University? Looking back on the “We’re All Researchers” experiment

Frédéric TournierDramatizing Science Controversies: Concepts and Issues

Isabelle DuboisPresentation of MATh.en.JEANS workshops in Lorraine

Science Communication and Games 2/2

Camille VolovitchPlaying Debates – a science communication teaching aid for teenagers

Sebastien GenvoUnderstanding the potential for expression of video games

Eric TriquetWhat Room is there for Science and Technology in collective Stories? The Case of the “Mène l’Enquête” (Runs the Investigation) games

Science Communication and the Arts 2/3

Matteo MerzagoraUse of creativity in the relationship to knowledge: motivation, ownership, empowerement

Adria Le BœufThe Devising Process as a Catalyst: A true collaboration bringing Science to the Stage

Sara AmaralScience in theatre – an art project with researchers

Xavier MaîtreArt and science, or the scientific culture way of serendipity

Médiateur : comparer pour comprendre (round table)

Round table by Sylvie Grange, Céline Dupont, Hélène Hatzfeld, Ewa Maczek, Jeanne Pont and Céline Salvetat.

10AM

BREAK

10.30AM
12AM

SESSIONS

Women and Science

CISCoPromoting careers in science and digital technologies thanks to the "Connected Girls" programme

Aurélie SeznecConsidering the Inequalities in Study Options, what Avenues are there for Promoting STEM among Girls?

Marie-Agnès BernardisScience culture: culture for men?

Annie Black :  The L'Oréal Foundation: the For Women in Science programme

Citlali BichetPromoting the engineering professions among young people

Science Communication and the Arts 3/3

Luiz Antonio Garcia DinizNanoart and Science : communication possibilities

Xavier MaîtreArt and science, or the scientific culture way of serendipity

Laurence BordenaveSarabandes, a collaborative research project on educational impact of scientific comics conception

The Uninitiated and the Experts: Sharing and Building Knowledge Together 2/2

Fredrik BrounéusSchools and scientists – doing research together

Vandana Thathamangalam ViswanathanNature of science debates and Technology choices; an Indian perspective

Adeline Néron, Lucile OttoliniIn search of social representations: the characteristics of a collaboration between researchers and social movements.

Carina CortassaA matter of trust

Sara TocchettiDo-It-Yourself Biologists and the Test-tube: between the Deficit Model, Science Communication and New Participatory Practices?

Study of Modes of Communication 3/3

Maria Eduarda GieringInterrelations between Fields in Science Communication in the Media

Ronan GermanMuseomix and Sharing Science and Technology: a Communicational Approach

Séverine DerolezCIFRE Funding, a Special Relationship between Research Unit and Museum

Jean-Marc GalanWhy are TEDs Popping Up All Over the Place?

Researchers’ Involvement in Science Communication 3/3

Alexia BenichouResearch Labs: Opening the Doors to the General Public

Julie LouisOn the Need for a Popularisation Tool in the University

Matteo MerzagoraThe Great Participatory Experience: Citizen Science meets Researchers’ Nights

Isabelle Le BrunSharing Science

Science Communication and Formal Education 5/5

Mélodie FauryConstructing a Relationship to Knowledge through Rubbing Shoulders with Other Science Professionals

Vanessa Mignan :  For Education in Responsible Research and Innovation in the Classroom

Charles-Henri EyraudClimate and Weather, a Launch Pad for Science Education

Cristina MeneguelloIs history just a game for you? The National Scientific Olympiads of History in Brazil (2009-2014)

Science Communication in Museums and Science Centre

Gaëlle CrennSociability and Conviviality in Science Communication at the Museum. Innovative Examples and their Paradoxes (France, England, Australia)

Ines MontalvaoPushing (or crossing?) the limits

Nicolas DidierLuxembourg Science Center

Anne MaumontProgramming the Museum as an Agent of the Future?

Silvia BenvenutiBig Bang Maths

Science Communication and Digital Technologies 3/3

Anne PiponnierPortraits of Researchers on Institutional Weblogs. What Accounts, for What Audiences?
Laurent ChicoineauThe Digital World and Science Culture Communication: Issues, Realities and Prospects

Lionel SanchezCultural Outreach and Science Communication. Pluralistic Approaches to Apprehend and Understand an Archaeological Site

Khosro MalekiThe Transmission of Scientific Knowledge and the Internet

Jean-Pierre AlixA wiki for science public discussion

Science Communication and Social Networks

Cristina RiguttoTwitter for science outreach

Evelyne LhosteFabLabs: Between Innovation and Cultural Communication

Séverine CianciaNetwork in science communication: why (and how) it works

Julie PoirierMakerscience: Creating a Social Network to be Used for Science and Technology Communication

Thomas DurandAn Introduction to Zezetics

 

 

2PM

SCIENCE-SOCIETY RELATIONS SEEN THROUGH THE PRISM OF TECHNOSCIENTIFIC PROMISES
By Pierre-Benoît Joly
While some policymakers were still wondering recently “How can we restore confidence in science?”, it is today agreed that relations between science and societies are good, that the appetite for knowledge remains strong, that as a whole, the French have more faith in research than in other institutions.
 
It is recognised that the problem is the relation not so much to science as to its applications, which would explain the oppositions and resistances to techno-science. For some, this can be attributed to a lack of knowledge and perception biases which need correcting. With numerous analyses demonstrating that such a belief is unfounded, we need to look for other explanations. This paper explores the role played by the rhetoric of techno-scientific promises which has become predominant.

2.45PM

30 YEARS AT THE OPECST, 30 YEARS EVALUATING BEFORE LEGISLATION/b>
By Jean-Yves Le Déaut
The role of the Office parlementaire d’évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques (Parliamentary Committee for the evaluation of scientific and technological choices), set up by an Act of Parliament passed on the 8th July 1983, and made up of députés and sénateurs – members of the lower and upper houses of the French Parliament – is to inform Parliament on the consequences of its choices in scientific and technological fields. Referrals, which may be passed on by different parliamentary bodies, are entrusted to a committee member.
 
The latter, after conducting hearings and field missions and consulting experts, draws up a report which is submitted to all the members of the Office, who decide on its publication. An exclusively parliamentary body, the Office is totally independent of the Government and state administrations. OPECST reports result in recommendations which feed into the legislative work which is then carried out by the standing committees of the Assemblée nationale and the Sénat. The committees themselves conduct inquiries, calling on the main interlocutors in the subject of the legislative debates.
 
But they concentrate above all on the problems of political importance. The specific contribution of the Office lies in shedding light on more technical aspects through consultation of the scientific community and the various analyses they produce on the one hand, and on the other, through missions abroad in order to explore possible avenues of research which would enable them to bridge any divisions arising in the French national debate.

3.30PM

BREAK

4PM

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY IN MOROCCO: WHAT ROLE FOR PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE?
By Aziz Bensalah
In Morocco, as elsewhere, the economic and social progress and the "human development" are conditioned by the relationships between science and society. "Science in society" is lived, with full force, via an often "disorienting" consumption of technology; on another side, the dialogue between science and society is almost missing, marked by a "crisis of indifference" between the "holders of science" and "public opinion" in a context of distrust towards the public education system.
 
To what extent and in what forms, “Public understanding of science” can remedy this situation? This is the project of an "active minority" that we propose to describe.

4.45PM

BABEL UNBOUND: WHAT ARE WE COMMUNICATING, WHEN WE COMMUNICATE SCIENCE?
By Brian Wynne
Science communication in its varying forms is a central element of the growing density of communications which make up modern life. A science-informed society would be one which is not only provided with adequate scientific understanding of things and ideas and claims which matter. As some communications theorists have noted, to be informed by science is also to be shaped by (in-formed by) science. Thus as STS specialists have emphasised, public understanding of science in the form of scientifically-validated understanding of scientific propositional knowledge, is seamlessly mixed up - and confused - with normative messages which communicators of science are also transmitting to their audiences, whether or not they also intend to do this.
 
There are many contemporary examples where scientists, who are supposed to know science, communicate their "science" in deeply normative manner. When this is treated deferentially but mistakenly as if it were communicating only science-as-understanding, then democracy is being cheated and undermined.
 
In this keynote lecture I will first draw some distinctions between the different meanings of "science" which are being used, and often confused, in what is typically called Science Communication, including scientific advice to policy. This will also include the many fields of public controversy involving science, in which scientific expertise has been used as attempted public authority for commercial technological innovations, or promised innovations, in society.
 
I will then use some case-studies to show how science communication typically involves not simply providing established scientific understanding to enlighten legitimately normative policy choices or commitments, but also imposing what are allowed to count as the authoritative public meanings of such issues. I finish by arguing that science communications processes and practitioners need to be able to distinguish between these two quite different public roles for science, if we are to avoid a gradual descent into Babel, with science reduced to meaningless public babble.

5.30PM

CLOSING CONFERENCE: SCIENCE COMMUNICATION AND DEMOCRACY
By Bernard Schiele