Wednesday 3rd 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

CONGRESS OPENING
By Joëlle Le Marec, President of S&Y’s scientific committee

8.45AM

50 YEARS OF SCIENCE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH – PATTERNS AND TRENDS
By Massimiano Bucchi & Brian Trench
Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench present an outline view of commentary, research and analysis in science communication over the past fifty years.
 
The presenters have edited a four-volume anthology of 80 ‘major works’ in the field to be published in 2015 (Routledge). From scattered beginnings, analytical and critical work in science communication has consolidated in the past two decades and the rate of publication has accelerated. Bucchi and Trench discuss why and how the formal professional and academic interest in understanding science communication has grown. They present some highlights from their edited collection, including neglected texts that deserve more attention.
 
They identify the principal strands of science communication research and summarise its achievements. But they also draw attention to some gaps and weaknesses in the rapidly growing body of literature. From the collection of works that Bucchi and Trench have assembled a picture emerges of an international community of scholars and professionals who share many interests, concerns and activities but who could benefit from more complete awareness of what has been done and is being done across this diverse field.

9.30AM

BREAK

10.30AM

CITIZEN SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC CITIZENSHIP: SAME WORDS, DIFFERENT MEANING?
By Alan Irwin
‘Citizen science’ is open to many definitions. It often represents a kind of ‘big data’ extension to existing scientific projects, drawing in the larger publics to assist with information and observation gathering and, to some degree, analysis. At times also, it can be presented as a means of scientific outreach and dissemination.
 
Most radically, it can be considered as one step towards greater public engagement with – and democratic accountability over – the direction and form of scientific research. At a time when ’citizen science’ seems to be increasingly adopted by scientific institutions world-wide, this session aims to ask questions about the relationship between citizen science and wider issues of scientific citizenship.
 
Especially over the last decade, more critical interpretations of citizen science as an important locus for socio-technical engagement have very often lost out to a less reflective perspective – so that the emphasis has been on ‘how citizens can help science’ rather more than on ‘how scientists can learn from citizens’. Does this mean that citizen science is doomed to operate within a narrow scientistic framework or does it have the potential to stimulate larger and more democratic action?

11.15AM

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION IN A POST-2015 WORLD: THE NEXUS OF TRANSNATIONAL, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY AND SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXTS
By Elizabeth Rasekoala
The Post-2015 global sustainable development landscape is highly predicated on the stark challenges of the nexus of trans-national, multi-disciplinary and socio-cultural contexts. The role of science and its communication in this complex arena is one in which the ‘business as usual’ modus operandi will not suffice. The myriad and intractable development challenges to which science communication should contribute to highlighting and promoting the pivotal role of science, is profound. The Ebola crisis in West Africa and its global ramifications is a classic case in point, of the convolutions of this nexus of parameters and how they have come together in a ‘perfect storm’ to challenge the orthodoxy of current science communication, science and society discourses and approaches, and socio-cultural dimensions of how people and communities conceptualise and understand the ‘scientific’ notions of risk and uncertainty.
 
There is a growing acknowledgement that multi-disciplinary scientific endeavour is critical to enabling societies to overcome multiple development challenges. The imperative of multi-disciplinarity should thus, then also apply in the ways that science is communicated, in terms of the what, the how, the where, the tools, the methodologies, etc. The craft of science communication thus, needs a root and branch overhaul to deliver the transformative innovations required in this challenging new framework. Key signposts to this overhauled Post-2015 science communication framework should include:
 
Citizen-centred approaches, prioritising gendered social and cultural dimensions to transform the euro-centric and masculine-biased initiatives that currently dominate.
Social scientists should be actively involved to help address socio-cultural contexts.
Effective joint leadership and control comprising local actors (governments, civil society and community-based organisations) as well as international groups.
Emphasis on the long-term sustainability of initiatives to be achieved, such as the training of a new generation of multi-disciplinary science communicators and journalists, to work for and with their fellow citizens to communicate the pivotal role of science in sustainable development and the betterment of societies, in an inclusive and empowering dynamic.

 

2.30PM
4PM

SESSIONS

Scientifiques et politiques : quel est le langage commun ? (round table)

Round table by Esther Gaudreault, Pierre Normand, Joanne Padron Carney and Rolf Tarrach.

The use of animals in biomedical research - a science-society debate (round table)

Round table by Victor Demaria-Pesce, François Lachapelle, Nicolas Dudoignon, Sarah Rappaport, Fabienne Crettaz von Roten and Dario Padovan.

Public Engagement 1/2

Clémence Emprin : Between Science Communication and Collaborative Research in the ITEM Labex: what role for the social sciences in mountain regions?

Grégoire Molinatti, Sarah Girot : Mental images of citizens taking part in scientific and technological choices among non-specialists involved in a European-level consensus conference on neuroscience

Debora Miranda : Sharing research findings to make an impact on policy: examples from a malaria research consortium

Claire Garraud : The QSEC2 project (Questions de Sciences, Enjeux Citoyens – Science questions, citizen stakes): co-constructing and running exhibitions with and for citizens in the Paris region.

Study of Modes of Communication 1/2

Dauod Ali Abdullah : Science Communication in Palestine: The Role of Science Festivals in Science Literacy and Learning

Magdalena Brunner : Restaurant and Festival: Science in extraordinary environments

Michel Robert : Research Demystified through Cinema in the Lorraine Region?

Brïte Pauchet : Science learning through festivals

Science Communication and Informal Education 1/2

Marie-Eve Migueres : FENNEC WEBRADIO, Linking Science and the Media

Charlotte Barrois de Sarigny : Teenagers’ Brains – Knowledge Building as a Tool for Democracy

Mohammed Belaïche : Science Clubs Supporting Informal Science Teaching

Catherine Oualian : Introducing Science Research to Upper Secondary Pupils: a Factor of Social Inclusion

Schweyer Cléo : Tintin in the Land of Scientists

Science Communication and the Arts 1/3

Michelle Lewis-King : Pulse Project: An Intimate Encounter between Art, Science, East West, Self and Other

Milla Karvonen : Communicating science through music inspired by science

Julien Bobroff : Design and art used for physics outreach

Isabelle Le Brun : When Art and Science Intersect

Philippe Berthelot : Telling the Story of Science, an Original Form of Science Communication

Science Communication and Digital Technologies 1/3

Silvia Simon : Communicating Science 2.0.1

Ajibola Omokanye : Explainartist: share knowledge creatively

Siavash Atarodi : Presentation of the SILHOUETTE project

Gilbert Faure : Curation for science knowledge management

Science Communication and Formal Education 1/5

Emmanuel Rollinde : Communicating Science through Movement

Nathalie Davoust-Nataf : Developing Communication in Infectiology

Sabine Lavorel : The Garden as a Communicator of Knowledge: the Example of the ENS Garden in Lyon

Miquel Duran : Using Magic to teach key items in Science

Fernando Blanco : Mathematical magic as a motivational tool

4PM

BREAK

4.30PM
6PM

SESSIONS

Intercultural Mobility and Changes in Attitudes to Science (round table)

Round table by Hélène Hatzfeld, Joëlle Le Marec, Sarah Cordonnier, Ludovic Garattini and Claudio Broitman.

Science in Television 1/2 (round table)

Round table by VENKATESWARAN THATHAMANGLAM VISWANATHAN, Elizabeth Vidal, Irène Lapuente and Mićo Tatalović.

“Science and Society” Issues 1/2

Christophe Boete : Scientists, Publics and Transgenics: Information, Trust, Communication and Engagement on Research dealing with Vector-borne Diseases

Rajae Slimani : Science Communication, a Pillar for More Democratic Access to STC

Lydie Valade : Several Forms of Communicating Chemistry

Vanessa Mignan : The Social Link, a Privileged Vector for Science Communication?

Glen Millot : Science Boutiques, so that Science can Answer Society’s Needs

Public Engagement 2/2

Anna Schaefers : Where and how do we reach the public?

Jon Rea : Sharing the Future

Weisskopf Markus : How citizen science and science communication can benefit each other. Examples from Germany and Europe

Achintya Rao : Outreach and public engagement in particle physics: preliminary results from a pilot survey

Communication Policies and Actions in Universities and Research Organisations 1/2

Florence Belaen : Science and Society for Universities. Not Just an Issue, a Necessity!

Stéphanie Couvreur : Science and Society Collective Projects on the Paris-Saclay Campus

Sylvie Coiteux : What should be the Role of Universities in the Evolution of Science Culture?

Djilali Kourtiche : Scientific Research and Interactions between Disciplines: Reality or Wishful Thinking?

Study of Modes of Communication 2/3

Arnaud Fischer : Through the lens of history : popularizing science

Lorenzo Diez : Architecture’s ”Folle Journée”

Catherine Allamel-Raffin : A Two-Faced Janus? The Science Illustrator between Research Practices and Practices of Dissemination to a Broad Audience

Richard Emmanuel Eastes : Discussion Games as Tools for Communication

Science Communication and Formal Education 2/5

Cyrille Baudouin : The Physics Summer Camp: an Innovative Action for Upper Secondary Pupils to Discover Research and to Train Teachers

Hanaa Hosny : Bibliotheca Alexandrina Science Clubs initiative

Andrea Karpati : From Atoms to Stars - Experiencing Physics with Secondary School Students

Martina Froehlich : KinderBOKU-Themenkoffer' – science adequately prepared for children

Science Communication and Digital Technologies 2/3

Joël Chevrier : Smartphone as a HomeLab: Science at Home

Lucile Guittienne : Applying Cross-Media Strategy to a Museum Exhibition

Simon Schmitt : Science popularisation through digital media

Pierre-Antoine Gerard : IT for Digital Natives? Revisiting Requirements in the Framework of a Scientific and Technological Culture Establishment

The missing link between scholarship and practice: how to foster evidence-based science communication (round table)

Round table by Alexander Gerber and Brian Trench.

6PM

THREE MINUTE THESIS
National Finals
Making an audience of as many non-specialists from different backgrounds as possible understand years of research in just three minutes is the challenge set by the CNRS and the Conférence des Présidents d’Université (University Presidents Conference) for PhD students. For the second French edition of the “Three Minute Thesis”, every university research consortium has answered the call for volunteers and their best candidates will come together on the 3rd June 2015 for the national finals in Nancy

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