[PCST] JHC - a conference on scientific, technical and industrial culture

[MALVETTI Massimo]

JHC - JOURNEES HUBERT CURIEN ON SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL AND INDUSTRIAL CULTURE



·         Invitation to participate to JHC2010 in Esch-Belval (Luxembourg)



Accompanying the development of a National centre for industrial culture on the grounds of a former steel mill in Belval (twenty km southwest of the city of Luxembourg), the universities of Liège, Luxembourg, Metz, Nancy and Saarbrücken with the collaborations of the Fondation Bassin Minier and the Fonds Belval, organise the "3es Journées Hubert Curien de la culture scientifique, technique et industrielle" (JHC2010) on



 "What is the role of scientific, technological and industrial culture in times of economical and ecological ruptures". The symposium will take place from Wednesday 10 to Friday 12 February 2010 at the Terres Rouges Building of the RBC Dexia Bank in Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg). Please note that working languages are French and German, a translation service between these two languages is provided.



The complete programme is available at http://www.jhc2010.eu . Posters on the symposium's subjects (maximum size A0) are welcome at the conference venue.



The symposium is structured in three parts: Mutations (Wednesday), Innovation (Thursday), and Mediation (Friday). The second day will provide the opportunity to discover the site of Belval where currently a university campus, a university library, a railway station, the national archives, several research centres, the National centre for industrial culture, a spin-off park, ... are planned and start to be built around two conserved blast furnaces towering at nearly 90 mt.



In the afternoon of Friday 12 February a meeting of the preparation team for the next JHC meets right after the conference:



·         Invitation to join the preparation group of JHC2012 in Nancy



JHC2012 are planned as a European conference on scientific, technical and industrial culture. It will address actors and stakeholders of scientific culture from European universities to discuss research in this field, to review teaching programmes related to scientific culture and communication, to compare how actions directed towards the general public are credited to the researchers, to query the role of university museums, etc...



The organization committee would like to extend beyond the regional partners involved in present JHC and invites interested individuals and institutions to participate in the preliminary meeting on 12 February 2010 at the very end of the JHC2010 announced above.



For more information, contact Nicolas Beck, Nancy-Université (F) : nicolas.beck at nancy-universite.fr<mailto:nicolas.beck at nancy-universite.fr>