From ricardo.arencibia at cnic.edu.cu Fri Mar 6 18:52:12 2009 From: ricardo.arencibia at cnic.edu.cu (MSc. Ricardo Arencibia Jorge) Date: Fri Mar 6 23:15:06 2009 Subject: [PCST] Meeting on Scientific Video in Havana, November 2009 Message-ID: <0bf901c99e8c$a9a6a2d0$fd03240a@cnic.edu.cu> Dear colleagues/Estimados colegas, It is a pleasure to announce you the celebration of the IV International Festival of Scientific Video VIDEOCIENCIA?2009, in Havana, Cuba, from november 23 to 27, 2009 / Es un placer anunciarles la celebraci?n del IV Festival Internacional de Video Cient?fico VIDEOCIENCIA?2009, en La Habana, Cuba, del 23 al 27 de noviembre de 2009. The meeting is sponsored by the International Association for Media in Science (http://www.media-in-science.org/), the Cuban National Scientific Research Center (http://www.cnic.edu.cu/), the Cuban TV Studios MUNDO LATINO and the Argentinian video producer PlanoLATINO / El evento es patrocinado por la Asociaci?n Internacional para los Medios de Comunicaci?n en Ciencia, el Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cient?ficas de Cuba, los estudios televisi?n MUNDO LATINO de Cuba, y la productora de videos argentina PlanoLATINO. See the homepage / Vea la p?gina web: http://www.cnic.edu.cu/VIDEOCIENCIA2009/Inicio.html The call for papers to the Workshop on Scientific Films and Videos, as well as the call for videos to the International Festival, are Open / Est? abierta la convocatoria de trabajos para el Taller sobre Cine y Video Cient?fico, as? como la convocatoria de filmes para el Festival Internacional. You can ask for further details of the meeting to the following emails/Usted puede obtener m?s detalles acerca del evento a trav?s de los siguientes e-correos: videociencia@cnic.edu.cu clara.carmen@cnic.edu.cu Best Regards / Fraternalmente, The Organizing Commettee / El Comit? Organizador IV Festival Internacional de Video Cient?fico VIDEOCIENCIA?2009 Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba, 23 al 27 de noviembre de 2009. We invite you to participate in the XV International Scientific Congress CNIC'2010. Organized by the National Center for Scientific Research. http://www.cnic.edu.cu/15CongresoIngles.html >From June 28th to July 1st, 2010 in Havana, Cuba. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Le invitamos a participar en el XV Congreso Cient?fico Internacional CNIC?2010 Organizado por el Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cient?ficas. http://www.cnic.edu.cu/15CongresoEsp.html Del 28 de junio al 1ro de julio, en Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From h.a.j.Mulder at rug.nl Mon Mar 9 07:53:53 2009 From: h.a.j.Mulder at rug.nl (Henk Mulder) Date: Mon Mar 9 10:59:52 2009 Subject: [PCST] Living Knowledge Conference - August 2009 Message-ID: <25C3D6ED42174A5FA50B7CDE1807D2B2@12912513193> Dear colleagues, This conference may be relevant for a number of you. Best wishes, and apologies for any cross-postings, Henk Mulder ----- Original Message ----- From: Emma McKenna To: LIVINGKNOWLEDGE@NIC.SURFNET.NL Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 5:33 PM Subject: [LIVINGKNOWLEDGE] Living Knowledge Belfast 2009 - Open registration and call for abstracts Dear Colleagues Please find below a call for submission of abstracts for the Living Knowledge 2009 conference, August 27-29. Please forward to your networks as appropriate. Registration for the conference is now open on the conference website: http://www.livingknowledge2009.org/Registration/ Call for Submission of Abstracts for the Living Knowledge 2009 Conference "Engaged Communities, Engaged Universities: Developing policy and practice in participatory research", 27 - 29 August 2009, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK This conference aims to influence international research policies and establish priorities for community based research. It also aims to critically reflect on partnership working and to consider current practice and future developments in Science Shops. The Programme Committee invites submissions from potential contributors to the conference. Abstract submissions are invited for: Workshops - These contributions will typically involve a short (10 minute) presentation to stimulate discussion, together with a list of issues or questions which the workshop will seek to explore. Poster presentations - These contributions will typically involve the delegate providing a short commentary on their work. This may include, for example, case studies, examples of practice and methodologies. Abstract submissions should relate to one of the following themes: a.. Engaging students in community based research b.. Planning for demographic change c.. Science Shops, sustainable development and climate change d.. Knowledge exchange, transfer or exploitation? e.. Sustaining CBR practice through arts and cultural forms f.. Critical reflections on community engagement in the natural sciences, technology and innovation Abstract Submission Requirements Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words and should be submitted via the conference website www.livingknowledge2009.org by 20th April 2009. Applicants will also be required to ensure that their submission clearly fits within a conference theme and to give contact details and short biographies as part of the application process. Abstracts which do not follow the submission guidelines may not be considered. Following consideration by the Conference Committee, successful abstract contributors will be notified by 18th May 2009. For further information please contact the conference organising team on livingknowledge2009@qub.ac.uk Best wishes, Eileen Martin and Emma McKenna Conference organisers, Queen's University Belfast forwarded by: Dr. Henk A.J. Mulder B?ta Wetenschapswinkel (Science Shop) - Science and Society Group and Masterprogram Science Education and Communication kamer (room) 5118.0139 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (University of Groningen) Nijenborgh 4 NL-9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands Tel + 31 (0) 50 - 363 4436 Fax + 31 (0) 50 - 363 7526 h.a.j.mulder@rug.nl http://www.rug.nl/wewi http://www.rug.nl/fwn/ssg http://www.rug.nl/ec From Susanna.Priest at unlv.edu Sat Mar 28 00:49:01 2009 From: Susanna.Priest at unlv.edu (Susanna.Priest@unlv.edu) Date: Sat Mar 28 12:04:41 2009 Subject: [PCST] Encyclopedia project - authors needed Message-ID: Dear PCST members - As some of you already know, I am currently in the last phase of constructing an Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication for Sage Publications. This is a huge project with over 300 entries about our field, ranging from current science-related controversies and "hot topics" in the news to entries about important organizations, biographies of well-known science communicators, new approaches to science communication work, science and society issues, and the application of media and public opinion theory to science. The entries are being written to be broadly accessible: a key audience is undergraduate college students interested in our area, but the collection should also be of interest to students at other levels, scholars doing research in the field, and working science communicators. While over 80% of the material has been assigned (and most of those entries have already been completed), I am still looking for authors for some of the remaining entries, so I am issuing this call for further participation to all PCST members and interested others. Opening this link in your web browser should take you to a Word document that lists the entries that still need authors: http://faculty.unlv.edu/spriest/documents/encyclopedia.doc This list is constantly changing so please email me at susanna.priest@unlv.edu with your interests and I'll check the current status. Suggestions for additional entries are also still very much welcome. A CV, short bio, or link to a bio page would also be useful in matching potential authors to what still needs to be written. For most entries, authors are expected to have some related expertise; however, many of the remaining entries are biographies or organizational descriptions that could be entirely appropriate for more junior authors, including postgraduate students. I am sorry to say there is no budget to pay authors for this work; however, a modest allowance in the form of free Sage books is available to contributors. Susanna Priest Susanna Priest, Ph.D. Professor, Hank Greenspun School of Journalism & Media Studies Editor, Science Communication University of Nevada, Las Vegas Box 455007 4505 S Maryland Pkwy Las Vegas, NV 89154-5007 702 895 5146 susanna.priest@unlv.edu From carvalho at ics.uminho.pt Tue Mar 31 21:04:43 2009 From: carvalho at ics.uminho.pt (Anabela Carvalho) Date: Wed Apr 1 12:10:14 2009 Subject: [PCST] E-book: Communicating Climate Change Message-ID: Members of this list may be interested in the following e-book that has been recently become available: Communicating Climate Change: Discourses, Mediations and Perceptions Edited by Anabela Carvalho Freely available from: http://www.lasics.uminho.pt/ojs/index.php/climate_change