Colloquium: University of Westminster "Staging Science" (12/6-7/2013)

STAGING SCIENCE

Roundtable Colloquium Performance

Centre for the Study of Science and Imagination, University of Westminster

December 6-7, 2013

Organiser: Professor Martin Willis (m.willis@westminster.ac.uk)

December 6, 2013, 6:30-8:00pm (The Boardroom)

Staging Historical and Contemporary Science: A Roundtable

• Jim Al-Khalili (Physicist, Science Communicator and Broadcaster)
• Tim Boon (Head of Research, Science Museum)
• Imran Khan (Chief Executive, British Science Association)
• Katrina Nilsson (Head of Contemporary Science, Science Museum)
• Jonathan Renouf (Executive Producer, BBC Science Unit)

Saturday December 7, 2013, 9:00-6:00pm (The Boardroom)

Staging Science Colloquium 

• 9:00-9:30: Setting the Stage: Science and Imagination (Martin Willis)
• 9:30-10:15: Iwan Morus (Aberystwyth)
• 10:45-11:30: Daniel Brown (Southampton)
• 11:30-12:15: Robert Kargon (Johns Hopkins)
• 1:15-2:00: Jeremy Brooker (Independent Researcher)
• 2:00-2:45: Tiffany Watt-Smith (Queen Mary)
• 3:15 -4:00: Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (Oxford)
• 4:30-5:15: Jean-Baptiste Gouyon (Science Museum, London)
• 5:15-6:00: Bernard Lightman (Respondent) (York, Canada)
• 6:00-7:00pm: Drinks Reception and Book Launch for Jeremy Brooker’s Temple of Minerva (Regent Street Building Foyer) 
• 7:00-7:30 and 7:45-8:15 (The Old Cinema) performances of the Pepper’s Ghost Illusion with Charles Dickens’s ‘The Haunted Man’ produced, directed and performed by Richard Hand and Geraint D’Arcy (University of South Wales) 

ATTENDANCE INFORMATION

Places for all the events that make up Staging Science are limited. Please apply early for each event as below. In your email please make clear which event or events you wish to attend. Many thanks.

  

To reserve a place at the Roundtable (Friday evening) please contact Rebecca Spear on rebecca.spear@my.westminster.ac.uk

To reserve a place at the colloquium (Saturday day), which comes with an invitation to the Pepper’s Ghost performance (Saturday evening), please contact Rebecca Spear on rebecca.spear@my.westminster.ac.uk. Please do advise Rebecca if you wish to come to the colloquium but are not able to attend the evening Performance. 

To inquire about a place at the Pepper’s Ghost performance only please contact Professor Martin Willis on m.willis@westminster.ac.uk

For updates on Staging Science connect to SCIMAG’s blog site at: http://scienceimagination.wordpress.com 

Colloquium: Visualising the Bible in the Nineteenth Century (6/13/2013)

Thursday, 13 June 2013
Location: SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge.

What is the artist's role - and responsibility - in visually interpreting the Bible? How did this change in nineteenth-century Britain, when the stability of scripture was increasingly uncertain? How do sacred texts in particular pose problems for the relationship between the verbal and the visual? This one day colloquium will consider how religious belief, form, function, medium, gender, and sexuality figured in representations of Biblical narrative, spanning textiles, painting, drawing and sculpture.  

Speakers:

• Michaela Giebelhausen, Essex: That old problem of text and image: Pre-Raphaelite painting and the Bible
• Colin Cruise, Aberystwyth: A branch of almond blossom: Simeon Solomon interpreting the Bible
• Ayla Lepine, Yale/Courtauld: Da Gloriam Deo: Ecclesiastical Textiles and the Gothic Revival
• Claire Jones, York : Sculpting the Bible in the 19th century: Fine Art and Ecclesiastical Contexts

Event Details:

Registration is from 9.30 to 10.00

The event concludes with a wine reception at 5.35pm

To register and for programme details, see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2460/programme/

The cost of the event is £10 as a contribution to lunch and beverages.

An event supported by the ERC funded Project Bible and Antiquity in the Nineteenth Century.