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PCST-8 CONFERENCE
Barcelona, Forum 2004, June 2004


PRE-CONFERENCE EVENT (2 June)


Wednesday, 2nd June 2004

16.00 to 19.00 Workshop on “New Models on Health and Life Museums”

At CCIB Forum 2004

Capacity for 250 people.

Registration closed.
Waiting list registration through mariajose.gonzalez@upf.edu


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SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
(3-6 June)


Thursday, 3rd June 2004


19:00 WELCOME EVENT


Welcome event for PCST-8 participants at the CaixaForum, of the Fundació "la Caixa".

CaixaForum of Fundació "la Caixa"
Av. Marqués de Comillas, 6-8 Barcelona
http://www1.lacaixa.es:8090/webflc/wpr0pres.nsf/wurl/seba001_cat?OpenDocument


CONFERENCE

Capacity for 600 people. Registration required

All sessions of the Conference except for workshops include translation English-Spanish / Spanish - English / Catalan- English / Catalan- Spanish

CCIB. Forum Area

How to get the Forum site:
http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/info_practica/comollegar.htm



Friday, 4th June 2004


9.00-10.15 OPENING SESSION


  • Marina Joubert

  • Chair PCST Network

  • Vladimir de Semir

  • Chair PCST-8 Conference

  • Lisbeth Fog

  • Co-Chair PCST-8 Conference

  • Pierre Fayard

  • Profesor of Public Communication of Science, Université de Poitiers, France.
    Executive member of the PCST Network

Opening Lecture:

Federico Mayor Zaragoza
Chairman of the Fundación Cultura de Paz. Director-General of UNESCO, 1987-1999



10.15-11.00 PRESS CONFERENCE AND COFFEE BREAK


11.00-13.00 PLENARY SESSION: Native knowledge & modern science

Chair: Vladimir de Semir
Director of the Science Communication Observatory of the Universitat
Pompeu Fabra. Commissioner for Scientific Culture of Barcelona City Council.

Speakers:

  • Germano Bruno Afonso
  • Professor of Physics at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil

  • Enric Banda

  • Managing Director of the Catalan Research Foundation (FCR). Secretary general of the European Science Foundation (ESF), from 1998 to 2003.

  • Yuwanuch Tinnaluck

  • ASEAN Handicrafts Promotion and Development Association, Bangkok, Thailand

  • Patrick Luganda

  • Chairman of the Network of Climate Journalists in the Greater Horn of Africa



13.00-15.00 LUNCH



15.00-17.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS

1. Which is the role of science communication in local knowledge dissemination? >>

2. Main challenges in the coexistence between native knowledge and modern science >>

3. Contributions and challenges of cultural diversity in public communication of science >>

4. Cultural identity implications in genomics research and communication >>

5. PCST challenges and tools directed to young people >>

6. WORKSHOP: Engagement: the key to communicating with indigenous people
Chaired by Michael Duffy and Peter Thomsen >>



17.00-17.30 COFFEE BREAK



17.30-19.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

7. PCST as a performance: looking for new audiences? >>

8. The role of books and literature in public communication of science >>

9. Theoretical framework evolution around PCST >>

10. Science communicator, is it a good profession? >>

11. PCST network: an added value for science communication training? >>

12. POSTERS PRESENTATION >>





Saturday, 5th June 2004



9.00-11.00 PLENARY SESSION: Science communication: historical perspectives and new trends

Chair: Luisa Massarani
Coordinator of the Museum of Life’s study Centre at Fiocruz in Rio de Janeiro. SciDev.Net.

Speakers:

  • Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

  • Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Université Paris X , France

  • Jon Turney

  • Historian and science journalist. Editorial Director for the publisher, Penguin Press, UK

  • Bernard Schiele
  • Professor. Départment de communications, Member of CIRST (Centre universitaire de recherche sur la cience et la technologie). Université du Québec a Montréal (UQAM), Canada

  • Young Hwan Choi

  • Chairman of the Korea Science Foundation



11.00-11.30 COFFEE BREAK



11.30-13.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

13. Lessons on PCST history >>

14. Science in daily press: a cultural question? >>

15. Science on TV and radio: quality, quantity and new trends >>

16. Are Internet expectations being accomplished? >>

17. Scientists and science institutions as PCST agents: responsibilities >>

18. POSTERS PRESENTATION >>



15.00-17.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS

19. Scientists and science institutions as PCST agents: experiences >>

20. Museums and science centres in the transmission of cultural diversity >>

21. Science week: evaluating experiences >>

22. Public perception of GMO’s >>

23. What are we talking about when saying "public dialogue"? >>

24. WORKSHOP: Training scientitst in communication skills
Chaired by Mónica Bettencourt-Dias, researcher at the University of Cambridge, and Jenni Metcalfe, Director E-connect Science Communication Consultants, Brisbane, Australia. >>



17.00-17.30 COFFEE BREAK



17.30-19.30 PLENARY SESSION: Science communication & social participation

Chair: Lisbeth Fog
Founder of the Colombian Association of Science Journalism. Vice-Chair of the World Federation of Science Journalists

Speakers:

  • Eduardo Posada

  • Executive Director of the Centro Internacional de Física (CIF) and President of the Asociación Colombiana para el Avance de la Ciencia

  • Jenni Metcalfe

  • Director E-connect Science Communication Consultants, Brisbane, Australia

  • Hans Peter Peters

  • Communication researcher at the Research Center Juelich ,Germany

  • Cheng Donghong

  • Executive Secretary Chinese Association of Science and Technology, Beijing, China

  • Prakash Khanal

  • Secretary of the World Federation of Science Journalists. Secretary of the Science Writers Association of Nepal



21.00 CONFERENCE DINNER at Pedralbes Palace





Sunday, 6th June 2004




9.00-11.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS

25. Proposals and initiatives for "public dialogue" >>

26. Interactions between science communication and science policies >>

27. Cultural differences in public understanding of sciences >>

28. Discourse analysis contributions to PCST study >>

29. Is it a real social participation in GMO discussion? >>

30. WORKSHOP: Networking with science communicators in developing countries: the SciDev.Net experience.
Chaired by Barbara Keating, Katie Mantell and Luisa Massarani >>



11.00-11.30 COFFEE BREAK



11.30-12.45 CLOSING SESSION

Speakers:

John Noble Wilford
Science correspondent of The New York Times. Former Science Times editor and winner of two Pulitzer prizes
Vladimir de Semir
OCC Director and Commissioner for Science Culture of Barcelona City Council
Chair of the PCST-8 Conference
Lisbeth Fog
Founder of the Asociación Colombiana de Periodismo Científico. Vice-Chair of the World Federation of Science Journalists

Closing Lecture
José Mariano Gago
Professor of Physics at Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisboa. Prof. Gago was the Minister for Science and Technology of Portugal from 1995 to 2002.


Seul 2006: PCST-9

Presentation of conclusions. Announcement of the venue for PCST-10. A look ahead at the 2005 meeting and PCST-9, Seul 2006.

  • Marina Joubert

  • Vladimir de Semir
  • Lisbeth Fog

  • Pierre Fayard

  • PCST-10 Representative

  • Hak Soo Kim

  • Chair of PCST-9 Conference



PARALLEL ACTIVITIES


"THE COLOUR OF SCIENCE" EXHIBITION


CCIB hall. Forum Area
From 2 June to 12 June 2004.



Exhibition based on Fernando Krahn illustrations and poems of the phiysique-poet David Jou.
Designed and adapted by Frances Lladó, Alfons Peres, Cristina Serradell, Observatori de la Comunicació Científica of UPF and sponsored by Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología and Commission for Science Culture of Barcelona City Council.





POST-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES (7-8 June)

Capacity for 110 people. Confirmation required

Translation English-Spanish Spanish - English

At the Auditorium of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, La Rambla 30-32, Barcelona

How to get the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Auditorium
http://www.upf.edu/english/web/universitat/universitat.htm?opcio=6


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