Marie-Odile Bernez, project coordinator for the seminar series about images used in the service of science, has announced the 2012-2013 seminar schedule. Seminars will be held at Dijon University in France and will be given in English and in French.
Detailed descriptions about each seminar can be viewed on the Calendar page at the Illustrating Science website.
Scientific Illustration Seminars 2012-2013
October 26, 2012: Medical Illustrations
- “The Eye and The Hand: Anatomist-Artist Co-operation on Two Dutch Anatomical Atlases (1685-1742)” – Tim Huisman, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, Netherlands (English)
- “Seizing the Cultures of ‘Medical Physics’ in the Nineteenth Century” – Josep Simon, University Paris Quest (English)
- “Representing Delivery and Creating Obstetrics in Nineteenth-Century Spain Through Medical Textbooks” – Alfons Zarzoso, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona/Medical History Museum of Catalonia (Engligh)
- “Perception of Lipoproteins and Atherosclerosis Through Their Visual Representation” – Elisa Campos, Lisbon (English)
January 25, 2013: Anatomical Illustrations
- “Les petites lettres de l’anatomie” – Hélène Cazès Montreal (French)
- “Entre mémoire et métaphore, le corps humain comme maison” – Etienne Lepicard, Jerusalem (French)
March 22, 2013: Engineering Designs
- “Delineating a Rational Profession: Engineers and Draughtsmen as ‘Visual Technicians'” – Frances Roberson, Glasgow (English)
- “Displaced Representation and Nationalistic Appropriation: Illustrating the Atlantic Cable of 1858” – Mark Niemeyer, Dijon (English)
May 24, 2013: Biased Images?
- “Scientific Images in the Logical Empiricist Tradition” – Richard Gawne, Duke University (English)
- “Aesthetics and News Values in Online Imagery of Space” – Phil MacGregor, Bournemouth (English)
June 7, 2013: Les Sciences et Leurs Vulgarisations par L’image
- “Graver des figures de géométrie au XIXe siècle: procédés, acteurs et enjeux éditoriaux” – Norbert Verdier, University of Paris-South (French)
- “Les illustrations dans les livres scientifiques pour enfants au 19e
siècle comme objets communicationnels” – Daniel Raichvarg, Dijon (French)
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