Science and Technology for the People

Venue: Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon

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PROGRAMME

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

9.30 - 9.45: Coffee Reception at ICS hall

9.45 - 10.00

Opening remarks

• Tiago Saraiva (Institute of Social Sciences - University of Lisbon)
• Ana Simões (CIUHCT, University of Lisbon)

10.00 - 10.45/ 10.45 - 11.30

Chair: Maria Paula Diogo, CIUHCT, New University of Lisbon

• David Nye, University of Southern Denmark; When the Lights Went Out
• Maria Eduarda Gonçalves, ISCTE; Science-Society in Europe: Changing Visions, enduring practices

11.30 - 12.00: Coffee Break at ICS hall

12.00 - 12.45/ 12.45 - 13.15

Chair: Tiago Saraiva, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon

• Ana Paula Silva CIUHCT, From point-to-point to mass communication: the radio in Portugal from1898 to 1939
• Andreas Fickers, University of Maastrich, Tuning into Europe: the emergence of a European broadcasting space in sound and vision (1925-1955)

13.15 - 15.00 : Lunch break

15.00 - 15.45/15.45 - 16.30

Chair: Ana Simões, CIUHCT, University of Lisbon

• Agusti Nieto-Galan, University Autonoma de Barcelona, The public face of Darwinism in late 19^th-century Spain: Odón de Buen (1863-1945) and his audiences
• Faidra Papanelopoulou , University of Athens, “Fresher than fresh”. Remarks on consumer attitudes towards the development of the Cold Chain in post-2WW Greece

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

9.45 - 10.00 : Coffee at ICS hall

10.00 - 10.45/ 10.45 - 11.30

Chair: Ana Carneiro, CIUHCT, New University of Lisbon

• Ana Cardoso de Matos, CIDEHUS, University of Évora, “Electricity for all”: the popularization of electricity and its applications as seen through the Portuguese press (1850-1935)
• Fernando Reis, CIUHCT, The use of images in the popularisation of science and technology in Illustração Portugueza

11.30 - 12.00: Coffee Break at ICS hall

12.00 - 12.45/ 12.45 - 13.30

Chair: Maria de Fátima Nunes, CEHFCi, University of Évora

• Ana Simões, Ana Carneiro, Maria Paula Diogo , CIUHCT, Riding the waves to reach the masses: natural events in early 20th-century daily Portuguese press
• Arne Schirrmacher, Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, The German system of science communication and its (intended) audiences. Media, formats, institutions and actors in the 1920s and 1950s

13.30 Closing Remarks